Category: News

Grazed from CloudSigma. Author: PR Announcement.

CloudSigma an international, customer-centric, pure-cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider, today announced a further drop of its compute prices for customers across all its locations. Similar to the previous benefits attributed this summer, the pricing drop is based on a combination of additional efficiency gains from the company’s proprietary cloud technology and falling underlying hardware costs.

As a result of CloudSigma’s recent cloud 2.0 upgrade the company is able to reflect the gains of higher utilization and better resource management capabilities through lower subscription and pay-as-you-go burst pricing. Moreover, the recent CPU, SSD and software defined networking innovations in CloudSigma’s cloud have shown an increase of 30-40 percent performance…

Grazed from CIO. Author: Bernard Golden.

In my presentation on hybrid cloud computing at Interop New York, I began (as I often do) with a review of the NIST definition of the five characteristics of cloud computing. I think the National Institute of Standards and Technology has done a great service in codifying its definition, and I rely on it to communicate the key characteristics of cloud computing — and, more importantly, to draw the distinctions between cloud computing and the traditional IT approach to infrastructure management.

The first characteristic in NIST’s definition relates to self-service: "A consumer can unilaterally provision computing capabilities, such as server time and network storage, as needed automatically without requiring human interaction with each services provider."…

Grazed from The Guardian. Author: Jon Card.

For many businesses server rooms are a thing of the past. Rather than designating a corner of the office as a staff no-go area and housing boiling hot computer stacks in them, businesses have migrated their various software needs into the cloud.

The benefits for small businesses are obvious; cost, efficiency, mobility and also the ability to upgrade or switch when new programmes become available. For business owners such as Andy Atalla, founder of digital marketing agency atom42, the choice was a no-brainer. His business was established in 2007, but as it began to grow he was increasingly persuaded by the benefits of cloud computing. "Cloud computing isn’t just important to what we do, it’s part of the fabric of how we operate. Almost everything we do is cloud-based. Without these services, we wouldn’t be able to operate."…

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.

Cloud traffic will soon be dominating data centers, according to new research from Cisco Systems (CSCO). The networking giant’s Cisco Global Cloud Index (2012 – 2017) forecasts that cloud traffic will be the fastest-growing part of overall data center traffic over the next five years, with a 35 percent combined annual growth rate (CAGR).

Considering how quickly consumers and businesses are shifting to the cloud, even in small ways, high cloud traffic growth within the data center probably comes as little surprise. But here’s what this really means in terms of bandwidth being consumed. In 2012, cloud represented 1.2 zettabytes (ZB) of traffic. By 2017, it’s going to consume 5.3 ZB of data center traffic every year. Total data center traffic in 2017 will reach 7.7 ZB…

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.

It’s been more than two years since GoDaddy took its first baby steps into the cloud computing world. The popular web hosting provider launched an IaaS and cloud hosting offering June 2011. Since then, the company has been slowly building out its customer base. Now GoDaddy has taken another big step through the acquisition of web hosting and cloud services provider (mt) Media Temple.

Its newly acquired company, which goes by (mt) in all of its corporate messaging, isn’t a huge name in cloud, but it does have its niche—specifically in the creative realm, serving digital designers, developers, entrepreneurs and innovators. That’s a bit of a departure for GoDaddy, which has a much more horizontal audience, although it does primarily aim to serve small businesses…

Grazed from JumpCloud. Author: PR Announcement.

JumpCloud™, an automated server ops, user management, and security tool for DevOps and IT pros, announced today that it has joined the Amazon Web Services™ (AWS) Solution Providers Program. An automated SaaS-based offering, JumpCloud installs in seconds and immediately starts protecting your servers.

JumpCloud completes the IT arsenal by automating many of the manual, tedious processes around server administration. Installed in seconds, JumpCloud equips IT pros with essential operations tools, and configuration management and monitoring solutions, such as Chef, Puppet, and New Relic…

Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Peter Waterhouse.

I’m a sucker for blockbuster movies, and one of my all-time favorites is Fight Club starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton. For those of you unfamiliar with this gritty film, it’s the story of an insomniac office worker who meets a soap salesman and together they form an underground fight club. The fight club is a brutal affair, but founded on a set of spoken and indisputable rules.

This got me thinking about the importance of rules and the struggle IT professionals have every day trying to explain to their business counterparts the value of new disruptive technologies — and how like in the Fight Club, the winners will be those that stick to the rules…

Grazed from SimplerCloud. Author: PR Announcement.

SimplerCloud, a new Singapore start-up, has launched high-performance, real-time, 100% self-manageable cloud servers at record-low prices to boost the Asia-Pacific cloud hosting industry. Eschewing the complex ordering processes and long deployment times that are still commonly associated with cloud computing in the region, SimplerCloud servelets are instantly deployable pre-packaged virtual machines (VMs) that target businesses and developers who do not need the costly, proprietary enterprise cloud hosting services that currently dominate Asia’s cloud hosting offerings.

Despite the low price tag, SimplerCloud servelets are powerful the smallest $10/month plan is a fully redundant cloud server with self-healing, highly scalable and redundant distributed SSD storage, snapshot backups, choice of OS, database and server control panels, free DNS hosting, root access with password reset feature, console access, and high-availability failover upon physical node failure…

Grazed from BigStep. Author: PR Announcement.

A new Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) has launched in the UK today that uses bare metal power to bring supercomputing speeds to the commercial sector and provide a high-performance environment for big data applications.

Bigstep combines bare metal performance with the flexibility of the cloud to create what is thought to be the world’s most powerful public computing infrastructure. It allows organisations to process big data faster and more effectively than any other means and offers fully self-service bare metal allocation by the hour…

Grazed from Centrify. Author: PR Announcement.

Centrify Corporation, the leader in Unified Identity Services across data center, cloud and mobile, today announced that TMC, a global, integrated media company, has named its Centrify Cloud Service as a 2013 Cloud Computing Excellence Award winner, presented by Cloud Computing Magazine. The Cloud Computing Excellence Awards recognize the companies that have most effectively leveraged cloud computing in their efforts to bring new, differentiated offerings to market.

The Centrify Cloud Service is a multi-tenanted service that provides secure communication from on-premise Microsoft Active Directory infrastructure to mobile devices and to the MyCentrify User Portal for secure authentication to SaaS applications. For customers who don’t have Active Directory as a corporate directory, Centrify also offers a fully cloud-based offering for SaaS and mobile management…