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The Pirate Bay switches to cloud-based servers

October 17, 2012 | Author: admin

It isnt exactly a secret that authorities and entertainment groups dont like The Pirate Bay, but today the infamous site made it a little bit harder for them to bring it down. The Pirate Bay announced today that it has move its servers to the cloud. This works in a couple different ways: it helps the people who run The Pirate Bay save money, while it makes it more difficult for police to carry out a raid on the site.

All attempts to attack The Pirate Bay from now on is an attack on everything and nothing, a Pirate Bay blog post reads. The site that youre at will still be here, for as long as we want it to. Only in a higher form of being. A reality to us. A ghost to those who wish to harm us. The site told TorrentFreak after the switch that its currently being hosted by two different cloud providers in two different countries, and what little actual hardware it still needs to use is being kept in different countries as well. The idea is not only to make it harder for authorities to bring The Pirate Bay down, but also to make it easier to bring the site back up should that ever happen.

Even if authorities do manage to get their hands on The Pirate Bays remaining hardware, theyll only be taking its transit router and its load balancer the servers are stored in several Virtual Machine instances, along with all of TPBs vital data. The kicker is that these cloud hosting companies arent aware that theyre hosting The Pirate Bay, and if they discovered the site was using their service, theyd have a hard time digging up any dirt on users since the communication between the VMs and the load balancer is encrypted.

In short, it sounds like The Pirate Bay has taken a huge step in not only protecting its own rear end, but those of users as well. If all of this works out the way The Pirate Bay is claiming it will, then dont expect to hear about the site going down anytime soon. Still, theres nothing stopping authorities from trying to bring it down, or from putting in the work to try and figure out who the people behind The Pirate Bay are. Stay tuned.

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The Pirate Bay moves to the cloud

October 17, 2012 | Author: admin

17 October 2012 Last updated at 12:01 ET

File-sharing website The Pirate Bay has moved its servers to the cloud to frustrate attempts to take it offline.

The site, which has been blamed for encouraging illegal file-sharing, will now operate from cloud-hosting providers around the world.

It says the move will save money and make it harder for law-enforcement agencies to shut it down.

"All attempts to attack [us] from now on is an attack on everything and nothing," it says.

In 2006, police in Sweden raided The Pirate Bay, shutting down its servers and taking the site offline.

The Pirate Bay (TPB) now says its new cloud-based servers, which use the internet for storage, do not have to be hosted with the same provider, or even on the same continent - making it impervious to attempts to close it down.

Its statement continues: "The site that you're at will still be here, for as long as we want it to. Only in a higher form of being. A reality to us. A ghost to those who wish to harm us."

A TPB representative told the TorrentFreak website: "Moving to the cloud lets TPB move from country to country, crossing borders seamlessly without downtime.

"The hosting providers have no idea that they're hosting The Pirate Bay, and even in the event they found out it would be impossible for them to gather data on the users."

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Pulsant Pushes Cloud to the Max with Advanced Infrastructure Platform & 'Triple A' Service

October 17, 2012 | Author: admin

READING, England, October 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --

New Enterprise Cloud solution - faster, leaner and greener than ever before

Cloud, connectivity and hosting experts, Pulsant, are launching a new Enterprise Cloud, which surpasses current cloud performance levels by offering unlimited capacity and unrivalled speed backed by enterprise standard service level agreements (SLAs) and customer-focused 'Triple A' support.

The first cloud proposition in the UK to be built around HP's latest Gen 8 severs, Pulsant's cloud also harnesses the power of Intel E5 chips and the latest version of VMware's Hypervisor virtualization software, to deliver an infrastructure that outperforms previous configurations. Pulsant confirms that its new servers produce a six fold performance increase for the most demanding workloads and applications as well as 70% more compute per watt and 66% faster time to resolution.

