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Monthly Archives: November 2013
NRRC Video Series – Video 1 : Introduction and Overview
In September, the NCOIC delivered the Geospatial Community Cloud (GCC) demonstration. Sponsored by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, this demonstration showed how an interoperable, hybrid-cloud operating environment can be quickly enabled and used as a rapid response capability.While this demonstration was designed around lessons learned in the 2010 Haitian Earthquake, the effort showed how a cloud services brokerage approach could be used to quickly provide critical information technology infrastructure support to an unplanned event.
NRRC Video Series – Video 1 : Introduction and Overview
In September, the NCOIC delivered the Geospatial Community Cloud (GCC) demonstration. Sponsored by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, this demonstration showed how an interoperable, hybrid-cloud operating environment can be quickly enabled and used as a rapid response capability.While this demonstration was designed around lessons learned in the 2010 Haitian Earthquake, the effort showed how a cloud services brokerage approach could be used to quickly provide critical information technology infrastructure support to an unplanned event.
VASCO to Launch DIGIPASS 760, a Visual Transaction Signing Solution
VASCO Data Security International, Inc. has announced the launch of DIGIPASS 760, a visual transaction signing solution. DIGIPASS 760 is the first successful integration of Cronto’s patented solution into VASCO’s DIGIPASS product line.
DIGIPASS 760 is an innovative authentication device targeted towards banks, enabling them to establish a secure optical communication channel with the client. The solution works with the CrontoSign technology whereby a graphical cryptogram consisting of a matrix of colored dots is displayed on the bank’s website.
Why Service Provider Dashboards Fall Short for Enterprise IT
In September, Google experienced a services disruption that affected nearly a third of Gmail users. As you’d expect, it generated quite a bit of news. Such outages are fairly infrequent, but even Google struggled to resolve it. The Google status dashboard during that outage simply said “indicates some type of issue.”
Imagine yourself, now, in the shoes of an IT administrator relaying the status of a widespread email outage to your boss. How satisfied do you think your boss would be with the statement that “something’s wrong and we’re looking into it,” if that’s all the information you could provide? Worse yet, what if you didn’t even provide that information until after your boss spent the last hour trying to figure out why email wasn’t getting through?
Coraid Now Offers Support for SanDisk SSDs
Ethernet storage solutions company, Coraid, recently announced they will offer support for SanDisk Optimus 1.6TB Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) solid state drives (SSDs) on the EtherDrive scale-out storage platform.
The Coraid EtherDrive SRX6000 series storage appliances, loaded with Optimus 1.6TB SAS SSDs, offers a scalable network storage solution with the functionality of more than double the throughput. It also offers up to five times input/output operations per Second (IOPS) compared to previous EtherDrive SRX models. The primary audience for the EtherDrive SRX6000 includes cloud and enterprise data centers and is optimized for I/O-intensive applications, such as server virtualization and web applications, and cloud environments.
Coraid Now Offers Support for SanDisk SSDs
Ethernet storage solutions company, Coraid, recently announced they will offer support for SanDisk Optimus 1.6TB Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) solid state drives (SSDs) on the EtherDrive scale-out storage platform.
The Coraid EtherDrive SRX6000 series storage appliances, loaded with Optimus 1.6TB SAS SSDs, offers a scalable network storage solution with the functionality of more than double the throughput. It also offers up to five times input/output operations per Second (IOPS) compared to previous EtherDrive SRX models. The primary audience for the EtherDrive SRX6000 includes cloud and enterprise data centers and is optimized for I/O-intensive applications, such as server virtualization and web applications, and cloud environments.
WSTA Named “Association Sponsor” of Cloud Expo 2014 NY & Silicon Valley
SYS-CON Events announced today that the Wall Street Technology Association (WSTA) has been named “Association Sponsor” of SYS-CON’s 14th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 10-12, 2014, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY, and the 15th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
The Wall Street Technology Association (WSTA®) provides financial industry technology professionals, vendors, service providers, and consultants with forums to learn from and connect with each other. The WSTA facilitates seminars and networking events where members meet and exchange ideas and best practices that assist them in effectively capitalizing on technology advances and dealing with financial industry business challenges. Founded in 1967, the WSTA is a not-for-profit association with a long history of evolving to meet the needs of its members.
With Salesforce SuperPods public cloud can be private – but should it?
Dr Steve Hodgkinson, Research Director, Public Sector Technology
Salesforce announced a private SuperPod hosting of the Salesforce offering for HP at Dreamforce. This announcement appears to open the door to a more nuanced hybrid delivery model where the distinction between public and private cloud services is becoming a matter of customer choice.
The SuperPod may provide a bridge that enables some customers to access the benefits of SaaS while keeping data in dedicated infrastructure. Enterprises, however, need to be careful about wishing for a “private” cloud.
Unless there are definite and unavoidable regulatory or legal drivers, the better path is probably to learn how to live safely in the public cloud. That, after all, is where the real economies of scale and scope are to be found. It is also increasingly the destination of choice of both customers and employees.
Introducing the SuperPod
Dreamforce 13 was, as usual, an impressive …
OpenNebula Enhances Its Support for Cloud Bursting to Amazon
As you may know, OpenNebula’s approach to cloud bursting (that is, its hybrid cloud model) is quite unique. The reason behind this uniqueness is the transparency to both end users and cloud administrators to use and maintain the cloud bursting functionality.
The transparency to cloud administrators comes from the fact that a an AWS EC2 region is modelled as any other host (albeit of potentially a much bigger capacity), so the scheduler can place VMs in EC2 as it will do in any other local host. Of course, the scheduler algorithm can be tuned so the EC2 host (or hosts, more on this below) is picked last, so it will be only used only if there is a real need (ie, the local infrastructure cannot cope with the demand). On the other hand, the transparency to end users is offered through the hybrid template functionality: the same VM template in OpenNebula can describe the VM if it is deployed locally and also if it gets deployed in Amazon EC2. So users just have to instantiate the template, and OpenNebula will transparently chose if that is executed locally or remotely. Very convenient, isn’t it?