October 12, 2011 Off

Citrix pleads the case for Cloud

By David
Grazed from ITP.net.  Author:  Editorial Staff.

“The mindset hasn’t been there,” claims Peder Ulander, VP Product Marketing, Cloud Platform Group, Citrix. He says that while businesses in other parts of the world have focused on the cloud as a way of driving down energy costs and consolidating infrastructure, this has not typically appealed to enterprises in the Middle East…

October 12, 2011 Off

New cloud alliance comes together

By David
Grazed from ARN.  Author:  Julia Talevski.

A group of Cloud computing providers have joined forces to form a new alliance called OzHub, helping to build business confidence in cloud computing through establishing a regulatory framework…

October 11, 2011 Off

Red Hat’s Open-Source Cloud Software Lowers Costs

By David
Grazed from Investor’s Business Daily.  Author: Vance Cariaga.

Cloud computing has been compared to an electricity grid, mainly because end users can access power and services without having to set up and run the infrastructure.

With the cloud, software and applications are stored on remote servers and delivered over the Internet rather than individual computers…

October 11, 2011 Off

Huawei sharpens cloud focus

By David

Grazed from ITP.net .  Author:  Editorial Staff.

The company’s cloud solution, which launched around a year ago, originally targeted telecom operators, initially in China, but with the oversea expansion, and the growth of Huawei’s enterprise business, Huawei has now developed the solution for a wide range of customers…

October 11, 2011 Off

Growing Concerns with Data in the Cloud

By David
Grazed from Business Finance.  Author: Leona Y. Johnson.

The promise of cloud computing might seem limitless, but the challenges it presents are significant, especially in the area of information management, according to a recent study.

The applications and software tools that enable doing business in the cloud also are new places where corporate data resides and is accessed, which requires management and integration with other enterprise data stores…

October 11, 2011 Off

Microsoft and Oracle part ways over multitenancy in the cloud

By David
Grazed from ZDNet.  Author:  Mary Jo Foley.

After years of ridiculing the idea of cloud computing, Oracle is officially “all in” as of last week’s Oracle Open World show. At the confab, CEO Larry Ellison took the wraps off Oracle’s public cloud platform and strategy.

Oracle’s public cloud is going to be a combination of platform as a service (PaaS) and applications/software as a service (SaaS), with the “glue” being Java Enterprise Edition. The five components comprising Oracle’s public cloud are Sun servers; Fusion Middleware, Oracle database; Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c; and Oracle’s Fusion Applications.A few pieces of the Oracle cloud (like CRM) are there now; most pieces seem to be coming “in the near future” (as is pricing, apparently)…

October 11, 2011 Off

What do the federal workforce and cloud computing have in common?

By David
Grazed from Federal Computing Week.  Author: Camille Tuutti.

The federal government should look to the cloud computing model and apply it to federal human capital to address some of the challenges that have emerged in the wake of technology advances in the 21st century, according to a new whitepaper…

October 11, 2011 Off

Harte-Hanks Releases New Analytics to Predict Purchases in Cloud Computing and Other Leading Technologies

By David

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Harte-Hanks, Inc., a worldwide direct and targeted marketing company, has added eight new Purchase Level Scores to its flagship product, the Ci Technology Database(TM) (CiTDB). These Purchase Level Scores (PLS) identify and rank companies based on purchase intentions for the following technologies: cloud computing, personal computers, asset management software, storage area network, direct attached storage, network attached storage, Windows 7 software, and compliance-related solutions. PLS use predictive analytics to score companies on a scale of 1 to 5 based on their likelihood to be in the buying cycle for a particular technology. First introduced in 2009, PLS allows technology solution providers to segment the market in a way that allows them to reach the right customer with the right product or service at the right time…

October 11, 2011 Off

7 Stubborn Myths About Cloud Computing

By David
Grazed from ITProPortal.  Author: Gerry Carr.

Early adopters of the cloud had to iron out a lot of teething troubles. Because of their pioneering work, building and deploying a cloud is now much easier, making the benefits available to all kinds of businesses, says Gerry Carr, Director of Communications at Canonical…