January 29, 2013
MOUNT PROSPECT, Ill., Jan. 29 – Cyber Innovation Labs (CIL), a leading provider of innovative Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solutions, announces NEC Corporation of America (NEC), a leading provider of innovative IT, biometrics, network, and communications products and solutions, has selected CIL as a core data center platform to help deliver NEC’s Cloud Computing Solutions for the North America market.
NEC will leverage CIL’s facilities located at “The Underground”, Iron Mountain’s highly secure, 145-acre facility in Boyers, Pennsylvania, to help fuel its business expansion in North America. NEC offers a broad portfolio of cloud solutions (IaaS, UCaaS, SaaS) and managed services addressing the financial services, healthcare, government, education, and legal markets. Architected with a groundbreaking audit, security & compliance foundation at its core, enterprises are able to deploy their mission-critical systems and applications with confidence in a fully private, physically dedicated environment. NEC’s Data Center Transformation practice provides full life-cycle management for enterprises considering a move to the cloud. The NEC Cloud Computing Center will also serve as one of NEC Corporation of America’s disaster recovery centers and regional parts / service depots to deliver unparalleled service uptime and customer satisfaction.
CIL’s new FLEXCenter platform offers a complete data center transformation strategy for enterprise clients. The FLEXCenter solution allows customers to modulate their needs over time, from a traditional Tier 3 plus data center to 100% dedicated / single tenant and retractable, ultra-secure, fully compliant (PCI, HIPAA, HITRUST, etc.) and audit-capable cloud stack - “Cloud in a Vault”.
“NEC’s award-winning ProgrammableFlow® networking and Nblock infrastructure product families provide us with the one solution that can meet the holistic needs of today’s enterprise marketplace through one provider,” comments Jack Pressman, Managing Director of Cyber Innovation Labs, LLC.
About Cyber Innovation Labs
Cyber Innovation Labs is a leading provider of innovative Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solutions. With extremely scalable, high-efficiency and SSAE 16 certified data center facilities, Cyber Innovation Labs delivers 2N Tier-3+ availability, with uncompromising security, reliability and control. Cyber Innovation Labs leverages best-of-breed data center practices coupled with leading technology network solutions and global partners to deliver highly secure, customized and scalable IT infrastructure as well as fully managed private / single tenant cloud services capable of supporting the most discerning Enterprises.
About NEC Corporation of America
Headquartered in Irving, Texas, NEC Corporation of America is a leading provider of innovative IT, biometrics, network, and communications products and solutions for service carriers, Fortune 1000 and SMB businesses across multiple vertical industries, including Healthcare, Government, Education and Hospitality. NEC Corporation of America delivers one of the industry’s broadest portfolios of technology solutions and professional services, including unified communications, wireless, voice and data, managed services, server and storage infrastructure, optical network systems, microwave radio communications and biometric security. NEC Corporation of America is a wholly-owned subsidiary of NEC Corporation, a global technology leader with a presence in over 44 countries and more than $37 billion in revenues.
About Iron Mountain
Iron Mountain Incorporated provides information storage and management services that help organizations lower the costs, risks and inefficiencies of managing their physical and digital data. The Company’s solutions enable customers to protect and better use their information so they can optimize their business and ensure proper recovery, compliance and discovery. Founded in 1951, Iron Mountain manages billions of information assets, including business records, electronic files, medical data and more for organizations around the world.
-----
Source: Cyber Innovation Labs
Researchers from the Suddhananda Engineering and Research Centre in Bhubaneswar, India developed a job scheduling system, which they call Service Level Agreement (SLA) scheduling, that is meant to achieve acceptable methods of resource provisioning similar to that of potential in-house systems. They combined that with an on-demand resource provisioner to ensure utilization optimization of virtual machines.
Read more...
Experimental scientific HPC applications are continually being moved to the cloud, as covered here in several capacities over the last couple of weeks. Included in that rundown, Co-founder and CEO of CloudSigma Robert Jenkins penned an article for HPC in the Cloud where he discussed the emergence of cloud technologies to supplement research capabilities of big scientific initiatives like CERN and ESA (the European Space Agency)...
Read more...
When considering moving excess or experimental HPC applications to a cloud environment, there will always be obstacles. Were that not the case, the cost effectiveness of cloud-based HPC would rule the high performance landscape. Jonathan Stewart Ward and Adam Barker of the University of St. Andrews produced an intriguing report on the state of cloud computing, paying a significant amount of attention to the problems facing cloud computing.
Read more...
Jun 19, 2013 |
Ruan Pethiyagoda, Cameron Boehmer, John S. Dvorak, and Tim Sze, trained at San Francisco’s Hack Reactor, an institute designed for intense fast paced learning of programming, put together a program based on the N-Queens algorithm designed by the University of Cambridge’s Martin Richards, and modified it to run in parallel across multiple machines.
Read more...
Jun 17, 2013 |
With that in mind, Datapipe hopes to establish themselves as a green-savvy HPC cloud provider with their recently announced Stratosphere platform. Datapipe markets Stratosphere as a green HPC cloud service and in doing so partnering with Verne Global and their Icelandic datacenter, which is known for its propensity in green computing.
Read more...
Jun 12, 2013 |
Cloud computing is gaining ground in utilization by mid-sized institutions who are looking to expand their experimental high performance computing resources. As such, IBM released what they call Redbooks, in part to assist institutions’ movement of high performance computing applications to the cloud.
Read more...
Jun 06, 2013 |
The San Diego Supercomputer Center launched a public cloud system for universities in the area designed specifically to run on commodity hardware with high performance solid-state drives. The center, which currently holds 5.5 PB of raw storage, is open to educational and research users in the University of California.
Read more...
05/10/2013 | Cleversafe, Cray, DDN, NetApp, & Panasas | From Wall Street to Hollywood, drug discovery to homeland security, companies and organizations of all sizes and stripes are coming face to face with the challenges – and opportunities – afforded by Big Data. Before anyone can utilize these extraordinary data repositories, however, they must first harness and manage their data stores, and do so utilizing technologies that underscore affordability, security, and scalability.
04/02/2012 | AMD | Developers today are just beginning to explore the potential of heterogeneous computing, but the potential for this new paradigm is huge. This brief article reviews how the technology might impact a range of application development areas, including client experiences and cloud-based data management. As platforms like OpenCL continue to evolve, the benefits of heterogeneous computing will become even more accessible. Use this quick article to jump-start your own thinking on heterogeneous computing.