Category Archives: Cloud Servers
SIP Core targets Cloud Radio Access Network applications.
ROSH HA'AYIN, Israel -- ASOCS, the leading developer of software defined radio processors and modem solutions announced today the immediate availability of a infrastructure based SIP solution targeted at Cloud Radio Access Networks and large scale Cooperative Communications
"Following intensive and concrete discussions with key industry players both on the network operator side, as well as, CPU and server technology companies, we have crafted a co-processing architecture that is poised to improve system performance by more than Ten Fold (x10) over standalone x86 Intel based servers," said Gilad Garon CEO of ASOCS.
"Cloud RAN is a text book example of ASOCS's vision of Multi-Communications, as it essentially requires a technology agnostic platform that shape shifts on the fly, and in real time between distinctly different air interfaces" elaborates Garon.
ASOCS will be announcing the immediate availability of its CR2100 SIP core to 3rd party SOC integrators.
Based on ASOCS many core heterogeneous platform called ModemX, the CR2100 is designed to complement and accelerate Intel x86 based servers for Cloud Radio Access Networks (CRAN) and large scale Cooperative Communications (CoMP).
"Our ModemX platform with its inherent scalability, enables us to carve out a wide range of modem processing cores," explains Doron Solomon, ASOCS Chief Technology Officer. "In Cloud RAN the key ingredients of success are: fast reconfiguration without resetting during shape shifting, concurrency of distinctly different data paths, and fast data path processing."
Founded in 2003, ASOCS develops and markets many-core embedded processors that enable full software programmability of physical layer functions and algorithms. The ModemX family of cores represents a revolutionary approach to communications and runs multiple, distinctly different communication air-interfaces concurrently on a single platform. ASOCS' solutions are licensed as IP cores for integration in 3rd party SoC's.
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Dell’s Kevin Hanes Cloud Momentum @ Cloud
13-06-2012 23:45 Dell's Kevin Hanes keynote at the Cloud & Big Data Expo
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Live DR Failover of SQL Server 2008 R2 protected by Double-Take Availability 6.0 – Video
14-06-2012 09:54 Double-Take Availability 6.0 has Evolved. One of the key updated features of v6.0 is the consolidation of all protection workflows into a single Double-Take Console. The old "Double-Take Application Manager Console" for protection SQL, Exchange and File Servers has been removed, replaced by a slick new workflow from within the single unified Double-Take Console. This video demo shows the Live Failover (after pulling the power on a running SQL Server). The whole process is incredibly simple and easy to follow. This particular video is approximately 3 minutes long. It is a section of a longer video that details installation, configuration, Test Failover, Live Failover, Restoration and Failback of SQL Server 2008 R2 protected by Double-Take 6.0 The full video can be found here:
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Test DR Failover of SQL Server 2008 R2 protected by Double-Take Availability 6.0 – Video
14-06-2012 09:43 Double-Take Availability 6.0 has Evolved. One of the key updated features of v6.0 is the consolidation of all protection workflows into a single Double-Take Console. The old "Double-Take Application Manager Console" for protection SQL, Exchange and File Servers has been removed, replaced by a slick new workflow from within the single unified Double-Take Console. This video demo shows a Test Failover while the production SQL workload is still online, it is possible to view a live replica of the databases, then Undo failover without any exposure window - changes being made on the production server are still sent to the DR server where they are queued until the Test is complete. The whole process is incredibly simple and easy to follow. This particular video is approximately 3 minutes long. It is a section of a longer video that details installation, configuration, Test Failover, Live Failover, Restoration and Failback of SQL Server 2008 R2 protected by Double-Take 6.0 The full video can be found here:
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14-06-2012 10:20 Double-Take Availability 6.0 has Evolved. One of the key updated features of v6.0 is the consolidation of all protection workflows into a single Double-Take Console. The old "Double-Take Application Manager Console" for protection SQL, Exchange and File Servers has been removed, replaced by a slick new workflow from within the single unified Double-Take Console. This video demo shows the Restore and Failback (after Live Failover). The whole process is incredibly simple and easy to follow. This particular video is approximately 3 minutes long. It is a section of a longer video that details installation, configuration, Test Failover, Live Failover, Restoration and Failback of SQL Server 2008 R2 protected by Double-Take 6.0 The full video can be found here:
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Web Applications on AWS: Launching Servers Using Auto Scaling [Amazon EC2] – Video
14-06-2012 10:04 Auto Scaling is designed to launch or terminate Amazon EC2 instances automatically based on user-defined policies, schedules, and alarms.
