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From IT to ET: Cloud, consumerisation, and the next wave of IT transformation

IT as we know it is over.

By Johna Till Johnson | 23 April, 2012 21:32

Tags: cloud computing, Configuration/maintenance, consumerization, Data Center, hardware systems, Harvard Business Review, infrastructure management, internet, mainframe, management, Nemertes Research, networking, Nicholas Carr, outsourcing, services, wireless

Is there a 'best' way to set up your private Cloud storage?

Given that Cloud computing is still emerging, it shouldn't come as a surprise that opinions vary widely on the best way to architect the storage. In fact, it seems likely that there is no such panacea - different types of private Cloud almost always require different approaches.

By Jon Gold | 28 March, 2012 06:24

Tags: cloud computing, cloud storage, internet, private cloud, private cloud storage

Are you ready for networking in the cloud?

The two primary forms of public cloud computing, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), are both growing dramatically in popularity. Over the last few years, the primary focus of the IaaS providers has been on offering the basic compute and storage resources required to run applications.

By Jim Metzler | 31 October, 2011 21:48

Tags: cloud computing, internet, SaaS, Software as a service

Rackspace, Dell push OpenStack cloud OS

Rackspace will help enterprises build private clouds using the OpenStack cloud operating system, the company announced Tuesday. Meanwhile, Dell is seeking enterprises and service providers for proof-of-concept OpenStack trials with its Dell PowerEdge C family of servers.

By Julie Bort | 09 March, 2011 03:31

Tags: amp, cloud computing, Configuration / maintenance, Data Center, dell, hardware systems, internet, open stack, rackspace, server

Cloud tools organize your messy digital life

When people moved from paper to digital files on a computer, it didn't take long to realize that you can get just as burdened by digital stuff as by hard copies. Before long, companies sprang up to sell utility programs to help you find and organize the stuff on your computer. We're going through a similar cycle right now, with many of us moving our digital assets to servers in the cloud, and finding that managing stuff scattered across a myriad of sites belonging to a myriad of companies can be terribly frustrating.

By Bill Snyder | 08 March, 2011 07:36

Tags: cloud computing, internet

What cloud computing means for the real world

There are more than a few critics of cloud computing, even at PCWorld; I'm probably one of them. But I've been turning over in my mind different perspectives on the cloud. I've tried to set aside the views of the IT executive, who seems to dominate the debate.

By Keir Thomas | 05 February, 2011 11:53

Tags: cloud computing, firewalls, Google, internet, Internet-based applications and services, network security, online security, security, Web-based Applications

How DRM could ensure cloud security

Yet another survey is indicating that security is a big issue for those intending to take up cloud computing.

By Keir Thomas | 04 February, 2011 05:53

Tags: applications, cloud, cloud computing, data protection, digital rights management, encryption, firewalls, intellectual property, internet, Ipswitch, legal, network security, online security, open source, security, software

Cloud drives speech recognition forward for Microsoft

For years, using voice recognition technology on phones or other devices has been a novelty -- something people try once but never again, usually because it works so poorly. But recent developments, including harnessing the computational power of the cloud, have made it more usable and will make it even better in the near future, according to Microsoft.

By Nancy Gohring | 14 December, 2010 06:43

Tags: applications, consumer electronics, Game platforms, games, gaming peripherals, Hosted, Microsoft, Phones, services, smartphones, software, speech, Xbox360

Slideshow: Verb IT first with HP Performance Optimised Datacentre (POD)

Sydney-based Verb IT is the first company in the Asia Pacific region to provision an HP Performance Optimised Datacentre (POD) next-generation data centre in a shipping container. The new Verb DC site where the POD is located is a standard industrial warehouse in Wyong on the NSW Central Coast (one hour north of Sydney). Verb DC is schedueld to go live in September after a 14-week project, including the POD delivery time. In what is being painted as a big win for the Central Coast IT industry, the new POD will provide computing services to local businesses and the world.

