Author: David

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EnterpriseDB Creates Database as a Service for Cloud Hosting Platforms

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Grazed from eWeek.  Author: Frank Ohlhorst.

EnterpriseDB has announced a new database-as-a-service offering, which will bring  EnterpriseDB’s PostgreSQL and PostgreSQL Plus database products to the cloud.

The company has already forged agreements with leading cloud services hosts to immediately offer EnterpriseDB’s PostgreSQL Plus Cloud Service. Service providers, such as CloudBees and Engine Yard, will use  PostgreSQL Plus Cloud Service for their core offerings while Amazon EC2 and HP Cloud Compute will offer PostgreSQL Plus Cloud Service directly to customers.

Offering the service as an alternative to entrenched Oracle users means that EnterpriseDB must include some specific features to support enterprise customers. One critical feature that EnterpriseDB’s PostgreSQL Plus Cloud Service includes is support for fully ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability) compliant relational database service…

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Gridstore’s Scale-Out Storage Solution Wins the 2011 Cloud Computing Excellence Award Sponsored by Cloud Computing Magazine

By David
Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Gridstore(TM), the leader in grid based, scale-out storage solutions, today announced that the company has been awarded the first Cloud Computing Excellence Award from TMC. Gridstore was selected as one of the top 30 companies that most effectively leveraged cloud computing in efforts to bring new, differentiated offerings to market. The winners will be published in the January 2012 issue of Cloud Computing Magazine.

With Gridstore’s scale-out storage solution small and medium sized organizations enjoy simple plug and play scaling of capacity, IO and performance without the cost, complexity and 3X capacity bloat of first-generation cluster based offerings. Gridstore’s unique grid based NAS is the only scale-out solution that provides a fault tolerant system designed to withstand multiple, simultaneous failures without downtime or data loss to ensure customers can run 24/7 non-stop…

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SGI Introduces SGI Modular InfiniteStorage Platform for Cloud Storage Applications

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Grazed from BusinessWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

SGI (NASDAQ: SGI), the trusted leader in technical computing, today announced the introduction of SGI® Modular InfiniteStorage™, an integrated server and storage platform designed to provide Cloud and data storage customers with the maximum flexibility for compute and data management applications. Leveraging industry-leading density in an innovative, adaptable design, the core SGI Modular InfiniteStorage platform will be available as either SGI Modular InfiniteStorage Server (SGI MIS Server) or SGI Modular InfiniteStorage JBOD (SGI MIS JBOD) storage products, for wide-ranging, functional scalability in diverse data environments.

“The SGI Modular InfiniteStorage platform aims to allow IT managers to design customized solutions based on standards-based components.”

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Army Looks to Cloud Computing to Trim IT Bootprint

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Grazed from GreenBiz.com.   Author: Tilde Herrera.

We’ve all seen the recent headlines publicizing the Army’s push to significantly scale back its operations.

That push reaches far beyond its ground forces to include a fleet of data centers that must shrink from about 200 to 20. The military arm’s top IT brass wants the Army to meet this consolidation target ahead of its original deadline of fiscal year 2014.

Keeping in line with this timeline, the Army recently awarded its first cloud computing contract to several contractors to help create its own private cloud, including MicroTech, Lockheed Martin Corp. and IBM…

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Beware cloud computing’s trapdoors

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Grazed from The Globe & Mail.  Author: Grant Buckler.

The toll of cyber crime appears to be rising as criminals become more sophisticated and more focused on financial gain. And while businesses are doing a bit better at protecting themselves, criminals have become better at bypassing the standard security measures, experts say.

To complicate matters, more businesses are adopting cloud computing, in which they run software and store data on computers outside their own premises and their own direct control. (The term can also refer to internal or private clouds, which distribute work over multiple servers but only within an organization.)…

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ClearDATA Partners with Comport Consulting for Cloud-based Medical Image Storage and Archiving

By David
Grazed from PR Web.  Author: PR Announcement.

