IBM touts 'InterCloud,' cloud data migration tools

Summary: IBM researchers have cooked up InterCloud, a patent pending approach, designed to add resiliency to cloud computing and better protect information.

IBM on Friday said it has developed cloud storage software that's designed to allow customers move data across multiple clouds easily.

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The company said its techniques, dubbed InterCloud, is patent pending and designed to add resiliency to cloud computing and better protect information.

IBM also noted that InterCloud is more of a cloud-of-clouds approach designed to tie services together and avoid vendor lock-in.

Big Blue has gone on the offensive against Amazon Web Services and is looking to use its SoftLayer acquisition to sell infrastructure as a service as well as its portfolio of software and platform tools.

Separately, IBM said it won a $1.3 billion contract to build cloud infrastructure for seven European banks. 

IBM has also developed software called InterCloud Storage to use storage systems, third party private and public clouds for backup, sharing and data migration.

Here are the diagrams for InterCloud:

InterCloud Storage (ICStore) allows storage to be dragged and dropped into any cloud regardless of vendor. SoftLayer will be the default storage provider.

Lance Crosby, CEO of IBM's SoftLayer, said that IBM will migrate its cloud portfolio of 50 to 60 properties to SoftLayer's infrastructure and will have the first dozen live in February.

Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of ZDNet and SmartPlanet as well as Editorial Director of ZDNet's sister site TechRepublic.

Google improves webmaster tools for hacked site recovery

Summary: When Google accuses you of serving malware or spam from your web site it's a humiliating outrage. The company has improved their tools for you to recover your site and its reputation.

When Google began blocking the important web programming site PHP.net, the founder of PHP assumed it had to be a false positive. It's an easy reaction to understand; Google must be wrong, we would never do such a thing. When Google accuses you of serving malware or spam from your web site it's a humiliating outrage.

But it turned out that Google's automated tools were right. The PHP guys removed the problematic code and they're back up and running (although they still haven't delivered on the post-mortem they promised).

Perhaps in reaction to the PHP incident, Google has announced that they have improved their webmaster tools to facilitate recovery of hacked sites.

The tools now include a dedicated portal for webmasters of sites identified by Google as hacked.

The new tools help you identify the problems in your site precisely and, once you have cleared them, to request a review in order to clear the block.

The site provides information on the type of problem in the site, sample URLs if available, and the date when Google last detected the issue.

Where possible, Google will provide HTML and JavaScript code snippets and helpful tools such as Fetch as Google to show you the page and code as it looks to Google's crawlers.

Larry Seltzer has long been a recognized expert in technology, with a focus on mobile technology and security in recent years

Most workday well timed ed management tools

Jornal plans to launch a management platform of higher education designed to promote the participation of students, improve management through budget cuts and focus on results as of 4 years, placement and skills graduation rates.

The efforts of higher education, together with the work to the white Government plans, it is likely that serve as a template in other vertical markets. Specific industry sales will be of key battleground as companies like Oracle and SAP working day objective. The efforts of the industry are being led by workday co-CEO Dave Duffield. Higher education platform is nicknamed analytics student day and features and modeling object to manage the academic student of the cycle.

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Workday said that it plans to launch the first components of the management system ed superior in the first half of 2014 and have GA in 2016 and add tools to a steady pace. Workday higher education management effort comes at an interesting time. Student debt, budget cuts and the need to serve a diverse student base in the midst of reconversion and workers who need new skills, higher ed traditional business model is under fire and probably unsustainable.

Liz Dietz, Vice President of product and strategy in working time management, said that the company aims to be a registration system "for being the first to bring the participation of students from first" mobile and big data. "Higher education is trying to adapt to the new normal," said Dietz, who joined the working day in April and sparked rumors the company might build a management of the education system.

Primary task of working hours: eradicate the legacy vendors such as Oracle and Ellucian in higher education deployments. Primary tone of day's work is that it will have a mobile management platform first student to optimize schedules, surf the debt and use analytics to help seek out older and graduate on time. Dietz argued that previous higher-ed applications have been build from the administrator point of view. "We will make students and faculty and what they really need people who use the system every day," said Dietz.

Initial design partners are Broward College, Yale University, Tallahassee Community College and the University of southern New Hampshire. These clients deploy and help design the modules on the cover.

The big question for the day's work is if the institutions of higher education - not the vertical more agile on the planet – will be breaking their legacy tools. "There is enough of the market forces and the pressures that if there is a better way to move," said Dietz. "In private meetings has been an enormous amount of interest. We believe that we can really help to transform institutions who have not had these decisions before."