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Don't Let Broadband Scrooges Ruin the Gift Of Cloud Backup
December 19, 2011 01:04 PM
It's the time of year for giving gifts. If you're the go-to techie in your family (like me), my shopping advice is this: Give some cloud this holiday season--specifically, cloud backup. It's good for you and good for the recipient. But there are challenges, largely because of the FCC's spectacularly unambitious broadband plan.Public vs. Private Cloud Debate Goes On
December 07, 2011 04:53 PM
While there are important differences between a public cloud and a private cloud computing environment, industry leaders say the pros and cons of each aren't as significant as the fact that both options are available for businesses and enterprises. At the recent CloudBeat 2011 conference in Redwood City, Calif., executives of various companies delivering cloud technology and services said any combination of public, private or hybrid clouds may be the right solution for any company based on its needs.Clouds Cannot Be Contained In A Box
November 28, 2011 01:45 PM
A big part of the value proposition of cloud is to ensure that you have continuous access to your data, and that you've moved beyond the physical limitations of a single box or a single data center or a single geography. While the move to the cloud can allow greater leverage of compute servers and storage, it also provides the ability to move away from aging, monolithic storage and servers, and gives cloud customers access to their data irrespective of any technical issues that may be going on and irrespective of their physical location. Cloud is supposed to be always on, with resources available on-demand, 24 by seven. However, how do you deliver all of this with a cloud that's been imprisoned in a box? Clouds cannot be contained in a box.Skytap Continues Public Cloud Onslaught
November 16, 2011 11:55 AM
Skytap, which provides self-service cloud automation solutions to approximately 150 midmarket customers, has updated its offering with notification services, self-healing automation capabilities for virtual private networking and support for Open Virtualization Format. The company's intent is to make cloud computing easier to use for business users, while offering the visibility and control required by IT professionals.Will Expense Tracking Speed Cloud Adoption?
November 04, 2011 11:41 AM
When it comes to cloud adoption, the elephant in the room (apart from security) is the fear that a service could scale up so quickly that it blows out a cloud budget. While there are many cloud management platforms available to address this issue, they tend to be designed for organizations that have fully adopted cloud services. They aren't so great for companies taking initial, tentative steps toward online services. Cloudability's open beta announcement about its freemium cloud spend management tool is therefore welcome news.Implementing Automation
October 24, 2011 10:10 AM
Orchestration platforms have better chances of success now that vendors are offering APIs to effectively manage their products. Routers, virtualization platforms, firewalls and storage arrays are delivering core features to enable external administration using XML-based APIs.The Case Against Orchestration
October 14, 2011 01:26 PM
I outlined the case for orchestration. Now I want to answer "Why now? What's different?" After all, management platforms have failed to deliver automation and orchestration for the last 20 years, at least. Why would today's software be any more likely to actually work? Can we try for operational nirvana once again?Private Vs. Public - It’s About The Services
June 16, 2011 07:00 AM
So you’ve chosen to implement a private cloud, and you based that decision on sound rationalizations backed by thorough research--reasons like cost, service portability, legacy infrastructure investment, security and compliance. Heck, maybe you just made the decision based on an overreaction to recent cloud outage news from major providers. Either way, private cloud it is, and your decision on cloud type is done, right? Wrong. There’s a lot more to think about, and if you choose private cloud with an all-or-nothing strategy, you’re likely missing out.DynamicOps Introduces Private/Public Cloud Management Platform
October 12, 2010 10:04 AM
DynamicOps, a maker of software for managing virtualized IT environments, introduced the DynamicOps Cloud Automation Center (DCAC) for setting up and managing on-demand IT services for either a private or public cloud infrastructure. DynamicOps software works in heterogeneous environments. The company signed an OEM deal with Dell in September in which DynamicOps software will be sold as part of Dell's Virtual Integrated System architecture.StrataScale Powers Private Cloud Services With Isilon Scale-Out NAS
May 18, 2010 09:01 AM
Isilon Systems today announced that StrataScale, Inc. has deployed Isilon scale-out NAS to power its new Private Cloud service, offering organizations a responsive, reliable and secure cloud computing platform utilizing dedicated physical resources. Using Isilon IQ, featuring its OneFS operating system, StrataScale has unified its hypervisor-based Private Cloud onto a single high performance, highly scalable shared pool of storage, maximizing the performance of its virtual servers to provide clients with on-demand compute resources. With Isilon scale-out NAS, StrataScale can scale its storage resources in lockstep with customer demand, reducing capital costs and operational overhead, while expanding its solution offerings to drive new business growth.« Previous Page | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4
