Category Archives: IT Departments

Is the Cloud as the vendors are claiming?

IT news from Australia is presenting a work made by the UNSW School of Computer Science. In this study they try to verify if the Cloud is as the Vendors are claiming that it is: elastic, reliable, dynamic, fault tolerant, … Continue reading

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Amazon introduces the AWS Private Cloud, and the question that arises is if this new service enables the deployment of real Private Cloud..

Amazon has introduced today the new AWS Virtual Private Cloud service, more details on it could be found here: http://aws.amazon.com/vpc On the follow up of this new service, some doubts have arisen about the real type of the cloud built … Continue reading

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White Paper: An Essential Guide to Possibilities and Risks of Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing is quite possibly the hottest, most discussed and often misunderstood concept in Information Technology (IT) today.

In short, Cloud Computing proposes to transform the way IT it’s deployed and managed, promising reduced implementation, maintenance costs and complexity, while accelerating innovation, providing faster timeto-market, and the ability to scale high-performance applications and infrastructures on demand, but…

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The CloudOS’s

I never truly believed that true cloud OS could “appear” and specially be truly usable. Jolicloud was already mentioned here (although I do not consider it a true cloud OS), but what make me a believer was g.ho.st and specially … Continue reading

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Cloud antivirus

Panda Security launch a Cloud Antivirus (in beta). Do check their blog. It has a video explaining how it works.

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Increasing the control over the Cloud – Reducing the EDoS danger

As it has been discussed in the Cloud Computing Google Group (Cloud Forum), the Cloud Computing paradigm has an ever growing underlying attachment. As I’m sure you can guess, I’m talking about the security threats that have emerged, one of … Continue reading

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The largest IT department on the World is changing to Cloud Computing

As we can read on the recent CROSSCUTTING PROGRAMS document presented by the Obama administration, the Cloud Computing paradigm is considered a priority tool to reduce the costs and increase the efficiency on the IT platform of the Us government. … Continue reading

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