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Into the Cloud on auto-pilot?

An essential characteristic of cloud computing is self service and auto-provisioning. This gives rise to a requirement for end to end automation and management across all the elements of cloud infrastructure including virtual machines, storage, firewalls and network. This is referred to as the orchestration layer of cloud computing infrastructure. Early providers of cloud services built their own orchestration layer using tools from different vendors and some they built themselves

Wireless access is vital to get the Cloud market moving

A Keene eye on cloud infrastructure, security, transport and content delivery

Last Summer, Gartner released their annual ”Hype Cycle” report, calling the hype around Cloud computing “deafening”! They say that nearly every vendor has a Cloud computing strategy, but few make it Cloud-centric. Indeed, ”cloudwashing” risks accelerating the entire industry into the trough of disillusionment - with the Amazon Web Services outages earlier this year as a case in turning point

The cloud behind the cloud

How can cloud vendors, enterprises and carriers deliver on the promise of the service cloud, unless the network cloud itself is evolving to keep pace with customer expectations? Massive scalability of on-demand resources spread across multiple locations depends upon an extremely flexible fabric to link it all together – and we already see legacy networks struggling to cope

IP VPN vs. Ethernet services

At the beginning of the millennium, managed IP VPNs were rapidly replacing costly and inflexible legacy WAN alternatives such as ATM and Frame, primarily as a result of their increasing availability simplicity, security and improved performance. By 2005 however, many industry analysts including IDC and Ovum were forecasting a levelling of IP VPN demand and a corresponding rapid adoption of Ethernet services

Concrete needs, cloudy solutions

There's nothing cloudy about the enterprise's hopes for virtualisation. In terms of getting more for less, it offers unbeatable value. But what must be done today to ensure network infrastructure is being built out and proven to be "cloud-ready" from a metro/core and DC networks perspective?