By Rodney Gedda | 20 August, 2010 08:57

Tags: data centres, green IT, HP, HP POD, Portable Modular Data Centre (PMDC), Triforce Services, Verb IT

Open source helps Facebook achieve massive app scalability

People all over the world spend a total of eight billion minutes a day on Facebook. Some 3.5 billion pieces of content are shared every week, 400 billion Web pages are viewed every month and the site logs a staggering 25TB of data every day. David Recordon, senior open programs manager at Facebook, talks about how the social networking giant uses open source tools to achieve its massive app scalablilty.

By Rodney Gedda | 24 February, 2010 09:40

Tags: apache, cloud computing, databases, Facebook, high performance computing (HPC), lamp, Linux, memcached, mysql, open source, php, SaaS, software development

Slideshow: Open source at Facebook

It’s loved by millions and has risen from a small-time university social networking service to the biggest phenomenon on the Internet. It’s the phenomenon that is Facebook. Popularity, however, doesn’t come easy. With some 400 million unique home pages Facebook is pushing the boundaries of traditional Web application scalability and it’s not shy to admit that it has been achieved by leveraging open source software. We take a look at some of the slides presented by Facebook at this year's FOSDEM conference in Belgium.

By Rodney Gedda | 24 February, 2010 14:25

Tags: cloud computing, Facebook, open source, social networks

Safety in the cloud

RSA President Art Coviello's thoughts on cloud security.

By Art Coviello, president, RSA | 04 March, 2010 09:00

Tags: cloud security

Inside Amazon's Cloud: Just How Many Customer Projects?

There's been a lot of discussion the past couple of days about an analysis by Guy Rosen, in which he estimates that Amazon Web Services (AWS) is provisioning 50K EC2 server instances per day. He created this estimate by examining EC2 resource IDs and doing a time-series analysis on how much the IDs are incremented per hour.

By Bernard Golden | 30 September, 2009 07:52

Tags: amazon, amazon ec2, Amazon Web Services, cloud computing, Virtualization

What Microsoft Azure means to SMBs: not much, yet

Small and medium-sized businesses have more important things to worry about than Microsoft's new Azure, a cloud-resident platform for building applications served to users online.

By David Coursey | 15 July, 2009 23:16

Tags: cloud computing, SaaS, Windows Azure

No to SQL? Anti-database movement gains steam

The meet-up in San Francisco last month had a whiff of revolution about it, like a latter-day techie version of the American Patriots planning the Boston Tea Party.

By Eric Lai | 02 July, 2009 12:07

Tags: cloud computing, databases, mysql, web 2.0

Platform Computing tackles tech-agnostic cloud management

Grid vendor Platform Computing has unveiled new private cloud software that aggregates servers, storage, networking tools and hypervisors to create a shared pool of physical and virtual resources.

By Jon Brodkin | 23 June, 2009 08:07

Tags: cloud computing, hypervisors, VMware, vsphere

FAQ: Cloud computing, demystified

Everyone in the IT industry is talking about cloud computing, but there is still confusion about what the cloud is, how it should be used and what problems and challenges it might introduce. This FAQ will answer some of the key questions enterprises are asking about cloud computing.

By Jon Brodkin | 18 May, 2009 15:01

Tags: cloud computing

Google outage lesson: Don't get stuck in a cloud

Google has apologized for yesterday's service outage that left 14 percent of its user base without Google's wide variety of online services for a few hours.

By Ian Paul | 16 May, 2009 01:29

Tags: cloud computing, Google

What to do if your cloud provider disappears

Software developer Christopher Shockey saw the first signs of trouble in late 2008. A sales rep who had always represented Web application development provider Coghead was now calling on behalf of Coghead's much larger rival Salesforce.com.

By Robert L. Scheier | 21 April, 2009 09:05

Tags: cloud computing, coghead, CRM, development platforms, ERP, IBM, salesforce.com, sap, sugarCRM

Cloud computing: Don't get caught without an exit strategy

When the IT world looks back at 2008, it will certainly remember the global financial crisis. But it will also likely link that time frame with the takeoff of cloud computing, the engine behind more conferences, conversations and marketing collateral than seemingly any other technology in development today.

By Mary Brandel | 04 March, 2009 08:34

Tags: cloud computing

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