Cloud News, Resources and Information
In today’s (more or less) post-recession market, CIOs and other senior IT decision makers are under pressure to do more with less. The demands on IT solutions are escalating, but execs are unable, or unwilling, to let technology budgets expand at the same speed…
Networking component major Juniper Network (NASDAQ:JNPR) is gradually tightening its grip on the cloud computing market. The company recently made significant additions to the Juniper Networks vGW Virtual Gateway solution for customers looking for a comprehensive virtualization security platform.
These newly added functions with virtualization-specific antivirus (AV) will secure and continuously monitor malware and hackers, as well as ensure that security does not impede virtualized workload performance or present a barrier to implementing large-scale virtualized environments…
Security and integration are two of the biggest challenges of cloud computing. They drive many enterprises to manage their most sensitive assets internally — creating a complex portfolio of systems spanning public and private clouds. IBM wants to make the complexity a little easier to manage.
IBM has announced a new hybrid cloud solution designed to reduce the time and challenge of connecting, managing and securing public and private clouds. The new solution leverages the application and data integration IBM acquired from Cast Iron and the company’s Tivoli cloud management software…
CSC (NYSE: CSC) today announced the introduction of Breezeway, a collection of cloud-based, Web-subscription services usable on multiple devices and platforms that enable insurers to tap into offerings in a secure, highly scalable environment. CSC’s first series of services in the Breezeway collection provides virtual agents with a desktop application built on Force.com, salesforce.com’s leading enterprise cloud computing platform, and will support a wide array of multiline insurance agency functions starting with the electronic new business application service…
IT departments and suppliers have a long way to go before they understand each other on cloud computing.
That was the conclusion when IT practitioners and suppliers met at London law firm DLA Piper to discuss the barriers to cloud.
In the words of Mark O’Conor, partner at London law firm, suppliers and buyers are like a tentative couple out on a first date.
"It feels like we are at odds," he says. "Each side is looking to the other and both sides are waiting for each other to take a step forward."
Cloud computing – which offers IT departments the potential to buy in IT services as a commodity when they need them – has become one of the hottest, most hyped and perhaps most confusing topics in IT…
Cloud has always been associated with flexibility and economic viability. Cloud has successfully shrugged the hype factor and has over the years grown well in India. Currently most of the cloud market is addressed by Indian data center service providers and global cloud service providers. However telecom companies are taking significant share in overall cloud opportunity with strengths like broad network reach and wide customer access. From the time, telecom companies have started considering cloud as a serious business concept, storage companies have been their ‘friend in need’. While storage has been a de-facto component of the cloud architecture, telcos have been leveraging the relationship for the best business advantage…
You had to see this one coming. As local municipalities and states seek to find additional revenue in this down economy, they now have their sights on the emerging market of cloud computing. As more companies use cloud services, the traditional rules of taxation based on physical presence no longer fit. However, the new set of proposed tax laws could drive more confusion and remove much of the costs savings of transitioning to the cloud…
Interphase Corporation (NASDAQ: INPH), today announced that its clouDevice™ K01 Series thin clients have achieved VMware Ready™ status. This designation indicates that Interphase clouDevice has passed a detailed evaluation and testing process managed by VMware and is now listed on the VMware Partner Product Catalog.
Passing the extensive VMware-specified testing helps ensure that clouDevice makes best use of VMware technology and is ready for deployment in customer environments…
While there has been an incredible increase in the competitive landscape for various cloud computing services, one company stands out to me as unique in both its approach and its success. That company is Amazon, and their Amazon Web Services offerings.
Before you accuse me of being some kind of fanboy, I want to explain why I say this. And in part 2 of this series, I’ll point out how this uniqueness will be challenged in the coming year or two. There is no guarantee that Amazon will be the dominant cloud capacity provider forever, but they deserve their props when it comes to what they have achieved to date, and how–at least for now–they continue to go about staying the leader…
Some could argue that it really does take a rocket scientist to address the limitations of high performance computing systems.
According to one rocket scientist we talked to recently, the problem with HPC clusters for aerospace engineers has little to do with the applications or the real science behind the rockets. Rather, he says the thorny issues are rooted in the limitations, complexity, and general care and feeding distractions that require scientists and non IT-experts to work double-duty as HPC system managers…