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Slidecast: An Introduction to Cloud Computing

By Rich Brueckner | Published September 16, 2012

In this video, Dr. Manish Parashar from Rutgers University presents: An Introduction to Cloud Computing.

Cloud computing has emerged as a dominant paradigm that has been widely adopted by enterprises. Clouds provide on-demand access to computing utilities, an abstraction of unlimited computing resources, and support for on-demand scale up, scale down and scale out. In this talk I will cover the “why”, “what” and “how” of Cloud computing and explore the landscape of cloud services. I will also explore how science and engineering applications can benefit from clouds and how the cloud abstraction can lead to new paradigms and practices.

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Survey: Cloud Adoption Rates to Rise to 40 Percent of IT Ops by 2015

By Rich Brueckner | Published September 11, 2012

This week the Open Data Center Alliance released results of their second annual member survey at the ODCA Solutions Provider Summit. The results show that members are scaling cloud adoption 15% faster than previously forecast, with over half of responding members running a >40% of their IT operations in the private cloud by 2015 and a quarter of members running more than 40% of their operations in the public cloud.

Our diverse membership provides us with a unique perspective on the trends and challenges surrounding cloud computing,” said Mario Müller, ODCA chairman and vice president IT infrastructure at BMW. “This survey not only shows that companies are increasingly using the cloud for critical business applications, but are also making their IT purchasing decisions based on ODCA requirements. Clearly, the ongoing, collaborative efforts of the ODCA are having a major impact on the industry.”

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Mannheim Panel to Examine Challenges of Moving HPC to the Cloud

By Rich Brueckner | Published September 7, 2012

Can the cloud really work for HPC applications? For many HPC users thinking of moving their workload to the cloud, the idea of having a user-friendly front end free from back end administration is a strong incentive. At the upcoming ISC Cloud’12 conference, a panel of experts will examine the hurdles of moving HPC to the cloud.

This panel will examine the potential obstacles to cloud adoption, such as security and trust, compliance, outsourcing, performance, virtualization, pricing, payment model, software licenses, choice of service provider or private cloud builder, network bandwidth, and integration of all of these into existing business or research processes.

The event takes place Sept. 24-25 in Mannheim, Germany. Attendees are encouraged to register by Sept. 15 to enjoy the preshow discount.

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RESTful Cloud Computing – SOA that Finally Works

By Rich Brueckner | Published August 6, 2012

In this video, Jason Bloomberg from ZapThink discusses a REST-based application developed by the US Coast Guard. In this talk, he ties together SOA, REST, and Cloud Computing into a set of practical approaches that provide greater agility at a lower cost. This is part one of a day-long seminar; additional segments are posted as well.

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Slidecast: Interxion — No Cloud is an Island

By Rich Brueckner | Published July 8, 2012

In this video, Jelle Frank from Interxion presents on the need for hybrid clouds in the enterprise and how the company’s cloud test labs let you try before you build.

Interxion’s Cloud Test Labs are targeted at companies that want to trial a private cloud before migrating it to a fully-functioning production environment,” said Jelle Frank van der Zwet, Interxion’s cloud marketing manager. “Our partnership with Eucalyptus for this Cloud Test Lab takes that one step further, giving systems integrators and enterprises the option to not only test the service in a private cloud environment, but also scale into a public cloud.”

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Video: RightScale onto the Google Compute Engine

By Rich Brueckner | Published July 3, 2012

RightScale and Google Compute Engine Customer Experience from RightScale on Vimeo.

In this video, RightScale CTO Thorsten von Eicken describes how the company’s cloud management gives you a fast on-ramp to the new Google Compute Engine.

The RightScale integration with Google has been well thought out, making it simple and fast to use Google Compute Engine,” said Joe Masters Emison, VP Research and Development at BuildFax.

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Slidecast: Firstline Software – Bringing the Cloud Down to Earth

By Rich Brueckner | Published June 6, 2012

In this slidecast, Konstantin Polukhin and Peter Vaihansky from Firstline Software present: Bringing the Cloud to Earth.

First Line Software has taken on the challenge of connecting cloud-based applications to on-premise data by developing a solution that places a functional stack between the cloud application and the on-premise database. The solution, developed following customer demand, combines the company’s proprietary “cloud-to-earth adaptor” that implements reliable messaging across an unstable network with the comprehensive mapping between the cloud-based business logic and the on premise data store.”

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Gentzsch: HPC Complexity Driving Move to Cloud

By Rich Brueckner | Published June 2, 2012

Over at the ISC Blog, Wolfgang Gentzsch writes that ever-increasing complexity in high performance computing is driving the need for HPC in the Cloud.

Rather than having to rely on a corporate IT department to procure, install and wire HPC servers and services into the data center, there is the notion of self-service, where users access a cloud portal and make a request for compute and data servers with specific hardware or software characteristics, and have them provisioned automatically in a matter of minutes. When no longer needed, the underlying resources are put back into the cloud to service the next customer. This notion of disposable computing dramatically reduces the barrier for research and development, in research and industry! Clouds will surely revolutionize how HPC is applied because of its utilitarian usage model. Clouds will make HPC and data processing genuinely mainstream.

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Mellanox and Eucalyptus to Accelerate Cloud Computing Adoption

By Rich Brueckner | Published May 10, 2012

This week Mellanox and Eucalyptus Systems announced that they have established a strategic partnership program to further accelerate and foster adoption of efficient, high-performance cloud infrastructures. The collaboration between Mellanox and Eucalyptus will provide the cloud industry with an efficient cloud infrastructure that is simple to deploy.

This collaboration underscores Eucalyptus’ commitment to organizations that are building powerful, flexible private and hybrid clouds using existing enterprise IT infrastructure and software,” said David P. Butler, senior vice president of marketing at Eucalyptus Systems. “The combination of Eucalyptus’ software platform and Mellanox 40GbE and InfiniBand interconnects, will provide enterprises an easy out-of-the-box installation experience while gaining a high-performance, affordable cloud solution.”

Eucalyptus is the world’s most widely deployed software platform for on-premise IaaS clouds. Eucalyptus is enabling 25,000 cloud starts each year, including instances at more than 20 percent of Fortune 100 companies.

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Slidecast: Newvem – Know Your Cloud

By Rich Brueckner | Published May 3, 2012

In this slidecast, Zev Laderman from Newvem presents: Newvem – Know Your Cloud.

Newvem is the leader in enhancing cloud usage effectiveness through data analytics. Newvem’s suite of tools utilize both cloud data analysis and crowd sourcing to enable DevOps, IT Managers and other Cloud Stakeholders to get to the bottom of their cloud faster by operating more efficient, secure, and cost effective clouds.”

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