188 item(s) containing the term "cloud"
Cisco - More than Half of Workloads to be Cloud
— More than 50 percent of all workloads will be processed in the cloud by 2014. This statement comes from a Cisco “Global Cloud” whitepaper, which examines the current state of things and guesses where we'll be at in 2015. It also forecasts a 22-percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) for cloud datacenters, with ...The Business Value of Cloud Computing: Collaboration
— Cloud computing has caught the attention of business leaders around the world in every industry because of its enormous transformative potential. Visionary companies know that the value of the cloud is far greater than the current focus solely on technology and operating costs: when combined with a collaborative approa...How Quickly Will Software Vendors Move to the Cloud?
— There’s an excellent discussion going on over on the Cloud Computing Google Group about the pace of migration of traditional software to a SaaS model. Here I recently went into some of the very real reasons why the migration is slower than some would like, but didn’t really talk about the pace of adoption. There a...CloudFlare CEO: China is Company's Second-Largest Market
— Yesterday, I posted the first part of an interview I recently had with Matthew Prince, co-founder and CEO of CloudFlare. Here's the rest of the interview... Cloud Computing Journal: Like it or not, you get dragged into censorship discussions, whether the topic was your customer LulzSec earlier this year, or some gover...Getting Started with EMC Atmos Backup
— EMC Atmos is used in many places now. It is used by well know service providers such as AT&T Synaptic Storage or Peer 1 CloudOne. As we learned from our customers recently, it can also be used by private enterprise to backup data from employee’s local C drive.read moreFree, Cloud-Based Word Processor Zoho Writer Shows Promise
— Zoho Writer is an online (with offline and syncing functionality) word processing application that offers a nice amount of functionality, especially given the limitations of the Web as a platform for productivity tools. After creating a free account with Zoho, you can access Zoho Writer. It looks a lot like most word p...Systems management, cloud services likely in Dell's software acquisition plans
— Dell's formation of a new software group, which was announced Thursday, could be the forerunner to a string of acquisitions by the vendor, with some observers predicting a focus on systems management and cloud services provisioning.Current Top Ten List FAQ’s
— ` I’ve been traveling a bit recently and wanted to share with you the top 10 questions I’m most frequently asked about right now by IT leadership and executive professionals evaluating cloud investments in 2012. 1. Should I build my own or rent one from someone else? Your te...Open Data Center Alliance Named “Bronze Sponsor” of Cloud Expo New York
— SYS-CON Events announced today that The Open Data Center Alliance, an independent organization that gives stakeholders a voice in shaping the future of cloud computing, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 10th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 11–14, 2012, at the Javits Center in Ne...Cloud Needs Application Architects to Understand IaaS
— Application development has been moving in the direction of platform abstraction. That is, the need for developers to have detailed knowledge of the infrastructure that the application was being deployed on was becoming less important with increasing sophistication of the application platform for which they were develo...Enterprise 2.0 Cloud Computing – DevOps for Everyone
— In compliment to Jon’s headline focus on Enterprise Cloud Computing, my key specialism is where this technology overlaps with social media aka ‘Enterprise 2.0′. Although it can feel like you’re playing an intense game of Buzzword Bingo, the key way to approach new technologies like Cloud Computing is to marry t...F5 Friday: New Services from F5 Ease Migration and Upgrades
— I get by with a little help from my friends… While cloud and virtualization primarily focus on improving the provisioning process, there is a lot more to managing a data center and its critical components than just deployment. There’s upgrades – both software and hardware – and migration to new solutions as...CloudPassage and Yubico Partner
— Yubico has announced a partnership with CloudPassage designed to deliver strong, secure authentication and protection of administrative network access in the cloud. Rand Wacker, vice president of product management for CloudPassage, noted that “security is a paramount concern for companies making the move to the clou...Cloud Storage Accelerates into 2012 IT Priorities
— Every year, our friends at ESG post results of their annual Spending Intentions Survey, indicating where many businesses are likely to spend their IT dollars over the coming year. Recently Steve Duplessie posted an article on his blog entitled Cloud – The Cost Containment Strategy that concludes cloud has finally “...Open Federation Standards – Personal Clouds for Personal Healthcare
— Earlier this week the Canadian Government announced $67 million in funding for ‘personalized medicine’. A big part of the challenge will be technology – Even for standard healthcare there is still slow progress in key areas like adoption of the basics like EMR. Cloud will play a big part in helping address this, ...Marketing Cloud Computing to Non-Believer CIOs
— Cloud computing is a pretty big deal. It's one of the top priorities for many CIOs. So, it should be a pretty easy process to build a B2B content strategy that helps CIOs make a purchasing decision. Or is it? I subscribe to a lot of newsletters and have a ton of Google Alerts to help me mine for information I use to le...Projections for 2012: Democratized Backup, Quality Assurance and DR to the Cloud
— When I was younger, I believed chronicling the past was far simpler than predicting the future. Little did I know that “history” means “incessant squabbling over what really happened in the past” (did you know there are multiple active magazines about the American Civil War?). On the ot...At long last, malware scanning comes to Google's Android Market
— Google engineers have unveiled a cloud-based service that scours the Android Market for malicious smartphone apps. Bouncer, as the scanner is called, automatically checks each title in the Google app bazaar to make sure it doesn't match signatures of known malware, Hiroshi Lockheimer, vice presi...BPM on Demand – Fantasy or Fast Track to Agility?
