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Nicole Hemsoth
2010 Cloud Security Innovators: Tie—IBM and Novell
Post Date: November 10, 2010 @ 12:55 AM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
Cloud security innovation goes far beyond providing a particular product that works well or has been widely adopted. IBM and Novell have been selected as innovators due to the research efforts they've led to create more secure cloud enviornments.
Nicole Hemsoth
2010 Cloud Education and Outreach Innovators: Microsoft
Post Date: November 09, 2010 @ 10:49 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
While Microsoft has a solid platform and several tools in place for scientific users, one arena where the company certainly stands out is in their mission to engage and education the vast "missing middle" of potential cloud users. Others, like IBM are in close running for such an award, but the Redmond giant has been prolific and notable in its engagement efforts.
Nicole Hemsoth
2010 Cloud Platform Innovators: Amazon Web Services
Post Date: November 09, 2010 @ 10:07 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
While it's oftentimes worthwhile to present awards to those who are providing a remarkable or innovative service yet still fly under the radar, when it comes to cloud platform leaders, sometimes going with the "obvious" choice is the only option--and for good reason.
Nicole Hemsoth
2010 Cloud Innovation Leader Award: Platform Computing
Post Date: November 09, 2010 @ 7:21 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
This year HPC in the Cloud presented its first annual Editors' Choice Awards in Santa Clara, California. Platform Computing was selected for one such award due to its long-standing commitment to grids, clusters and the evolution of both into cloud computing.
Nicole Hemsoth
rPath on IT and Cloud Challenges, Argonne Successes
Post Date: November 04, 2010 @ 12:33 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
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rPath's Jake Sorofman took a few moments during Cloud Expo to discuss the tensions in IT in the post-public cloud era between IT control and demands from users in addition to discussing a case study in brief at Argonne National Lab.
Nicole Hemsoth
Selecting the Right "aaS": Hubspan's Margaret Dawson on Compliance and As-a-Service Choices
Post Date: November 03, 2010 @ 5:50 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
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Following her session on choosing the right aaS for individual purposes, Vice President of Product Management, Margaret Dawson discusses the concept of B2B integration, security and compliance for risk-averse verticals like life sciences research and financial services.
Nicole Hemsoth
Reid Smith from Savvis on Delivering High Performance Clouds
Post Date: November 03, 2010 @ 4:18 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
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This week at Cloud Expo I spent some time talking to Reid Smith from Savvis about the range of cloud services and the role networks play within them for enterprise customers outside of financial services where low latency is not the top priority. We also touched on what makes clouds high performance and attractive to a range of potential users.
Nicole Hemsoth
Of Hype and Hypervisors: Abiquo CEO Talks Enterprise Cloud Management
Post Date: November 03, 2010 @ 3:48 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
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This week at Cloud Expo I caught up with Pete Malcolm, CEO of enterprise cloud management company, Abiquo to discuss cloud hype and what this means for cloud companies his own. We also touched on matters of agnostic hypervisors and vendor lock-in.
Tom Tabor
HPC is a Workload; Cloud is an Architecture: A Chat With Intel's Boyd Davis
Post Date: November 03, 2010 @ 12:31 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
We caught up with Boyd Davis for this video interview from ISC Cloud in Frankfurt, Germany, Vice President at Intel's Architecture Group to talk about how, when considering HPC in the cloud, one can view HPC as a workload and cloud computing as an architecture.
Tom Tabor
The View from ISC Cloud: Photo Highlights
Post Date: November 02, 2010 @ 11:23 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
Last week at the ISC Cloud event in Frankfurt Germany some of the leading figures in the high-performance computing and cloud space met to discuss progress and current challenges as those in HPC consider the cloud for their applications. On site was Tom Tabor, publisher of HPCwire and HPC in the Cloud who took photos, a select few of which we'll share here.
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Avoiding Scientific Computing Bottlenecks in the Cloud
Frank Ding, engineering analysis & technical computing manager at Simpson Strong-Tie, discussed the advantages of utilizing the cloud for occasional scientific computing, identified the obstacles to doing so, and proposed workarounds to some of those obstacles.
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Overcoming the Cloud Security Barrier for Financial Services
The private industry least likely to adopt public cloud services for data storage are financial institutions. Holding the most sensitive and heavily-regulated of data types, personal financial information, banks and similar institutions are mostly moving towards private cloud services – and doing so at great cost.
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Research Roundup: Toward a More Efficient Cloud
In this week's hand-picked assortment, researchers explore the path to more energy-efficient cloud datacenters, investigate new frameworks and runtime environments that are compatible with Windows Azure, and design a unified programming model for diverse data-intensive cloud computing paradigms.
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Running Computational Fluid Dynamics in the Cloud
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When it comes to cloud, long distances mean unacceptably high latencies. Researchers from the University of Bonn in Germany examined those latency issues of doing CFD modeling in the cloud by utilizing a common CFD and its utilization in HPC instance types including both CPU and GPU cores of Amazon EC2.
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In Support of Cloud-based Rendering
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HPC and the True Cost of Cloud
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For engineers looking to leverage high-performance computing, the accessibility of a cloud-based approach is a powerful draw, but there are costs that may not be readily apparent.
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