Unlike many commodity-style clouds, Pulsant's Enterprise cloud infrastructure is supported by measurable SLAs. It is also backed by the company's 'Triple A' service model which ensures customers have the right 'Access, Ability and Action' to support them 24/7 - all delivered from multiple operational sites within the UK.

Mark Howling, CEO of Pulsant, states, "We have been delivering cloud solutions for over ten years. What we are bringing to market now is true next generation cloud - it's not just an upgrade or enhancement. The servers, which are a result of a 300 million investment by HP, are faster, leaner and more powerful than anything we have seen before. With this advanced platform, Pulsant can truly deliver on cloud's promise of unlimited scalability, total flexibility, quicker access and processing. Our customer trails have recorded a 40-50% increase in speed. They have also shown a 20% reduction in power usage which means that our cloud platform is significantly greener too."

Pulsant's Enterprise Cloud solution is ideal for those who want to push cloud to the max with 'big' data applications or complex analytics also for handling real-time, high volume transactions such as e-commerce and online retailing. It is also perfect for mid-tier and rapidly growing organisations looking to migrate to a reliable high performance cloud platform that delivers enterprise orientated security, high resilience and elastic capacity within a supportive and competitively priced service framework.

Pulsant actively encourages transparency and believes that cloud providers should be able to supply specify infrastructure details and cloud locations as part of their client contracts. With its Enterprise Cloud it also champions the practice of 'build your own cloud' which allows customers to customize their cloud environment in line with their own operational requirements.

Howling reinforces, "At Pulsant we use world class technology from leading vendors in solutions shaped to fit our client's businesses. Our investment policy ensures that infrastructure is continually updated and that servers are replaced at least every three years. For many of our customers where governance and latency are issues, it is also important that they know where their data is. Our Enterprise Cloud is delivered from the UK, from Pulsant's wholly owned ISO 27001 compliant, Tier 3 data centres. We can even

offer multiple-sites for cloud back up to create true remote mirroring from nationally dispersed sites for all critical data applications."

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YOKU Cloud Hosting looks to change the dedicated hosting market one cloud at a time.

October 17, 2012 | Author: admin

TNC Domain Management, the creators of successful hosting brands like "ResellerChoice" has just unveiled Yoku a new cloud hosting offering providing services ranging from cloud server hosting and cloud application hosting to private clouds and cloud solutions development.

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Yoku Cloud Hosting solution is based on Microsofts Hyper-V virtual server platform that deploys Windows and Linux based machines in a virtual environment. The Cloud infrastructure is currently operating out of Yokus downtown NYC datacenter located near the NY stock exchange. Yoku anticipates future growth to different geographical locations. You can review Yokus web site and offerings on their beta site located at http://www.yokuhosting.com

Since 2001 Yoku's Cloud Hosting executive team has made a significant investment in time and money in developing its virtual dynamic data center.

Some key points about the YOKU Cloud Hosting's solution:

Rob Conley managing partner at Yoku Cloud Hosting said At YOKU Cloud Hosting we are targeting businesses and individuals requiring a reliable and competitively priced virtual server (VPS) or managed cloud hosting service. One of our goals at Yoku Cloud Hosting is to go above and beyond for our clients with a friendly and personable level of support and customer service not found in hosting today.

In addition, Rob added I have noticed a shift in the hosting services marketplace over the last few years. Larger companies have moved into the hosting space and developers and businesses are now losing the personable care and service that is needed for small businesses and application developers just starting out. We support our cloud hosting clients and businesses; we will work closely with them and help optimize their hosted applications or servers. This devotion to our clients and providing them with great value and customer care is what makes Yoku Cloud Hosting different from the rest and I feel its the best choice for small business owners and developers.

YOKU Cloud Hosting will be publishing in the next few weeks beta codes for a chance to access their service at no charge during their opening beta.

YOKU Cloud Hosting is operated by TNC Domain Management LLC who is a leader in the Windows reseller web hosting space with brands like ResellerChoice" since 2001. For more details about YOKU Cloud Hosting or to sign-up you can access to the website at http://www.yokuhosting.com

Yoku Cloud Hosting data center is located in Downtown New York City with multiple peers and uplinks.