— The automation of processes is a key enabler of the Cloud phenomena – without process the Cloud remains a passive environment that undoubtedly saves you money and removes some of the operational headaches, but does little else. The Cloud without process cannot deliver on the promise of Business Technology or the Serv...Partnering with Cisco helps Savvis set the bar for enterprise cloud
— We invited Mike Taylor, vice president of global infrastructure engineering and operations at Savvis, to provide his insight on Savvis’ [...]An Announcement, a Party, and Six Talks at Cloud Connect
— The week of February 13 is shaping up to be a milestone in the life of our company. There’s a lot going on, and we’d love for you to join us. Monday, February 13 We’ve got a couple of big … Continue reading →SAP-SuccessFactors deal delayed as US regulators conduct investigation
— SAP's US$3.4 billion purchase of cloud software vendor SuccessFactors has been delayed indefinitely while a U.S. regulatory body investigates the deal, an SAP spokesman confirmed Wednesday.Is the cloud really cheaper?
— That there is growing company demand for cloud or software-as-a-service solutions should come as no surprise. Finance and IT professionals, facing the need for greater computing power for everything from operational management to hedge accounting are understandably tempted by SaaS, given the cloud's relatively low star...SoftLayer Introduces Flex Images
— The lines between physical and virtual IT resources are being erased with the introduction of SoftLayer Flex Images. Flex Images allow users to capture, replicate, and store an image of a cloud or dedicated server, and then deploy the image on either type of computing environment. Capabilities traditionally in the doma...Alfresco 4.0 heads for the cloud
— In anticipation of offering its open-source content management software as a service, Alfresco has upgraded its namesake product to work with multiple clients and to interact with a wider range of form factors, the company announced Thursday. "Alfresco Enterprise 4.0 is the foundational element in our cloud strategy," ...How to Build a Private Cloud Using Microsoft Technologies
— ***This is a LIVING document*** I will be updating this article from time to time as things like Release Updates, Hotfixes, Service Packs and other updates come into being. Please check back often to get the latest information. I will keep the revision list updated at the bottom so you know what changes have been made....Trends in Cloud Computing Adoption – 2012
— What can we expect from cloud computing in 2012? Where will cloud computing be one year from now? If you look back at the important cloud computing events you will find that nothing of much significance had happened in 2010. The same can be said for the 2011 and I suspect that 2012 will not be any different. But, one t...Story of a 'Bad' Category - Gartner's iPaaS for Cloud and SaaS Integration
— "Categories" are supposed to help. But sometimes they hurt. When they help, they reduce confusion. When they hurt, they cause confusion. Helpful categories is one of those "Best Practices" that is high on my list of important things. Gartner's "iPaaS" confuses. When properly applied, categories help us, mentally o...Cloud Management: The Agentless Approach
— Automating the deployment and runtime management of large application deployments running on multiple cloud resources across various cloud providers is a challenging problem. Managing remote resources is not a new problem the big difference is that in cloud the resources are added and removed dynamically and at a...Is the Cloud Really Cheaper?
— That there is growing company demand for cloud or software-as-a-service solutions should come as no surprise.ShoreTel To Acquire Cloud Communications Company M5 Networks For Up To $146 Million
— IP phone company ShoreTel has today announced that it is beefing up its offerings by acquiring unified communications company M5 Networks in a deal that is valued up to $146 million in cash and stock.Stealth Startup Numecent Raises $2 Million Series A For “Cloudpaging” Technology
— Numecent, a stealth startup building a patented "cloudpaging" technology, just raised $2 million in Series A funding from undisclosed corporate investors. The $2 million tranche is a part of a larger $10 million funding round, and is in addition to the $7.5 million in seed funding the company has already raised from pr...PaaS and the Private Cloud
— Private Versus Public Cloud Computing A plethora of applications are being considered for the cloud, but it may take at least another year before cloud computing goes mainstream in the enterprise. The public cloud argument in the ongoing debateCoreVault Speeds Backup and Recovery Times by Up to 400 Percent
— CoreVault, an industry leader in providing cloud based data protection services and powered by Asigra, today announced the release of CoreVault v11. The backbone of CoreVault’s secure cloud backup and recovery solution, CoreVault v11 now delivers up to 400 percent faster backup and recovery speeds while supporting da...How to Configure Static Routes to Traverse Traffic on CloudLink
— CloudLink is infrastructure so it can enable many use cases. However, you will be unable to use it until you configure your servers to use static routes. The rest of this post will describe how to create a static route from one server in US-West-1 to servers in US-East-1. This assumes that you have not [...]CloudBerry Explorer Brings Cloud Files to Your Desktop
— This is a guest post written and contributed by Alexander Negrash, Marketing Manager at CloudBerry Lab, a Rackspace Cloud Tools Partner. CloudBerry Lab provides file manager and backup utility in order to help Rackspace users leverage the cloud storage (Cloud Files). CloudBerry Explorer freeware is an FTP-like file m...Service Desk Optimization via the Cloud
— Service management systems are IT’s online face to the business. Sure, enterprise apps and personal productivity tools may be how users get their jobs done, but when someone in sales or marketing has a problem or needs something, they turn to the IT service system for satisfaction. They’re often disappointed, leadi...Citizen gateway gov.uk runs on Amazon
— Can it be that the UK government actually gets the cloud? Its gov.uk trial runs on Amazon and is aiming for savings of 80 to 90 percent.Cloud Finance: Best Practices for Implementing Rolling Forecasts
