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The Open Cloud: Management Standards Achieve Interoperability

Feb 01, 2013 | IT managers around the globe are adopting cloud computing technologies to deliver higher quality services while lowering costs and improving efficiencies. While there have been significant gains, developing cloud standards that promote interoperability is a crucial next step. This article details the benefits of such standards and looks at how they are being enabled.
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HPC, Clouds & Big Data Converge at ISC Cloud 2012 - Part One

Sep 25, 2012 | The last week of September, ISC Cloud had its third annual event in Mannheim, Germany, organized by Uber Cloud Experiment leader Wolfgang Gentzsch. The broad-ranging yet ambitiously-dense program attracted a nice balance of users and technology enablers from research and industry.
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Globus and Grid: Blazing Trails for Future Discovery

Sep 13, 2012 | As participants from around the world make their way to Prague for the EGI Technical Forum, grid-enabled tools continue to facilitate global collaboration. Grid computing provides the backbone for a wide range of research, all the way from basic science to once-in-a-lifetime breakthroughs, like the recent achievements surrounding the elusive Higgs boson particle.
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Department of Defense Lays Out Cloud Strategy

Jul 17, 2012 | The Department of Defense has announced a cloud computing strategy that aligns the agency with Federal efficiency standards. It details the transition from traditional IT services, including methods to promote adoption, establish an enterprise cloud infrastructure and consolidate datacenter resources. Beyond technical details, the program also aims to overcome any cultural challenges associated with migration to cloud technology.
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NYC Gets Its Cloud On

Jun 12, 2012 | One of the largest cloud events in the world, Cloud Expo is taking place this week in New York City. The four-day affair marks the 10th iteration of the bi-coastal conference, which just expanded its agenda to include the wildly-popular big data topic. With this dual- and often overlapping focus, there really is something for everyone. Partner events include the ODCA Forecast 2012, Deploycon 2012, and the RightScale conference, among others.
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Dell Cloud Clinical Archive Hits 6 Billion

Apr 25, 2013 | Medical imaging data explodes into the cloud - 6 billion images alone in Dell's Archive.
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Crossing Borders in the Cloud

Mar 28, 2013 | Cloud computing has made the exchange of information between financial companies and the European community complicated.
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Amazon EC2 Versus the Competition

Nov 06, 2012 | New report compares Amazon EC2 with nine other IaaS providers on a range of performance and stability metrics.
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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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ODCA to Hypervisor and VM Providers: Interoperability is an Enterprise Cloud Requirement

May 10, 2013 | New document provides clear guidance on achieving interoperability of various hypervisor platforms and virtual machines based on well-defined enterprise requirements.
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Dell Proposes Software-Defined Networking Working Committee in OMG

Mar 13, 2013 | OMG announced that Dell has proposed a Software-Defined Networking (SDN) standardization working committee.
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IBM to Base Cloud Services and Software Open Standards

Mar 04, 2013 | IBM announced that its cloud services and software will be based on an open cloud architecture.
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New DMTF Chapter to Promote Cloud Management in China

Feb 04, 2013 | The Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) announced it has established a Chapter in China to provide support for its growing international efforts and to drive adoption of DMTF standards in the Chinese marketplace.
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DMTF Releases Revised OVF 2.0

Jan 29, 2013 | The Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) announced the release of version 2.0 of its Open Virtualization Format (OVF) standard.
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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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Overcoming the Cloud Security Barrier for Financial Services

The private industry least likely to adopt public cloud services for data storage are financial institutions. Holding the most sensitive and heavily-regulated of data types, personal financial information, banks and similar institutions are mostly moving towards private cloud services – and doing so at great cost.
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Research Roundup: Toward a More Efficient Cloud

In this week's hand-picked assortment, researchers explore the path to more energy-efficient cloud datacenters, investigate new frameworks and runtime environments that are compatible with Windows Azure, and design a uniﬁed programming model for diverse data-intensive cloud computing paradigms.
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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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In Support of Cloud-based Rendering

May 10, 2013 | Australian visual effects company, Animal Logic, is considering a move to the public cloud.
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Internet2 Awards Program Seeks Innovative Applications

May 10, 2013 | Program provides cash awards up to $10,000 for the best open-source end-user applications deployed on 100G network.
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HPC and the True Cost of Cloud

May 08, 2013 | For engineers looking to leverage high-performance computing, the accessibility of a cloud-based approach is a powerful draw, but there are costs that may not be readily apparent.
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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.