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By Kevin Jackson
Late today the FedRAMP Program Management Office released the first list of certified Third Party Assessment Organizations (3PAOs). These companies are accredited to perform initial and periodic assessment of cloud service provider (CSP) systems per FedRAMP requirements, provide eviden...
May. 14, 2012 05:41 PM EDT  Reads: 483
By Nicos Vekiarides
All the buzz surrounding OpenStack over the past few months may beg the question of whether Openstack can repeat for Cloud what Linux has done for server operating systems over the past several years. With an enthusiastic following and a compelling, if not industry-leading set of funct...
May. 16, 2012 06:30 AM EDT  Reads: 1,377
By James Colgan
There is an interesting article over on Cloud Times that begs the question of, “why isn’t there more usage of SaaS as a percentage of overall software use/revenue?”. The cognitive dissonance in the market between “SaaS is going to be everywhere” and “...
May. 15, 2012 12:11 PM EDT  Reads: 235
By Jerry Huang
With HP Cloud Storage, you can access it from web browser or from Application Programming Interface (API). With Gladinet, it is much easier to access HP Cloud Storage from all major web browser with Windows Explorer like interface. It is also easy to share and collaborate with colleagu...
May. 14, 2012 04:10 PM EDT  Reads: 273
By Jerry Huang
Google offers several storage services. There is Google Drive, which is replacing the Google Docs. There is also Google Cloud Storage, which provide raw REST based cloud storage service. Some customer use cases may be best served by Google Drive and there are others that may be more...
May. 13, 2012 07:15 AM EDT  Reads: 633
By Jerry Huang
Today HP moved its cloud services to public beta. Gladinet has been working closely with HP Cloud Service since private beta to provide product integration support. Gladinet is also announcing today the support of HP Cloud Storage service with the full Gladinet Suite of products. In t...
May. 10, 2012 11:28 PM EDT  Reads: 334
By RealWire News Distribution
Doubling Today's Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) Speed, 12Gb/s SAS SSDs and HDDs will be the Drives of Choice for Future Generations of High-Performance Enterprise Servers and Storage Solutions; HGST is Participating in the SCSI Trade Association Technology Showcase on May 9, 2012LONDON, Ma...
May. 1, 2012 05:10 AM EDT  Reads: 285
By Lori MacVittie
Five of the top six services critical to cloud are application delivery services and available with F5 BIG-IP. The big news at MMS 2012 was focused on private cloud and Microsoft’s latest solutions in the space with System Center 2012. Microsoft’s news comes on the heels of IBM’s l...
Apr. 21, 2012 10:45 AM EDT  Reads: 1,260
By PR.com Newswire
Sunnyvale, CA, April 18, 2012 --(PR.com)-- LAYERZngn today announced the availability of CPlane OpenTransit, the newest member of the CPlane Framework family of infrastructure automation products. CPlane OpenTransit is available on a controlled-release basis to service providers and s...
Apr. 18, 2012 03:00 AM EDT  Reads: 796
By Cloud Ventures
One of the more powerful underlying aspects of Cloud Computing is what is called the ‘InterCloud’, referring primarily to interoperability between Clouds but also encapsulating other critical aspects like Portability. As the scope of this interoperability expands to include...
Apr. 12, 2012 04:57 AM EDT  Reads: 584
By Deborah Strickland
As I described in earlier articles, I believe that there are  Eight Core Industry Disruptors   that are driving key tipping points – The Mobile Seesaw   – that are ultimately redefining the mobile ecosystem.  These tipping points, or key strategic q...
Apr. 9, 2012 12:11 PM EDT  Reads: 224
By Kevin Jackson
NJVC®, one of the largest information technology solutions providers supporting the U.S. Department of Defense, and Gravitant®, a provider of cloud brokerage and management solutions for IT enterprises, announce a new strategic alliance. Under the terms of the partnership, the two comp...
Apr. 4, 2012 12:15 PM EDT  Reads: 550
By Bob Gourley
Steven VanRoekel kicked off FOSE 2012 with a bang. He gave an intriguing, educational and creative presentation that gave good insight into what the federal government is doing right now, and how they are solving the problem of innovating on a flat (and declining) budgets. Mr. VanRoeke...