— Rolling forecasts allow finance executives and key decision makers to see both a financial and operational vision of the future, by projecting four to six quarters or twelve to eighteen months ahead. It also helps them assess next steps in their execution of their plan, understand critical pivot points in the plan and ...The Cloud API is Pseudo-Consolidation of Infrastructure
— It’s about operational efficiency and consistency, emulated in the cloud by an API to create the appearance of a converged platform In most cases, the use of the term “consolidation” implies the aggregation (and subsequently elimination) of like devices. Application delivery consolidation, for example, is used ...Wyse expands Z class thin client range to support more peripherals
— Cloud client computing company Wyse Technology has made a new addition to its Z class thin client family, introduced last year, with a product that can support up to six external displays running high-load multimedia applications in a virtual desktop environment.Indiana students receive $100k to research cloud computing
— Two students have received grants of $50k each to use in cloud computing research projects.Cloud Computing: Zenoss Posts Record Revenue for 2011
— Zenoss, a leading provider of management software for physical, virtual, and cloud-based IT, today announced that the company achieved 196% new sales growth in Q4, nearly doubling its growth from the same quarter last year, and ended 2011 with record revenues. The key driver of growth was large organizations looking fo...Europe's IT Commissioner Announces European Cloud Partnership Initiative
— "The cloud has the capacity to make lives easier for many of us, including the smallest of businesses. But to achieve that requires us to take many different policy areas and really test them to make sure they are as cloud-compatible as they can be." Writing in her official capacity as Europe's Commissioner for the Int...C12G Labs Announces the Release of OpenNebula Pro 3.2 Cloud Manager
— C12G Labs has just announced an update release of OpenNebulaPro, the enterprise edition of the OpenNebula Toolkit. OpenNebula 3.2, released two weeks ago, brings important benefits to cloud providers with a new easily-customizable self-service portal for cloud consumers, and builders with full support for VMware that n...Planetary-scale computing
— If you really want to know how to build a cloud, look at how Google architects its data center infrastructure to produce economies of scale at a global levelSponsored Post: aiCache, Next Big Sound, ElasticHosts, Red 5 Studios, Attribution Modeling, Logic Monitor, New Relic, AppDynamics, CloudSigma, ManageEngine, Site24x7
— Who's Hiring? Anybody interested in helping manage a 100+ Linux server deployment? Next Big Sound is a an analytics company for the music industry and is looking someone to help them scale. Red 5 Studios. Wanted: DBAs and Programmers interested in MySQL scalability and replication. If interest...HP extends discovery service to map Amazon and VMware cloud assets
— HP has updated its Discovery and Dependency Mapping Advanced (DDMA) software package so it will allow administrators to map their IT assets in the cloud.How To Gain Early Access to GoGrid’s Amsterdam Cloud Infrastructure
— As you may have seen, last week we announced the opening of GoGrid’s European Headquarters in Amsterdam. This is an exciting milestone for GoGrid since it means that GoGrid’s cloud infrastructure is now available in even more locations across the globe and with a European data center, sales and account support. Tal...10000 Jobs, and All Requiring Cloud Skills. Who Said Cloud Was Just About IT?
— CloudU Notebooks is a weekly blog series that explores topics from the CloudU certificate program in bite sized chunks, written by me, Ben Kepes, curator of CloudU. How-to’s, interviews with industry giants, and the occasional opinion piece are what you can expect to find. If that’s your cup of tea, you can...The Winchester House, Architectural-Led IT Strategy and Your Challenges – What You Told Us
— A few months ago, after a my previous blogs discussing cloud computing adoption, I changed subject and authored a short [...]Virtualization Security is NOT Cloud Security!
— I and others look at Virtualization Security constructs with an eye towards Cloud Security, but they are not necessarily the same. Granted for some clouds, virtualization security can lead to cloud security but this really depends on how the cloud's architecture. Even so, what we know from Virtualization Security WILL ...Back in the US, Feeling the Freedom
— As we traveled over the course of three flights and 22 hours from Manila to Chicago last week, making a return to the US after about three years in Southeast Asia, there was plenty of time to contemplate the global nature of cloud computing, big data, and all the rest. This sort of trip is not unusual for many of our...Amazon Announces Trusted Advisor
— When considering using cloud computing services, one of the major factors is the level of support that can be provided by the cloud vendor. In particular, when using Infrastructure as a Service, it is vital to ensure that cloud resources are not only appropriately secured but are also running at their most cost effecti...NaviSite Announces SSAE 16 SOC 1 Compliance
— NaviSite on Monday announced it has completed its annual Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements (SSAE) No. 16 Service Organization Control (SOC) 1 compliance for its cloud-enabled data centers in Andover, MA and San Jose, CA. SSAE 16 compliance also extends to managed services and managed cloud services in ...VMware releases vCenter Operations Management 5.0 for virtualization and cloud infrastructures
— VMware's latest move to help accelerate private cloud adoption came last week with the official announcement of VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite 5.0.37signals Still Happily Scaling on Moore RAM and SSDs
— There are so many architectural ideas swirling in the bit wind these days. Two of the biggest battles are cloud vs. bare metal and RAM vs. disk vs. SSD. 37signals has published two solid articles that are counter hype cycle in their message: Technologists who grew up when RAM cost $1,000 per megabyte can have a ha...Performance in the Cloud: Business Jitter is Bad
— #fasterapp #ccevent While web applications aren’t sensitive to jitter, business processes are. One of the benefits of web applications is that they are generally transported via TCP, which is a connection-oriented protocol designed to assure delivery. TCP has a variety of native mechanisms through which delivery ...RES Software Announce HyperDrive: follow-me-data more than sharing files or dropping stuff in a box
