Author: David

October 27, 2011 Off

Grid Dynamics Unveils DevOps Catalyst

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

Grid Dynamics, the authority on cloud computing and enterprise systems scalability, announced today a new solution, DevOps Catalyst, an integrated product and services offering designed to address the need of modern enterprises to release code to production in a fast, repeatable and reliable manner…
 

October 27, 2011 Off

Getting cloud security right from the start

By David
Grazed from IT Wire.  Author: Stephen Withers.

Steve Durbin, vice president sales and marketing for the Information Security Forum thought the issues around cloud security would have been nailed down by now, "but I couldn’t have been more wrong," he told iTWire.

The ease of getting started with cloud services is a nightmare from a security perspective, he suggested. People on the business side of an organisation can simply sign up and put the usually modest charges on their credit cards, bypassing (though probably not maliciously) the normal security procedures…

October 27, 2011 Off

Final version of NIST cloud computing definition published

By David

Grazed from EurekAlert.  Author: PR Announcement.

After years in the works and 15 drafts, the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) working definition of cloud computing, the 16th and final definition has been published as The NIST Definition of Cloud Computing (NIST Special Publication 800-145).

Cloud computing is a relatively new business model in the computing world. According to the official NIST definition, "cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction."…

October 26, 2011 Off

Cloud Solving CIA Petascale Data Problem

By David
Grazed from InformationWeek.  Author:  J. Nicholas Hoover.

Cloud computing can help the Central Intelligence Agency do its job better, faster, cheaper, and even more securely, CIA CTO Gus Hunt said in a keynote address Tuesday at InformationWeek Government‘s GovCloud event in Washington, D.C.

"Cloud computing has emerged to enable us to deliver capabilities we weren’t able to deliver before at a scale and price and agility level we were never able to do before," Hunt said. "I have a petascale problem and need a petascale solution."…

October 26, 2011 Off

Is the cloud living up to CIO expectations?

By David
Grazed from TechJournal.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Is the cloud living up to CIO & CTO expectations? There has been a lot of speculation about what top computing experts think of the cloud and its advantages.

To clear things up, Logicalis, an international provider of integrated information and communications technology solutions and services, analyzed more than 35,000 online forum and social media posts from CIOs and CTOs over the past 60 days, and found their comments to be overwhelmingly in favor of cloud computing. “Positive” and “very positive” comments outweighed “negative” and “very negative” comments by a dramatic 23:1…

October 26, 2011 Off

HP Reportedly Going with ARM Servers

By David
Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author: Maureen O’Gara.

Hewlett-Packard is planning to sell ARM-based servers and is working with Calxeda (née Smooth-Stone), the three-year-old Texas start-up partially owned by ARM, on the boxes, according to Bloomberg, which got it from "two people familiar with the matter." The Dow Jones is saying the same thing…

October 26, 2011 Off

Citrix to unveil sub-$100 ‘system-on-a-chip’

By David

Grazed from InfoWorld.  Author: Matt Hamblen.

Citrix Wednesday is set to unveil a prototype sub-$100 system-on-a-chip with a so-called "zero client" at its Synergy conference in Barcelona.

The prototype HDX Ready System-on-a-Chip, made by NComputing, was previewed by Citrix Tuesday during a Web conference…

October 26, 2011 Off

Cloud Computing – The 3 Big Benefits

By David
Grazed from HostReview.  Author: Editorial Staff.

There are many benefits in Cloud Computing, butwhen I talk to business owners 3 big benefits stand out above all others.

1. Cloud Computing Removes The Servers From Your Office

With Cloud Computing the central network resources move out from your office into the Cloud. There is no need for bulky, noisy, heat producing, electricity consuming servers occupying the corner of your office…

October 26, 2011 Off

Citrix CloudGateway Delivers End User Computing for the Cloud Era

By David
Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Today at Citrix Synergy(TM), the conference where cloud computing, networking and virtualization meet, Citrix announced the next stage of its strategy for Citrix CloudGateway(TM), the industry’s first unified service broker that aggregates, controls and delivers Windows, web, SaaS and mobile apps to any user on any device. The CloudGateway product line empowers end users with self-service access to all of their business apps, and gives IT unmatched control over apps and data from public cloud environments, accelerating enterprise adoption of cloud and mobility…