NSN (Nokia Siemens Network) to push cloud computing to telco gear market
The technology from the world’s No. 2 mobile gear maker after Ericsson shares network resources across mobile and broadband networks, similar to cloud computing.
"For operators it offers a better use of capital. You invest in total network load, not in peak levels," Phil Twist, head of marketing at NSN’s Network Systems unit, said in an interview.
Telecom operators around the world are struggling with a shortage of network capacity as the use of video on smartphones and tablets proliferates. The shortages usually occur during rush hours at specific locations…
EMC Opens New Datacenter
EMC Corp. (EMC – Analyst Report) recently announced that it has opened a new datacenter in Durham, North Carolina. The 450,000 square foot Center of Excellence (COE) is EMC’s seventh datacenter and the first one in the US. The other six COE’s are located in India, China, Egypt, Israel, Ireland and Russia.
The new COE will extend EMC’s private cloud and will support more than 50,000 users across 400 corporate offices in more than 80 countries. In addition to the data center, the COE includes 130,000 square feet of space for research and development labs. COEs perform essential services for EMC business units, including engineering and research and development, customer service, translation services, IT and technical support, and customer executive briefings. ..
Open Group releases a book on reaping cloud’s benefits
The Open Group has released a book on how organizations can use cloud computing to gain business benefit.
The aim of "Cloud Computing for Business" is to give businesses and government organizations the information needed to gain maximize benefit from the cloud, said Chris Harding, director of interoperability for the Open Group, a consortium of companies working to develop neutral standards for IT…
Cloud Computing Could Cut Data Center Energy Consumption by Nearly One-Third by 2020, According to Pike Research
Though the inner workings of the global communications network are so complex that they remain opaque even to those who operate it, the redundancy and fail-over capabilities of the system have made it so reliable that the internet-based cloud has become a trusted place to store and transmit critical data. The rapid spread of cloud computing has enabled enterprises to outsource many information technology capabilities, including and especially data centers, leading to savings on manpower, money, and energy. According to a recent report from Pike Research, the energy-efficiency benefits of cloud computing are substantial, and growth in the market will have important implications for both energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The cleantech market intelligence firm forecasts that the continued adoption of cloud computing will lead to a reduction of data center energy consumption of 31% from 2010 to 2020…
Blue skies for Microsoft’s Azure cloud offering
Once a cloud market denier, Microsoft has clouded right over in recent years, beginning with a pitch that pushed the hybrid model, which played to its vast on-premise software base.
But last week, CEO Steve Ballmer went all in on cloud, telling a developers’ conference in Los Angeles that Microsoft was "re-imagining" every part of its software empire to run on and through the cloud and that the upcoming Windows 8 was being recast as a cloud OS…
RightScale: More than 3 million servers launched
RightScale, which gives companies a good look into the innards of their cloud computing workloads, just surpassed the 3-million-server mark.
RightScale’s cloud management platform launched in 2007. It took more than two years (27 months) to get to the million-server milestone, one more year to reach two million, and then half that time to breach three million milestone, said Michael Crandell, CEO of the Santa Barbara, Calif.-based company…
Cloud Plays Disruptive Role in Financial Services
Financial services are about to be permanently changed by cloud computing. Instead of everyone going to Wall Street for financial services, the cloud will extend Wall Street services to them, whether they’re in Manhattan or Missoula…
Cloud Computing Tips for Small Business
Cloud computing technology offers both time- and money-saving benefits, which makes it a great fit for small business. As cloud computing benefits become more tangible, more small businesses are moving to the cloud. Still, as with any technology, you don’t want to jump in without proper preparation. …
What Does Verizon Expect from the CloudSwitch Acquisition?
Grazed from Cloud Tweaks. Author: Sourya Biswas.
Verizon is betting big on cloud computing. After this year’s $1.4 billion acquisition of data center operator Terremark, Verizon has once again loosened its purse strings to buy cloud computing startup CloudSwitch. The latter develops software that eases the transition of company applications from in-house servers to the cloud. So, what does Verizon expect from this acquisition?
For one, Verizon expects to use CloudSwitch’s capabilities to offer its customers seamless migration to the cloud. CloudSwitch integrates with cloud providers’ public application program interfaces (APIs) to make moving an application or workload to the cloud as simple as a drag-and-drop action in a Web browser. “With CloudSwitch, applications remain tightly integrated with enterprise data center tools and policies, and can be moved easily between different cloud environments and back into the data center based on the requirements of the business,” Verizon said…
Cycle Computing’s Software Ramps Global 30,000-Core Cluster in the Cloud
Cycle Computing recently provisioned a 30,000-core cluster in the cloud, the first of its kind in the industry and the company’s second publicly announced massive cluster run this year. This milestone for scientific computing follows Cycle’s earlier scaling of a 10,000 core cluster in April. Since 2005, Cycle has helped its clients maximize the world’s compute resources through its reliable, secure and elastic HPC solutions, both internally and in the cloud…