One Small Step for Man, One Giant Leap for HPC and Cloud

May 05, 2010 | Gaia's infrequent but immense demands for mission-critical data processing created the need for one of the most convincing proof of concept measures tackled by cloud infrastructure and development giants, The Server Labs and RightScale.
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Big Banks Grab Pitchforks, Storm Fortress

Apr 29, 2010 | Bank of America, Commonwealth Bank of Australia and Deutsche Bank have announced that they are forming an alliance to collaborate for the common goal of attempting to cut back on their general IT infrastructure costs by adopting cloud strategies.
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Cloud's New Language Set to Bloom

Apr 26, 2010 | A new, simplified language for programming in cloud environments called "Bloom" is set for release later this year. An interview with one of Bloom's creators, Joseph Hellerstein of U.C. Berkeley, explains the practical elements.
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Hybrid Multi-Cloud Enablement -- the Next Wave for Enterprise?

Apr 23, 2010 | The ability to have, on-demand, a selection of cloud providers with easy transfer -- all based on which can best utilize resources to the maximum -- might be the next big thing for enterprise.
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Adaptive's Moab Enhancements Beckon to Wall Street

Apr 20, 2010 | Adaptive Computing, creator of Moab technologies, has announced two interconnected pieces of Moab news targeting the vast infrastructural and resource management needs of financial services.
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A Crisis of Definitions?

Apr 18, 2010 | It may seem there is little difference between the concepts of cloud as a technology versus a style or methodology of computing in defining enteprise HPC in the cloud. Consistency in terming it is becoming necessary.
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Public, Private, Hybrid: What the 'Enhanced' Public Cloud Means for Enterprise

Apr 15, 2010 | The issue at stake is not necessarily what to do with the irregularity of resources that pull scientific enterprises between having too much or too little, but rather, how they can maximize the results of the economies of scale in the cloud.
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Deja Vu All Over Again?

Apr 12, 2010 | It appears the adage that “The more things change, the more things stay the same” is not far off the mark. Distributed computing will be heretofore considered as the foundation from which the “newer” technologies of grids, fabrics, and clouds have naturally evolved.
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Licensed to Bill?

Apr 08, 2010 | Faced with mounting pressure from partners and end users in the HPC community, application software vendors are striving to cope with what it means to offer their software as a service. To learn more about the potential for cloud expansion, InterSect360 Research has been conducting a study of the outlook of SaaS and cloud computing models among the HPC ISV community.
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Cloud Computing Will Usher in a New Era of Science Discovery

Jan 26, 2010 | Computation is commonly considered the third mode of science, where the previous modes or paradigms were experimentation/observation and theory. With the introduction of high performance supercomputers, the methods of scientific research could include mathematical models and simulation of phenomenon that are too expensive or beyond our experiment's reach. With the advent of cloud computing, a fourth mode of science is on the horizon.
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Security -- The Dark Side of the Cloud

Jan 25, 2010 | Despite the many benefits to cloud computing, security remains one of the biggest challenges. IT organizations have a hard enough time defending their in-house private cloud resources. Companies offering public cloud, pay-for-usage models are faced with a more difficult challenge since they must serve multiple organizations on the same platform. In response to security threats, there is an opportunity for innovation of flexible cloud-based security service offerings.
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The Impact of Cloud Computing on Corporate IT Governance

Jan 25, 2010 | While cloud computing is enabling some fundamental changes on how IT groups deliver services, from a corporate management viewpoint, the basic principles of IT governance still remain true. However, the advent of cloud computing is having an increasing impact on how the components of the governance process are executed. For the purpose of this article, we will use the COBIT model (Control OBjectives for Information and related Technology) that is comprised of five major process focus areas: Strategy Alignment, Value Delivery, Resource Management, Risk Management, and Performance Measurement.
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The Impact of Cloud Computing on Internal IT Governance

Jan 25, 2010 | In theory, the realization of IT governance should be a seamless process running from the board room to actual delivery of IT services. In practice however, many organizations have an institutionalized steering committee with its associated processes that supports the organization's IT related goals while the IT group has a leadership team or council whose governance activities are focused inward on such things as technical issues, standards, and resource management.
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