125 item(s) containing the term "service"
SAP partner launches cloud-based mobile app service
— SAP partner and start-up Leapfactor announced a cloud-based system to support mobile applications, including back-office custom applications for accounting and customer support.Cisco, Westcon settle contract-pricing dispute with U.S.
— Cisco Systems and distributor Westcon Group North America have agreed to pay the U.S. government $48 million to settle charges that they misrepresented prices in contracts with the U.S. General Service Administration and other agencies.Software-as-a-Service for ISVs
— Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is increasingly considered “enterprise grade” by many IT buyers, and a viable choice to achieve reduced costs, improved service, and ongoing timely functional currency. Customers are looking for "just what I need" solutions – in terms of pricing, functionality, simple on-boarding and ...Where is the point of demarcation with cloud services?
— The point of demarcation is important to service providers as it limits their exposure and risk, thus limiting their scope of responsibility and costs, but the growing popularity of cloud computing and hosted communications services promises to dramatically change the picture -- perhaps most dramatically in the wiring ...Adaptivity VP Tim Waters to Present at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley
— How do you engineer life-cycle management for the cloud? In his session at the 7th International Cloud Expo, Tim Waters, VP of Product Research at Adaptivity, will show how to implement an engineering life cycle for the cloud that links service catalog and delivery to runtime change management. Tim Waters is VP of Pro...Sun Netra Blade Servers Enhance Oracle Communications Services
— Oracle has announced two new Sun Netra servers for network equipment and communications service providers.AWS Price Reductions Relentless
— Last week, amidst the din of VMWorld and people up in arms that OpenStack is implementing Rackspace’s APIs, Amazon’s Web Services Blog announced a significant price reduction on High-Memory Double Extra Large and High-Memory Quadruple Extra Large instances. This reduction is indicative of Amazon’s eff...Cloud Computing: Eucalyptus Gets Self-Service from Jamcracker
— Jamcracker and Eucalyptus Systems say they have integrated their cloud management and cloud creation platforms so users can self-provision and automate the procuring of resources and building scalable Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) private and hybrid clouds on the Eucalyptus platform. Jamcracker’s Platform Enterp...Sponsored Post: deviantART, Okta, CloudSigma, ManageEngine, Site24x7
— Who's Hiring? deviantART is Hiring a Senior Software Engineer. Okta is hiring! Okta provides a ground-breaking cloud adoption and management solution and they are looking for people in many different areas. Cool Products and Services CloudSigma. Instantly scalable European cloud servers. ManageEngine Applicati...Building A Search Plugin For Windows Live Writer
— So, a few weeks ago, Lori asked me if I’d be up for writing a plugin for Windows Live Writer to insert DevCentral related links into her blog posts. For those that don’t know about Windows Live Writer and post to a blog regularly, you are doing yourselves a disservice by not checking it out (that is, if you are ...Scrum for Team System v3 – Release dates rollup fix.
