Category: News

Grazed from BusinessNewsDaily. Author: Sarah Angeles.

For many businesses considering cloud computing, a public cloud where servers are shared by multiple companies fits the bill. For those that need tighter security and more control, however, a private cloud is just what the chief information officer ordered.

Whether an organization needs to limit access to their cloud, is looking to meet compliance standards or requires an extra layer of protection to prevent cyberattacks, private clouds can give that peace of mind. With the myriad of cloud providers available and the rapid pace at which the industry is changing, it can be a challenge finding the best private cloud provider for your organization…

Grazed from NetworkWorld. Author: Alan Shimel.

By now, you have likely heard about the latest massive breach over at Adobe. Besides the source code for Acrobat and Cold Fusion, something like 3 million accounts were breached as well. The good news is that credit card numbers for many of the account holders was encrypted. The bad news is that the credit card numbers for many of the accounts was encrypted. It is probably just a matter of time on that front.

But forget credit card numbers for a second. The fact is that Adobe has suffered yet another breach. Millions of accounts were compromised. If you use the same password on other sites that you use for Adobe, they are now in danger. Once again, the source code to their products is available. The Flash and Acrobat products are already two of the leading causes of breaches and sources of vulnerabilities…

Grazed from Terremark. Author: Jeff Medaugh.

Application programming interfaces (APIs) are a hot topic in cloud computing and will likely affect the decisions we will have to make as we deploy applications in the cloud. First a refresher—standard APIs are simple commands that are understood by both the sender and receiver to mean the same thing. For example, if I were to say in English, “sit,” “stay,” or “fetch,” to a well-trained dog we both understand what needs to happen next if the dog is going to earn a treat. It doesn’t matter if I say this to a French bulldog, a German shepherd, or an English mastiff—the command is always understood and executed.

In cloud systems, API standards are necessary so that we can use the same commands over and over again to talk to different systems. We write once (an automation tool, a data request, etc.) and we know that it will work with the many applications and web services we need to connect together for our application infrastructure. There are several API standards in use, but the Representational State Transfer (REST) standard is the most current API standard used in cloud computing…

Grazed from ITProPortal. Author: Editorial Staff.

Companies should be aware that the networking impact of cloud computing can be severe, with staff accessing databases, applications and other material over the internet from a corporate network, or from any alternative remote location where they can get a good connection.

This report explains the effects that cloud computing can have on corporate networks and the external networks between those companies and their cloud providers, and how to avoid bottlenecks. Whilst the cloud can be used to store company data and deliver applications without the overheads of dedicated in-house servers and other hardware, the third party hosting the data or applications is often not responsible for the network links from the customer to its facilities…

Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Toby Wolpe.

SAP is hoping HANA in-memory technology and software as a service will make up for declining licensing revenue but its customers seem to have only a hazy idea of SAP’s SaaS strategy and one in two has no plans to move to HANA, according to a study from research firm Forrester.

Persuading customers to run core ERP applications on HANA is a key strategy for SAP, yet 52 percent of survey respondents say they’re not planning to use it, with 54 percent of them citing high costs and 37 percent saying they can’t see the benefit…

Grazed from Peak10. Author: PR Announcement.

Cloud Computing is here to stay. Sixty nine percent of companies with cloud computing budgets will increase spending in 2013 and 2014. While businesses focus on efficient and agile IT infrastructure, there has been a shift away from Internal Private Clouds to Cloud Strategy/Planning, IaaS, and SaaS. This shift in attention is expected to result in a worldwide cloud computing market of $19.5 billion by 2016. Peak 10’s third data center in the Greater Atlanta region will be a valuable asset for companies looking to solidify their Cloud Computing future!

The new 75,000-square foot facility will provide customers worldwide with 24/7/365 guarded security and SSAE 16, PCI, and HIPPA compliances. Peak 10’s standard of redundant power and redundant network infrastructure will ensure the maximum uptime businesses require…

Grazed from Midsize Insider. Author: Marissa Tejada.

Cloud computing integration is easier than ever, according to new research that found more businesses are confident about the adoption and use of cloud services within their information infrastructures.

Less Concern

Both business and IT professionals don’t have as many concerns as they had in the past about integrating the cloud with their operations, according to Saugatuck Technology’s "2013 Global Cloud IT Adoption, Use and Benefits Survey," featured in Information Management. Half of respondents reported being concerned about security and privacy issues…

Grazed from V3.co.uk. Author: Dan Worth.

Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt has said it is “inevitable” that business of all sizes will eventually move to the cloud. Writing in a blog post the Google chief said that, while only a few years ago cloud computing was greeted with doubt, it has now fully established itself as a legitimate way to run a business.

“In 2010, the suggestion that a company could move all of its employees to the cloud was often met with scepticism. People relied on desktop computers and Exchange servers because that was what they’d used in the workplace for the past two decades," he said…

Grazed from ITProPortal. Author: Del Lunn.

With the adoption of cloud computing, and more specifically cloud storage, on the rise, companies can now easily look to reduce the cost and complexity of their applications and associated data. The economies of scale and shared infrastructure allow service providers to deliver cloud-based storage at a very low cost, compared to traditional on-premise storage platforms.

Currently, the popular cloud storage use cases tend to be infrequently accessed data scenarios such as archiving, backup, DR, and offsite data protection. But what happens when a company decides it wants to move its data and applications back to the on-premise storage platform? Del Lunn of GlassHouse Technologies talks us through the biggest challenges…

Grazed from ComputerWorld. Author: John Martin.

What can the experience of managing IBM mainframes teach us about designing storage for public or private cloud computing? Plenty, it turns out… In my previous post, Designing Cloud Storage? Ditch the LUN!, I pointed out the challenges of using LUNs for virtual and cloud storage environments that need to scale.

That post, and my thinking around storage management in general, were both influenced by a nine-year-old blog post by John Tyrrel: The Next Step In Virtualization. When Tyrell wrote that, the next step in virtualization was to ditch the LUN, virtualization was still pretty cutting edge. Yet, here we are, almost a decade later, and we’re still using LUNs as the storage container for most server virtualization infrastructures…