Skyrocketing Consumer Cloud Storage Needs
It’s been estimated that consumers will store over one-third of their digital content in the cloud by 2016. This surprising statistic comes from Gartner’s recent study on consumer cloud storage, entitled Forecast: Consumer Digital Storage Needs, 2010-2016. Although local data storage will continue to be the main repository for consumers’ digital information, the trend towards [...]
Supercomputing with Amazon’s HPC Cloud
It’s no big secret that Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is a wildly popular option for high-performance cloud computing. These days, the EC2 is able to run many of the applications that previously needed a large HPC cluster or renting time from a supercomputing center. While Amazon’s EC2 is able to meet most general purpose [...]
Data Center Availability
As more and more organizations are depending upon data centers for daily business operations, it becomes increasingly critical that data centers limit their downtime as much as possible. Large companies that have become virtually dependent upon data centers know that even a minute or two of downtime can result in huge losses. This article takes [...]
Cloud Security Doubts: Firewall Risk Management
While more and more enterprises these days are using cloud infrastructures, the majority of executives are doubtful of their ability to secure their IT systems. This article takes a look at a special report published by the Ponemon Research Institute in November 2011, entitled “Managing Firewall Risks in the Cloud.” Background The study was conducted [...]