— In the current SfTS v3 release (Scrum for Team System v3.0.3784.03), the “Release” work item “Actual Start Date” and “Actual End Data” fields are not being correctly updated by the rollup service. The cause has been tracked back to an issues with the event notification subscription....Some See a Ploy as Craigslist Blocks Sex Ads
— Since blocking its “adult services” ads as the weekend began, Craigslist has refused to discuss its motivations.HP Goes into the Insta-Cloud Business
— HP’s got a private cloud-in-a-box scheme that it trotted out Monday ahead of VMworld called HP CloudStart that’s supposed to provide the cloud-smitten enterprise that’s hanging back everything it needs to get cloud-borne in a mere 30 days complements of HP’s Cloud Consulting Services, so what it’s gonna cost ...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.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....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 ...From Apple, a Step Into Social Media for Music
— Apple on Wednesday introduced a social media service geared to music lovers that is built into iTunes, revamped its lineup of iPods and unveiled an upgraded version of its set-top box.Choosing Your Cloud Vendor
— Expanding on the " introduction to cloud computing" article, here are some additional suggestions for choosing a cloud service model provider. In a typical Cloud Computing data centre, an application set will generally be hosted over Virtual Machines running on a large number of Physical Machines. Total Cost of Own...Terremark's Enterprise Cloud Selected as Gold Winner of Best of VMworld 2010 Award in Public/Hybrid Cloud Computing Technologies Category
— MIAMI, Sep 02, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Terremark Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ:TMRK), a leading global provider of managed IT infrastructure services, today announced that its Enterprise Cloud was chosen a Best of VMworld 2010 Award Winner in the Public/Hybrid Cloud Computing Technologies category, which encompassed Infrastr...Cloud Expo Sponsor AWS Adds Invalidation Feature to CloudFront
— Amazon Web Services has added a new feature to Amazon CloudFront, the AWS content delivery network. The new invalidation feature allows users to remove content from Amazon CloudFront edge locations via an API call. This API call removes copies of a file from all Amazon CloudFront edge locations at any time, regardless ...IBM Ranked Top Services Provider
— IBM today announced that Forrester Research, Inc. has ranked the company as the top information technology services provider in 2010, noting that Big Blue is projected to maintain the top position through the year 2020. E-mail this page Save to del.icio.us ...HP Unveils Storage Tiering, Thin-Provisioning Services
— In apparent anticipation of the 3PAR merger, HP Enterprise Services announced new services around storage tiering and thin provisioning. - SAN FRANCISCO -- Hewlett-Packard apparently is setting the table for its presumed incorporation of scale-out virtualized storage maker 3PAR, which could happen as soon as today...Critical Testing Criteria: Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
— VMware, Microsoft, Citrix and others have forged ahead in making virtual desktop infrastructure a viable choice for centrally managed, highly configurable use cases. Here are three Cs to consider when testing a virtual desktop product: components, capacity, capability. Components include both the services and under...Cloud Gateway to Google Storage
— In the eyes of cloud storage service providers such as Google Storage, any On-Ramps tools, desktop clients, edge devices or appliance that can talk to Google Storage is a gateway. In the eyes of end users or IT admin, a cloud gateway refers to a central access point that does the translation of LAN based file protocol ...VeriFone Acquires WAY Systems For Up To $9 Million (They Raised Over $50 Million)
— Electronic payment solutions provider VeriFone Systems this morning announced it has acquired the assets of WAY Systems, a provider of mobile POS solutions and gateway services for mobile merchants. The purchase price consisted of an upfront payment of $6 million and an earn-out payable in one year of up to an addi...Is Google App Engine Silently Gaining Traction?
— When Google released its PaaS offering called Google App Engine, it attracted Web 2.0 developers in big numbers but it didn’t gain much traction like Amazon Web Services or Microsoft platform. In fact, in May 2010, Network World had an article quoting a Forrester Survey which put the percentage of developers usin...Cloud Security - The Question of API Keys
— I had a really good discussion with Kaitlin Brunsden from EbizQ on the topic of Cloud Security in general, and API Keys in particular. All too often, CISOs and IT managers do not realize that if their organization is using Amazon Web Services (AWS), for example, then the Secret Key ID used to authenticate to AWS is oft...VMware Expands Cloud Infrastructure Strategy, Introduces New Products to Drive IT as a Service
— VMware Expands Cloud Infrastructure Strategy, Introduces New Products to Drive IT as a Service VMware vCloud™ Director enables a new model for delivering and consuming IT services across hybrid clouds VMware vShield™ product family tackles cloud security challenges ...VMware and HP Extend Agreement to Help Customers Accelerate the Move to Private Clouds
