Category: News

Grazed from CSIAC. Author: Editorial Staff.

The latest information on using Cloud Computing in the field of Data Mining

Analysts see room for growth on Hadoop, other ‘big data’ technologies

Article by Alan R. Earls. Richard Winter, president of consulting firm Winter Corp. in Cambridge, Mass., says there are two principal development trends taking place in connection with “big data” and big-data technologies. First, traditional data warehouse vendors are investing in scalability improvements to better accommodate growing volumes of transaction data. And second, new open source technologies such as Hadoop, MapReduce and NoSQL databases are emerging for use primarily as data warehouse alternatives in tackling other forms of big data — Web activity logs and sensor data, for example. http://searchdatamanagement.techtarget.com/news/2240102604/Analysts-see-room-for-growth-on-Hadoop-other-big-data-technologies…

Grazed from MMEConsulting. Author: Steve McEvoy.

How fast does your Internet connection need to be?

If you have a terrible Internet connection you can stop reading now and give up on the Cloud (until your Internet options improve). Any Cloud Practice Management App (PM App) needs a reliable Internet connection with decent speed. This is the most important part of your Cloud adventure. You are about to make your Internet Connection business critical. Get this part wrong and you are going to suffer immensely. For that reason I’ve spent a fair bit of time below getting into the details (sorry about the length but I think it will be worth your time).

Reliability of your Internet connection is paramount. If the Internet goes out for a few minutes each day (a.k.a. Flakey) this will drive you insane and dramatically impact your Practice. In my experience Practices that move to the Cloud often discover that their Internet connection has been Flakey without really knowing it…

Grazed from Midsize Insider. Author: Marissa Tejada.

Cloud computing is proving to be a must-know technology for today’s employees. New research suggests cloud ranks high as a technology that simplifies information so firms can remain at their most competitive. With that trend continuing to catch on, this responsibility is set to increase for the future IT professional.

Cloud-Minded Professionals

A recent survey by Solar Winds, featured in the Cloud Computing Journal, concluded that the rise of cloud services will continue to affect how IT professionals work. Some traditional responsibilities may become unnecessary as a result, but it is ultimately the role of the IT professional to evolve with cloud technology. IT will be expected to understand their cloud services, including how to manage and integrate them into existing infrastructures. The IT landscape will increasingly depend on these services…

Grazed from CIO-Today. Author: Jennifer LeClaire.

Working to woo dvelopers with a new initiative that promises to spark community and teamwork, Cisco has launched a new developer program dubbed DevNet. The program aims to drive an open community of software Relevant Products/Services developers — including ISVs, customers and systems integrators and channel partners — to help them build Cisco-enabled apps faster.

Susie Wee, vice president and CTO of networked experiences at Cisco, said the company is encouraging developers to adopt APIs across its products while also fostering integrations with third-party products. DevNet’s overarching goal: fueling software innovation. “As Cisco adds powerful software and services to our market-leading hardware portfolio, we recognize that developers are critical to creating value for our customers,” Wee said…

Grazed from GCN. Author: John Moore.

With pressure on government to streamline IT operations to control costs and spur performance, a growing number of city IT managers are pursuing the latest hardware architectures and tools to renovate their legacy data centers. But while the emphasis on physical devices may seem like a hardware renaissance, the cloud is still very much a part of data center overhauls.

In such cases, agencies are using cloud in a backup role, a resource that soaks up spikes in data center workload or as a disaster recovery utility. The city of Asheville, N.C. , for example, found that traditional disaster recovery involved a high, fixed capital expense. As a consequence, city’s budget only supported disaster recovery plans for applications it absolutely needed to protect – enterprise resource planning (ERP), for example, said Jonathan Feldman, Asheville’s CIO…

Grazed from MBTMag. Author: Adam Stern.

As adoption of cloud computing gains momentum within the manufacturing sector, there’s a corresponding growth in infrastructure-related services, including Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) — a way to provide access to compute resources in a cloud-based environment. What sets IaaS apart is that the resources consist of virtualized hardware — infrastructure that is virtual as well as physical. IaaS offerings range from virtual servers to network connections to load balancers.

The major appeal of cloud server hosting is that the software (and with IaaS, the hardware), is virtualized. The hardware resources that support IaaS are pulled from multiple servers and networks, located across multiple off-site data center and maintained independently of the manufacturer using the service. The company pays a monthly fee to access these resources as needed. It’s the responsibility of the cloud service provider (CSP) to ensure ongoing maintenance of the hardware and virtualized services. And now that enterprise ERP solutions can live and prosper in the cloud — and that CSPs can install, manage, update, protect and support ERP software for a low monthly fee — the question has shifted from “to migrate or not to migrate?” to “which cloud environment suits us best?…

Grazed from GlobeNewswire. Author: PR Announcement.

TargetX, an industry leading CRM provider for colleges and universities announced their new "Cloud" suite of bundled services for Recruitment, Retention and Advancement data management and engagement solutions. Built on the proven Force.com platform of Salesforce.com, the worldwide leader in customer relationship management and a pioneer in cloud computing, these unparalleled services address longstanding gaps and challenges in the student communication lifecycle.

"Today we are launching a suite of services for higher education professionals, and of the many new exciting developments, we are thrilled to identify many new opportunities to better ensure student success," announced Sasha Peterson, CEO of TargetX at the company’s annual users conference called the CRM Summit—held this year in Las Vegas…

Grazed from NIST. Author: PR Announcement.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has published a draft report summarizing 65 challenges that cloud computing poses to forensics investigators, and the report considered technical challenges related to keeping track of data in the cloud, something federal agencies are increasingly being confronted by.

The task of keeping track of and protecting agency data in the cloud overlaps with forensic investigation in some areas such as the chain of custody of data, and it’s worth considering the fundamental challenges. “Decentralization of logs among different layers, accessibility of logs, the multi-tenancy nature of clouds, and preserving the chain of custody make log analysis challenging in clouds,” the report notes, for example…

Grazed from ITProPortal.

While the private sector is building on cloud computing’s various benefits, government organisations are also having a go at benefitting too. This HP whitepaper looks at how governments are trying to make a fist out of cloud computing and how they are overcoming the obstacles in doing so.

After having to face financial constraints over the last five years as a result of the economic meltdown, government agencies have been forced to seek optimised business models to deliver government services at reduced cost. Under the US Federal Cloud Computing Strategy, for instance, the US government instituted its CloudFirst policy to accelerate the pace of cloud adoption, and enjoy financial savings as soon as possible. Such a CloudFirst strategy has been followed by the UK government and various other countries…

Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Jonathan Feldman.

As a student and practitioner of enterprise cloud computing, I’ve written a lot over the past five years about what I’ve learned. So I’m very pleased that my organization has won a prestigious award for one of our cloud computing efforts, competing against organizations four times our size. Here’s our story and a bit of analysis behind this "five-year overnight success."

What exactly did we win? The Amazon "City In A Cloud" competition, for midsized cities, including a pretty hunk of Lucite and a service credit of $50,000. Sweet. Mind you, there aren’t a huge number of cities even experimenting with cloud computing. Nonetheless, our city, Asheville, N.C., with a daytime population of 120,000, was up against a field of innovators that included Tel Aviv, Israel (population 414,000), Almere, Netherlands (196,000), and Santa Clarita, Calif. (209,000)…