August 2011
Grazed from CNet. Author: Dave Rosenberg.
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Grazed from CenterBeam. Author: Editorial Staff. In a move to extend green IT, researchers in New York are trying to figure out how to power cloud computing networks with servers that rely on wind or solar power, according to Renewables Biz's website... |
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Grazed from Business Innovations. Author: Ray DePena. It’s time to think about time. According to Wikipedia, in physics, spacetime is any mathematical model that combines space and time into a single continuum. In cosmology, the concept of spacetime combines space and time to a single abstract universe. But you know we’re not here to talk about physics, cosmology, or the universe, as interesting as they may be... |
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Grazed from Defense Systems. Author: John Edwards. With cloud computing rapidly emerging as a critical Defense Department mission support platform, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is asking commercial and academic computer researchers to help build stronger cloud networks... |
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Grazed from PR Web. Author: PR Announcement. Drummond Group Inc., the trusted interoperability test lab and certification body, today announced its plans to conduct its first Drummond Certified™ AS4 Interoperability test in the first quarter of 2012. In addition to enabling interoperability for technologies such as cloud computing, AS4 is an emerging Internet messaging protocol that provides a standardized method for the secure and document-agnostic exchange of B2B payloads using Web Services from any location, anywhere in the world. Drummond Group’s AS4 interoperability testing is based on a proven test methodology developed to ensure that different products can work together to seamlessly exchange information... |
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Grazed from Delimeter. Author: Renai LeMay.
Multinational IT services giant CSC this week launched in Australia a service which it described as private cloud computing infrastructure which could be hosted in customers’ own datacentres, giving them an additional option for migrating to the burgeoning range of infrastructure as a service platforms... |
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Grazed from PR NewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.
 Cloud Cruiser, the leader in cloud cost management solutions and a member of the OpenStack™ community, today announced the general availability (GA) of the Cloud Cruiser cloud cost management solution for OpenStack. It features ongoing workflow tools that provide management and accounting capabilities for optimizing capex and opex costs in heterogeneous cloud computing environments... |
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Grazed from Cloud Pro. Author: Jennifer Scott.
Although the figures released today only showed a one per cent rise in revenues since last year, operating income rose 54 per cent to $1.1 billion and net income shot up 63 per cent to $890 million... |
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Cloud computing has been credited with boosting
Grazed from MarketWire. Author: PR Announcement.  nScaled, provider of hybrid cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) for the enterprise, today announced key deployments among its customers in the legal services sector, with customers including: Davis & Gilbert, Davis Wright Tremaine, Fitzpatrick Cella, Harper & Scinto, and Zuber & Taillieu. nScaled is also introducing new storage options for the risk averse legal industry, enabling organizations to address the specific backup, disaster recovery and compliance needs of the legal industry, while also making the implementation process easy and affordable... |
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Grazed from Bloomberg. Author: Dina Bass.
Dell’s services arm will help install VMware’s Cloud Foundry program, while Ubuntu will begin including parts of the software, said Jerry Chen, a vice president at VMware. EnStratus Networks LLC, which lets companies manage cloud-computing software, also will support Cloud Foundry... |
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VMware Inc. (VMW) is working with
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Infinitely Virtual, a rapidly expanding provider of virtual server and cloud computing technology, is pleased to announce the release of the InfiniteApp Cloud–Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) plans, which give organizations the power to supply each standard or power user with their own Virtual Dedicated Desktop, and to share integrated resources across servers.