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Cloud music is still the future for Apple, Amazon — really
Cloud music hasn't really caught on yet, but Apple and Amazon continue to bolster their services. The iPod proved that music drives hardware sales, and the big players can't afford to be without it.
Given recent headlines about cloud music, you might be forgiven for thinking that the feature is huge with consumers.
Word came Monday that Apple has finally caught up to Google and Amazon and begun to stream songs from the company's cloud. The following day, CNET broke news that Amazon is very close to reaching agreements with the top four record companies that would let it run a licensed cloud music service. Music industry sources also told CNET that Google and the labels continue to discuss cloud licenses.
Interesting news. Now here's the reality: Consumer adoption of cloud music has been lackluster, multiple music industry insiders tell me. The cloud has not yet led to a spike in interest or music sales, the sources told CNET. Data from The NPD Group supports that conclusion, said Russ Crupnick, the research's company's senior vice president and industry analyst.
"Despite the hullabaloo about cloud music, it hasn't gotten traction yet," Crupnick said, "I looked at our latest numbers and unreleased data, and only about 6 percent of the Internet population has even used something like [cloud music]."
That data suggests that music listeners are happy with the options they have now. Crupnick suspects that few people own enough music to max out their local storage, which would fuel the desire to store film and music libraries remotely. Representatives from Apple and Amazon did not respond to interview requests and Google declined to comment.
So why are the big music stores bothering to upgrade their music clouds?
One reason may be the iPod. Apple and the company's iconic digital music player proved music is a powerful driver of hardware sales. People want to listen to their jams on their mobile devices. Apple didn't care if the company's margins on song sales were thin. All the money was in selling iPods. Music has been a vital part of digital devices ever since. Keep in mind that in addition to being the Web's top retailer, Amazon is now very much a hardware maker.
The "cloud," of course, is the term used to describe where digital stuff "lives" when consumers store their files on a third party's servers rather than on their own PC or mobile device. While this type of data storage is old to techies, it is still relatively new to mainstream America. Heck, among the big three music stores, the cloud feature is barely a year old.
Amazon was first to launch cloud music with the initially unlicensed Cloud Drive and Cloud Player. Google later offered its own an unlicensed cloud-music service. Apple's system was the first to debut fully licensed.
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Strategic Partnership for Cloud Computing: T-Systems to Offer Customers VMware vCloud Datacenter Services
FRANKFURT, Germany, June 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
T-Systems join forces with VMware to provide customers with easier, quicker and more manageable access to cloud computing. The companies announced their strategic partnership today at the VMware vForum 2012 in Frankfurt.
On average enterprises have virtualized more than 50 percent of their servers, leading to sizable gains in efficiency and manageability over the past few years. That enterprises are increasingly choosing VMware's virtualization and cloud solutions to realize these benefits speaks to the trust that customers place in VMware cloud infrastructure. Yet the promise of cloud to access IT capacity on-demand without a fixed investment is better fulfilled when a service provider offers the same quality of IT infrastructure in the cloud that enterprises are used to on-premise. The VMware vCloud Datacenter Service to be provided by T-Systems delivers on the hybrid cloud promise, to provide IT infrastructure out of the cloud that has undergone a demanding certification process by VMware. This gives enterprises the confidence to move IT capacity into the cloud easily and without any surprises in terms of portability, compatibility, security, manageability and control. Thus when a customer's data center has reached its capacity limit, or resources for new projects are needed within minutes, T-Systems provides a familiar solution in a hybrid cloud model. T-Systems plans to deliver its VMware vCloud Datacenter Service this fall. It will be based on VMware's award-winning cloud infrastructure suite, including VMware vSphere and VMware vCloud Director.
