Disaster recovery plans in the clouds Both large and medium/small-sized companies have significantly increased their organizational data in recent years. Analyzing large data sets will become a key basis of competition, underpinning new waves of productivity growth and innovation, according to a research by MGI and McKinsey’s Business Technology Office. The ability to store, compound date, and then synthesize results in an extensive analysis has more than ever become accessible through digital storage and cloud computing technologies. But what about “What if” capabilities? Is cloud computing reliable for disaster recovery plans? Did you know that companies lose almost $90,000 every
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Piston Cloud Debuts First OpenStack OS In a move set to make waves for VMWare, Piston Cloud Computing Inc.came out with their Piston Enterprise OS, the first OpenStack-based OS in the industry. Announced on Wednesday (18 January 2012), the new OS which is to be called pentOS is set to offer datacenter-owning enterprises a smoother path down the private cloud road. Standardized Private Cloud enabler As most enterprise-class Private Cloud creators will acknowledge, there is currently no set way or method to put together a Private Cloud, or at least up till now. Most of the time, these efforts were
What’s Trending in Cloud Computing? According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, “trend” may be defined as “to show a tendency towards.” When teenagers try to be trendy by incorporating the latest fashions in their sartorial decisions, they provide clothes labels information on what’s popular and what’s not. Thus, there is a continuous feedback loop where labels tell consumers what to buy and consumers tell labels what to sell. Hence, for both providers and consumers of a product or service, it is advantageous to know what’s trending in that industry. With that thought, this article speaks about the top five trends in
Informatica Powers Hybrid IT With Cloud Data Integration Informatica Cloud Summer 2011 Delivers Enterprise-Class Security and Management to Cloud Integration REDWOOD CITY, Calif., May 3, 2011 – Informatica Corporation, the world’s number one independent leader in data integration software, today announced Informatica Cloud Summer 2011, a major new release of the award-winning cloud integration service. Cloud computing adoption by IT has been constrained by the lack of enterprise capabilities such as performance, scalability, availability, manageability and support. The Informatica Cloud Summer 2011 release delivers enterprise-class functionality through easy-to-use cloud services that deliver universal cloud integration and unified hybrid deployment for both
