Tag Archive | Cloud Computing
Cloud Computing Contracts and geolocation
As very well explained in the paper on negotiating cloud contracts by Stanford Technology Law Review (see also the blog Cloud Computing Contracts) cloud computing users can “have regulatory or other legal obligations and may need to demonstrate compliance to regulators”. Data location and data and data transfers are one of the most important data protection […]
Cloud Computing Contracts
The new delivery model for information processing, Cloud Computing is offering an attractive value proposition: Dynamic (on-demand) provisioning of IT resources Low cost because of the use of economy of scale and multi-tenancy sharing of resources Shorter time to market in deploying resources Different cost structure; the shift from CAPEX to OPEX But although this […]
GreenQloud: moving Universities and Reseach data from the Netherlands to Iceland
Last week SURFnet, the largest National Research and Education Network (NREN) in the Netherlands, announced it will transfer part of its services to GreenQloud, a green cloud computing company from Iceland. According to SURFnet one of the import features of GreenQloud is that they were willing to make specific changes; “An important feature is to […]
VMworld Europe: Transform Now!
Transform Now! Last week at VMworld Barcelona not only attention was given to products and solutions across the three key layers of Infrastructure, Application Platform and End-user technology but also much attention was given to how to transform the traditional IT department to an IT department that is ready for the Cloud Era. With a […]
Energy efficient Data Center ≠ Green Data Center
“Many IT companies are simply choosing to attach their modern information factories to some of the dirtiest sources of electricity, supplied by some of the dirtiest utilities on the planet” says Greenpeace. In their latest report ‘How green is your cloud?’, Greenpeace has criticized the cloud computing industry saying that cloud providers “are all rapidly expanding without […]
Prepare for the Zettabyte Data Wave: right sizing and managing your data center
Lately two interesting and complementary reports from Cisco and Oracle came available with figures and trends associated cloud computing and data centers. By the end of 2015 global datacenter IP traffic will reach 4.8 zettabytes (Cisco). By the way a zettabyte is equal to 1 billion terabytes. The Oracle report reveals that many businesses appear […]
Green Cloud Computing. Which way to go?
What is the right cloud architecture to create a green and sustainable cloud? Should we consolidate to huge mega data centers or is there another way to go? The analogy Currently data centers are constructed on the intersection of the electrical energy infrastructure and the network (data) infrastructure. Considering the current electrical energy infrastructure, for […]
Iceland green data center initiatives
Data center operators want to cut energy usage and energy costs. The Nordic countries, with their cool temperatures, cool water and an electricity generation that is nearly entirely from renewable sources are starting all kinds of initiatives to answer this needs. In an experimental phase we have the tidal power generation at the Orkney Islands, in […]
Datacenter Dynamics Amsterdam 2011 grand final: sustainability and cloud computing
This week I attended (and was chair of one of the tracks) of the DatacenterDynamics conference in Amsterdam. This year the conference program set up was along three themes, Design, Build & Operate, Outsourcing Decisions and IT Optimization. During the day a wide range of cases and technologies were presented. And at the end of the […]
Amazon post mortem on Dublin DC outage reconfirms domino theory
As promised Amazon released a post mortem report on the data center outage in Dublin. It reconfirmed the domino theory: if one availability zone come under the influence of errors and outages, then other availability zone would follow in a domino effect. Amazon stated, as mentioned in an earlier blog entry about the Dublin outage, that the […]
