Posts Tagged ‘cloud computing’
Tuesday, October 5th, 2010
Here’s an interesting over view of the four most popular file storage strategies …
File servers are the bane of the network administrator as the overall size gets bigger and old files are never accessed over time. In this post, IT pro Rick Vanover poses the question on what to do for file servers and presents a few options.
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Way, way back in the day my file sever of choice was Novell NetWare. It was a good network operating system that had a robust file system with commands that Windows still can’t match.
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Tags: cloud computing, file server, Linux server, SAN, Windows sever
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Wednesday, September 29th, 2010
This article nicely sums up some of the pros and cons of cloud computing …
Amazon’s EC2 has set the bar for VM/hour costs in the range of $0.05 for a small (2GB) reserved instance. This is the benchmark that internal IT organizations will need to compare against. How does your organization measure up? Do you have an internal cost per VM hour that you can meaningfully compare to EC2? In this post, I will try to compare the cost savings associated with a public IaaS cloud and the value-add of internal IT. (Note: I used EC2 for my analysis but a similar analysis can be made of other cloud providers.)
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Tags: cloud computing, IaaS, Network Administration, public cloud
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Wednesday, September 8th, 2010
It seems inevitable that as the capabilities of the internet and reliance on technology grow, we’ll all need more bandwidth …
Organizations of all sizes deal with the challenge of trying to push more out of existing investments. One stopping point can be Internet connectivity or site-to-site bandwidth. Rick Vanover shares some thoughts and opens this discussion up to TechRepublic members.
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Last week, I had the honor again to attend the VMworld conference in San Francisco. VMworld isn’t just about virtualization any more. If you haven’t heard, one of the key themes of many messages revolves around cloud technologies.
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Tags: bandwidth, cloud computing, connectivity
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Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
It seems strange that HP and Dell would fight over a relatively unknown company that specializes in data storage … until you factor in the cloud computing angle; then it makes sense.
Wall Street sees Hewlett-Packard and Dell rival bids as indication that deal-making is back in vogue
The world’s two largest computer manufacturers, Hewlett-Packard and Dell, are going head-to-head in a bid to buy 3PAR, a hitherto obscure provider of back-office data storage.
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Tags: 3PAR, cloud computing, Dell, Hewlett Packard, HP
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Monday, August 23rd, 2010
This worries me. It makes me wonder if every employee will be a temporary employee in the future …
When thinking about cloud computing, it’s easy to get caught up in the technological innovations. Often overlooked, however, is the tool that made all this high technology possible: the human brain. What if we could access that resource via the cloud, too? As I detail in my weekly GigaOM Pro column, we can. Some call it “labor as a service” (I like LaaS), others call it “labor-on-demand,” but everyone should call it cloud computing.
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Tags: cloud computing, labor as a service, labor on demand
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Monday, August 9th, 2010
I don’t really need this myself (yet) … but it still sounds like it would be interesting to experiment with.
Microsoft has just announced the availability of Windows Intune Beta as part of Microsoft Online Services. Windows Intune is a cloud based PC management service for businesses and organizations. Microsoft calls it a “comprehensive solution that includes PC management, malware protection, Windows upgrades, and more”.
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Tags: cloud computing, remote management, security, Windows Intune Beta
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Monday, August 9th, 2010
Here’s an interesting approach to selling non-technical managers on high-tech budgetary needs …
In today’s IT environment many IT shops are headed toward the relatively newer solutions of virtualization and disk-based backup, but some organizations just don’t see the value of new-fangled solutions when the old ways still work. Sometimes this isn’t for lack of wanting to be “green” or to realize savings in power and other resources, but for a lack of understanding as to what a virtual machine really is.
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Tags: cloud computing, data center, IT management, virtualization
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Friday, August 6th, 2010
Sounds like both good news and bad news …
This is a guest post from Larry Dignan, Editor in Chief of ZDNet, TechRepublic’s sister site. You can follow Larry on his ZDNet blog Between the Lines (or subscribe to the RSS feed).
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The traditional IT services business model, which revolves around systems integration, big projects and a lot of consulting, is about to hit a decade of upheaval, according to a Forrester Research report.
Simply put, the validity of traditional IT services will be questioned with the evolution of cloud computing, automation and on-demand software.
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Tags: automation, cloud computing, on-demand software, systems integration
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Monday, July 26th, 2010
As movie special effects and animation technology continue to advance, it’s inevitable that bigger and more powerful computing systems will be needed …
Hollywood has always been one of the biggest consumers of large-scale computing systems. Back in the day, it was Silicon Graphics’ Oxygen servers. And now, in keeping up with the times, it is cloud-based computing systems. And not just any cloud. Instead, PEER 1 Hosting has created a specialty cloud using graphics processing units (GPUs) from Nvidia.
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Tags: 3D animation, cloud computing, GPU, Siggraph, special effects
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Wednesday, July 14th, 2010
This sounds like a wonderful idea … as long as they can keep those medical records private!
Verizon Business has created a service to store patient medical records online in a manner accessible to patients, physicians and insurers. The Verizon Health Information Exchange takes a doctor’s records, standardizes the information and can deliver that information to physicians or hospitals around the country via a secure web portal.
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Tags: cloud computing, medical records, Verizon
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