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What It Means: Google, Yahoo Come Together With OpenID

— Google has announced that Yahoo users will now be able to quickly and easily sign up for Google products using their Yahoo email address. The feature, according to some in the industry, will be a boon for Google and OpenID, the Internet standard behind the feature. But what benefit does this provide for Yahoo? Will mak...

Sep 08 09:43:46 am PDT / NYT > Business Computing»

Virginia is for Lovers - I mean, Microsoft

— Microsoft is closing the deal on a site for an enormous data center in Mecklenburg County, Virginia. The facility had...

Sep 07 10:36:38 pm PDT / Data Center Migration Blog»

VMworld 2010 – the EMC Hands-on-Lab

— While not the scale of the VMware HOL, as discussed here (7.6 BILLION IOs served!!!), but as far as I know, this is a VMworld first…. So – as I noted, when the vendor community bands together to support VMware in their HoL, by definition, it means we all recognize that it’s not about us,...

Sep 07 10:41:34 am PDT / EMC Feeds »

Will the Bean Counters Control Cloud Computing in China?

— Meanwhile, China continues to transform itself. In recent years, the country has gained enough self-confidence to bring in (and pay for) world-class assistance, whether hiring famed Chicago architect Adrian Smith (of Skidmore, Owens, and Merrill at the time) to design its showcase Jin Mao tower in Shanghai, or working ...

Sep 07 06:07:00 am PDT / Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal»

What the 'private cloud' really means

— Cloud computing has two distinctly different meanings. The first is simple: The use of any commercial service delivered over the Internet in real time, from Amazon's EC2 to software as a service offered by the likes of Salesforce or Google.

Sep 06 03:00:00 am PDT / Cloud Computing - Infoworld»

Belgacom’s Hosting Unit Falls to AccelOps

— AccelOps, the three-year-old start-up that monitors data centers, networks and clouds with software delivered either SaaS or as a virtual appliance, has enticed Belgacom ICT, the old Belgian PTT’s pan-European IT arm, into its fold. Belgacom means to use the stuff for its 200 hosted commercial IT services customers....

Sep 05 12:00:00 pm PDT / Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal»

Verizon Builds Hybrid Cloud with VMware vCloud Datacenter

— Verizon, which is really into this cloud business – against the day when phones as we know them evaporate into the ether – and so means to have clouds for everybody eventually, has added to its very high-end, mission-critical, totally handheld public cloud of last year. It’s taken VMware’s Datacenter widgetry ...

Sep 04 07:00:00 am PDT / Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal»

Nokia Kills Ovi Files Cloud Computing Storage

— Nokia will be canning its free 10GB mobile cloud-based file-sharing service Ovi Files come October 1 for lack of popularity apparently. Its 1.5 million registered users will have to find other accommodations like maybe Nokia Ovi Suite, which requires a wired connection. Meantime nobody will lose anything because, it ...

Sep 04 05:45:00 am PDT / Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal»

HP buys 3Par, Apple rolls out new gear

— Hewlett-Packard swooped in with the better bid to overtake Dell and win 3Par, so now we can all sit back and wait for the next acquisition battle to roll around. Meanwhile, Apple debuted updated iPods and Apple TV to entertain us, among other IT news stories of the week.

Sep 03 11:55:00 am PDT / Computerworld Dell News»

F5 Friday: Elastic Applications are Enabled by Dynamic Infrastructure

— You really can’t have the one without the other. VMware enables the former, F5 provides the latter. The use of public cloud computing as a means to expand compute capacity on-demand, a la during a seasonal or unexpected spike in traffic, is often called cloud bursting and we’ve been talking about it (at least ...

Sep 02 06:37:34 pm PDT / DevCentral Weblogs»

Virtual I/O Goes Native Ethernet

— It may seem like an odd thing to say after all these years, but it seems that enterprises will finally have the means to deploy virtualization in a big way. While the adoption rate for virtualization is very high -- upwards of 90 percent of enterprises

Sep 02 01:21:21 pm PDT / Arthur Cole»

Live from VMWorld

— No shortage of excitement coming from this years VMWorld. If you're not fortunate enough to be here, you can follow all the buzz over at VMWorld.com. I'm running around with Flip cam in hand and hope to get some content posted this afternoon. In the meantime, wanted to share a couple of inter...

Sep 01 12:19:28 pm PDT / EMC Feeds »

VMware Goes Beyond Data Centers to Control the Cloud

— Today VMware unveiled new products, new partnerships, and two acqusitions to help it become not just the operating system for the data center, but the means of assuring the flow of enterprise bits between data centers — or what many actually define as the cloud.

Aug 31 12:33:26 pm PDT / GigaOM � Cloud Computing»

Cloud is not Rocket Science but it is Computer Science

— That doesn’t mean it isn’t hard - it means it’s a different kind of hard. For many folks in IT it is likely you might find in their home a wall on which you can find hanging a diploma. It might be a BA, it might be a BS, and you might even find one (or two) “Master of Science” as well. Now in...

Aug 29 07:26:40 pm PDT / DevCentral Weblogs»

More, please, and faster

— Paul Graham has a perceptive post on what he terms "the acceleration of addiction," describing how technological progress, by giving us more of what we want, will naturally tend to amplify compulsive behavior: Technological progress means making things do more of what we want. When the thing we want is something we wan...

Jul 28 04:10:37 pm PDT / Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog»

Auditors Just Don’t Understand Security

— Part of my new role as the Information Security Program Owner at NI is taking care of our regulatory compliance concerns which means I spend quite a bit of time dealing with auditors. Now auditors are nice people and I want to preface what I'll say next by saying that I think auditors do perform [...]

Jul 02 09:17:07 am PDT / Web Admin Blog»

Appistry announces partnerships with leading Hadoop ecosystem vendors

— Hopefully you saw our big announcement this morning! We are excited to announce strategic alliances with several of the leading Hadoop ecosystem vendors including Concurrent, Datameer and Kitenga. So what does this mean and why is it important you ask? We are really excited to announce these partnerships because e...

Jun 29 07:39:49 am PDT / Appistry Blog»

Colbert Report redux

— I am scheduled to be on the Colbert Report this Wednesday, chatting with Stephen Colbert about The Shallows. Tune in, or program your Tivo appropriately. (I was on the show once before, about two years ago, and you can watch that interview, during which Stephen multitasked with his iPhone, here.) In the meantime, I wil...

Jun 28 08:12:06 am PDT / Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog»

Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Technology: The Meaning Behind The Marketing Buzzword

— The term “Data Loss Prevention”, or “DLP” for short, is being used to universally describe any technology able to detect, and then react to, information matching one or more pre-defined patterns as it traverses network devices, servers or workstations. As is the case with the most promising and ...

Nov 03 11:29:31 am PST / Integrated Data Storage Blogs»

Cybersecurity Czar: Privacy Won't Be a Casualty

— NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander reaffirmed his view that protecting U.S. government, military and civilian data networks doesn't mean sacrificing citizens' right to privacy.

Dec 31 04:00:00 pm PST / InternetNews Realtime News for IT Managers»

Google & AWS: Just Goes To Prove You Can Have Your Cloud and, um, Eat It Too…

— …and by “eat it” I mean that how you think I mean that. I feel for these guys, they have big targets on their backs, but that’s what happens when you’re a market leader. To wit, there are two polarized views expressed every time Google or Amazon have an outage or service interruption giv...