Avago Technologies Announces High-Density 120 Gbps Parallel Optical Solutions for Cloud & Data Center Applications
Grazed from MarketWatch. Author: PR Announcement.
Avago Technologies AVGO +1.34% , a leading supplier of analog interface components for wireless, wireline, and industrial applications, today announced the availability of production volumes of 120 Gbps multichannel optical transmitter and receiver modules for "inside-the-box" data-center applications and a CXP pluggable transceiver for board-edge "box-to-box" and "rack-to-rack" communications.
Driven by the exploding demand for online media and applications in a cloud computing environment, the modules are ideal solutions for communications within data centers, server farms, network switches, telecom switching centers and many other high-performance embedded applications that require high-speed data transfers. System applications include data aggregation, backplane communications, proprietary protocol data transfers, and other high-density/high-bandwidth applications…
CGI to Deliver Enterprise-Wide Cloud Solutions to the U.S. EPA as Part of the Agency’s IT Modernization Strategy
Grazed from MarketWatch. Author: PR Announcement.
As part of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) goal of shifting up to 80 percent of its computing environment to the cloud by 2015, the EPA Office of Environmental Information has awarded CGI Federal Inc. (CGI), a wholly-owned U.S. operating subsidiary of CGI Group Inc. GIB 0.00% CA:GIB.A -0.17% a three-year, US$15 million contract. The contract was awarded under the GSA Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) BPA, through which CGI is accredited to deliver certified, secure government cloud services.
As part of the three-year plan, EPA’s National Computing Center (NCC) is building an agency-wide hybrid cloud environment. CGI will serve as the external enterprise cloud provider, delivering a range of IaaS services, including hosting and virtualization in its secure cloud. CGI will also provide technical architecture and transition support for moving agency applications to the cloud…
Cloud Computing: Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Banned in US
Grazed from Sys Con Media. Author: Maureen O’Gara.
US District Court Judge Lucy Koh has forbidden Samsung to sell any more of its Android-based Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablets in America once retail inventories are cleared.
Judge Koh ordered the ban late Tuesday at the point of a decision issued by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, DC, where Apple went after she rejected its injunction request in December. Unwilling to second guess the appeals court, she rejected a second injunction request from Apple on June 4.
The Court of Appeals found that when all is said and done Apple will probably win its pending infringement suit against Samsung based on a single design patent…
Cloud Computing: Red Hat Shifts Into Gear With OpenShift
Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Charles Babcock.
Platform-as-a-service provides a development environment in the cloud. Both Google and Microsoft supply PaaS, and as heavyweights, they dominate a lot of the discussion.
But there have been two surprises over the past year. One is that VMware, a company that makes only proprietary products, could field a platform-as-a-service, Cloud Foundry, declare it open source, and developers would flock to it. The other surprise is that Red Hat could supply its own OpenShift PaaS and make it competitive with Cloud Foundry.
Both Cloud Foundry and OpenShift.com are open source code; Red Hat made OpenShift Origin an open source project in April. Both OpenShift and Cloud Foundry can serve as a hosting service for resulting applications. They can also be duplicated on premises–a boon to companies that wish to develop for both their own data centers and the public cloud…
Gravitas Private Cloud Delivers Flexible Computing Resources On Demand To Alternative Asset Managers
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Gravitas, a co-sourcing platform providing technology, risk and research services to the financial services industry, today announced the launch of Gravitas Private Cloud, an expandable, secure cloud solution based on leading converged infrastructure systems from VCE. The Gravitas Private Cloud is an industry vertical cloud, designed for the unique computing and hosting needs of alternative asset managers, from startup to established funds.
Gravitas Private Cloud combines the advantages of cloud computing – flexibility, scalability and lowered upfront costs – with the turnkey infrastructure and security that regulated financial firms require supported by the managed services required to run this effectively. The Gravitas Private Cloud enables deployment of a fully-functional IT system in days, as compared to weeks for traditional cloud solutions. It significantly expands Gravitas cloud services, which were launched in 2009…
IEEE Brings Cloud Computing Expertise and User Resources Together to Foster Worldwide Collaboration & Innovation
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Today IEEE, the world’s largest professional organization dedicated to advancing technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity, introduced a comprehensive set of resources and activities that bring together expertise from across the global organization to help accelerate the development and use of cloud computing technologies. The collection of resources and activities, established under the IEEE Cloud Computing Initiative (CCI), can be accessed from the newly launched IEEE Cloud Computing Web Portal ( http://cloudcomputing.ieee.org/ ).