— VMware and HP Extend Agreement to Help Customers Accelerate the Move to Private Clouds Companies Build on Decade of Collaboration with a New Solution, Reference Architectures and Services Integration. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 31, 2010 — Today at VMworld 2010, VMware and HP ...Zetta Wants You To Forget Using Traditional Backup Solutions
— Zetta, the two year old company offering storage as a service targeted towards enterprises, yesterday announced the availability of Zetta Data Protection Solution and they are demoing their offering at the VMworld booth at San Francisco this week. In this era of big data, even enterprises have tons and tons of data whi...Process automation elevates virtualization use while transforming IT's function to app and cloud service broker
— Automation, policy-driven processes and best practices are offering more opportunities for optimizing virtualization so that server, storage, and network virtualization can move from points of...TrendMicro Adds Enhanced Host Security & New Cloud Encryption
— Trend Micro is adding an anti-malware module to its host-based security product, now Deep Security 7.5, the host-based intrusion prevention product from the acquisition of Third Brigade last year. They are also introducing SecureCloud, a hosted encryption service for protecting data in the cloud. The anti-malware capab...Security-as-a-service growing
— When you ask IT professionals if they use cloud computing or software-as-a-service, most start by saying "no". But if you ask some follow up questions, you will quickly find out about "that one application" that is a SaaS application.EMC Reduces TCO For Virtual Desktops 60 Percent
— EMC Corporation, the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced a comprehensive portfolio of services and solutions for VMware View 4.5 to help customers accelerate deployment of virtual desktop environments. By centralizing the management of desktops and deploying those virtually with VMware...HP agrees to pay $55M to settle fraud charges
— HP will pay the U.S. government $55 million to settle allegations that it defrauded the U.S. General Service Administration and other agencies by paying kickbacks to systems integrators in exchange for recommendations that agencies purchase HP products, the U.S. Department of Justice said Monday.How to Implement a Successful Data Deduplication Strategy
— Even as data volumes grow and regulatory mandates multiply, today's IT organizations must meet increasingly strict service-level agreements while controlling costs. Data deduplication eliminates redundant data, helping IT organizations to enjoy improved data management, easier disaster recovery and reduced data storage...New test build of Windows 7 SP1 goes to select Microsoft partners
— Microsoft has released a beta refresh of its Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack (SP) 1 to selected PC and Technology Adoption Program (TAP) partners, company officials confirmed on...HP's Cloudstart said to speed private cloud deployment
— Hewlett-Packard has unveiled CloudStart, a package that includes hardware, software, and consulting services and aims to speed up the construction of private clouds, it said on Monday.Pomegranate - Storing Billions and Billions of Tiny Little Files
— Pomegranate is a novel distributed file system built over distributed tabular storage that acts an awful lot like a NoSQL system. It's targeted at increasing the performance of tiny object access in order to support applications like online photo and micro-blog services, which require high concurrency, high...More Than A Million Reasons the Cloud May Be Safe
— I am back on the theme of cloud security. Why cloud security again ? Because cloud security raised its head again last week on a consultancy assignment I undertook. My client requires a new business application. This is available as Software as a Service(SaaS), but can also be purchased as a self hosted application. On...Our Global Sourcing Book – Opportunities for Europe!
— You may have followed that I will be driving our Global Sourcing/Outsourcing initiative for our company called Quantum Step. I have quit Atos Origin after a decent –nearly 3 years — run at the service provider. Now I am moving back to the place I prefer to hang out the most, which is the buyer [...]Optimizing Windows Azure Services using WCF, REST and JSON
— When XML was first proposed it must have been a spoof. The problem is, nobody got the joke. Let’s say we had a database of pets and we wanted to export some data. One choice could be a comma-separated file. The data might look something like this: The first row is for the headers. If someone [...]The InfoWorld SAN and NAS virtualization primer
— How storage virtualization technologies allow you to keep pace with ever-increasing storage requirements while maintaining high availability and service levelsMicrosoft Exchange 2010 Service Pack 1 ships
— Microsoft announced general availability of the final version of Exchange 2010 Service Pack (SP) 1 on August 25.Elastic IP in Amazon EC2
— As part of the EC2 service Amazon offers a feature called “Elastic IP Addresses” (EIP). Exactly what are these and how can we use them to our advantage? The idea behind Elastic IPs (which really are static addresses) in AWS is that you can reserve an IP address. Then you can assign that IP address [...]Sunoco Taps IBM to Streamline Back Office Processes
— IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that it has signed an agreement with Sunoco, Inc. (NYSE: SUN), a leading manufacturer and marketer of petroleum and petrochemical products, to provide managed business process services and application support services. Through this agreement, IBM will help Sunoco drive improveme...CloudFucius Repeats: Money (Really) Moving to the Cloud
— Ever wish you saved a blog title for that ‘perfect’ eye-catcher? Well, I do. Last week I wrote about some cloud surveys talking about how financial institutions are using cloud services titled: CloudFucius’ Money: Trickles to the Cloud. I get to this week’s weekly entry and Ka-Chow (with apologies to Lig...The rise -- and risk -- of the composite clouds
— Many cloud providers are learning to eat their own dog food, and they're leveraging other clouds to augment missing pieces of their offerings. As a result, you may find that a cloud provider offering software as a service (SaaS) is actually leveraging another cloud for storage, another cloud for compute, and perhaps ot...Interacting with your Swift install
— Once you have swift services running, you are going to want to interact with them. (You can have them running in minutes if you want: swift-solo) Most of the currently available tools that interact with Rackspace’s Cloudfiles are hardcoded to that API endpoint, so even though the APIs are virtually identical, ...The future cloud should fend for itself
— Automation stands at the heart of the economics and operation of cloud computing services. However, today's automation is primitive and requires much manual engineering and intervention. ...Some Cloud Thoughts on a Clear and Sunny Day
— Cloud Computing is a deployment model and cloud computing is a business model. Cloud computing is not some silver bullet magical thing. It's not even easy *gasp* sometimes. As a deployment model cloud computing can it is simply summed up as on-demand, self-service, reliable, and low to no capital costs se...Can Telco’s be the Cloud gods?
— Global telecommunications majors like AT&T, BT, Orange Business Services and Verizon Business could take a large share of the cloud computing pie, giving IT companies a run for their money, says a new report by telecom analysis and consulting firm Ovum. Ovum says these companies have led a “competitive march...Most of APAC customers are looking at Cloud Computing
— Well, we know they have been looking at it for quite a few many years. Sometimes the surveys really don’t tell you much. I am curious about two things: - How many of them are doing it substantially? - What are their experiences with services like Force/Google/AWS and other tranditonal vendors as IBM, CSC, TCS, [....OpenStack: Swift Barn Raising
— At Cloudscaling, we’re getting closer to putting OpenStack into production services. This is the first installment chronicling that journey and opening some of the tools that we are developing along the way. OpenStack is a cloud computing framework for building infrastructure as a service, and Swift is a subproj...Amazon start-up competition to include European semi-final
— AWS prize for regional winnersStart-ups doing inventive things with Amazon's cloud services are being sought for the company's annual start-up challenge. And, for the first time, there's a separate European section for new companies this side of the pond.Audio Tech Brief - Kerberos Constrained Delegation and Protocol Transition in Smart Card PKI Architectures
— Using the F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager to support federation of cross-domain service access in a Smart Card PKI-enabled architecture. F5 BIG-IP LTM with ACA in Kerberos protocol transition and constrained delegation architectures allows for a more scalable, efficient and secure infrastructure capable of federat...Cap Gemini expands LATAM with Sonda acquisition, a BPO firm
— Capgemini, one of the world’s foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services, and Sonda Procwork, the Brazilian unit of Chilean IT systems integrator Sonda , today announced that Capgemini Brazil has acquired Sonda Procwork’s facility in Gaspar, in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil and will...AudioWP - Unleashing the True Potential of On-Demand IT
— F5’s dynamic control plane is a real-world embodiment of the dynamic services model. F5 solutions provide IT organizations the ability to grow beyond static data centers, manage movement and migration of their applications and data down the hall or around the world, support demanding and ever-increasing mobile u...Backup and Recovery in the Private Cloud
— For public cloud providers, backup and recovery is what's called a wedge. It's the service that gets your foot in the door, after which you hope to convince clients of the myriad other ways in which the cloud can help their business. Indeed, of all theFrost & Sullivan Names IBM North American Market Leader for Managed Security Services
— IBM today announced that it is the recipient of the Frost & Sullivan 2010 North American Market Leadership of the Year Award for its ability to enhance and maintain the most market share among managed security service providers (MSSPs). IBM received the honor for its continued strong foothold in the highly f...Zendesk Makes Great Customer Support Easy
— This post was written and contributed by Matthew Latkiewicz, Online Editor for Zendesk, a Rackspace Cloud Tools Partner. Zendesk is a leading provider of web-based customer support software with elegant ticket management and a self-service customer community platform. Built upon the idea that help desk software doesn...SAS 70 Type II
