Category: News

Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Larry Dignan.

Nvidia, aiming to put more graphic processors in data centers, launched a test drive program for its GRID technology to highlight virtual workstation capabilities via cloud computing. The company’s GRID technology enables graphics-heavy applications such as Autodesk AutoCAD to run in the cloud to any device. Nvidia partners include HP, Dell, Citrix, VMware and Microsoft.

According to Milan Diebel, senior product manager with Nvidia GRID, said that the test drive is a way to allow potential customers and interested parties to try the technology without a pilot. "The biggest pain point for VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) is that it takes a lot of time and money to demo this internally," said Diebel…

Grazed from ProphetStor. Author: PR Announcement.

ProphetStor Data Services, Inc., a leader in Software-Defined Storage (SDS), today announced the general availability of DR Prophet 3.0, now with enhanced data protection for Windows, Windows snapshots, and Oracle databases on AIX. DR Prophet has also been integrated with the Federator SDS storage hypervisor, Flexvisor, bringing seamless data protection and recovery to SDS for Cloud Computing, Big Data Analytics, HPC, and OpenStack.

DR Prophet offers the much needed intelligence to automate the configuration and centralized management for data protection on AIX and Windows application servers to minimize human intervention, based on pre-defined policies and system performance requirements. Version 3.0 now supports Windows 2003 SP2 and above, Oracle v10 and v11, and AIX v5.3 and above…

Grazed from ITBusinessEdge. Author: Michael Vizard.

As IT organizations are coming to terms with the fact that they will need to manage multiple cloud computing platforms, HP is looking to shift the conversation toward how IT is going to be managed in the age of the cloud. HP this week unveiled its Orchestrated Datacenter management software designed to enable IT organizations to leverage orchestration software to manage physical and virtual IT systems and the applications that run on them regardless of whether they reside in a public or private cloud.

Manoj Raisinghani, senior director of global product marketing for automation and cloud management at HP Software, says that the enterprise IT reality is that they need a simpler way to automate the management of multiple stacks of computing services. Raisinghani says HP Orchestrated Software was intended to complement the HP Helion cloud initiative based on OpenStack and it does not require IT organizations to replace any of the IT systems management tools they currently use…

Grazed from VirtusStream. Author: Editorial Staff.

We’re excited to debut the first illustration in a five-part cartoon series by Tom Fishburne, “The Marketoonist.” With some techie humor and a touch of irreverence, our “Misadventures of Cloud Computing” series sheds light on the day-to-day challenges facing CIOs and IT leadership teams as they navigate the complex enterprise cloud landscape.

We’ll be unveiling a new cartoon every Wednesday for the next five weeks that puts a comical spin on what really matters when selecting an enterprise cloud solution – security, reliability and performance. We hope you check back in regularly for a midday chuckle and we encourage you to share your perspective and experiences on each cartoon’s theme…

Grazed from ComputerWeekly. Author: Archana Venkatraman.

OpenStack is a free, open source cloud computing platform giving users freedom from vendor lock-in. When it was alleged that Red Hat won’t support customers who use other versions of OpenStack cloud on its Linux operating systems, its president Paul Cormier passionately shared the company’s vision of open-source but steered clear from stating wholeheartedly that it WILL support its users no matter what version of OpenStack they use.

Any CIO worth his salt will admit that support services can be a deal-breaker when deciding to invest in technology. Red Hat customers opt for the vendor’s commercial version of Linux (RHEL) over free Linux versions because they want to use its support services and make their IT enterprise-class…

Grazed from CMO. Author: Editorial Staff.

Global legal firm Norton Rose Fulbright has produced a very useful free guide on the legal risks and issues associated with cloud computing. It runs to almost 90 pages but don’t let that put you off. If you host with an Australian cloud services provider like BitCloud almost half of it is not relevant to you: there are almost 40 pages devoted to the legal issues involved when using cloud services in countries other than Australia.

Then there are a dozen pages of executive summary, introduction and general info on cloud: what it is and why use of cloud is growing so fast. Another half dozen pages are devoted to how various national governments are using cloud computing. Then we get into the meat of the report. What service levels should the customer expect?..

Grazed from FinFacts. Author: Michael Hennigan.

Cloud computing has generated a lot of hype in recent years and the proliferation of smartphone and tablets devices has made many people aware of storage in a ‘cloud’ but as the use of remote computing grows, the limitations are becoming more obvious and Cisco, the internet infrastructure firm, is promoting what its calls fog computing.

Christopher Mims, the new technology columnist of The Wall Street Journal who joined from Quartz, in his first column this week writes that whereas the cloud is "up there" in the sky somewhere, distant and remote and deliberately abstracted, the "fog" is close to the ground, right where things are getting done…

Grazed from ViewSonic. Author: PR Announcement.

ViewSonic Corp., a leading global provider of computing visual solution products, presents its VSD241 smart display as the ideal desktop device for Amazon Workspaces. With its powerful NVIDIA® Tegra processor and its professional grade 24-inch LED IPS panel and multi touch screen features, the ViewSonic® VSD241 is the complete package for education, health care and small/medium businesses looking for alternative desktop solutions for their virtual desktop environments.

Amazon WorkSpaces addresses the increasing demand from customers for a virtual cloud desktop service. Customers have been frustrated by the available options of traditional desktops that are hard to manage and keep secure, that are expensive and deliver inconsistent performance. Amazon WorkSpaces aims to address these issues by offering secure, easy-to-manage, high-performance desktops in the cloud at a fraction of the price of traditional PCs. Amazon WorkSpaces is a fully managed desktop computing service in the cloud which allows customers to easily provision cloud-based desktops that allow end-users to access the documents, applications and resources they need…

Grazed from NetworkWorld. Author: Bob Brown.

OnlyBoth, a Pittsburgh startup whose first offering is an app that generates often surprising insights about U.S. colleges and universities, has seriously been a long time coming. Co-founder Raul Valdes-Perez says the cloud-based software at the heart of his new business stems from work begun in 1998 and funded via a National Science Foundation grant, but that the “niche finding” technology was shelved when a more immediate business opportunity presented itself in the form of Vivisimo. Valdes-Perez co-founded that clustering-powered search company at Carnegie Mellon University and sold it to IBM in 2012 (he was chairman of Vivisimo at the time, so never wound up working for IBM).

CEO Valdes-Perez describes the self-funded OnlyBoth as taking sort of a reverse approach to IBM’s Watson artificial intelligence technology, which can make sense out of unstructured information, as was on display during its famous Jeopardy! game show performance in 2011 (Hear Valdes-Perez compare the technologies below or here)…

Grazed from NextGov. Author: Frank Konkel.

Perhaps data center consolidation, virtualization, cloud computing, remote access and infrastructure diversification aren’t the sexiest terms in the federal repertoire, but they do hold the keys to as much as $20 billion in annual savings, according to a study by Meritalk. The study, underwritten by Brocade, is based on survey results from 300 federal network managers who estimate that if the government were to fully leverage all five initiatives, it could save about 24 percent of the government’s $80 billion information technology budget.

The survey’s results sound promising, but there’s a caveat: Two-thirds of the surveyed network managers reported their networks are ill-equipped to meet current mission needs, and much further away from being able to fully embrace newer tech initiatives like cloud computing. If network managers could magically flip a switch and significantly increase network speed by approximately 26 percent, the survey claims the government could cash in $11 billion in savings in one year…