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Don’t tell anyone this, because I may yet be proved wrong, but I think I understand Hewlett-Packard’s cloud computing strategy.
I just listened to Biri Singh, head of HP Cloud Services, at the Wells Fargo Tech Transformation Summit in San Francisco. Singh laid out HP’s thinking about cloud data centers, along with a promise to announce soon its public cloud service, which is now in private beta and will hit public beta soon.
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The history of the personal computer is a series of wars – operating system wars, network OS wars, browser wars, and then the virtualization wars. But while virtualization at first followed the lead of the OS in battles between hypervisors such as VMWare’s vSphere and Microsoft’s Hyper-V, virtualization is increasingly following the leads of the other pieces of infrastructure before it and is instead enabling user organizations to set up heterogeneous virtualization networks by supporting multiple hypervisors.
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Blue Jeans Network, which offers videoconferencing in the cloud, has introduced a new pricing model targeted as a direct broadside to expensive systems from vendors such as Cisco Systems and Polycom. It will now offer its service at a rate of $ 299 per port, per month, which should be dramatically less expensive that those competitors that sell customers a multipoint control unit (MCU) to install and maintain on the customers’ premises. Blue Jeans calls this strategy an “MCU Killer.”
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Flash/solid state disk (SSD) drives are changing the way enterprise storage vendors are developing their products, says Gary Watson, CEO of disk-based data storage systems provider Nexsan, which just came out with its NST-Series of unified storage systems. The release follows LSI’s ongoing transition from spinning disks to solid state with its latest Nytro products, which are focused on bringing flash into the server. And in February, EMC announced that its PCIe/flash-based server cache technology, VFCache, is now available
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A new report on network security threats says that if some countries adopt tougher security and user privacy regulations, companies may look for cloud service providers in countries where it is cheaper, but with lax security. It’s what the Information Security Forum (ISF) calls ‘cyber havens’. The ISF also warns that regulations that impose more disclosure of security weaknesses in the name of transparency may have the unintended effect of inviting cyberattacks on them.
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Cloud computing is becoming pervasive, and IT needs to take control now or risk exposing enterprises to threats and loss of data control. The unchecked spread of unmanaged clouds is a recipe for disaster.
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If I didn’t know better, I’d say that there are many in the cloud community that are happy to capitulate standards to Amazon. What’s next? Letting Cisco define networking standards, Microsoft define OS, Web content, and document standards, Apple define mobile platform standards, or Oracle define SQL standards? Hitching the standards wagon to a vendor is a fundamental problem.
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LSI has made several moves in the past few months that make it clear the company wants to evolve with the storage market as it makes the transition from spinning disks to solid state. LSI’s latest solid-state products, the Nytro line, concentrate on bringing flash into the server, a transition I’m especially interested in. The company has also announced the first tool I’ve seen to help you figure out how flash can speed up your applications.
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Infoblox has introduced a new platform to automate the previously manual process of making network changes associated with virtualization deployments. The launch of its automation offering is accompanied by the release of an Infoblox-backed industry survey that shows communication and collaboration across various IT silos, including servers, storage, networking and software, is sorely lacking.
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Less than a year after acquiring Cloud.com, Citrix is sending CloudStack, the open-source software designed to deploy and manage large networks of virtual machines as a highly available, scalable cloud computing platform, to the Apache Software Foundation Incubation program, joining such as OpenOffice and Wave, which was spun out from Google. Citrix will continue to sell and support a commercial CloudStack offering, and there is no change in pricing or support. Last year’s cloud announcement, Project Olympus, the company’s commercial implementation of OpenStack, is at an end. This marks another twisting turn in Citrix’ path in cloud software.
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