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Grazed from EE Times.  Author: PR Announcement.

Tilera Corp. has released the TILE-Gx 3000 processor family that is specifically designed for designed for cloud computing applications.

Co-developed with some Internet brands, Tilera said the processors target scale out datacenters running throughput-oriented applications such as web applications, database applications like NoSQL and in-memory databases, data mining applications such as Hadoop and video transcoding…

Grazed from Cloud Pro.  Author: Simon Bisson.

Grazed from ComputerWorld.  Author: Antony Savvas.

Widespread adoption of cloud computing could be threatened because IT departments do not have the time to get it off the ground, according to a report.

High maintenance costs and the increasing percentage of time that goes into administration around existing systems were the biggest challenges to overcome, said the paper.

Grazed from eWeek.  Author:  Fahmida Y. Rashid

Although the cloud-computing market is growing rapidly, organizations should take a measured and deliberate approach to how they adopt the cloud.

Grazed from ReadWriteWeb.  Author: David Strom.

A new ebook to help users of Rackspace setup and manage their cloud-based servers is out this week. Called Managing Rackspace Cloud Servers and written by Jacek Artymiak, it is a very practical and useful guide, and seems to be unique.

The 75 page book teaches you how to use the openstack-compute Python-based tool to manage server farms built on top of the Rackspace Cloud Servers service. The author takes you through the steps to get the source code installed on your machines and illustrates some basic management tasks with copious examples and some geek humor thrown in for extra measure. Even if you aren’t familiar with Python you should be comfortable using this tool.

For example, you can use openstack-compute to resize RAM or disk on one of your VMs, rebuild a VM from a known working version, and making backups of your cloud servers.

Rackspace’s programming interfaces make automating common tasks possible, and why these Python-based tools can be useful. "Consider the following scenario: you have an nginx front-end server as a load balancer and a couple of Tornado web servers behind it servicing the incoming traffic. Suppose you get famous and the load on your web servers rises above a certain threshold," says Artymiak…

Grazed from The Register.  Author: Nathan Coates.

Data centres run on the back of good operational processes that are repeatable and trusted. IT management best practices have sometimes been criticised as being monolithic and failing to keep up with change.

ITIL (the Information Technology Infrastructure Library), for example, was defined in the 1990s as a best-practice framework for large-scale UK government systems.

The long-standing goal of data centre management the private cloud has been dynamic IT, or the allocation of IT resources on demand according to the needs of the business.

Grazed from Server Watch.  Author: Paul Reubens.

Grazed from Network World.   Author: Jon Brodkin.

Cloud computing is widely perceived as a threat to Microsoft, because the maker of Windows and Microsoft Office earns the lion’s share of its money selling licenses for packaged software.

But Microsoft’s new Server & Tools President, in his first public appearance since taking the top spot, said cloud computing is another opportunity Microsoft can exploit just as it did with the birth of the PC.

Grazed from CRN.  Author: Andrew R. Hickey.

Amazon (NSDQ:AMZN)’s cloud is rife with vulnerabilities, security holes that are left open by users who fail to follow Amazon’s security guidelines, a team of German security researchers has found.

Grazed from Computer Weekly.  Author: Karl Flinders.

Community-based cloud services for banks, including an app store for financial services organisations, are being incubated on the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (Swift) network.

The 40-year-old shared messaging service, used by world banks to complete financial transactions, could offer the secure and reliable cloud platform that financial organisations are looking for.