Author: David

Grazed from Hexus. Author: PR Announcement.

As cloud computing becomes a more mature sector of the IT industry, most enterprises have already regarded this technology as a key point in the building of future information architectures to meet the needs of massive data processing. To better address the high demands for cloud computing, Apacer, a leading memory module manufacturer, has announced an industry-leading and enterprise-level 16GB bulk storage DDR3-1600 high-speed server memory module. Ituses both internal and external voltage reference (Vref.) circuits, allowing the storage system to directly use external Vref.with high efficiency while eliminating signal noise. It helps to facilitate continuous massive data processing and helps to optimize the cloud computing and storage performance in those environments, giving a more stable server storage experience.

This newly-launched DDR3-1600 16GB 2Rx4 ECC RDIMM server memory module from Apacer is 100% JEDEC compliant and has built-in ECC. Thanks to its outstanding hardware design and advanced memory chips, server systems can boost operation efficiency by 20% and builders can provide multiple and superior storage device options to customers. To help create optimal product performance, the DDR3 server memory module has gone through rigorous reliability tests. It is fully compatible with the latest Intel/AMD 2-way server platforms and supports the latest Intel Quad-Channel Xeon E5-2600/4600 series and AMD Quad-Channel Opteron 6000 series server platforms for communication network devices, demonstrating incomparable platform compatibility…

Grazed from Mass High Tech. Author: Bob Burke.

Cloud computing is becoming increasingly popular in higher education, normally a slow adopter of new technology. Cloud computing can be used for business continuity planning, or storing archived copies of data off to a cloud storage area – even students’ papers and music that can be stored and retrieved whenever they want. This reduces hardware, software, and personnel costs and saves on space, repair, and electricity. It also allows the school to stay current with technology and enables multiple staff to view admissions simultaneously — in or out of the office.

However, the issue of security cannot be overstated in a cloud computing scenario. In reality, security is less about the nuts and bolts of how to protect the data than the idea that administrators must determine who actually owns the data and who has access to it. All this information is being put on these machines out there “somewhere”; thus, the college administrator needs to know who is administering these machines and who has access to them…

Grazed from MarketWatch. Author: PR Announcement.

Eucalyptus Systems, creator of the most widely deployed on-premise cloud computing platform, today announced a new version of its product that aligns the open source community and enterprises on the same platform to contribute, build, run and manage cloud development and deployments. The release features performance improvements and several new capabilities, including FastStart, which enables users to deploy on-premise AWS-compatible IaaS clouds in under 20 minutes. Eucalyptus 3.1 brings numerous community development and contribution enhancements, such as Eucalyptus 3 source code availability on Github, enterprise platform deployments for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, VMware vCenter 5, and community project management capabilities that provide management support for defects, fixes and feature requests.

"Hybrid cloud computing is the next phase of enterprise cloud adoption; however, one of the most challenging aspects of this approach is having the solutions in place to quickly deploy and manage the implementation," said Thomas Bittman, vice president and distinguished analyst, Gartner. "A majority of large enterprises consider speed, agility and scalability to be the primary benefit of private and hybrid cloud adoption."…

Grazed from Out-Law.com.  Author: Editorial Staff.

UK law makers and the judiciary should take note of new research that has claimed that a narrow reading of copyright law exceptions can result in an erosion of investment in new technologies, an expert has said.19 Jun 2012.

Harvard Business School Professor Josh Lerner has published a new report (32-page / 300KB PDF) that claims that venture capital investment in cloud computing companies in France and Germany has fallen in relation to elsewhere in the EU as a result of court judgments on copyright issues in those countries.

Technology law expert Luke Scanlon of Pinsent Masons, the law firm behind Out-Law.com, said that the report should be a warning to UK legislators and judges over the impact copyright law, and its reading, can have on the economy…

Grazed from MarketWatch. Author: PR Announcement.

Yammer, Inc., the leading provider of Enterprise Social Networks, today announced it has joined the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), a not-for-profit organization with a mission to promote the use of best practices for providing security assurance within Cloud Computing, and to provide education on the uses of Cloud Computing to help secure all other forms of computing.

"At Yammer, preserving the confidentiality and integrity of our customers’ data is of critical importance," said Josha Bronson, director of Security Engineering, Yammer. "We look forward to bringing our internal security expertise and insight to the CSA to help shape the future of cloud security, while also learning from the various other experts in this rapidly growing space."…

Grazed from Business Insider. Author: Ramon Ray.

I am sure cloud computing has its shortcomings like data security and reliability ( read more about it here), but despite that small businesses are seeking to cut computing costs and improve efficiency through adopting cloud computing applications in this never-ending recession. Cloud based services can help small businesses to simplify business operations, keeping track of their finances while dramatically reducing their software and other computing cost. These cloud based applications can be bought through independent vendor/ service providers or application marketplaces (lists software from well-known vendors).

Application marketplaces are nothing new; they are online shops of different business applications that enable users and software providers to do business in cloud. These are viable resources for finding and using business software…

Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Barb Darrow.

The enterprise cloud storage opportunity is big and Panzura plans to use $15 million in new venture funding to attack it in a bigger, more global way.

Panzura’s Series C round was led by Opus Capital, bringing total funding to $33 million. The new cash which will go towards building Panzura’s global sales force, CEO Randy Chou told me recently. Unlike many of the other cloud storage startups, four-year-old Panzura focuses exclusively on big enterprise accounts not on small and medium businesses, he said. Current enterprise customers include Relativity Media and Jazz Pharmaceuticals.

The company’s cloud storage gateway can front-end private or public clouds. Panzura lists Amazon, Nirvanix, Rackspace, Hewlett-Packard and Google as public cloud partners and works with EMC, OpenStack, Amplidata and Nirvanix on the private cloud side…