Steve Campbell
Storage Stories Take Center Stage: "To the Moon, Alice!"
Post Date: March 11, 2011 @ 8:36 AM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud

This week has proven to be a bumpy ride for storage companies with a number of big acquisitions and shakeups in the industry. To make short sense of it all, we recap and analyze...

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Nicole Hemsoth
Intel Hosts a "Day in the Clouds"
Post Date: March 08, 2011 @ 8:12 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud

Intel has been keeping its head in the clouds since the launch of its Cloud Builders program and this week extended its position during an event in Oregon.

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Bruce Maches
Adoption of SaaS in the Life Sciences
Post Date: February 28, 2011 @ 12:27 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud

In this entry Bruce Maches takes a high-level look at SaaS and how it can be leveraged by these organizations to help them meet their research objectives in a more cost effective and timely manner.

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Nicole Hemsoth
The High-Tech Farm Report: Cloud Computing Comes to Agriculture
Post Date: February 21, 2011 @ 9:35 AM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud

Both agriculture research and practice are seeing some benefits from advancements in cloud-based tools and platforms. From hosting of agricultural GPS data to aid in conservation to commercial farm companies, cloud computing and agriculture are merging.

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Wolfgang Gentzsch
Upcoming Event to Explore the Role of Clouds in HPC
Post Date: February 15, 2011 @ 9:43 AM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud

The remarkable success of the first international ISC Cloud’10 Conference held last October in Frankfurt, Germany, has motivated ISC Events to continue this series and organize a similar cloud computing conference this year, with an even more profound focus on the use of clouds for High Performance Computing (HPC).

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Joshua Geist
Telecom Sector Embraces the Cloud
Post Date: February 11, 2011 @ 8:19 AM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud

The cloud rush is on, and it’s no longer a one or two team race to the finish line to see who can claim the number one spot. The traditional “big boys” have some new players to contend with, ones with deep pockets, strong, trusted brands, and massive embedded customer bases.

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Nicole Hemsoth
Higher Ed Budget Cuts Spur Cloud Services Scramble
Post Date: February 09, 2011 @ 8:04 AM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud

As the cloud becomes a more commonplace, trusted way to handle needs on a university or university system-wide scale, new ways to manage demand, priority, access and concerns about (de)centralization must be developed.

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Steve Campbell
Big Telcos Seeing Silver Lining
Post Date: February 02, 2011 @ 1:11 AM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud

It is only the beginning of the week and we have already seen two major telcos emerge from the ether to snatch up cloud computing and datacenter companies Terremark and NaviSite. This will be a trend that will continue as these companies realize the true potential of solid infrastructure and the systems to support clouds...

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Nicole Hemsoth
The Enemies of Interoperability
Post Date: February 01, 2011 @ 11:27 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud

Although interoperability remains a hot topic in debates about cloud providers and end user needs, there is little hope on the horizon for true standards to emerge anytime in the near future. We discussed this issue with John Considine, CTO and founder of CloudSwitch.

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Bruce Maches
Ushering Biotech Firms into the Cloud
Post Date: February 01, 2011 @ 9:15 AM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud

Biotech firms require vast computational resources and for those smaller companies, this means maximizing current infrastructure and processes as much as possible. Bruce Maches weighs in one a recent implementation, looking at the challenges and possibilities for these companies.

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