The Answer to Your Backup Needs is Grid-Based

Jul 28, 2008 | Combining grid technology, de-duplication and multi-site capabilities, ExaGrid designed its disk-based backup system makes short order of data retention headaches -- even as the terabyte count keeps on growing.
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A Man, an iPhone, and the Cloud

Jul 28, 2008 | When Douglas and Brooke Porter launched Apple iPhone School to collect and share tips and tricks to help get the most of the world's hottest cellular device, they had no idea it would become a haven for hundreds of thousands of iPhone users worldwide. When they needed to scale to meet this type of demand, as well as the support requirements that accompany it, the Porters turned to Mosso.
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Credit Suisse Lineage Makes DynamicOps a Contender

Jul 21, 2008 | Impressed by the future potential of virtualization, Credit Suisse took upon an initiative to make its management as simple and dynamic as possible. The resulting technology, Virtual Resource Manager, spawned demand from competitors and led to the formation of DynamicOps. DynamicOps has plans to take virtualization to the next level, leveraging Credit Suisse's extensive experience managing massive virtualization environments and enterprise grid platforms.
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Datacenter Expansion in a Can

Jul 21, 2008 | With its new Performance Optimized Data Center, or POD, HP wants to make adding scores of high-density, highly efficient and high-performance servers as effortless as possible. The HP container can support as many as 3,500 compute nodes, or 12,000 hard drives.
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The State of Cloud Security (Pt. 2): It Starts with a Conversation

Jul 21, 2008 | Although cloud computing presents new risk of security fiascos, there are many things providers and customers can do to take advantage of on-demand resources in a safe, reliable way. These range from providers utilizing hardware firewalls to customers demanding transparency from cloud providers.
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VMware Names New CEO

Jul 14, 2008 | VMware Inc. | Diane Greene is out as president and CEO of VMware. The company's board of directors has appointed Paul Maritz as president and CEO of VMware effective immediately.
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It Takes More than Virtualization to Build a Cloud

Jul 14, 2008 | With an increase in managed hosting services taking advantage of virtualization to offer rapid provisioning and multi-node grids, drawing a line between managed hosting and cloud computing can be difficult. According to those in the know, the big differences often revolve around billing, real-time capabilities, self-service functionality and the ability -- or inability -- to handle big-time enterprise applications.
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The State of Cloud Security (Pt. 1): Fundamental Risks

Jul 14, 2008 | This first article in a two-part look at cloud computing security concerns addresses various fundamental risks, including the potential pitfalls of a shared environment, compliance issues, the weaknesses of virtualization and, of course, hacker attacks.
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Department of Defense Building a Cloud

Jul 14, 2008 | HP | HP will be supplying the U.S. Department of Defense with scalable technology to enable its Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) to deploy a cloud computing infrastructure. The shared, flexible infrastructure will allow DISA to remotely provision its test and development systems through a single, secure interface.
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You Need 3,500 Servers by When?!

Jul 07, 2008 | Lest you think no one would be foolish enough to host its entire infrastructure on Amazon's EC2, we present to you Animoto. Hosted entirely on EC2, Animoto's application allows individual and corporate users to create custom slideshows, complete with photo-specific music, by just pointing and clicking. When its popularity surged thanks to a Facebook interface, Animoto was seeing 20,000 new visitors per hour, and it relied on Amazon to scale just as fast.
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Q-layer Makes Cloud-Building Child's Play

Jul 07, 2008 | The first significant thing about Delegation Manager is that, working with other Q-layer technologies, it essentially converts a virtual datacenter into an on-demand compute utility, or cloud. Second, it can give the power to build virtual datacenters to even "non-technical end-users."
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IBM Opens Cloud Computing Centers in Africa, China

Jun 30, 2008 | IBM | The new centers are designed to help clients in Africa and China tackle issues they would otherwise not be able to address. For example, using IBM's new centers, a university could access the computational power of a supercomputer to analyze data and determine how diseases might spread in a region or how climate changes will affect natural resources.
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Shining a Light into Amazon's Darkness

Jun 30, 2008 | Hyperic's new CloudStatus.com gives users an independent, graphical dashboard view into the "general health" of AWS's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Simple Storage Service (S3), and other elements of the big utility. The idea, the company says, is to provide a comprehensive, overall measure of availability, throughput and latency.
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Yahoo Realigns, Focuses on Cloud Computing

