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| Rebooting Corporate Video |
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| How Cloudbook utilizes Cisco's Flip Miniopro camcorder to define the new best practice in corporate storytelling | |
| by David Macias & Vince Vasquez | |
| One of the primary tools Cloudbook uses for creating the video component of a Cloudbook StoryTM is Cisco’s Flip MinoPRO HD camcorder. Flip helps Cloudbook introduce the new generation of Cloud stars, enabling them to tell their stories in a format that is spontaneous, natural, convenient and free of the drab backdrop of a studio curtain. | |
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| Article: Cloud Computing Standards – Not This Year |
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January 26 2011 - Sys-con
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It’s clear that end users of cloud computing would like to see true interoperability
I started out writing a blog about the state of cloud computing to review how things have evolved in the cloud space over the last year (2010 was a good year for cloud computing) but I got sidetracked thinking about how clouds are converging, or in reality, not converging.
It’s clear that end users of cloud computing would like to see true interoperability. Companies want the freedom to pick a cloud that meets their needs, without worrying that choices made today will cost them big in the future or lock them in. Interoperability would mean that a company could choose a cloud for a given workload, and if conditions change, they could opt to bring the workload back in-house or move to another cloud environment – without requiring a major engineering project or a shift to a different computing paradigm. |
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| Article: IaaS and PaaS: Getting Closer all the Time |
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January 04 2011
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Two of the pillars of cloud computing, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), are showing some interesting trends as cloud providers adapt to meet the needs of customers. Over the coming year, we may see these familiar models evolving into something new since the ideal solution for most enterprises is not one approach or the other but some combination of both. |
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| Article: Cloud in a Box Gets Boxed In |
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September 22 2010
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Oracle announced its "cloud in a box" offering as well as new offerings of Oracle software running on Amazon's EC2. The Exalogic product contains the control software as well as the hardware components to make a virtualized pool. The system has impressive performance characteristics and may be a great solution for data center consolidation, but there are limitations to its elasticity. |
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| Article: Do VMs Still Matter in the Cloud |
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August 04 2010
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There's a long running debate about the true role of Virtual Machines (VMs) in cloud computing. In talking with CTOs at the large vendors as well as the "Clouderati" over the last two years, there seems to be the desire to eliminate the VM from cloud computing. While the argument is appealing, and there is growing support for the idea, there are compelling reasons to keep the Virtual Machine as the core of cloud computing.
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| Article: OpenStack -- Advancing Cloud Computing in the Open |
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July 19 2010
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An infrastructure that has actually been deployed and scaled to cloud size has real value to everyone trying to build a cloud. So when a company that has been in the cloud business for a long time in "cloud years", like Rackspace, decides to open up and share their software, you have to stop and look. |
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| Cloudbook Video: An Introduction to CloudSwitch |
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May 22 2010
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The co-founder and CTO at CloudSwitch, John Considine, discusses how their Cloud Isolation Technology helps customers overcome the four primary barriers to enterprise cloud computing by allowing them to securely move their existing applications and data into the cloud. |
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| Article: Dealing with the Cloud's Latent Tendencies |
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March 04 2010
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One frequent question when engaging customers moving applications to the cloud is: what about the latency issues when using a cloud? This question arises because most IT departments have had to struggle with application performance issues and the idea of adding a big chuck of latency when integrating the cloud is very troubling. Here is how CloudSwitch addresses this. |
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| Article: Opscamp Austin: IT Ops and the Cloud |
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February 02 2010
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After attending Opscamp, John gives an overview of what happened at the conference and some of the important discussions. |
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| Article: Security vs Compliance in the Cloud |
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January 26 2010
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Security is always top of mind for CIOs and CSOs when considering a cloud deployment. Here is a look into cloud security and the standards used to determine compliance. |
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| Article: Holiday Presents from the Cloud |
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December 22 2009
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A look at some of the new innovative features and releases from cloud providers in 2009. |
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| Article: Moving to the Cloud: The Road Ahead |
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November 20 2009
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Looking forward to the evolution of cloud computing, the cloud will continue to play a larger, more significant role in enterprise IT. Cloud providers have shown they can rapidly iterate and improve their offerings in response to customer input and have been drawing from their experience to develop new and powerful infrastructure and features. Here are some of the key principles that guide the technology and product development at CloudSwitch. |
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| Article: Moving to the Cloud: Managing Your Environment |
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November 06 2009
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One of the advantages of cloud computing is that someone else is managing the infrastructure - including the servers, network devices and storage systems, not to mention the data center power conditioning, cooling and fire suppression equipment. One of the costs of offloading this infrastructure is that the cloud becomes something different and seperate from your data center. In most deployments today, the cloud is almost completely isolated from your data center, and this often requires changes in how you manage and interact with your applications. |
