Home cloud: Hands-on with the new Pogoplug Series 4
Sick of living in the cloud?
The new Pogoplug Series 4 is a device that looks to take the best of cloud computing and home network-attached storage and combine the two into a seamless experience. Available today, it certainly seems like a perfectly timed idea in the wake of seemingly daily frustrations with services like Apple’s own iCloud and iTunes Match.
Maybe the fourth time’s a charm: I’ve reviewed multiple Pogoplugs before, but none of them came close to what this new version offers. The Pogoplug is a NAS drive without the complications, and it’s finally hit a sweet spot for price, size, and feature set. The newly released Pogoplug Series 4 is a latecomer to the holiday shopping season, but if you’re getting fed up with iCloud and what other cloud services have to offer, then this $99 device might be what you’re looking for…
Google Links Up to Microsoft Office with Cloud Connect
Cloud Computing is an example of human advancement in computers technology, an enormous leap in the area of technology that is simple and easily understandable to everyone, even with little or no knowledge of computers.
Most of cloud apps are either very costly, or are meant for a larger database. Simple users with simple data have to rely on more costly storage to upload their files to the cloud.
Google Apps is one the best and cheapest of the all cloud apps, and is also free – up to 1 GB of the storage for each user…
Joyent Announces SmartMachine Appliance for MongoDB
Joyent, the global provider of cloud computing software and services, today is launching its SmartMachine Appliance for MongoDB to serve the fast growing market for MongoDB products in the online game, mobile, social network and e-commerce sectors. Designed to run applications with the lowest possible latency and the highest possible availability and reliability, this purpose-built NoSQL cloud appliance is being developed by Joyent with guidance from 10gen. 10gen is the initiator, contributor and continual sponsor of MongoDB, providing unmatched production support, training consulting and online management services for this innovative open source database.
"We’re excited to work with Joyent to improve the experience of running MongoDB in Joyent’s Cloud," said Max Schireson, President of 10gen. "Joyent’s Cloud is enjoying great success and we are happy to be an important part of that ecosystem."…
Nimbula Wins the Overall Most Innovative Cloud Platform Award at the UP Cloud Computing Conference
Nimbula, the Cloud Operating System Company, was named the Overall Most Innovative Cloud Provider at the UP 2011 Cloud Computing Conference yesterday. The conference was sponsored by IBM, Microsoft, PwC, EMC and Amazon Web Services and held at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.
There were 350 nominations for disruptive and next-generation cloud computing companies and for emerging solution providers who are defining cloud technology for the UP 2011 Awards. The judges included James Staten, VP and Principal Analyst at Forrester, Dave Bartoletti, Expert Analyst at Taneja Group, Jeff Nick, Senior VP and CTO at EMC, and Clemente Cohen, Senior VP at CA Technologies…
Will Regulators Kill the Cloud?
The industry dodged a bullet by adopting cloud computing when it did. I realized this at the Waters USA conference in New York this week.
Regulatory changes taking place in the global markets will definitely have an impact on firms’ infrastructure design, according to Andy Brown, group CTO at UBS, and Madge Meyer, chief innovation officer and technology fellow at State Street.
When grid, and then cloud computing, first gained traction in the industry, the global regulatory regime was relatively stable. Only a few well-known jurisdictions—Switzerland and China—had exceedingly tight data privacy rules compared to the rest of the world…
It Takes a Cloud to Secure a Cloud
Cloud security is a huge issue for businesses looking to take advantage of cloud technology but worried about data confidentiality, integrity and availability. According to Symantec’s 2011 State of Cloud Survey, cloud security is both a top goal and top concern for business decision makers who cite malware, theft and loss of confidential data as potential risks.
In this article, then, we’ll look at the challenges that accompany cloud security and how cloud-based security as a service overcomes the challenges of securing cloud networks.
Challenges of Cloud Security
Cloud computing is emerging as a dominant computing model because it offers tremendous scalability with pay-as-you-grow economics. Rather than investing hard dollars in data center infrastructure, companies can establish cloud instances to perform computing tasks and pay by the month. Cloud resources can scale up or down as needed, and because true cloud offerings span multiple data centers, the user is assured of business continuity in the event of a disaster at one data center…
EMC Offers Big Data, Cloud Architect Training
EMC (NYSE: EMC) has announced the start of EMC Proven Professional training and certifications to help businesses address skills transformation and the looming cloud computing and data science skills gap. Building on the company’s Cloud Architect training and certification program—the an "open" training and certification for cloud computing that focuses on the principles, best practices and underlying technology prevalent in the industry—EMC expanded the cloud computing curricula to include foundational cloud infrastructure and services and expert-level EMC cloud architect IT-as-a-service training and certifications.
According to a global survey of the data science community that was released by EMC, the most commonly cited barrier to data science adoption is a lack of employees with the right skills or training, and 65 percent of data scientists believe that in the future, demand for data scientists and data-driven teams will outpace the supply of talent. To address this, EMC is announcing a data science and big data analytics training and certification program with an open curriculum…
Rackspace Promotes Lew Moorman to President
Rackspace Hosting(R) today announced the promotion of Lew Moorman to President, effective immediately. Moorman, 41, will continue to report to Lanham Napier. With the promotion, Moorman will assume the title of President and Napier will continue to serve as Chief Executive Officer. Previously Moorman was President, Cloud and Chief Strategy Officer.
For several years Moorman has driven strategic planning, product development, acquisitions, and other new business initiatives across the company. As President of Rackspace’s Cloud business he has led the company’s fastest growing business. In his new role as president of the company, Moorman will continue to own strategy and product development, including cloud computing technologies as well as the sales and support segments globally…
What’s the difference between Cloud Computing & Grid Computing?
Cloud computing and Grid computing are two different realms of managing IT related work activities in the smoothest way possible.
Where cloud computing is a branch of Information technology that invites businesses to become virtual, grid computing on the other hand calls for a shared environment on a common computer system from multiple administrative domains. Although, both of them function with a purpose to provide a good percentage of scalability levels to high-end computer networks, the cost of deploying these is equally high…
Beware Cloud Computing Advice from IT Research Firms
I don’t know how I missed this, but at the Gartner IT Symposium in October, Darryl Plummer (Chief of Gartner Cloud Research) apparently stated that enterprises should deploy applications in a public cloud provider as a default, and only deploy them in a private cloud if the public alternative is not appropriate.
I became aware of Plummer’s recommendation, which caused quite a stir in the blog world when he first announced it, via Twitter earlier this week.
Naturally, much of the furor over Plummmer’s pronouncement was a reaction to the quick summary: Gartner prefers public cloud. Wow. That’s a big deal, right? Gartner is probably telling all of its clients that they should trim their private cloud plans and instead focus on public cloud service providers. And, in response, all of its clients are scrapping their private cloud initiatives and planning a big move to public providers, right?…