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| The Cloud is Not Outsourcing |
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| by Randy Bias | |
| Do ‘private’ or ‘internal’ clouds deserve to be called “clouds”? Prominent cloud thought leaders including Sam Johnston and George Reese think not. Some say, to truly be considered “cloud”, a solution must be outsourced, use virtualization, and billed by the hours used, like a power utility. If those who hold this view are right, then it’s impossible for an internal private cloud to be “cloud”. I disagree. In fact, the most disruptive, game-changing events in the rise of cloud computing may emerge with internal clouds behind the corporate firewall. | |
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| NoSQL vs SQL, Why Not Both? |
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| by Alaric Snell-Pym | |
| There’s no doubt that SQL is getting old. It was developed in the early 1970s, by IBM - in an age where computers were large centralised things; a very different world from today. Indeed, in IBM’s 1974 paper on SEQUEL (as it was then known) in Communications of the ACM, it was designed not only for use by programmers to access a database, but also for “accountants, engineers, architects, and urban planners”. Clearly, either standards of user-friendliness have improved over the past thirty-five years - or our standards of friendly users have dropped. So what about this new “NoSQL” idea? | |
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| The Four Step Method of Cloud Service Level Agreements |
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| by J Bruce Daley & Alan Rudolph | |
| Despite some claims, all cloud computing services will be subject to outages. No system, however large, nor process, however elaborate, nor support, however fanatical, can prevent computers from occasionally going down. The important point to keep in mind is the word “occasionally”. Occasional outages should be expected, planned for, and accepted as cost of doing business. What determines the definition of an occasional outage is a negotiated agreement between two parties called a service level agreement (or SLA). | |
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| Clouds and the Future of Data Center Networks |
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| by David Yen | |
| Today’s data centers stand at the epicenter of powerful technological and economic trends. Cloud computing, together with processing, storage, security and software technologies that make it possible, are already straining the capabilities of legacy data center networks. The resource sharing in cloud computing allows significant cost reduction while enhances agility. It also enables the pay-as-you-go model. Yet, the data center intra-network interconnects all servers, storage, appliances, and routers in the data center. Achieving these results requires fundamental changes to the network itself. | |
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| The Ascent of Incent for Marketing |
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| by Christine Crandell | |
| Sales people, cynics have said, are coin operated – driven solely by financial incentives. Marketing people, on the other hand, are generally salaried and have their attention fragmented across a range of different activities including some with only remote ties to revenue generation. Yet marketing and sales are co-dependent functions and their coordination is critical to any company’s success. One pragmatic way of bringing the two into line involves rethinking the approach used to compensate Marketing people who, like their counterparts in Sales, also respond to incentives. | |
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| Taking the First Steps Towards Cloud Computing |
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| by J Bruce Daley & Alan Rudolph | |
| Cloud computing today appears distant and different from every perspective, but its benefits should be clear to even the most casual observer. By making better use of hardware, software, and people, cloud computing saves money. Although it is based on some interesting technologies, the real innovations in cloud computing are in pricing. | |
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| A Flexible and Interoperable Cloud Operating System |
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| by Ignacio M Llorente | |
| Future enterprise data centers will look like private clouds supporting a flexible and agile execution of virtualized services, and combining local with public cloud-based infrastructure to enable highly scalable hosting environments. The key component in these cloud architectures will the cloud management system, also called cloud operating system (OS), being responsible for the secure, efficient and scalable management of the cloud resources. Cloud OS are displacing “traditional” OS, which will be part of the application stack. | |
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| The NIST Definition of Cloud Computing |
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| by Tim Grance & Peter Mell | |
| This is the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Information Technology Laboratory's definition of cloud computing | |
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| Virtual Patching Secures Electronic Medical Records in a Private Cloud |
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| How the Beth Israel Deaconess Physician Organization's Private Cloud Deploys Deep Security from Trend Micro to Protect the Confidentiality of Patients' Electronic Medical Records | |
| by Whitney Mountain | |
| In today’s social media age, personal information has gone public. While people can limit what they share online, many have taken to sharing details as major as having a baby and as minor as stubbing a toe. But even for the most rabid sharers, there is still information that is too private to distribute publicly across virtual networks. Medical records, for instance, make up one form of personal information that is best kept private. This story discusses how BIDPO keeps its client's medical records private. | |
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