— RES is joining a crowded party of file sharing solutions but they bring a cloud pricing license structure to a on-premise file sharing solution. The RES Hyperdrive solution can span a range of end-devices be they VDI, desktop or a hybrid and at an interesting price point. With clients for PC, Mac, Windows mobile, Black...Facebook scammers use Amazon cloud to redirect victims
— Facebook scammers have started redirecting victims through Amazon's cloud in order to bypass malicious URL filters, according to security researchers from antivirus vendor F-Secure.Welcome to the club SharePoint (Club ECM)
— It was about six months ago when a friend of mine from Microsoft told me a story where he had been in a room with all of the established ECM solution vendors as well as some of the newer Cloud file-sharing vendors. He told me of a moment during this event where one of those Cloud vendor...CloudPassage launches firewall and authentication for cloud servers
— CloudPassage is launching a new security product for virtual servers in public clouds such as Amazon Web Services that it says takes care of the all-important need for security when using services from infrastructure providers.Why you can't afford to resist the cloud
— Large and small enterprises are creating new business opportunities through their use of the cloud, at the expense of those who are slower to adapt.Dell launches pre-packaged private cloud for your datacenter
— Dell announces it's largest pre-configured private cloud packageUbuntu creator warns businesses to be wary of cloud lock-in
— Cloud infrastructure was always meant to be based on open standards, and organisations that choose to buy capacity from public clouds that only support one standard are creating problems for themselves in the future, according to Ubuntu creator Canonical.NJVC® and Virtual Global Announce Release of PaaS White Paper: Paper Clarifies the Confusion Surrounding PaaS for Federal IT Buyers—Why It Is Important and How It Can Cut Development Costs by 50 Percent
— VIENNA, Va., Jan. 23, 2012 —NJVC®, one of the largest information technology solutions providers supporting the U.S. Department of Defense, and Virtual Global, a premier provider of software and cloud computing platform solutions for a variety of industry and federal customers, announce the release of a joint ...Socrata Chief Technical Officer
— Ordinarily I focus this blog on areas of computing where I spend most of my time from high performance computing to database internals and cloud computing. An area that interests me greatly but I’ve seldom written about is entrepreneurship and startups. One of the Seattle areas startups with wh...Cast your Vote! Cloud Computing: SMB's only IT department?
— Final arguments are in for this week's Great Debate on ZDNet and the final winner will be announced today at 2:00 pm Eastern.Metrics: A Time Series Data Platform
— This is a guest post written and contributed by Fred van den Bosch at Librato, Inc., a Rackspace Cloud Tools Partner. Librato is the creator of Metrics, a time series data platform that provides uniform monitoring and alerting for your operation. Would you consider building your own Database Management System? Probably...Logica says cloud is 'railway of 21st century'
— Logica has described cloud computing as “the railway of the 21st century”, claiming that the community clouds it is building with Microsoft will help to promote sharing and collaboration among like-minded companies.Mozy releases 'Stash' file syncing service
— Mozy released the beta of a new file synchronization service called Stash, which allows photos, videos or documents to be uploaded automatically to the cloud and shared across any device.Opening enterprise collaboration to the world
— UK-headquartered cloud collaboration platform Huddle is targeting enterprise customers with an unlimited user edition and a generous uptime guarantee.AT&T to launch communication services
— AT&T on Thursday will launch new cloud-based unified communications services that give businesses the ability to integrate chat, email, VoIP calls, audio and videoconferencing and more over desktops and many mobile devicesWebsite Traffic Cleared by Cloud Avengers
— Can your website handle a sudden spike in activity? When LoveBook Online, an online retailer of custom books, made their first national television appearance, their site wasn’t ready to handle the ensuing traffic and crashed. When their second national television appearance rolled around, they had Managed Cloud a...The State of NoSQL in 2012
— This is a guest post by Siddharth Anand, a senior member of LinkedIn's Distributed Data Systems team. Preamble Ramble If you’ve been working in the online (e.g. internet) space over the past 3 years, you are no stranger to terms like “the cloud” and “NoSQL”. In 2007, Amazon...The Cloud Playbook for the Big Game [Video]
— You just aired a commercial during the Big Game and are about to get blitzed with traffic to your website. John and Jerry give you play-by-play analysis on how to make sure your web config scores a touchdown. For more in depth information, be sure to check out our previous post that details the importance [...]A Checklist for a Move to the Cloud
— CloudU Notebooks is a weekly blog series that explores topics from the CloudU certificate program in bite sized chunks, written by me, Ben Kepes, curator of CloudU. How-to’s, interviews with industry giants, and the occasional opinion piece are what you can expect to find. If that’s your cup of tea, you ca...Remember the workers when building a cloud platform
— Last week, I discussed the importance of long-term benefits related to productivity and cost when implementing cloud computing technologies. CFOs and their IT directors must understand the importance of hard costs, but they should not forget their employees who will ultimately be impacted by these changes.Cloud Computing Software Company Joyent Raises $85 Million To Pursue Global Growth
— Cloud computing software and service provider Joyent has secured an $85 million round of new funding, the company is announcing today. The round was led by European group Weather Investment II. It also included Telefónica Digital, the growth arm of global telecom giant Telefónica, which participated as a strategic...Thought Experiment--Forget ROI
