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Cbeyond Partners with Mozy to Enhance Cloud-Based Data Backup

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010

Cbeyond Partners with Mozy to Enhance Cloud-Based Data Backup.  It’s the perfect fit. “Data loss occurs in small businesses each day, whether a hard drive crashes, files are accidently deleted or a laptop is left in a taxi,” said Dave Robinson, vice president of marketing at Mozy. “These everyday occurrences don’t need to keep entrepreneurs up at night. A simple solution like Cbeyond’s Secure Backup powered by Mozy can provide the safety net a small business needs for its archived and business-critical information.”

With Cbeyond’s new Secure Backup service, small businesses can now get data backup and protection services using some of the most advanced technology available in the world.

Cbeyond brings a best-in-class technology solution to small businesses – to continue helping small businesses leverage technology in a simple and affordable way as they grow and expand. “Too many small businesses make the mistake of thinking they do not need data backup and storage services,” said Jon Harmer, Cbeyond’s senior product manager. “The reality is most businesses are only one major event away from losing all their critical data and jeopardizing the stability of their business. Our cloud-based solution ensures entrepreneurs can easily protect their data in a secure and reliable environment.”

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Identity Management goes into Beta for Novell

Monday, May 24th, 2010

Novell has opened up the beta for the next iteration of its authentication middleware, Identity Manager 4.  This all went down because of the BrainShare EMEA user and partner conference in Amsterdam last week.

Novell announced that it wants to build and manage internal cloudy infrastructure as well as public clouds as well as make security and access controls to software stacks portable, like virtual machines are today (to a certain degree).

The Standard Edition of Novells new product will scale across larger numbers of users than IDM 3.6, and will also include prepackaged integration with Microsoft SharePoint collaboration software, SAP ERP suites, and cloudy applications such as Salesforce.com and Google Apps. IDM 4 does not yet talk to and manage infrastructure clouds like Amazon EC2 or Rackspace Cloud hosting.

This being said, Dipto Chakravarty the general manager of the Cloud Security business unit at Novell and vice president of worldwide engineering for the unit, did not elaborate on when IDM4 might do access control for popular public clouds, but did say that Novell was working on a cloud security service to provide access control and single sign-on for cloud hosting providers.  Novell is charging a bit more for the Standard Edition of IDM 4 than it did for IDM 3.6: $30 per seat, up from $25.

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Green Cloud Computing

Monday, May 24th, 2010

Green Cloud Servers will be the way of the future. Solar, Wind and Cow Manure Energy Power Tomorrow`s Data Centers. As IT organizations move infrastructure to the cloud and data centers suck up more power, the search is on for affordable sources of renewable energy.

This may not seem like a big problems but with all the problems with BP in the Gulf of Mexico, the pressure may be on as never before. Can solar energy, wind turbines, geothermal power or even cow manure replace traditional power sources for powering cloud hosting data centers? The answer is a qualified yes.

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Companies including Google, Intel, HP, and AMD are working on it as we speak. As of right now, we know that it is much more of a cost using to those types of power sources to power green cloud data centers.

Google’s business is run on data centers so it’s no surprise this company’s philanthropic arm is looking to fund renewable and affordable energy sources. It’s efforts include investments in companies like eSolar , a solar thermal power start up, a few enhanced geothermal power start ups, and even a plan to look at ocean water for power and cooling of data centers Google sums up its efforts to find affordable renewable energy here.

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What do you think?  Are the following types of Green cloud computing possible?

  • Solar Cloud Hosting
  • Wind Cloud Hosting
  • Cow Manure Energy Cloud Hosting
  • Thermal Cloud Hosting

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