Mission-Critical Apps Not Up For Cloud

Explore ZDNet Asia (May 15 2012) IT Topics

Mayank Kapoor, industry analyst at Frost & Sullivan, said that top tier service providers currently have the required technology, security and infrastructure to support the migration and running of mission-critical applications on public cloud platforms.

However, there are still technical and non-technical challenges that need to be overcome before more companies dare to move their critical apps and data on these services, he said...

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Comment Mentions:   CIO   Public Cloud   Mission Critical

Spot Market Cloud Pricing. What Are They & Why Should You Care?

Explore ZDNet Asia (Mar 29 2012) Cloud & Virtualization

The most famous cloud spot market today is Amazon's Spot Instances, where users can set the maximum amount they are willing to pay per server hour, and Amazon gives them an instance for as long as the instance price is below that limit. By taking a quick look at the pricing table on the link above, it is possible to see that the prices are much lower than the price of a full instance...

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Comment Mentions:   Microsoft   Cisco   Amazon

APM can optimize biz agility, revenue

Explore ZDNet Asia (Feb 17 2012) Application Performance

"[There is] absolutely a direct correlation between the performance and stability of an application and the revenue, brand recognition and agility of a company," explained Blair Drenner, vice president of business development, Compuware's DynaTrace division. "People have been talking about this for a long time--marrying the application, technology, bits and bytes to the business."...

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Hyper-V with Windows Server 8 increases limits and support capabilities

Explore ZDNet Asia (Nov 8 2011) Cloud & Virtualization

A virtual machine (VM) can now be assigned 32 virtual symmetric multiprocessors (vSMPs), which is on par with VMware vSphere 5 for vSMP assignment. While I'm not in the business of picking a favorite between the two, the upper boundaries of scale seem to ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Hyper-V   VSphere   Analytics

The Cloud And Big Data Convergence

Explore ZDNet Asia (Aug 16 2011)

That said, the EMC executive suggested companies relook the way they architect their infrastructure environment in order to maximize the opportunities that exist where cloud computing converges with big data analytics. He explained that this is necessary because of a fundamental difference in storage for enterprise business applications, compared with storage for big data applications. Mission-critical applications such as ATM (automated teller machine) functions used by financial institutions, for example, will need supporting hardware infrastructure that ensures "Tier-1 availability and reliability", Webster said. Comparatively, for a video production house that processes thousands of images each day, the storage system will ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   IBM   Oracle   IDC

Which OS Is Best For Type II Hypervisors

Explore ZDNet Asia (Jul 21 2011)

A friend who is just getting started with virtualization asked: Should I install VMware Workstation on Linux or Windows? It's a simple question with a not-so-straightforward answer. (Read Full Article)

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Cloud coalition seeks vendor standards

Explore ZDNet Asia (Jun 8 2011)

Cloud coalition seeks vendor standards. ZDNet. Citing Sony's recent Playstation Network breach which compromised the personal information of more than 100 million users as an example, Wheeler said such incidents deter companies from using cloud computing for mission-critical applications, ...and more » (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Cloud Computing   Data Center   Breach