What is a next-generation data centre (NGDC) anyway?

Explore Cloud Pro (May 9 2012) IT Topics

Cloud computing has spawned a provincial language all of its own with terms like 'elastic scaling',  'agile re-provisioning' and of course 'virtualisation' now being unexceptional to the commonly understood lingua franca of the industry.The upshot of cloud in deployment terms has meant that the back office or even the 'server farm' as we once knew it has transmogrified into the so-called next-generation data centre or NGDC.So what has changed?...

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Comment Mentions:   Oracle   Gartner   Cloud Computing

Plotting a Path to Future Cloud Implementations

Explore Cloud Pro (Feb 14 2012) Cloud & Virtualization

Cloud is changing rapidly and we're already seeing signs of the directions it will move. From the rise of Platform as a Service, to the renewed focus on pure component plays, there's a change in the clouds...

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Comment Mentions:   Microsoft   System Center   Azure

Lessons From Early Cloud Adopters

Explore Cloud Pro (Feb 7 2012) Cloud & Virtualization

Expectations may have been too high and knowledge scarce, but we have much to learn from the early adopters of cloud computing...

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Comment Mentions:   IBM   Amazon   Cloud Computing

Where Do Applications Belong in the Cloud?

Explore Cloud Pro (Feb 2 2012) Cloud & Virtualization

With infrastructure as a service starting to become established and software as a service pretty well established, will all applications get moved into the cloud or should there be a more strategic approach? As businesses start to migrate from their current on-premise configurations -whether virtually or physically based - it is likely a lot will automatically move their existing applications straight to an Infrastructure as a service offering. I believe this is ultimately a flawed approach...

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Comment Mentions:   SaaS   PaaS

Application Upgrades Spell Trouble In The Cloud

Explore Cloud Pro (Dec 2 2011) Cloud & Virtualization

In October, Blackberry users around the world got to know first-hand how frustrating downtime can be. Millions of Blackberry users found that they couldn’t do much more with their handsets than make voice calls. The outage was caused by Blackberry vendor, Research in Motion(RIM)’s attempts to complete a software upgrade on its database, but due to corruption problems it failed. Its staff then tried to revert to an older version of the database to restore it, but it collapsed completely... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Google   Microsoft   Gartner

HP hints at Cloud Foundry for public cloud launch

Explore Cloud Pro (Nov 14 2011) Cloud & Virtualization

According to an interview with Wired magazine, HP is set to adopt VMware's open source cloud platform, Cloud Foundry, as the foundation for customers and to build and run cloud applications...and more » (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Microsoft   Azure   Public Cloud

Software industry voices cloud adoption concerns

Explore Cloud Pro (Nov 11 2011) Cloud & Virtualization

“There is latency and slow adoption around cloud because too many people’s jobs still depend on pushing on-premise solutions,” Connor added. “This complexity is going to co-exist within the new world of cloud for the next fifteen years,” he predicted... (Read Full Article)

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dynaTrace delivers application performance management cloud innovation

Explore Cloud Pro (Nov 1 2011) Application Performance , Cloud & Virtualization

Compuware dynaTrace today targeted cloud-based applications with a major release of its integrated application performance management (APM) platform...  (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Compuware   Microsoft   Application Performance Management

Can businesses be trusted to handle big data responsibly?

Explore Cloud Pro (Aug 16 2011)

Thus far the story has mostly been around enterprise data analytics and making the most of all that wonderful information that has thus far sat, untapped and untappable, in corporate databases. There's an undoubted cloud angle, on two counts: first, as organisations make more use of internet-based services, they generate pools of internet-based data which adds to the analytical challenge. Second, whereas an organisation may have had difficulties funding server infrastructure for one-off analytical tasks in the past, both public and private cloud computing models lower the barriers...and more>> (Read Full Article)

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Does cloud exist?

Explore Cloud Pro (Aug 3 2011)

I'm going to be looking at how our individual behaviours and working practices are being reshaped as we accept the fact that computing doesn't have to be tied to a desk or a server room. From Amazon to Azure, 'big data' to botnets, crowdsourcing of opinions to new possibilities such as 'cloudbursting', I'll be looking at the best and worst of cloud computing and how it pushes at the boundaries of what's possible. (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Cloud Computing   Big Data   Azure