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Cloud Computing Buyers Demand More, Survey Finds
January 04, 2012 09:30 AM
Plain vanilla cloud infrastructure isn't the main goal. Companies want to use online apps, develop cloud apps or run a more automated internal cloud.Always-On With Amazon S3
September 28, 2011 10:11 AM
Amazon S3 continues its steady growth, attracting storage users from the startup to the enterprise. But many are concerned about putting all their eggs in the S3 basket, and other companies are rising to the challenge. Recently, Nasuni and Gemini briefed me on products that might ease the concerns of Amazon S3 users.Amazon Cloud Services Meet Federal Security Standards
September 16, 2011 01:33 PM
Key pieces of Amazon Web Services' (AWS) cloud-computing infrastructure have achieved certification with the federal standard for IT security solutions, making the services a more viable option for adoption among federal agencies.Amazon's Cloud May Seem Magical, But It Isn't
April 22, 2011 11:01 AM
By now you have heard that Amazon Web Services had a massive disruption yesterday, affecting Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2) instances in the company's northern Virginia data center. The disruption was/is long-lived (Amazon's dashboard is still showing problems), and certainly blew any claims for an annual uptime of 99.9 percent, which is 8.76 hours downtime per year. In fact, it likely blew 99.8 percent uptime, which is 17.52 hours of downtime. While 99.8 percent sounds good, the fact that some sites have been down the better part of a day has real impact on revenue. The downtime is also bad for those who manage Amazon's Web Services. It's bad for those that use Amazon's web services. No one likes downtime. But it's not necessarily a reason to avoid the cloud, and don't make the mistake of thinking that owning your own infrastructure would have avoided a similar problem.Iron Mountain Digital Steps Out Of Cloud Storage; Nirvanix Steps In
April 12, 2011 08:49 AM
Well, it appears again that companies that are good at one thing won't necessarily be good at trying other things. Iron Mountain Digital, the public cloud offshoot from Iron Mountain--the company that stores papers in caves and giant vaults and drives around in vans all the time--has collapsed.Amazon EC2 Dedicated Server Offering Addresses GRC Niche
March 29, 2011 10:30 AM
Gartner's latest Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service and Web Hosting, published at the end of 2010, placed Amazon and its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) offering in the Visionary quadrant. It called Amazon a "thought leader" and "extraordinarily innovative, exceptionally agile and very responsive to the market." On the negative side, it cautioned that the company was the only vendor that did not offer dedicated non-virtualized servers. Until now.Could EMC Become The Amdahl of Cloud Storage?
February 11, 2011 05:59 PM
There is no doubt that EMC has shipped some Atmos storage since its introduction. Yes, EMC has Atmos. And the company claims that Atmos is specifically designed for the cloud. However, I believe that there are fundamental issues with the way EMC sells Atmos to customers. First of all, if Atmos is cloud storage, then it should be sold on a usage basis. Customers should be charged only for what they use--not for petabytes of capacity up front. After all, isn't that the whole premise of cloud? Lowering your capital expenditures and shifting to a utility model? It makes me wonder if EMC is slowly becoming the Amdahl of Cloud Storage.Self-Service IT, For IT, By IT
February 09, 2011 07:00 AM
I always shake my head when I hear someone say that private cloud computing won't take off because enterprises can't realize the economies of scale that a public cloud provider can. Thing is, the benefits that enterprises get from a private cloud are not the same as a public cloud. I was reminded of this while reading F5's Lori MacVittie succinctly sum up the difference in goals between private cloud and public cloud adopters in Focus of Cloud Implementation Depends on the Implementer: "Private cloud implementers are not trying to be Amazon or Google or Salesforce.com. They're trying to be a more efficient, leaner version of themselves--IT as a Service." While all organizations want to be efficient, the way they measure their success is vastly different from how cloud providers measure success.NephoScale Jumps Into IaaS Cloud Market
January 12, 2011 10:31 AM
There's a new entrant in the growing infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud market that is claiming innovative technology rivaling that of established players such as Amazon EC2, Rackspace and Go Grid. NephoScale says that its cloud infrastructure is built from the ground up to overcome some of the limitations of legacy cloud providers.Moving To The Cloud Is Not Cut And Paste
December 23, 2010 12:04 PM
One of the issues I have been thinking about is the requirements necessary to move an application to a cloud service and, to some extent, move it with little impact to end users. Amazon's VM Import service is getting a lot of buzz lately, but the service itself is about as interesting as converting a Microsoft Word Document to PDF. Sure, it's useful, but it's only half the story. Virtual machine (VM) conversion certainly isn't a game changer for hybrid clouds. Just because you have a VM in your data center doesn't mean you can simply push it to Amazon's EC2 and call it a cloud.« Previous Page | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | Next Page »
