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 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 th...Jun. 9, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,194 |
 A PMTUD black hole can cause a particularly subtle set of issues in hybrid cloud-based environments where the cloud resources are connected to a corporate office or other datacenter via IPSec tunnels. PMTUD black holes basically cause certain (but not all) traffic to not make it throug...May. 22, 2013 09:33 AM EDT Reads: 1,239 |
 Legos have been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. Some of my earliest, fondest memories involve Legos - starting from a small car made from a couple of simple bricks to very complex spaceships and wild creatures. I’m always amazed at how nicely and cleanly they snap toge...May. 20, 2013 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,564 |
 In a recent blog post, we discussed the emergence of Cloud Protection Gateways as a solution for enterprises looking to protect sensitive cloud data by keeping that data under their complete control. We started looking at the vetting process enterprises undertake when they are selectin...May. 4, 2013 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,652 |
 Through a great deal of research on enterprise cloud adoption and security, I’ve learned something telling. As you would expect, CISOs’ opinions about cloud strategy are quite varied. While many folks recognize their company’s use of SaaS for HR, sales, communication, and other applica...May. 3, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,646 |
 The "Force Majeure" provision, a Latin term roughly meaning an "Act of God" is commonly found in most services agreements. But should it be included in your cloud services contract?
This nugget is a common clause in contracts that essentially frees both parties from liability or obli...Apr. 19, 2013 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,562 |
 Associated Surgeons and Physicians, LLC in Indiana went from zero to 100 percent virtualized infrastructure and as a result, met many compliance and efficiency goals.
In part one of a two-part interview series, we discuss how a mid-market health services provider rapidly adopted serve...Mar. 28, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,144 |
 We have just published a post at the OpenNebula blog with our view about the different measures that should be considered to evaluate the openness of the main open-source Cloud Management Platforms (CMPs). Which is the m...Mar. 14, 2013 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,467 |
 You may be the CIO or IT manager for a fairly complex IT environment. You also may already have begun moving your data center to a private cloud paradigm that offers greater efficiency and agility to meet your company's needs.
While there are still a few challenges to work through, m...Mar. 3, 2013 12:00 PM EST Reads: 2,784 |
 Improving application program performance will require parallelizing the program execution at ever finer granularity now that the processor clock rates are no longer increasing. However, even in a per-application dedicated computing environment, the parallelization overhead is known to...Feb. 18, 2013 08:00 AM EST Reads: 3,749 |
 As an Infrastructure-as-a-Service provider, Bluelock sees a lot of migration of applications. Migration is occurring from physical servers to cloud, from private cloud to public cloud and back to private cloud from public cloud.
Migration can be tricky and a poor migration strategy c...Feb. 8, 2013 12:00 PM EST Reads: 4,940 |
 The benefits associated with adoption of the cloud are well documented and understood. Organizations cite tremendous cost savings, fast deployment times and streamlined application support and maintenance when compared to traditional on-premise software deployments. So what is holding ...Feb. 4, 2013 07:00 AM EST Reads: 2,165 |
 As we know, Chief Information Officers are generally ‘change and upheaval averse’ because it is, after all, mostly prudent to resist change. With change comes risk, new user training, new integration challenges and a bottom line with increased cost. But new social enterprise trends can...Feb. 1, 2013 11:00 AM EST Reads: 2,700 |
 For many companies, the business benefits that cloud computing promises are too compelling too ignore: improved agility, lower costs, better resource allocation, and fewer operational issues. As a result, organizations have been moving commodity infrastructure and services to cloud-bas...Jan. 21, 2013 03:15 PM EST Reads: 4,702 |
 The lack of ability to achieve compliance in a cloud environment is one of the main factors slowing or stopping enterprises from migrating to the cloud. But cloud advantages, specifically the significant flexibility, push more and more organizations to open up to the cloud and deman... Jan. 21, 2013 08:00 AM EST Reads: 1,695 |
 Mobile applications and mobile websites have become a major channel for conducting business, improving employee efficiency, communicating, and reaching consumers. In Part I of this article we discussed the differences between testing traditional and mobile applications, specific challe...Jan. 7, 2013 08:00 AM EST Reads: 3,819 |
 One of the major criticisms of private clouds is that the end user still has to build, manage and maintain the infrastructure to the extent that they are continuing the ‘keeping the lights on’ approach of IT. Ultimately this lacks the economic benefit that makes cloud computing such an...Dec. 20, 2012 12:00 PM EST Reads: 2,552 |
 Centrify, the ISV that makes its living leveraging Microsoft’s Active Directory, has got some new cloud-based widgetry that lets organizations centrally secure and control access to their Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) deployments.
The adoption of SaaS apps combined with the Bring-Your...Dec. 17, 2012 07:30 AM EST Reads: 3,412 |
 Dell just released a technical preview of its private cloud widgetry, Dell
Cloud Dedicated with OpenStack, and while it was at said OpenStack is
going to be its primary cloud platform, used for both public and private
clouds.
The company intends to continue to offer overall solut...Dec. 14, 2012 11:00 AM EST Reads: 3,435 |
 When eGestalt of Santa Clara, CA, announced in November they were launching a cloud-based security and compliance solution, it set the stage to change the way enterprise businesses could cope with complex compliance and security issues.
