August 20, 2012 Off

Riverbed to Demonstrate Performance Acceleration for Cloud and Virtual Environments at VMworld 2012

By David
Grazed from MarketWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD), the performance company, today announced its participation at VMworld 2012, taking place August 26-30, 2012, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. VMworld, the IT industry’s largest virtualization and cloud computing event, will provide attendees with the tools and training needed to master the new cloud landscape.

At the conference, Riverbed® (booth #723) will demonstrate with VMware integrated solutions for virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), software-defined networks (SDN), and cloud environments. As enterprises evolve by adopting hybrid clouds and virtualized environments, Riverbed is uniquely positioned to enable efficient acceleration, monitoring, and management of these environments…

August 20, 2012 Off

Mobile apps platforms and management

By David

Grazed from TechWorld. Author: Editorial Staff.

The growth of diverse mobile devices in the enterprise is forcing IT managers to become more platform-agnostic in the way they manage their mobile applications and platforms, with web apps and cloud computing also driving this change.

This growth has major management implications, says Gartner analyst Phillip Redman. “As smartphones proliferate in the enterprise, companies are struggling to manage policy, security and support. However, enterprise mobile device management software is evolving to offer smartphone (and other device) support across a variety of platforms.”

He adds, “Although some of the vendors and products have been around for a long time, mobile device management (MDM) is a nascent market, and the vendors’ offerings have little consistency. Many come from mobile messaging and security to support MDM, and, worldwide, there are more than 60 companies in this space.”…

August 20, 2012 Off

Securing the cloud

By David

Grazed from TechGoondu. Author: Aaron Tan.

Contrary to popular perception, cloud computing does not make companies more susceptible to cyber attacks.

In fact, the dynamic nature of cloud computing architectures makes it more difficult for hackers to break into corporate networks, said Jim Reavis, co-founder of the Cloud Security Alliance. He was speaking at a panel discussion held on the sidelines of the CloudSec 2012 conference last week.

Citing the experience of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Reavis noted that the CIA, which faces advanced persistant threats from foreign governments and other perpetrators, is able to move data across its cloud architecture to mitigate any risk arising out of a cyber attack…

August 20, 2012 Off

Fiscal Confessions: CFOs Sight Is Definitely Cloud Worth

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Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: Humayun Shahid.

Prompted by the infamous Mat Honan hack attack, cloud computing has been exposed to severe criticism over the last couple of weeks, pouring in from even those like Steve Wozniak and company. The (needlessly excessive) denigration has, however, served little to diminish the cloud demand prevalent at the end of ventures and individuals alike. Following the footsteps of Chief Information Officers (CIOs) and top IT leaders, Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) have started exhibiting complete faith in cloud computing, a recent Google-backed study reveals.

The main research objective was to dig deep into how CFOs typically felt about cloud computing to see if the financial geniuses actually understood the cloud computing philosophy in its entirety. How beneficial would the cloud transition eventually be? To seek answers, Google reached out to about 800 CFOs originating from ventures located within Europe and the United States…

August 20, 2012 Off

Xogenous targets small, mid-sized clients for the cloud

By David

Grazed from Business Weekly. Author: John Seelmeyer.

The word “cloud” appears nowhere on xogenous.net, the Web site of a Carson City company whose growth these days is fueled largely by companies that are moving their computing to the place-that-dares-not-speak-its-name.

The reason to avoid the word? No sense scaring potential clients who already are nervous enough about moving their computing off-site, says Ron Husey, the founder of Xogenous Ltd.

The company’s four-person sales staff has been so successful in calming the fears of executives of small- and mid-sized businesses in northern Nevada that Xogenous today employs a staff of 17 engineers to oversee its data center in Carson City, and it’s looking for more…

August 20, 2012 Off

Cloud Computing: Startup SimpliVity pitches super-appliance

By David
Grazed from GigaOM.  Author: Barb Darrow.