— SAS 70 (Statement on Auditing Standards No. 70) is a widely recognized auditing standard developed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). A SAS 70 audit represents that a service organization has been through an in-depth audit of their control objectives and control activities, which often i...Whatever the Numbers, Cloud Growth is Skyrocketing
— A UBS research report sparked a lot of discussion this week with its estimates on Amazon Web Services revenue. Analyzing the numbers is fine, but it’s most telling to look at the growth curve when analyzing the promise of cloud computing.Cloud Computing Is No Y2K Bonanza for IT Consulting Industry
— Consulting, systems integration and outsourcing vendors must prepare themselves for life in the cloud, too, says Forrester Research. For traditional IT service providers, cloud is bad news in the short term, but is it really good news in the long term?Cloud Providers are Sitting on a Statistical Gold Mine
— When companies host software in the cloud, users benefit not just from the service alone, but from the data a web-based software provider can gather on all its customers. This lesson was driven home in mid July when FreshBooks detailed the size of its “FreshBooks economy.”Cloud computing creates legal tangles
— Legally, do you dare trust your business's data to the cloud?Everyone knows the big virtues of using cloud computing services: They're cheap, you can scale them on demand, and they're fault-tolerant. Everyone also thinks they know cloud computing's vices: a variety of security and management concerns. What a lot of peo...Holistic Approach to Energy Efficient Datacenters
— By Dileep Bhandarkar, Ph. D. Distinguished EngineerGlobal Foundation Services, Microsoft A little over three years ago, I joined Microsoft to lead the hardware engineering team that helped decide which servers Microsoft would purchase to run its online services. We had just brought our first Microsoft-designed d...Dell unveils security hardware and services
— Dell on Wednesday beefed up its security offerings with new hardware and services, which could help the company engage more customers in long-term services deals.New twist on trust when storing data online
— Gripe Line reader Joan wrote in to warn readers about trusting important financial and business documents to Web storage services. "About a year ago, my business partner embezzled the remaining assets of a trucking company we founded together," Joan says. "We had been storing our invoices and trucking contracts on a se...Cisco, nonprofit launch community network projects in northern Ohio
— OneCommunity, a nonprofit broadband service provider in Cleveland, has joined with Cisco Systems to implement pilot programs to boost the region's quality of life using a network-based, shared-services delivery platform.Does OpenStack Change the Cloud Game?
— This week Rackspace Cloud, in conjunction with the NASA Nebula project, open sourced some of their Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud software. This initiative, dubbed ‘OpenStack’, should have a dramatic impact on the current dynamics for building cloud computing infrastructure. Previously there hav...Why Microsoft's PC-Inspired Cloud Strategy Might Work
— Microsoft has decided on its vision for the cloud: Treat cloud computing like it treated the PC business. Microsoft is once again looking to server makers to sell its software, but now it has added service providers to the mix.IBM Expands Cloud Computing Capabilities With New Cloud Competence Center in Ehningen, Germany
— IBM today announced a new IBM Cloud Computing Competence Center in Ehningen, Germany, which will provide a broad range of cloud solutions and services to clients locally and internationally. Located in Ehningen, Germany, home to IBM's largest data center in Europe, the new facility will host a range of tec...NetApp Integrates with Microsoft Toolkit to Enable Service Providers to Take SMBs to the Cloud
— New Professional Service Offerings and Design Guidance Help Service Providers Deliver Additional Value to SMBsSelling the Infrastructure Cloud
— We are settling in to cloud deployment models and can see how it will play out on the infrastructure side. But now cloud computing vendors need to go from selling ideas to selling products and services, while end users need to invest in more than experiments.How to really transform a service business
— Using the cloud and SaaS can totally transform how a business operates, but I only see a few innovative companies really taking advantage of the potential — the big guys are missing it completely.Policy and the cloud
— Cloud users shouldn’t just worry about security. SLAs should cover performance, availability, privacy, cost and many other criteria. In an ideal world, those service levels should be reconfigurable on demand, too. But the technology’s not there yet.IBM Extends Billion DKK Service Agreement with Danske Bank Through 2017
— COPENHAGEN, July 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Danske Bank, one of the largest banks in the Nordic region, today announced a seven-year, billion DKK contract extension of IBM's management of Danske Bank's global information technology (IT) infrastructure. The new agreement, signed in Ju...Cisco's FabricPath beats IETF standard to market
— Cisco this week expanded its data center arsenal with software, switches, modules and services all designed to scale the infrastructure to meet the demanding needs of virtualization, application complexity and cloud computing.Structure 2010: Where Is Cloud Computing Headed?
