Category: News

Grazed from GreatResponder. Author: Maria Dehn.

Cloud computing and telecom service provider company “NewCloud” has announced an ambitious expansion project of data centers at multiple locations across the USA. This announcement was made by the company through a press release statement on Tuesday, January 28, 2014.

According to the press release statement of Denver based cloud computing service Provider Company, it is recording a healthy business growth during last consecutive four years, which is very encouraging for the company to expand its cloud computing infrastructure across the country. In this project, the first data center will be operational in coming February, 2014 in Phoenix, AZ – and remaining data centers will be put into operation very soon in different phases…

Grazed from VentureBeat.  Author: Event Announcement.

Big data analytics will continue to ignite explosive growth for those able to leverage it in 2014.  But while the data-science field continues to evolve at warp speed, companies are moving to a more practical stage this year: They’re seeking real results from their investments in analytics tools. They’re looking to boost revenue or curtail costs — or best of all, both.

VentureBeat hosted our inaugural DataBeat event in 2013, and it was a smash success, bringing together some of the top data scientists, analysts, investors, and entrepreneurs in the field of big data. Now we’re doing it again…

Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: David Linthicum.

Many enterprises planning a move to cloud-based systems believe a huge disruptive change in the IT organization is required as part of that shift. They call it "building a cloud organization." I blame this disruptive mentality mostly on the ongoing press coverage that calls for "the end of IT as we know it" or other silly events that won’t happen. Any time the analysts or press project absolutes, their predictions never seem to pan out. In the world of IT, we evolve. We don’t suddenly shift.

Right now we’re about five years into this cloud thing, and the predicted huge disruptive changes in IT organizations have not occurred. In fact, most organizations have not made enough progress with cloud-based technology to even call it a systemic change. But they have been changing…

Grazed from Forbes. Author: Ben Kepes.

Oh, what a difference a few years can make. I remember almost fondly the days of Microsoft MSFT +0.55% posturing over the validity of cloud computing and now, if a report by Bloomberg proves to be correct, the head of Microsoft’s cloud division, Satya Nadella, looks set to be its next CEO.

This really is an immense turnaround. Microsoft has truly delivered on its “all in” message re the cloud. We’ve seen compelling offerings for developers and enteprise IT by way of the Azure family of products and we’ve seen the emergence of a compelling proposition around office productivity. While some might argue that Microsoft Office is bloatware, Office 365 is a pretty good balance between the aims to deliver a fully functional desktop product while still allowing for collaboration and remote access…

Grazed from Forbes. Author: Howard Baldwin.

There has been a whole lotta brouhaha recently about public clouds – that is, the cloud services provided by such tech heavyweights as Amazon, Google GOOG +2.55%, IBM IBM +0.54%, Hewlett-Packard HPQ +0.79%, Microsoft MSFT +0.55%, Oracle ORCL +1.16%, and Rackspace.

They theoretically represent a less-expensive way for enterprises to provide computing infrastructure without actually spending on hardware and management. They are not to be confused with SaaS applications, which theoretically represent a less-expensive way for enterprises to provide computing infrastructure without actually spending on software and management…

Grazed from ITWorld. Author: Nancy Gohring.

After trotting out some impressive enterprise users at its conference in Portland, Oregon, early last year, OpenStack hasn’t been able to showcase many additional big names. Supporters tried to address "the debate about the opportunity for OpenStack in the enterprise" at a half-day conference yesterday that was held at the Computer History Museum and webcast.

The speakers ended up highlighting a few of the challenges holding back OpenStack deployments. Many businesses are looking for the kind of enterprise technology product that they’re used to seeing, and that’s not what OpenStack looks like yet, said Ken Pepple, CTO and founder of Solinea, a consulting company that helps businesses implement OpenStack clouds…

Grazed from TechNet. Author: Brad Anderson.

In the Day 1 keynote at the recent re:Invent conference, there was an interesting point made about the virtuous cycle that can occur for the cloud vendor and for customers. As I listened to the keynote, I kept thinking: “They are missing the biggest benefit for the entire industry; if the public cloud vendor has the right strategy and is thinking about how to benefit the largest population possible, then they are completely missing how this virtuous cycle can grow to benefit every organization in the world – even if they are not using the public cloud.”

Let me explain a bit more about what I mean. (And, before I get too much farther along, I want to note that this post ties into the cool news yesterday about our work with the Open Compute Project.). The virtuous cycle of a public cloud looks a lot like the image below. As the usage of the public cloud grows, you need more hardware to meet demand – and for sustained growth you will need a lot of hardware…

Grazed from TechNet. Author: Editorial Staff.

After the delivery of Microsoft SQL Server 2012 and Office 2013, Microsoft “ramped-up our energy and sharpened our focus on the opportunities of cloud computing,” writes Quentin Clark in a post on the SQL Server Blog. “These opportunities stem from technical innovation, the nature of cloud computing, and from an understanding of our customers.”

Clark, who leads the team responsible for the engineering direction of the company’s data platform technologies, writes about how Microsoft’s applications and the information they generate and manage is changing its vision of the data platform. For example, he says, relevant data “is not just from inside the enterprise…

Grazed from DatacenterKnowledge. Author: Bill Kleyman.

Cloud computing, end-user mobility technologies, and new delivery models have all directly impacted the modern data center infrastructure. In fact, enterprise IT departments are under constant pressure to meet user and application demands, aware that cloud deployments offer an easier and faster alternative but often pinned down by legacy deployment models. The problem stems from the inability of those legacy models to adapt to meet expectations for rapid provisioning, continuous delivery, and consistent performance across multiple environments.

Current data center platforms now span many logical nodes where resources, data, and users are shared between infrastructures. When it comes to delivering applications, the challenges of performance, security, and reliability have not changed. What have changed are the environments and conditions under which those challenges must be addressed…

Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Dan Kusnetzky.

I recently reviewed a slide deck IBM shared concerning cloud security and the mid-market. The deck offered a number of recommendations that were designed to help mid-market decision makers think about and implement processes that would help make their uses of cloud computing services safer. All-in-all I thought the suggestions were useful.

IBM’s four recommendations
What was most interesting to me was that IBM was able to boil down the complex industry discussion about cloud security into four simple recommendations. Here they are:

• Determine what you want to put in the cloud
• Spend wisely
• Accept that security is about risk management
• Make the concept of security understandable…