PEER 1 Hosting’s HPC Self Serve Cloud delivers a flexible and cost-effective high performance computing environment by fusing virtual and physical servers with a private net. The result is a seamless, self-serve solution that is fast, secure and available on-demand.

“In today’s competitive market, businesses with intense graphic processing requirements simply can’t wait months or years for improvements to their in-house IT infrastructure,” said Greg Rusu, General Manager of Zunicore, a division of PEER 1 Hosting. “With PEER 1 Hosting’s new HPC Self Serve Cloud, businesses will benefit from maximum performance on-demand – whenever they need it ­– while managing ever-tightening constraints on business resources and budgets.”

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Savvis, the cloud and hosted IT player that now belongs to CenturyLink, has built out the infrastructure in Toronto that it acquired when it bought Canada-based managed IT and colocation house Fusepoint last year so it can offer its Symphony Virtual Private Data Center (VPDC) cloud solutions there.

Symphony VPDC is supposed to be one of the industry’s first enterprise-class virtual private datacenter cloud solutions with multi-tiered security, service and network profiles.

Savvis says the flexible service levels (Essential, Balanced and Premier) it can offer provide a range of features, support levels and performance to suit the broad infrastructure profiles that enterprises demand. It claims industry-leading security elements, quality of service and SLAs for web hosting, test/development, mission-critical and other applications.

Symphony VPDC also can be integrated seamlessly to support hybrid cloud solutions that leverage Savvis’ managed hosting, colocation and network services.

The widgetry will keep regional and multinational customer data in the country.

Bought for $124.5 million cash, Fusepoint brought Savvis three data centers: one in Toronto, one in Montreal and one in Vancouver. Only Toronto, the largest and in Canada’s financial capital, has been fitted out to support a cloud. It helps flesh out Savvis’ global footprint.

Separately, Savvis, which has a network of more than 50 global data centers, representing more than two million square feet of raised floor space, is also driving into the German market and just hired Donald Badoux from euNetworks as managing director of German operations. He will be working out of a new office in Frankfurt, which will also offer Symphony VPDC services. Last month Savvis opened its fourth data center in London. It’s also expanded its clouds in Hong Kong and Japan.

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«The State of Cloud Computing June 2012» was the topic under discussion in the traditional SYS-CON.tv Power Panel recorded in our Times Square studio yesterday – the Sunday before today’s Cloud Expo New York opening, kicking off 4 days of Keynotes, General Sessions technical and strategy breakout sessions, discussion panels, interviews…and of course the huge Cloud Expo show floor with booths from every layer of the Cloud Computing ecosystem. This week also sees the introduction for the first time of our Big Data Pavilion, and of no fewer than two separate Big Data tracks all four days at the event.

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The US Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) held a Geoint Community Week June 4-8 2012 which included a technology day. The afternoon of 07 June was dedicated to fast-paced “ignite” style presentations from some of the key community thought leaders on geospatial data. At the end of these presentations Bob Gourley was asked to summarize and […]

This post by BobGourley was first published at CTOvision.com.

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Do you know who your storage hogs are? Every organization has them, whether it’s folks who save everything or applications that just need more capacity every year. And let’s face it: The need for increased storage capacity isn’t just a result of your company pack rats – it’s often a necessity due to growing data sets, data retention policies and regulatory compliance requirements.
On average, organizations expand their need for storage by 20-60% on an annual basis, outgrowing capacity of existing storage regularly. Can cloud storage help contain the costs of this spiraling growth?

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Everyone is talking about Big Data, and you’ve implemented it to bring a competitive advantage to your company, but now what? The truth is much of that data has some sort of time and geospatial location aspect to it. Whether it be the timestamps of a temperature sensor reading or the locations of users hitting your site with their mobile phones, you have geotemporal elements in your data. You can easily calculate the average temperature from yesterday or how many people connected from a state, but there is so much more valuable information locked inside that data if you just ask the right questions.

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HP announced its first public cloud services on April 10th. And we’ve been the hottest trending topic ever since. Now it’s your turn to get a look at the HP Cloud.
In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Blake Yeager, Product Manager Lead for IaaS at HP Cloud Services, will take you through our next public cloud infrastructure, platform services and cloud solutions, show you how easy it is to spin up instances of compute, storage, and CDN as well as share with you the next gen platform we’re building around PaaS and SaaS. He’ll cover a good amount of technical best practices and even share some use cases currently in our beta program. If you’re developing web services or building cloud-based apps and services you won’t want to miss this session.

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The combined effect of trends in the consumerization of IT services, BYOD policies and mobile work forces are having transforming effects on both Enterprise storage administrators and service providers alike.
In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Brian Olson, Cloud Business Development Manager for EMC’s Atmos, will explore these dynamics more closely and include real-world examples of how scale-out cloud storage and programmable APIs can not only help deliver new next-generation custom apps faster, but also provide storage as a service for new use cases. Both can be easily customized, monetized, and brought to market to satisfy the demands of your ‘gotta have it now,’ attention starved, customer base.

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IT Cloud Management strategies enable organizations to maximize the business value of their private clouds
In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Joe Fitzgerald, Chief Product Officer & Co-founder of ManageIQ, will discuss customer experiences and how these strategies increase agility, improve service delivery levels and reduce operating expenses.
Joe Fitzgerald is the Chief Product Officer & Co-founder of ManageIQ. Prior to founding ManageIQ, he was CTO and Director Product Development for Hewlett Packard’s Change & Configuration Management Software Business, a division of the $1B HP Software Business Unit, where he was named HP distinguished technologist in 2005. Joe brings over 30 years of experience providing operations, systems and configuration management solutions to hundreds of enterprise class IT organizations worldwide.

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As rumored last week, Salesforce.com Monday said it’s going to buy Buddy Media for roughly $689 million in cash and stock.
Buddy Media lets marketers manage their presence on social sites like Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Twitter and YouTube. They can publish content, place social advertising, measure the effectiveness of their social media marketing programs, determine which content is driving the most engagements, test different strategies and isolate the campaigns delivering the best ROI.
Salesforce already owns Radian6, a so-called social media listening platform, and will merge the two platforms together in its Marketing Cloud so it can offer the entire social marketing lifecycle.

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