Fountainhead

MAY 14, 2012

Cloud: Whats a Service? Simplistically, I assumed I knew what IaaS, PaaS and SaaS meant, and I thought I knew who the logical public providers of these services would be. However, there have been a number of interesting new services - and providers - that show signs of breaking the stereotypes. Monday, May 14, 2012.

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Cloud Data Center Virtualization Big Data 177

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 4, 2023

Business leaders may have heard of quantum computing, but many are not yet aware of its incipient threat to cryptography and cryptocurrency. When these machines reach a sufficient level of performance, they will be able to easily factor prime numbers, which poses a threat to RSA. Then, they’ll steal all the cryptocurrency those wallets contain.

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Galido

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Well, some things won’t pass you by like the things that your organization collects, stores, and transfers but other information on all the different Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) used by other departments might. Catalog Information Asset.

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Security Analysis Information Security Network 77

Fountainhead

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

IT-as-a-Service: Resources and Pointers. IT-as-a-Service. Unlike IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, etc. The new IT thinks Self-Service provisioning, Choice Computing (BYoD), monitors variable costs and unit consumption, and is organized to deliver services, not technologies. But resources abound on the topic. Shadow IT).

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Fountainhead

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

By now you may know that I buy into the enterprise approach where cloud computing and its operational model are enablers for something bigger : The transformation to IT-as-a-Service. This topic of talent, training and organization appears to be consistently glossed-over. My people are not". Early Indicators of Change.

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Fountainhead

MARCH 25, 2013

It turns out that IaaS (and/or PaaS) infrastructure foundations are necessary, but not sufficient solutions to allow app admins to fully maintain complex app landscapes in the cloud. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Monday, March 25, 2013.

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Virtualized Greek

AUGUST 26, 2013

also includes better service side flash storage caching to improve performance as well. More direct support for Cloud Foundry, which highlights the continued need to tightly integrate with PaaS solutions and providers. Software defined storage is one of those topics that get lost due to lack of taxonomy. Server Virtualziation.

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Vmware Virtualization Storage Network 67

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 26, 2015

This topic, in turn, leads Jonathan into a discussion of OpenStack’s new program management guidelines (aka “the Big Tent” model). This is a liveblog of the Day 1 keynote at the OpenStack Summit here in Tokyo, Japan. Jonathan announces the first individual certification for OpenStack—the Certified OpenStack Administrator.

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Guidelines Data Center Open Source Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2017

Massimo Re Ferre pointed me to an article by “Cloud Opinion” that discusses the upcoming SaaSocalypse that will be created by the next generation of SaaS vendors leveraging FaaS (Function-as-a-Service, as typified by AWS Lambda) and other “serverless” features. Welcome to Technology Short Take #79! Networking. So far, I really like it.

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Linux Academy

MARCH 15, 2019

Anytime someone comes with software or solution, we always ask what are the PaaS or cloud offerings. Basically, using the tools within AWS, we create service profiles within the accounts and restrict what services they can and can’t use. Keep reading to meet Mike! Thanks for talking with me today, Mike!

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Fountainhead

APRIL 13, 2009

In many ways, the VAs new system anticipated Ciscos recently introduced "unified computing" platform, a virtualized, multiblade server chassis with converged I/O that Cisco touts as just the thing for cloud computing. Turns out this is really happening, and Im thrilled. More later. Ken Oestreich. Labels: CIO conversations , Cloud Computing.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

Continuing to sharpen its focus on enterprise cloud computing, IBM is joining forces with Pivotal to support CloudFoundry, the versatile platform as a service (PaaS) framework that allows developers to build applications that can run on multiple clouds.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

The all-SSD storage architecture provider has been promising service providers that it can provide premium storage with quality of service guarantees in a much more cost effective manner than traditional solutions. SolidFire Gains Traction for SSD-Powered Cloud Storage. By: Jason Verge July 11th, 2013.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 18, 2013

The company’s roots are in providing an open email platform to service providers, but it has long expanded its offerings to become a platform for all things office in the cloud. United Internet, Josef Lamberti, and existing shareholders have made the investment to support further growth of the company. Major Presence in Hosting.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 16, 2013

That’s the message today from Rackspace Chief Technology Officer John Engates, who says recent price cuts on dedicated virtual machine instances from rival Amazon Web Services have led to confusion about “dedicated” products. In a blog post , Engates responded to the recent AWS price cuts. The strategy worked well.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

The company said this discrepancy is largely due to a customer in its SV3 data enter using less power, but outperformance on high-margin services like cross connects. Forty of these 115 leases signed were customers who do business in more than 1 data center, meaning customers are buying across their platform. million, a 13.9

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Data Data Center Disaster Recovery Storage 193

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 16, 2013

Private equity firm The Stephens Group has acquired Bay Area Internet Services (BAIS), a colocation provider in Santa Clara with a Tier IV facility. ” BAIS provides colocation, managed IT and high speed access services. The users of data center services continue to seek more efficient places to run their businesses.

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Cloud Musings

APRIL 28, 2015

While software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers see their market rocketing upward as the easiest and quickest path for cloud adoption, infrastructure-as-a-service providers are suffering as their high-capital-cost commodity business transitions to a profit margin race to the bottom. So what about platform-as-a-service?

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Cloud Musings

APRIL 28, 2015

While software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers see their market rocketing upward as the easiest and quickest path for cloud adoption, infrastructure-as-a-service providers are suffering as their high-capital-cost commodity business transitions to a profit margin race to the bottom. So what about platform-as-a-service?

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Cloud Dell Open Source Architecture 70

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

The company also unveiled the SF9010 a huge, fast, all-SSD storage platform that the company says is the largest and fastest in the market today. The company will use the money on an expansion of sales and marketing to support growing enterprise and service provider demand. By: Jason Verge July 25th, 2013. 9010 – SSD Cheaper Than Disk?

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Data Center Storage Disaster Recovery Cloud 226

Fountainhead

APRIL 1, 2009

eBay Is Really a Huge PaaS Provider. While Amazon, Salesforce.com, Google & others seem to be getting the "cloud" attention lately, it seems that eBay is doing a brilliant platform move - very much akin to what Salesforce.com is already doing. It could be the "Exchange Platform" in the sky. Topic Shortcuts.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Welcome to Technology Short Take #45. As usual, I’ve gathered a collection of links to various articles pertaining to data center-related technologies for your enjoyment. Here’s hoping you find something useful! Networking. Cormac Hogan has a list of a few useful NSX troubleshooting tips. Servers/Hardware. What is Intel SGX, you ask?

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