Category: News

Grazed from Business Standard.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Smartphones will soon be able to predict a consumer’s next move, their next purchase or interpret actions based on what it knows, according to information technology research and advisory company Gartner Inc. This insight will be performed based on an individual’s data gathered using cognisant computing, the next step in personal cloud computing.

"Smartphones are becoming smarter, and will be smarter than you by 2017. If there is heavy traffic, it will wake you up early for a meeting with your boss, or simply send an apology if it is a meeting with your colleague. The smartphone will gather contextual information from its calendar, its sensors, the user’s location and personal data," Carolina Milanesi, research vice president at Gartner, said in a release…

Grazed from CloudComputingInsights.  Author: Internap.

Cloud computing may be a popular topic among IT professionals, but they’re not jumping into it full-force. According to a recent survey of more than 7000 people, more than half say that security is their top concern when it comes to transitioning to the cloud.

This infographic from Internap and Alertlogic highlights the top security threats in the cloud. It also compares on-premise risk to off-premise risks, and provides a list of security questions to ask your service provider.

View the infographic and read more details @ http://www.cloudcomputinginsights.com/security/cloud-security-perception-vs-reality-infographic/?mode=featured

Grazed from PCWorld.  Author: Dave Jeffers.

With the National Security Agency spying on pretty much everyone inside and out of this country, we can’t be too surprised, or offended, to find out that other countries are spying on us.  Besides, the cloud is such a tempting target.

According to the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission‘s annual report to Congress, "strong evidence has emerged that the Chinese government is directing and executing a large-scale cyber espionage campaign against the United States."…

Grazed from PRWeb.  Author: PR Announcement.

Cost savings are typically seen as the greatest benefit of cloud computing for many organizations, which six in ten cloud computing customers admitting they’ve reduced their IT capital costs, according to a study by Enterprise Management Associates. Yet there are a host of other benefits to cloud computing, listed below:

1. Decreased Total Cost of Ownership
With cloud computing, organizations don’t need to purchase expensive servers or systems and maintain them in-house. Plus, IT no longer needs to focus on the upkeep of in-house systems since the service provider handles maintenance issues, upgrades, patches and more…

Grazed from Cloud Computing Intelligence.  Author: Marcus Austin.

Open Source provider Red Hat, has announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5, the latest version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 that includes support for open hybrid cloud environments, simplifies security, improves network speed and improves portability.

The update to the OS provides enterprises with a platform that can scale across cloud, physical and virtual environments and gives businesses flexibility to handle future requirements and is designed with those who build and manage large, complex IT projects, especially enterprises that require an open hybrid cloud…

Grazed from GigaOM.  Author: David Linthicum.

This is the time of year that when technology publications get contacted by any number of PR firms, hoping they will listen to their pitches, and perhaps publish their cloud technology client’s cloud computing predictions for 2014.  If they’re lucky, whatever they are selling continues to grow in the New Year.

I don’t really get into predictions as much as I look at emerging patterns or trends, which will be relevant to those who are currently evaluating and selecting cloud computing technology.  In other words, you need to understand what to look out for in the near future, as well as how to dial that into your enterprise cloud computing strategy.  Three emerging cloud computing trends that will be more relevant by the end of the year are actually rather easy to spot:…

Grazed from InfoStor.  Author: Pedro Hernadez.

Huawei, a Chinese provider of IT and telecommunications systems and services, is looking to help high performance computing (HPC) organizations cloudify their workloads with its new storage systems.  The company’s OceanStor storage line is now home to the new flagship 18000 series. The high performance systems help organizations bring the capacity-maximizing benefits of the cloud to their HPC environments, according to Huawei Enterprise USA’s COO, Jane Li.

Li argued in company remarks that "HPC cluster silos are giving way to HPC clouds." IDC’s data backs her up. In an email to InfoStor, a company representative cited IDC research revealing "that the proportion of sites exploiting cloud computing for part of their HPC workloads rose from 13.8 percent in 2011 to 23.5 percent in 2013."…

Grazed from CITEWorld. Author: Andy Patrizio.

Amazon Web Services, the cloud computing subsidiary of the Internet retail giant, recently announced Amazon Kinesis, a fully managed service for real time processing of high volume data streaming in to Amazon’s Web-based repositories. The intro was made at the Re:Invent conference held in Las Vegas. Amazon Kinesis allows a customer to store and process terabytes of data an hour from hundreds of thousands of sources as the data is coming in.

This allows developers to create applications that act on real-time data, such as Web site traffic, marketing and financial transactions, social media feeds, or logs. Kinesis is capable of accepting any amount of data, from any number of sources, scaling up and down as needed. The client library handles load balancing, coordination, and error handling, doing the background work, so the developer only needs to focus on processing the data as it becomes available…

Grazed from Forbes. Author: Janel Ryan.

Each week I spend considerable time reviewing research papers, articles and blogs about technology. And I’m sick of reading about cloud. While cloud gets loads of press, it’s a nascent technology. Few companies are using cloud extensively. So, let’s not talk cloud. Let’s talk about something more intriguing – server virtualization. Server virtualization is a mature technology that the vast majority of enterprises actually use today. Your organization has a lot to gain by building on your existing virtualization technology and taking advantage of all the latest capabilities.

What is virtualization and what are its benefits?

Virtualization technology, in computing, refers to the creation of a virtual (rather than a physical) form of something, whether that’s a virtual hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or network resources. Over the last decade, server virtualization on the x86 platform has been driven by the desire to gain both cost and operational efficiencies. Migrating physical servers to virtual machines and consolidating them onto far fewer physical servers lowers monthly power and cooling costs in the data center…

Grazed from BusinessWire. Author: PR Announcement.

FrontRange, the only provider of Hybrid IT Service Management (ITSM) solutions, announced today that TMC, a global, integrated media company, has named HEAT Cloud Service Managementas a 2013 Cloud Computing Excellence Award winner for the third consecutive year presented by Cloud Computing Magazine.

“We are thrilled to be selected for TMC’s Cloud Computing Excellence Award for the third consecutive year,” says Kevin J. Smith, Vice President and General Manager, Cloud Business Unit, FrontRange. “This award is a validation of FrontRange’s continued commitment to providing its customers with the most innovative, high-quality products available in the ITSM market.”…