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Programmer exploits Windows vulnerability in cloud-based services

Posted September 12, 2013 - 12:26 pm

Windows data volumes (meaning virtual machine hard-drives) in public clouds such as Amazon Web Services can be copied and have their access credentials modified, allowing a hacker to glean insights into the data, a programmer has reported.
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VMware faces uphill climb against Amazon, others in public cloud market

Posted September 5, 2013 - 1:19 pm

A week after VMware launched its much anticipated vCloud Hybrid Service (vCHS) at its annual VMworld conference, experts have now had time to reflect on the company's cloud strategy and now have some questions. Perhaps the biggest is: Does the offering pack enough punch to take on the heavyweights in the industry, most notably Amazon Web Services?
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Terremark report shows public cloud users are getting more efficient

Posted August 29, 2013 - 1:57 pm

The report offers a few stats about usage growth at Terremark over the past year and a half.
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Gartner: Amazon still public cloud leader by a long shot

Posted August 20, 2013 - 12:58 pm

Amazon Web Services remains the top IaaS public cloud computing provider, offering the widest breath of services of any vendor in the market, Gartner concluded in its annual Magic Quadrant report.
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Google, Microsoft play catch up to Amazon, add load balancing, auto-scaling to their clouds

Posted August 7, 2013 - 1:55 pm

Google Wednesday rolled out load balancing features to its public cloud service, allowing customers to automatically scale up and down virtual machines to accommodate unexpected spikes in demand.
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Gartner: Start security monitoring in the public cloud

Posted June 13, 2013 - 3:12 pm

Security monitoring -- the type involving traditional security information and event management (SIEM) -- can be done in some public cloud environments, according to Gartner. And if you're using public cloud services, it's time to think about doing it.
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Hybrid public-private cloud usage more widespread than you think

Posted May 27, 2013 - 9:45 am

Forrester cloud expert says many times IT isn't aware that public cloud resources are accessing information behind the company's firewall, leading to potential security and performance issues.
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How VMware will try to shake up the cloud market this week

Posted May 20, 2013 - 4:48 pm

There have been rumors and speculation. There have been whispers and rumblings. But this week VMware is expected to release details about its plans to launch a public cloud offering, the central part of its new hybrid cloud strategy.
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Dell 'refining' plans for OpenStack-powered public cloud

Posted May 16, 2013 - 2:22 pm

Fresh off the acquisition of a company that specializes in helping customers manage resources across multiple public clouds, Dell said it is "refining" its own plans to build a public cloud based on OpenStack.
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VMware confirms public cloud plans via Twitter -- then backtracks

Posted March 12, 2013 - 1:57 pm

Industry scuttlebutt is that VMware is preparing a public cloud offering that it would run itself, a rumor that VMware officials have refused to comment on -- sort of.
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Simulate access to the cloud before you commit

Posted March 5, 2013 - 3:49 pm

If you can't get a direct connection to the cloud, estimating user experience before migrating to the cloud is a critical task.
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Gartner: Public cloud market to grow 18.5% this year

Posted March 4, 2013 - 8:46 am

The global public cloud computing market will grow 18.5% in 2013 to $131 billion, up from $111 billion last year, research firm Gartner predicts.
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Public cloud battle for the enterprise heats up

Posted March 1, 2013 - 10:00 am

VMware this week signaled it plans to get more serious about the public cloud
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Private clouds go down as often as public, RightScale found

Posted February 27, 2013 - 10:00 am

RightScale surveyed public records to take a pulse on cloud outages from 2012 and the findings might surprise you.
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Dell cloud service targets retailers

Posted January 15, 2013 - 4:10 pm

Dell has released a trial version of public cloud computing services aimed specifically at the retail industry, joining a handful of companies that are attempting to position their products and services to serve specific vertical niches in the cloud computing market.
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Dell to wait for OpenStack to mature, will launch public cloud late next year

Posted January 3, 2013 - 10:00 am

A Dell executive said that OpenStack isn't quite there yet and so the company expects to launch its public cloud based on the platform late next year.
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Gartner: Amazon, HP cloud SLAs are "practically useless"

Posted December 6, 2012 - 10:10 am

Amazon Web Services, which Gartner recently named a market-leader in infrastructure as a service cloud computing, has the "dubious status of 'worst SLA (service level agreement) of any major cloud provider'" analyst Lydia Leong blogged today, but HP's newly available public cloud service could be even worse..
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HP makes public cloud service official; bolsters hypervisor support

Posted December 5, 2012 - 1:15 pm

HP is taking the beta label off its public cloud and making it generally available today, along some other features that are part of its converged cloud strategy.
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2013: Year of the hybrid cloud

Posted December 3, 2012 - 11:40 am

The time for dabbling in cloud computing is over, say industry analysts. 2013 is the year that companies need to implement a hybrid cloud strategy that puts select workloads in the public cloud and keeps others in-house.
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10 ways to ease public cloud security concerns

Posted August 13, 2012 - 4:42 pm

Security is always a concern when organizations contemplate a move to the public cloud. However, a combination of third-party tools and careful reading of your service level agreement can give you the peace of mind you need to move mission-critical applications to the public cloud.
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5 ways to optimize public cloud applications

Posted July 31, 2012 - 11:10 am

Moving to the public cloud can be as easy as migrating your applications and paying your monthly bill. But are you spending more than you should? These five public cloud application optimization techniques will help you save money and improve performance to boot.
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Top 10 enterprise applications for public clouds

Posted June 24, 2012 - 7:31 am

Once you address security and privacy concerns, there are a number of applications, regardless of your business, which you can comfortably and safely move to the public cloud.
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CIOs' cloud strategy must include public cloud

Posted April 26, 2012 - 9:13 pm

For all the apprehension they may bring, public clouds demand a position in the enterprise IT strategy. Bernard Golden explains how CIOs and business leaders can make their peace with the public cloud, and how it's not incompatible with the much-revered private cloud.
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AT&T aims to ease private-to-hybrid cloud transition

Posted February 13, 2012 - 7:31 pm

AT&T has launched a new version of its Synaptic Compute as a Service offering designed to help enterprises access capacity beyond their private clouds.
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Forget public cloud or private cloud, it's all about hyper-hybrid

Posted February 12, 2012 - 8:24 am

Cloud computing has gone from being a promising technology to a reality that brings a unique set of challenges along with benefits. To fully leverage the disruptive potential of cloud without getting trapped in a web of integration complexity, CIOs and their IT organizations need to focus on what it means to rethink their business as a collection of services.
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