Today cloud computing facilitated by virtualization continues emerging as the service delivery vehicle for IT to shorten go-to-market while facing unpredictable data patterns and workloads. The increasing complexities and growing user expectations make system management on the center stage of a cloud computing solution. In addition to automation, we now need a self-service model to fundamentally reduce the cost structure of training and maintenance. Besides processes and procedures, we now need work-flows and orchestration. The requirements for a management solution are now the abilities to identify and manage resources deployed to hetrogeneous virtualization platforms in a hybrid scenario of cloud computing with predictability and repeatability. A single and unified platform with a consistent user experience to manage all IT resources including physical, virtualized, private cloud, and public cloud resources becomes critical for increasing efficiency and reducing TCO at the same time. From a deployment point of view, the abilities to deploy: OS to bare metal, virtual machines to virtualization host groups, and services to a private cloud signify the arrival of deployment as a service. And VMM 2012 implements and proves this concept.
Today, with enterprises migrating to the cloud, the security challenge around protecting data is greater than ever before. Keeping data private and secure has always been a business imperative. But for many companies and organizations, it has also become a compliance requirement and a necessity to stay in business. Standards including HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, PCI DSS and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act all require that organizations protect their data at rest and provide defenses against data loss and threats.
Public cloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than as a product, and is usually categorized into three service models: Software as a Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and Platform as a Service (PaaS). When it comes to public cloud security, all leading cloud providers are investing significant efforts and resources in securing and certifying their datacenters. However, as cloud computing matures, enterprises are learning that cloud security cannot be delivered by the cloud provider alone. In fact, cloud providers make sure enterprises know that security is a shared responsibility, and that cloud customers do share responsibility for data security, protection from unauthorized access, and backup of their data.
Today, with enterprises migrating to the cloud, the security challenge around protecting data is greater than ever before. Keeping data private and secure has always been a business imperative. But for many companies and organizations, it has also become a compliance requirement and a necessity to stay in business. Standards including HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, PCI DSS and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act all require that organizations protect their data at rest and provide defenses against data loss and threats.
Public cloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than as a product, and is usually categorized into three service models: Software as a Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and Platform as a Service (PaaS). When it comes to public cloud security, all leading cloud providers are investing significant efforts and resources in securing and certifying their datacenters. However, as cloud computing matures, enterprises are learning that cloud security cannot be delivered by the cloud provider alone. In fact, cloud providers make sure enterprises know that security is a shared responsibility, and that cloud customers do share responsibility for data security, protection from unauthorized access, and backup of their data.
When it comes to measuring applications’ performance across our local enterprise network, we think we know what network latency is and how to calculate it. But when it comes to the cloud there are a lot of subtleties that can impact latency in ways that we don’t immediately realize.
In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Jelle Frank van der Zwet, Manager of Cloud Segment at Interxion, will more closely examine what latency means for deploying cloud applications, how you can keep track of it and reduce it for your particular purposes and cloud-based applications.
Lack of bandwidth is a problem in many developing countries, including the Philippines, as I’ve written before. Now comes word that about 100 gigabytes-per-second capacity has been added to the Philippines, with completion of the country’s portion of a cable that will reach many countries in Southeast Asia.
The country’s dominant telco, Philippines Long Distance Telephone (PLDT), has invested US$50 million in the project, which is known as the Asia Submarine-cable Express (ASE). The ASE is expected to come into full service in Q3 of this year. Original cost estimates for the entire project were US$300 million – PLDT describes it as a US$500-million project in its latest official information.
Lack of bandwidth is a problem in many developing countries, including the Philippines, as I’ve written before. Now comes word that about 100 gigabytes-per-second capacity has been added to the Philippines, with completion of the country’s portion of a cable that will reach many countries in Southeast Asia.
The country’s dominant telco, Philippines Long Distance Telephone (PLDT), has invested US$50 million in the project, which is known as the Asia Submarine-cable Express (ASE). The ASE is expected to come into full service in Q3 of this year. Original cost estimates for the entire project were US$300 million – PLDT describes it as a US$500-million project in its latest official information.
Lack of bandwidth is a problem in many developing countries, including the Philippines, as I’ve written before. Now comes word that about 100 gigabytes-per-second capacity has been added to the Philippines, with completion of the country’s portion of a cable that will reach many countries in Southeast Asia.
The country’s dominant telco, Philippines Long Distance Telephone (PLDT), has invested US$50 million in the project, which is known as the Asia Submarine-cable Express (ASE). The ASE is expected to come into full service in Q3 of this year. Original cost estimates for the entire project were US$300 million – PLDT describes it as a US$500-million project in its latest official information.
Lack of bandwidth is a problem in many developing countries, including the Philippines, as I’ve written before. Now comes word that about 100 gigabytes-per-second capacity has been added to the Philippines, with completion of the country’s portion of a cable that will reach many countries in Southeast Asia.
The country’s dominant telco, Philippines Long Distance Telephone (PLDT), has invested US$50 million in the project, which is known as the Asia Submarine-cable Express (ASE). The ASE is expected to come into full service in Q3 of this year. Original cost estimates for the entire project were US$300 million – PLDT describes it as a US$500-million project in its latest official information.
International activists, Greenpeace, have caused a major stir among a number of global cloud computing providers, by releasing a report entitled ‘How Clean is Your Cloud?’, criticising Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft for choosing “dirty energy” to power cloud computing.
International activists, Greenpeace, have caused a major stir among a number of global cloud computing providers, by releasing a report entitled ‘How Clean is Your Cloud?’, criticising Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft for choosing “dirty energy” to power cloud computing.
20th April 2012 
20th April 2012