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Cloud computing: A data-centric business model
According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology: “Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers,…
John Mayer At Dell World 2015!! (Oh, I’ll be there too.)
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Data-centric Security: The New Must Have
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Personal email:Pathway to Cybersecurity Breaches
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IEEE Cloud Computing: Legal Clouds
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Cloud hosting: Look beyond cost savings and weigh pros, cons
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“Cloud First” Lessons Learned from ViON
In 2011, then United States CIO Vivek Kundra released the US Federal Cloud Computing Strategy [1]. In the executive summary he pointed to cloud computing as a key component of…
Looking for Security Peak Performance?
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The Cybersecurity Sprint: Are we safe yet?
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Cloud Computing + Things = “Information Excellence”, Not IoT
The Internet of Things (IoT) has quickly become the next “be all to end all” in information technology. Touted as how cloud computing will connect everyday things together, it is…
Nikita Ivanov of GridGain offers some excellent insight into the nuts and bolts of getting the cloud to work. Definitely worth a read. To summarize:
- Most likely you do NOT need cloud computing
- The best way to think about cloud computing is “Data Center with API”
- You will spend weeks and months fine tuning your cloud based application
- You are about to deal with 100s and 1000s of remote nodes
- You cannot rely on the fact that environment will be homogeneous
- Debugging problem on a cloud scale requires deep understanding of distributed computing
- IP multicast will likely not work or work with significant networking limitations.
- Traffic inside is very cheap or free – but traffic outside is expensive and can “get you” very quickly
- If you have to use cloud all the time, the economics change and it may be cheaper to traditionally rent in a data center
- Up time and per-computer reliability is low – comprehensive failover support on grid middleware is a must
- Static IPs are not guaranteed
- Almost always plan on having multiple clouds
- External clouds may present data sharing problems
- Carefully think through dev/qa/prod layout and how this is all organized
- Clunky (re)deployment of your application onto the cloud can stop your development process
- Connections are often one-directional so comprehensive communication capabilities supporting one-directional connectivity and disjoint clouds in grid middleware is a must
- Cloud are implemented based on hardware virtualization – make sure your grid middleware can dynamically provision such images on demand
- Stick with open source stack
- Linear scalability can only be achieved in a control test environment. Real world applications will exhibit non-linear scalability.
- [His] Personal recommendation: use Amazon EC2/S3 services
Cloud Computing
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- CPUcoin Expands CPU/GPU Power Sharing with Cudo Ventures Enterprise Network Partnership
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Cybersecurity
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