Grazed from Forbes. Author: Justin Warren.

If the latest AWS outage changes anything in your approach to cloud adoption, then you’re doing it wrong. This is not the first AWS outage (I first wrote about one in 2011, back when I had hair), nor will it be the last. Nor will it be only AWS that suffers another outage at some point in the future.

We’ve already seen outages from Office365, Azure, Softlayer, and Gmail. Outages are a thing that happens, whether your computing is happening in your office, in co-location, or in ‘the cloud’, which is just a shorthand term for “someone else’s computer”. To think that putting applications ‘in the cloud’ magically makes everything better is naive at best…

Read more from the source @ http://www.forbes.com/sites/justinwarren/2015/09/20/aws-outage-doesnt-change-anything/

Grazed from NetworksAsia. Author: Editorial Staff.

At the Huawei Cloud Congress 2015, Huawei released the industry’s first OpenStack-based cloud disaster recovery solution. This solution provides disaster recovery capabilities for cloud data centers that employ an open architecture. In addition, the solution helps telecom operators and large-sized enterprises provide disaster recovery services for tenants.

The company also launched FusionSphere 6.0, an enterprise-class cloud operating system, which helps customers deploy virtual servers, private clouds, public clouds, hybrid clouds, desktop clouds, and NFVI. Characterized by openness and convergence, OpenStack-based cloud data centers have attracted an increasing number of enterprise customers and have been actively put into use…

Grazed from IT ProPortal.  Author: Mihail Karpuk.

The “cloud” has been a hot term for a while. Regardless of the fact that the concept has been around for about 10 years, its superstar status produces many delusions and misconceptions.  There are still misunderstandings even about what cloud is. Technologies that have nothing to do with the cloud are given the buzzword name, and cloud hosting is marketed as a solution to every problem a business owner might have.

Therefore, before we talk about advantages and disadvantages of cloud computing, it is important to understand what the term “cloud service” really means. The main characteristics of the cloud are:

• On-demand
• Self-service
• Scalable and measurable…

Grazed from DCProgressive.  Author: Lisa Michaels.

Investors bought shares of salesforce.com, inc. (NYSE:CRM) on weakness during trading hours on Friday, Analyst Ratings Net reports. $215.54 million flowed into the stock on the tick-up and $49.94 million flowed out of the stock on the tick-down, for a money net flow of $165.60 million into the stock. Of all stocks tracked, salesforce.com, inc. had the 31st highest net in-flow for the day. salesforce.com, inc. traded down ($0.92) for the day and closed at $71.40

Several brokerages have commented on CRM. Roth Capital reaffirmed a “buy” rating on shares of salesforce.com, inc. in a report on Monday, August 24th. FBR & Co. reiterated a “buy” rating and issued a $82.00 target price on shares of salesforce.com, inc. in a research report on Monday, July 13th. Jefferies Group restated a “sell” rating on shares of salesforce.com, inc. in a research report on Monday, August 24th…

Grazed from  ITOnline.  Author: Kathy Gibson.

Kathy Gibson reports from Huawei Cloud Congress in Shanghai – The network has become the bottleneck stifling the ability of cloud computing to scale effectively; but software-defined networking (SDN) could hold the key to unlocking performance and scale.  “SDN is becoming necessary because, as the cloud gets bigger, traditional networking cannot satisfy the requirements,” says Swift Liu, president of Huawei’s switch and enterprise communications solutions.

“More and more enterprises are moving into SDN because they want to get more value from their investment in networking and their data centres.  “We think SDN is the future trend because it can provide more power utilisation and other features that we cannot provide today. The whole industry is moving to cloud, and networking has to move as well.”…

Grazed from BulletinLeader.  Author: Watson Dong.

The company is working on building Azure Cloud Switch (ACS), a software which will make it simpler to control hardware which powers cloud-based services.  So it was logical to expect that Microsoft was, in fact, hacking together its own network operating system.

It’s supposed to make it easier for IT pros to manage their networking infrastructure across different types of hardware – important when you’re running a bunch of networks across a bunch of data centers at cloud computing scales…

Grazed from eWeek.  Author:Jeffrey Burt.

Juniper Networks and Aerohive Networks are jointly developing a wired and wireless networking solution aimed at distributed enterprises that are wrestling with such trends as the consumerization of IT, cloud computing and the Internet of things (IoT) and the need for a secure and scalable network from the edge to the data center.

The two companies will create an interoperable enterprise offering that will include cloud-managed WiFi capabilities via Aerohive that combine with Juniper’s networking products that will give businesses of any size with multiple remote locations an easy-to-manage wired and wireless solution that can be deployed in the cloud or on premises…

Grazed from Fool.  Author: Andrew Tonner.

Given the lucrative economics, competition in the red-hot cloud-computing market among many of the space’s most powerful incumbents will probably remain fierce for a long time. Attempts to redefine the fabric of computing from leading companies such as Amazon.com and Google befit their sky-high ambitions. In one recent example, Google unveiled a new cloud-computing product in its ongoing attempt to steal market share from Amazon.

Supercomputing showdown

Last week, Google announced the public release of its pre-emptible virtual machines, or VMs, a cloud-based supercomputing product that offers a number of benefits both to Google and its cloud-computing customers. At their most basic, VMs allow customers to affordably run advanced supercomputing tasks at steep discounts to current alternatives. However, the discount comes with a catch, and that’s why the term "pre-emptible" deserves some attention…

Grazed from NetworkWorld. Author: Brandon Butler.

Salesforce.com is seen as one of the pioneering inventors of the cloud computing market, but company co-founder and CEO Marc Benioff says Salesforce is not about the cloud. Here’s an excerpt of Benioff’s interview with CNBC host Jim Cramer. You can watch the full interview here, this quote comes at the 6:15 mark.

This isn’t about the cloud, Jim, and it never was about the cloud. It’s about the customer…. The cloud is about technology, and technology is transient. The technology we’re talking about today will be obsoleted in 3,4,5 years from now, it will be all new technology. What’s the one thing though that will be the same five years from now? … We’ll still be talking about the customer…

Read more from the source @ http://www.networkworld.com/article/2984644/cloud-computing/benioff-backs-salesforce-away-from-the-cloud.html

Grazed from MSPMentor. Author: Mike Vizard.

Moving to make it simpler to use an OpenStack cloud management framework to manage network functions virtualization (NFV) software that promises to change how network services are delivered and managed, Mirantis, in partnership with Citrix, Metaswitch Networks and Overture Networks, this week announced a Mirantis NFV Initiative.

In effect, Mirantis is creating a reference architecture for deploy NFV software that not only spans its distribution of OpenStack, but also encompasses session border controllers from Metaswitch Networks, application delivery controllers from Citrix (CTXS) and service orchestration software from Overture Networks…