— The final panel of GigaOM's Structure 2010 brought together five people who run a diverse groups of clouds -- from Yahoo's self-contained infrastructure that runs all its sites to The Planet, which offers cloud services for small businesses.Why security needs to catch up to Web 2.0
— Security managers can keep blocking Facebook, refusing to support mobile devices and vetoing cloud-based services, but they aren't going away. And ignoring ways to make room for them in your security program is like burying your head in the sand, according to Tom Gillis, vice president and general manager of Cisco's se...Terremark Launches the NAP of Amsterdam
— Company Signs Lease Agreement with Digital Realty for Top-Tier Facility AMS-IX Agrees to Establish Peering Node Schiphol Group Secured as Anchor Customer MIAMI, Jun 21, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) --Terremark Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ:TMRK), a leading global provider of managed IT infrastructure services, today announced the ...Cognizant strengthens its testing portfolio with Paris-based Galileo Performance acquisition
— Outsourced testing services have been growing significantly in reducing the cost of quality assurance and software maintenance and also ensuring tighter alignment of IT with business objectives and improved governance and risk mitigation, Cognizant said. Industry research firm IDC forecasts a five-year compound annual ...Wi-Fi, WiMax service launched in San Francisco Bay
— Milt Gregory is on a mission to set up wireless networks across bodies of water. His latest accomplishment: San Francisco Bay.Update: HP to cut 9,000 jobs; automate services business
— HP today announced plans to cut 9,000 jobs as it restructures its enterprise services business and automates the services it offers enterprise customers.DoD, NASA and GSA Address Secure Cloud Computing
— On Thursday, May 26th, the Federal Executive Forum featured three important Federal cloud computing leaders:David McClure- Associate Administrator, GSA Office of Citizen Services and Communications Col. Kevin Foster- Office of the Secretary of Defense Chris Kemp- CTO, NASA Ames The one hour program discussed: -&n...Dell unveils document management tool for printers
— Dell is embedding document management features in multifunction printers as it tries to establish a foothold in the managed print services market, the company said Thursday.Laptops: Best Places to Buy
— You shell out big bucks to buy your tech gear, but you may not be getting the best combination of selection, prices, and service from your local electronics emporium.Its called the new job lag….