Apr. 3, 2012 10:14 AM EDT  Reads: 478
By Cloud Ventures
A headline focus topic for our upcoming Drummond Cloud report is “Business transformation through Cloud Service Brokerage”. This will identify how the topic of Cloud Brokers, as discussed by experts like Gartner, can be applied in the Drummond Report scenario to maximize co...
Apr. 2, 2012 01:15 PM EDT  Reads: 232
By Jerry Huang
This is a YouTube HD video about plugin your own EMC Atmos 2.0 account to Gladinet Cloud Team Edition.
Apr. 2, 2012 12:50 PM EDT  Reads: 291
By Jerry Huang
We deployed the EMC Atmos 2.0 support for Team Edition over the weekend. Gladinet Cloud is a value-add cloud service that adds many popular use case support to cloud storage services, such as Backup, drive Access, Sync and Share, Identity and user, Collaboration and Control, together, ...
Apr. 2, 2012 12:30 PM EDT  Reads: 289
By RealWire News Distribution
Vectorwise Data Mart Appliance Powered by Lenovo Helps Companies Reduce Big Data Complexities and Speed Business Results Los Angeles, CA, April 2, 2012 - Actian Corporation today announced that it is teaming with Lenovo to deliver the powerful Vectorwise Data Mart Appliance, a pre-conf...
Apr. 2, 2012 12:08 PM EDT  Reads: 403
By Jerry Huang
Here is a YouTube HD video demonstrating Google Docs 2-Way Sync with a local folder.
Mar. 28, 2012 11:19 AM EDT  Reads: 493
By Jerry Huang
With the 4.0 release of Gladinet Cloud Desktop, we now support a 2-way sync between storage services like Google Docs and a local folder. With Google Docs, the synchronization happens in real time so that your local folder is always exactly the same as your cloud folder. The first ste...
Mar. 28, 2012 08:57 AM EDT  Reads: 593
By Jerry Huang
Gladinet Cloud 4.0 is here. It was a pretty big milestone. Looking back, Gladinet 1.0 has only one single product, the Gladinet Cloud Desktop. Gladinet 3.0 introduced the Gladinet Cloud Backup and Gladinet Cloud AFS, as several different products loosely coupled. Now in version 4.0, t...
Mar. 26, 2012 11:15 AM EDT  Reads: 525
By Janakiram MSV
On March 22, AWS and Eucalyptus announced a partnership to bring compatibility between the AWS API and the Eucalyptus API. While this can be perceived as simple technology interoperability between the stacks, this announcement has a significant impact on the Cloud ecosystem. Amazon’s C...
Mar. 24, 2012 01:22 AM EDT  Reads: 790
By Kevin Jackson
NJVC®, one of the largest information technology solutions (IT) providers supporting the U.S. Department of Defense, is pleased to announce that Kevin L. Jackson, vice president (VP) and general manager (GM), cloud services, will speak at the 2012 Emerging Threats and Cyber Defense Sym...
Mar. 18, 2012 02:03 PM EDT  Reads: 460
By Greg Schulz
So again, why would putting drive form factor SSDs be a bad idea for existing storage systems, arrays and appliances? Note, the mere presence of SSD drives in a storage system, array or appliance will not guarantee or enable the above items to be enabled, nor to their full potential. ...
Mar. 15, 2012 12:00 PM EDT  Reads: 1,334
By Kevin Jackson
NJVC, one of the largest information technology solutions (IT) providers supporting the U.S. Department of Defense, announces that a white paper addressing the risks and benefits of cloud computing for the intelligence community (IC)—co-authored by Kevin L. Jackson, NJVC vice president...
Mar. 13, 2012 04:07 PM EDT  Reads: 834
By CloudCommons 2012
HP is planning to launch a mega cloud service to rival Amazon Web Services offerings. The new offerings will combine PaaS, IaaS and SaaS and will provide a full array of platforms, infrastructure and applications along with professional services, according to this Channelnomics article...
Mar. 15, 2012 05:18 AM EDT  Reads: 1,335
By Greg Schulz
Robin Harris (aka @storagemojo) recently in a blog post asks a question and thinks solid state devices (SSDs) using SAS or SATA interface in traditional hard disk drive (HDD) form factors are a bad idea in storage arrays (e.g. storage systems or appliances). My opinion is that as with ...
