Category: News

Grazed from SysCon Media. Author: Cloud Ventures.

TRANSFORM is the name of our consulting service, referring to the fact that our primary specialism is in business transformation, how it can be achieved through enterprise cloud computing. This is a message also defined by T-Systems. A TRANSFORM engagement therefore begins with the board room, deals in corporate strategy and then rolls this down through an adoption program featuring:

• Strategy and Enablement
• Metrics and Cost Controls
• Transformation through Maturity Models
• Driving Efficiencies through Outsourcing…

Grazed from Carrenza. Author: PR Announcement.

Leading cloud computing supplier Carrenza Ltd has launched a new infographic that illustrates some of the key trends that IT directors must be aware of if they are to successfully prepare their systems for the coming years. With more than three-quarters of businesses already using some form of cloud computing solution within their organisation, and around £448 billion set to be spent on this technology between 2013 and 2016, ensuring that businesses are equipped to make the most of this will be vital if firms are to efficiently use IT to drive business growth.

The infographic illustrates how cloud is impacting on the future of the IT department and what enterprises need to be aware of when planning for the future. The infographic aims to help sets organisations on the right path to a solution that is suited to their unique needs with clear explanations of the offerings available…

Grazed from Phys.org. Author: Editorial Staff.

Today, clients across all industries, including banks, retailers and government, are embracing cloud computing to drive business innovation and growth, but underlying concerns about security, reliability and vendor lock-in have inhibited widespread cloud adoption.
IBM’s patent-pending invention overcomes concerns about data resiliency, security and service continuity via an innovative technique which seamlessly stores and moves data across multiple clouds.

The method employs a "cloud-of-clouds" approach that invokes the resilience of separate clouds to offer stronger protection against service outages and data loss than any single cloud can deliver. "Our cloud-of-clouds invention can help clients avoid service outages and security incidents that impact the reliability and security of individual clouds," said IBM Fellow Evangelos Eleftheriou. "We are adding multiple levels of redundancy and reliability by making cloud migration and backup easier and faster than is currently possible."…

Grazed from HPCWire. Author: Jose Luis Vazquez-Poletti.

Usually terms such as high performance and high availability are addressed by big corporations and institutions; however, something has changed over the past years as a real revolution is emerging from university classrooms. Dr. Jose Luis Vazquez-Poletti, Assistant Professor in Computer Architecture at Complutense University of Madrid, describes some of the promising work being carried out by his students. Cloud computing represents an incredible boost for research in the HPC and HTC areas. Their adoption has increased thanks to this technology, and accordingly, so has the number of worldwide students with a focus on cloud-enabled technology.

Master thesis projects are not only the final challenge for our students, they are also a great opportunity to shine a spotlight on their efforts. This is crucial for attracting interesting job opportunities once they leave the university. Companies demanding technologically qualified employees see in these projects the perfect companion in their recruiting processes, as the candidates can easily showcase their competence with bleeding edge technologies…

Grazed from MSDN. Author: Igor Pagliai.

During the last two years, I had the privilege to work with some important Microsoft Global Partners, all over the world, on several important Azure projects. Since I personally like to share my findings and let the broader community to learn from my experiences, in this blog post I decided to discuss an interesting architectural pattern to overcome to one of the most known Azure Load Balancer (LB) limitation, which is the implementation of a MASTER-SLAVE architecture.

In this post, I will concentrate my attention on Azure IaaS Virtual Machines (IaaS VM). I am sure that at many of you already know that the Azure Load Balancer (LB) is great providing load-balancing on incoming connections/requests among a pool of VMs, but what happen if you need:…

Grazed from TechStars. Author: Editorial Staff.

There is a lot of discussion about whether or not cloud computing is secure. As you weigh the options for your business or organization, there are some very practical reasons we think cloud computing is actually more secure than having your own server or using basic office security software options.

Enterprise Hardware for a Small Business Price
With cloud computing your data is stored on enterprise-grade hardware, equipment generally unaffordable for most small businesses. By using the cloud for your business or organization, you are instantly upgrading to safer equipment!…

Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Derrick Harris.

There are a lot of questions a startup has to answer when making decisions about its cloud infrastructure. Private cloud or public cloud? Amazon Web Services, Google Compute Engine or Rackspace? DynamoDB or open source Cassandra?And after all those questions are finally answered, prudent CTOs might find themselves asking them again as new products hit the market and hourly rates continue to fall.

This is why one investor and adviser told Parse.ly Co-founder and CTO Andrew Montalenti that, when it comes to the cloud, “life is a series of ever-changing alternatives.” Montalenti, whose startup provides analytics to some of the biggest web publishers around, shared that insight and more about the economics of cloud computing on the Structure Show podcast this week…

Grazed from TheServerSide. Author: Editorial Staff.

Anyone who has been paying attention to the cloud computing space, from software engineers to enterprise IT managers, knows that there are significant benefits to adopting this increasingly pervasive technology, be it cost savings, increased efficiency or faster development cycles. But there is still a great deal of friction slowing down the PaaS, SaaS and IaaS adoption process. Even the most forward thinking organizations have a lot of fears and reservations about moving their IT infrastructure to the cloud. They worry about security. They worry about losing control over policies and access. They worry about governance. They worry about over-provisioning or AMI instances being spun up but never being turned off, resulting in costs spiraling out of control. The benefits of moving enterprise IT to the cloud is well know, but that knowledge doesn’t alleviate the fear.

But organizations shouldn’t let fear get in the way of trying out something that can make them more efficient and help scale out IT operations cost-effectively, so it makes sense to choose an experiment that’s low-risk and gets you immediate benefits. When it comes to easing your organization into the cloud, development, test and pre-production environments are a great place to start…

Grazed from TheStreet. Author: Chris Ciaccia.

Benioff, 49, won the voting with 54% of the vote, taking in more than 1300 votes, according to those surveyed. A former Oracle (ORCL_) executive, Benioff has continued to help lead the cloud computing revolution, turning software-as-a-service (SaaS) into a phrase.

He’s also continued to build out salesforce.com into more than just a traditional software company, focusing on making sense of social media. Perhaps a sign that stock price and CEO performance don’t always go hand-in-hand, shares of Salesforce.com have performed the worst out of the candidates mentioned, gaining 28.2% year to date…

Grazed from The Guardian. Author: Adam Davidi.

Increased adoption of hybrid cloud computing models and innovation over cost-cutting are just some of the predictions from our panel of experts on key cloud computing trends for 2014. As we look ahead to the new year, we asked six cloud computing experts for their big trends for 2014. Here’s what they came up with:

Werner Vogels, vice president and CTO, Amazon.com
The cloud allows everyone to become a media company: In 2014 expect a great rise in organisations that are adding media capabilities to their offerings. A good example is sports clubs; all are looking for ways to establish an engagement with their fan base beyond the two hours on a weekend. A successful way to achieve a weeklong engagement is by daily distribution or fresh, exclusive media content. The subscription revenues for clubs that often have millions of fans around the world are substantial…