Author: David

The Homeland Security Department has aggressively embraced cloud computing, said DHS Chief Information Officer Richard Spires before an Oct. 6 House panel.

The department has identified 12 cloud services it has either already stood up or plans to do so over the next 24 months, Spires told the House Homeland Security subcommittee on cybersecurity, infrastructure protection and security technologies…

International Integrated Solutions, Ltd. (IIS), a leading provider of mission critical, highly available infrastructure solutions, announced the opening of its HP Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE). HP Cloud Centers of Excellence enable clients to gain firsthand knowledge of, and directly experience, the benefits of cloud computing technologies such as accelerated service delivery and operational efficiency…

A study has found that nearly one in three small and medium enterprises (SMEs) plan to use cloud computing in the next year, more than for any other emerging technology.

CompTIA, an IT industry non-profit trade association, surveyed 400 IT and business professionals in UK SMEs about their views on emerging technologies…

For years, the dominant animation studios like Pixar and DreamWorks Animation made their cinematic magic via expensive computers that ran in data centers at the studios. Now the rise of cloud computing, which enables anyone to buy computer power on demand, is allowing smaller, independent animation firms to produce very slick work…

Researchers from North Carolina State University and IBM are claiming a major breakthrough in the way cloud computing architectures protect sensitive information.

They have developed a new, experimental technique to isolate sensitive information and workload from the rest of the functions performed by a hypervisor – without, they claim, significantly affecting the system’s overall performance…

While the environment is heavily impacted by online use with things such as data centers leaving a big carbon footprint, EarthTalk said cloud computing could help move green IT forward by centralizing things a big more. Individual purchases aside, EarthTalk said the cloud is very important for the future…

Who’s planning to build or expand data centers in the next few years? Major growth in Internet service demands and cloud computing is pushing major companies to expand or build new data centers around the world. Follow the breakdown of investments, land size and reasons for data center expansion…:

Last week the OpenNebula project gave a keynote about HPC Cloud Computing with OpenNebula at the High Performance Cloud Computing Day hosted by the SARA Supercomputing Center and the Big Grid project to officially inaugurate its new HPC Cloud infrastructure. It was really impressive to see the work done by the HPC Cloud team during the last two years. It was 2009 when OpenNebula had the first technical discussions with this team about how to build an IaaS cloud that could address the challenging needs of the HPC community. At that time, they had the vision to understand the full potential of cloud computing for High Performance Computing, and since then they have done pioneering, innovative work that is now helping others to follow the same path. Moreover, from the beginning they involved the users in the testing of the platform to make sure the final infrastructure would fully address their needs…