Category: News

Grazed from ComputerWorld. Author: Mary Pratt.

Joe Roberts has had his pick of jobs. And with his experience in cloud computing, he still does. Roberts had several job offers when he moved in November from his former position as a senior IT lead/systems engineer working on a SaaS product to his current job as a senior DevOps engineer at Bit9 in Waltham, Mass.

And Roberts, who has seven years of cloud experience on his resume, is still in demand: He says he averages about 20 inquiries from recruiters each week. "I’m constantly getting calls from people looking for someone who not only understands IT, but engineering practices, agile methodology, who can work with operating systems, security, networks, and can automate all of those things," he says, noting that colleagues with similar cloud experience report the same high interest from employers…

Grazed from TheVar Guy. Author: Christopher Tozzi.

Canonical, whose Ubuntu Linux is already the leading platform for OpenStack open source cloud deployments, has broadened its OpenStack portfolio yet further with the announcement of official support for Mirantis’s OpenStack distribution. Through an agreement between Canonical and Mirantis that the companies announced June 3, Canonical will support Ubuntu in Mirantis’s integrated OpenStack platform, while Mirantis "will offer enterprise customers a commercial bundle that will include subscription to Mirantis OpenStack with support for Ubuntu host and guest instances," Mirantis said in a statement.

Meanwhile, Canonical will also continue supporting the separate Ubuntu OpenStack distribution that it already offers. Mirantis touts itself as "the #1 Pure Play OpenStack Company" for its vendor-agnostic integrated OpenStack solutions, and the collaboration between Canonical and Mirantis creates another way for enterprises to deploy Ubuntu-based OpenStack clouds with official support from Canonical. The Ubuntu-Mirantis software and support bundle will allow enterprises to "benefit from having another proven, supported OpenStack cloud solution," the companies promise.

Grazed from SysConMedia. Author: Kevin Jackson.

In February 2011, Vivek Kundra announced the “Cloud First” policy across the US Government. The directive, issued through the Office of Management and Budget, required agencies to give cloud technology first priority in developing IT projects. He also described cloud computing as a “10 year journey”.

According to a Deltek report, federal agency spending on cloud computing will grow from $2.3 billion in fiscal 2013 to $6.1 billion by fiscal 2018. This forecast clearly raises the importance of understanding what has happened over the past few years. In my opinion, the Top 5 most important lessons learned are:…

Grazed from Yahoo. Author: Rob Pegoraro.

The news from Apple at Monday’s Worldwide Developers Conference left me with the same impression I’ve had about many presentations from the company: This looks neat, but at what point will I find my data or my apps on the wrong side of an elegantly designed, Apple-built wall?

iCloud still closed

For a worst-case example, see the new iCloud Drive online storage system. In a welcome and overdue fix, iCloud will now let you get at online files through the desktop Finder, not just in the Open and Save dialogs of particular apps. This desktop access will be reserved for the Finder in the upcoming OS X Yosemite (which will at least be free). Apple’s preview page, however, says Windows uploading will be limited to just Windows 8 — as in, the version that CEO Tim Cook mocked at the start of the WWDC keynote for running on a mere 14 percent of PCs…

Grazed from SysConMedia. Author: Lori MacVittie.

It’s probably no surprise that I have long advocated the position that hybrid cloud would eventually become "the standard" architecture with respect to, well, cloud computing. As the dev/ops crowd at Glue Con was recently reminded by the self-styled "most obnoxious man in cloud", Josh McKenty, you can only add to what exists in the data center. You can’t simply rip and replace, forklifts are not allowed, and allowances must be made for how to integrate with existing systems no matter how onerous that might be. The future is, as he put it, open and closed, traditional and modern, automated and human.

I would add to that, it is both public and private, with respect to cloud. Hybrid cloud models were inevitable for all these reasons and more. Suffice to say that there is unlikely to be a technology that will turn data centers into the green fields every starry-eyed young architect and engineer wishes they could be…

Grazed from Investors. Author: Brian Deagon.

Cloud computing has fundamentally changed the way companies build data centers and deliver software applications. Arista Networks, a leading provider of cloud networking solutions, is tapping into this enthusiasm with an initial public offering scheduled to begin trading Friday.

Cloud-computing centers consist of thousands of servers and storage systems connected by optical-fiber lines, routers and switches that can rapidly distribute software apps and data across the Internet and wireless networks to smartphones, tablets, PCs and other systems.

Read More At Investor’s Business Daily: http://news.investors.com/business-new-issue-america/060314-703217-arista-networks-ipo-on-calendar.htm#ixzz33fyBtUGa

Grazed from ReadWrite. Author: Matt Asay.

For years we’ve been told that enterprises wouldn’t put their sensitive data into the public cloud, particularly Amazon Web Services. We’ve been reminded, over and over, that companies value control and security too much to entrust their applications to someone else’s public data center.

Then when it became clear that Amazon’s cloud business was exploding, we were told enterprises were only running dev and test workloads there. The good stuff was still running behind the firewall, and always would. Today, it’s clear that such reasoning is flawed and completely out-of-whack with actual enterprise computing trend, which heavily favor public cloud computing…

Grazed from TechPageOne. Author: Guy Currier.

Cloud applications have moved beyond being virtual storage solutions and are starting to replace traditional software installed on local systems. The fundamental changes in software layer structures are understandably critical to developers, but go relatively unnoticed by the user.

Gigabytes worth of storage and bandwidth must be taken into consideration when developing a cloud application. In an interview by Search Cloud Computing, Gregg Arnette CTO and founder of Sonian, a software-as-a-service-based application, says you must process the most data against fewest hours to make the most of cloud computing…

Grazed from CloudWorldSeries.  Author: PR Announcement.

South African enterprises are being squeezed as they struggle to meet demands for increased collaboration and faster access to applications and information while maintaining compliance in an increasingly stringent regulatory environment. Further restraints arise from facets such as high power costs, environmental awareness, and growing security concerns as well as business continuity and disaster recovery issues.

South African enterprises are influenced by the global trend for customer, partner, and employee relationships becoming increasingly open and collaborative. Particular attention is given to:…

Contributed Article.  Author: Karen Miranda, ERP Consultant.

No one knows the importance of data backups than someone who has lost all of their data because they failed to put these measures in place, and if this is something that interests you, it might be a good idea to turn to a cloud partner for this specific purpose. Why opt for the services of a cloud company instead of the onsite option? The advantages are numerous, and getting to know each one can guide you in making the right decision.

Cost Effective

One of the biggest benefits of opting for a cloud partner to assist you with backups is that this is actually one of the most cost effective methods on the market. The alternative is to conduct all of your backups on your own, but this means investing in a costly server (or servers) so that you have enough space to store everything. Instead of going through all this trouble, you can simply opt for cloud storage that is quick, simple and will cost you a fraction of what you would have had to paid in the event that you took care of everything yourself…