Category: News

Grazed from PRWeb. Author: PR Announcement.

The Cloud Advisory Council, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to develop and enable the next-generation cloud architecture, today announced the formation of the Open BigCloud group. The Open BigCloud group will bring together industry, academia, and research communities to shape the future of open cloud computing and Big Data.

The objective of the Open BigCloud group will be to advance understanding of how the revolutionary paradigm of cloud computing can be applied at extreme scales of computing, data processing, and integration with instruments. Those issues constitute the cornerstone of future innovation and require a broad spectrum of expertise ranging across architectures, networking, devops, and software systems…

Grazed from Forbes. Author: Ben Kepes.

CentriLogic, is a Toronto-based cloud computing and managed data center service provider for mid to large enterprise. But apparently mid to large enterprise isn’t enough for the company so today they’re rolling out a new IaaS service targeted at small to mid sized businesses as well as developers.

Before you cry out in incredulity that the chances of a little known vendor making any kind of dent on AWS, Google, Microsoft Azure or the other big public cloud vendors is virtually zero, take a minute to hear what the service, dubbed “Mothership” (oh dear) is all about. Mothership is served out of CentriLogic data centers in Toronto, North Carolina and the UK…

Grazed from MarketWatch. Author: PR Announcement.

Midokura, a global company focused on network virtualization, today announced plans to present, sponsor and exhibit at the OpenStack Summit, held May 12-16, 2014, in Atlanta. Midokura executives will present on OpenStack and network virtualization topics throughout the event. Midokura will also be demonstrating its highly distributed and agile network virtualization solution, MidoNet, at booth E44.

OpenStack is a global collaboration of developers and cloud computing technologists producing the open source cloud-computing platform for public and private clouds. Midokura is an active member of the OpenStack community and recognized as a top contributor to the project…

Grazed from CIOL. Author: Vibhor Mishra.

The cloud technology has been around for some time now, yet it seems that its true potential is yet to be harnessed. Cloud has changed the ownership model, providing flexibility to manage, host and execute. Over the years we have seen several industries adopt cloud to leverage its benefits. Be it cost reduction, hassle-free maintenance, unlimited storage capacity (literally), automatic software integration, flexibility, quick deployment, etc. or the fact that the entire world is embracing it, cloud is unquestionably the way forward.

On-premises solutions come with challenges such as higher cost, maintenance hassles, trained staff, licensing and upgrades. These challenges have been successfully addressed by adopting cloud computing. Companies have been adopting various services offered on cloud ranging from CRM to ERP services…

Grazed from Bandt. Author: Editorial Staff.

Global cloud computing company SalesForce ExactTarget Marketing Cloud has launched a new social media platform called Social Studio that will allow companies to synthesise and publish social media content in one place. The new platform will combine the social media listening skillset of existing SalesForce platform Radian6 with the publishing expertise of Buddy Media, all on one platform to create a one-stop shop for content marketing, engagement, publishing and analytics.

Social media administration is maturing beyond the social media ‘ninja’ operating all social media and online engagement across an entire organisation said Derek Laney, director product marketing management at SalesForce Marketing Cloud. Instead, Laney explained, each team and individual is taking on the responsibilities of social media management specific to that area of the company…

Grazed from EnterpriseStorageForum. Author: Christine Taylor.

Cloud computing is a maturing technology but cloud storage is lagging behind – with hybrid cloud storage as the most forward looking technology. The lag in cloud storage reflects the same situation between on-premise servers, networks and storage: servers and networks have outstripped storage performance many times over.

There are a number of reasons for this, many of them based on the physical limitations of magnetic disk. Flash and optimizing data are helping to close the gap. Yet there is still a gulf between on-premise and cloud-based storage due to latency and low bandwidth. Sending backup and archive to the cloud relieves some of the pressure of storing massive data. However, on-premise production data can rarely take advantage of the cloud and its scalability…

Grazed from PCWorld. Author: Stephen Lawson.

The IT systems of the past 20 years won’t be able to handle the emerging Internet of Things, which will call for cloud computing, virtualization, efficient storage and big-data analysis, according to EMC. As more consumer devices and industrial equipment get connected through the IoT, the flood of data and the opportunities to make things run better will make the familiar client-server systems now in use obsolete, said Paul Maritz, CEO of EMC’s Pivotal division.

Maritz and the rest of EMC’s top executives used the EMC World conference in Las Vegas this week to sell their vision of a “3rd Platform” of computing driven by mobile devices, big data, public and private clouds and social networking, which they said is replacing a “2nd platform” rooted in client-server technology. The company has combined its core EMC storage business with VMware, RSA Security and the Pivotal division to offer the pieces enterprises need to make the transition…

Grazed from VentureBeat. Author: Dmitry Sheynin.

Cloud computing is rapidly transforming the way entire industries conduct business, and the legal field is no exception. Like the rest of us, lawyers have been quick to embrace the cloud, but what happens when new technology bucks the very regulations governing professional conduct?

The benefits of cloud storage for most users far outweigh the security and privacy risks inherent to storing information remotely, but these concerns carry particular gravity for those working with privileged information. How does a lawyer reconcile the many benefits of cloud storage with the legal obligation to safeguard client information from unauthorized access? This was a question posed last week during “Privacy and Your Practice: Data Sovereignty for Lawyers,” a panel discussion held at CUNY Law School…

Grazed from ThoughtsOnCloud. Author: Allan Tate.

In my previous post, I addressed some of the inherent fears that some organizations have regarding cloud computing. Today, I’d like to take a look at why these institutions, and the people who lead them, might fear the cloud. I propose that it comes down to four basic concerns:

Fear of the Unknown: What is cloud computing? Is it just a place to store music files? If you asked a room full of ten IT specialists, you’d get ten different answers. Further, if you searched the web, you’d find answers, but many of them would be wrong. Cloud is a concept that is quickly evolving, and behind this concept are hardened data centers that follow best practices for security and regulatory compliance. Both shared and dedicated machines are available to be provisioned at a moment’s notice. You can decide where your data resides, how it is protected and how it is accessed. Like electric power, the cloud provides access to compute power on demand. Unlike electric power, the source can be specified down to the exact physical machine dedicated to running your workloads…

Grazed from VirtualizationReview. Author: David Ramel.

Software-defined networking (SDN) is an emerging and evolving technology, but "it’s the place where we’ll all end up at," speaker Anil Karmel told an audience of federal agency IT staffers in a recent webinar. While such a shift to SDN might well be inevitable, it entails many questions and concerns, with security being foremost in an event geared toward government IT.

Karmel, himself a former federal agency deputy CTO, told the audience that security and other SDN considerations in the new age of mobile computing are closely related to context-aware IT. He spoke about SDN and related issues last week in a webinar titled "Evolution or Revolution?…