— It has been a bit more than 2 months since I made a post on my beloved Loosebolts blog. To my active and loyal readers, a sincere apology from me personally. As many of you know I recently took a new role with Nokia running their global service operations. Its been an amazing experience an...Former Compaq CEO Capellas to lead Acadia joint venture
— EMC and Cisco have tapped former Compaq Computer CEO Michael Capellas to head their Acadia services joint venture, the companies said Thursday.Push for Arizona boycotts unlikely to hurt tech
— Local observers say that the impact of any boycotts of Arizona goods and services due to the state's new immigration law would likely have little long-term effect on the state's economy.Expanding the Cloud - Opening the AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region
— Today Amazon Web Services has taken another important step in serving customers worldwide: the AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region is now launched. Customers can now store their data and run their applications from our Singapore location in the same way they do from our other U.S. and European Regions. The importanc...newScale Poll Finds More Than 40% of Developers in Enterprises Are Using External Cloud Services
— HyperStratus and newScale Introduce Joint Cloud Computing Workshop for IT OperationsAWS Import/Export launches support for Legacy Storage Systems
— Today Amazon Web Services takes another big step in making it easier to migrate legacy storage systems to the cloud through AWS Import/Export support for ingesting Punch Cards. AWS Import/Export accelerates moving large amounts of data into and out of AWS using portable storage media for transport. Punch cards are pa...Cisco Valet Makes It Easier to Miss Linksys
— You can still find Linksys routers for sale, but Cisco is now leveraging its own brand on new Wi-Fi products. While sad from a traditionalist point of view, the new routers are easier to set up thanks to an innovative and included valet service.newScale Announces Support for the Cisco Unified Computing System
— Cisco UCS Customers Can Now Use newScale Self-Service and Lifecycle Management Software to Build Private Clouds and IaaSInside MS Cloud Model for Productivity Apps
— Corporate VP of Microsoft Online Services Ron Markezich discusses the joys and pitfalls of productivity apps in the cloud, how to mix your own data center with Microsoft's cloud model, and the rising tide of BPOS competitors. Hint: It's not just Google.Citrix Uses newScale RequestCenter to Improve Efficiency for End-User IT Operations
— Virtualization Leader Partners with newScale and Anton Systems for IT Service Catalog SolutionCisco drops HP as certified reseller, service partner
— In a move that reflects its greater competition with systems vendors, Cisco systems will not renew a certified reseller and service contract with HP this spring.Cisco, Juniper push new mobility-focused products
— The two biggest router companies are focusing their attention on mobility this week with products to address operator needs for rich 4G multimedia services.Rolling Clouds – My Move into the Mobile Cloud
— As many of you saw in my last note, I have officially left Digital Realty Trust to address some personal things. While I get those things in order I am not sitting idling by. I am extremely happy to announce that I have taken a role at Nokia as their VP of Service Operations. In [...]newScale Reports Record 2009 Results with New Customer Acquisitions and More Than Two Million Users
— IT Service Catalog Solution Named a "Must Have" Technology for 2010A peek behind the scenes at Hotmail
— For an interesting discussion on Windows Live Hotmail and the importance of operating and engineering the service (at huge scale), please visit the Windows Live Team’s Blog site and Arthur de Haan’s December 22, 2009 posting titled: A peek behind the scenes at Hotmail /gfsService Catalog Thought Leaders Announce Open Service Catalog Specification Industry Consortium
— The SPACL (Service Portfolio and Catalog Language) Consortium Delivers First Draft of a Service Catalog Interchange SpecificationRightsizing Servers to Achieve Cost and Power Savings in the Datacenter
— By Dileep Bhandarkar, Ph. D. Distinguished Engineer Global Foundation Services, Microsoft I speak about server rightsizing from time to time at technology conferences, and am surprised that the basic concepts are new to some people in the industry. A lot of people don’t realize the huge performan...82 Billion Objects in Amazon S3
— At the end of Q3 2009 we counted over 82 billion objects in Amazon S3. Congrats to the team for providing such a rock solid service! When looking at the graph keep in mind that the first 4 markers are a year apart, but the last one only 6 months.Cloud scaling considerations
— Amazon’s new Relational Database Service (RDS) has generated quite a bit of buzz as of late. This move propels Amazon forward into the application services provider in the cloud computing arena. I’ve briefly written about different types of cloud services in an earlier post and outlined differences between ...Not Everything Is a Cloud
— Cloud computing may be the most overhyped information technology term in recent memory, surpassed only by the ubiquitous Web 2.0 moniker. As a venture capitalist focused on investing in the infrastructure and platform-as-a-service segments of the cloud, this hype has prompted a slew of startups to flood [...]Microsoft’s Infrastructure Services Team Welcomes Kevin Timmons
— Building an organization around exceptional leaders with the deepest industry expertise is core to how we evolve our Global Foundation Services organization. One such leader is Kevin Timmons, who joined Microsoft Global Foundation Services (GFS) today to head up our Data Center Services organization. Kevin brings a wea...Ramp Up DC Utilization and Drive Down Costs with a Private Cloud
— Join Brian Wilson, Director of Virtualization and Cloud Services at Quest Software, as he discusses the many possible advantages of a private cloud to your enterprise. Published by: Surgient
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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...Cloud Providers and Security “Edge” Services – Where’s The Beef?
