Category: News

Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author: Liz McMillan.

"Trust is an ongoing journey and sits at the foundation of any vendor relationship – the companies that don’t consistently earn trust won’t be around long," noted Henrik Rosendahl, Senior VP of Cloud Solutions at Quantum, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. "As they do more with cloud, trust will organically grow – maybe it’s just about meeting SLAs or seeing firsthand that data is there when you need it," Rosendahl continued.

Cloud Computing Journal: The move to cloud isn’t about saving money, it is about saving time. – Agree or disagree?

Henrik Rosendahl: I believe it is actually both. Time is money, as they say. I typically think in terms of efficiency, which encompasses economics as well as the positive impact on administrative workflows. This is certainly true when we talk about cloud-based backup as a service (BaaS). Typically with BaaS customers, the first question is "How much is this going to cost?"…

Grazed from TelecomPaper.  Author: PR Announcement.

Romtelecom will launch in the second part of 2013 a virtual store that will offer online applications (software as a service) and cloud computing services, writes local publication Hotnews.ro citing Romtelecom CCO (Business) Mihai Tudor. Tudor said that providing cloud computing services bundled with communications services and hardware is essentially the business model for Romtelecom’s business division in 2013. The shop will be developped together with Romtelecom partners and will include all the applications developped so far by Romtelecom as well as new ones.

Grazed from eWeek.  Author: Jeffrey Burt.

ARM will take significant market share from Intel in the server chip space over the next few years, and Advanced Micro Devices will be a key vendor benefiting from the shift, according to the head of AMD’s server business. In an interview with eWEEK here, Andrew Feldman, corporate vice president and general manager of AMD’s Server Business Unit, said the rapidly changing compute demands and decades of tech industry history are creating an environment that’s ideal for ARM’s strong ascent into the data center.

The rise of cloud computing, the rapid growth in the number of connected mobile devices hitting the Internet, and the demands of massive Web 2.0 companies like Google and Facebook are quickly changing the kinds of workloads that are running on servers, Feldman said. Data centers increasingly are supporting millions of users with servers running massive numbers of parallel workloads that need the type of small-core chips that ARM and its partners are manufacturing to power the bulk of the world’s smartphones and tablets. And that trend will only continue, he said…

Grazed from The Huffington Post.  Author: James Grundvig.

In the same week, IBM put out two press releases on cloud analytics. Who would have thought that possible a few years ago? Did the big, rigid, and smart IBM of mainframe, Deep Blue, and Watson fame really migrate to the cloud?  Yes. They did it not just once, but twice.

First, internally with a secret and successful project called ‘Blue Insight,’ which IBM launched five years ago with great foresight from the CIO’s office to cull waste, duplication, and inefficiencies, while deliver data analytics to all of IBM’s business units and hundreds of thousands global employees. Then externally, IBM tailored its cloud solution offerings for industry-specific customers, with announcements this week on L’Oreal USA and the healthcare system of Saudi Arabia…

Grazed from Slashdot.org.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Google’s I/O conference in San Francisco didn’t just offer new products and services for consumers: the company used the event to unveil upgraded software for developers and those who deal with IT infrastructure.

For example, Google Compute Engine (which the company first announced last year) is now available to everyone in preview, with a bevvy of just-announced features. The Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offering gives developers access to Google’s enormous computing power, the better to crunch data and build applications…

Grazed from PRWeb.  Author: PR Announcement.

One month after opening its EU Central datacenter in France, Lunacloud announces the launch of Cloud Mongo, its cloud-based service of the popular MongoDB database. Lunacloud is the only cloud provider in Europe with a MongoDB service provided on a pay per usage model.

Cloud Mongo is a NoSQL database service built with MongoDB, which allows users to work with their favourite database without having to worry about server, operating system or database engine installation and management. These services are included in Cloud Mongo, which is a resilient and performance-optimized cloud platform service, guaranteed by Lunacloud…

Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Ken Hess.

What’s better than a cloud solution? An easy cloud solution. That’s what SmartCloud Entry 3.1 is—an easy cloud solution. It’s a private cloud solution that runs on your infrastructure in the privacy of your data center. Being a private cloud solution means that you can now enjoy the benefits of cloud computing in a secure environment. The best part, in my opinion, other than it being easy, is that it installs into your virtualized environment no matter which vendor’s products you use.

Don’t let the Entry moniker imply any limitations on the SmartCloud Entry solution, because there aren’t any. Entry just means easy, not limited. SmartCloud Entry is a full-blown, full-featured, highly scalable cloud enabling solution for businesses. IBM has just taken the sting out of cloud adoption both in complexity and in affordability…

Grazed from ReadWriteWeb. Author: Matt Asay.

While both Google and SAP shared a 1980’s music sensibility at their respective conferences this week – Billy Idol performed at Google I/O and U2’s Bono walked the floor at SAPPHIRE – the two companies see the future of computing very differently. Even when the two companies agree on the importance of cloud computing, their strategies couldn’t be more different. For one thing, SAP’s new cloud isn’t even a cloud. But then, SAP’s Bono wasn’t really Bono, either, but merely an impersonator.

Forrester analyst Stefan Ried takes SAP to task for getting cloud wrong in its new HANA Enterprise Cloud: "The Hana Cloud is a very careful move to a new business model. It is not disruptive and will NOT accelerate Hana usage to the many more customers who have been struggling with Hana on-premises because of its licensing. "The announced Hana Enterprise Cloud follows the ‘Bring Your Own License’ paradigm. While this is great for customers that already have a Hana license and would like to relocate it into the cloud, it is useless for customers that might have largely fluctuating data volumes or user numbers and might specifically use a cloud because of its elastic business model."…

Grazed from CRN. Author: Robert Westervelt.

Attacker access to cloud-computing platforms has become an epidemic and may need a global consortium to better educate cloud providers and help reduce the problem, according to a cloud expert who leads Dimension Data’s global cloud initiatives.

Account fraud, account hijacking and the use of stolen credentials to gain criminal access to cloud-computing resources has been a longstanding issue, which is becoming a serious problem that impacts all cloud providers, said John Rowell, formerly chief technology officer at cloud provider OpSource, who now leads global research and development, and service operations in Dimension Data’s Cloud Solutions Business Unit. Rowell said his firm works constantly to weed out fraudulent accounts and address the issue, but other providers may lack the desire or the wherewithal to deal with the problem…

Grazed from IT Pro Portal. Author: Keao Caindec.

Cost savings, convenience, speed-to-market and freedom from technology lock-ins are all benefits of migrating business applications to the cloud, and many that have already adopted cloud strategies have indeed realised significant cost savings and productivity gains. However, some have also experienced performance and availability issues that have led to resistance to migrating business-critical functions. As a result, the bulk of successful cloud projects to date have been departmental and not ‘mission critical’ core systems which have significant requirements for resource-intensive functions such as database replication, file synchronisation, backup and disaster recovery between data centres.

Part of the problem is that the public cloud ‘Infrastructure as a Service’ (IaaS) market is evolving more slowly than other areas such as ‘Software as a Service’ (SaaS). Providers are only beginning to recognise the level to which performance levels need to be increased and the capabilities their offerings need to make them a viable platform for mission critical purposes.
One area of IaaS that providers have quickly evolved is services that support wide area networks (WAN)…