— Boys and girls, today's homework assignment is a thought experiment. I want you all to put yourselves in the shoes of the CXO team making a decision to move to private cloud. There is, of course, one catch: You may not factor in ROI. We're dropping ROI because it clouds the subject (bad pun intended.) Let's skip the wh...Bluelock Portfolio gives you the vCloud Forecast
— Portfolio, Bluelock's vCloud portal and decision support tool just learned a new skill: Cost Projection! Bluelock already excels in providing predictable costs in the cloud, but what about those months you need to burst by adding additional resources to your capacity? Portfolio is now outfitted with helpful run rate ca...The API is the Center of the Application (Integration) Universe
— #mobile #fasterapp #ccevent Today, at least. Tomorrow, who knows? Some have tried to distinguish between “mobile cloud” and “cloud” by claiming the former is the use of the web browser on a mobile device to access services while the latter uses device-native applications. Like all things cloud, the marketin...OpenStack founder launches Piston Enterprise OS
— Piston Cloud Computing recently released the first private cloud operating system based on OpenStack, the open source infrastructure-as-a-service framework that was first designed by a group of researchers at NASA.The cloud is forked
— Enterprises are adopting two types of cloud. One is less risky but inherently flawed. The other offers greater rewards but very few so far have succeeded with it.The cloud is forked
— Enterprises are adopting two types of cloud. One is less risky but inherently flawed. The other offers greater rewards but very few so far have succeeded with it.Bank Chooses to Use Google Cloud Services
— This week Google has announced what could be considered as a breakthrough agreement for its cloud computing services. Spanish bank BBVA has signed an agreement to use Google cloud services internally for its 110,000 staff. This is the biggest single company deal Google has signed. The deal can be considered as a breakt...Cloud-based VDI: The End of the Desktop?
— When Is It Right for a Business to Consider Desktop Virtualization? Tips for determining whether desktop virtualization is right for your business. Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) has been trying to get off the ground for some time, and, to beCustomers and Partners Accelerate Time to Market and Improve Efficiency by Up to 60% with Cloud Services Built on NetApp
— Leading Service Provider Program Nearly Doubles in Size in Six Months, Enables Partners to Increase Profits and Help Customers Succeed with NetAppManagement in Multi-Hypervisor Environments
— Make the Financial Case for Virtualization and Cloud Computing When it comes to hardware infrastructure, the single-vendor environment is practically unheard of. So it stands to reason that enterprises would be just as willing to adopt the sameCapgemini's CTO on how cloud computing exposes the duality between IT and business transformation
— We're always hooked on this idea that we’ve used technology very successfully internally, but now we should be asking the question about how we’re using technology externally when the...Need an agile infrastructure? Do your homework
— Companies looking for more agile data centers are increasingly turning to public (external) or private (internal) clouds with virtualized servers, storage and networks. Getting the lowest cost and the best speed and flexibility from those systems requires assessing everything from performance to control and interoperab...Unified Storage: A Must-Have for the Cloud
— Accelerating the Enterprise Adoption of Public Storage Clouds Seven key attributes public storage cloud must possess to earn the confidence of enterprises. Now that the cloud is poised to make major gains in enterprise infrastructure this year, itCountdown to What is Next in AWS
— Join me at 9AM PST on Wednesday January 18, 2012 to find out what is next in the AWS Cloud. Registration required.Consolidation Still Rules Virtual Strategies
— Top 10 Benefits of Virtualization Virtualization has taken a firm hold at most enterprises these days, but the fact is we've only just begun to unleash the true potential of the technology. With all the talk about cloud architectures, networkThe Aldridge Company Signs MOU to Move Chinese Companies to the Cloud
— The Aldridge Company, a leading provider, consultant and integrator of Information Technology and Cloud Computing solutions for SMBs, today announced it has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Shanghai Lingang Economic Development (Group) Co., Ltd. (SLED) to [...]Acer, Lenovo to launch Cloud sync services
— When Apple launched iCloud last year, many solution providers asked Channelnomics how it would affect cloud computing. The answer is coming this year at the annual CES trade show in Las Vegas, where Lenovo and Acer are launching their own [...]UK universities to combat data deluge with Education Cloud
— Non-profit IT service provider Eduserv has announced the launch of its Education Cloud, giving universities and colleges in the UK access to storage and processing power on demand.Consumer Clouds: Acer Announce AcerCloud
— Cloud Computing has been making headlines in the business computing world for some time now. As the technology matures it is interesting to see it now being built into consumer products and used in their associated marketing campaigns too. Last year Apple announced iCloud and Microsoft announced the cloud integration w...The year's best hardware, software, and cloud services
— Was it the philosopher George Santayana who said, "Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat it?" Did he offer any hints for those of us who want to repeat the past, especially the successes? We're beyond the teary elegies of 2011 and deep into making resolutions for 2012. If we're going to stand half a...Microsoft To Open Azure Cloud Platform to Linux VMs
— Early reports claim Microsoft will let customers host Linux, SharePoint and SQL Servers on its Azure cloud platform.Internap Acquires Enterprise Cloud Services Provider Voxel
— Voxel provides on-demand dedicated hosting and cloud services to enterprises and web-centric businesses.Meet Jo Maitland
— Last year was a great year for GigaOM Pro, and 2012 promises to be even better. Jo Maitland recently joined our team as a Research Director for Enterprise, and she will help us produce more research in the enterprise IT and cloud computing spaces.Cloud computing: why all of the vehemence?