Into the cloud at the push of a button
"Put simply, enterprises will be able to move the contents of their servers to the T-Systems cloud at the push of a button," said Jrgen Urbanski, Cloud expert at T-Systems and a member of Deutsche Telekom's Cloud Leadership Team. "Internally, we have been using proven VMware technologies for many years. Therefore, we are delighted to announce that we plan to deliver VMware vCloud Datacenter Services. This will help ensure that our joint customers can move seamlessly between on-premise and cloud deployments, with the high standards of security and compliance expected of a German provider," he added.
Deutsche Telekom aims to strengthen its growth with cloud services over the next few years. Closer partnerships with top-tier technology providers like VMware play a crucial part in achieving this aspiration. "Our goals are to make innovations from our community of strategic partners available to customers more quickly, to empower customers through self-service, and to offer customers choice and flexibility by embracing industry-leading standards and cloud APIs," says Urbanski. "Our new VMware vCloud Datacenter Service will be a great example of that."
"We have a long-standing strategic partnership with T-Systems. Starting with the virtualization of the server and client infrastructure, through business-critical applications to setting up a highly automated data center environment, we are delighted that T-Systems is now also expanding the VMware vCloud Datacenter Services network," said Thomas Khlewein, Vice President for VMware CEMEA. "T-Systems understands how a whole mix of factors are changing the nature of IT and running a business: more mobile employees, a host of new devices, applications and data, as well as an increased need for greater flexibility - all while continuing to control costs. T-Systems cloud services help IT organizations master these new challenges, and delivering VMware vCloud Datacenter Services can enable them to successfully become key innovation drivers for their organizations," Khlewein continued.
About Deutsche Telekom
Deutsche Telekom is one of the world's leading integrated telecommunications companies with more than 129 million mobile customers, almost 34 million fixed-network lines and 17-million broadband lines (as of March 31, 2012). The Group provides fixed-network, mobile communications, Internet and IPTV products and services for consumers, and ICT solutions for business and corporate customers. Deutsche Telekom is present in around 50 countries and has over 235,000 employees worldwide. The Group generated revenue of EUR-58.7 billion in the 2011 financial year - over half of it outside Germany (as of December 31, 2011).
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CloudPassage: Secure Your Cloud Servers – Video
12-06-2012 08:50 CloudPassage was founded in early 2010 by security experts with decades of technology experience including the development of early virtualization security solutions. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, CloudPassage is backed by Benchmark Capital, Tenaya Capital and other leading investors. CloudPassage Halo is the award-winning cloud server security platform with all the security functions you need to safely deploy servers in public and hybrid clouds. Everything you need to secure your cloud servers. And it's free for up to 25 servers. "Everyone realizes that they need some kind of security on their systems, but its second priority. As soon as there is some kind of breach where their customer looses confidence...that impact's their business," says Rand Wacker, VP of Product Management with CloudPassage. "Our goal is to automate everything that they care about from firewalling, to multi-factor authentication, intrusion detection, and host scanning that you would normally have taken care of by an IT team in a traditional big data center. We do that automatically in the public cloud environment by integrating into your cloud server," concludes Wacker. CloudPassage current product features include vulnerability scanning, configuration security, server account administration, security event logging and alerting, and dynamic management of host-based firewalls. CloudPassage Website: CloudPassage on Twitter: CloudPassage on CrunchBase ...
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iland’s Dante Orsini talks about Dell’s stack @ the Cloud
13-06-2012 14:49 Global cloud computing provider iland talks about Dell's infrastructure stack including vmware, Fluid data architecture, and PowerEdge servers
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iland's Dante Orsini talks about Dell's stack @ the Cloud