Grazed from PhysOrg.com. Author: Nancy Owano.  Microsoft might be planning a future where Windows open to something far bigger, the next time you push your power button on. A patent filed by Microsoft points to its plan for an operating system environment beyond Windows 8 that depends on cloud computing, not locally installed software. The patent suggests your computer will be booted through remote storage in a cloud computing construct, where software services control your digital work... |
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Grazed from Data Center Knowledge. Author: Rich Miller. There were a number of announcements today of new products and features for the cloud computing sector. Here’s a roundup with links to the news announcements: Nimbula Powers Distributed Clouds – Nimbula today introduced Nimbula Director 1.5, the newest release of its cloud operating system that helps enterprises and service providers build private, hybrid and public cloud infrastructure. Providing a one-stop virtual data center management solution, Nimbula Director isolates customers from the operational and hardware complexity associated with deploying a private or public cloud. With version 1.5, Nimbula Director is now capable of supporting a geographically distributed cloud, an industry first. The software can manage many geographic locations of a multi-site cloud from a single view. This dramatically improves the cloud experience for end users as they now have a single login from which they can access any resource world-wide and deploy their workloads to any site in a self-service manner... |
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Grazed from Virtual Strategy Magazine. Author: Phil Lieberman. Survey after survey has revealed that security is the top concern voiced by prospective customers about cloud computing and its outsourced, on-demand business model. Worries over data privacy may prove to be service providers’ greatest roadblock to new business. In addition, the risks of a data breach seem certain to grow as a service provider’s infrastructure expands and its IT staff becomes more numerous and decentralized... |
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Grazed from Business News Daily. Author: Mike Wall. .gif){kind=logo} Cloud computing will bring about an IT revolution akin to the industrial shift ushered in by the centralized electrical grid, experts say.Before the grid was set up in the 19th century, American businesses typically generated their own electricity. Similarly, many companies today manage and maintain their own data centers to collect, store, analyze and share information... |
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Grazed from IT Wire. Author: Stan Beer.
All of a sudden along comes a thing called the Internet. Until relatively recently - say 10 years ago - no problem. Neither the bandwidth nor the applications were there... |
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Grazed from Cloud Standards Customer Council. Author: PR Announcement.
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CSCC Quarterly Meeting
Grazed from Sys Con Media. Author: Daniel Burrus.
The use of virtualization and cloud computing is growing quickly among companies of all sizes. Currently, 30 percent of servers are virtualized, and surveys show that by 2012, that number will grow to 50 percent. Virtualization and cloud computing go hand-in-hand, and virtualizing servers is just the tip of the iceberg. The trend to virtualize everything from servers to processing power to software offerings actually started years ago in the personal sector. In the recent past, it was common for individuals within major organizations to use virtualized services or cloud computing when at home, but at work they weren't using those services at all. Why? Because corporate IT didn't trust the lack of security of the cloud and they weren't sure it was a hard trend - something that was definitely here to stay. Today, we know better... |
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Grazed from Cloud Tweaks. Author: Sourya Biswas. Frankly speaking, the title of this article is somewhat optimistic, considering what I am about to write about is merely a study on the subject. However, considering the big names behind this research project, it is not too much of a leap of faith to expect some concrete directions towards the use of sustainable energy sources to power cloud computing. Exploration of the relationship between energy consumption and cloud computing is not new on this website. Earlier, I had written on opposing studies that have feted and vilified cloud computing as regards its environment-friendliness (See: How Green Is Cloud Computing? and Environmental Challenges to Cloud Computing ). I had also discussed not only saving money on energy through cloud computing (See: Saving Money on Energy by Going on the Cloud but actually earning money through the process (See: Harnessing Data Center Heat to Warm Houses). Today’s article explores the possibility of marrying renewable energy sources and cloud computing... |
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Grazed from The Guardian. Author: Pete Foster. Cloud computing enables users to to share resources and carry out tasks remotely. Rather than using your own local PCs or servers to do the work, you connect to a remote data centre, often provided by an IT services or software company. It means more computing is migrating to purpose-built data centres. From a low carbon perspective it's no bad thing. Data centres tend to be more energy efficient than individual servers distributed around an organisation and, while there is still vast room for improvement, many companies are working to make their computing facilities more energy efficient. Software and IT services suppliers, for example, have been vying to be seen as the greenest provider – apart from the PR value there is a great deal of money to be saved in greater energy efficiency... |
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