.jpg)
Copyright (c) 2012 hot hot hot |
Designed for live radio stations online - High Court on Tuesday
recovery raid Dentist Boiler repair Architect Divorce lawyer Well driller Accountants Car repair Roofers Ac repair TAX CREDIT DONATE CARS IN MA DONATE YOURAzure Cloud in China into 2018 By admin on 24/08/2015 45SHARESSHARE TWEET SHARE SHARE 0 COMMENTS Microsoft and 21Vianet, a provider of carrier neutral data center services in China, have extended their cloud partnership. 21Vianet will continue to offer Microsoft’s cloud in China, including Azure and Office 365 in China for an additional 4 years under the new agreement. 21Vianet acts as an operation entity for Azure, hosting Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure services and Office 365 in its data centers and handling customer relationships. A renewal agreement extends this setup to 2018 and suggests the partnership is bearing fruit for both companies. 21vianet-to-operate-azure-cloud-in-china-into-2018 Microsoft first partnered with 21Vianet a few years ago in a bid to extend its cloud in China via a local partner. China represents a huge growth market for Chinese and foreign cloud providers, but navigating the market isn’t simple for an outsider. In November 2012, Microsoft, 21Vianet, and the Shanghai Municipal Government announced a strategic partnership agreement in which Microsoft licensed the technology know-how and rights to operate and provide Office 365 and Windows Azure services in China to 21Vianet. “Since 2012, teams from Microsoft and 21Vianet have worked diligently and seamlessly in the preparation, public preview, and commercial launch of both Windows Azure and Office 365 services in China,” said Josh Chen, CEO of 21Vianet, in a press release. Several Chinese tech giants, including software developer Kingsoft, invested $300 million in 21Vianet last year. The investment is going toward expanding its data center footprint in a bid to capture the burgeoning Chinese cloud and data center services market. Some of those data centers have been built specifically in support of Microsoft. In 2013, it added a 5,000-cabinet facility in support of Azure. “We remain firmly committed to the Chinese cloud market, and we believe this extended partnership with 21Vianet will serve as a strong foundation for both companies to further contribute to the development of the cloud computing ecosystem throughout China,” said Ralph Haupter, vice president and CEO for Microsoft Greater China, in a press release. There are several regulatory compliance needs to get within what many dub as “The Great Firewall of China.” Officially called the Golden Shield Project, it is essentially an internet surveillance and censorship system that makes it hard to serve Chinese customers from outside. The market remains a separate entity in need of being served from within, and the typical path for a foreign company has been to partner with a local service provider. Amazon Web Services launched a Chinese region through ChinaNetCenter. Apple stores local iCloud data in China Telecom data centers. Several new data center builds have been announced in China recently, including by NTT and CenturyLink, which has launched a data center in Shanghai. Big recent news was a Distributed Denial of Service attack originating in China hit the popular open source code repository GitHub. The DDos attack against GitHub followed an attack on Greatfire.org, following a Wall Street Journal article about anti-censorship groups using U.S. cloud computing services to circumvent blocking by Chinese authorities. Amazon Web Services introduced new dense-storage instances for its EC2 cloud meant for processing multi-terabyte data sets. The new D2 instances provide additional compute power and memory compared to HS1 instances as well as ability to sustain high rates of sequential disk I/O for access to extremely large data sets (or, if you’re reading this 10 years from now, small data sets). People are getting comfortable with storing and processing larger amounts of data in the cloud, so instance sizes are growing in tow to handle more heavy-duty jobs. new-aws-instances-chew-through-very-large-data-sets The instances are based on Intel’s Haswell processors running at base clock frequency of 2.4 GHz. Each virtual CPU (vCPU) is a hardware hyperthread on an Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 chip. The largest of the new instances are capable of providing up to 3,500 MB/second read and 3,100 MB/second write performance with Linux. new-aws-instances-chew-through-very-large-data-sets1 The largest instance also comes with bonus features of NUMA support and CPU power management. NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access) allows specifying an affinity between an application and a processor that will result in use of memory that is “closer” to the processor and therefore more rapidly accessed. It’s possible to launch multiple D2 instances in a placement group (logical grouping of instances in single availability zone, meant for applications in need of low network latency, high network throughput or both). The D2 instances provide the best disk performance when you use a Linux kernel that supports Persistent Grants – an extension to the Xen block ring protocol that significantly improves disk throughput and scalability. Storage on D2 is local, so it’s advised to build redundancy in storage architecture and use a fault-tolerant file system. Each instance is EBS-optimized by default. “EBS” stands for “Elastic Block Storage.” Enhanced networking is available on D2, joining availability on C3, C4, and I2 families. Enabling enhanced networking results in higher performance (packets per second), lower latency, and lower jitter. “With Enhanced Networking and extremely high sequential high I/O rates, these instances will chew through your Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) data warehouse, log processing, and MapReduce jobs,” AWS chief evangelist Jeff Barr wrote in a blog post. “They will also make great hosts for your network file systems and data warehouses.”Hybrid Cloud’s Need for Speed By admin on 21/08/2015 52SHARESSHARE TWEET SHARE SHARE 0 COMMENTS As more businesses are moving data to