ClearDATA Networks, Inc., the fastest-growing provider of cloud computing services for the healthcare industry, has partnered with Comport Consulting Corp., a leading provider of data management and infrastructure solutions for healthcare providers, to deliver Medical Image Storage and Archiving solutions utilizing ClearDATA’s healthcare cloud platform.

Because of the increasing amounts of data created by medical imaging, hospital CIOs face significant challenges managing their PACs and clinical data storage infrastructure with predictable cost efficiency. “ClearDATA Medical Image Storage and Archive provides an economical, vendor neutral alternative to perpetually purchasing local hard drives by providing the right amount of storage at any given time. The hospital only pays for what they use.” said Brian Mitchell, VP Sales of ClearDATA. “The ClearDATA cloud network is 100% HIPAA compliant and manages data security beyond NIST standards, giving the client complete confidence that their data is in a facility that minimizes the risk of breach.”…

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Why 2013 is the year of the ‘NoOps’ cloud for programmers

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Grazed from GigaOM.  Author: Derrick Harris.

AppFog Founder and CEO Lucas Carlson isn’t shy about touting platform-as-a-service as the ideal way for developers to access cloud computing resources, but he isn’t blind either. Although PaaS has been around for a couple years now and has already spurred hundreds of millions in M&A spending, Carlson knows it’s nowhere near the mainstream yet.

Carlson lays out his version of the evolution of cloud computing in the infographic below. Right now, API-based infrastructure-as-a-service offerings like that from Amazon Web Services and SysOps (or DevOps) tools are developers’ best friends in the cloud. Application-lifecycle platforms such as Cloud Foundry (the VMware-ran open source project  on which AppFog is built) and Red Hat’s OpenShift  are poised to reach critical mass in 2012, whereas so-called “NoOps” platforms such as AppFog and Heroku will reach that point in 2013…

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The Four Types Of Cloud

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Grazed from YouTube.  Author:  Blackwateropsdotcom.

Public, Private, Community and Hybrid — these are the four types of cloud that are recognized by the NIST model. Of cource, Hybrid is a combination of the first three.  But for ease of discussion, these are the four types of Cloud.

 

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VMTurbo Enhances Platform to Assure Application Performance Across Cloud and Virtualized Environments

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Grazed from VMTurbo.  Author:  PR Announcement.

VMTurbo, the leading provider of intelligent workload management software for cloud and virtualized environments, today announced version 3.0 of its award-winning platform. VMTurbo Operations Manager 3.0 delivers cloud-scale management for the largest service provider and enterprise virtual infrastructures, expands heterogeneous hypervisor support to include Citrix XenServer and adds new application performance assurance capabilities. The product delivers this all from a single virtual appliance that installs in minutes and immediately provides actionable and automatable recommendations that improve performance across the virtual environment.

“As the number of virtualized and cloud computing environments continues to skyrocket, management technologies are becoming increasingly important,” said Bernd Harzog, lead analyst at The Virtualization Practice. "With their 3.0 release, VMTurbo’s Operations Manager is the only solution that can automatically adjust how the resources in the environment are allocated to workloads and applications to ensure performance on the basis of priorities – simplifying the management of complex virtual environments for IT operators."

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Zenoss Doubles New Sales in Q4 and Posts Record Revenue for 2011

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Grazed from Zenoss.com.  Author: PR Announcement

Zenoss, a leading provider of management software for physical, virtual, and cloud-based IT, today announced that the company achieved 196% new sales growth in Q4, nearly doubling its growth from the same quarter last year, and ended 2011 with record revenues. The key driver of growth was large organizations looking for a new platform and approach to IT operations, as virtualization and cloud computing play an increasing role in their overall IT strategies.

“To get the full benefit of a modern IT environment that is increasingly virtual and cloud-based, organizations are moving to new platforms and approaches for IT operations management,” said Bill Karpovich, CEO of Zenoss, Inc. “Enterprises and service providers are realizing that managing today’s IT with yesterday’s tools just doesn’t work.”