Author: David

It was readily apparent at the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards (NIST) Cloud Computing Forum in November that cloud computing is a global IT phenomenon with global business benefits. It was also clear that U.S. cloud computing needs mirror those of other countries, possibly offering another way to bring nations together to build other kinds of bridges because of the cloud…

The number of businesses adopting cloud computing-based disaster recovery solutions is increasing and, according to Gartner, 30 per cent of mid-sized enterprises will be using the technology by 2014. Recovery-as-a-service (RaaS), as it is known, is a top performing market partly because of the increasing prominence of threats from hackers and malicious software…

According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, “trend” may be defined as “to show a tendency towards.” When teenagers try to be trendy by incorporating the latest fashions in their sartorial decisions, they provide clothes labels information on what’s popular and what’s not. Thus, there is a continuous feedback loop where labels tell consumers what to buy and consumers tell labels what to sell. Hence, for both providers and consumers of a product or service, it is advantageous to know what’s trending in that industry…

Cloud computing has flunked a security test, reports Tim Wilson at Dark Reading. That probably doesn’t surprise you. Conventional wisdom says clouds are inherently insecure.

But are they? Or are clouds actually more secure than conventional IT environments? A growing number of technologists are making that argument. And they’re not cloud vendors or marketers or startups who have placed their bet on the cloud. They’re some of the senior-most technology officials in government, including those from intelligence agencies and the military, which might be the last place you’d expect to hear such talk…

Adaptive Computing, managers of the world’s largest supercomputing systems as experts in HPC workload management and cloud management, and SGI, the trusted leader in technical computing, jointly announced today at Supercomputing ’11 in booth # 927 that Adaptive Computing and SGI have signed an agreement for SGI to distribute the full line of Moab HPC Suite and Moab Cloud Suite. This business agreement was formalized in response to SGI’s technical computing customers who require intelligent HPC workload management and cloud management to improve and better manage data center work flows. The patented Moab intelligence engine will support the SGI ICE family designed for today’s data intensive problems. This platform from SGI raises the efficiency bar, easily scaling to meet virtually any processing requirements without compromising ease of use, manageability or price/performance…

F5 Networks, Inc., the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that Lokahi has implemented F5(R) BIG-IP(R) Application Delivery Controllers as a crucial component of its Comprehensive Cloud Solutions(TM), providing enterprise-class cloud computing services to help businesses and organizations reduce capital expenditure (CapEx) by contracting out their IT infrastructure…

AMD has officially unveiled its next-generation Opteron chips, featuring up to 16 processor cores to meet the requirements of cloud computing and enterprise customers with highly virtualised datacentre environments, according to the firm…

Moving to cloud computing used to mean abandoning the desktop, but with Syncdocs, it is now possible to get the best of both cloud and desktop worlds…