Category: News

Grazed from BankInfoSecurity. Author: Eric Chabrow.

Computer scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology are developing new ways to apply encryption when storing or searching data in the cloud, says Paul Royal, associate director of the university’s information security center. This encryption research, designed to address security concerns associated with cloud computing, is highlighted in Georgia Tech’s just-issued Emerging Cyber Threats Report 2014.

The university has developed an application called CloudCapsule that encrypts data on mobile and other devices before its securely transmitted and stored in the cloud, Royal explains in an interview with Information Security Media Group. Encrypting data before it enters the cloud provides protection against cybercriminals seeking to pilfer data and governments demanding keys to decrypt data on servers situated in their jurisdictions, Royal says…

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Nicole Laskowski.

When Aristotle said, "The whole is greater than the sum of its parts," he could have been talking about crowdsourcing. The concept makes some IT leaders uncomfortable, no doubt, but problem solving — like computing — can be powerful when distributed. CIOs bent on leading the innovation charge need to figure out how social tools can help bring the trend into the enterprise, according to Christopher Sprague, executive partner with Gartner Inc.’s research arm.

The Data MillCity of Boston CIO Bill Oates gets it, Sprague told CIOs at the Society for Information Management’s (SIM) annual conference in Boston last week. Oates introduced a pair of mobile applications that’s changing how the city and its constituents interact. With Street Bump, a handheld device’s accelerometer and GPS help city workers locate potholes and road deficiencies. With Citizens Connect, city dwellers can file a work order — directly with the facilitator of the request — and then keep tabs on its progress…

Grazed from PRNewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, today announced it will demonstrate a wide array of next-generation server, storage and networking products for HPC at Supercomputing 2013. These innovative offerings are designed for HPC architects building HPC clouds — environments that must efficiently support a wider range of HPC applications than purpose-built clusters deployed in the past.

The Huawei strategy for HPC infrastructure is to lead the transition from HPC cluster silos to HPC clouds, which host a diverse set of applications and are shared by a variety of users. The Huawei portfolio of products represent a new generation of HPC infrastructure that is more flexible. Huawei servers for HPC can scale processors, GPUs, storage and embedded networks to record-breaking bandwidth. Huawei storage for HPC can simultaneously scale-out, scale-up, scale-deep and scale-in. And carrier-class Huawei networks are designed from the ground up for the future of software defined networking in the HPC data center…

Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Bill Kleyman.

The staggering growth of cloud computing is driving today’s IT infrastructure to new levels of efficiency through greater integration and convergence. The modern cloud computing environment demands performance, resiliency, and scalability. The next generation of converged infrastructure is poised to provide exactly that.

Consider Cisco’s recent acquisition of all-solid-state array vendor Whiptail. This is really exciting news. By integrating flash and SSD-based components into the compute layer, vendors like Cisco are enabling a giant leap in cloud performance through converged storage, networking, and server systems. Let me break down what’s going on…

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Mark Eisenberg.

Cloud computing is first and foremost an economic model. Many IT innovations, such as virtualization, have originated from the need to improve the economics of IT; cost increases of more hardware, complexity and administrative requirements eclipsed cost improvements gained from server hardware commoditization. Virtualization had the promise to bring this under control, but the improvements have been modest. The reduced friction to deploy has resulted in an explosion of server instances along with the costs that accompany them.

And while virtualization offered to solve the economic challenges of enterprise IT, cloud computing affects the economies of building Web-scale applications. There is little doubt that companies like Google and Amazon wouldn’t have been able to achieve their current reach and margin models if they had continued to leverage traditional large-scale compute techniques. Infrastructure costs alone would have ruined their prospects…

Grazed from eWeek. Author: Nathan Eddy.

Interestingly, scalability and storage capacity expansion were the benefits cited the least by organizations without plans to implement cloud storage. With businesses increasingly facing the challenge of data storage and running out of storage capacity, adoption of cloud storage technologies continues to grow, according to a report from cloud-integrated storage solutions specialist TwinStrata.

The survey found 37 percent of respondents have been using cloud computing for three or more years, more than a one-third increase over last year’s 27 percent number. When compared to last year’s survey, overall adoption of cloud services has steadily increased across all categories, with use of Software as a Service (SaaS) reaching as high as 62 percent and both cloud storage and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) edging closer to 50 percent adoption rates…

Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: Moshe Ferber.

Last months Cloud Security Alliance Central Eastern Europe Summit gave a good opportunity to learn about the Cloud Computing market in areas of Europe that are less reviewed. The congress, held in the center of the old city of Ljubljana, provided interesting mixture of Information Security professionals along with various cloud providers and end users coming to explore the news in this dynamic world of cloud computing.

And the news was definitely coming in a storm. First speaker for the morning was Raj Samani, EMEA CTO for McAfee who gave an interesting look at the eco-system of Cybercrimes. In an excellent performance, Mr. Samani described how the cloud models are also propagating into the Cyber Crimes ecosystems. “Cyber Criminals today do not need to be a disturbed computer genius“, he explained, “All you need to have is a credit card“…

Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: Editorial Staff.

Cloud computing represents the next generation in server productivity. Most datacenters are now migrating towards the use of cloud server clusters in order to provide a higher level of service to their customers. Cloud computing has been in development for many years but grew in popularity by leaps and bounds lately. It is seen as the logical answer to the increasing demand for a more efficient way of handling server requests.

Understanding Cloud Computing

Look at cloud computing as the next generation of web development. Cloud computing is not limited to web hosting. It has a full array of computing power that can span private networks as well. Cloud computing is really just a representation of what it could be. As an IT manager, you get to choose what you want cloud computing to do for you. This means that the concept is really open-ended. The features allow for continual expansion and upgrading, without the need for server technicians to add additional servers…

Grazed from IT News. Author: Justin Warren.

If your board is signing off on IT outsourcing and cloud computing deals, it might suggest an uncomfortable truth: your internal IT doesn’t know how to sell itself. Outsourcing and cloud deals are winning because those charged with writing the cheques are convinced these solution providers offer a service better, cheaper, or both, than what internal IT can deliver.

Whether they can is debatable. Many have only later discovered that the deal wasn’t actually a sound idea, but this doesn’t vindicate the limp response internal IT makes when staring down these twin threats. If anything, it serves to highlight the magnitude of the problem…

Grazed from MarketWired.  Author: PR Announcement.

SGI Japan, Ltd., part of the global trusted leader in high performance computing and Big Data, SGI (NASDAQ: SGI), has received an order for a new Data Assimilation Supercomputer from the Institute of Statistical Mathematics.  The Data Assimilation Supercomputer will expand SGI’s global footprint in the supercomputing space. The new supercomputer will be built around the SGI UV™ 2000, SGI’s large-scale shared-memory server.

It will provide a shared computational infrastructure for statistical computation and data assimilation, which is a critical step in the research process of a number of scientific disciplines. Data assimilation requires vast amounts of memory space to optimally process and run the advanced simulation models used to reproduce real phenomena — a task which is particularly suited to the 64TB memory of the SGI UV supercomputer….