Category: News

Grazed from CIO.  Author: Bernard Golden.

If you’ve read this blog for a while, it’s no secret that I believe that one aspect of cloud computing is a dramatic drop in the cost of computing. While many discuss cloud computing’s cost advantage in terms of better utilization via resource pooling and rapid elasticity, we believe that there is a more fundamental shift going on as data centers are redesigned to focus on scale, efficiency, and a shift to commodity components…

Grazed from Wired.  Author:  Lauren States.

Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author:  Gagan Deep Saini.

As IT infrastructure is moving toward cloud frameworks, many organizations are investing in the consolidation of their data centers and working toward moving their existing heterogeneous data centers (Virtual Servers, Physical Servers) to complete a virtualized environment. Reducing power needs is just one reason why enterprises in virtually all industries are consolidating data centers. Other reasons include assimilating systems from companies acquired in mergers and acquisitions; cost-cutting; replacing outmoded server hardware and software with newer, more efficient models; and improving operational efficiency and most important moving towards cloud computing. In fact, improved operational efficiency was the reason behind data center consolidation that was cited by nearly 60 percent of the IT Industry…

Grazed from iHotNews.  Author: PR Announcement.

Worldwide semiconductor sales have slowed, which could mean that more companies are making the most of cloud computing to maximise the use of their existing resources.
 
Gartner has revealed that the market is on pace to shrink 0.1 per cent from last year and will stand at $299 billion (£189 billion) by the end of this year…

Grazed from Network Computer.  Author: Elizabeth Montalbano.

Key pieces of Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) cloud-computing infrastructure have achieved certification with the federal standard for IT security solutions, making the services a more viable option for adoption among federal agencies…

Grazed from Wired.  Author: Jon Stokes.

The big cloud presentation at Tuesday’s IDF was a post-lunch session called, “Driving towards cloud 2015: a technology vision to meet the demands of cloud computing tomorrow” by Intel Senior Fellow Stephen S. Pawlowski. Pawlowski’s job at Intel is “pathfinding”—he’s one of the guys who looks at long-term trends and tries to help steer the company in the right direction. As a big-picture guy, Pawlowski’s presentation was necessarily pretty general, since he had a ton of ground to cover in laying out the trends and issues that Intel sees as shaping cloud computing between now and 2015…

Grazed from FormTek.  Author: Dick Weisinger.

The good news is that there seems to be near universal agreement, excluding perhaps from public cloud-leader Amazon (although Amazon might be considered the de facto standard), that standards are important for the future success of cloud computing.  The problem at this stage of cloud development technology lifecycle is that  the landscape can be confusing for organizations trying to make decisions about how they should use the cloud.  But the fact that so many bodies are springing up to create what they see should be the standard for the industry is likely a good thing — it sets the stage for a sort of Darwinian selection from among the standards, with hopefully the best ideas ultimately winning out in the end…

Grazed from ServerWatch.  Author: Roger Jennings.

The shroud of secrecy has been lifted surrounding Windows Server 8 and Azure. What lies behind it is greater symmetry between the cloud computing and virtualized HA infrastructures, improved storage and an Azure toolkit that promises to help enterprises easily develop an Azure service and deploy it to end users. ..
 

Grazed from FierceGovernmentIT.  Author: David Perera.

When it comes to gaps in technology standards for cloud computing, security and privacy stands out as the area with the most holes, according to a National Institute of Standards and Technology cloud computing standards roadmap released Sept. 13…

Grazed from Tech Broiler.  Author:  Jason Perlow.

Since last Thursday, I was ordered under strict nondisclosure to keep my mouth shut. And that was really hard for me to do because I could barely contain my enthusiasm for what is probably the most significant server operating system release that Microsoft has ever planned to roll out.

Nothing from Microsoft, and I mean literally nothing has ever been this ambitious or has tried to achieve so much in a single server product release since Windows 2000, when Active Directory was first introduced…