Category: News

Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Steve Evans.

Telefonica has announced the creation of a new security company — called Eleven Paths — within its Digital division that will be given the task of improving security innovation at the Spanish tech giant. Eleven Paths will primarily be run by formers workers of Informatica 64, a Spanish security company acquired by Telefonica. Informatica 64’s founder and CEO Chema Alonso will lead Eleven Paths.

He said that his role, and that of Eleven Paths, would be to radically change the way companies provided security services to customers and big corporations. "The digital world is changing the rules and security services need to adapt to this new challenge very fast," Alonso said. It seems as though the company will be left to its own devices — Telefonica Digital said the company would be run as a startup unit within the larger organisation…

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Mark Tonsetic and Jeremy Bergsman.

The debate around cloud computing risk continues. This isn’t because the risks that large enterprises care about have worsened (they haven’t, broadly) or because there is a new set of risks that present concern (there aren’t, again broadly). The debate continues because cloud computing technologies have introduced "buyer uncertainty" into the sourcing market. Cloud capabilities have matured enough to induce vendors to rapidly evolve offerings in an effort to capture market share — but not to promote interoperability.

The clarity of cloud’s risk-adjusted value proposition thus has yet to emerge, mostly because evaluations of risk and value remain moving targets. So what is there about managing cloud risks that should be top of mind for IT leaders in today’s environment? CEB analysis suggests that the foremost risk is not anything intrinsic to the cloud provider community as a whole, but rather the lack of a consistent framework in large enterprises for engaging with and managing cloud services…

Grazed from BusinessWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Intel Corporation today announced the Intel(R) Solid-State Drive DC S3500 Series, its latest solid-state drive (SSD) for data centers and cloud computing. Designed for read-intensive applications such as Web hosting, cloud computing and data center virtualization, the Intel DC S3500 Series is an ideal replacement for traditional hard disk drives (HDD), allowing data centers to save significant costs by moving toward an all-SSD storage model.

Intel SSDs, including the Intel SSD DC S3500 Series, enable transformational improvements in cloud infrastructure, fostering new and enriching Web experiences. End customers experience quicker Web page loads and improved response times as a result of dramatically improved data access times and reduced latency. IT managers and cloud developers are rewarded with improved total cost of ownership as a result of reduced power consumption, more consistent performance and smaller space requirements. More than half of U.S. businesses now employ cloud computing applications, and IDC predicts that worldwide spending on cloud services will reach $44.2 billion this year(1) . Data centers powering these cloud applications need to quickly, efficiently and reliably scale to handle the tremendous growth of connected users and data traffic…

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.

CiRBA is aiming to tie various cloud management platforms, including OpenStack, into its capacity transformation and control software with the release of a new API. The company noted in its announcement the new API enables organizations to connect the cloud management platforms they use with CiRBA with the end goal of optimizing new workload placements within internal clouds.

CiRBA specializes in providing analytics to determine the optimal placement of virtual machines within cloud infrastructure at the environment and server levels. According to the vendor, it reduces the risk of capacity shortfalls and driving up VM density by an average of 48 percent…

Grazed from Forbes. Author: Michael Kanellos.

The cloud computing era is upon us, and if you make servers, life could really begin to stink. A report today from Lawrence Berkeley Lab—which we previewed last week at Google GOOG -0.82%’s “How Green is the Internet” conference—examines what would happen if businesses around the country shifted from owning their own data centers and servers to handing responsibility for email and productivity applications to cloud providers.

The energy savings, the authors found, would be tremendous. The energy required to manage data centers (and produce the equipment used inside them) would drop by 87%, from 373 petajoules a year to 47 petajoules, a year…

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.

Hosting, managed service and cloud providers working with Veeam now have access to the company’s Backup Management Suite. The vendor announced this as an expansion to its Veeam Cloud Provider program. Veeam Backup Management Suite 6.5 is a single, integrated solution that combines Veeam Backup & Replication and Veeam ONE with the goal of protecting organization’s investments in virtualization while increasing administrator productivity and the mitigation of daily management risks with real-time monitoring, backup and replication, document and management reporting and other features and functions.

Available now to partners, Veeam Backup Management Suite is available as a per-VM monthly rental or as a perpetual license sold in blocks of 10 virtual machines. According to Veeam, the suite was designed to be a single, integrated data protection and infrastructure management solution for VMware and Hyper-V that not only meets the requirements of organizations, but is also affordable and easy to use…

Grazed from PRWeb. Author: PR Announcement.

Cirracore, a leading supplier of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solutions, has announced their Capacity Assessment service based on a self-contained, ultra-small appliance that provides vital information regarding businesses’ overall server and storage environment. This service allows enterprises to understand the actual capacity and the resources that are needed before migrating some or all of their infrastructure to the cloud in an easy-to-understand, graphical report.

For customers that have already virtualized their infrastructure, the Cirracore Capacity Assessment service can also assist by fine-tuning what resources are being consumed and assisting with intelligent sizing decisions. "The value of the information the Cirracore Capacity Assessment service provides has been the real driver for having so many customers and prospects have the assessment preformed,” said Fred Tanzella, Cirracore’s founder and CEO…

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Beth Pariseau.

IBM has trotted out a new concept it calls BlueMix, a combination of DevOps and Infrastructure as a Service, but its practical application lies far in the future. In theory, BlueMix could move cloud computing forward by uniting agile application development with the underlying infrastructure once and for all. It combines application services with a software-defined, programmable and automated underlying infrastructure that would eventually use analytics, rather than human input, to provision resources. It would all be glued together with application program interfaces (APIs), and all delivered by IBM, of course.

But even IBM’s CTO acknowledged the concept’s complexity, saying it’s not intended for every application. "Note that I didn’t say it was easy; it’s possible," said Danny Sabbah, IBM CTO and general manager of its next-generation platform group, during a keynote at Cloud Computing Expo here this week. BlueMix is in private beta under IBM’s jStart client engagement group for emerging technologies. There will be a SoftLayer region devoted to the technology, Sabbah said…

Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: David Linthicum.

Last week, news broke that the NSA has been spying on Verizon customer in the United States. The bulletin came via the Guardian, which had obtained a copy of a secret court order allowing the NSA to spy on millions of Verizon customers. As reported by Glenn Greenwald: "The document shows for the first time that under the Obama administration the communication records of millions of U.S. citizens are being collected indiscriminately and in bulk — regardless of whether they are suspected of any wrongdoing."

This development has multiple implications for U.S. citizens, but high-tech industries will feel a distinctive hit. It seems that we only recently addressed fears over the Patriot Act and the notion that the U.S. government could seize the servers containing your data from your cloud provider. It was certainly possible, but not likely…

Grazed from BusinessWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Metacloud, Inc. today announced a new release of Carbon|OS, the industry’s premier OpenStack-based operating system for the enterprise environment. Representing a full year of development work by Metacloud and the larger OpenStack community, Carbon|OS combines the simplicity of the public cloud with the performance, security, and cost advantages of private cloud — all on clients’ existing hardware infrastructure. It is available immediately and has already been deployed by Fortune 5000 companies in industries including entertainment, finance, and technology.

"Metacloud has brought an entirely new delivery model to market for enterprise software — one where product and support are tightly intertwined. In the traditional consumer SaaS model, features sit atop software, on hardware, in an off-premise data center. Our enterprise SaaS model is similar, but the hardware is on premise and owned by our customers, allowing them economies of scale," said Steve Curry, President and founder of Metacloud. "This model is already rapidly gaining traction and it’s clear that the practice of shipping software to customers to install and operate on their own is on its way out."…