Category: News

Grazed from UBM Tech.  Author: Event Announcement.

Having grown for four years in a row, the premium CDN World Summit has secured itself as THE world’s leading CDN event in the market.   The CDN World Summit will be held in London on October 1-3, 2013.

In 2012 the event attracted over 350 senior decision maker attendees from all over the world. 33% of the total audience were Board level, CxO level or Director level and boasted a 47% Service Provider attendance!

The CDN World Summit is entering a new chapter in its cycle and is reinforcing its position as an event where the latest strategies and technologies about media and other data delivery will be discussed, but also looking at delivery channels for OTT services in multiscreen environments, convergence between CDNs, Cloud and other content delivery challenges in the future to create a better playing field for telecom/network owners, content providers, datacentres and CDNs alike…

Grazed from MarketWire. Author: PR Announcement.

RiverMeadow Software™ Inc., developer of the world’s only automated server migration solution developed specifically for carrier and service provider clouds, will be participating at VMworld® 2013, August 25-29 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California. Now in its 10th year, VMworld has emerged as the leading source for the knowledge and connections businesses need to leverage virtualization and cloud computing technologies.

Many companies face similar challenges when migrating to a cloud environment. With data center demands continuously evolving, businesses are looking for a streamlined and automated way to migrate their first server workloads into the cloud. In a session titled Migrating Server Workloads into vCloud Environments, it’s Never Been Easier, Jay Workman, director, Service Provider Marketing, VMware, and Scott Colgan, Vice President of Marketing at RiverMeadow, will provide an overview of how VMware, working with RiverMeadow, is making it fast, easy and affordable for partners to migrate virtually any server workload into their vCloud® environment — from a competitive cloud or private cloud. The session will be held on Monday, August 26, at 3:30 p.m. (PT)…

Grazed from VentureBeat. Author: Jeff MacMillan.

Despite offering tremendous benefits in convenience, elasticity, transparency, and economy, cloud computing faces a major stumbling block: security. Because cloud computing is well established, many assume that all critical aspects of cloud security are already in place. With 54 percent of U.S.-based organizations using the cloud and more enterprises migrating their data to the cloud, it might be surprising to some that the management of the keys to access encrypted cloud-based data — an important part of cloud security — is hardly up to snuff.

Several cloud providers offer encryption capabilities, directly or indirectly, that can be applied to the cloud. However, today’s approach to key management comes with an inherent security risk, that of key ownership and storage. The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) recommends a separation of “lock and key” in the cloud and various compliance regulations are likewise beginning to address this fundamental cloud security issue…

Grazed from PR Newswire. Author: PR Announcement.

Altair today announced the release of CFDCalc, an on-demand and affordable computational fluid dynamics (CFD) application, built on top of Altair’s industry-leading CFD solver, AcuSolve™. Leveraging the reliability, efficiency and near-instant availability of Amazon Web Services (AWS), this innovative cloud application serves as both a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application and as a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) application. With this, users can access high-end CFD technology as an online, cloud-based service, and industry experts can take advantage of the vertical framework and easily develop their own vertical CFD applications.

CFDCalc comes with two pre-packaged, special-purpose vertical applications that are developed to solve two common yet challenging CFD problems: fluid mixing in the industrial and consumer mixing industry, and thermal cooling in the electronics industry. Altair will offer additional vertical applications while promoting experts and developers globally to use the framework to develop new applications, further enhancing the portfolio of solutions…

Grazed from MarketWire. Author: PR Announcement.

NaviSite, Inc., a Time Warner Cable Company, today announced thelaunch of NaviCloud Director — a VMware vCloud(R) Powered IaaSplatform that uses VMware vCloud Director(R) 5.1, and is designed toprovide cloud-based businesses a more flexible, customizable,enterprise class, production-oriented hybrid cloud environment.

NaviCloud Director further enhances NaviSite’s public cloud portfolioby offering businesses an IaaS platform designed for trulyvirtualized applications. To build the new platform, NaviSite tookinto account its extensive experience in cloud services in additionto industry needs, upcoming trends and feedback from its customersand partners…

Grazed from FCW.com. Author: Frank Konkel.

In its lawsuit against the federal government filed in July, Amazon Web Services claims IBM’s protest of its $600 million cloud computing contract with the CIA was "untimely" and "meritless," and that’s just a snapshot of a 79-page document sitting before U.S. Court of Federal Claims Judge Thomas Wheeler.

The lawsuit, unsealed Aug. 20, blasted the Government Accountability Office’s June decision to uphold portions of bid protests filed by Big Blue as irrational and against federal contracting law — a "flawed" decision that AWS argues is based on a technicality and contends would not have changed the CIA’s decision…

Grazed from DZone. Author: Brian Prince.

I just stumbled upon an industry report by Cloud Spectator (www.cloudspectator.com). It ran a test on the top IaaS providers, looking for who had the best performance for the buck. As far as I know, Windows Azure and Microsoft had nothing to do with this report.

The abstract of the report:

With a lack of standardization in the IaaS industry, providers freely use unique terminology to describe their VM resource allocations. How do you compare an ECU to an HPCCU to a vCPU? This report examines the performance and pricing of 5 of the world’s largest IaaS providers over a 5-day period, and provides a process to clearly determine the price-performance value of a cloud provider, addressing the issue of standardization in the marketplace…

Grazed from MarketWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Addressing the global cloud skills gap is the number one priority to help accelerate the successful adoption of Cloud. To help close this gap the Cloud Credential Council is releasing the Professional level series and offering this at European and US conferences in September 2013.

Companies are recognizing the potential of cloud computing to transform their business, and they are searching for talent with the necessary skills to help them maximize their investment. The Cloud Credential Council addresses these needs by involving leading cloud organizations to help develop corporate guidance and cloud certification standards. The CCC is releasing five certifications at the Professional level:…

Grazed from International Business Times. Author: Jessica Menton.

Nero AG, best known for developing Nero Burning ROM, could rival tech giants Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) and Google Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG) by looking towards the future convergence of technology by syncing devices in a new way.

“We have basically two branches that we work on. There’s still a PC based product that’s our legacy product. That’s where we focus more on the capability of syncing, but not necessarily using the cloud. We have functionalities that also connect through the cloud, for example Google Drive, Drop box, in order to be able to use the content,” said Stefano Miotto, technical director EMEA & APAC at Nero AG…

Grazed from Sciencemag.org. Author: Vijaysree Venkatraman.

If data driven discovery becomes the norm, more scientists will need to upgrade from their desktop computers to more powerful, scalable computing systems. As director of research–physical sciences at the eScience institute at the University of Washington (UW), it’s Jeffrey Gardner’s job to help researchers with that migration.

In addition to being a facilitator of computational work, Gardner is a computational astrophysicist. He has run code that utilized all 100,000-plus computer processing unit (CPU) cores and 10,000-plus hard drives of the supercomputer Kraken at the National Supercomputing Center at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. He works part-time at Google, as a visiting scientist. Before joining UW, he was senior scientific specialist at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. So, he knows about resources for scientific computation…