Category: News

Grazed from ComputerWorld. Author: Sharon Gaudin.

A study released this week shows that 73% of IT executives believe cloud providers are hiding performance problems. Industry analysts say IT professionals are smart to be cautious, but added that they need to do their homework and ask the right questions before selecting a vendor.

"I don’t know if it’s a matter of distrust," said Jagdish Rebello, an analyst with IHS. "They are wary of the hype. The enterprise IT folks are being very, very cautious about their migration to the cloud. They see the cost benefits but when they look at reliability and security, there is essentially a fear of going wholeheartedly to the cloud."…

Grazed from Barrons. Author: Tierman Ray.

ISI Group analyst Brian Marshall today weighs in with some thoughts on cloud computing after attending the first day of the Ethernet Technology Summit taking place this week. For those of you unfamiliar, the summit is an annual event attended by “several hundred mostly senior level engineering staff and mid-level management” from “leading companies” such as Google (GOOG), Comcast (CMCSA), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Dell and startup Big Switch, among others, “to exchange thoughts on future network topology design.” Overall, he sees some progress by Cisco, and opportunities for Juniper Networks (JNPR):

We came away convinced that the Ethernet market and technology dynamics will continue to evolve very rapidly and could create greater opportunity for share shifts in the coming years. While more open models for switching and routing platforms create risk for incumbents, we believe CSCO [NEUTRAL] is adapting to emerging industry trends with skill (e.g., ACI or application-centric infrastructure with the Nexus 9k, etc.) and we continue to warm up to the name…

Grazed from ProfitBricks. Author: Andy Lurie.

Remember When CPU Performance was Guaranteed? Since the early launch of the PC in the early 1980’s, CPU performance has been defined by the clock speed and front side bus of the processer. It was simple and easy to understand and Intel and AMD battled the MHz and GHz wars over the years.

Server CPU Speeds

This infographic looks at server class CPUs from the Pentium era CPUs of 1993 to today. Along the way, a lot of new technologies totally transformed the way we look at CPU performance. Beginning with the advent of X86 server virtualization in 2001, VMware and other virtualization technologies permitted multiple operating systems, and their related processes, to be run in parallel on a single CPU…

Grazed from TheNextWeb. Author: Jon Russell.

Microsoft is stepping up its cloud computing game after acquiring GreenButton, a New Zealand-based startup that uses its Azure platform and has an existing relationship with the Redmond company. The deal was first revealed on a New Zealand government website, which shows that Microsoft is now the company sole shareholder, and Microsoft has since confirmed the deal to TNW and it has been officially announced on its blog. The value of the deal has not been made public.

GreenButton provides ‘on-demand’ cloud solutions, based around a high-intensity cloud burst technology — for example, customers can use its products to run high performance computer, or big data analytics in the cloud. The premise is that GreenButton saves them the pain of investing in and maintaining high-intensity hardware and network resources that are traditionally required to carry out these tasks…

Grazed from Cornell. Author: Wen Zeng, Chunyan Mu, Maciej Koutny, Paul Watson.

The extent and importance of cloud computing is rapidly increasing due to the ever increasing demand for internet services and communications. Instead of building individual information technology infrastructure to host databases or software, a third party can host them in its large server clouds. Large organizations may wish to keep sensitive information on their more restricted servers rather than in the public cloud.

This has led to the introduction of federated cloud computing (FCC) in which both public and private cloud computing resources are used. A federated cloud is the deployment and management of multiple cloud computing services with the aim of matching business needs. Large number of data and services are required to be allocated in different clouds for business concerns, which creates security risks, due to the operational independence of clouds and their geographic distribution…

Grazed from ijset. Author: S. Malcom and D. Dhayalan.

The storage of data and information in Cloud has many challenges in designing that has been profound influence on the performance of the system. The biggest issue when storing data in Cloud is that the verification of data integrity at untrustedserver. The verifier’s role has two categories: private access ability and public access ability.

The private access ability scheme achieves high efficient, while the public access ability allows anyone, not only the data owner, to challenge the correctness of data storage when it has no private information in the server. The major concern in this scheme is secure and effective in dynamic operations on data blocks…

Grazed from InformationAge. Author: Ben Rossi.

It has been about a decade since cloud computing emerged as the third platform — the next phase of the IT revolution beyond mainframe and client/server. It has taken a while, but cloud services as a platform for enterprise computing are showing signs of maturity, especially where data security and regulatory compliance are concerned.

In the past, these two areas have caused a lot of restless nights for CIOs wondering where their enterprise data is and who is accessing it. Many CIOs are reluctant to adopt cloud services, at least until they can feel confident that enterprise data isn’t at risk and that compliance requirements can be met…

Grazed from PRWeb. Author: PR Announcement.

Nationwide cloud computing and communications provider, NewCloud Networks has selected Veeam to power their state-of-the-art backup and disaster recovery solutions for virtual environments. Having recently expanded their data center footprint, NewCloud was in need of reliable data protection software in order to provide a surefire backup and disaster recovery (BDR) solution to their virtual and hybrid cloud customers.

“Virtualization in the mid-market is on the rise, and with that comes the need for geographic redundancy and true disaster recovery,” says Sam Kumar, President of NewCloud Networks. He adds that “after extensive research by our Engineers, we selected Veeam as our vendor for backup and disaster recovery in virtual environments because they possess the necessary expertise in our technologies as well as dedication to providing top of the line support.” Mike Waguespack, Senior Director of Veeam Software’s Global Cloud Group, stated, “We are excited that NewCloud Networks has selected Veeam. At their rate of growth, we are confident NewCloud will help increase the number of workloads protected with Veeam.”

Grazed from CSA. Author: PR Announcement.

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), a not-for-profit organization which promotes the use of best practices for providing security assurance within cloud computing, today announced the release of two key documents related to the CSA’s Software Defined Perimeter (SDP), an initiative to create the next generation network security architecture. The SDP Version 1.0 Implementation Specification and SDP Hackathon Results Report provide important updates on the SDP security framework and deployment in protecting application infrastructures from network-based attacks. CSA will be providing press briefings about SDP developments at Infosecurity Europe.

The SDP, a collaboration between some of the world’s largest users of cloud computing within CSA’s Enterprise User Council, is a new approach to security that mitigates network-based attacks by creating dynamically provisioned perimeters for clouds, demilitarized zones, and data center infrastructures…

Grazed from PR Web. Author: PR Announcement.

Agile IT is being recognized for its innovative approach to helping organizations integrate with Cloud technology by being nominated for the Microsoft Partner of the Year award for Cloud Excellence, a national honor. The Partner of the Year awards highlight and recognize the excellence and achievement of Microsoft partners who have produced exceptional results for their customers, with a focus on extending business productivity systems and delivering the benefits of Cloud computing.

The winner of the award will be announced in late May and awarded at the 2014 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in Washington, D.C. this July. “To be nominated for this national award is an honor that we don’t take for granted – especially as we continue to grow our business,” said John Gilham, CEO of Agile IT…