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FireHost Dominates in Compliance Again; Cloud Hosting Company Achieves HITRUST CSF Certification

October 17, 2012 | Author: admin

DALLAS, TX--(Marketwire - Oct 17, 2012) - FireHost, the leading secure cloud hosting company, today announced that it has successfully achieved Common Security Framework (CSF) Certified status from the Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST). In doing so, FireHost has attained certification from what is considered to be the most widely used program for assessing the security posture of business associates and managing third-party compliance. FireHost proactively secured the certification based on its unerring commitment to securing electronic personal health information (ePHI) from malicious cyber-attacks that become more sophisticated every year. FireHost offers HIPAA-ready cloud hosting options for healthcare customers that need to meet the stringent compliance standards required of the industry.

"While many organizations say they meet compliance standards, it's very hard to prove. By obtaining this certification, FireHost has been audited by an independent, third party HITRUST CSF Assessor and has confirmed that it meets the requirements of the CSF," said Kurt Hagerman, director of global compliance at FireHost. "The HITRUST CSF certification is another way FireHost shows its commitment to the healthcare industry."

HITRUST was established out of the belief that information security should be a core pillar of, rather than an obstacle to, the broad adoption of health information systems and exchanges.The HITRUST CSF Assurance Program provides multiple benefits to both healthcare organizations and their business associates by offering a common and efficient approach to managing security assessments associated with multiple and varied assurance requirements.

"HITRUST has been working with the industry to ensure the appropriate information protection requirements are met when sensitive health information is accessed or stored in a cloud environment," said Daniel Nutkis, chief executive officer of HITRUST. "We are pleased that FireHost has taken the steps necessary to achieve HITRUST CSF Certified status, and we expect their customers to have confidence in this designation."

About FireHost

FireHost is a secure cloud hosting company focused on protecting companies' sensitive data and brand reputations with an architecture built for security, scalability and performance.Customers with specific compliance or performance needs subscribe to FireHost's PCI, HIPAA or high traffic solutions, including some of the largest companies in the world as well as many fast growing eCommerce, SaaS and healthcare IT providers.FireHost provides services from Dallas, Phoenix, London and Amsterdam. http://www.firehost.com

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Inktank-Metacloud Partnership Enhances Fully Managed Private Cloud Solution With Enterprise-Class Storage

October 17, 2012 | Author: admin

LOS ANGELES, CA--(Marketwire - Oct 16, 2012) - Inktank, the only company to provide enterprise-level support for the Ceph Distributed Storage System, today announced that it has partnered with Metacloud, the leading provider of OpenStack-based private cloud solutions.Under the partnership, Inktank enhances Metacloud's fully managed enterprise-class private clouds with the massive scalability of Ceph storage, leveraging existing commodity hardware to deliver best-in-class service at a fraction of the price.

Ceph is The Future of Storage -- an open, flexible platform that combines object and block storage that autoscales to store virtually limitless data in the cloud. Integrated into the Linux kernel and the OpenStack project, Ceph is self-healing, self-managing and runs on commodity hardware, freeing organizations of all sizes from the limitations and expense of propriety storage solutions.

Metacloud designs and deploys fully managed OpenStack-based private cloud solutions with enterprise capabilities for availability, management and scale that give IT organizations the benefits of the reliability and predictability of the best solutions on the market.Metacloud's multi-tenant private cloud solution is secure, scalable and optimized for the unique needs of each customer, including existing enterprise production environments with Fortune 100 companies, which have been deployed in one-tenth the time of proprietary cloud implementations and at half the cost of alternative solutions.

Inktank and Metacloud are partnering in order to bring Ceph's massively scalable storage to an ever-growing number of cloud deployments.Under the partnership, Metacloud provides the expertise in setting up an OpenStack-based private cloud that includes Ceph as an object and block storage option for end users, while Inktank provides Ceph expertise and enterprise-level support and services.

