Category: News

Grazed from PRNewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Bright Computing, a leading provider of management solutions for clusters and clouds, today announced that Bright Cluster Manager® is now certified on Cloudera Enterprise 5. Bright and Cloudera will continue to work together to enable enterprise customers to deploy and manage big data projects with ease.

Bright Cluster Manager enables customers to build and configure a complete cluster on bare metal. Eliminating the complexity involved with installing, configuring, and managing a cluster enables customers to lower their operating expenses, and reduce system down time. "Cloudera Enterprise 5 is a leading choice for organizations that need an enterprise-grade solution to handle their data analysis," said Dr. Matthijs van Leeuwen, founder and CEO of Bright Computing…

Grazed from SiliconRepublic. Author: Editorial Staff.

A raft of new features Dropbox unveiled last night herald a new dawn for cloud computing; a more useful dawn in fact. The cloud storage company revealed a new Dropbox for Business that keeps work Dropboxes in one place, a gallery feature called Carousel, and an ambitious quest to tame inboxes.

The new Dropbox for Business is a rebuild of the original business product, but made more versatile to access personal and work Dropboxes from any device. “We did this to give admins more visibility and control over their company’s data,” said Dropbox’s Ilya Fushman. “Remote wipe helps protect confidential information, account transfer helps you maintain business continuity, and sharing audit logs let you track how your Dropbox for Business information is being accessed.”…

Grazed from Acumatica. Author: Editorial Staff.

As a provider of Cloud ERP (enterprise resource planning), Acumatica is acutely aware of many of the concerns that customers have when it comes to utilizing an external provider for hosting and data storage. In fact, because Acumatica was built from the ground up to exist in a hosted environment in the cloud, the solution was architected with security in mind.

Any browser-based application must utilize strong data encryption techniques to ensure the safety of all data between the client browser and the server-based data store. It is the most fundamental step, and naturally that’s the first step that you need to validate. Ensuring that at least 2048-bit SSL encryption is used in any session based browser application is key…

Grazed from SysCon Media. Author: Pat Romanski.

Database as a Service (DBaaS) is cloud database hosted and managed by the cloud service providers that can be accessed through public cloud or the hybrid cloud. The cloud provider takes care of provisioning, configuring, setup, maintenance, backups and patching the database. Customers are expected to export the database and start consuming the service through the pay-as-you-go model.

There is a debate on whether Database as a Service (DBaaS) should be considered part of IaaS or PaaS. Though databases are part of almost all PaaS offerings, they are quickly becoming the key building blocks of IaaS. While customers can always launch VMs and set up a database of their choice, the DB service is different because it’s set up, configured, managed, and monitored by the infrastructure service provider…

Grazed from TomsITPro. Author: James Sullivan.

AWS is a beast that continues to grow, and this most recent expansion sees 12 new EC2 Elastic MapReduce instance types and an entirely new EC2 instance category, the R3. Amazon is also adding new regional support for several instance types. The AWS blog categorizes their new instance types into five functionality-based categories:

• General Purpose (m3.xlarge and m3.2xlarge)
• Compute-optimized (c3.xlarge, c3.2xlarge, c3.4xlarge and c3.8xlarge)
• GPU (g2.2xlarge)
• Memory-optimized (cr1.8xlarge)
• Storage-optimized (i2.xlarge, i2.2xlarge, i2.4xlarge and i2.8xlarge)…

Grazed from TechGig. Author: Editorial Staff.

Cloud computing is an important business tool in most IT services companies. A lot of organisations are either using their internal talent to deploy cloud-based activities or outsourcing the same to a third party – but either way these companies have started to realise the real need of implementing cloud-based services for different functions.

As a result of implementing cloud-based services, organisations are also going to face a sea change in the overall business performance. In fact, a large number of companies have been witnessing a change in their way of working over the past couple of years, after implement this tool…

Grazed from SmartCompany. Author: David Markus.

I have been doing public presentations on cloud computing for the past six years and still today the first question people ask is about security of the data stored in the cloud. Will my data be safe from prying eyes? The answer was typically that if you keep your passwords secure your data should be pretty safe. That was before we all learned about the NSA and realised there was no such thing as secure storage in a public system. The big companies with good security advice and plenty of money to spend on options kind of knew that already.

So the answer to the question is in encrypting the data stored in the cloud before it leaves your control and then make sure you hold the encryption keys so that you are the only person or company on the planet that can see the information unless you send it to someone else in a decrypted state…

Grazed from ComputerWorld. Author: Joab Jackson.

VMware is about to release a new version of its Horizon VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) software that will allow administrators to manage VDI and non-VDI deployments in a unified manner, by using multiple VMware technologies. "We are extending VMware Horizon beyond VDI, to be able to do virtual desktops," said Sumit Dhawan, VMware vice president and general manager of desktop products and end-user computing.

Horizon is now "a complete system, able to handle 100 percent of desktops," Dhawan said. VDI technologies, such as Horizon’s, encapsulate a user’s entire OS and desktop environment within a virtual machine, so it can be accessed or downloaded over a network. VDI can be beneficial over standard desktop PCs, in a number of ways…

Grazed from Investors.com. Author: Reinhardt Krause.

When Joe Tucci took over as EMC chief executive in January 2001, he faced the challenge of reviving a company that took a big hit in the 2000-01 dot-com crash, with annual revenue falling to $5.4 billion in 2002 from $8.8 billion just two years earlier. The data storage system-maker’s customers were shifting to client-server computing and shared, networked resources. Tucci knew software innovation would be key.

EMC (EMC), based in Hopkinton, Mass., is still the information technology industry’s data storage leader. The firm owes much to what Tucci calls its "string of pearls" acquisitions, led by the jewel it bought in 2004 — VMware (VMW), an emerging force in client-server computing…

Grazed from TechPageOne. Author: Michael O’Dwyer.

Companies both large and small are investing in big data. The smart ones prepare well and upgrade their information technology infrastructure to ensure their networks can handle the increased traffic. Others find themselves scrambling to improve their networks, as critical processes slow down or halt. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Today, there are so many infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offerings on the market that can handle big data workloads across several networks that most businesses should be able to find a product that fits their strategy, says Joy Taylor, chief executive officer of TayganPoint Consulting Group, a Lambertville, N.J.-based strategic management consulting firm.

“Today, [this means that scalability] and fast response time are no longer a challenge for companies looking to implement a big data strategy,” Taylor says.“The types of solutions readily available today for big data analytics allow SMBs to [use] the growing volume of data to drive competitive advantage — something that was cost prohibitive in the legacy world (prior to the cloud).”…