Red Hat CTO Declares Cloud Evolution "Decades Away"

Aug 23, 2010 | Bloomberg | During a televised interview this morning with Bloomberg, Red Hat CTO, Brian Stevens discusses security issues preventing large-scale cloud adoption of public clouds, stating that readiness of public clouds is several years away.
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Future Portal to Defense Department Supercomputer Use?

Aug 19, 2010 | SIGNAL | The Army Research Laboratory (ARL) Defense Department Supercomputing Resource Center (DSRC) conducts research with processing power at 350 trillion calculations per second. If the director of the ARL DSRC, Charles, Nietubicz has his wish, that capability will someday be delivered a web portal, and a very secure one, of course.
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Microsoft Breathes New Life into Dryad

Aug 19, 2010 | ZDNet | There’s Apache’s Hadoop, there’s Google’s MapReduce, and in case it slipped completely off your radar, there is also Microsoft’s solution called Dryad—something that has all but disappeared from conversations until news this week that it would be coming out of hiding and to a paralllel programmer near you.
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Entrusting Supercomputing to the Mistrusted

Aug 17, 2010 | Datacenter Journal | For smaller-scale cloud users, the cost benefits far outweigh the risks associated with placing mission-critical operations in the ether but when it comes to those requiring supercomputer capacity--the choice between building and maintaining a supercomputer are not so clear cut since the alternative is perceived to be an untested and thus mistrusted option.
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The Point of Singularity is Near

Aug 17, 2010 | Gizmodo | Artifical intelligence expert and author Ray Kurzweil defines the point of "singularity" as the moment when computers surpass human intelligence, and posits that supercomputers networked via a cloud architecture will be able to simulate the human brain.
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Big Banks Take Small, Slow Steps To Cloud

Aug 16, 2010 | BankTech | For banks, the march to the cloud is gaining momentum, but at this point, it’s only in theory rather than in practice. While expectations about the role of cloud in the industry are optimistic, adoption remains largely in the application development and testing space alone.
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Industry, Government, Academia Collaboration Sparks Cloudy Research

Aug 16, 2010 | TradingMarkets | Yahoo! Labs is working within an National Science Foundation (NSF) partnership in conjunction with Intel and HP to further the Open Cirrus effort to experiment with cloud computing models and uses--and to refine its data-mining and user analytics technologies.
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Opening Windows to the Rackspace Cloud

Aug 12, 2010 | ITProPortal | This morning cloud services vendor Rackpace announced that it was opening cloud servers for Microsoft Windows, with distinct focus on system administrators and .NET developers. With a cloud currently dominated by Linux, one has to wonder how this might eventually shape the cloud server landscape.
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Verari Becomes Cirrascale, Eyes HPC Cloud Market

Aug 12, 2010 | DataCenterDynamics | Verari Technologies gave itself a rebranding treatment designed to invoke the cloud this week with its new "Cirrascale" designation. This change reflects a renewed emphasis on the cloud market with direct ties to the high-performance computing and cloud storage space.
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The Grid is for the Birds

Aug 10, 2010 | Nature | Supercomputers are being put to work for the sake of ornithologists and ecological researchers due to a new investment from the NSF toward a goal to create an animated map of global bird activity via the eBird project.
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Supercomputing Access and a New Economic Landscape

Aug 09, 2010 | San Francisco Chronicle | The expanding options for those who require supercomputer capacity without significant up-front investment are growing--from renting time via established supercomputing sites to employing a "cloud" service to handle excess workloads. This is good news for vendors but could be even better news for the economy.
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Are Private Clouds Truly More Secure Than Public?

Aug 09, 2010 | O'Reilly | Debates about the security of private clouds versus their public cloud counterparts often weigh heavily in favor of keeping mission-critical operations in the internal cloud versus sending it out to the public ether. Some argue, however, that the transparency benefit that lends to this perception is not always correct.
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IBM, Aetna Team to Use Cloud-Based System for Patient Information

Aug 06, 2010 | BusinessWeek | IBM and a subsidiary of Aetna have created a cloud-based system that stores and analyzes patient data to improve medical practice. The system aims to monitor and analyze patient information to enhance sharing of information and follow-through with medical directions.
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Security Concerns Dominate Public and Private Cloud Decisions

Aug 05, 2010 | ITP | IDC has predicted massive growth in the private cloud market, in part because the public cloud is perceived as being far less secure. This will push the private cloud market up and could force public cloud vendors to evaluate their strategies.
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Taxes, Tariffs and the Mega Datacenter

Aug 04, 2010 | TechTarget | Datacenters, as one might imagine, have a tendency to appear in areas where both power costs and taxes are low. While construction of such centers is expected to grow, the future placement remains uncertain.
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The Legend of the Hybrid Cloud?

Aug 03, 2010 | MSPMentor | While there are numerous practical examples of hybrid cloud models, some argue that the flexibility of the term allows for more room for manipulation on the part of vendors who are eager to jump on the cloud bandwagon but who don't have actual cloud in place to support the definition.
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IDC Posits Strong Growth for Clouds, Adoption Differentiation

Aug 02, 2010 | CIOL | Research group IDC has predicted dramatic growth in the server hardware market for both public and private clouds but contends that there will remain stark differences in the adoption of private versus public clouds according to organization type and needs.
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Cloud Vendors Subject to New Code of Practice?

Aug 02, 2010 | ChannelWeb | The Cloud Industry Forum (CIF) is another organization aimed at bringing greater standarization to cloud vendor practices via its forthcoming code of practice. While similar groups compete for an audience, what will such a code really contribute and who will benefit?
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Agility Influencing Factor in Cloud Adoption

Jul 30, 2010 | TMCnet | Outside of cost, one of the most frequently cited reasons governing cloud adoption is the notion of agility. However, if this is a major factor in decisions, there is relatively scant information about how to define or classify what agility means or entails in the cloud.
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Major U.S. Tech Firms Pressure EU for Cloud Standards

Jul 29, 2010 | Wall Street Journal | Microsoft, Google and other U.S. tech firms are taking their case for standaridization of privacy and other laws across EU member countries in order to better support their billions in datacenter investments in Europe.
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Developers Rank Cloud Service Providers, Choose IBM

Jul 28, 2010 | MSNBC | A recent survey ranked IBM as the number one choice for developers for private cloud services this year, an announcement based on a poll of over 400 developers who were asked about what they look for in a cloud service provider.
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CSA Announces Cloud Security Certification

Jul 28, 2010 | ITBusinessEdge | The Cloud Security Alliance will be providing details about a cloud security test this week at the Black Hat Security Conference. This test will provide certification and is designed to reach both IT professionals as well as end users.
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Efficiency and the HP Flexible Datacenter Design

Jul 27, 2010 | CTOEdge | Today HP announced its Flexible Datacenter offering, which is geared toward improving datacenter efficiency via a unique "butterfly" modular design and power saving concepts. How efficient and cost-effective remains to be seen but it could mark greater design shift.
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Berkeley Lab Looks to Google Apps

Jul 27, 2010 | Google Enterprise Blog | Berkeley Labs has looked to Google Apps to help it reduce costs and aid in collaboration efforts throughout the many project team members at the research center. The institution expects to see savings in the millions over the course of the next five years due to the shift.
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Who Delivers on Cloud Promise of Metered Pricing?

Jul 26, 2010 | Wall Street Journal | Before cloud became the buzzword of choice in many IT circles, the myth of utility pricing became one of the central facets that made it so attractive. While cloud services are on a pay-per-use cycle across the board, few have delivered on the old promise that the cloud would truly resemble utility-like billing.
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