A Review Of Cloud Computing Security: Virtualization, Side-channel Attacks, And Management

In recent years cloud computing has become a growing interest for organizations looking to reduce their IT costs by offloading infrastructure and software costs onto 3rd party organizations who offer Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) (e.g. Google Apps), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) (e.g. Google App Engine), and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) (e.g. Amazon EC2). However, due to the relative infancy of cloud based computing services, there exists uncertainty about the level of information security offered by these services. IaaS cloud services are largely reliant on virtualization technology, which is seen as providing all the security and process isolation a customer might want.

A Review of Cloud Computing Security: Virtualization, Side-Channel Attacks, and Management

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Microsoft vs. Apple: Infographic of the History of Computing

For many years, Microsoft and Apple have been fighting for marketshare and the consumer dollar.

Microsoft vs. Apple: Infographic of the History of Computing

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Comment on Cloud Computing and the 10X Effect by Eddie

This is a nicely written article (especially for people who are peripheral to cutting edge IT) - I might have titled it differently since its not merely a factor of 10 but the article describes scales (I'd use "orders of magnitude").

Comment on Cloud Computing and the 10X Effect by Eddie

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Cloud Computing and the 10X Effect

In the IT industry, technology and the usage evolves faster than in perhaps any other industry. As a rule of thumb, systems can grow 10 times under their current architecture or paradigm, then they must be re-architected. This 10X effect causes old technologies to become obsolete and new ones to emerge. It also underlies the massive shift to cloud computing.

Cloud Computing and the 10X Effect

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The Trouble with Social Computing Systems Research

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The Trouble with Social Computing Systems Research

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Comment on How OS X Lion Leads to the Next Computing Revolution by Laughing_Boy48

The Windows fanbois or maybe computer nerds in general hate not having total file access. It seems to be really important to them. I doubt if most consumers feel the same. I think they prefer not having to keep track of files and let the OS take care of that.

Comment on How OS X Lion Leads to the Next Computing Revolution by Laughing_Boy48

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Comment on How OS X Lion Leads to the Next Computing Revolution by Cyndy Aleo

Thanks for the note. The copy editor doesn't always get to articles before they are published.

Comment on How OS X Lion Leads to the Next Computing Revolution by Cyndy Aleo

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Comment on CA Delivers on Cloud Investment With Service-Measurement Suite by Why Cloud Computing Sells and NoSQL Is Fading: Cloud «

[...] Cassatt was ahead of its time in selling cloud-like capabilities, but because cloud hadn’t yet caught fire as a marketing tool, the company was left trying to sell its Cross-Virtualization Manager. Companies didn’t really get why they should care about dynamic resource allocation, full-scale automation and intelligent power management. By the time Cassatt began marketing itself as a cloud computing vendor, it was too late. Faced with bankruptcy, the company sold its assets to CA Technologies in May 2009, and is now an integral part of CA’s cloud portfolio. [...]

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Comment on Appistry Opens the Cloud to (Almost) All Apps by Why Cloud Computing Sells and NoSQL Is Fading: Cloud «

[...] which experimented with terms like “hive computing” and “application fabric” before settling into its cloud groove, or Cloud.com, which wasn’t getting nearly the attention it deserves under its previous VMOps [...]

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Comment on Cloud Storage: Two Days, Three Startups, $30 Million by Why Cloud Computing Sells and NoSQL Is Fading: Cloud «

[...] by themselves, and during a two-week stretch in November, four cloud-storage startups – Zetta, Nirvanix, Gluster and Scale Computing — combined to close $47 [...]

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Comment on Mo' Money: Life Is Good for Cloud Vendors by Why Cloud Computing Sells and NoSQL Is Fading: Cloud «

[...] like “hive computing” and “application fabric” before settling into its cloud groove, or Cloud.com, which wasn’t getting nearly the attention it deserves under its previous VMOps moniker. You’ll [...]

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A Cloud Computing Evangelist Faces Indifference

Bernard Golden, CEO of consulting firm HyperStratus, found himself in Korea a couple of weeks ago giving a keynote address on "Creating a CIO Cloud Computing Action Plan." The surprising reaction he got led him to write an article for CIO.com about the dangers of avoiding the inevitable evolution that's taking place at the very heart of enterprise technology.