— Previously I wrote a post titled “Oh Great Security Spirit In the Cloud: Have You Seen My WAF, IPS, IDS, Firewall…” in which I described the challenges for enterprises moving applications and services to the Cloud while trying to ensure parity in compensating controls, some of which are either not availab...The Cloud & eHarmony’s 29 Dimensions Of Compatability…
— I speak to many customers — large companies in numerous verticals and service providers – who are for the reasons we are all very well aware of, engaging in projects large and small focused on Cloud adoption. On the enterprise side, the dialog almost inevitably goes like this: We’re working on takin...Silent Lucidity: IaaS — Already A Dinosaur? The Evolution of PaaSasaurus Rex…
— Sitting in an impressive room at the Google campus in Mountain View last month, I asked the collective group of brainpower a slightly rhetorical question: How much longer do you feel pure-play Infrastructure-As-A-Service will be a relevant service model within the spectrum of cloud services? I couched the question with...Microsoft Azure Going “Down Stack,” Adding IaaS Capabilities. AWS/VMware WAR!
— It’s very interesting to see that now that infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) players like Amazon Web Services are clawing their way “up the stack” and adding more platform-as-a-service (PaaS) capabilities, that Microsoft is going “down stack” and providing IaaS capabilities by way of addi...Cloud: Over Subscription vs. Over Capacity – Two Different Things
— There’s been a very interesting set of discussions lately regarding performance anomalies across Cloud infrastructure providers. The most recent involves Amazon Web Services and RackSpace Cloud. Let’s focus on the former because it’s the one that has a good deal of analysis and data attached to it. ...You Can’t Secure The Cloud…
— That’s right. You can’t secure “The Cloud” and the real shocker is that you don’t need to. You can and should, however, secure your assets and the elements within your control that are delivered by cloud services and cloud service providers, assuming of course there are interfaces to do so...Dear SaaS Vendors: If Cloud Is The Way Forward & Companies Shouldn’t Spend $ On Privately-Operated Infrastructure, When Are You Moving Yours To Amazon Web Services?
— We’re told repetitively by Software as a Service (SaaS)* vendors that infrastructure is irrelevant, that CapEx spending is for fools and that Cloud Computing has fundamentally changed the way we will, forever, consume computing resources. Why is it then that many of the largest SaaS providers on the planet (incl...Hoff’s 5 Rules Of Cloud Security…
— Mike Dahn pinged me via Twitter with an interesting and challenging question: I took this as a challenge in 5 minutes or less to articulate this in succinct, bulleted form. I timed it. 4 minutes & 48 seconds. Loaded with snark and Hoffacino-fueled dogma. Here goes: Get an Amazon Web Services [or Rackspace or Terr...
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My name is Catherine Liao and you're reading the latest postings of various blogs I follow. You'll notice that the topics tend to center around Cloud Computing, Data Center, Virtualization, Servers, Web Technologies and 24x7 Operations.
These are topics that I'm interested in as I've spent a large chunk of my professional career building, deploying, and maintaining 24x7 application delivery environments. I use the knowledge I've garnered daily in my role as a Technology Solutions Architect for Cisco. I should note that this site is my personal site and does not reflect the views of Cisco.
Feel free to drop me a note if you find this site useful or if you'd like for me to check out your blog. I can be reached at catherine.liao@gmail.com. You can also connect with me via LinkedIn or Twitter.
Looking for less "geeky" content? Check out my travel blog 1-Day Itinerary.
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Data Center Migration Blog
CloudAve
DevCentral Weblogs
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ServerTech Blog - Information for the Data Center Equipment Manager
ms datacenters
Perspectives
Cloud Computing
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mhalligan's blog
Groves Green IT
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog
Arthur Cole
Geeking with Greg
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