"Historically, public cloud solutions offer ease of use, neglecting existing enterprise hardware that could implement private cloud and storage solutions at a fraction of the price," said Steve Curry, co-founder and CEO, Metacloud."By partnering with Inktank, Metacloud extends its enterprise-class OpenStack distribution with the highly scalable Ceph cloud storage system to provide some of the largest companies in the world fully managed private clouds and reliable storage for mission-critical applications."

"Since launching Inktank in May, we've been flooded with inquiries from organizations and developers who view Ceph as the solution to their ever-growing cloud storage issues," said Bryan Bogensberger, President and COO at Inktank."Our new partnership with Metacloud brings the power of Ceph storage to even more enterprises, including companies who prefer the ease and peace of mind provided by a fully managed private cloud."

To learn more about Metacloud's fully managed enterprise-class private clouds based on OpenStack, which utilize Ceph block and object storage, please visit http://www.metacloud.com.

To learn more about Inktank's enterprise-level support for Ceph, please visit http://www.inktank.com.

About Metacloud Metacloud is a cloud solution company providing OpenStack-based clouds for the enterprise. Founded in 2010 by senior architects from the world's largest web commerce and technology companies, Metacloud deploys and supports production clouds today for Fortune 500 companies across a diverse range of industries. Metacloud is a corporate sponsor of the OpenStack Foundation, and is active advocate and contributor to the project and its broad community. Based in Pasadena (CA), Metacloud is backed by Storm Ventures and xyz. For more information, visit http://www.metacloud.com.

About Inktank Inktank is the company delivering Ceph -- the massively scalable, open source, distributed storage system. Launched by some of the leading developers of Ceph, Inktank's mission is to help organizations fully leverage the transformative power of Ceph to decrease storage costs, increase operational flexibility and help them free themselves from restrictive and expensive proprietary storage systems.Inktank provides best-in-class professional services and support offerings to enterprises, service providers, and cloud platforms.Please visit http://www.inktank.com for more information.

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Microsoft Acquires StorSimple To Increase Cloud Storage Capabilities

October 17, 2012 | Author: admin

StorSimple, founded three years ago by Ursheet Parinhk and Guru Pangal of Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO), boosts Microsofts cloud-based platform Azure against steep competition from rivals likes Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) and Rackspace Hosting (NYSE: RAX). Those companies hold the advantage of being first movers in a new market the ever-ambitious tech giant is now trying to enter.

Microsoft already is a partner with StorSimple, and acquiring the specialized company allows Microsoft to poach its top talent as it expands its new service. StorSimple is also currently partnered with Amazon, so the acquisition may help Microsoft lure that same talent away from its competitor.

In both companies statements, no details were provided about any future changes to StorSimples partnership with Amazon.

Looking back over the last three and half years, after long nights and days of innovation, and early customer deployments followed by mainstream enterprise adoption, it became clear that the combination of StorSimple and Windows Azure delivers a best in class cloud-integrated storage solution that enables customers to use public cloud services as a seamless extension of their IT infrastructure, a company blog post from StorSimple said. The result is that a wide range of customers from non-profit organizations to Fortune 500 companies and government agencies have adopted this solution at an amazing rate.

Like Microsofts recent announcement of its new Xbox Music service, the advantage cloud storage offers a large tech company with so many product lines is that it encourages any potential customer -- be it a potential Windows Phone 8 buyer, someone curious about the new Surface tablet, or just a PC user hoping to upgrade to the new Windows 8 operating system -- to naturalize themselves to Microsofts entire ecosystem.

Customers faced with explosive growth in data are looking to the cloud to help them store, manage and archive that data, Microsofts corporate vice president of server tools said in a statement. But, to be effective, cloud storage needs to integrate with ITs current investments. StorSimples approach helps customers seamlessly integrate on-premises storage with cloud storage through intelligent automation and management.

