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Data Protection: One Size Does Not Fit All

Apr 10, 2013 | In object storage applications, cluster sizes run the gamut from just a few nodes built into a medical imaging modality to thousands of nodes spanning multiple datacenters. Fulfilling the economic and manageability promises of a unified storage approach means using the best protection scheme for each particular use case. The proposed solution leverages both replication and erasure coding to ensure scalability, while optimizing footprint efficiency.
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Implementing Disaster Recovery Within the Education Sector

Aug 06, 2012 | Current financial pressures have led educational institutions to look for a more sustainable and innovative way of managing their services, this includes the IT infrastructure that underpins the teaching and learning. The author proposes a cloud-based solution for implementing disaster recovery and business continuity at the college level.
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Bad Moon Rises Over Cloud Perceptions

May 11, 2011 | It's a glorious day for those with backup and recovery services to pitch, not to mention for those who are nipping at the heels of Amazon Web Service's cloud empire. On the flip side, for those who just got word that their data is unrecoverable via a short letter, not to mention those who have been proclaiming cloud computing as the safe bet for mission critical applications--it's been quite a bleak morning.
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Calamities, Contingencies and the Cloud

Mar 14, 2011 | As the dust settles, both literally and figuratively, in Japan following the series of disasters more comprehansive assessments of the damage are emerging on a number of fronts--human, environmental, structural and otherwise. While clouds have played an important role in allowing global sharing and collaboration the datacenters that support them in Japan were put to the ultimate test.
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Considerations for the Cryptographic Cloud

Mar 11, 2011 | Members of the Microsoft Research Cryptography Group describe the complexities of building a secure cloud storage service on top of a public cloud infrastructure, which is often not fully trusted by the user. Dr. Kamara and Dr. Lauter also shed light on key architectures that combine recent and non-standard cryptographic primitives and survey the benefits such rchitectures would provide to both cloud providers and their end users.
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Amazon Bit the Dust... Again

Jul 02, 2012 | Amazon suffers a double whammy during the month of June. Netflix, Pinterest, Instagram and others were affected by the disruptions.
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Microsoft Offers Glimpse into Cloud Datacenters

Aug 16, 2011 | YouTube | Microsoft recently released a video providing an in-depth look at the hardware that backs its many cloud services.
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Linux Foundation Welcomes Hisense Mobile, Solarflare and Thomas-Krenn

Apr 15, 2013 | The Linux Foundation announced that Hisense Mobile, Solarflare and Thomas-Krenn.AG are joining the organization.
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Red Hat Chooses Peak 10 for Data Center Infrastructure

Apr 04, 2013 | Peak 10 has been selected by Red Hat to provide a co-location site for Red Hat’s IT, networking and engineering environments.
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SIOS Launches SteelEye DataKeeer for Amazon EC2 Environments

Apr 02, 2013 | SIOS launched SteelEye DataKeeper Cloud Edition to deliver SQL Server data protection in Amazon EC2 environments.
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IBM SmartCloud Laying the Foundation for Avnet Cloud Solutions

Apr 02, 2013 | Avnet Technology Solutions has selected IBM SmartCloud as the foundation for Avnet Cloud Solutions.
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IBM PureSystems Takes the Lead with Bunbury's Government Cloud

Apr 02, 2013 | Bunbury, Australia has chosen IBM's PureSystems to simplify their infrastructure and provide a cloud-ready environment.
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CometCloud: Using a Federated HPC-Cloud to Understand Fluid Flow in Microchannels

The ever-growing complexity of scientific and engineering problems continues to pose new computational challenges. Thus, we present a novel federation model that enables end-users with the ability to aggregate heterogeneous resource scale problems. The feasibility of this federation model has been proven, in the context of the UberCloud HPC Experiment, by gathering the most comprehensive information to date on the effects of pillars on microfluid channel flow.
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CERN, Google, and the Future of Global Science Initiatives

Large-scale, worldwide scientific initiatives rely on some cloud-based system to both coordinate efforts and manage computational efforts at peak times that cannot be contained within the combined in-house HPC resources. Last week at Google I/O, Brookhaven National Lab’s Sergey Panitkin discussed the role of the Google Compute Engine in providing computational support to ATLAS, a detector of high-energy particles at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
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Avoiding Scientific Computing Bottlenecks in the Cloud

Frank Ding, engineering analysis & technical computing manager at Simpson Strong-Tie, discussed the advantages of utilizing the cloud for occasional scientific computing, identified the obstacles to doing so, and proposed workarounds to some of those obstacles.
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NASA Builds 'Climate in a Box'

May 23, 2013 | The study of climate change is one of those scientific problems where it is almost essential to model the entire Earth to attain accurate results and make worthwhile predictions. In an attempt to make climate science more accessible to smaller research facilities, NASA introduced what they call ‘Climate in a Box,’ a system they note acts as a desktop supercomputer.
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Running Computational Fluid Dynamics in the Cloud

May 16, 2013 | When it comes to cloud, long distances mean unacceptably high latencies. Researchers from the University of Bonn in Germany examined those latency issues of doing CFD modeling in the cloud by utilizing a common CFD and its utilization in HPC instance types including both CPU and GPU cores of Amazon EC2.
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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.