We believe that vulnerability, resistance, and 'resilience' are all shaped with the help of diligence, proactive ability to put the right blend of resources available. What if we have the technology know how and the resources to make this happen in the real time as well. Then, the question arise who has the onus in a cloud context - technology companies or the cloud providers or the cloud community or may be all to some extent. Let's find out how technology and new era concepts are evolving - creating cloud technology environment, cloud community's gift through open source platforms, and the ability of the technology companies to make an effective blend of technology that can really make a difference in our lives. Creating the right cloud delivery strategy is critical to reducing our organization’s risks and building its future. Most of the IT organizations want to start small, to build a pilot or proof of concept for the cloud, and expand from there. No harm i...

What is Fault Tolerance in a virtual world? Sometimes I wonder, what does this ‘fault tolerance’ or a ‘zero-downtime’ means to people at large? How does it make a difference in our lives? Do we really need to know all the technology jargon?  How things function? Probably not. Folks! We don’t need to know all of it. But, we can definitely cherish the benefits coming over to us with the magic words ‘Abracadabra’, what this technology is providing us with ‘a glitch free’ access to our everyday applications that we use. Whether, it is a ‘Facebook’ or a ‘Twitter’ application we are working on or trying to access our email messages, or a mobile applications running on a server hosted far off in a data center or a banking application across the globe. It doesn’t matter, even, if we are digging deep into ‘Big Data’ – performing data mining task or using analytics for businesses, social media marketing, political campaigns, philanthropic activities, astronomical data crunching explori...

Cloud Security ensures encryption and key management software that helps organizations lock down virtual machines and their data so they remain secure throughout their life-cycle in the private, public or hybrid cloud. Broadly speaking, it does. But, there is more to it. We need to see a holistic picture of the cloud pointing to the security check points. There are numerous of end points to be considered to get a feeler that how exhaustive this intangible monster could be? Let’s look at the various aspects of the cloud that we must discuss and take a deep dive to get a thorough understanding to build a security, we can    trust! Let’s step back a little before we take a long jump. The advent of Internet, as we know, it started as a public sector project that quickly transformed, into what it is today - a large, interconnected network that never turns off and connects an unimaginable number of different devices in the public and private sectors. Moreover it...

Company leaders need to think about incorporating key technologies into their IT environments to set a foundation for the private cloud.  Well, the question arise what are those key enabling technologies? Broadly speaking, we need fast wide-area networks, powerful, inexpensive server computers, and high-performance virtualization for commodity hardware. Once we have these three thing in place. One may start with virtualization, to get your hands dirty, before moving on to an internal private cloud deployment. Then, you may decide to move to a managed service model. Well, one of the best places to start with a private cloud build is to make sure you have some form of virtualization already in place. It serves as a great foundation for the private cloud, which requires virtualized servers, mass storage solutions, and more.  Why do we need a cloud deployment model? The point is let’s not make the users worry about managing the cloud services. We must decide a cloud dep...

As cloud providers and enterprises broaden their service portfolios, many providers are adopting DaaS. These services offer the benefits of VDI, without enterprise customers needing to build and operate their own VDI infrastructures. With DaaS on demand, you can manage your virtual desktops (user profiles, operating system and applications) with a self-service portal. And, the service provider manages the rest as a monthly subscription service, including data center hardware and facilities, VDI software and security. Users can connect to full-featured virtual desktops from anywhere, at any time, using PCoIP or RDP devices — and those virtual desktop resources never leave the secure cloud. VMTurbo offers a fully multi-tenant and cloud platform-aware solution (VMware vCloud  Director, Citrix CloudStack). With it, cloud providers deliver DaaS services—meeting  service levels while efficiently using compute, storage and cloud resources and,  thereby, increasing operati...