The UberCloud Experiment – Exploring Life Sciences in the Cloud
Grazed from Bio-ITWorld. Author: Wolfgang Gentzsch.
Cost savings, shorter time to market, better quality, less product failures: the benefits that engineers and scientists can expect from using technical computing in their research, design, and development processes can be huge. Yet, still relatively few scientist and manufacturers use servers when designing and developing their products on computers. The vast majority still perform virtual prototyping or large-scale data modeling on workstations or laptops. Not surprising, many of them face problems due to the lack of performance of their machines. More accurate geometry or physics, for instance, require much more memory than a desktop can be fitted with.
There are two realistic options today to acquire additional computing: buy a server or use a Cloud solution. Many system vendors have developed a complete set of products, solutions and services for high performance computing (HPC), but buying an HPC server for a small to medium enterprise may still be more of an investment than many wish to make…
Cloud computing player Joyent, one of VMware’s most vocal competitors, is about to announce a management shake-up that is somewhat of a coup. The company has hired a new CEO, Scott Hammond, who was formerly running Cisco’s cloud computing software business. Hammond will replace Henry Wasik as the outgoing CEO. The formal announcement will go out on Thursday, we’re told. Hammond landed at Cisco when it bought a company called Newscale in 2011 for an undisclosed sum. He was CEO. That was his third successful exit including two Internet startups from 1990’s sold before the bubble burst.
In a big-picture sense, the story of this decade’s tech is the story of decentralized computing: the vanishing of locational and structural constraints on the backbone of business infrastructure. The business world’s introduction to this concept came with the cloud, still a carefully delineated place away from the fabric of the business itself- the cloud for storage, the cloud for hosting. But what’s really changing the way we work these days is the integration of these technologies directly into the workflow, and nowhere is that more obvious than in the explosion of Hadoop.
Information technology (IT) systems consulting company, Computer Science Corporation ( CSC ) has strengthened its position in the cloud cybersecurity service market by expanding its portfolio. The expanded offerings include cloud-based solutions, which will provide users a secure and flexible network. With computing going mobile and moving to the cloud, the security needs of corporate networks are also changing. CSC solutions are designed to address these evolving needs.
Security is still the biggest showstopper when it comes to cloud computing and, given the events of the past year — from the Edward Snowden revelations to a number of high-profile breaches — many customers expect cloud providers and their partners to double down. The counter-argument is despite the proliferation of data theft, cloud providers are better positioned to safeguard data than customers running datacenters on-premises.
During Google I/O, the company’s annual developers conference, the company announced a bunch of new features for its cloud computing services. Google has been in a three-way price-and-feature war with Amazon and Microsoft over the cloud. Every time one of them adds features and lowers prices, the others follow suit.
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that Aereo violates copyright law. Some say the ruling effectively kills Aereo and similar business models. Others might argue that what the ruling effectively kills is any business model that does not involve paying licensing fees to local broadcasters for the right to retransmit local broadcast signals, as routinely is done by cable TV, satellite TV and telco TV providers.