Category: News

Grazed from SysCon Media.  Author: Editorial Staff.

In a recent blog article, I discussed the difference between cloud backup and cloud disaster recovery (or “DR”). In a nutshell, with cloud backup, you basically pay a third-party service provider a monthly fee to have them back up your firm’s data and store it in the cloud, so it can be restored on-demand at a later date.

With cloud DR, you gain the option to restore your data/server images to an always-on offsite virtual cloud environment capable of running live production servers. Your recovery time dramatically shrinks with this option.  So, is the reduced recovery time with cloud disaster recovery achieved solely through superior technology, or does this recovery advantage also depend on human processes?…

Grazed from TVNewsRoom.  Author: Editorial Staff.

“This newest expansion of the IBM Watson Health Cloud makes it an even more robust and flexible platform for the life sciences and healthcare industries and explains its rapid adoption among leading organizations in these fields”, Rhodin added.  In January 2014, IBM launched the IBM Watson unit, a business dedicated to developing and commercializing cloud-delivered cognitive computing technologies.

IBM said it has expanded its portfolio with Watson Health Cloud for Life Sciences Compliance and Watson Care Manager. “IBM Watson Health has been on fast growth trajectory and has a strong foundation that well positions us to continue to seize opportunities across the continuum of life sciences and healthcare”…

Grazed from CloudWards.net.  Author: Vladimir Covic.

The OpenStack Innovation Center will immediately be populated by some 200 Rackspace employees, all of which are a part of OpenStack team.  Intel’s vice president for the software and services group, and general manager of Intel Open Source Technology Center, Imad Sousou said:

“We are going to make this the launching pad to make OpenStack and the entire cloud available to everyone in the industry. And, yes, we’re hiring.”  Joining them in San Antonio, where the center will be located, will be Intel’s developers from:…

Grazed from CBROnline.  Author: James Nunns.

Cloud has a significant role to play in business; Nyberg doesn’t question this, but he believes that it has its shortcomings.  "What a lot of companies are finding is that once you get above a certain utilisation rate, it’s actually cheaper to own the machine yourself."

Believing that almost all of Cray’s large machines in industry, and to some degree in research and academia, could be described as private cloud resources, he says: "Once you reach a certain utilisation level, those things flip over and you’re starting to hear that more and as the cloud market matures a lot of organisations start moving over towards it and experimenting and discovering exactly that."…

Grazed from CTOVision. Author: Bob Gourley.

On 26 August 2015 the Department of Defense (DoD) published a new rule entitled the "Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement: Network Penetration Reporting and Contracting for Cloud Services (DFARS Case 2013-D018). You can read the details of this new rule here:

This rule represents a significant expansion of the mandate on defense contractors and their subcontractors to protect information and report on breaches. The rule is in immediate effect. It was promulgated with urgency and all contractors and subcontractors are expected to take this with the required amount of seriousness…

Grazed from ComputerWorld. Author: Editorial Staff.

ISC(2) recently surveyed the attitudes of infosecurity professionals to cloud computing in our Global Information Security Workforce Study and the implications were clear – despite growing cloud adoption, concern over cloud security remains very high. In a significant reversal in infosecurity professionals’ views on future cloud use, far more expect to see cloud use at their organisations increasing over the next two to three years than when we last polled the industry in 2013.

Yet this does not appear to signify a corresponding increase in confidence in cloud security. Cloud-based services are cited as the biggest security concern by 49 percent of professionals and are ranked above cyber-terrorism as a top 10 security threat. And concerns are high among infosecurity professionals across every major vertical; 68 percent of those in telecoms, 55 percent of those in banking, 50 percent of government, 40 percent in defence and 60 percent in utilities say cloud security remains a paramount concern…

Read more from the source @ http://www.computerworlduk.com/blogs/infosecurity-voice/cloud-industry-is-growing-but-so-is-wariness-over-security-3625327/

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Tom Nolle.

Application planners, architects and operations managers all know that deployment of applications today is complicated by application componentization, workflow steering and cloud adoption. Most use tools like DevOps to facilitate deployment, but hybrid clouds can defeat even those tools.

To understand hybrid cloud management, understand the challenges hybrid clouds pose for even modern management tools, think of application deployment and redeployment in layers, and recognize that full management automation is the final goal, so it’s critical to know whether your hybrid cloud management approach will lead there…

Grazed from ITBusinessEdge. Author: Mike Vizard.

For many IT organizations the distinction between cloud services and managed hosting services is already blurry. Both are making use of outsourced infrastructure that have different pricing models attached to them in terms of how they are invoked. This week, SingleHop, a provider of both cloud services and data center co-location facilities, blurred that line even further by announcing it will provide a limited amount of free, private cloud computing services via its public cloud to IT organizations that use its data center co-location services.

Jordan Jacobs, vice president of products for SingleHop, says the virtual private cloud services, dubbed ColoPlus, is intended to entice more of its customers to start using the company’s public cloud service. While not all workloads are suited for the public cloud, Jacobs says many organizations that are rely on data center co-location services today could make more economic use of disaster recovery services, for example, that run on a public cloud…

Grazed from CloudTech. Author: Saimon Michelson.

To ensure a completely bulletproof data service, there are certain components you must own and control. At all times, you need to ensure that you’re in the driver’s seat, and that you didn’t hand over your car keys, along with your corporate data security and privacy, to someone else.

As your company’s security expert, you are the one chosen to protect your organisation’s data so you should invest in a system that allows you to apply your corporate policies, integrate your corporate security countermeasure systems while gaining continuous insight to your corporate user usage patterns…

Grazed from VirtualizationReview. Author: David Ramel.

Software-defined networking (SDN) players continue to form partnerships while jockeying for position amid the sea-wave change to virtualized networking. Making moves this week were Cisco Systems Inc., Extreme Networks Inc. and Big Switch Networks Inc.

Cisco made the most noise, as Verizon Communications Inc. announced Tuesday that it was the first major service provider to offer Cisco SDN technology, in the form of its Managed Software Defined Wide Area Network (Managed SD-WAN. The service leverages Cisco’s Intelligent WAN, based on Cisco’s counterpart offering to upstart SDN products, called Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC)…

Read more from the source @ https://virtualizationreview.com/articles/2015/09/10/sdn-partnerships.aspx