Microsoft shares fell slightly on Tuesday, closing at $29.49.

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Cisco Execs Plumb The Limits Of Cloud Computing

October 17, 2012 | Author: admin

Cloud computing has become the all-purpose buzzword of business computing -- it can mean pretty much whatever you want it to mean, but every product better have some cloud in it. Networking giant Cisco has totally bought in to the concept, but a couple of top execs also described what they see as limits on how far pure cloud computing will spread.

In a drab conference room out by Oakland Airport (the company's planned Zeppelin excursion to highlight its cloud product launch was scrubbed by bad weather) Cisco's Murali Sitaram (VP/GM Cloud Collaboration Applications) and Lew Tucker (VP, CTO Cloud Computing) explained the company's approach as they introduced additions to Cisco's Cloudverse family.

Instead of just offering its own products on a hosted basis, Cisco's approach is to work with telecom carriers, large enterprises and resellers to help them offer collaboration-and-communication-as-a-service.

The idea, Sitaram said, is to leverage Cisco's partners to provide services without having to become a carrier itself -- which is a daunting, heavily regulated proposition in many parts of the world. "We don't want to be in the carrier business, but we do want to provide services through partners."

Those services include expanding Ciscos Hosted Collaboration Solution to include TelePresence, Customer Collaboration (contact centers), unified communications and mobility. It also means letting large customers install the company's WebEx online Web conferencing solution in their own data centers.

That may not gibe with most people's definition of cloud computing, but according to Sitaram, many customers still demand more control over their services, either because they're in a highly sensitive industry like the military, health care or financial services, or because they're in emerging markets with restrictive regulations and unreliable public infrastructure.

"It's not easy to deliver cloud-based services" to countries like China, India, Russia and South America, Sitaram said, "especially from the United States." Besides, "the cloud isn't just Facebook and Salesforce," Sitaram added. "If you peel the onion, there are just so many nuances."

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Making a Europe fit for the cloud

October 17, 2012 | Author: admin

While Europe teeters on the brink of financial armageddon, the European Commission (EC) claims that a coherent cloud strategy for the bloc could generate 127bn per year and create 3.8 million jobs.

In its Unleashing the Potential of Cloud Computing in Europe report, the EC suggests that implementing a coherent cloud strategy across the region could cut the operational costs of IT departments for all types of organisations, along with boosting productivity and growth.

According to the report, three key areas need to be addressed in order to enable a workable cloud strategy across Europe.

The first is cutting through the jungle of technical standards. Technology providers currently fight for market share by locking their customers into their service, preventing the adoption of standardised, cross-industry approaches to the cloud. This prevents interoperability, data portability and reversibility (the ability of customers to take data and functions back in-house again), making cross-European cloud implementation difficult. The EC wants to identify methods to implement standardisation of cloud services across Europe by next year, the first step in a process that envisages lasting until 2020.

The report also identifies contractual issues. Cloud contracts are often complex and uncertain, leading to worries over data access and portability. It also suggests that while take-it-or-leave-it contracts might be advantageous for cloud providers, theyre often undesirable for users of the service, with many failing to identify liability in the case of failures due to downtime, for example, or to make clear how service issues will be compensated and resolved.

While EU legislation to protect cloud users is already in place, consumers are often unaware that it exists or how it operates in their own member state. The EC therefore proposes that model terms for cloud computing contracts be developed to standardise best practice, with the IT industry being consulted on a code of conduct for cloud providers. It is hoped an agreement on a code will be reached in 2013.

Reducing market fragmentation

The fragmentation of the digital single market also needs to be addressed before a coherent cloud strategy can be implemented across Europe. Currently, the different national legal frameworks across member states (see below), combined with uncertainties over how digital content and data laws operate when crossing borders, stand in the way of a single European standard.

The theory is that by collaborating on cloud strategy, member states will reduce fragmentation across Europe in areas such as law and digital security, allowing better detection and prevention of cyber-crime.

