Author: David

NTT Data, the service provider, has formed a business unit devoted to cloud services. It will be led by Marv Mouchawar as president and he will report directly to CEO John McCain.

Mouchawar and his team will be responsible for the overall strategy, portfolio, sales and delivery of services.

NTT Data Cloud Services is supposed to draw on the strengths and resources offered by NTT Data globally and in collaboration with the NTT Group of companies including NTT Communications, NTT DOCOMO and Dimension Data…

Iron Bow Technologies LLC, an information technology solutions provider, announced today that it has achieved the Cisco Cloud Builder designation within the Cisco Cloud Partner Program to support the expanding role of the network in deploying cloud services.

This designation recognizes Iron Bow’s competencies to consult, design, deliver and implement Cisco end-to-end cloud solutions for both government and private enterprise customers. As a Cisco designated Cloud Builder Partner, Iron Bow has met the rigorous required competencies across all cloud infrastructure components (security, networking, computing, storage and virtualization solutions), cloud management applications and a formal cloud professional services practice…

In an effort to address some of the most pressing cloud computing challenges and requirements its members have identified, the Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) has released five new usage models, which are available for download now.

These new usage models are designed to help better manage security and infrastructure issues across cloud computing applications, while at the same time identifying the specific innovations and standards that are required for widespread adoption of cloud services, says Allyson Klein, ODCA representative and a director with Intel Corp.

“Members are committed to using usage models to guide their planning and purchasing of cloud services for internal cloud deployments, as well as public cloud services.” she says. “Vendors can utilize the usage models to help integrate requirements into future solution delivery plans.”…

Cloud computing has been described by some of the more radical thinkers as a profound challenge to the heart of software freedom [1]. There’s some justification to this accusation.

First, you need more than your software’s source code to take your cloud activity into your own hands. Although open source gives you the freedom to use, study, modify, and distribute the software, it doesn’t necessarily allow the use of the place it runs or the APIs needed to access that place. As such, considering your software-freedom-derived business flexibility [2] in the area of cloud computing is more complex than for in-house desktop or server solutions…

The concept of big data is simple, as most good ideas are. Big data gives us the ability to use commodity computing to process distributed queries across multiple data sets and return result sets in record time. Cloud computing provides the underlying engine, typically through the use of Hadoop. Because these commodity server instances can be rented as needed, big data becomes affordable for most enterprises.

We always make discoveries as we use new technology, both good and bad. In the case of big data, the path to success will come with key lessons. But given the novelty of big data in real-world deployments, there are major questions for which we don’t yet have answers — so be extra careful in these areas…

Hitachi, Ltd. and Microsoft Japan Co., Ltd. today announced that they collaboratively provide global cloud solutions by combination of Hitachi Cloud Computing Solutions and Microsoft(R) global data center. Hitachi cloud computing solution will be enhanced by this collaboration in order to satisfy Japanese customer’s broad needs including globalization.

As usage of cloud computing is rapidly expanded in enterprise IT systems, cloud computing is evolving to be used in cooperation with mission critical system (mainly in form of hybrid cloud), while cloud computing conventionally has been used in a limited part of enterprise information system (mainly in form of public cloud and private cloud)…

Cloud computing uses remote computers to host software and store data, which can then be accessed via the internet. It allows businesses to access IT resources, such as data storage, without having to buy expensive equipment.

“The use of cloud computing by the business world is accelerating” says Anthony Lee, a partner in the media and technology group at law firm Fladgate. “However, there are some inevitable risks which businesses need to think about.”

A business looking at cloud-based data storage must know where the data is, that it is secure and that it can be easily retrieved…

Some IT providers are talking cloud, but still living in a virt-based world. See why Microsoft offers a private cloud solution that is built for the future and ready now. http://aka.ms/vmltd

First, "broad network access." Access to resources in the cloud is available over multiple device types. This not only includes the most common devices (laptops, workstations, etc.) but also this includes mobile phones, thin clients and so on. Contrast "broad network access" with access to compute and network resources during the mainframe era. Compute resources forty years ago were scarce and costly. Usage was limited based on priority and criticality of workloads in order to conserve those resources.

Similarly, network resources were also scarce. Internet Protocol (IP) based networks were not in prevalent usage back then, consequently high-bandwidth, low-latency networks did not exist. Over time costs associated with the network (like costs associated with computing and storage) have decreased due to manufacturing scalability and commoditization of associated technologies. As network bandwidth has increased, network access and scalability has increased accordingly. "Broad network access" can be seen both as a trait of cloud computing and as an enabler…