Articles from Taylor Buley

1. VeriSign On Data Consolidation Explore Forbes.com (Feb 4 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers VeriSign is a billion-dollar company that provides identity and Internet infrastructure services to businesses. Chief technologist Ken Silva spends about half his time working on internal IT projects. One of Silva's main goals is to reduce the overall number of computers and applications it takes to run VeriSign's ( VRSN - news - people ) various services through "data center consolidation," the process of taking many small data center setups and combining them into a larger, more centralized operation. Silva talked with Forbes about winnowing its infrastructure and what that means for employees and customers. (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   IBM   Forbes

2. The .Gov Waiting Game Explore Forbes.com (Nov 11 2009) Cloud Computing Out of what are surely thousands of federal Web applications, colocation company Terremark hosts just 10. Colocation companies, or "colos," provide the space and electricity to set up data center infrastructure. Unlike proprietary data centers from Google ( GOOG - news - people ) and Microsoft ( MSFT - news - people ), colos are typically situated on the outskirts of major cities. Terremark has a facility near Washington, D.C., and the company generates 24% of revenues from its federal customers. Yet despite hosting Data.gov, a recent initiative from Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra, Terremark Chief Technology Officer Jason Lochhead is anxious about the federal government's market potential. (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Vivek Kundra   Forbes

3. Cisco And EMC Cool Merger Rumors Explore Forbes.com (Nov 3 2009) Cloud Computing Jargon abounds as Cisco, EMC and VMware partner up to sell "end-to-end" and "best-of-breed" IT infrastructure into the $350 billion data center infrastructure market. "Or in other words," explains Barron's Eric Savitz, "they are teaming up to jump on the cloud computing bandwagon, in hopes of selling more products and services to IT managers." The announcement pivots around bundling Cisco's ( CSCO - news - people ) networking equipment along with EMC's ( EMC - news - people ) storage and VMware's ( VMW - news - people ) virtualization infrastructure. The coterie is calling itself the "Virtual Computing Environment coalition," and the two parent companies are launching a separate joint venture called "Acadia." (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   New York Times   The New York Times   Cisco

4. Disc Storage: Gone In A Flash Explore Forbes.com (Oct 21 2009) Storage David Flynn is all grins when discussing the inevitable decimation of the storage industry. As chief technology officer of storage company Fusion-io, Flynn thinks he's got a Flash storage product that will eventually eviscerate the billion-dollar revenue streams of giants like EMC ( EMC - news - people ), Western Digital ( WDC - news - people ) and Seagate ( STX - news - people ). As he explains it, the industry's technology battle is between Newton's laws of motion and Moore's Law of transistor density. If he's right, then the outcome was already decided decades ago, and traditional storage companies can expect painful years ahead. (Read Full Article)

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5. Amazon Secures Its Cloud Explore Forbes.com (Aug 27 2009) Cloud Computing , Networking BURLINGAME, Calif. -- Like fog in San Francisco, Amazon continues to bring its lofty "cloud" down to ground level. Amazon announced on Wednesday two new security features for its Amazon Web Services aimed at luring new enterprise business. The big news is a feature called Amazon Virtual Private Cloud, or Amazon VPC, which enables businesses to connect to Amazon's flexible AWS resources using an industry-standard virtual private network connection. Amazon also announced that it's enabling support for multi-factor authentication, a login practice that uses a physical device to add an extra element of security. (Read Full Article)

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6. Google: 'We're Very Sorry' Explore Forbes.com (May 14 2009) If to err is human, Google may be mortal after all. The Internet giant, which saw its services slow to a crawl or temporarily stop Thursday, said an error in one of its systems routed its traffic through Asia, which overloaded servers, slowed their response time or took them out all together. Google ( GOOG - news - people ), which operates more than 30 data centers worldwide, has only three data centers in Asia. Google isn't yet calling it a service "outage." Instead, on its Apps Status page, the company suggests it was "a problem with Google Mail affecting a small subset of users." A footnote acknowledges that the problem may also be affecting other services, which seems to be the case. Google AdSense, Analytics, Docs, Maps and other services were all reported to be down at one point or another. (Read Full Article)

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