The old desktop/laptop model is splintering, with those devices being joined by smartphone and now tablets. The thing is, it's not going to stop there. The spread of computing into devices has only started, and soon computing will be performed by things we will barely consider to qualify as a device - not to mention sensors and actuators.

The problem, Golden found, was that the conference attendees were very slow to get the message.

When queried about who was doing a private cloud implementation, not a single hand went up. When asked who was using external public clouds, no more than two or three hands went up. And when the question of use of SaaS was posed, only a couple of people raised their hands."

What did he conclude? 

• The U.S. is actually further ahead than one might think. There's lots of discussion about how U.S. IT organizations are being very deliberate (not to say, deliberately slow) about moving to cloud computing, but (in the U.S.) there would have been a bunch more hands in the air.
  
  
  
  
• CIOs are confused about cloud computing. It's a different confusion than last year. Then, CIOs were confused about exactly what cloud computing is. Today, CIOs have a better sense of what cloud computing is. Now, they're confused about how to apply it in their environment.
  
  
  
  
• It's early, but you'd better prepare for cloud computing. Even if you think cloud computing is overblown, there's no denying that the benefits of even the early stage server consolidation version of virtualization offers enormous financial benefits.
  
  

-- Don Willmott

A Cloud Computing Evangelist Faces Indifference

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Cloud Computing Can Cut Carbon Emissions

by Susan DeFreitas

E-mail, content sharing and customer relationship management-if your business is currently running any of these applications on its own infrastructure, it could cut its computing carbon footprint by at much as 30 percent by moving operations to "the cloud," according to a new study commissioned by Microsoft and conducted by Accenture and WSP Environment & Energy. Cloud computing works, essentially, by allowing users to stop running computing applications on their own computers and have them run, instead, by large data centers which benefit from economies of scale. These data centers, according to Microsoft, achieve operational efficiencies beyond what even large corporate IT departments can achieve-and the smaller the business, the more it energy it can save. The study assessed the carbon footprint of server, networking and storage infrastructure for three different deployment sizes (100, 1,000 and 10,000 users). For large corporations, the study showed typical savings of 30 percent or more in energy consumption and carbon emissions using cloud applications, while small organizations (100 users) showed a effective carbon footprint reduction of as much as 90 percent, simply by using a shared cloud environment instead of their own servers. Microsoft calls this an opportunity for businesses to effectively 'outsource' their IT efficiency investments while working towards achieving sustainability goals. The complete white paper is available online. Reprinted with permission from EarthTechling

Post originale: http://featured.matternetwork.com/2010/11/cloud-computing-can-cut-carbon.cfm

Comment on HP, Microsoft Buddy Up for Cloud Computing by Microsoft Pushes Private Cloud Agenda with Hyper-V Cloud Services: Cloud «

[...] and System Center on HP’s BladeMatrix converged-infrastructure system. Microsoft already has cloud computing partnerships with HP and Dell, so their involvement shouldn’t be at all [...]

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Microsoft High Performance Technical Computing and HPC Server 2008R2 [Videos]

Ryan Waite, provides overview of Microsoft Technical Computing and HPC Server 2008R2. The sheer size of generated data is a key driver in today's computational ecosphere. By the end of 2010, over 1.2 zetabyte of data will have been generated. Microsoft has been working closely with Intel to integrate their Parallel Studio product into Visual Studio 2010. R2 is Microsoft's third release of HPC product built on Windows, scalable to thousands of nodes.

Cloud Computing Startup Nomadesk Raises $7 Million To Support US Expansion

Nomadesk, formerly known as Aventiv, offers one of the most elegant cloud-based data sharing, synchronization and storage solutions on the market, and you've probably never even heard of it. Perhaps this will change in the near future, as the Belgian company has just raised $7 million in Series B financing to support its plans for expansion in North America.

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Logicalis Gives IT Pros a Handle on Cloud Computing Control

Technology Solution Provider Discusses Do’s & Don’ts of Cloud Computing Management

Webcast: Introduction to Cloud Computing

David Platt of the Harvard University Extension School and CEO of Rolling Thunder Computing has created a 3 lecture series on Cloud Computing for students. This first lecture provides an introduction to Cloud Computing and covers the historical background, definitions of Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service and Software as a Service and details the commercial offerings from the top cloud vendors. He concludes the lecture with a demonstration of how to get started with cloud development using Windows Azure.