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Lamborghini Strengthens Online Presence with AWS

Oct 09, 2012 | When Lamborghini's Web backend reached the end of its lifecyle, the company looked to cloud computing for its scalability and cost benefits.
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Europe Ties Cloud to Job Growth, Economic Prosperity

Oct 02, 2012 | The European Commission lays out a single set of rules for cloud computing aimed at increasing EU GDP by €160 billion annually by 2020.
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Cloud Providers Want Government Stamp of Approval

Sep 28, 2012 | The GSAs FedRAMP program has cloud providers looking to receive government endorsement.
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NASDAQ OMX Builds Financial Cloud Platform with Amazon

Sep 25, 2012 | The NASDAQ OMX group and Amazon Web Services have partnered to develop a cloud platform for financial institutions.
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Uber-Cloud Experiment Posts Half-Time Report

Sep 21, 2012 | With Round One of the Uber-Cloud experiment wrapping up, the organizers report on the progress to date.
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InfiniBand-Backed Cloud Provider Goes Toe-to-Toe with Amazon, Rackspace

Sep 13, 2012 | IaaS provider ProfitBricks proclaims noteworthy performance-metrics, pits service against the top two cloud providers.
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ODCA Survey Shows Cloud Adoption Ramping Up

Sep 12, 2012 | The Open Data Center Alliance has released the results of its second annual member survey.
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Achieving Federated and Self-Manageable Cloud Infrastructures: A Book Review

Sep 10, 2012 | Achieving Federated and Self-Manageable Cloud Infrastructures: Theory and Practice provides an analysis of the main issues surrounding cloud federation.
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New Standard Looks to Simplify Infrastructure Management

Sep 06, 2012 | The Distributed Management Task Force has released a spec to standardize infrastructure management.
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The Cloud Is Over Most People's Heads

Sep 05, 2012 | Recent surveys show that most people are woefully unfamiliar with cloud technologies.
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SUSE Launches Its OpenStack Distro

Aug 31, 2012 | SUSE announced their commercial cloud offering based on OpenStack at this year's CloudOpen conference.
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Amazon Aims to Disrupt Traditional Enterprise Practices

Aug 29, 2012 | This week, The New York Times profiled Amazon Web Services.
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Addressing the Barriers to HPC as a Service

Aug 29, 2012 | During a session at the SRII Global Conference 2012, panelists discussed how the barriers to HPC in the Cloud compare to mainstream cloud computing.
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Hosting Service Providers Spill Their Worst Fears

Aug 24, 2012 | Attendees at HostingCon 2012 speak of their darkest fears in a ScienceLogic survey.
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OnLive Loses Half its Employees in Financial Debacle

Aug 24, 2012 | The OnLive cloud gaming service avoids shutdown at a hefty price.
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Insourcing and the Privacy Scarecrow

Aug 21, 2012 | There is tech trend that may boost US job numbers and bring more investment to cloud providers.
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Indian Outsourcing Group TCS Acquires HPC-as-a-Service Provider

Aug 17, 2012 | Tata Consultancy Services announced the acquisition of HPC-as-a-Service provider Computational Research Laboratories for $34 million.
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The Bandwidth Bottleneck

Aug 16, 2012 | Lack of high bandwidth connectivity can severely hinder the use of cloud services for HPC workloads.
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UCSD, Yale Create Neuroscience Gateway

Aug 14, 2012 | The University of California San Diego (UCSD) and Yale University have been awarded an NSF grant to build a neuroscience gateway.
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Amazon Enables Earthlings to View Martian Photos

Aug 14, 2012 | Now that Curiosity is on the red planet, Amazon Web Services will process pictures taken by the new inhabitant, making them available to NASA researchers and the public.
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Apple Co-Founder Wozniak Says Cloud Will Cause 'Horrible Problems'

Aug 10, 2012 | Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak expresses concern over the loss of control associated with cloud services.
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When Is Cloud the Right Choice for HPC?

Aug 09, 2012 | Cloud technologies have become integral to a number of services including video streaming, file sharing and social media to name a few. But when it comes to HPC applications, the benefits don't always translate.
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Curiosity's Cloud Connection

Aug 07, 2012 | The news media has been abuzz over NASA's recent achievement. The big risk, big reward operation costing 2.5 billion dollars, which included safely landing a mini cooper-sized robot on Mars, paid off.
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GAO Issues Progress Report on Cloud-First Mandate

Aug 06, 2012 | The U.S. Government and Accountability Office has been tracking the progress of a "cloud-first" mandate proposed by the Office of Management and Budget. While headway has been made, agencies are falling behind some deadlines.
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SUSE Gains Traction with Cloud Providers

Aug 03, 2012 | Earlier this week, Linux distributor SUSE announced that more than 20 major vendors are participating in its cloud provider program.
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SLA-Aware Scheduling and Virtual Efficiency

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.
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CloudSigma CEO Elaborates on Science Cloud

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)...
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Examining Questions of Virtualization and Security in the Cloud

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.
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Datapipe and Verne Global's Green Cloud

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.
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IBM's Guide to Cloud Based HPC

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.
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OpenStack and the SDSC Research Cloud

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.
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Best Practices in Big Data Storage

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.

Exploring the Potential of Heterogeneous Computing

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.