Category: News

Grazed from CloudTweaks.  Author: Balaji Viswanathan.

If you are migrating from enterprise to a cloud based solution, it is necessary to understand the different roles in cloud computing. In this post, I will cover the 6 major roles in the cloud setup.

Cloud Service Provider

This is the entity that provides the cloud service. The cloud service provider owns and controls the cloud computing platform. The services include SaaS (Software as a Service), PaaS (Platform as a Service), IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) and IpaaS (Integration Platform as a Service). Based on the services provided, the CSPs can be broadly categorized into 3 types:…

Grazed from InfoWorld.  Author: David Linthicum.

Did you hear? Some employers are asking for your Facebook and Twitter passwords before they offer you employment. This issue caused so much of a stir that Maryland passed legislation to ban employers from such requests. I suspect the employers with these ambitions will have to go back to drug tests, blind reference checks, and background investigations to vet their candidates.

What does this have to do with cloud computing? The rise of personal clouds — such as iCloud, Mozy, Carbonite, Box, Dropbox, Google Apps, Microsoft SkyDrive, and other cheap or free ways to store our personal data outside of our homes — could make us vulnerable to requests or demands for access…

Grazed from ITWeb.  Author: Patrick Thibodeau.

The era of cloud hyper-giants, providers so big and so critical to the delivery of information and commerce, is clearly here. But unlike an electric utility, which can give an exact count of customers and power consumed, understanding the true size of a cloud provider hasn’t been as easy.

But DeepField Networks, a new cloud intelligence company operating in semi-stealth mode, posted some eye-popping findings Wednesday about the breadth of Internet activity Amazon is now responsible for.

Fully one third of all Internet users now access Amazon’s cloud site at least once a day, according to Craig Labovitz, DeepField’s CEO and co-founder. And about 1% of all Internet consumer traffic in North America goes to the Amazon cloud. While that may seem small, it isn’t…

Grazed from EON.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Gemini Mobile Technologies KK (Gemini) announced today that it will exhibit Cloudian® at the 3rd Cloud Computing Expo in Tokyo. Cloudian is a packaged software product which enables the building of cloud storage systems that are fully compliant with Amazon S3 REST API.

“Basic Knowledge of NOSQL; Database Technology to Prepare for Big Data”

At the Cloudian booth, Cloudian customers and partners from around the world will share use cases of Cloudian, S3 ecosystem, Big Data, cloud solutions, next-generation clouds, and M2M. Fourteen companies will present, including Nifty, Rakuten, Aplix, Vodafone, Ericsson, and Value Added Resellers such as Creationline Inc. and Core Micro Systems Inc…

Grazed from Cadalyst.  Author: Cyrena Respini-Irwin.

"We will not be working — any of us — in the way that we worked five years ago." That bold assertion is Autodesk President and CEO Carl Bass’s take on the impact of cloud technology, which he considers a watershed "much bigger than the shift to PCs, much bigger than the shift from DOS to Windows."

At the company’s 2012 Media Summit last month in San Francisco, Bass told the audience in no uncertain terms that cloud, mobile, and social technologies are reshaping design workflows. "We’re moving to a world where the computing center of the world is really where you are … I’ll never [again] be in the position of saying ‘I’ll email you those files when I get back to the office.’" …

Grazed from Datamation.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Amazon Web Services has launched a new online store featuring software that users can deploy on Amazon’s cloud computing service. Called "AWS Marketplace," the store features software from 10gen, CA, Canonical, Couchbase, Check Point Software, IBM, Microsoft, SAP, Zend and other vendors. It also includes popular open source applications like Drupal, MediaWiki and Wordpress. Enterprises can use the company’s 1-Click Deployment to quickly launch any application they’d like to try, and they’ll pay based on usage…

Grazed from EE Times.  Author: Sylvie Barak.

The buzz around cloud computing is oh so 2011! That’s because the latest and greatest in terms of computational advancements (or should we say "sidesteps") is a sort of biological concept "computer" based on swarms of soldier crabs.

Japanese researchers from Kobe University came up with the creepy, crawly concept after reading research from the 1980s which posited that one could theoretically build a computer using the movement of billiard balls—with a bit of Newtonian physics and an idealized, friction-free environment thrown in.

That research, by Edward Fredkin and Tommaso Toffoli, used the billiard balls’ motion as a substitute for electronic signals, with researchers looking at how the balls collided into one another or emerged from a series of gates in a predictable direction and at a certain speed…

Grazed from ITWorld.  Author: Lucas Mearian.

Just as with an Apple product launch, Google has had to do next to nothing to create buzz around its long-awaited Google Drive cloud storage service. The latest: Google Drive will launch next week.

Of course, prognosticators have predicted much the same thing numerous times in the past, predictions that turned out to be wrong.

"Frankly, Google has been out to lunch on this," said Frank Gillett, an analyst with Forrester Research. "The real question is: What took you guys so long? And have to got anything original or is this a ‘me too’ play."…

Grazed from Channel Partners.  Author:  Kelly Teal.

As cloud computing demand explodes, Cisco, EMC and VMware have joined forces to teach IT professionals how to become experts in cloud architecture, and data center and virtualization technologies. And while the training was not created specifically for the channel, resellers, managed services providers and other partners keen to earn cloud certifications still may take advantage of the curricula.

The goal is to "build thought leaders," said Alok Shrivastava, director of education services for EMC, which makes storage hardware. For that to happen, companies, including channel partner businesses, need to understand their role in the cloud, he said. To that point, he said Cisco, EMC and VMware have consolidated what they have learned – and what would take individual companies almost two years to research for themselves – into about three weeks’ worth of learning…

Grazed from ITProPortal.  Author: Stuart Andrews.

Cloud computing isn’t just about business, it’s making a big impact on games too.

With services like Spotify and Netflix changing the way we enjoy music or watch movies and TV, games look set to be the next form of entertainment to embrace the cloud. In fact, you could say that the nature of gaming almost makes it inevitable. Even before there was an Internet, Multi-User-Dungeons (MUDs) had players exploring online worlds together, while the likes of Doom, Quake and EverQuest were popularising online gaming at a time when the idea of streaming music or video over the Web would have seemed ridiculous. Games and the Internet just go together.

Yet the coming cloud revolution goes deeper than simply enabling the next World of Warcraft or Call of Duty. As with what’s happening with music and movies, cloud gaming is set to make games more immediately accessible, more convenient and more social. As with the smartphone and tablet gaming revolutions, it could see games reach an even wider audience…