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Cloud Fears
Cloud computing has entered the mainstream vocabulary in Information Technology. Every day the decibel level keeps going up. Yesterday’s SaaS vendors like Salesforce.com have become the cheer-leaders of the Cloud mantra. Then the arguably godfather role of cloud goes to Jeff Bezos of Amazon. His huge investment in Amazon data center with 30% utilization prompted him to seek new avenues of monetization. Thus came AWS (Amazon Web Services) and its component pieces such as S3, EC2, etc. In the new cloud lexicon, this can be termed as IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) or PaaS (Platform as a Service).
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Novell and Tencent Establish Joint Cloud Computing Laboratory in China
Novell and Tencent on Thursday announced the establishment of a research laboratory in Shenzhen, China to jointly develop an Internet Data Center (IDC) cloud computing platform. Tencent, China's largest Internet service portal with more than 480 million active users, is adopting SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server and PlateSpin Orchestrate as its auto-deployment system. As part of the agreement ...
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Red Hat to VMware: So Who’s Cisco’s Pet Now
Red Hat is seeking to drive a wedge between Cisco and its ally VMware. It has supported Cisco’s server effort since the first UCS boxes started shipping last summer and Cisco wants to be the king of virtualization. So now Red Hat has integrated Cisco’s Virtual Network Link (VN-Link) technology with its kernel-based KVM virtualization.
VN-Link is UCS’ way of keeping tabs on the network traffic in and out of virtual machines. It automates the movement of network and storage services so they can follow virtual machines as they move around the datacenter, helping to ensure consistent policy-driven network capabilities across all servers, physical or virtual, in a data center. read more
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The Next Frontier in the Cloud: Legacy Apps
Although cloud computing momentum continues to build and scarcely a day goes by without a new cloud announcement or study, there’s been little real enterprise adoption and almost no meaningful case studies. In part, that’s because early cloud providers and vendors were focused on developers and technology start-ups when they designed their offerings, and larger, more established organizations were rarely on their radar screen. While start-ups can easily embrace new technologies and architectures, enterprises have far more constraints and have been largely limited to “tire kicking” the cloud with small applications that aren’t particularly meaningful for the business.read more
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Selecting Your Data Center - Part 1
The data center industry continues to evolve with mergers, acquisitions, and a healthy crop of emerging companies. New data center products and services are hitting the street, an aggressive debate on the model of selling space vs. power, and alternatives to physical data center space in the cloud are giving us a confusing maze of alternatives to meet our outsourcing needs.
The data center market is not unique. For example, in Southern California we have a wide variety of supermarkets and grocery stores including VONs, Ralphs, Albertsons, Jons, Trader Joes, Whole Foods, and lots of others. All grocery stores basically sell the same kinds of products, with very few exceptions.
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Cloud Computing Makes Servers Obsolete
The concept of a server needs to go the way of the dodo One of the reasons I enjoy Twitter is that quite frequently – if you’re following the right people – you’ll see a tweet that is absolutely profound despite its simplicity and the constraints placed upon the author. Recently we were having a mini-discussion on Twitter regarding the definition of availability that elicited just such a golden nugget from botchagalupe: “Apps designed for a cloud should remove the ‘server’ concept.”....
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OEMs Back VMware DPM
VMware is supposed to say today that Dell, Fujitsu, HP, IBM and NEC will support its Distributed Power Management (DPM) to make their hardware more power-efficient. DPM, part of the VMware vSphere 4 platform, lowers power consumption in the data center by aggregating unused capacity and powering off unused servers without disrupting service levels, lowering energy consumption by as much as 20% on top of what’s possible with consolidation.
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CloudNet & The Case for Enterprise-Ready Virtual Private Clouds
AT&T Labs and the University of Massachusetts Amherst have published a paper called "The Case for Enterprise-Ready Virtual Private Clouds" that continues on my vision for a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). And they even gave me some credit in the paper [see reference 5] -- sort of.To recap, over a year ago I described the opportunity for what I called a Virtual Private Cloud or a method for partitioning a public computing utility such as EC2 into quarantined virtual infrastructure. A VPC may encapsulate multiple local and remote resources to appear as a single homogeneous computing environment bridging the ability to securely utilize remote resources as part of an seamless global compute infrastructure.Well it seems that I may have been onto something with this VPC concept. In the paper they propose "the enhancement of the cloud computing framework to seamlessly integrate virtual private networks (VPNs). To this end ... (Read Full Article)
MokaFive Claims to Crack the Code on Desktop Virtualization
MokaFive, the four-year-old Stanford University spin-out backed by Khosla Ventures and Highland Capital Partners to wrestle with making the desktop into a service, claims to have reached a turning point and overcome the major barrier to widespread enterprise adoption of virtual desktops.
It's taken the pricey server farm familiar in DaaS out of the equation while still providing the benefits of central management and the power of mass customization.
Its new MokaFive Suite, the 2.0 version of the company's desktop virtualization technology, lets companies host a secure desktop management solution in-house, giving them complete policy-based control and giving the user persistent personalization of his data, settings and applications.
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Ibm & Cloud Computing: The Big Blue Cloud - A Summary
Well IBM has gone and done it, they've announced a cloud offering yet again. Actually what's interesting about this go, is not that they're getting into the cloud business (again) but instead this time they're serious about it. And like it or not, they're approach actually does kind of make sense for, assuming you're within their target demographic (the large enterprise looking to save a few bucks).
My summary of the "Big Blue Cloud" is as follows: It's not what you can do for the cloud, but what the cloud can do for you. Or simply, it's about the application, duh?
In a statement earlier today in the New York Times, IBM CEO Sam Palmisano said, “The information technology infrastructure is under stress --- and the data flood is just accelerating.”
Palmisano isn't alone in this thinking, earlier this week Cisco Systems ...
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