Facebook and Twitter banned by US university
Harrisburg University provost Eric Darr wants to know if his students can live without Facebook, Twitter, instant messaging and other social networks for an entire week. According to a feature on NPR, Darr is blocking access to all social media sites on the campus network this week, not to punish students but to see how they react to losing access to Facebook and Twitter.
Yahoo spins cloud web around competitors
Speaking to ZDNet Asia in an interview Monday, Raghu Ramakrishnan, chief scientist of audience and cloud computing research at Yahoo, noted that the Internet company has not been involved in "many cloud conversations" today as these revolve around "low-level cloud services", but it is still very much in the game.
Verizon’s On-Demand, Pay-As-You-Go Cloud For SMBs
Verizon Business announced that it has expanded its cloud computing portfolio with a new service for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs). Computing as a Service (CaaS) SMB provides customers with Internet-based access to virtual machines (VMs) that can be spun up or down as needed, via a pay-as-you-go model. This is in addition to Verizon Business’s Enterprise hybrid cloud service announced at VMworld.
Novell Cloud Manager Offers On-Demand Workload Provisioning
Computer management services specialist Novell announced the availability of Cloud Manager, a solution designed to enable customers to create and securely manage a cloud computing environment as an extension of existing data center resources. Cloud Manager is designed for the heterogeneous reality of most IT environments, which the company said gives users the freedom and flexibility to create and manage private clouds which support all leading hypervisors, operating systems and hardware platforms.
Verizon Takes On Amazon, Rackspace With SMB Cloud Play
Verizon is aiming cloud computing squarely at the SMB market and has Amazon and Rackspace in its crosshairs with the launch of a new, down-market Computing-as-a-Service (CaaS) offering targeted at companies with 20 to 1,000 users.
CaaS SMB, an on-demand pay-as-you-go cloud offering for small and mid-sized businesses, is a scaled back version of Verizon’s standard CaaS offering, said Patrick Sullivan, Verizon director of mid-tier product marketing. The SMB offering operates on Terremark infrastructure, Sullivan said.
The Early Days of Federated Cloud Computing
Slowly but surely, providers of cloud computing platforms are starting to choose up sides.
Today Computer Sciences Corp. is announcing that it has partnered with Skytap to deliver application testing services via the cloud. Skytap is trying to pioneer what it calls an OEM approach to cloud computing under which IT service providers will resell its cloud computing services.
Red Hat: Get upskilled for cloud computing
The Red Hat Certified Virtualization Administrator (RHCVA) certification is a hands-on course spread over four days, where participants will be taught to install and configure the Red Hat Virtualization Manager, and use it to, among other tasks, create data centers, manage hypervisor hosts, create storage and import installation media for creating new virtual machines.
In an interview with ZDNet Asia Monday, director of certification for RHCVA Randolph Russell stressed the importance of hands-on knowledge in the training, which he said is a key differentiator from other courses in the market.
Novell Delivers First Solution For Comprehensive Cloud Management
SAP study ‘proves importance of data quality’
New research sponsored by SAP’s Sybase proves the tangible importance of data quality to an organisation, it has been claimed.
IT Business Edge blogger Loraine Lawson explained that a study conducted by the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas showed there are five data-related areas which can change financial metrics.
"Specifically, a mere ten per cent improvement in one or two areas – data quality, usability, intelligence, remote accessibility or sales mobility – can help finances," she explained.
Virtual Private Clouds on Public Infrastructure
There’s no doubt that interest in private cloud computing is growing rapidly. But just because a cloud is private doesn’t mean it will be running on-premise. In fact, chances are that most private cloud computing implementations will run on public cloud infrastructure.