Items Tagged with "Cloud Computing"
Virtualization: Making Seductive Promises a Reality
October 22, 2010 Added by:Rahul Neel Mani
VMware is certainly not giving up its position in the hypervisor market but that’s not something the company banks on. Paul Maritz, CEO of VMware speaks about how the company will rule the world in data center automation and management space...
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Virtualization, VMware and Hybrid Sense
October 18, 2010 Added by:Rahul Neel Mani
Virtualization may not be for everybody yet, but a hybrid strategy could suit many. During VMworld 2010, VMware announced a bevy of new offerings. Raghu Raguram, Senior VP and General Manager, Virtualization and Cloud Platforms, VMware spoke to Rahul Neel Mani during the event...
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Verecloud Hoping to Save the Telcos
October 17, 2010 Added by:Ben Kepes
Cloud services are a completely logical move for telcos – after all voice services are arguably a perfect example of the very utility products that cloud is fashioned after. Telcos already have customer billing relationships, tagging more services on top of that should be easy. But...
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A Cloud Computing Customer Bill of Rights
October 14, 2010 Added by:David Navetta
This document should be viewed less as a universal mandate, and more as a tool for cloud customers and providers to engage in spirited debate about the issues addressed in this Bill of Rights. This is a work in a progress and we invite you to submit your ideas on additional “rights” that we should include as well as any comments and criticisms on the current listing...
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Infrastructure is Incredibly Underutilised
October 13, 2010 Added by:Rahul Neel Mani
Mark Beaumont Director, Global Product Development - IT Solutions Verizon Business talks to Vinita Gupta about Verizon’s cloud computing offerings and the research that has gone into developing them...
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Vulnerability Management in the Cloud
October 07, 2010 Added by:Lawrence Pingree
Cloud providers will more than likely need to provide application programming interfaces which will allow the scan engines/management consoles to read-in current asset or deployment information from the cloud and then dynamically update the IP address information before scans commence...
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Industry Standards and Trusting the Cloud
October 06, 2010 Added by:Ben Kepes
It’s time for the industry to sit up and take notice. While we may consider there to be few commonalities between SaaS, PaaS and IaaS, from a consumer perspective it’s all cloud. We need a body to come together to act in the best interests of both the industry, and its customers...
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Consumerization of IT and Enterprise Evolution
October 05, 2010 Added by:Phil Agcaoili
We have a problem with new disruptive technology and we need to treat all endpoint systems as hostile. New consumer technology that's brought into the workplace (a trend known as consumerization of IT), the consumer use of free or low-cost cloud services for the connected online life, and the enterprise shift towards the cloud for vertical business applications are rapidly affecting the way worker...
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Data Centers Slow to Adopt Cloud Computing
October 01, 2010 Added by:Ben Kepes
What we’re seeing here is the higher maturity and marketplace acceptance of SaaS as opposed to infrastructure cloud computing – data center decision makers are notoriously conservative and much less likely to dabble with a cloud offering that hey deem to be unproven...
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In Cloud Computing, What’s in a Promise?
September 29, 2010 Added by:Rahul Neel Mani
Steve Hanna, co-chair of the Trusted Network Connect Work Group in the Trusted Computing Group and co-chair of the Network Endpoint Assessment Working Group in the Internet Engineering Task Force, speaks with Ashwani Mishra on key security concerns in cloud models...
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StorSimple Gives Some Context to Cloud Storage
September 25, 2010 Added by:Ben Kepes
There are two approaches towards content management in the cloud. The first seeks to replace traditional software and storage with web based tools. The second takes traditional tools and delivers an easier to use experience and enables collaboration...
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Security Certifications and Promoting Cloud Computing
September 14, 2010 Added by:Daniel Ruggles
The Cloud Security Alliance published the second edition of its guidelines for secure cloud computing, delivering a document that sets out an architectural framework and makes a host of recommendations around cloud security...
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What's Next For Oracle?
September 10, 2010 Added by:Kevin L. Jackson
Watching Larry Ellison and Oracle over the years as it has morphed itself is a real study in market dynamics. It's transformation from database company through middleware provider to now being a "cloud computing pioneer" is simply amazing. The only question now seems to be what's next?...
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Cloud Computing Definitions and Use Cases
September 09, 2010 Added by:Daniel Ruggles
An active discussion on cloud computing use cases brings a somewhat more practical approach to what this service might offer to a company and how it might evolve over time. Not everyone can use Salesforce.com or Google mail services, which are the most frequently cited examples of cloud computing...
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SaaS - The Value is in the Vertical
September 05, 2010 Added by:Ben Kepes
SaaS applications give the ability to build vertical applications that tie together different functional areas to meet the needs of a particular business. Cloud applications, with their general adoption of APIs and ease of integration with other apps, make this quasi-suite approach viable...
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Europe's Reservations About Cloud Computing
September 04, 2010 Added by:David Navetta
German state data protection authorities recently criticized both cloud computing and the EU-US Safe Harbor Framework. The comments reflect some concerns with recent trends in outsourcing and transborder data flows that multinationals would be well advised to address in their planning and operations...
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