Category: News

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….

Grazed from The Atlantic Wire.  Author: Conner Simpson.

Hackers associated with Anonymous launched a year-long campaign to break into multiple government agency networks and steal the personal information of over 100,000 employees, contractors and family members, according to a recently distributed memo obtained by Reuters. 

The FBI memo, Reuters reports, was meant to call for administrators to clean up the mess left behind by Lauri Love, a 28-year-old British man arrested at the end of October for stealing employee personal information from the government. Love was accused of working with a team of hackers to leave malware in networks for the U.S. Army, NASA and the Missile Command Agency, among others, that gave them "back door" access to networks and allowed them to come and go as they pleased….

Grazed from PRNewsWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

UP 2013 Cloud Computing Conference, (http://up-con.com/), will soon be holding its fourth Annual UP 2013 Conference this coming December. UP 2013 is where great minds come together in one place to learn and share how advances in cloud technology help developers, executives, scientists, researchers, engineers, and IT managers efficiently take on their day-to-day computational and business challenges.

The UP 2013 Cloud Computing Conference for Healthcare, organized by Cloudcor Inc., will take place the coming Tuesday, December 3, 2013 from 7:30am to 4:30pm at the Network Meeting Center at TechMart 5201 Great America Parkway Santa Clara, CA 95054…

Grazed from ChannelInsider.  Author: Michael Vizard.

Quantum is moving to make it significantly easier for channel partners to offer a backup service in the cloud powered by the company’s Q-Cloud off-site backup service.  Announced last year, the Q-Cloud service leverages the virtual backup appliance software that Quantum developed to manage the backup process without requiring a physical system to be deployed at each customer site.

In addition to Q-Cloud, Quantum’s backup-as-a-service managed service provider (MSP) program includes an online marketing kit designed to help Quantum channel partners promote their service. And partners have the option of reselling Q-Cloud or applying their own brand to the service.  "We really want to make it easier for partners to brand their own services," said Eric Bassier, marketing director for Quantum Data Protection…

Grazed from MasterTheBoss.  Author: Editorial Staff.

In this world of computers and connectivity, viruses and Trojans are always an issue. They come in all shapes and sizes and may be extremely difficult to decipher. Windows firewall provides protection against viruses and anti hacking services. It is a component software of Microsoft Windows that provides packet filtering. Firewalls continually navigate through programs to ascertain whether there are any viruses or intruders in the system.

A few years back, most individual computer owners and businesses did not know about the advantages of Windows Firewall especially with reference to the Internet. But nowadays, nobody can ignore firewall services. It acts like a barrier against all types of infiltrators, and also provides security to a computer…

Grazed from TechTarget.  Author: Ed Scannell.

As IT professionals retool their data centers to accommodate more sophisticated cloud computing environments, many lean toward a scale-out strategy built on Wintel server hardware, steering away from proprietary, scale-up servers.  This means trouble for Hewlett Packard Co. (HP) and IBM’s RISC-based systems — as both companies are working to reinvent their server roadmaps.

The primary reasons driving IT pros toward Wintel are costs, both upfront and hidden, and the risk of moving to a new platform and dealing with a new vendor that a data center team may not be familiar with…

Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author: Ignacio Llorente.

Time flies, and we are once again celebrating our anniversary. Let me take advantage of this opportunity to describe the progress of the project during the last 6 years by using the slides of the opening talk "Unleashing the Future of Open-source Enterprise Cloud Computing" in the first OpenNebula Conference held in Berlin one month ago.

Our Vision: Flexible Enterprise Cloud Made Simple

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication", Leonardo da Vinci

When the OpenNebula project started in 2008, we intended to create an open solution to make Enterprise Cloud simple. From the beginning, we understood enterprise cloud computing as en evolution of data center virtualization to host both cloud-aware and traditional applications. So we aimed to combine existing virtualization technologies with multi-tenancy, automatic provision and elasticity, following a bottom-up approach driven by the real-life needs of sysadmins and devops, and the following main principles:…