Cloud Computing: Gizmox Salvages Client/Server Apps
Grazed from Sys Con Media. Author: Maureen O’Gara.
Tel Aviv-based Gizmox says it’s figured out how to salvage all those scads of Microsoft client/server desktop apps – pointedly the enterprise ones – transform them – relatively painlessly – into secured-by-design HTML5, and move them to the web, the cloud and mobile devices all without rewriting any code or re-engineering anything.
It’s agnostic about what mobile device. It could be Apple or Android as well as the new Windows 8 stuff.
It calls its tool-base solution Instant CloudMove Transposition Studio, a name that will never fit on a marquee. But Gizmox will still know if it gets applause for the downloadable community technology preview (CTP) it’s just put out…
Cloud outage report of 13 providers reveals downtime costs
Amazon’s cloud services downtime earlier this month annoyed some AWS customers but beyond that, it raised the question of how expensive cloud outage downtime can be.
This week, a study group called the International Working Group on Cloud Computing Resiliency (IWGCR) released its first Availability Ranking of World Cloud Computing report. The working group was formed in March by two Paris-based higher educational institutions, Telecom ParisTech and Paris 13 University.
The report’s bottom line isn’t pretty. It estimates the average unavailability of cloud services at 10 hours per year or more, while the average availability is estimated to 99.9% or less…
Red Hat’s RHEL 6.3 aims at large-scale cloud deployments
Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: Joab Jackson.
With the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.3, Red Hat has tweaked the enterprise grade Linux distribution to add new capabilities in storage, virtualization, security, scalability, and performance.
"This is one of largest update release to date," said Tim Burke, Red Hat vice president of Linux engineering development. "It has a lot of performance scalability optimizations specifically targeted at virtualized cloud deployments in the data center."
To improve overall performance, RHEL 6.3 features a new technology called NUMAD (Non-Uniform Memory Alignment Daemon [5]). NUMAD is based on ideas behind NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Architecture), a memory management technology developed for supercomputers with large-scale distributed memory. NUMAD will align data in working memory so it is most easily accessible by the processor working on the data…
If AWS is the Walmart of cloud, is OpenStack the Soviet Union?
The stage was set for a lively debate between public cloud rivals at GigaOM Structure in San Francisco Thursday – representatives from Citrix, Eucalyptus and the OpenStack project certainly delivered. Nebula CEO and OpenStack co-founder Chris Kemp didn’t even get past the introductions before he challenged his fellow panelists on their “closed” cloud implementations and embrace of Amazon Web Services’ API, which he compared to the Walmart of infrastructure.
“It’s reasonably fast, reasonably priced and reasonably secure,” Kemp said, which is why it has the lion’s share of the cloud business today. But AWS will never be incredibly fast or incredibly secure, Kemp said, and while AWS may be emerging as a de facto standard, it doesn’t change the fact its API is proprietary. “I don’t think a de facto standard is a standard,” he said…
The Cloud Effect: A Dent In Traditional Software Pricing
Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: Humayun Shahid.
Cloud computing is altogether a different realm of end-user software delivery architecture. Cloud computing is centred around the remote availability of required software applications, ensured via a streamlined, subscription-based, over-the-Web service mechanism. This particular approach enables users to acquire very specifically what is needed, and only for as long as the requirement prevails. The scheme is utterly powerful and is being endorsed by plenty of customers. Estimates by Forrester Research indicate that more than 33% of ventures rely on the Software-as-a-Service model to get some of their applications delivered. The cloud-based services market is blooming, with an expansion rate as high as 20% per annum.
In addition to the way software is made available to end users, the dawn of the cloud computing era is foreseen as an unequivocal threat to the infamous conventional software pricing model. The move to the cloud is bound to disrupt traditional software pricing, giving rise to significantly altered consumer behaviour and inherently modified operational dynamics. Making the most out of cloud computing is not all about sheer technical expertise; a significant proportion of the package deal involves getting the pricing right…
Infonetics: Data Center Equipment up 17% YoY; Fibre Channel Switch Market to Hit $2.7B by 2016, Brocade Leads
Grazed from BusinessWire. Author: PR Announcement.
Market research firm Infonetics Research today released excerpts from 2 1st quarter (1Q12) vendor market share and forecast reports: SAN Equipment and Data Center Network Equipment.
“We see steady growth ahead for SAN switches and adapters, pushed by social networking, video sharing, data center innovations, and the eventual shift to cloud computing models. Fiber Channel continues to be the real star, with revenue from 16G Fiber Channel products growing at an astounding 52% compound annual growth rate from 2011 to 2016,” expects Sam Barnett, directing analyst for data center and cloud at Infonetics Research.
Barnett adds: “The data center equipment market was down sequentially, but is up nicely from the year-ago first quarter. For the remainder of 2012 and into 2013, we expect growth to be choppy as service providers and data center operators are at different stages in their data center upgrades and some are beginning to wind down their current investment cycle.”…
To SQL or to NoSQL: the database dilemma
Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Tom Krazit.
Everybody likes a good technology debate: Mac vs. PC, Android vs. iOS, Larry Ellison vs. the world. On Thursday panelists at GigaOM Structure turned their attention to the world of databases: SQL or NoSQL?
The question revolves around the decision whether or not to embrace SQL databases — the traditional approach — or NoSQL databases favored by those embracing the cloud. Different companies require different approaches depending on their needs, but at least one panelist wasn’t shy about sharing his views…
Will using Dropbox put your CEO in jail?
Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Janko Roettgers.
With everything moving to the cloud, companies suddenly find themselves confronted with a whole new set of challenges. For example: Is all that stuff even legal? “There is a good chance that almost every organization that is out there that is using Dropbox or that is using Box is breaking the law,” proclaimed Puppet Labs CEO Luke Kanies (see disclosure) during the last panel of the day at GigaOM’s Structure conference Thursday.
Kanies wasn’t out to scare people, but he had a point: Most companies don’t even have internal rules for the use of data with cloud services, save for a clear understanding of the law. Fellow panelist and enStratus VP of Product Strategy James Urquhart agreed, pointing out that courts have yet to device whether Fourth Amendment rights apply to documents saved in the cloud…
The future of cloud computing: 9 trends for 2012
The view of cloud computing remains mixed as the technology brings benefits and risks in equal measures. Here’s what 39 major tech firms said about it.
We’re all about seeing around corners here at ZDNet, frequently taking the pulse of the technology industry to determine where it’s headed next.
Venture capital firms are interested in the same thing — for them, the difference between right and wrong is measured in (millions of) dollars.
North Bridge Venture Partners, which is split between Boston and San Mateo, released a survey this morning on the future of cloud computing. The firm polled 785 people at 39 high-profile enterprise technology companies — Akamai, AWS, Citrix, Microsoft, Red Hat, SAP and VMware among them — to see where their respective heads are at with regard to cloud computing…
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