SimpliVity thinks it’s time for a super appliance to take on many workloads now handled by multiple appliances and that’s what its OmniCube aims to do.

The beauty of a data center appliance is that it can plug right in and start working with minimal configuration and heartache. But that simplicity is undercut once companies start deploying multiple special-purpose appliances to handle different tasks — WAN optimization, deduplication, backup, etc.  SimpliVity says its OmniCube super-appliance will handle all that stuff.

“We’ve developed new stack software and an accelerator card that handles ‘hot data’ — the writes and seeks most companies run on — and put that all into a 2U box that combines server, storage, networking functionality now handled by all these other boxes,” SimpliVity CEO Doron Kempel, an EMC veteran, said in a recent interview. “We dedupe and compress all that data once and forever. Everyone else dedupes at different stages of the life cycle. Why not dedupe at inception?”…

August 20, 2012 Off

Gartner: IaaS takes over from traditional data centre outsourcing

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Grazed from BusinessCloud9.  Author: Stuart Lauchlan.

While global IT services spending will grow 2.1% year on year to hit $251 billion, Cloud services will nearly double from $3.4 billion in 2011 to $5 billion this year.
 
And of that already impressive number, it’s Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) that’s really set to shine, contributing 38 percent of outsourcing growth in 2012, compared to 8 percent in 2011. Over the same period, traditional data centre outsourcing, currently 34.5% of the market, will decline one percent. 
 
Over the next four years, Gartner predicts data centre outsourcing will slip to 28% of the market while infrastructure utility services will grow to 10% percent market share and IaaS will expand to 6%…
August 20, 2012 Off

Cloud Storage: Nimbus Data feeds flash storage frenzy

By David

Grazed from GigaOM.  Author: Barb Darrow.

The flash frenzy continues this week as Nimbus Data positions its new Gemini flash array as high-density, network-agnostic storage for database, enterprise resource planing (ERP), desktop virtualization and other applications. This is just the first of a flood of flash-related news to come as the  Flash Memory Summit kicks off in Santa Clara, CA this week and solid-state memory vendors seek to parlay that event — and next week’s VMworld – for maximum exposure.

Nimbus Data says Gemini will cut total storage acquisition cost — including software — to $8 per GB from $10 per GB for its current  E-Series product. Company CEO and Founder Thomas Isakovich said one of the chief draws of Gemini, due out in the next 60 days, is its fault-tolerant design that suits it for these mission-critical applications. “This goes beyond the power supplies to non-disruptive capacity expansion, non-disruptive software updates,” he said…

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Microsoft Offers Guidance On Transitioning To Cloud Computing

By David

Grazed from CRN. Author: Rick Whiting.

Solution providers are wrestling with the best way to add cloud computing to their areas of expertise, and Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT) offered attendees at UBM Channel’s XChange 2012 conference in Dallas some advice on how to make the transition.

Microsoft, which is in the midst of one of the biggest new-product launch years in the company’s history, also offered XChange 2012 attendees an exclusive look at some of the capabilities in the upcoming Windows 8 and Office 2013.

"The impact of the cloud on our business is that it’s changing the conversations with our customers," said Jeff Turner, Microsoft’s director of U.S. SMB channel marketing, in a keynote address Sunday. "It’s no longer about selling IT value. It’s about selling business value."…

August 20, 2012 Off

Future Barriers to Cloud Adoption

By David

Grazed from CloudTimes.  Author: Saroj Kar.

Cloud computing could be described as evolutionary outgrowth of previous computational approaches, based on both existing technologies and new technologies. Although the cloud presents new opportunities around the sharing of resources, the relative newness of the model does not clearly overcome some of the barriers, which will need to be addressed before it becomes pervasive.

The Internet has revolutionized and democratized access to information, cloud computing does the same for information systems. Cloud computing is a new way to provide resources and services and many new and existing services will sit on top of the clouds in near future. Scaling of information means cloud will further expand and there will be more outages in the form of hardware and software failures…