Asustek enters race on Cloud services
Taiwan’s Asustek Computer Inc, known foremost for making laptops, says it is branching out into Cloud computing services as it seeks to keep up in a highly competitive technology market.
The world’s fifth-largest personal-computer maker said it focused on security as it unveiled its Asus Private Cloud package of motherboards, servers and software…
Today’s cloud winners: the cybercriminals
Legal complexities make it difficult to use public cloud computing, according to Raimund Genes, Trend Micro’s chief technology officer. Unless you’re a criminal, that is.
"Public cloud for me is not really a security challenge. It is a change in the way we operate with data. It doesn’t decrease security. It increases complexity, and that’s a problem," he told the company’s Canberra Cloud Security Conference yesterday.
"The cloud, from a legal point of view, will keep our internal lawyers and everybody else busy for the next fifty, one hundred years," he said.
Apple Recruiting Executives for Cloud Computing Division
Apple is reportedly on the look out for senior executives to run its cloud computing division as it tries to reinvent the way people store their data using its iCloud service.
Citing people familiar with the matter, The Wall Street Journal revealed that Apple is planning to hire senior level executives with strong backgrounds in web based software…
Adaptive Computing Addresses Converging HPC-Cloud Market
Grazed from Network Computing. Author: Steve Wexler.
After a less-than-stellar 2009, the high performance computing industry turned in a strong showing in 2010, surging 22.4% to $25.6 billion in total product and services revenue, and will continue to grow at a 7.0 percent compound annual growth rate, reaching $36 billion in 2015 (Intersect360 Research Worldwide). HPC specialists Adaptive Computing are looking to cash in on this growth with the launch of the Torque 4.0 beta and the new Moab HPC Suite – Enterprise Edition.
Torque offers petaflop scalability and enterprise-ready speed and reliability, while the Enterprise Edition combines Moab’s battle-tested HPC workload management products with implementation services and 24 x 7 support, says Lane Franks, VP strategy and operations. HPC and cloud customers concerned with scale, and costs are looking for alternative solutions, says Franks…
The Cloud and the Perfect Marketing Storm
While there are many benefits to cloud computing, one group particularly well served by this technology are marketers. When it comes to engaging with audiences over the web, there are a number of attributes of cloud-based services that make them a natural fit for the technical marketers’ arsenal.
Marketing campaigns are very often short term, seasonal or opportunist. The ability to create something quickly and easily and then tear it down is key. Deploying to the cloud can provide an easy route versus attempting to grow a fixed IT asset…
Cloud Computing and Technology: The Growing Cyber Workforce
The first waves of cloud computing have hit the shore and the impact has rattled many in IT. Vendor strategies and business plans are hastily being rewritten as a result of the change. But the implications of cloud computing appear far more reaching than just mid-course adjustments of corporate plans. IT workers are expected to be strongly impacted by the cloud.
James Staten, principal analyst at Forrester Research, said that initially cloud computing could create new jobs. The move to cloud applications may mean that there will be work in migrating data or integrating together new systems…
The Carrier Cloud – Telco Platform for Enterprise Cloud Computing
Alcatel-Lucent has announced their Cloud strategy, targetting telcos to help them integrate their core WAN (Wide Area Network) services with data-centre Clouds and offer this combination as the essential mix needed for the enterprise market.
Their ‘CloudBand‘ product set is intended as a holistic platform that encompasses the network layer as well as the computing one.
As described in the accompanying white paper ‘The Carrier Cloud‘ Alcatel intend this platform to bring the faster-time-to-market benefits of virtualization to the full suite of network, CPE and application hardware that spans across their customers as well as their own IT estates, fundamentally enabling business model innovation…
Symmetric Optimization in the Cloud
Cloud computing has opened new avenues for application deployment that allow a savvy IT manager with experienced staff to place applications in the location that makes the most sense for the application. Architects can choose between a primary data center deployment, or cloud deployment to suit the needs of the application in question.
But there is still a lot about cloud that is… cloudy, and this causes some issues when deploying applications wholly or partially to a cloud environment. If the cloud in question is a public cloud, there are a variety of issues to consider, from firewalling the applications to secure connections back to the datacenter. Most of these are eliminated if your cloud is private, simply because it can sit behind your firewall and will have a secure connection – secured on both ends…
Cloud Computing Comparison Engine Wins Startup Contest
Cloudorado
Cloudorado is a free online service that helps organizations to compare cloud providers and select the most suitable one for individual needs. Currently a beta version compares costs of IaaS providers by price calculation of individually set server requirements. "But price is just our first step. We want to become a center of information needed when choosing a cloud provider, making the selection process quick and easy" says Marcin Okraszewski, founder of the service. Moreover the service is planned to extend to Platform as a Service (PaaS) as well…
Three Myths About Cloud Computing
With all the hype about the tsunami of cloud computing wiping out internal data centers, you’d think it’s only a matter of days before the thousands of internal data centers in the corporate world were converted into foosball playgrounds.
Yet all of the talk about cloud computing as a corporate IT revolution, especially the public cloud, overstates the short and medium term outlook, as well as ignoring some of the key obstacles…