Organisations are aggressively adopting cloud – but can’t find the right security roadmap

Organisations are aggressively adopting cloud – but can’t find the right security roadmap

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90% of users polled in the LinkedIn Information Security group claim they are either very or moderately concerned about public cloud security.
The survey, sponsored by CloudPassage, aimed to give a comprehensive examination of current security mindsets from a more than 250,000 respondent base with a broad section of company sizes, experience and cloud mindset.
Here are the key stats:
  • 71% of respondents are either in planning stages, actively implementing or in production with cloud environments. Hybrid cloud deployments are most common with 7 out...

By James Bourne, 10 March 2015, 0 comments. Categories: Architecture, Infrastructure, Security,Virtualisation.

Enterprise cloud adoption goes up – and the bets are on SDN and NFV to make the most of it

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The IDG Enterprise Cloud Computing Study has found the number of firms who have at least a portion of their computing infrastructure in the cloud continues to go up – but it’s the technology underneath this adoption which is the most interesting.
The latest research, which polled 1672 respondents and aimed to measure cloud computing trends among technology decision makers, found over a third (38%) were “comfortable” hosting in the cloud given the state of...

By James Bourne, 24 November 2014, 1 comment. Categories: Enterprise, Virtualisation.

This Polish startup aims to “do to open source what DigitalOcean did to SaaS”

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Updated Oct 31: Say hello to VirtKick. This startup, based out of Gdansk, Poland, has a simple goal: to make virtualisation easier.
The company has launched an Indiegogo campaign to put together an ambitious $57,000 to add a series of new features, but the company aims to make complexity with spinning up virtual machines a thing of the past.
“Virtualisation technology is tough,” VirtKick trumpets in a press release....

By James Bourne, 30 October 2014, 0 comments. Categories: Virtualisation.

How software defined networking and cloud computing pave the way towards a digital society

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By Antonio Manzalini
Ultra-broadband network proliferation, advances in information technology and the evolution of endpoint devices have created the conditions for re-inventing telecommunications networks and services architectures.
Software defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) are just two facets of the so-called “IT-zation or softwarization” of telecom infrastructures. SDN decouples the software, control plane, from the forwarding hardware of nodes...

By IEEE Cloud Computing, 29 October 2014, 0 comments. Categories: Virtualisation.

New survey shows slight increase in uptake of VDI solutions

It’s long been mooted that virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) just isn’t ready for mainstream deployment, even though Gartner predicted there would be 49 million VDI users by the end of 2013.
Whether it’s down to incompatibility or price is a matter of executive opinion. Yet a new survey for CloudTech by IP EXPO Europe has revealed a small amount of growth in the space.
According to the survey, of 300 UK IT directors and managers on IT infrastructure, over a quarter (27%) of those surveyed had...

By James Bourne, 30 September 2014, 0 comments. Categories: Research, VDI, Virtualisation.

VDI: Why is it still virtually untapped?

By Giorgio Bonuccelli, Marketing Director
Cloud computing and virtualization technologies have undoubtedly brought about a revolution in the IT world in the past decade. With the increase in BYOD environments, a work-from-home culture and the drive for resource optimization, desktop virtualization and remote application delivery have been welcome solutions for modern businesses of all sizes – often being their first foray into cloud computing.
IT analysts had predicted that 2012 would be the ‘year...

By 2X Software, 12 September 2014, 0 comments. Categories: VDI, Virtualisation.

Storage: The heart of the next generation data centre

By Jeramiah Dooley, Cloud Architect at SolidFire
Public cloud services have put huge pressures on enterprise IT to compete in a more agile way. When it can take days or even weeks for IT departments to procure and manually set-up necessary networking and storage hardware to support new applications, why wouldn’t employees turn to providers who can meet their needs within minutes?
To meet these demands, the hardware infrastructure needs to be more than fast; it needs to be...

By SolidFire, 01 August 2014, 0 comments. Categories: Big Data, Storage, Virtualisation.

Assessing the balance of power for data centre operators

By Nick Razey, CEO, Next Generation Data
Achieving the lowest possible power usage effectiveness (PUE) rating should not be the only objective of a data centre operator. After all, the most energy efficient data centre is one which has lost all power! Furthermore there is a considerable grey area around the method of PUE calculation.
Effectively consolidating space and power constrained legacy data centres into more energy efficient ‘PUE-friendly’ environments ultimately requires their migration...

By NGD, 08 July 2014, 0 comments. Categories: Big Data, Data & Analytics, Data Centres, Vendors,Virtualisation.

Open source cloud: Exploring the commercial applications

During the course of the last twelve months the OpenStack community has advanced as more users of the leading open-source cloud technology have been reporting their progress - with the help of their partners - towards making a meaningful impact on their business goals and objectives.
We've also learned how these progressive technology users are pioneering changes in their own organisations - enabling them to become more competitive in the Global Networked Economy.
The OpenStack Summit 2014 opened with a...

By David H Deans, 03 June 2014, 0 comments. Categories: OpenSource, Virtualisation.

HP: Trying to stand out from the crowd in the DRaaS space

Back in September, Nirvanix announced to its customers that they had two weeks to move its data before the company went down the plughole.
As the enterprise cloud storage provider waved the white flag, Gartner research director Kyle Hilgendorf noted in a blog post that the analyst house’s paper on cloud exit strategies was one of the least popular in the collection.
“I suspect it is because cloud exits are not nearly as sexy as...

By James Bourne, 15 April 2014, 0 comments. Categories: Disaster Recovery, Enterprise, IaaS,Virtualisation.