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Inching Closer to a New Era for Interoperability Standards

Sep 07, 2010 | Interoperability remains a critical issue for groups advocating that users and vendors alike require a healthy, open ecosystem to drive greater adoption rates but the standardization for portability has been slow in coming. Groups like the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) are working together with other standards bodies to create a better cloud as the organization's president discusses during an interview following news of OVF standardization--a first step for workload portability standards.
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Cloud Computing: Improving Enterprise IT Efficiency and Agility

Sep 07, 2010 | Cloud computing may be considered a new phenomenon in IT, but, in many ways, it is an evolution propelled by new IT delivery models and enabling technologies. Initially, driven by cost concerns, enterprises turned to collocation as a more efficient IT delivery model. The next logical step, managed hosting, allowed enterprises to leverage the management expertise – and efficiencies – of service providers.
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On Par for 2 Billion: 3PAR Discusses Cloud Strategy

Sep 01, 2010 | Storage vendor 3PAR has been at the heart of an intense bidding war between HP and Dell due to its unique refinements and developments in virtualized storage platform concepts. Thin provisioning and a focus on the needs of large-scale enterprises and cloud providers have catapulted the company into the public eye but as 3PAR's Craig Nunes discusses with HPC in the Cloud, the cloud strategy has been consistent since 1999--even if the world is just taking notice now.
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Busting the "Cloud in a Box" Myth

Aug 30, 2010 | The concept of private clouds is gaining traction and due to the buzz, more enterprises are taking a much closer look at the possibility—if they haven’t taken steps to virtualize some or all of their infrastructure already. For those who have not yet made the transition, a lack of understanding of the complex process behind private cloud implementation is at the core of hesitancy, therefore vendors are looking for ways to convince users to fear not, the private cloud is not only within reach—but simple to step into.
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Achieving Ultra High Performance in the Cloud

Aug 24, 2010 | Companies in competitive domains, such as financial services, create large data repositories containing significant amounts of data collected from daily operations. Using supercomputers to analyze these massive datasets might yield the highest level of performance, but this is prohibitively expensive. Using proprietary, custom-built HPC atop cloud environments is also a viable option--although one that does come with a series of drawbacks that must be mitigated to achieve critical performance levels.
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Are Cloud Datacenters Greener and Cleaner?

Aug 19, 2010 | New data centers being run by the likes of Google or Microsoft are enormous and boast cost efficiencies 5-10X greater than traditional, “un-virtualized” enterprise data centers, which are also typically smaller. The efficiency benefits inherent in cloud data centers come in different forms and include positive aspects like superior energy efficiency, higher availability, and better performance.
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Oracle Placing GridEngine on New Track

Sep 03 | The Sun GridEngine, now the Oracle GridEngine has been a key open source staple for several HPC users for years. As Oracle takes a closer look at the product's potential for cloud and other uses, the future of its status as open source has been put into serious question. Read more...

What CERN Can Teach Enterprises About Computing, Collaboration

Sep 02 | A new research project from the London School of Economics and HfS is examining the lessons that enterprise can learn from the collaborative, distributed CERN computing (and cultural) environment. Read more...

Hybrid Workflow Model at Heart of Tornado Research

Sep 02 | The Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms undertook a hybrid computing project called the “Linked Environments for Atmospheric Discovery II” (LEAD II) with the help of the Big Red cluster and Microsoft’s Azure to better predict tornado conditions and to aid in the advancement of VORTEX2 goals. Read more...

Application Flexibility and the New Enterprise Architecture

Aug 31 | Application delivery strategies must be shaped with flexibility in mind as the number of platforms delivering core applications is bound to change with time. Since a greater number of devices and platforms are entering the infrastructure mix, those who do not adapt quickly face being locked into strategies that do not mesh well with new developments. Read more...

A Maturation Stage for Storage Virtualization

Aug 27 | Storage virtualization has been gaining momentum as it moves from concept to practice but some suggest the offerings in this realm have not matured sufficiently and require a longer maturation process before wider adoption occurs. Read more...

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