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Grazed from CloudTweaks.  Author: Editorial Staff.

We’ve covered a fair bit of infosec here on CloudTweaks over the years. It’s an important area for all regardless of if you’re a consumer or a business.

Security expert and consultant – Chetan Soni, discusses some of the security issues and tools to consider as part of your business plan: “Cloud computing has become a business solution for many organizational problems. But there are security risks involved with using cloud servers: service providers generally only take responsibility of keeping systems up, and they neglect security at many ends. Therefore, it is important that clouds are properly penetration (pen) tested and secured to ensure proper security of user data…”

Grazed from AreaDevelopment.  Author: Editorial Staff.

oud computing is on the rise and so are North American data centers. Cisco forecasts that global data center traffic will triple by 2017 to 7.7 zettabytes, a compound annual growth rate of 25 percent. 



That means an expanding data center market, and even though demand is up, prices are still reasonable. In fact, the data center market is seeing high demand and low prices – an unusual combination. The competitive pricing is due in part to the large number of options available, yet the industry is expected to enjoy 32 percent growth in North America by 2016, ultimately becoming a $14.8 billion market, according to 451 Research...

Read more from the source @ http://www.areadevelopment.com/data-centers/Data-Centers-Q1-2015/top-data-center-markets-JLL-272726.shtml

Grazed from DataPipe.  Author: Craig Sowell.
 

When done correctly, cloud computing deployments can deliver incredible benefits to organizations of all kinds, from superior performance to greater flexibility to cost reductions and beyond. Given all of this, it’s no surprise that cloud adoption rates are rising quickly in every sector and across the globe.

Yet it’s important to note that, unfortunately, not every cloud implementation leads to such positive results. There are many reasons why cloud deployments may not deliver the hoped-for outcomes, as a recent Sungard Availability Services survey highlighted. Examining these results for CIO, Jeff Fleece asserted that all of the most commonly cited factors causing cloud computing implementation failures could ultimately be traced back to mistakes and misconceptions on the part of the companies affected…

Transaction Enables Engine Yard to Give Customers World-class Support for Docker Containers and Greater Orchestration Across Public and Private Clouds

Engine Yard, the leading cloud orchestration platform, today announced that it has acquired OpDemand, the developer of Deis, the first open source application platform purpose-built for Docker. With the addition of OpDemand, Engine Yard can offer customers more flexibility in application languages. The company will be able to provide full stack support for both Docker containers in public and private clouds, as well as traditional applications running on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Exclusive VMware will add database-backup-as-a-service to its vCloud Air cloud in June, the company’s veep and general manager of hybrid cloud Bill Fathers has told The Register.

The service will be based on technology VMware acquired last year along with Continuent, a provider of clustering, replication and disaster recovery services for databases. The new services, due to launch in June, will mean it becomes possible to replicate databases into vCloud air, sync them, and move operations into the VMware cloud as a disaster recovery option should that become necessary.

Extending Security and Data Protection in Cloud Environments

Because SoftNAS was created in the cloud and developed its software on industry standard open source technologies, SoftNAS Cloud Version 3.3 is hypervisor, platform, and hardware agnostic, which offers strong security and flexibility. SoftNAS can also front-end traditional storage solutions and storage area networks (SANs) for greater flexibility and reduced total cost of ownership. New features include:

“5nine is looking forward to participating in the Microsoft premier event of the year as an exhibitor and presenter,” said Symon Perriman, VP of Business Development and Marketing, 5nine Software. “Ignite is a great opportunity for us to meet and greet our customers, partners and community members as well as introduce the new solution for Azure Pack to the audience.”

Grazed from Forbes.  Author: Joe McKendrick.

Cloud computing — in its current form — has been around for well over a decade now.  While it takes on many dimensions, the earliest roots of current-day cloud formations can be traced back to 1999 with the launch of Salesforce.com, and to 2004,with the first Amazon Web Services offering.

With all this activity going on year after, enterprises have accumulated some key lessons on what cloud is and is not all about. So, what have we learned, more than a decade in?…

Grazed from CIO.  Author: Jeff Fleece.

The ladder to the cloud is missing a few rungs. At least, that is the conclusion of 276 IT professionals recently polled in a survey commissioned by Sungard Availability Services*. In the survey, the top three reasons indicated for why cloud computing implementations fail were:

• lack of understanding of cloud security and compliance (indicated by 56% of respondents)
• lack of clearly-identified business objectives for migrating to the cloud (55%)
• lack of planning (42%)

Those are three gaping holes in the ladder to a successful cloud implementation, and I believe that mistaken beliefs are at the core of each one…