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Interop Panel Discusses the Relevance of SDN

By William | Published May 13, 2013

David F. Carr at Information Week covers the keynote panel at Interop and their conversation regarding the future of SDN and network admin.

The point of SDN is to make networks easy to configure and reconfigure in software rather than hardware, with many more networking functions migrating from being embedded capabilities of a network appliance to being defined in software. Network systems are migrating incrementally in that direction as networks follow the same path toward virtualization as servers and storage, he said. Ultimately, the goal is to provide every data center with the flexibility associated with cloud computing.

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Video: Adaptive Computing Named “Cool Vendor” in Cloud Management by Gartner

By Rich Brueckner | Published May 12, 2013

In this video from Moabcon 2013, Robert Clyde and Chad Harrington from Adaptive Computing discuss the company’s recent announcement that Adaptive has been named as a “Cool Vendor” in Cloud Management by Gartner.

We believe to be recognized as a ‘Cool Vendor’ by Gartner for our cloud management technology is confirmation of our pioneering work in policy-based optimization for this space,” said Robert Clyde, CEO of Adaptive Computing. “Our Moab Cloud Suite allows enterprise IT leaders and cloud architects to maximize cloud return on investment through cost savings in capacity and management complexity. Moab’s ability to perform ongoing service optimization ensures organizations achieve both agility and service performance with their private cloud.”

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Google to Switch to Debian Linux Distribution

By William | Published May 12, 2013

At Information Week, Charles Babcock reports that Google is no longer employing its custom version of Linux instead opting for the open-sourced Debian.

In moving to Debian, Google is demonstrating that it wants Google Compute Engine to become less Google-technology specific and more of a standard platform. Compute Engine’s predecessor, App Engine, a developer’s platform as a service, restricted itself to Google’s favorite language, Python, at its launch. Compute Engine workloads based on Debian means the favored operating system will be supported by a community larger than Google’s development team itself.

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The Future of Brick-and-Mortar Retail Lies in Big Data and the Cloud

By William | Published May 11, 2013

Over at Wired, Vish Ganapathy reports that Big-box retailers are using Big Data analytics hosted in clouds to learn more about their customers and to compete with the e-commerce segment.

Cloud computing involves a new way of thinking about data. In a cloud, a single server can host many virtual servers, slashing hardware costs. The virtual servers can scale on demand depending on the need for computer capacity. That’s very useful for retailers, whose businesses are notoriously seasonal. Automatically expanding capacity on Black Friday, for example, can reduce lines at checkout counters and ensure quick service.

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Australian HPC Company Looking to the Cloud for Rendering Blockbusters

By William | Published May 10, 2013

Trevor Clarke at The Sydney Morning Herald, writes that Animal Logic realizes the potential the cloud can provide when faced with the need for additional resources in rendering visual effects.

Despite this computing power, in the last nine months the company’s workload – it has been working on The Great Gatsby, Walking with Dinosaurs for the BBC and also Iron Man 3 – has meant it needed additional resources, which it sourced from service provider Steam Engine.

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Job of the Week II: Software Development Manager for AWS

By William | Published May 9, 2013

Amazon Web Services in Seattle is looking for a Software Development Manager in our 2nd installment of Job of the Week.

We’re looking for strong engineering leaders to build scalable and compelling mobile applications that span a broad range of devices and screen sizes.

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NASDAQ OMX Announces Virtual Data Room Called WorkSpace

By William | Published May 9, 2013

At PRWeek, Brittaney Kiefer reports that NASDAQ OMX has launched WorkSpace to solidify the company’s handling of sensitive data in real-time.

Launched on Monday, WorkSpace is part of NASDAQ OMX’s corporate solutions group. The virtual data room allows users to protect sensitive and proprietary information online, update it in real-time, and collaborate with colleagues on issues such as mergers and acquisitions, IPO preparation, bankruptcies and restructurings, auditing, reporting, market research, and fundraising. WorkSpace also offers an iPad app to give users mobile access to the platform.

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Mellanox Announces Integrated InfiniBand to Ethernet Switch System

By William | Published May 8, 2013

Mellanox reveals a single switch that merges InfiniBand and Ethernet technologies for data center solutions.

Mellanox’s new InfiniBand to Ethernet gateway functionality built within Mellanox switches provides the most cost-effective, high-performance solution for data center unified connectivity solutions,” said Gilad Shainer, vice president of marketing at Mellanox Technologies. “Mellanox’s systems enable data centers to operate at 56Gb/s network speeds while seamlessly connecting to 1, 10 and 40 Gigabit Ethernet networks. Existing LAN infrastructures and management practices can be preserved, easing deployment and providing significant return-on-investment.”

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Major OS Providers Put to Task by Cloud Technology

By William | Published May 7, 2013

At Information Week, Thomas Claburn writes that Mozilla and Otoy have partnered to offer a JavaScript library that allows applications to be streamed from the cloud that is hardware and operating system (OS) neutral.

With ORBX.js, native code and legacy applications can be hosted in the cloud (e.g. Amazon EC2), and stream interactive graphics, 3D rendering or low latency video to a standard HTML5 page without using plugins or native code, or even the video tag (which, like Google NaCL,is vendor specific — ORBX.js works on all five major browsers),” explained Otoy founder and CEO Jules Urbach in an email. “The video codec created for ORBX.js can decode 1080p60 at a quality on par with H.264, using only JavaScript.”

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Job of the Week: Software Engineer for Salesforce at Kiva

By Rich Brueckner | Published May 5, 2013

Kiva in San Francisco is seeking a Software Engineer for Salesforce in our Job of the Week.

We’re looking for a Salesforce Software Engineer to help lead the architectural design, development, customization and integration efforts of related Salesforce solutions within the Internal Tools team here at Kiva. These solutions are comprised of tools that use Salesforce.com, Apex/Visualforce, javascript and PHP applications and interfaces using OAuth and other related technologies. He or she will also be primarily responsible for the operation, administration, and technical support for our instance(s) on Salesforce.com.