Mar. 14, 2012 03:15 PM EDT  Reads: 1,040
By Kevin Jackson
Next week at the Hyatt Regency in reston, Virginia, the Cloud Standards Customer Council will be holding it's Public Sector Cloud Summit. This two day cloud event will feature international public sector Cloud leaders to exchange information about current projects, futur...
Mar. 8, 2012 05:00 AM EST  Reads: 1,008
By Jerry Huang
Mar. 6, 2012 02:44 PM EST  Reads: 829
By Jerry Huang
Prior to Cloud Storage, bring your own storage to traditional software is common sense. You may bring your own USB drive and have the backup software back it up to your USB drive. As long as you possess the USB drive, you have the data available. Bringing your own cloud storage to Gla...
Mar. 5, 2012 04:15 AM EST  Reads: 1,014
By Kevin Benedict
Welcome to M2M News Weekly, an online newsletter that consists of the most interesting news and articles related to M2M (machine to machine) and embedded mobile devices.  I aggregate the information, include the original links and add a synopsis of each article.  I also sea...
Mar. 2, 2012 07:00 AM EST  Reads: 1,392
By Jerry Huang
Google Cloud Storage was Google Storage for Developers in the Google Lab. It has since graduated out of the lab and officially became the Google Cloud Storage. In this article, we discuss an easy way to use Google Cloud Storage right from your Windows Explorer interface, with a mapped...
Mar. 2, 2012 01:30 AM EST  Reads: 1,838
By Serge Thorn
When introducing Enterprise Architecture as a program or initiative, it is regularly done from an IT perspective rarely considering what the costs will be and if there will be any return on investment.
Mar. 1, 2012 03:03 AM EST  Reads: 846
By Ignacio M. Llorente
The last version of the Roadmap on Distributed Computing Infrastructure for e-Science and Beyond in Europe was released last week by the SIENA initiative. The main open-source cloud computing projects, like OpenNebula, and standards bodies, like DMTF, OASIS, OGF, ETSI, and SNIA, have c...
Feb. 27, 2012 01:00 AM EST  Reads: 589
By Unitiv Blog
A few weeks ago, Cisco posted a field notice to customers of its UCS server blades, saying that failures on the blade can “cause the component to overheat and emit a short flash which could lead to complete board failure.” Cisco also warned that the defect could affect the ...
Feb. 22, 2012 09:01 AM EST  Reads: 365
By Lori MacVittie
#mwc12 #traffix #mobile Strategic points of control are critical to managing the convergence of technology in any network - enterprise or carrier What happens when technology converges? When old meets new? A fine example of what might happen is what has happened in the carrier spac...
Feb. 21, 2012 11:16 AM EST  Reads: 281
Researchers and marketers dont agree on future of nand flash SSD By Greg Schulz Marketers particular those involved with anything resembling Solid State Devices (SSD) will tell you SSD is the future as will some researchers along with their fans and pundits. Some will t...
Feb. 19, 2012 05:57 PM EST  Reads: 535
Federal, state, and local government agencies gathered in Washington D.C. on 16 February to participate in Cloud/Gov 2012 held at the Westin Washington D.C.
Feb. 19, 2012 01:46 PM EST  Reads: 731
By Hugh Garber
As companies continue to include the cloud in their overall IT initiatives – taking advantage of elasticity, scalability, interoperability and mobility – concerns around management, governance and control of data are preventing some organizations from fully embracing cloud services. In...
Feb. 9, 2012 02:39 PM EST  Reads: 363
EMC vFCache respinning SSD and intelligent caching (Part II) By Greg Schulz This is the second of a two part series pertaining to EMC VFCache, you can read the first part here. In this part of the series, lets look at some common questions along with comments...
Feb. 8, 2012 04:15 PM EST  Reads: 2,113
By Jerry Huang
In a recent Amazon Web Service Blog, it was quoted that Amazon S3 has reached over 762 Billion objects at the end of 2011. We have been following Amazon S3’s growth closely. As usual, we will plug the numbers in an Excel spread-sheet and see its growth in a chart. As shown in the char...
Feb. 8, 2012 01:47 PM EST  Reads: 1,003