— It would be wise of IT and facilities practitioners to focus on where and how new technology or new approaches can be of use to the organization rather than trying to fight them.The Cloud and the Great Data Center Race
— In the same way that the rise of the Internet led to the enterprise web (web-enabled enterprise applications) the public and private cloud is driving IT to new modes of operation, most of which demand more agility, more capacity and an even keener focus on operating and capital expenses. This profound tension -betw...Cloud Wars: Friendly Fire - Part 3
— In Part 1 and Part 2 of Cloud Wars: Friendly Fire, we covered some of the challenges cloud advocates and early adopters are experiencing within their own organization as well as some of the reasons that they may be receiving pushback. In this the third and final segement of the series, we'll cover some additional ...2011: the cloud has landed
— Cloud became mainstream in 2011. Looking back, it’s extraordinary to see how far we’ve come in the year.December 2011: GovCloud Moves From Policy to Law
— Over the past years, government cloud computing has steadily moved forward from it's early beginnings as an interesting curiosity: December 23, 2008 - Now really. Should the Obama administration use cloud computing? Since Sunday's broadcast, I've been asked numerous times about my real answer to the question "Will 'C...Year In Review: Virtualization Hot in 2011
— Virtualization was second only to cloud computing as a priority for 2,014 CIOs representing over $160 billion in corporate and public sector IT spending across 50 countries and 38 industries in Gartner's 2011 CIO Agenda survey, released in January. While IT budgets were expected to be flat for the year, these technolog...TwinStrata integrates storage gateway with OpenStack-based clouds
— Enterprises can now use TwinStrata's CloudArray to access storage capacity hosted in OpenStack-based clouds, the company said on Tuesday.Three Lessons from AWS Rolling Reboots
— Three takeaways from the AWS rolling reboot of EC2 instances: Architecting apps to be cloud-ready is key Architecting massive-scale clouds to handle massive-scale updates is critical to a successful security strategy; see #1 AWS again shows that the web scale … Continue reading →Fuji Xerox to launch Dropbox-like cloud storage service for its copiers
— Fuji Xerox will launch a new cloud storage service that hooks directly into its multifunction copiers next week, allowing documents to be uploaded by scan or fax, then edited or downloaded by computer or phone.CloudBeat 2011: Uncomfortable Choices on the Road to Cloud Computing
— Building a cloud that works like AWS or Google involves a complete rethink of just about every concept considered canonical in enterprise IT for the past 20 years. This is the message Randy Bias and Lew Tucker (Vice President and … Continue reading →CloudMASTER & CloudGURU Certification Comes To Washington, DC
— The National Cloud Technologist Association is bringing the CloudMASTER & CloudGURU certification classes to the Washington Metropolitan Area in 2012. First introduced in November at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) in Newark, this continuing education program provides a solid technical back...Two Disruptions for the Price of One
— We stand at the beginning of a Cambrian explosion of new business models, driven by the colliding disruptions of cloud computing and mobile ecosystems. A conversation last week between Randy Bias and mobile analyst/Asymco founder Horace Dediu maps out how … Continue reading →Healthcare Providers Can Control Explosive Data Growth, Curb Costs, and Deliver Improved Patient Care with Cloud Services Powered by NetApp and Iron Mountain
— Partnership Will Deliver Secure, Scalable Cloud Archiving and Improved Disaster Recovery for Medical DataHigh Availability for Cloud Computing Database Systems
— While at Microsoft I hosted a weekly talk series called the Enterprise Computing Series (ECS) where I mostly scheduled technical talks on server and high-scale service topics. I said “mostly” because the series occasionally roamed as far afield as having an ex-member of the Ferrari Formula 1 team present. Client-s...Smaller Companies and Larger Data Centers
— For months I’ve been preoccupied with Lew’s Law, or the theory that IT expenses over time will track to the cost of electricity (versus hardware, peoplepower, etc.) authored by Cisco Cloud CTO Lew Tucker and shared in early 2010 with the then-billowing Infrastructure 2.0 Working Group. After watching an SAP web...Backupify Names Top 10 Cloud Computing Experts to Follow on Twitter
— THANK YOU BACKUPIFY!!!! Thank you for the honor of being on your Top 10 List! Backupify is the leading backup provider for cloud based data, offering an all-in-one archiving, search and restore service for the most popular online services including Google Apps, Facebook, Twitter and more. With one account you get cen...A final thought from The Wisdom of Clouds
— As the cloud market matures, James Urquhart changes companies and changes his focus from infrastructure to applications. It's time to say goodbye...Cloud Wars: Why History Will Repeat Itself
— Battles over formats and standards in the technology industry aren't new. Whether it was e-mail, word processing, graphical images or even some more current like the apps on your smart phone, each new innovation typically starts out somewhat proprietary and incompatible.Today we live in a world where a lot of those bat...Crunch Time in the Clouds
— Two key industries industries face massive disruption in the coming years as IT becomes ever more strategic to enterprise operating advantage, and IT infrastructure scales to new levels of complexity and dynamism. The future of IT will likely be created by those who accelerate the pace of automation and who build mor...Dell Boomi cloud service adds business rules engine
— In addition to using Dell's Boomi integration service to move data from one cloud to another, users of the service can now also create simple business rules to reroute data to different locations, the company announced Tuesday.Global Washington uses Cloud to Enable Non-Profit Organizations
— Global Washington’s mission is to help Washington State’s non-profits work together to alleviate world poverty, however they lacked the budget and IT expertise to build an effective technology solution. Bluelock, with Esri ArcGIS (Geographic Information Systems) and VMware, developed and launched a sophisti...Heroku, Engine Yard bolster language support on clouds
— Platform-as-a-service cloud providers are adding Python, Java, and JRuby development capabilitiesFast Times in the Cloud
— The cloud hysteria and the “end of PC” debate is today’s equivalent to the dancing shadows on the walls of Plato’s famous cave (see Plato’s cave allegory); both topics are keeping companies and their customers distracted while the technology industry is entering an era of accelerating change more like K...Don’t Mention the Cloud
— [...]Stop Staring at my Polyglot!
