US Cyber Command Chief Gives Cloud Computing Security His Vote of Confidence
Even as cloud computing advances by leaps and bounds, security concerns remain. This issue has been addressed time and again by me in several articles. Even supporters of the cloud maintain that unless these problems are resolved, universal adoption will remain a dream…
Fujitsu launches new hybrid cloud solution
Fujitsu has announced the latest addition to its cloud computing portfolio today, launching a new hybrid cloud solution in partnership with Microsoft. The two IT giants previously came together back in October to launch Fujitsu’s private cloud Productivity Suite, and the new Hybrid Cloud Services will rely on Windows Azure for the public cloud element of the solution. According to the company’s principal consultant for UK and Ireland, David Leen, the new offering allows Fujitsu to “provide alternative data hosting for applications hosted on Windows Azure, meaning an application’s presentation layer and business logic are running on Microsoft’s Windows Azure platform and the application’s data is hosted on Fujitsu’s Public (FGCP) or Private Cloud platform (LCP).”…
Google offers data crunching in the cloud
Google has publicly launched BigQuery, a cloud-based data analysis service. It could be another example of the scaling of cloud computing slashing costs, though security and privacy issues have already been raised…
Survey: Top Three Reasons for Cloud Adoption – Production Applications, Core Business Applications, and Storage
Aryaka, provider of the world’s first cloud-based WAN optimization and application acceleration solution, today announced the results of a survey of 110 IT and cloud professionals ranging from C-level executives to Senior Networking Managers conducted among 5,000 attendees at the recent Cloud Computing EXPO 2011 in Santa Clara, CA. Results indicate offshore development (30%) tied to continued global expansion is driving further adoption of cloud computing, in addition to 24X7 support (18%) and call centers (12%). 49% of respondents said that the need for successful and timely application development specifically was pushing their companies into new geographies, mainly Asia (55%), Australia (26%), South America (26%) and Eastern Europe (25%)…
Zuora Raises $36 Million to Push into Europe
On-demand subscription billing and payment house Zuora is expanding its multi-tenant cloud into Europe on the back of a $36 million D round led by Index Ventures. Greylock Partners and Workday co-CEO Dave Duffield, who started PeopleSoft, are also kicking in…
NextCloud’s Hybrid Cloud Service Attains VMware vCloud Powered Validation
NextCloud, a state-of-the-art cloud computing service provider, today announced that its NextCloud hybrid cloud service has achieved VMware vCloud Powered status, illustrating to customers that the company’s cloud services are underpinned by VMware’s leading virtualization and cloud computing technology, namely VMware vSphere® and VMware vCloud® Director™. A member of the VMware Service Provider Program (VSPP), NextCloud provides its VMware vCloud Powered service as a set of cloud computing services across a common platform, supporting the largest set of existing applications and offering distinctive application mobility uniquely available from VMware…
Servicemesh nets $15 million for enterprise software push
Servicemesh snagged $15 million in venture money from Ignition Partners to fuel its enterprise software push. Ignition partner Frank Artale will join Servicemesh’s board.
The four-year-old company focuses on helping large companies use private and public cloud computing services within existing compliance and regulatory frameworks, said Servicemesh CEO and chairman Eric Pulier…
Cloud app dev goes private PaaS
At Cloud Expo last week, many vendors focused on "private PaaS" as a form of cloud computing. They follow the logic that if you can have a private (IaaS) cloud, then you certainly can have a private PaaS cloud — but should you?…
Enterprise Clouds – The Next Evolution of Cloud Data Centers
Over the last few years, cloud computing has rapidly grown from an untested technology paradigm to a reliable, scalable, and economical hosting solution for many businesses. The next step in the evolution of cloud computing is implementation of cloud architectures in enterprise data centers…
Cloud to come of age by 2015
Cloud computing will reach mainstream adoption in the enterprise market by 2015 when key issues such as security, service availability and data sovereignty are expected to be ironed out.
According to Simon Piff, associate vice president for enterprise infrastructure research at IDC Asia-Pacific, businesses today are still hesitant in utilizing cloud computing for much of their IT needs due to concerns over security, service reliability, data location and sovereignty, as well as vendor support…