The solution, powered by Rapid7 scanning technol...Dec. 13, 2012 02:00 PM EST Reads: 3,197 |
 Lake Health's Information Security Officer has been expanding the breadth and depth of risk management there to a more holistic level -- far more than just a series of security products.
Many people are practicing IT security and they're employing products and technologies. They're pu...Dec. 3, 2012 06:45 AM EST Reads: 2,599 |
 A cloud-of-clouds approach is providing new types of IT services to Thomas Duryea’s many Asia-Pacific region customers.
Why cloud services for your consulting and business customers now? Have they been asking for it
Certainly, the customers are the big driver while we are moving into...Nov. 16, 2012 03:35 AM EST Reads: 2,558 |
 Cloud computing is so alluring. The public cloud economizes infrastructure resources and creates a scalable, on-demand source for compute capacity. Additionally, the cloud can be a strategic asset for enterprises that know how to migrate, integrate and govern deployments securely.
App...Oct. 18, 2012 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,766 |
 Want to support my.fancy.app.can.serve.up.anything.mybrand.com in your Windows Azure application? Just use wildcard CNAMEs and a little code glue!
I was meeting with a small company today that has developed a SaaS solution around task and project management. It's a very cool applicat...Oct. 3, 2012 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 4,476 |
 Healthcare services provider McKesson has transformed the notion of IT by recasting the role of IT. How pharmaceuticals distributor and healthcare information technology services provider McKesson has transformed the very notion of IT. We will see how a shift in culture and an emphasis...Sep. 30, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,843 |
 Earlier this week, the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and Massachusetts Ear and Eye, Inc. (MEEI) agreed to pay a hefty $1.5 million settlement to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services for alleged HIPAA violations. According to MEEI, a personal laptop that contained unencr...Sep. 22, 2012 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,803 |
 “To manage a private cloud infrastructure, we have focused our efforts on the challenges that face our customers when deploying a private cloud for their collaboration environment.”
How did you come to the private cloud approach?
Bystran: As you may know, we have had over 600 custome...Sep. 14, 2012 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,915 |
 There’s lots of talk today about the “cloud” today. But what exactly is it? Some may argue that the cloud is just marketing hype – a buzzword for a broad range of solutions being billed the latest, greatest trend that everyone is trying to exploit. Others – who oftentimes have a vested...Aug. 28, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 3,797 |
 Earlier this month, Rackspace announced the release of Rackspace Private Cloud Software, powered by OpenStack and code-named Alamo. The new offering is designed to make it easy for organizations to install, test and run a multi-node OpenStack-based Aug. 21, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,241 |
 In the first quarter of 2012, FEMA reported 12 natural disasters throughout the country, including tornadoes, flooding, mudslides and severe storms from Florida to Alaska. The threats to your data are limitless – natural disasters, fires, water damage, equipment theft and hardware fail...Aug. 1, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,572 |
 This thought leadership interview examines the latest efforts to make global supply chains for technology providers more secure, verified, and therefore trusted.
The Open Group has a vision of boundaryless information flow, and that necessarily involves interoperability. But interoper...Jul. 17, 2012 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,336 |
 Cloud security is in a state of flux. Actually it’s not really, but discussion is rife across the industry regarding the general state of cloud data and application welfare. Questions flutter around whether particular services are secure, whether multi-tenant clouds can be locked down ...Jul. 11, 2012 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,223 |
 CTP2 offers customers an opportunity to evaluate both System Center 2012 and Windows Server 2012, both are the enabling technologies for constructing private cloud with hybrid scenarios. There are important updates and enhancements to System Center 2012 components and this post is a qu...Jul. 10, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,685 |
 "The State of Cloud Computing June 2012" was the topic under discussion in the traditional SYS-CON.tv Power Panel recorded in our Times Square studio yesterday - the Sunday before today's Cloud Expo New York opening, kicking off 4 days of Keynotes, General Sessions technical and strate...Jun. 11, 2012 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,168 |
 I am the track chair of the CloudExpo Bootcamp this year at Jacob Javits Center in NYC from June 11-14. You can check the agenda here.
As an invitee of the track chair, you can register for free (with the bootcamp option) at www.cloudcomputingexpo.com with "robustcloud" as the promo...Jun. 8, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,288 |
 With Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) now just three weeks away, what better time to introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the conference...May. 21, 2012 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 5,432 |
 The growing use of Infrastructure as a Service to run custom applications, SaaS, and PaaS offerings is increasing the demand of management solutions to leverage the automation offered by IaaS. One of the biggest advantages of IaaS is the ability to automate tasks which were not possib...May. 10, 2012 04:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,093 |
 Business standards and compliance services provider SAI Global is benefiting from a strategic view of IT enabled disaster recovery.
When we started to get into DR, we handled it from an IT point of view and it was very much like an iceberg. We looked at the technology and said, "This...Apr. 27, 2012 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,654 |
 Are you the one to decide on implementing your next project based on public cloud platforms such as Windows Azure? Is it going to be HTML5, Flash or Silverlight for your rich end-user interface? Have you thought about the costs running on cloud services that seem cheaper than hosting o...Apr. 18, 2012 12:07 PM EDT Reads: 2,657 |
 Only ten weeks to go! Time for an alphabetical summary of the many leading-edge themes & topics to be discussed at Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) - being held June 11-14, 2012, at the Javits Convention Center in New York City and co-located with Big Data Expo 2012 New York ...Apr. 5, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 9,020 |