Thats not to say the strategy is based around a European Super-Cloud, a suggestion the EC is keen to refute. Instead, the aim of the policy is to provide an umbrella organisation. This European Cloud Partnership will bring together industry experts and public-sector agencies such as those responsible for G-Cloud in the UK and Andromede, its equivalent in France in order to help provide a cloud infrastructure that all member states will benefit from. Identifying the key needs of the public sector is seen as a vital issue in successful implementation of an EU cloud strategy.

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Aryaka Receives 2012 Cloud Computing Excellence Award

October 17, 2012 | Author: admin

MILPITAS, CA--(Marketwire - Oct 16, 2012) - Aryaka (www.aryaka.com), the leading provider of WAN Optimization as-a-Service to solve application and network performance issues across the distributed enterprise, announced today that TMC, a global, integrated media company, has named Aryaka's WAN Optimization as-a-Service solution as a 2012 Cloud Computing Excellence Award winner presented by Cloud Computing Magazine.

"We're honored again to be recognized by Cloud Computing magazine for our industry-leading network and application performance solutions," said Ajit Gupta, Founder, President and CEO of Aryaka. "Aryaka's market-disrupting WAN Optimization as-a-Service ensures fast, reliable access to data and applications for employees around the globe so they can better communicate, collaborate and share applications, large files and data.We're delighted at the rapid market traction we've gained as more companies are migrating to a more affordable and intelligent alternative to specialty WAN optimization appliances and costly WAN services like MPLS. "

In the revolutionary Aryaka model, the intelligence is moved into the global platform comprised of the Aryaka-built WAN optimization software stack that runs on dedicated points of presence (POPs) across various continents, meshed via dedicated links. Aryaka accelerates all applications, both within and outside the enterprise firewall. Enterprises achieve global reach, bandwidth savings, improved application performance, data center-to-data center replication, disaster recovery and optimized access to cloud services.

Aryaka's Network as-a-Service provides enterprise-grade connectivity via a dedicated reliable core network based on globally distributed Points of Presence (POPs). It delivers LAN-like application performance across the WAN without the high cost of MPLS in a single, no CAPEX monthly service. Enterprise locations connect into the Aryaka network with IPSec across an existing Internet link to one or more of Aryaka's POPs and are upand running in minutes, not in the weeks or months required to provision MPLS.

"Aryaka has been recognized for their achievement in bringing innovation and excellence in the market while leveraging the latest technology trends to create an enriched user experience," said Erik Linask, Group Editorial Director, TMC.

"Recognizing leaders in the advancement of cloud computing, TMC is proud to announce Aryaka as a recipient of the second annual Cloud Computing Excellence Award," said Rich Tehrani, CEO, TMC. "Aryaka's solutions -- WAN optimization as-a-Service and Network as-a-Service -- have demonstrated innovation as well as the ability to improve the cloud."

The Cloud Computing Excellence Awards recognized the companies that have most effectively leveraged cloud computing in their efforts to bring new, differentiated offerings to market.

Winners of the Cloud Computing Excellence Award are published in the October 2012 issue of Cloud Computing Magazine.

About Aryaka Aryaka delivers application and network performance for the globally distributed enterprise for better collaboration, communication and business productivity.Aryaka eliminates the need for costly WAN appliances or long-haul private links. Aryaka's premier WAN Optimization as-a-Service accelerates any application to any location on one affordable, optimized network. Aryaka's Network as-a-Service provides organizations an optimized TCP network with QoS for instant and reliable business connectivity. Both services provide elastic bandwidth capacity and 247 world-class support. To learn more, visit http://www.aryaka.com. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and LinkedIn.

Aryaka, WAN optimization as-a-Service, Network as-a-Service, Application Delivery as-a-Service and MyAryaka are trademarks of Aryaka Networks, Inc. All other brands, products or service names are or may be trademarks or service marks of their respective owners.

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