The rumors are approaching consensus that a pair of new netbooks running the Google Chrome OS may/will be available early in the New Year. The details of the specs and marketing plans are still a bit vague, but we do know that they will run the Chrome OS. We think that they will be called “Smartbooks”. We have a persistent, unconfirmed notion that they will be Google-branded. And, we suppose that Google may sell them directly, possibly supplemented by other channels. Much of the reporting ab...Nov. 30, 2010 01:55 PM EST Reads: 1,264
“We look forward to drawing upon Bernard Liautaud’s unsurpassed expertise in building a global software business as we consolidate Abiquo’s position as the leading software company in the growing Cloud management market,” said Abiquo CEO Pete Malcolm as it was announced Tuesday that Liautaud, a Partner at Balderton Capital, will be joining the Abiquo Board of Directors in conjunction with Balderton's leadership of a $10 million round of Series B funding in the fast-growing software provider....
There is an exhaustive new study out that should give enormous pause to organizations considering or already using public cloud services, especially for storing data and documents. The research was conducted by The Centre for Commercial Law Studies at Queen Mary, University of London and it examines the “Ts&Cs;” in the service agreements from a who’s who of cloud service providers, from Akamai to Zoho. The survey covers many different aspects of the agreements, including things like jurisdicti...
Due to a record increase in the number, quality and breadth of submissions to the Conference Advisory Board, the organizers of 8th Cloud Expo (June 6-9, 2011) - Cloud Expo New York 2011 - have extended the technical program through the addition of an all-new "Telcos in the Cloud" track - to complement the already extensive selection of tracks, including "Enterprise-Level Cloud Computing," "Federal/Government Cloud Computing," "Real-World Virtualization,"Cloud Security," "The Cloud in Practice: C...
The Whitehouse Office of Management and Budget has announced that, from now on, cloud computing would be the “default approach to IT” for US government agencies. The move comes as an element of a sweeping set of government IT reforms begun last summer intended to “close the IT gap” between the public and private sectors. The cloud-first policy is expected to reduce a 2000+ data center infrastructure by as much as 40%, lowering costs, improving security and performance, and speeding up the depl...
This week, managed services provider Datapipe made an important announcement about something they are doing with Amazon Web Services that reminded me of a Zen kōan. That’s a paradox intended to defy logic and to cultivate intuition, like the question, “What is the sound of one hand clapping?” Alas, the tech press beat seldom ascends the craggy path to satori and, so, the announcement did not receive much attention, despite its Amazon angle. I guess it was just too oblique to allow even the re...
We have now reached that time of year when the great and the good partake in the festive tradition of crystal ball gazing, as they predict the IT industry’s future trends for the next twelve months.
Over the next three weeks or so we will be deluged with various top tens, who will move, who will shake, who’ll hit tech heaven with the next iPad and who will reach tech hell with the next Sega Dreamcast. 
Apparently, I can use my own name and your Social Security Number to get a job or buy a car and it is not an identity theft crime. Really. This is according to a recent Colorado Supreme Court ruling. They ruled that, ‘that using someone else’s Social Security number is not identity theft as long as you use your own name with it.’ Seriously. The case in question involved a man who used his real name but someone else’s Social Security number to obtain a car loan. The court said that since he...
Cloud services have opened up new opportunities for organizations to be more efficient and flexible and operate more competitively, but what happens when I.T. just isn’t moving quickly enough to meet the increasing infrastructure needs of various departments?
Well, often, they’ll go rogue. The advantage of being able to procure infrastructure in a utility model makes the cloud an attractive choice for departments wanting to sidestep corporate I.T. processes, controls, and timelines. At the sa...
If you subtract the hype, cloud computing is moving like a tortoise – slow and steady, more slow than steady. Will it win the race? Maybe; but not next year. The question is where we will be one year down the line.
[You need to read this post in conjunction with my earlier post where I had raised 4 questions and answered 2 of them. Here is the answer to the question 3 & 4]
As those of us who are students and practitioners within the field of digital forensic know , any advance in this area tend to be primarily reactionary in nature and most likely developed to respond to a specific incident or subset of incidents. This can pose a major challenge in the traditional systems; one can only imagine what can occur when faced with a distributed cloud ecosystem.
Effective consolidation means more than simply reducing the number of boxes your company has in outlying offices and data centers. Efforts to reduce hardware infrastructure often result in degraded application performance—and thus unplanned expenditure—as it becomes necessary to optimize the infrastructure. F5’s open architectural framework allows real control over your network to ensure applications are [...]
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