May 18, 2013, 7:30 pm GMT  

23 item(s) containing the term "computing"

Building Open Interoperable Cloud Infrastructure

— At pennies per virtual machine-hour, the economics of cloud computing are both compelling and daunting to replicate. Whether you are building your own cloud infrastructure, building a public cloud or choosing a cloud service, there are key strategy and technology decisions that make the difference between success and f...
May 18 03:00:00 pm GMT / Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal»

AWS is the McDonald’s of the cloud. Who’s the Burger King?

— It's easy to characterize the cloud computing market as being Amazon Web Services' to lose, but that doesn't tell the whole story. McDonald's dominates the fast food world, but life isn't exactly bad for its dozens of competitors.
May 17 03:15:03 pm GMT / GigaOM iaas»

Cloud Skills in Demand

— According to a recent analysis by CyberCoders cloud computing talents will be the second most sought after IT skill in 2013. Interestingly the analysis specifically calls out AWS and Azure. That these two are included is not a surprise to those of us that have followed the evolution of cloud computing over the past few...
May 16 09:02:00 pm GMT / Cloud Computing»

James Gosling to Speak on Innovation at GoGrid Cloud Meetup on 5/22

— GoGrid, BEAR Data Solutions, NetApp, and ScaleArc have an exciting cloud meetup planned for next week (Wednesday, May 22, 2013) in San Francisco. In addition to intelligent conversation, free food and drink, and demos from a variety of companies whose products make cloud computing even better, we also have a fantastic ...
May 16 04:33:38 pm GMT / GoGrid Blog»

Cloud News Report: Top 3 in Cloud – Week Ending May 15th

— The Cloud News Report is a weekly list of our top three favorite cloud computing articles from the past week.   Why IT is Struggling to Build Private Clouds This comprehensive Information Week article by Charles Babcock, with Chris Murphy, does a fantastic job of covering the landscape of private cloud opt...
May 15 08:55:00 pm GMT / BlueLock»

SAP updates line-of-business cloud apps

— Selling SaaS (software as a service) applications aimed at specific lines of business is one way that SAP has tried to stake a claim in the world of cloud computing and during the Sapphire conference it unveiled a broad series of updates to the portfolio.
May 15 05:26:00 pm GMT / Computerworld Cloud Computing News»

GM has a new $130 million datacenter

— It will be "the computing backbone" for the automaker's global operations as it shrinks its 23-facility footprint to just two.
May 14 12:31:05 am GMT / data center Resources | ZDNet »

Cisco UCS Delivers a World-Record VMware® VMmark™ 2.5 Benchmark Result

— Cisco continues its cloud computing performance leadership with the announcement of VMware® VMmark™ 2.5 benchmark result published on May 9th [...]
May 13 08:43:24 pm GMT / Data Center Networks»

Virtual Machines: The New Building Blocks of Enterprise Infrastructure

— As infrastructure agility takes precedence over raw computing power, broad VM support will be a key factor in the health of enterprise infrastructure.
May 13 04:47:00 pm GMT / Arthur Cole»

BMC to be taken private; Out with Old – In with the New

— If BMC is taken private, the same fate will likely befall other legacy enterprise management software vendors like CA, and the management software divisions of IBM and HP. This will start the process of the replacement of these products by new ones built from the ground up for virtualization and cloud computing, and ma...
May 08 01:44:34 pm GMT / The Virtualization Practice»

Cloud risk assessments critical to keeping resources safe

— As businesses around the world continue to pursue mobile, social and cloud computing technologies in an effort to improve operations and stay competitive, more organizations are falling victim to sophisticated digital threats that are being reengineered with next-generation infrastructure environments in mind.Continue ...
May 03 02:56:16 pm GMT / GoGrid Blog»

Benchmarking Amazon EC2: The wacky world of cloud performance

— Before turning to the world of cloud computing, let's pause to remember the crazy days of the 1970s when the science of the assembly line wasn't well-understood and consumers discovered that each purchase was something of a gamble. This was perhaps most true at the car dealer, where the quality of new cars was so rando...
May 01 03:24:00 pm GMT / Techworld.com Data Centre»

Data Analytics in the Cloud – Microsoft Azure SQL Reporting

— First, let me say I have been looking forward to using this service for some time. As a long time user of SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) I was eager to use this technology in some of my cloud computing projects. I was disappointed a few months ago, however, when I started down the path […]
Apr 30 08:15:25 pm GMT / Cloud Computing»

Microsoft’s ITPAC – A Perfect Fit for Off-the-Grid Computing Capacity

— Last November we announced our zero carbon Data Plant R&D project in Cheyenne, Wyoming. For a quick refresher, we’re placing a small container data center we call an IT Pre-Assembled Component, or ITPAC, at a wastewater treatment facility in Cheyenne. A natural bi-product of a wastewater plant is methane gas, which i...
Apr 22 04:00:00 pm GMT / ms datacenters»

The Last Mile and “the energy monster of cloud computing

— A recent article by Spandas Lui of ZDNet titled “Wireless is the ‘energy monster’ of cloud computing” quotes Dr Kerry Hinton of the Centre for Energy Efficient Telecommunications (CEET) as saying that “By 2015, the energy consumption of datacenters will be a drop in the ocean compared to wireless networks in ...
Apr 12 03:50:00 pm GMT / ServerTech Blog - Information for the Data Center Equipment Manager»

Moore’s Law and Murphy’s Law in Full Effect in your Data Center

— by Calvin Nicholson Senior Director and FW and SW Development Moore's law is a rule of thumb in the history of computing hardware whereby the number of transistors that can be placed inexpensively on an integrated circuit doubles approximately every two years.Murphy's law is an adage or epigram that is typically state...
Feb 25 09:34:00 pm GMT / ServerTech Blog - Information for the Data Center Equipment Manager»

What is to Show for Five Years of Cloud Computing?

— Just a few short years ago launching a virtual machine in the cloud was a simple and basic. With a couple of API calls and maybe a button click or two you were up and running in a just a few minutes. The choices were limited but it was nice. You could even get a little storage to go along with the instance. Just before...
Feb 18 03:47:51 am GMT / ProductionScale RSS Feed»

The Government Cloud on KCUR-FM Central Standard with Jabulani Leffall

— A big THANK YOU goes out today to KCUR-FM Central Standard host Jabulani Leffall, producer  Matthew Long-Middleton,and associate producer Danie Alexander for having me as a guest on this morning's show! Today the focus was on the US Government's mandate that federal agencies consider cloud computing as th...
Nov 26 05:51:00 pm GMT / Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson»

On Micro Datacenters, Sandy, Supercomputing 2012, and Coding for Containerized Data Centers….

— As everyone has been painfully aware last week the United States saw the devastation caused by the Superstorm Sandy.   My original intention was to talk about yet another milestone with our Micro Data Center approach.  As the storm slammed into the East Coast I felt it was probably a bad time to talk abo...
Nov 06 05:06:15 pm GMT / LooseBolts»

Labs Seek New Ways to Look Inside the Body

— A new wave of imaging technologies, driven by the falling cost of computing, is transforming the way doctors can examine patients.
Oct 09 08:04:03 pm GMT / NYT > Business Computing»

Announcing SpotCloud for OpenStack

— SpotCloud, the world's best place to buy & sell cloud computing capacity, is happy to announce support for the OpenStack platform. The open source SpotCloud OpenStack Connector is available for immediate use as a  free Apache-licensed download (http://dl.enomaly.com/spotcloudopenstack). The SpotCloud Ope...
Apr 28 01:38:00 pm GMT / ElasticVapor - Life in the cloud»