Category: News

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: David Linthicum.

The use of Amazon Web Services (AWS)-based resources requires that we understand how those resources are consumed. It should include answers to the questions: who, what, when, where, why and how much. Last month we discussed how to understand and manage your AWS bill. This month let’s explore how that bill tracks back to specific resources and consumption patterns through cloud financial intelligence systems.

To reach this goal, we need to determine patterns of cloud use that lead to demand planning capabilities, as well as revenue or cost projections. This information should be presented in such a way that it’s not only operationally effective, but effective in driving core decision support around the use of single-, hybrid- or multi-cloud –based resources…

Grazed from NetworkWorld. Author: Brandon Butler.

Last week was a big one for IaaS cloud provider Joyent – not only did the company pivot to offer a private cloud management software (previously it only offered public cloud services) but it also has cherry-picked a Cisco cloud executive to be the company’s new CEO.

Joyent, a rather small niche provider of services – according to an assessment by research firm Gartner – is looking to stay relevant in a market dominated by mega-vendors like Amazon, Google and Microsoft. In an effort to differentiate itself, the company now offers a private cloud compliment to its established public cloud, giving customers an opportunity to create an all-Joyent hybrid cloud…

Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: Syed Raza.

Is your data exponentially growing? Are you using orthodox storage systems like Storage Area Network (SAN) and Network Attached Storage (NAS)? Cloud computing with its numerous benefits and innovative capabilities now offers a novel way of working with data through ‘Object based storage model’. Due to the ever increasing pressure exerted by the industry on the interface to storage, the storage technology has progressed to the point that a change in the device interface is needed. Well, the answer perhaps lies with object based storage, an emerging standard aimed to address this problem. Let’s further elaborate about object based storage.

Objects can be categorized as either:

• history
• Files
• Blocks…

Grazed from MarketWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Peak(R) (formerly PeakColo), an enterprise-class Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Cloud provider for channel partners, announces that FusionStorm, a global IT solution provider, is boosting its cloud computing service by integrating Peak’s secure cloud infrastructure and NetApp storage platform. FusionStorm is leveraging Peak’s cloud nodes located in Chicago, Ill., and Santa Clara, Calif.

With clients in more than 30 countries, FusionStorm has a long history of solving business issues for clients by providing expertise in core data center technologies, networking, communication and collaboration. FusionStorm offers logistical capabilities and customs knowledge to enable the delivery of multivendor technology solutions around the world. Its global engineering team provides a full suite of professional services, coordinating the efforts of local engineering resources for onsite implementation and 24×7 support…

Grazed from BusinessCloudNews. Auuthor: Editorial Staff.

A recent landmark US Supreme Court ruling on the legality of searching a mobile phone without a warrant is a ‘historical moment’ for defenders of privacy rights according to Microsoft general counsel & executive vice president, legal & corporate affairs Brad Smith. This case focused on whether police can search a suspect’s cell phone without a warrant during an arrest.

David Leon Riley was arrested on August 22, 2009 after a traffic stop, which resulted in the discovery of loaded firearms in his car. The officers subsequently seized and searched Riley’s phone and its contents, and the officers charged him with an unrelated shooting that had taken place several weeks prior to his arrest based in part on information found during that search…

Grazed from V3.co.uk. Author: Daniel Robinson.

IBM’s SoftLayer cloud division is due to launch an additional data centre in London as part of a $1.2bn global expansion that will also see Paris and Frankfurt added later this year. The firm also said its BlueMix development platform is now out of beta and generally available from SoftLayer.

The opening of the new data centre is part of an expansion programme that IBM announced at the start of 2014, which will see the IT giant deliver cloud services from 40 data centres worldwide in 15 countries across the globe by the end of the year. The London data centre, which was due to be operational by the end of June, will now come online sometime in July, IBM said. It will deliver additional capacity for IBM SoftLayer cloud services, and its location near Chessington places it close to key customers in the City of London, according to the firm…

Grazed from ComputerWorld. Author: Juan Carlos Perez.

A "unique" breakdown coupled with a previously unknown flaw in Exchange Online caused Tuesday’s extensive outage, and to make matters worse, the service disruption alert system also malfunctioned, leaving some affected customers in the dark.  So said Rajesh Jha, corporate vice president of Office 365 engineering, in an incident report posted to the Office 365 support forum in which he also addressed another separate, prolonged Lync Online outage from Monday.

"I want to apologize on behalf of the Office 365 team for the impact and inconvenience this has caused. Email and real-time communications are critical to your business, and my team and I fully recognize our accountability and responsibility as your partner and service provider," he wrote. For customers on U.S. Eastern time, the Exchange Online outage covered virtually the entire workday…

Grazed from BusinessWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Enterprises continue to move towards cloud deployments to save time, costs and resources, but need assurance from their cloud providers that their critical business data is secure. Demonstrating its commitment to delivering secure cloud solutions, Axway (NYSE Euronext: AXW.PA), a market leader in governing the flow of data, announced today that it has completed an independent review of security controls for its Cloud Services organization and completion of Service Organizations Control 1 (SOC 1)/SSAE16/ISAE 3402 type 2 report.

Conducted by a leading audit, tax and advisory services firm, the SOC1 examination analyzed the design and operational effectiveness of the processes and security controls within Axway Cloud Services. Customers depend on Axway Cloud Services to extend critical business flows into the cloud, in order to enable rapid adoption of complex integration solutions…

Grazed from Business2Community. Author: Zach Taji.

As cloud computing has become a more reliable, affordable and secure technology over the past few years, more businesses have started to use it as an additional or even primary method of storing and backing up their data. A variety of industries are already using the technology – from tech startups to government (more than half of the US government has already moved to the cloud).

The cloud storage industry is expected to generate over $4.04 billion in revenue by 2016, and it’s only going to increase as more than 70% of businesses have already started using cloud storage solutions or plan to soon, and 3 out of 4 IT professionals have stated that cloud storage is the #1 reason for migrating to the cloud…

Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author: Roger Strukhoff.

I recently led a panel discussion for SYS-CON.TV on the topic of "Cloud Computing 2.0," a term I decided to employ just a few minutes before we started recording.  A few years ago, any right-minded person would wince at the use of "2.0" to describe anything, as it had long become a meaningless cliché.  So I don’t know if I was being ironic, too clever by half, or just tedious when I told the panelists that we’d go with the topic of Cloud Computing 2.0.

The Debate Evolves

My point was, and is, that the discussion about cloud computing has notably changed this year.  Three years ago, the debate was how to define cloud, whether virtualization alone was enough to fit the definition, whether an on-site datacenter could even fit the definition of cloud, and to what degree the big-vendor latecomers were engaged in cloud washing…