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Speed, Agility, Not Cost Reduction, Drive Cloud
April 13, 2012 11:00 AM
Large enterprises that have moved toward a virtualized network infrastructure are now beginning to look at adopting private clouds, a trend that is moving from hype to actual deployments this year, says Tom Bittman, a VP and analyst with Gartner Research.Should Amazon Define Cloud Standards?
April 07, 2012 11:00 AM
Since Citrix gave Cloudstack to the Apache Software Foundation, there has been a lot of blogging, tweeting, and arguing about whether cloud computing software vendors should simply let Amazon AWS drive cloud computing standards. It's time for the stakeholders--enterprises, vendors, open source projects, and anyone else interested to start scoping, developing, and implementing standards that everyone can use.Google, HP Raise Data-Center PUE Bar
April 06, 2012 09:00 AM
Running rows and rows of servers, storage appliances and networking equipment makes the electric bill a data center receives at the end of each month a whopper. That’s why data-center operators are constantly working on ways to improve energy efficiency. A couple of tech companies in Silicon Valley have reported considerable progress in improving energy efficiency, and a national organization shows the average energy efficiency also improving, though some data-center operators are having more success than others.Amazon APIs Are Fine ... For Amazon
April 03, 2012 12:05 PM
If I didn't know better, I'd say that there are many in the cloud community who are happy to capitulate standards to Amazon. What's next? Letting Cisco define networking standards? Microsoft define OS, Web content and document standards? Apple define mobile platform standards? Or Oracle define SQL standards? Hitching the standards wagon to a vendor is a fundamental problem.Networking In The Cloud
March 22, 2012 09:30 AM
In discussing network design with my clients, I talk about how routers, firewalls and other network gear can be interconnected to provide a scalable and redundant IP network. These foundations of network design apply to networks composed of tangible components or the virtualized infrastructure that extends corporate data centers to the cloud. I find that the networking aspects of cloud computing are frequently overlooked or addressed as an afterthought.Private Cloud Lessons You Can't Learn From Amazon, Google, Etc
March 12, 2012 09:58 AM
Very little of what the large public cloud providers do is actually applicable to a private cloud. The reason for this is twofold: scale and application.IBM's SmartCloud Tames Life Cycle Management
March 09, 2012 12:01 PM
IBM has been active in the cloud market for years, including launching its Blue Cloud offering back in 2007, but now the company says it is addressing the next shift in enterprise cloud adoption. According to its new study, nearly 90% of businesses are moving beyond virtualization, so the company's new SmartCloud software, introduced at Pulse 2012, offers improved visibility, control and automation for organizations to securely manage and deploy cloud services.ScaleXtreme Automates Cloud-Based Patch Management For Virtual, Physical Servers
February 27, 2012 11:00 AM
ScaleXtreme, a provider of server automation products, has launched a cloud-based patch management automation product for use in public cloud, virtual and physical servers. The tool does automatic scanning and remediation for patch management, says Nand Mulchandani, CEO and co-founder of ScaleXtreme.Cloud Security: No Guarantees
February 17, 2012 11:00 AM
When adopting a cloud service--whether it's software as a service or platform as a service--enterprise IT organizations frequently make the assumption that the provider's security will be an improvement over the security of their own on-premise systems. Verifying that this is true, however, is tricky, and, in the end, there are no guarantees.HP Serves Up Multivendor Cloud Management
February 14, 2012 11:00 AM
As more and more businesses make their way into the cloud, the ability to manage various suppliers becomes far more complex--especially for large enterprises. Another issue for IT is that business groups are rapidly adopting cloud services, often independent from their IT. Procurement of cloud services from external suppliers by such business groups is creating "supplier sprawl," which obscures IT’s visibility into all cloud services and suppliers.« Previous Page | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | Next Page »
