Category: News

Grazed from NetworkWorld. Author: Brandon Butler.

One of the hottest categories of tools to help manage your cloud computing deployment has been optimization and price performance services that recommend how you can more efficiently use cloud resources. Up until now, however, these services have been focused on public cloud providers like Amazon Web Services and Rackspace.

This week, Cloud Cruiser launched a cost optimization and comparison service that spans both public and private clouds. The Hybrid IT Cost Advisor will tell end users when it’s more cost efficient to run workloads in the public cloud compared to on premises resources…

Grazed from DataCenterKnowledge. Author: Bill Kleyman.

The direct proliferation of cloud computing has resulted in a huge boom in traffic over the WAN. There are more users connecting, a lot more data points, and the modern data center sits right in the middle. Throughout this entire cloud evolution – the infrastructure was forced to change as well. Edge and core routing needed to evolve to handle this influx of traffic and new content.

Service providers as well as enterprises deploying demanding, mission-critical applications are facing unique networking challenges. Here’s part of the issue: Network administrators are trying to deal with new types of cloud growth issues by adding additional providers, creating and applying routing policies in reaction to situations, and rerouting the traffic manually…

Grazed from CIO. Author: Bernard Golden.

As I wrote in my last column, it’s clear that cloud computing enables, and imposes, enormous change in applications. In that article, I focused on the technical changes cloud computing is forcing on application architecture — all designed to support the increased scale and load variability, higher performance expectation and changed pricing that cloud computing imposes.

What I didn’t address was another traditional application assumption that cloud computing is upending: The application lifecycle. Specifically, the cloud requires a significantly faster rhythm of application management, which will impose change on IT organizations.
On the face of it, it may not be obvious why the technical capability of cloud computing would transform IT organizations and their processes…

Grazed from WindRiver. Author: PR Announcement.

Wind River, a world leader in embedded software for intelligent connected systems, is now a Corporate Sponsor of the OpenStack Foundation. As part of the OpenStack community, Wind River will help apply OpenStack to telecommunications infrastructures and collaborate with other members to further promote and support open source cloud infrastructure advancements across industries.

OpenStack is an open source cloud computing platform that allows the management of large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources in cloud environments. The OpenStack project is a global collaboration of developers and technologists working on an open standard platform for both public and private clouds…

Grazed from AustinBusinessJournal. Author: Michael Thels.

Dell Inc., courtesy of its President’s Advisory Board, has looked into the future to prognosticate the tech trends that will define 2014 and highlighted cloud computing, changing IT security challenges, and the decline of "bring your own device" policies at the workplace, according to a company blog post.

Dell’s President’s Advisory Board is made up of 20 high ranking corporate information officers. It was formed last year to help guide the Round Rock-based technology company through the industry’s changing landscape. They met for the third time this past December to discuss emerging tech trends for the next year…

Grazed from MarketWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Spotlighting its global cloud services leadership, Ingram Micro Inc. IM +2.30% , the world’s largest wholesale technology distributor and a global leader in supply-chain and mobile device lifecycle services, today announced registration for its Cloud Summit 2014 is now open to channel partners and prospects worldwide. The annual event will take place in Hollywood, Fla., April 7 – 9, 2014 at the Westin Diplomat. More event details, including registration, are available here. A discounted early-bird registration is open until Feb. 23, 2014 and event registration closes April 4, 2014.

Themed "Rise Above," the Ingram Micro Cloud Summit 2014 is widely recognized as the global IT channel’s largest, dedicated cloud services event. With more than 1,000 attendees, the three-day event will attract hundreds of the IT industry’s top solution providers (value added resellers, system integrators, managed service providers and telecom service providers), cloud services providers, cloud vendors and other cloud innovators and thought leaders…

Grazed from InfoSec Island. Author: Kevin L. Jackson.

Cloud computing transitions information technology (IT) from being "systems of physically integrated hardware and software" to "systems of virtually integrated services." This transition makes interoperability the difference between the success and failure of IT deployments, especially in the Federal government.

Recent government IT failures like the healthcare portal roll out highlight this critical difference. Leading specialists serving on the federal health IT committee have voice their concern about the lack of comprehensive interoperability. "I’m concerned that this program isn’t focused on creating an inter-operable system that would allow unaffiliated systems to share medical information,” Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., said in an emailed statement to Fox News…

Grazed from PCAdvisor. Author: Carol Ko.

"Government regulations keeping pace with the market," "exit strategies," and "international data privacy" were found to be the top three areas where organizations have the lowest confidence in cloud computing. The findings were based on the first global survey jointly conducted by non-profit organizations ISACA and Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) on 252 participants in 48 countries, representing cloud users, providers, consultants and integrators from 15 industry segments.

In the "Cloud Market Maturity study," those who identified themselves as cloud users (85%) were asked to rank on a scale of zero to five a number of considerations in cloud computing, with zero being the least confident. The following shows the top 10 issues that cloud users have (ranked from least confident to most confident):..

• Government regulations keeping pace with the market (1.80)
• Exit strategies (1.88)
• International data privacy (1.90)
• Legal issues (2.15)
• Contract lock-in (2.18)…

Grazed from DataCenterKnowledge. Author: Bill Kleyman.

New technologies have emerged over the past few years that have elevated the value of the modern data center. Cloud computing, big data, IT consumerization, and numerous types of virtualization platforms have fueled direct growth around data center demand. There are new types of services around infrastructure extension and creating your next-generation environment.

In the past, the data center was seen as a mechanism to drive and support business. Physical PCs still ruled the domain and a lot was accomplished with pen and paper. The reality these days is that business and technology have completely evolved. The modern data center is the central connection hub for organizations of all sizes and verticals. Now almost everyone is globally connected and reliant on the data center…

Grazed from ITWorld. Author: Joab Jackson.

Amazon Web Services now offers a hosted version of the R programming language, providing an easy way for individuals and organizations to start and test their big-data-styled analysis projects. The cloud service is offering a copy of Revolution R Enterprise 7 on the AWS Marketplace, an online store for different packages that can be run on AWS.

Offered by Revolution Analytics, Revolution R Enterprise is a commercial package of R, an open-source functional programming language designed for statistical computing and graphics. R is being increasingly used for data analysis. Revolution R offers a version of R that can run in parallel, across multiple processors…