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| Article: Moving to the Cloud: Key Considerations for Cloud Networking |
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October 30 2009
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Clouds have a unique networking infrastructure that support complex and flexible multi-tenant environments. The cloud providers have to control their networking so that they can route traffic within their infrastructure and their design is completely different from your enterprise networking architecture, design and addressing. This is not a problem if you're doing something stand alone in the cloud because you don't care what the network structure is as long as you can access it over the internet. However, if you want to extend your existing networks and use your existing applications, there are serious discontinuities that have to be addressed. |
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| Article: Moving to the Cloud: Key Considerations for Cloud Storage |
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October 27 2009
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The true challenges in storage and data management in the cloud result from the diverse and often unfamiliar processes and infrastructures offered by the cloud providers, including: new provisioning methods, storage properties, data population and transfer, and systems for data management. The cloud providers define the relationship between servers and storage and often impose constraints on everything from allocation size limits to the ways in which storage is managed. These are just some of the things you'll want to consider as you start to think about integreting cloud computing into your existing IT environments. This article focuses in detail on the complexity and variability of cloud provisioning and storage properties. |
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| Article: Moving to the Cloud: What's Really Required |
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October 21 2009
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If you want to use the cloud and deploy a server, it is really quite easy to build a server from the base templates offered by the cloud providers. It becomes a lot more complicated when you try to integrate an application with multiple servers running in the cloud with your existing data center infrastructure. |
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| Article: Amazon's VPC Opens the Door for Innovation and Enterprise Cloud Adoption |
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September 24 2009
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Amazon's Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) represents the next big advance in the evolution chain for cloud computing. By allowing customers to integrate their data center networks with Amazon's cloud, VPC takes the first step in bringing the cloud and enterprise data center together. As customers review the VPC offering, there are things they need to consider as they determine how to deploy and use it. |
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| September 26 2011 |
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By Damon Miller, Director of Technical Field Services
One of the most interesting trends in cloud computing is the emergence of “hybrid” solutions which span environments that were historically isolated from one another. A traditional data center offers finite capacity in support of business applications, but it is ultimately limited by obvious constraints (physical space, power, cooling, etc.). V ... read more >> |
| August 25 2011 |
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By John McEleney
Today we’re extremely excited to announce that we are being acquired by Verizon and joining Terremark, its IT services subsidiary. This is major news for us, and we believe for the cloud industry as well.
We’ve been working together with Terremark for almost two years and have built great relatio ... read more >> |
| August 23 2011 |
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By Dave Armlin, Director of Customer Support
New CloudSwitch customers and prospects are coming up to speed every week and there are a number of questions that show up frequently enough that I thought it would be helpful to cover them in a blog. When we work with customers, our goal is to make their experience getting started in the cloud fast and easy, and to make sure they feel comfortable with the ongoing simplicity a ... read more >> |
| August 08 2011 |
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By Ellen Rubin
Last week, I was on a panel at the CompTIA Breakaway conference in DC, with Scott Crenshaw from RedHat and Ron Culler from Secure Designs. Scott made an interesting comment about the three types of applications out there: (1) new apps that are being architected from scratch for the cloud; (2) legacy apps that ... read more >> |
| August 04 2011 |
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By Guest Blogger Erik Heels, Partner at Clock Tower Law Group, experts in patent law
Wikipedia defines "cloud computing" as "the logical computational resources (data, software) accessible via a computer network (through WAN or Internet etc.), rather than from a local computer. Managing local computers is hard: there are security issues, com ... read more >> |
| July 26 2011 |
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By Pavan Pant, Director of Product Management
As customers continue their march to the cloud we have heard from a large number who want to use SharePoint Server in the cloud. Two major concerns that show up frequently are migration of existing custom deployments and data security.
These organizations have spent years customizing their SharePoint deployments so they work just right in their environment, and moving ... read more >> |
| July 18 2011 |
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By John Considine
Last week I wrote about the Cloud.com acquisition and what it means for Citrix, Rackspace, OpenStack and the industry. Next, I’d like to dig into the VMware announcement about their cloud infrastructure suite. Citrix clearly wanted to announce their news just prior to VMware’s, and for a good reason – C ... read more >> |
| July 12 2011 |
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By John Considine
Here we are on July 12, mid-summer when you think most people are wondering about going to the beach in 90 degree weather, and instead we have big cloud news. Early this morning we were greeted with the announcement that Citrix is buying Cloud.com for more than $200M. After the initial congratulations to Sheng and the team at Cloud.com, the twitter-sphere and blogosphere went wild with thoughts an ... read more >> |
| July 05 2011 |
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By John McEleney
Gotta get-get… the Black Eyed Peas get it, heck they wrote a song about it: "That future boom boom, gotta get it now…"―we gotta get moving to the cloud!
We're officially halfway through 2011 and many senior IT professionals are probably looking at their 2011 objectives and thinking to themselves, "How am I going to get everything done?" I am sure all of the IT professionals have lo ... read more >> |
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