Articles & Insights
Is the Cloud Truly Greener?
A talk by Tom Raftery of GreenMonk at a conference earlier this month in Dublin, Ireland poses our title question. And the answer isn't as clear-cut, or as green, as you may think. The problem is doing the math and figuring out exactly what you are r...
WatchDox Creates Pricey New Private Cloud for Secure Document Sharing
WatchDox is extending its services to the private cloud. We've written about them in the past. They have an iPad app for document control and tracking, and have added Android and soon Blackberry versions as well. Sponsor The idea is whenever you share ...
Case Study: How Welch's Uses Virtualization to Keep the Juice Flowing
An in-depth enterprise case study examining how Welch's transformed its data center infrastructure with VMware ESXi and Intel Xeon virtualization, ensuring zero-downtime manufacturing during peak harvest seasons.
Cloud Poll: Does the FBI Raid on DigitalOne Change Your Mind About the Cloud?
The Amazon Web Services cloud outage lead to some contemplation from cloud computing leaders such as Krishnan Subramanian. I'm wondering if the FBI raid on co-location host DigitalOne will lead to some similar considerations. Colos aren't cloud in mos...
Dell Acquires Cloud Memory Startup RNA Networks
I almost missed this, and it happened in my own backyard: Portland-based virtualization startup RNA Networks announced that it has been acquired by Dell. It was a quiet announcement, marked only by the RNA Networks website posting an announcement readi...
AT&T Announces New CDN Service
AT&T today announced a new, cloud-based Content Delivery Network (CDN) platform. Through its Digital Media Solutions division, AT&T will enable content to flow directly from its 38 data centers around the world, to reduce transit and latency times. The...
Benioff Says the Cloud is Passe
Last week at Salesforce's Boston Cloudforce event, CEO Marc Benioff is moving on beyond the cloud and called it passé. Really? Sponsor Yes, social and mobile networking has more buzz, and more business practice and applications these days. But hasn't ...
Amazon EC2 Now Supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Amazon has added Red Hat Linux to its collection of virtual machine images now available in its EC2 cloud computing service. Sponsor EC2 has many different operating systems available, including Windows Server and several different Linux versions in...
Black Hat, CCS & Co.
Featured Snippet: Cloud Cracking Suite Update Featured Snippet: The Cloud Cracking Suite (CCS) is a highly anticipated cybersecurity tool originally schedule...
Upcoming Black Hat Talk
At the upcoming Black Hat DC event, we will demonstrate breaking encryption in the cloud using GPU-accelerated supercomputing. Our custom tool utilizes Amazo...
Run Haskell on Xen - No Operating System Required!
An in-depth architectural breakdown of the Haskell Lightweight Virtual Machine (HaLVM) by Galois, examining how compiling functional Haskell directly onto the Xen hypervisor revolutionizes high-assurance cloud appliances.
3 Infographics About Cloud Computing
There are any number of ways to look at cloud computing. Three infographics illustrate how differentt the subject is viewed. The works demonstrate the diversity of the communities interested in cloud computing. All three appeal to people with little or...
