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Grazed from ChipDesignMag. Author: Editorial Staff.

Cloud computing offers many challenges including the division of graphic-processing IP and rendering tasks between the mobile device and cloud-based servers.

Cloud computing has created new challenges for system designers in terms of the division of functionality between the mobile device and the cloud. This division will directly affect the design of system-on-a-chip (SoC) processors and graphic processing units (GPUs). Autodesk Media & Entertainment Tech Innovators asked the experts at Imagination Technologies and AMD to address the question of graphic processing and rendering partitioned between mobile devices and cloud-based servers. The answer, as is so often the case, depends on the use.

By and large, we think that the cost, silicon area, and power budget of our GPUs makes them efficient enough to be in the device rather than the cloud. This is especially true of the mobile space and most consumer devices…

Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Derrick Harris.

According to Amazon Web Services Chief Data Scientist Matt Wood, big data and cloud computing are nearly a match made in heaven. Limitless, on-demand and inexpensive resources open up new worlds of possibility, and a central platform makes it easy for communities to share huge datasets.

For Amazon Web Services Chief Data Scientist Matt Wood, the day isn’t filled performing data alchemy on behalf of his employer; he’s entertaining its customers. Wood helps AWS users build big data architectures that use the company’s cloud computing resources, and then take what he learns about those users’ needs and turn them into products — such as the Data Pipeline Service and Redshift data warehouse AWS announced this week. He and I sat down this week at AWS’s inaugural Re: Invent conference and talked about many things, including what he’s seen in the field and where cloud-based big data efforts are headed. Here are the highlights…

Grazed from Phys.org. Author: Editorial Staff.

Cloud computing offers an on-demand access to a shared pool of configurable resources; big data explores large and complex pools of information and requires novel approaches to meet the associated computing and storage requirements. The workshop will focus on the intersection of the two—the meeting is part of the traditional semi-annual cloud computing forum and workshop series with the additional dimension of big data and its relation with and influence on cloud platforms and cloud computing. "Cloud computing and big data are each powerful trends.

Together they can be even more powerful and that’s why we’re hosting this workshop," said Chuck Romine, director of the NIST Information Technology Laboratory. "The cloud can make big data accessible to those who can’t take advantage today. In turn, big data opens doors to discovery, innovation, and entrepreneurship that are inaccessible at conventional data scales."…

Grazed from Forbes. Author: Peter Cohen.

If you’re a company trying to lower the cost of running your computers, the idea of sending it to the cloud could be a dream come true. But that’s only the case if the cloud’s promise of lower operating costs does not come at too high a price.

That high price, of course, is that once its systems operate on the cloud, the company loses its ability to control its own computing capabilities — and has the unintended, but nonetheless painful result of suffering security problems and diminished service quality that makes the company wish that it had never taken the fateful step of putting its computing on the cloud…

Grazed from ITWeb. Author: Martin May.

As most IT industry analysts will confirm, new developments in bring-your-own-device (BYOD) technologies, as well as advancements in public and private clouds, are among the top trends that will be strategic for most organisations in 2013.

A public cloud is one based on the standard cloud computing model in which a service provider makes resources, such as applications and storage, available over the Internet. The public cloud is available to private as well as corporate users…

Grazed from Forbes. Author: Joe McKendrick.

The folks at Spiceworks recently analyzed the key questions cloud computing buyers need to ask before signing a contract. Here are the four main categories — ranging from basic technical questions to governance, risk and compliance inquiries.

“Nuts and Bolts” questions:

1. Can the solution support our OS platforms and run our applications?
2. What web services integrations are available to us?
3. Does the solution meet our I/O requirements?
4. What will the latency, response times and throughput be for our applications?
5. What’s the pricing model and cost?
6. What’s my monthly expenditure going to be?
7. What are the storage options and costs?…

Grazed from FastCompany. Author: Addy Dugdale.

Meet Amazon Redshift. It’s the online retail giant’s data storage cloud and it’s gunning for the established data management services, such as Oracle, Describing itself as a fast and powerful, fully managed petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud. Amazon’s CTO, Werner Vogels, claims that the firm’s data warehouse team, piloting the system, found it ran between 10 and 150 times faster than their existing system.

Should the existing data management services be worried? Andy Jassy, the boss of Amazon Web Services thinks so, saying that cloud computing packages offered by current providers such as HP, IBM and Oracle, which only last month announced its arrival on the Cloud, are over-priced and under-performing. "Customers are tired of it," he told the AWS conference yesterday.

Learn more about Amazon RedShift here: http://aws.amazon.com/fr/redshift

Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Stacey Higginbotham.

Data centers are the manufacturing floor of the web and cloud computing, so it makes sense that the amount of data center capacity added in the last two years as been measured in millions of square feet. But where it’s added is changing.

The demand for data centers just isn’t subsiding. And to serve the companies that can’t build their own data centers, there’s there has been a boom in retail co-location space around the world, according to Telegeography. The places in which this boom is happening may surprise you…

Grazed from BetaBeat. Author: Steve Huff.

Researchers at North Carolina State University and the University of Oregon have discovered a way to turn cloud computing into hacker heaven. Disguising data transfers with URL-truncating services like TinyURL or Bit.ly, researchers found that cloud-based processing power intended to shift computing tasks from laptops, tablets and mobile devices could be converted to crack encoded passwords or used for a large scale denial-of-service attack.

WhiteHat Security’s Jeremiah Grossman told Dark Reading that cloud browser providers need to “ensure adequate security controls are in place to prevent their end users from abusing the system.”…

Grazed from Investors.com. Author: Reinhardt Krause.

Amazon Web Services, the top provider of cloud computing infrastructure services, and No. 2 Rackspace Hosting are campaigning overseas to keep their heady growth on track. Like presidential candidates dueling in swing states, the two cloud rivals are showing up in the same markets. Amazon Web Services, part of online retail king Amazon.com (AMZN), announced on Nov. 12 that it would open a new data center in Sydney. Rackspace (RAX) in August unveiled a new data center in Australia, which it expects will start operating by year’s end.

In Latin America, Rackspace is eying a move into Brazil, a market AWS entered last December. "I think wherever we will be, they will be — and vice versa," Rackspace CEO Lanham Napier told IBD. Oppenheimer analyst Tim Horan, in a report, says the move by AWS into Australia "is a slight negative for Rackspace."…