I have been following the blogosphere and Twitterati ever since the Google IaaS announcement came out officially. Within 24 hours, there have been umpteen number of articles, posts and tweets about how Google is all set to take Amazon head on! Almost 90% of the articles mentioned that Google is ready to lock horns with […]
PerspecSys Breaks Down Security Concerns Inhibiting Cloud Adoption
PerspecSys is a privately held company based in Toronto, Canada that specializes in eliminating the security barriers that inhibit enterprise companies from embracing cloud computing. Many companies want to move to the cloud for operational business purposes but are concerned about how to protect their mission critical data along the way. The PerspecSys solution allows organizations to encrypt or tokenize information before it leaves their environment, so they can make the move to the cloud knowing that their sensitive business data remains protected and in their control.
Google Compute Engine – Not AWS Killer (Yet)
Google launched its new “Google Compute Engine” yesterday at I/O. Here’s more info about GCE on the Google Developer’s Blog, and a nice analysis by Ben Kepes on CloudAve. If “imitation is the sincerest form of flattery” then it’s clear the guys at Google hold the Amazon Web Services EC2 in very high regard. In many ways, GCE is a really good copy of EC2 circa 2007/2008. There are some differences – like really great encryption for data at rest and in motion – but essentially GCE is a copy of EC2 4-5 years ago.
Open Clouds at Red Hat
Red Hat has been making steady progress toward what is shaping up as a fairly interesting cloud strategy. Building on their Deltacloud API abstraction layer and their CloudForms IaaS software, a hybrid cloud model is starting to emerge. Add to this their OpenShift PaaS system, and you can see that Red Hat is assembling a lot of key components. Let’s add the fact that Red Hat has gotten very involved with OpenStack, providing an interesting dynamic with CloudForms.
Explaining Cloud Services in Layman’s Terms
Everywhere you look, smart IT companies all over the world are touting Cloud Computing as the future of the IT industry. But here is the thing, for all the hotness of the term, what does Cloud even mean?
How Web APIs Unlock Value in the Cloud
How Web APIs Unlock Value in the Cloud by David Schoenbach, Vice President of product management at Exadel.
Red Hat Bets the Farm on Hybrid Clouds
Red Hat has talked to enough enterprises – ‘cause that’s where the money is – to know that what they want now is a hybrid cloud. The capex and opex temptations are just irresistible. How to get there is the problem.
To ensure Red Hat get a chunk of this hybrid action it’s proposing to let enterprises manage a hybrid cloud (presumably through its CloudForms management widgetry) so it looks like part of their on-premise Red Hat infrastructure.
AWS Power-related Outage in Older Data Center Ends, Once Again Hits Single Center Customers
From the AWS Service Health Dashboard:
9:32 AM PDT Connectivity has been restored to the affected subset of EC2 instances and EBS volumes in the single Availability Zone in the US-EAST-1 region. New instance launches are completing normally. Some of the affected EBS volumes are still re-mirroring causing increased IO latency for those volumes.
As happened earlier this month the failure was apparently triggered by power systems failures. The US-EAST-1 data center in Virginia is Amazon’s oldest.
As in the past, the outage hurt customers relying on a single center.
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Cloud computing is a few years old, but despite the many benefits and the fact that the term has entered the public consciousness, there are still a lot of people that are in the dark concerning what the cloud actually is and what it can do. It’s not like the Internet, which had a clear definition and immediately visible perks, like online commerce.
GoDaddy Guest Blog: Announcing Parallels Plesk Panel 11
Go Daddy is excited to announce the launch of Parallels® Plesk Panel 11 on VPS and dedicated hosting environments. Starting June 26, all new Plesk installations will provision with version 11, and existing Go Daddy customers can request a server reprovision to update their control panels to the newer version.
What’s in store for Parallels Plesk 11 users? First and foremost is the integration of NGINXTM as the end-user Web server. NGINX edge server technology lets you increase the number of maximum concurrent website connections, decrease server CPU and memory resource consumption, and improve the efficiency of serving your visitors with slow connection speeds on your Linux® server.
If increased server performance doesn’t get you excited enough, Parallels Plesk 11 promises improved security features to really get you fired up.
Enhanced security mode introduces advanced protection of sensitive data in Panel. With enhanced security mode enabled, password reminders and remote API features are updated to further protect your server from unauthorized access.
Additional security updates include password-protected backups and minimum strength requirements for user generated passwords. Secure backups lock attackers out of backup data if your external storage backup is compromised.
With Parallels Plesk 11, you can now force stronger user passwords by choosing from five password strength levels. Setting a minimum strength password requirement helps ensure server login integrity.
Plesk 11 gives you increased server performance, added security and more to your panel and websites!
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