Posts Tagged ‘Cloud’
Dell’s Latest Acquisition Will Help Manage the Clouds
Dell has agreed to purchase Boomi and says this acquisition will help it address what it terms “one of the top barriers to cloud adoption” – managing and integrating cloud-based applications with existing applications and databases.
Read MoreClouds – Defining the Nebulous
One of the latest buzzwords in our industry is “cloud”. Attached to computing, services, storage, etc., it seems to be the data link to the future. The concept of data cloud is simple. Find a way to link all the data islands under application silos. Therefore you need to have access to metadata and create graphs of relationships. One company, Radiant Logic, offers a set of tools to pull data and virtualize. At a high level, it’s liberating the information and making it available for the business users.
Read MoreWorkshop on Cloud Computing
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will host the Cloud Computing Forum and Workshop II on November 4 and 5, 2010 to give government and industry stakeholders the opportunity to comment on next steps in developing cloud computing standards.
Read MoreThe Clouds Have Become Autonomous
Autonomy Corp. has announced that its private cloud computing platform has reached a new data processing milestone of 17 Petabytes of e-mail, multimedia data, and documents stored on 6,500 servers on 8 data centers spread around the world. For the record, one Petabyte is equal to 1,024 Terabytes. Petabytes are used solely to measure the storage space of multiple hard drives.
Read MoreDefining and Contrasting Cloud vs. Host
Cloud computing, though relatively new, is becoming common on the tongues of most technological gurus. But what is “cloud” computing, and how does it differ from “hosted?” The blog Enterprise Irregulars attempts to explain this sometimes nebulous topic (pun totally intended).
Read MoreGoogle’s Cloud Computing Creates Some Security Concerns
Google’s failure to meet a contract deadline due to the client’s security concerns shows the importance of securing that cloud.
Read MoreFixing Software Vulnerabilities in the Clouds
New product launch analyzes for software vulnerabilities.
Read MoreEktron Releases eIntranet
Ekton’s latest release, eIntranet, combines social software and Web content management.
Read MoreThe Cloud Is Growing By the Day
Cloud storage is getting cheaper to buy, but not own.
Read MoreSearchBlox Set to Meet Cloud Computing Needs Economically
SearchBlox deploying cost-effective search solutions.
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