We Will Soon Live in a 100 Gbps World
Accommodating Scale-out Architectures in the Cloud
The cloud is all about scale. As enterprises seek to cobble together the resources needed to handle the unrelenting increase in data loads, a ready supply of on-demand IT resources is a welcome development indeed.
Unfortunately, there is a dark cloud to this silver lining. The fact is, there are different ways to scale resources in the physical world, and there are different kinds of application architectures designed to take advantage of different kinds of scale – and these architectures may or may not lend themselves well to a given cloud environment.
Yahoo develops internal cloud-serving engine to boost productivity
Yahoo is developing an internal cloud-serving engine to boost its own productivity, and intends to release the code as an open source this year.
Cloud computing is just outsourcing, says Information Security Forum
Information security professionals should treat cloud computing as they would any other external supplier, according to an analyst at the Information Security Forum.
“Cloud is just outsourcing. You can rely on knowledge of how you do outsourcing to an extent – there is enough there to help you, as long as you remember the seven deadly sins [of cloud computing],” Adrian Davis, principal research analyst at the Information Security Forum, told the (ISC)2 SecureLondon Conference (ISC)2.
According to Davis, there are seven deadly sins that IT professionals and the business as a whole can commit when it comes to cloud security.
Amazon S3 offers complete website hosting
Ever since Amazon launched its Simple Storage Service (S3) cloud storage service in 2006, people have been using it to prop up websites hosted with other service providers.
Are Outdated Data Architectures Holding Back the Cloud?
Cloud computing represents a fundamental technical and business trend. But there are barriers in cloud computing that limit broad cloud-based deployment of scaled enterprise-class services. Hybrid clouds will overcome some of these barriers in the short term, but, in the longer term, improvements in cloud architectures and virtualization technologies are required. Among the goals of these improvements must be exploiting commodity technology advances by vertically scaling the data tier to achieve unified cloud systems.
Industry Trends
Cloud computing ‘becoming more popular in Australia’
An increasing number of Australian businesses are turning to cloud computing services and more are expected to do so in the coming months.
"It will be a big year for [the] cloud," explained Andrew Stevens, IBM Australia’s new chief, who also states development and testing procedures will be bolstered, as will production systems, the Australian reports.
The move to cloud computing is partly due to a rise in the number of tablet and mobile devices that employees use, which bring a series of security problems that may be tackled by a remote service.