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HotLink Natively Extends vCenter to Public Clouds
Two-year-old HotLink launched Hybrid Express for VMware vCenter on Tuesday.
It’s supposed to be the simplest product anywhere for deploying, administering and managing hybrid clouds. Otherwise it’s complex, costly and time-consuming.
It works through a plug-in that natively supports Amazon EC2 and CloudStack inside vCenter’s management infrastructure.
The widgetry doesn’t need anything else. It’s supposed to accelerate hybrid cloud deployment from weeks to a few hours.
Cincinnati Bell’s Data Center Subsidiary To IPO
Cincinnati Bell, the last American company to use the old Bell name, is going to spin off its data center colocation subsidiary CyrusOne and has filed an S-11 with the SEC for the unit to go public.
When it does go public – possibly by the end of the year – it will be structured as a REIT for the tax advantages. It wants to own all its facilities outright.
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley Speaker Profile: Adam DuVander – ProgrammableWeb
With Cloud Expo 2012 Silicon Valley (11th Cloud Expo) – co-located with 2nd International Big Data Expo – due to open in under three months’ time at the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA, let’s introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical program at the conference…
We have technical and strategy sessions for you dealing with every nook and cranny of Cloud Computing & Big Data, but what of those who are presenting? Who are they, where do they work, what else have they written
How the Internet Will Look in the Near Future (Infographic)
How the Internet Will Look in the Near Future (Infographic)
Free Art Available on Amazon…Amazon Web Services, That Is
Amazon has released some of the most awesome office artwork that I have ever seen. No, I’m not talking about knockoff copies of a Jackson Pollack on Amazon.com… I’m talking the about application and industry-specific cloud reference architectures now available on Amazon Web Services. Over the last several years, the industry has looked to Amazon […]
Trending attitudes in cloud computing [infographic]
What are IT professionals valuing, using and potentially considering? This infographic from Insight Cloud Computing Solutions tries to shed some light on the issue, including the differences between private, hybrid and public clouds:
Commentary: Amazon Remains the Cloud’s Top Dog
In the competitive world of cloud-based computing infrastructure, Amazon remains top dog. It’s highly visible, its footprint is almost global, it incrementally adds features or cuts prices to keep competitors on their toes, and it generally manages to meet most people’s needs, most of the time. It may not always offer the lowest prices, or the best support, or the fastest processing, or the friendliest management console, but it consistently manages to meet customer demand with an offer that is more or less ‘good enough.’ It is a convenient choice, and it’s the standard against which its multitude of competitors will typically be measured. Amazon is Asda or Carrefour or WalMart to the competition’s Tesco, Marks & Spencer, Fortnum & Mason, Whole Foods, and neighbourhood deli. Amazon is not, of course, the only game in town. Far from it. Rackspace comes a close second by most measures, big names such as HP and Google are becoming increasingly serious contenders, and there is a healthy – and growing – crop of smaller providers that differentiate themselves by geography, by price, by customer domain, by specific features, and more. Indeed, I looked at some of those differentiations recently. But every one of the cloud infrastructure providers […]
Julian Assange, the Unappealing Martyr
It would take but one simple sentence from the Obama Administration: “The United States will not extradite Julian Assange from the UK, Sweden, or anywhere else for any actions he’s taken in the past.”
Thus would end a multi-country international incident that seems to grow every day. Assange is hardly a journalist, in my view, and I’ve written before that his actions were likely to precipitate just the sort of fascistic activity that we’re apparently witnessing today. Yet he is already a martyr, metaphorically speaking, to the cause of free expression and what should be a universal right not to be harrassed. That fact that he seems to be a deeply uanappealing hero is irrelevant.
So here we are, in a 21st century that’s evolving into an all-seeing, global police state, all due to the unlikely combination of box cutters and digital cameras. When will it end, and what can we do to end it?
Perhaps Assange’s plight should be viewed as a First World Problem. After all, children are among those being murdered in Syria these past months, North Koreans remain enslaved, and there are uncountable incidents of mass violence occurring throughout the world, including the United States.
All that brotherhood/sisterhood stuff that we just saw at the London Olympics, personified by a photo of two wrestling opponents, one American and one Iranian, hugging each other, rings hollow as usual.
Julian Assange’s troubles, the troubles of of the unfortunately named female punk band in Russia, even the ongoing Occupy movement arrests in the US, can seem trivial by comparison.
But these latter incidents seem to be part of a pattern, one in which the highly developed nations of the West (and I include Russia here) are as likely to place an iron grip on those they dislike as are the dictatorships of the world.
Lest anyone be offended by the comparison of the US and UK governments being compared to that of Syria, one has to ask the difference between a missile fired on Aleppo versus one fired in Tripoli or a caravan in Yemen. I frankly don’t know.
The Kingdom of Sweden has not yet gone this far, as far as I know. Perhaps, though, Sweden will feel a moral pang and issue the “no extradtion” statement that I never expect to see from the United States. One wonders how long this long-neutral nation will be willing to be at the beck and call of the CIA’s waterboarders.
Does anyone have Carl XVI Gustaf on speed-dial? His email? Does he tweet? He has no concrete power, but a statement from the man who presents the Nobel Peace Prize would be a game changer.
As I wrote last week, the emerging unitary global sheriff is made possible only by advances in technology. It’s glib (and wrong) to say we’re all guilty. But how long shall we keep cranking out more powerful hardware, more industrious software, and more ingenious ways to connect them if we’re only serving to limit the freedom that allowed us to create in the first place?