When VMware announced its hybrid cloud initiative it made perfect sense. The hybrid cloud market could provide substantial growth opportunities for VMware, as discussed in VMware Crosses the Rubicon and Hybrid is a Whole New Cloud. Yet one respected tech analyst has recently suggested that VMware’s hybrid cloud may be too late. Amazon (AMZN) could […]
Monthly Archives: April 2013
Big Data into a Small Storage Package with Cloud Storage
This session by Nicos Vekiarides at 12th Cloud Expo | Cloud Expo New York [June 10-13, 2013] will examine in depth the problems created, common workarounds and why they fail, and how cloud storage can be a simpler, far more effective alternative. Attendees will learn about the common and often devastating issues surrounding the storage and management of data. Among the issues discussed will be offsite backup, offsite active archiving, business continuity, disaster recovery, disaster tolerance and scaling capacities in the data center and in the public cloud.
Is Cloud Safer Than Your Traditional Datacenter?
These days, it seems that every cloud provider claims that cloud is safer than your traditional datacenter. Is it though? In his General Session at 12th Cloud Expo | Cloud Expo New York, McAfee expert Rishi Bhargava will help you explore and address the security challenges and considerations for public cloud (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS).
Yahoo Commits to Great Journalism
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has revealed her latest surprise, announcing that the company “is now committed to great journalism.”
“With almost 150 million unique visitors per month, our company is the most dominant media presence in the world,” she said. “It’s time for us to commit to serving this massive audience responsibly.”
At least one media critic applauded the move. “The decline of American journalism in the Internet Age is no secret,” said Aprile DiPesce, Associate Professor of Mass Communications at Manhattan City University. “When Yahoo lost its dominance in search to Google, journalism became a mad scramble to get the best Google rankings possible. This became a mad scramble to the bottom.”
“This devolution was accelerated by a culture of publishing things first, rather than getting them right,” DiPesce added. “An emphasis on vapid entertainment stories and misleading headlines emerged as the industry norm. Yahoo’s bold announcement may finally reverse these ugly trends.”
Mayer said the company will drop most of what she referred to as “lame” and “calorie-free” content feeds, in favor of creating “a world-class journalistic infrastructure and team. Not only will our writers and editors be required to know spelling and grammar, they will be expected to write serious, well-researched pieces with multiple sources, quotes, and facts.”
When asked where people should now seek specious gossip, uninformed opinion, and inane sports blogs, Mayer said “people can always visit MSN. The First Amendment allows companies to publish useless garbage. We have simply chosen not to do this anymore.”
A source also indicated that Yahoo comments will be closed down, with the anticipated effect of angering boors, conspiracy theorists, and lunatics throughout the world.
In related news, Google has also issued a strategic statement, saying it is re-committing itself to its original “don’t be evil” mission. The company said it expects to shed 98% of its revenue, with the impact on its stock price remaining unclear.
Weekly Roundup: Amazon Beefs up Cloud Security
Last week, there have been few important feature releases from Amazon. Apache CloudStack proudly announces its graduation to Top Level Project. There were also some new releases from StackMob, Scalr and Appcelerator.
Here’s a quick sum up of Cloud happenings over the last week.
To begin with, IaaS leader Amazon has added another powerful security option, the AWS CloudHSM service. The CloudHSM service helps customers to meet strict requirements for key management without sacrificing application performance. Next, they have also announced about the newest version of Amazon Linux AMI. The goal of this version is to ensure that EC2 customers will have a stable, secure, and simple Linux-based AMI that integrates well with other AWS offerings.