The Cloud Computing Model – A Lifeline for Business in Challenging Times
The language of IT backup, security, disaster preparedness and business continuity can be confusing. Having a network backup procedure in place doesn’t necessarily mean you also have a disaster plan, and having a disaster plan doesn’t mean you also have a business continuity plan. In short, the disaster plan outlines what to do when disaster strikes, the business continuity plan outlines how to keep things moving in the aftermath.
As any CIO who has been through a fire, hurricane or earthquake can tell you, the hardest part doesn’t come until days after the terrible event has already occurred. Business failure occurs less as a result of immediate loss, and more a result of the delays suffered in getting back to business as usual. With every passing day, full recovery becomes less likely…
Cloud Computing: High Performance Computing Division Launched by Patriot Technologies
Patriot Technologies has launched a High Performance Computing (HPC) Solutions division that provides customized hardware solutions designed to enable the best-designed configuration at the lowest possible cost of ownership to support even the most demanding technical computing environments — including the Cloud and Hadoop.
Industries with the greatest need for HPC include life sciences, weather modeling, computer-aided engineering, energy and financial due to the massive processing power needed to optimize their applications. Patriot is able to help customers create the highest performing platform at the lowest total cost of ownership by utilizing our lifecycle approach; including discovery of needs and requirements, production & design of a hardware system, and a lifecycle management approach that includes post-sales maintenance and remote monitoring capabilities…
Cloud Computing: Are Hyper-V and App-V the new Windows Servers?
Bear with me, if you will, for a moment while I put forth an interesting idea concerning Microsoft’s future in the cloud computing business marketplace. I believe that traditional server operating systems (OSs) will go out of style long before desktop format computing will and there’s a very good reason for that: We just don’t need standalone servers anymore. Yes, I realize that’s a pretty strong statement in any arena but, as I wrote above, bear with me while I discuss this salient point with you. I think that Microsoft will replace standard, standalone Windows Server with Hyper-V and App-V. And, you’ll probably select which one you want to use during installation. Windows vServer 2015 or Windows Application Server 2015?
Click. Restart. Deploy.
Once your system is up and running, you can select through a series of Roles for your new Server, if you selected Windows Application Server 2015, such as Remote Desktop Server, Exchange Server, SharePoint Server, Communications Server, Media Server, Active Directory Server, Office Applications Server or Custom Applications Server. The Custom Applications Server would allow you to deploy applications that don’t fall into one of the other categories…
All you need to know about cloud data transfers
What is it with data-transfer cloud computing performance? Some people think cloud services provide great performance, and some think they don’t perform well at all. The reality is that both beliefs are true, depending on how you use cloud services and the cloud providers themselves.
There are a few basic, core patterns that define data-transfer performance:
- Enterprise to cloud
- Mobile to cloud
- Cloud to cloud
Enterprise-to-cloud seems to be where the problems exist. Information is transferred, typically over the open Internet, from servers in the enterprise to public cloud computing providers. If you’ve ever checked out the speed difference in downloading data from a remote website versus an intranet site, you already know what the issues are in this arena. As a rule, try to avoid transfer of large chunks of data from the enterprise to the public cloud computing provider…
Tensions Between CIOs, Other Execs Surface in Cloud Survey
Business leaders see cloud computing as a way to circumvent IT in order to acquire cloud services on their own and this is creating tension between business and IT stakeholders.
This finding is apparent by a new commissioned cloud survey conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of BMC that suggests a comprehensive cloud strategy can alleviate growing tensions between business and IT teams.
BMC Software’s study entitled ‘Delivering on High Cloud Expectations’, includes in-depth responses from 327 enterprise infrastructure executives and architects across the United States, Europe and Asia Pacific…
Largest cloud computing conference and expo opens in Hanoi
The 2012 Cloud Computing and Security World Conference & Exhibition, themed “Security and Modernity: Building social confidence in modern services”, is being held at Hanoi Tower in the capital city from March 22-23.
The annual event is the seventh of its kind in Vietnam, and has become the largest and most prestigious national forum about security in the Southeast Asian country.
This year’s event is expected to create an ideal venue for leading information technology (IT) experts and businesses to introduce innovative initiatives and effective solutions related to cloud computing application for both government and enterprises…
Yardi Announces Voyager SaaS and Private Cloud Solutions
Yardi announced today the release of Voyager S, a Software as a Service (SaaS) successor to its popular Yardi Voyager™ software. Voyager S has all the features of Yardi Voyager version 6.0 in a SaaS model and is initially available for residential and commercial clients in North America.
SaaS solutions have gained wide acceptance in many industries including real estate. SaaS solutions enable suppliers to provide more seamless integration of new releases and updates. The first release of Voyager S will provide improvements in reporting and supports Microsoft reporting services. The second release of Voyager S will provide iPad, tablet and Mac support…
Dome9 Security Addresses Widespread Microsoft RDP Cloud Server Vulnerability
Dome9 Security, the leading provider of cloud security firewall management for public and private clouds, as well as for dedicated and virtual private servers (VPS), today announced that its cloud security firewall management service protects cloud servers from today’s serious cloud server security threats, including the recently publicized Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) vulnerability. Dome9’s cloud security service that automates firewall management eliminates the tactical response to both known vulnerabilities, and vulnerabilities yet to be discovered, and delivers a strategic approach to securing cloud servers.
Employed across millions of cloud and virtual private servers, RDP is a widely used service to control remote Windows servers. The recently announced vulnerability allows hackers to gain full access of any Windows server running RDP and execute remote code without needing any authentication to the server. The exploit affects all versions of Windows Server for any public, private, or hybrid cloud, as well as traditional datacenters, but Windows cloud servers are at the greatest risk because most have public-facing, open RDP ports that are not protected by a corporate perimeter.
VMware vCloud Director Essentials Training Released by TrainSignal
TrainSignal, the global leader in professional computer training, announced the release of their VMware vCloud Director Essentials Training course.
The vCloud Director Essentials Training course teaches administrators of vSphere environments how to use VMware vCD to leverage enterprise virtualization to provide IT resources on-demand. Using vCloud Director, admins can deploy custom-built services "as a service" in order to provide a consistent user experience between private & public clouds. Managing and monitoring resources under this IaaS model opens up the opportunity for cost-efficiency and business agility to expand on top of existing investments.
This essentials training teaches the concepts behind cloud infrastructures and vCD basics for creating a vCloud Director lab. This environment can be used for testing and/or training, utilizing vApps and the vCloud API, and as proof of concept for implementing vCD with a vSphere Enterprise Plus environment. The lesson outline includes:
ICT Board’s Paul Kukubo to speak at Cloud Computing Forum Africa 2012
The Kenya ICT Board chief executive Paul Kukubo is among industry leaders set to make keynote speeches at the forthcoming Cloud Computing World Forum to be held in South Africa on May 8 at the Sandton Sun Hotel in Johannesburg.
The Cloud Computing World Forum Africa offers delegates an opportunity to discuss the latest topics in cloud services, including security, mobile, applications, communications, virtualization and CRM among others.
Kukubo will speak on the topic: ‘Cloud Computing in the Public Sector’ covering issues including whether cloud computing is too much of a risk for the public sector, the benefits of public sector clouds for both vendors and end-users and cloud pressure – matching IT security with cost-effectiveness.