the cloud and outside of corporate walls, and more data is being generated via the Internet of Things (IoT), it’s turning into a hybrid world. Not only does data need to be put into context that crosses company and geographical boundaries, making for a distributed infrastructure, but the window of time when the magic must happen is also shrinking. hybrid-clouds-need-for-speed Data center provider Interxion, IBM, and big data platform Qubole are three very different providers and architects of the hybrid world. All are betting that agility and real-time needs will be a key driver in the transformation to hybrid. While cost savings is part of the hybrid story (optimizing what workloads go where based on cost), the bigger picture involves optimizing the user experience (maximizing what workloads go where based on provided value). Whether it be an employee with a back-office application, a developer in need of compute resources on the fly, or a consumer on a shopping spree, it all needs to happen in or near real time. Interxion views itself as building the railroad station hubs of the internet, having built data center infrastructure across Europe in all major metropolitan areas. It acts as an aggregation point for clouds, networks, and content. As a result, a new data center edge is arising, according to Ian McVey, director for enterprise and systems integrators for Interxion. As data and consumption become more distributed, data centers need to be closer to the end user and connections must be secure. IBM sees hybrid as the foundation for smarter apps, tapping richer data sets. Cloud means certain data is exposable. Its role is helping to connect these data clouds and putting that data in proper context with the right tools, as well as leveraging it in new contexts in order to build smarter applications. “Everything is becoming hybrid,” said IBM cloud CTO Danny Sabbah. “Businesses are looking at context-based, intelligent applications. They want to create a more personalized experience for clients. But there is a three-to-seven second rule.” Sabbah gives an example of a brick-and-mortar video game store that wants to deliver a targeted experience. “When that client walks in, they want all the screens to fundamentally change based on who walked in and their proclivity to buy something. It needs to happen in three to seven seconds. ” The company is betting on smart applications with smarter contextualization built on hybrid infrastructure. This is the rationale behind IBM’s recently announced multi-billion dollar Internet of Things investment: it’s not the cloud, but the data in that cloud that is important. It was also the rationale for adding Watson functionality into Bluemix so developers could add new Watson-type functionality, and for signing partnerships with The Weather Channel and Twitter so enterprises could tap into those knowledge clouds. An airline can use weather data to optimize its flights and the customer experience, for example. Finally, Qubole provides a data platform that helps companies leverage smart data sets in public clouds, and CEO Ashish Thusoo says he sees data sharing as a strong emerging use case. A recent Interxion survey reveals that close to half of enterprises are already employing hybrid cloud, though McVey believes that this is true mainly for static workloads at the present. However, he expects to see dynamic use cases growing. “Where you build depends on the success,” said Interxion’s McVey. “What happens when someone wants to do real-time? Geolocation? Wants to check against the customer base, check against the store database and send a text message to see if the customer opted in?” asked Ian McVey. “The current solution is so spread out, that by the time you do all the hops, the consumer is down the street. The answer is to colocate some of the assets. We have the mobile carriers, retailer master database, and the platforms of cloud providers for marketing automation in our data centers.” McVey said that this need extends to smart manufacturing, location-based services, Internet of Things and pretty much all emerging use cases. The world is a hybrid of many clouds, and all the next generation use cases have a time sensitivity, he said. “One stat I will flag [from the recent hybrid survey]: When asked ‘if you could solve network issues, security costs and app performance, how much more of your public workloads would you put into the cloud?’ Respondents said they’d double it. There’s a real latent demand for enterprises to solve this network issue.” Hybrid doesn’t only mean connected mixed clouds within an enterprise, it means connected and mixed data clouds. Service providers are building and providing the infrastructure and platform for that to happen. “We’ve increasingly seen data economies emerge,” said Qubole’s Thusoo.“We’re seeing more data providers providing data to other companies. Our cloud platform becomes ideal for companies to share data across the supply chain.” While the hybrid world is dependent on diverse and fast connectivity, there are many more factors in play. It might look simple for the consumer, but there is a lot going on behind the curtain. “There is privacy, audibility, and GRC (Governed, Restricted and Compliance) issues,” said IBM’s Sabbah. “In pharma you have HIPAA rules, and there are rules in finance. You need to provide auditability and traceability to every single piece of data. Traceability is extremely important; customers need to be able to generate the right report.” The need for security and compliance in addition to speed are driving private links and direct connections, according to Interxion. It’s no secret that everyone across IT infrastructure land is betting on hybrid. While putting the right data in the right cost model and setting up and optimizing IT spend were the initial benefits of hybrid, it’s now ultimately about the customer or consumer of that data. The IT infrastructure industry provides the framework and cogs to make it a reality. Internet of Things generates more meaningful data; and APIs drive a hyper-connected world to provide an optimized experience for individuals in both consumer and business worlds.
, eNewHampshirePages.com, eNewJerseyPages.com