New research suggests Amazon AWS is the platform of choice for public clouds while VMware is being chased by open source contender OpenStack in the private cloud arena.
Commissioned by Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) start-up Tesora, the "Database Usage in the Public and Private Cloud: Choices and Preferences" survey garnered more than 500 responses from North American open source developer communities.
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Posted by David Ramel on 06/18/20140 comments
Red Hat's brand-new, major Linux OS enterprise release is all about the cloud.
The company is positioning Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (RHEL 7) as going beyond an old-fashioned commodity OS to be instead a next-generation "catalyst for enterprise innovation." It's a redefined tool to help companies transition to a converged datacenter encompassing bare-metal servers, X as a Service offerings and virtual machines (VMs) -- with a focus on open hybrid cloud implementations.
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Posted by David Ramel on 06/11/20140 comments
Amid vendor squabbling among companies such as VMware and Cisco about competing next-generation data center technologies, HP was up for a little Cisco-bashing of its own when it announced new cloud computing and software-defined networking (SDN) products at this week's HP Discover conference in Las Vegas.
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Posted by David Ramel on 06/11/20140 comments
A new report shows IT pros believe using cloud services increases the risk of data breaches that -- with an estimated cost of about $201 per compromised record -- can easily cost victimized companies millions of dollars.
Furthermore, IT and security staffers believe they have little knowledge of the scope of cloud services in use at their companies and are unsure of who is responsible for securing these services, according to a study, "Data Breach: The Cloud Multiplier Effect," conducted by Ponemon Institute LLC for Netskope, a cloud application analytics and policy enforcement company.
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Posted by David Ramel on 06/05/20140 comments
For the fifth straight year, Amazon Web Services (AWS) was ranked as the top cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) vendor in the "magic quadrant" report released by research firm Gartner Inc.
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Posted by David Ramel on 06/04/20140 comments
Fresh on the heels of IBM's offering of mobile, cloud-based Big Data analytics in its cloud marketplace, the company today unveiled new, customized, cloud-based business solutions to provide services such as counter fraud, digital commerce and -- of course -- mobile and analytics.
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Posted by David Ramel on 05/29/20140 comments
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Posted by David Ramel on 05/28/20140 comments
IBM yesterday targeted four of today's hottest transformative technologies -- cloud, Big Data, social and mobility -- with its new IBM Concert software.
The new offering in the IBM Cloud Marketplace is designed to give more enterprise staffers access to data analytics wherever they might be working, from whatever device they might be using.
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Posted by David Ramel on 05/21/20140 comments
Halloween is a ways off, but the new Orange Box from Canonical Ltd. looks like a tasty treat for users wanting a quick, easy way to get started tinkering with OpenStack cloud infrastructure and Ubuntu.
Encased in a ruggedized black flight-case frame with built-in handles, the bright orange cloud-in-a-box made some waves at the recent OpenStack Summit in Atlanta when introduced by Canonical, the steward of the popular Ubuntu Linux OS distribution.
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Posted by David Ramel on 05/21/20140 comments
The OpenStack Foundation this week unveiled a one-stop shop for organizations interested in learning about and getting started with the free, open source software for building clouds.
The OpenStack Marketplace opened Monday during the OpenStack Summit conference in Atlanta, featuring vendor offerings in Public Clouds; Distributions and Appliances; Training; Consulting and Systems Integrators; and Drivers.
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Posted by David Ramel on 05/14/20140 comments
Who is responsible for protecting sensitive or confidential data transferred to the cloud -- the provider or the consumer?
According to a recent survey of 4,275 business and IT managers around the globe, the answer to that question depends on the type of service, be it Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) or Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS).
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Posted by David Ramel on 05/14/20140 comments
Combining the benefits of public and private clouds was a common theme of announcements coming from EMC Corp.'s conference in Las Vegas this week.
The EMC Hybrid Cloud solution is designed to let customers easily build a hybrid cloud that combines the best aspects of public and private clouds. Public cloud services provide speed and agility, EMC said, while private cloud infrastructure brings control and security.
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Posted by David Ramel on 05/07/20140 comments