Jun 30, 2008 | Yahoo Inc. | Yahoo announced changes to its organization aimed at improving its products, technologies and execution. Among the moves is the formation of a Cloud Computing & Data Infrastructure Group charged with developing a computing infrastructure that balances scalability and cost effectiveness.
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IBM to Open Dutch Cloud Computing Center

Jun 23, 2008 | IBM | IBM and utility-based services provider iTricity announced that iTricity will open a brand new Cloud Computing Hosting Center for Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg. Based on IBM "Blue Cloud" technology, iTricity will use the center to host computing services for its customers.
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Servers Get Multiple Personalities

Jun 23, 2008 | Scalent's V/OE allows any machine, or an entire farm of servers, to be repurposed on the fly, including all associated network and storage access topologies. With version 2.5, users can run a server as virtual or physical and go back and forth depending on their needs.
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Interface to the World Wide Cloud?

Jun 23, 2008 | If "the cloud" is going to shape up the same way the Web did, it will need a shared set of interfaces, the cloud's equivalents of HTTP, TCP and HTML. 3Tera's Cloudware architecture is about defining that first set of interfaces and creating an open framework that incorporates the basic elements -- from computing to storage to software catalogs -- and the ways in which they all work together.
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Grids are Dead! Or are they?

Jun 16, 2008 | Grid computing veteran Wolfgang Gentzsch shares his thoughts on the death of grid computing -- at least as originally envisioned. In order to survive and accomplish their lofty goals, grid projects will have to learn from the value propositions of cloud computing, and even will have to learn to incorporate clouds into grid infrastructures.
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Mission-Critical Cloud Computing? Check Back in Five Years

Jun 16, 2008 | GigaSpaces is making reliable extreme transaction processing (XTP) available on Amazon EC2, but it will take much testing and trust-building before major enterprises move their critical data to the cloud. According to one analyst, forging this level of trust takes about five years.
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HP Scales Up for the Scale-Out Datacenter

Jun 09, 2008 | Sure, the race for the White House gets most of the coverage, but HP made its own campaign announcement recently, pledging to reinforce its commitment to constituents in datacenters everywhere. As part of its new "scalable computing initiative," the company has formed a business unit to serve high-performance, high-demand computing operations, and has unveiled a blade packing two independent servers.
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Lacking 'Big Bucks,' Artists Render Movie on Sun's Grid

Jun 09, 2008 | Putting the professional finish on digital animations and composing the final product requires powerful software running on serious hardware for many, many CPU cycles. But what if you could use someone else's grid? The Blender Foundation used Sun Microsystems' Network.com service to generate the final rendering of its comic cartoon "Big Buck Bunny."
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KISS: Keep It Simple, Scientist

Jun 02, 2008 | Complexity deters many scientists from tapping into the compute power that's very often just sitting there. It's like learning how to master Excel, but on a cosmic scale: you know you could do a lot with it, but would prefer someone else do it for you. eXludus is trying to change this with its new SimpliGrid software.
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Does B-hive Acquisition Make VMware a Cloud Vendor?

Jun 02, 2008 | While its acquisition of B-hive Networks doesn't change VMware's status as the server virtualization leader, it should widen the gap between VMware and the rest of the virtualization pack, as B-hive's Conductor technology will allow VMware to target higher-end, more mission-critical applications, as well as users looking to seriously step up service levels.
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Less is More when Tackling Datacenter Woes

May 26, 2008 | The problems: low server utilization and labor- and cost-intensive support of applications. The solution: virtualization ... or grid computing ... or maybe datacenter automation. Well, it's time to throw another approach into the mix -- one that could carve out a large following if it proves as effective as it is unique.
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Hardly Terminal: Citrix Gives Web Apps a Boost

May 26, 2008 | If someone called you right now from the early 1990s and offered you a chance to invest in a little company with this novel idea -- delivering OS/2 and DOS text-based applications to multiple users over the network -- you'd probably think, "Dumb terminals, how quaint." You'd then wonder what ever happened to that little company. But here's the thing: that little company managed to stick around.
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