Ben Kepes11/18/11
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Recently a couple of announcements caught my eye that really speak to our contention that Cloud Computing democratizes IT. As we said in a previous CloudU
report, Cloud Computing is facilitating a seismic shift in terms of
business...
Mitch Pronschinske11/18/11
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IBM recently released its second-quarter earnings report, citing
impressive gains (Q2 revenues rose 12 percent to $26.7B). While the
hardware side of IBM’s business is undoubtedly important, it’s
the company’s ability to pivot to emerging market...
Mitch Pronschinske11/17/11
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Want to see what a full-fledged agile-oriented project managment tool is like? Well, ScrumWorks Pro now requires virtually no upfront cost (in time or money) to run immediately on a cloud instance. That's because CollabNet just released the tool suite as...
Brian Gracely11/17/11
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The Cloudcast - Eps.22 - “Live from CA World with Andi Mann”
Date: November 13, 2011
Guest: Andi Mann, VP of Strategic Solutions @ CA Technologies (Blog: http://pleasediscuss.com/andimann/ & Twitter: http://twitter.com/andimann)
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Mitch Pronschinske11/17/11
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A new CC2 instance was unveiled by Amazon Web Services this week. In addition to their previously released Cluster GPU instances, AWS will begin selling another type under their Cluster Compute category called Cluster Compute Eight Extra Large (CC2 for...
Mitch Pronschinske11/16/11
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A new release of RedHat's Java PaaS, OpenShift, just became available this week with a bunch of worthwhile new features. The most prominent new feature is built-in workflow support for Hudson or Jenkins. This will give cloud-based developers access to a...
Ben Kepes11/16/11
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In the CloudU report we
recently published looking at Cloud Security, we were at pains to point
out that security in the Cloud is very much a partnership between
vendors and customers – with both sides having a responsibility to “do
their...
Brian Gracely11/16/11
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If you've been following the tech headlines so far this year, you may frequently find yourself thinking that it's almost impossible to keep up
with all the changes happening. Sure, it's normal for the tech industry
to go through perpetual change, but the...
David Pell11/15/11
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Who is responsible for protecting the information that users store "up in the clouds"? ;) Some recent participants in a discussion related to alleged security vulnerabilities in the AMIs (Amazon Machine Images) offered through Amazon Web Services...
David Pell11/14/11
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OpenStack, a collection of open source Amazon EC2/S3 compatible APIs used to power cloud compute and storage infrastructure, recently (November 11) passed the first milestone in its Essex development cycle. Planning for the new cycle began last month.None...
Brian Gracely11/14/11
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Having spent the last couple years dealing with multiple aspects of
Cloud Computing - definitions, vendor implementations, business adoption
vs. pushback, available public services, etc. - I'm now starting to
conclude that it all really comes down to...
Mitch Pronschinske11/14/11
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CloudBees thinks of itself as a Cargo project for Java PaaS. It has one way in which you can deploy Java web applications - WAR files. There's a quick list on their blog for how to deploy WARs for each JVM language on CloudBees:For Groovy/Grails there is...
Ben Kepes11/14/11
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I often hear how Cloud is insecure from people who claim that
unauthorized access is a real and significant risk for users of Cloud
Computing. It always kind of frustrates me as, in my (admittedly
somewhat biased) view, Cloud is as secure, if not more...
Turik Campbell11/14/11
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Abstract: Gridgain is
software middleware that unifies compute and data grid capabilities
to provide a framework for building high performance cloud
applications. OCLOUD SDK
Express is an Eclipse Java Plugin which leverages the power of
Gridgain to...
Mitch Pronschinske11/13/11
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Elastic Virtual Data Centers are a pretty useful feature in vCloud, and Dave Hill recently wrote a quick how-to for users who want to get up and running without reading a lot of documentation. Apparently he couldn't find this simple configuration...
Mitch Pronschinske11/12/11
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Today’s tech entrepreneurs would be out of their minds to build out
their own data centers rather than renting capacity from Amazon or
another low-cost provider. --Barb Darrow recounting the statements of Andy Bechtolsheim (former Sun Micro)Really? ...
Eric Berg11/12/11
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It’s happened – again. A major gaming network has been hacked, compromising millions of users’ information.
Last night, Steam –
Valve’s online gaming service – announced that its database had been
breached. The database included coded...
Mitch Pronschinske11/12/11
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Try Clojure is a cool GitHub project that helps you create a simple website that runs on Clojure, Noir web framework, and Heroku. Anthony Grimes did a nice write up that explains the benefits he found out about Heroku while working with Try Clojure:Heroku...
Mitch Pronschinske11/11/11
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Check it out! A new video is out from the ProfessionalVMware BrownBag series. It's a deep dive into the architecture of VMware's vCloud. Great for engineers who are interested in learning about the deeper technical aspects of vCloud. We also have the...
Roger Goulart11/11/11
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We recently signed up our first official reseller. We partnered with a
company named Cloud Sherpas, one of Google’s top resellers. Although
we’ve only been working together for a month, the relationship is off to
a great start as we’ve been able...
Eric Berg11/10/11
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Richard Waters and Chris Nattal over at The Financial Times once wrote a nice article entitled Cloud threatens to end PC’s reign looking at the impact cloud services adoption is having on the PC.
They do a great job pointing out that in this “post-PC”...
Sean Hull11/10/11
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There are a lot of considerations for deploying MySQL in the Cloud.
Some concepts and details won't be obvious to DBAs used to deploying on
traditional servers. Here are eight best practices which will
certainly set you off on the right foot.**...
Ben Kepes11/10/11
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Cloud Computing, like marriage, is an example of a situation needing
ongoing work from both parties to make for success. It was the
over-arching theme of the CloudUreport we
published recently which took a deep look at Cloud Security. In the...
Mitch Pronschinske11/09/11
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I guess maybe the US Pacific Northwest and Mountain West got sick of Silicon Valley sucking down all the bandwidth for Amazon's first US West regional data center in Northen California, because today Amazon brought a second US West region online today located...
Eric Berg11/09/11
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In case you missed it, Research in Motion (RIM) suffered a crippling outage last month that has affected BlackBerry customers across five continents.
And by crippling, we really mean it – this multi-day fiasco was
longest to disruption to BlackBerry...
