Am 17. September findet erstmalig ein CloudCamp in Hamburg statt. Wir von ScaleUp, als einer der Pioniere in Sachen Cloud Computing in Deutschland und Europa, sind natürlich auch mit von der Partie und unterstützen die Organisatoren des CloudCamps tatkräftig. Wir können jeden von euch, der Interesse am Thema Cloud Computing hat nur empfehlen, am CloudCamp [...]
Even the most steadfast division-level IT managers are beginning to recognize the futility in trying to maintain their own closet “data center” in a world of virtualization, cloud computing, and drive to increase both data center economics and data security.
Data center consolidation, virtualization, PUE, green everything, and infrastructure flexibility. All current IT conversation topics, all are important management considerations for organizations stepping into the age of complete business integration with information and communications technologies (ICT). Cool and challenging topics. But “cool” does not carry your business goals. A solid ICT strategy encompassing all your [...]
How often have we considered the challenges of meeting service level expectations to a global marketplace, in a global economy, with a very demanding customer? Every day?
Have to admit, some of the news recently concerning drag and drop clouds is kind of exciting. Yes, we’ve dreamed about cloud bridges for a while now, and it is something the cloud user community finds very attractive, if not essential, for the future of cloud computing.
What if you had more than 700 ministries, provincial governments, local governments, and government agencies all running separate servers located everywhere from small data centers, to closets, to old computers crammed under a desk?
The reluctance of a VC to support CAPEX in the data center is a vision into the future of startup investments. While IT managers love to have a “hands-on” approach to equipment, it is becoming apparent the economics and utility of public cloud-enabled applications and resources are a factor which cannot be ignored.
Disaster recovery and business continuity. Recovery point objectives and recovery time objectives. Backing up data to offsite locations, and potentially running mirrored processing sites – it is an expensive business requirement to fulfill. Particularly for budget conscious small and medium-sized companies.
Future applications and services within clouds will require a much broader use of Internet-enabled resources. Whether it is automatically spooling additional servers, adding disk, or more complex functions such as global distributed processing, load-balancing, disaster recovery, and follow-the-sun dynamic resource allocations – IPv6 implementation is required to meet that demand.
About a month ago we were contacted by the technical team at 3Tera asking if we would like to be involved in an historic demonstration – the first use of IPv6 in cloud computing. Since we’ve been experimenting with IPv6 in our data center over the past year, we jumped at the chance to be [...]