— I received an interesting comment/question via my blog recently. It went a bit like this... I’m developing a distributed cloud application but my developers are pushing back on me for having a polyglot database strategy. What should I do? I won’t get into exactly what it is they are doing ...Do Cloudfoundry and OpenShift have a Future?
— I am wondering if Cloudfoundry and OpenShift will become success stories (like Amazon Web Services). The idea of an open source application serving platform sounds intriguing, however, the community pages are somewhat deserted and documentation is poor… After downloading the Cloudfoundry source code, it looks mor...Welcome VGBuilder to the world!
— Build custom apps + deploy them to your cloud host of choice -- straight from the command line. The first applications using VGBuilder are live already and there are more in works.This Cloud Native Application Development toolset was created out of a genuine need for a big project about a year ago ...Notes from geekSessions – Network and Infrastructure Scalability
— Here are my notes from today’s geekSessions 2.2 in San Francisco: Allan Leinwand, CTO Zynga Allan gave a short talk on Zynga’s infrastructure, in particular Z Cloud, and Amazon EC2-compatible private cloud. Seems like another proof that AWS is the de-facto standard, at least for compute cloud and storage ...The Cloud Infrastructure Journey - From Containers to Modularity, Long Live Containment!
— By Dileep Bhandarkar, Ph.D.Distinguished Engineer Global Foundation Services, Microsoft In late 2007 we were intrigued by the opportunity of deploying servers in ISO (shipping) containers. Our analysis showed that we could pack as many as 2500 servers in a single 40 foot container and reduce our deployment ...The Economic Impact of GovCloud
— What a month! June has really been busy!! Just now getting around to doing a post about CloudExpo 2011 in New York.With over 5000 delegates in attendance, it was just a massive gathering of Clouderatti. Due to another engagement I had at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, DC on June 7th ( FCN/CDW-G Making...Apple's iCloud reps best vision yet for consumers
— While Apple's iCloud may seem like just another cloud storage service to some, it represents the best vision to date of a truly integrated cloud ...Architect or Chocolate Teapot?
— You routinely will witness the ‘everyone wants to be the architect’ behaviours, especially in large multi-disciplinary initiatives such as data centre modernisation, cloud architecture, or virtual infrastructure deployments.I’ve Got Mail….A new Aol.
— You may have seen the announcement today about my recent decision and move to join the new leadership team at Aol. To some of my friends in the Technorati, and most specifically the Valley, this move probably seems very contrarian. Having built some of the largest cloud infrastructure’s in the world, re-align...Clouds in 2011: A year of Facebook IPO, Apple Online Services, GroupOn and what not!
— All, First of all best wishes for 2011! To make our group more engaging we will be writing each week and discuss at large of what we are seeing in the market based on the [...]A Recipe for Cloud Design
— The deployment of infrastructure systems to support applications has been a challenge since we first developed a choice beyond the venerable mainframe. To some it’s a simple formula; take a server, toss in a little network and storage, bake for a few weeks and you’re done. If you’re having a few friends over (nee...CMDBs in the Cloud
— As enterprises move inexorably towards the Cloud, a faint murmur in the distance is growing louder and louder. What is it – the security forces objecting…the CFO wondering where their money is going now…business teams clamoring for faster response time? Good guesses, but this group never makes quite that much noi...VFORUM Sydney 2010
— Now were racing against a similar pressure clock to cloud enable anything with a bit and a silicon soul. It’s quite exciting to see VMware, with a leading market position in enterprise virtualisation, rally practically every hardware/software vendor, consultancy, and techy into a common charge.BMC improves inline software upgrade process, rolls out Control M v7
— BMC recently released a new version of its job scheduler, Control-M 7, with new features to help manage IT workloads in the cloud. The software has come a long way from prioritizing and scheduling batch computing jobs on the mainframe a few decades ago. Modern job scheduling tools run in the distributed, virtualized a...Speaking at CTIA ‘Mobile Business Conference’ Event Oct. 6-8
— I will be back in San Francisco to speak at the CTIA’s Mobile Business Conference from October 6th through the 8th. I will be on a panel discussing ‘Embracing the Cloud’. My Hope in these talks is to continue to highlight the coming impacts of the use of hand-held technologies on a g...Ever Wonder WHY Your VMware Deployment Stalled?
