Understanding Application Workloads Is the Key to Cloud Computing
Time again, when the discussion turns to whether cloud computing is a worthwhile endeavor, the conversation usually ends with it all depending on the type of application workload involved.
Unfortunately, that’s not much in the way of practical help, so the folks at CiRBA have come up with the Data Center Intelligence Tool, an analytics application that allows IT organizations to analyze the nature of any application workload and the systems required to support it.
Citrix CEO: We’re Moving From the PC Era to the Cloud Era
Apple isn’t the only vendor that thinks we’re moving into the post-PC era. Citrix CEO Mark Templeton took the keynote stage at the Interop conference today detailing his vision of the post-PC era.
Cloud computing top priority for business executives in New Zealand
A report has shown that cloud computing is one of the top priorities for chief information officers in companies in Australia and New Zealand.
Gartner conducted research which showed that many companies were looking into ‘lightweight’ computing solutions such as cloud computing in a bid to cut costs in hard economic times, which have seen many companies increase budgets by as little as 1.7 per cent for 2011.
The Desktop Is Turning Mobile
In many ways mobile technologies are derivative of their desktop brethren. Your iPhone’s e-mail app is like the e-mail client on your desktop, for example. The mobile world is the desktop world in miniature, a "lite" version.
But the mobile world is no longer just following; it’s leading. PC sales are sagging, while sales of mobile devices—smart phones and tablets—are on the rise. As the operating systems that power these devices become the new norm, we can expect to see certain aspects of desktop and laptop operating systems start imitating the little upstarts that had initially imitated them.
Telx Launches cloudXchange
Telx, an interconnection and colocation provider in North American markets, launched its new cloudXchange connectivity platform, enabling cloud service providers to offer on-demand applications and infrastructure via a distributed, hybrid delivery model.
This delivery model increases cloud services uptime, while reducing application latency, Telx said.
Who Is Responsible for Cloud Security?
On the tails of the Sony and Amazon breaches, a recent Ponemon Institute report had some very sobering news.
The study, “Security of Cloud Computing Providers," was sponsored by CA Technologies and found the following issues involving cloud security:
Planet Earth is becoming a massive computational cloud
The cloud is becoming massive. Actually, I hate people that call it "the" cloud. It’s the cloud computing model of IT service delivery in the form of applications and data. But that’s a bit long, so we’ll stick with calling it "the" cloud.
So if my original statement holds water, just how many clouds are there right now?
CEO of Eucalyptus Systems Mårten Mickos says that his company has launched over 25,000 clouds, making it the planet’s most widely deployed software platform for on-premise (IAAS) clouds.
Reducing Latency in the Cloud
Now that more and more enterprises are starting to get some cloud experience under their belts, attention is starting to shift from getting the technology to work to building an optimal cloud experience.
The primary fear of cloud providers and their platform suppliers is that failure to reasonably duplicate traditional data center performance will eventually hamper deployment. After all, a cheaper architecture is of limited value if it ends up diminishing productivity.