The IEEE CCI represents the first, broad-based collaborative endeavor for cloud computing to be offered by a global technical professional organization. The IEEE CCI coordinates, under one umbrella, the extensive work that experts from multiple disciplines within IEEE contribute to cloud computing and makes the results of this work conveniently available to anyone who wants to learn about them. The IEEE Cloud Computing Web Portal provides members of the technical community as well as the general public a convenient, centralized gateway to news and information about cloud computing and the many activities organized and led by the IEEE CCI.
New cloud realities emerge
Grazed from ITWeb. Author: Tracy Burrows.
Cloud computing has delivered on its promises – and then some. But for the early adopters, there have been a few surprises along the way.
This is according to Andi Mann, VP of Strategic Solutions at CA Technologies.
Mann says he sees customers daily who have realised some – or even all – of the promises of cloud, including cost reduction, faster time-to-value, easier management and improved mobility.
“That said, it is not always easy, the results are not always as expected, and they don’t always happen straight away. For example, many of my customers have found that while they are getting fantastic speed and efficiency benefits from cloud, the cost reduction is nowhere near what they expected. Others are finding the ongoing operation and management even of low-touch SaaS applications is more of a burden than they expected,” he says…
Canadian Cloud Computing Network launches Cloud Ecosystem Accelerator Program
The Canada Cloud Network (CCN) is a proactive network of like-minded professionals that focus on the latest technology innovation to benefit citizens, reduce government spending and spur Canadian leadership in the cloud computing space.
In parallel, the federal government has indicated an interest in using public procurement to support the competitiveness and growth of smaller Canadian technology companies. CCN’s new Cloud Ecosystem Accelerator Program (CEAP) will be a powerful connection mechanism between participating companies and governments.
“Cloud computing has not been aggressively adopted by Canadian business and governments because of general inertia, latent security concerns and poor packaging of solutions across companies,” said Neil McEvoy, CEO of L5 Consulting Inc. and founder of the CCN. “Canadian technology SMEs have trouble selling to the federal government with the current complex and lengthy procurement system that favours major players. Larger companies understandably have the resources to be successful. The SMEs we have polled generally believe that government contracts are ‘done deals’ with the large suppliers, and so the RFP bid process is a pointless formality. CEAP is designed to change the status quo and help smaller promising cloud computing companies to band together and get in the game in a big way.”…
Cloud Business 101: Storing The Data
Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: Jeff Norman.
Cloud computing launches new businesses more quickly with greater efficiency. This technology virtually eliminates the need to install new software or download it anew elsewhere, as all of a company’s vital applications can be immediately accessed via the cloud. There is no cap on virtual storage space within the cloud either, especially when compared to the traditional storage model of physical servers (the use of which is growing more antiquated by the day, by the way). Augment your cloud storage in a snap with the payment of a relatively frugal fee.
ADVANTAGE: Storing the data for your business on the cloud allows for it to be accessed with ease by any member of your team, slashing communication delays and eradicating the need to physically work together — a boon for well-qualified business aspirants who are always on the go…
Public Cloud Is Neither More Nor Less Secure Than Private Cloud
There’s a meme in the water that public cloud is more secure than private cloud. That’s just plain wrong. Also wrong: the idea that the private cloud more secure than public cloud. There’s nothing inherently more or less secure about either cloud model, and you can put VMs or applications securely in either (or both). Don’t get excited by these FUD-filled claims.
Let me be clear: When people talk about something being more or less secure than another, what they mean is that one thing is better protected than another–that the better-protected thing is harder to break into. What they don’t often talk about is risk. Risk is the likelihood that some loss will occur. There is always risk. Always. With public cloud, you face different risks than if you use a private cloud. I will not be focusing on risk–rather, I will focus on protection and debunking the pernicious myth that public cloud is more secure than private cloud…