CloudFucius Councils: Cloud?s Love/Hate Relationship
I?m afraid so....let?s get more! I don?t like it and....here?s a check. I?m not safe....but I need another. I?m so sick of you...give me a big hug. As I?ve mentioned on a few occasions, it seems like a new cloud computing survey gets released on a weekly basis and often the results make me want to scratch my head.
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Iron, Power, and Cloud Computing: Let's Get Real
It wasn't long ago that Green Computing was not part of any conversation. To be sure, there were concerns about monitor radiation, and disgust that the West was sending old systems to developing nations so that very poorly paid laborers could bust them up and be directly exposed to the poisons within. This disposal issue has not gone away. But today, Green is meant to refer to energy usage, to reducing carbon footprints (even if you have to charter a jet to Bali to make your point), to keep us from unwittingly turning the Earth into Venus.
?Out, Out, Damn?d Cisco?: HP
Sounding as obsessive-compulsive as Lady Macbeth, HP said Monday that it had finally ripped all the Cisco-supplied WAN routers and switches out of its six data centers and replaced them with its own networking widgetry. HP swore to go Cisco-free in April when its acquisition of network pioneer 3COM closed. You can?t very well give aid and comfort to a one-time friend that?s turned on you and now wants to sell servers.
Live Forensics and the Cloud
Cloud Computing offers a sense of ?vastness? in terms of storage and remote processing. According to Simpson Garfinkil, a major challenge to any digital forensics investigator investigating data within the cloud; can be an inability to locate or identify data or code that is lost when single data structures are split into elements.
What Is New in Gladinet CloudAFS 2
Today we announced the ?Home Directory? support for Gladinet CloudAFS 2, which works with major cloud storage services such as Amazon S3, AT&T Synaptic Storage, EMC Atmos, Google Storage, Mezeo, Nirvanix, Peer1 and Windows Azure. The Gladinet development team is also working on the Rackspace CloudFiles, OpenStack, Caringo CAStor and other integration support. Pretty soon, these cloud storage services will be integrated to Gladinet Cloud Suite.
System Migration in the Cloud at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley
ShadowProtect provides fast and reliable disaster recovery and system migration to the same system, dissimilar hardware and to and from virtual environments ? P2P, P2V, V2P and V2V. ShadowProtect solutions are an integral part of industry-leading cloud solutions as the engine for backup, replication and failover of servers, desktops and laptops. In his session at the 7th International Cloud Expo, Dave Stufflebeam, Technical Account Manager at StorageCraft, will present the ShadowProtect product line of automatic disk-based backup, disaster recovery and system migration solutions. He will also demonstrate ShadowProtect and show how easy it is to recover, protect and migrate your systems to and from the cloud.
Spiceworks Co-Founder to Present at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley
IT professionals at the world?s five million small and mid-sized businesses control the adoption of cloud services for nearly 200 million employees. They?re also tasked with figuring out how to effectively manage increasingly hybrid cloud computing/on-premise technology environments. In his session at the 7th International Cloud Expo, Jay Hallberg, Co-Founder & VP of Spiceworks, will discuss how more than one million IT pros are using free IT management software and the world?s largest online small business tech community to collaborate and better manage their cloud services. In addition, cloud services vendors will learn new ways to reach and distribute their applications to the elusive small business tech buyer.
Data Residency and the Rise of the Quasi-Public Cloud
One of the issues surrounding cloud adoption is the data governance requirements a customer may have, and what, if any, controls the cloud provider offers. For example, a financial institution within a jurisdiction such as Switzerland or Australia has regulatory compliance requirements stipulating that customer information must remain within the jurisdiction. For a large organization, this ?data residency? issue may be enough of a deterrent to adopting a public cloud solution ? unless that cloud hovers over their jurisdiction, they must look at on-premise solutions as the only viable alternative. It?s interesting to note that encryption of the data is not a viable option here. In some jurisdictions, the regulations treat encrypted values as clear text. The value, in any format, is still the value, and therefore at risk. In discussing it with a number of CIOs recently, even without a regulatory requirement, they were still unwilling to simply encrypt their data. Why? Moore?s law, for one. As one CIO pointed out ? ?five years from now, that notebook on your desk will likely be able to decrypt anything that I can encrypt today?. Another mentioned that ?managing encryption keys is not practical. If I have a million records of data in the cloud, it?s wholly impractical to extract, re-encrypt, and re-insert all of those records, even if it was physically possible?. The only practical alternative is to keep the data at home.
Dell Helps Customers Accelerate Cloud Computing Models
To help customers capitalize on the efficiencies of the Virtual Era, Dell on Wednesday introduced new capabilities and services for its Virtual Integrated System (VIS) architecture. Dell recognizes businesses have made significant technology purchases and its approach to converged architectures allows them to preserve and fully leverage their existing data center infrastructure without creating technology silos or undertaking a rip-and-replace strategy. The Dell VIS architecture and services help customers transition new and existing technologies to an open, cloud-like model that dynamically provisions application workloads and unifies heterogeneous compute, storage and networking assets into a common pool of resources. As a result, it?s now possible for customers to lower the costs associated with managing IT, improve the flexibility needed to respond to changing business needs, and more efficiently deploy and move application workloads across physical and virtual resources.
Controlling Cloud and iPad. Be the Usher, Not the Bouncer
The purpose of an usher, be it at an old time movie theater or a wedding, is to take people to suitable seats and see that they?re comfortable. The purpose of a bouncer is to throw out bums and keep the peace. These two words conjure pictures in your head of similar folks, but their function is completely opposite. Many of the things confronting IT today that are as much driven by the business and buzz as by IT and requirements are Cloud Computing and Wireless Devices. Look back historically and find parallels to these things, they?ll help you decide how to handle both phenomenon.
The VMware Guy ? VMware?s Five Steps to Cloud Computing
Looking to foray into the cloud? Contact The VMware Guy to implement virtualization and cloud computing projects - from proof of concept through production deployment. http://www.thevmwareguy.com Recently, VMware?s Channel Chief shared how VMware will bring solution providers into the fold to deliver and deploy Cloud Computing solutions for their clients. He outlined a 5 step [...]