— The past week hosted the increasingly popular VMworld 2010 event at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. The title of the conference was “Virtual Roads, Actual Clouds”, but the undercurrent of the show was all about ‘VM stall’ and of course whatever vendor XYZ can do to help you get your VM deployment moving ag...Enterprise Cloud Unified Footprint – Network Ensemble(s)
— A complex system such as an enterprise network is subjected to many kinds of stresses from a large variety of business applications that have different demand profiles. Dig deeper into any large network and you will see that one solution doesn't solve all problems. Pockets of point solutions are installed to solve prob...IT Change Management: The Foundation to the Cloud
— IT shops continually struggle with keeping resource documentation up to date. Too often IT departments seem resigned to accepting mediocre results, as if the world conspires against them. Resource tracking is a prime example of this. Fundamentally, the different organizational aspects refuse to comply with these manual...In Cloud Market, Arming David May Be the Way to Take Down Goliath
— When all is said and done, Google, Microsoft and Salesforce.com might be battling it out for PaaS (and SaaS) dollars against a whole slew of smaller providers operating within the infrastructural confines of AWS, Rackspace, Terremark and Savvis.Realizing Cloud for the Enterprise
— Most organizations today continue to view technology as merely a back-office cost center, a viewpoint that diminishes the breadth of Enterprise IT's impact on a firm's competitive profile. To contribute to strategic growth, IT's role has to be understood as far more than a repository of software and hardware applicatio...Come to CloudCamp Austin 2!
— The second CloudCamp in Austin is happening June 10. It's an unconference about, of course, cloud computing. Read about it and sign up here! I missed the first one but loved OpsCamp so I'm going!Technology as a service
— Cloud computing concept is transforming the IT industry and shaping the IT service delivery into a pay-as-you-grow model. Here’s a whitepaper from Cisco on Cisco-powered “network clouds”. Thought I’d share some keypoints / highlights… Abstraction of physical hardware (virtualization) &...DatacenterJunkie coming to your city!
— That's right, it's almost conference season again, and I'm gearing up for quite a bit of activity. I'll be attending a few conferences in the next few moths, as well as doing quite a bit of personal & business travel. I am especially interested in interviewing Cloud Hosting start-ups this year. If you're in any of th...Amazon CloudFront: Looking Back, Looking Forward, Making Plans
— Looking Back In 2011 we added a total of seven edge locations to Amazon CloudFront and Route 53. We also added lots of new features, as I documented last year. Looking Forward Our newest edge locations are located in Milan,...About
My name is Catherine Liao and welcome to my blog. Under news you'll find the latest postings of various blogs I follow. The topics tend to center around WAN Optimization, Cloud Computing, Data Center, Virtualization, Servers, Web Technologies and 24x7 Operations.
These are topics that I'm interested in as I've spent a large chunk of my professional career building, deploying, and maintaining 24x7 application delivery environments. I use the knowledge I've garnered daily in my role as a Business Development Manager for Cisco.
I should note that this site is my personal site and does not reflect the views of Cisco.
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My name is Catherine Liao and welcome to my blog. Under news you'll find the latest postings of various blogs I follow. The topics tend to center around WAN Optimization, Cloud Computing, Data Center, Virtualization, Servers, Web Technologies and 24x7 Operations.
These are topics that I'm interested in as I've spent a large chunk of my professional career building, deploying, and maintaining 24x7 application delivery environments. I use the knowledge I've garnered daily in my role as a Business Development Manager for Cisco. I should note that this site is my personal site and does not reflect the views of Cisco.
I'm also very passionate about wine and have created a mobile platform for wine lovers to remember and share the wines they are having. How often have you asked yourself "What was that great bottle of wine I had last night"? Corkbin solves that problem by being your pocket wine memory. The app records the label, notes, & gps location of a wine so that you can look it up the next time you're in a restaurant or wine shop.
Feel free to drop me a note if you find this site useful or if you'd like for me to check out your blog. I can be reached at catherine.liao@gmail.com. You can also connect with me via LinkedIn or Twitter.
Looking for less "geeky" content? Check out my travel blog 1-Day Itinerary.
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Data center news from Network World Fusion
Application Delivery and Virtualisation Specialists.
Articles in the IT Section
Untitled Source
Computerworld Networked Storage News
NetApp - Press Releases
High Scalability - Building bigger, faster, more reliable websites.
Data Center Migration Blog
CloudAve
DevCentral Weblogs
Thinking Out Cloud
Data Center Networks
Servers/Hardware
LooseBolts
ServerTech Blog - Information for the Data Center Equipment Manager
ms datacenters
Perspectives
Cloud Computing
Thoughts from the raised floor. Lewis Curtis Blog site
Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal
mhalligan's blog
Groves Green IT
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog
Arthur Cole
Geeking with Greg
Virtualization.com
Appistry Blog
Web Admin Blog
Computerworld HP News
Amazon Web Services Blog
The Database Column
cloud computing
Cloudy Times
The Virtualization Practice
Oracle's Virtualization Blog
All Things Distributed
InformationWeek Virtualization Weblog
VMware
NYT > Business Computing
Rational Survivability
Cloudscaling
ProductionScale RSS Feed
Grid Designer's Blog
Server Farming
Avastu Blog - Sustainable Global Clouds
Technology is Dead
The AppGirl Blog
Inside Enterprise IT
The Wisdom of Clouds
GoGrid Blog
BlueLock
Computerworld Dell News
Rackspace Cloud Computing & Hosting
ARCHIMEDIUS
Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson
Software as Services Blog RSS | ZDNet
TechCrunchIT
ElasticVapor - Life in the cloud
Computerworld Cloud Computing News
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Computerworld NOSes and Server Software News
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EMC Feeds
HP Server News & Podcasts
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Terremark Worldwide, Inc. News Release
newScale Press Releases
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VirtualizationAdmin Blogs
Hu Yoshida
Integrated Data Storage Blogs
Network Computing
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GigaOM iaas
GigaOM Cloud Computing
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servers Resources | ZDNet
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Brian Madden
Cloud Computing - Infoworld
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Microsoft Virtualization
InternetNews Realtime News for IT Managers
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