Graze from Blazeclan. Author: Prachi Bhatnagar.

How Many Times have we seen this, we go to buy that favorite handbag for our Mom right before Christmas, and instead of making the happy purchase, we end up with an Error page that says, the site is suffering technical difficulties!! Take any of the other Holidays like Cyber Monday; last year the pain of the consumer accounted for 1.4% of social media chatter that day!

We all Know what it’s like to wait & not get served, ecommerce sites loose millions every year! The Infographic below does an analysis on the percentage of sites going down on different holidays & the major problems they suffered from on the left. On the right, we have sites that were saved from Downtime, who also used AWS Cloud. Is that a coincidence? We think Not! Check out the major ways on How you can use Cloud to reduce downtime and improve your customer satisfaction!…

To view infographic and read more from the source, visit http://blog.blazeclan.com/cloud-computing-infographic-savior-ecommerce-websites-2014/

Grazed from WSJ. Author: Shirley S. Wang.

Google Inc. and Autism Speaks, a major autism research foundation, plan to announce on Tuesday a deal in which the Internet giant will house the sequencing of 10,000 complete genomes and other clinical data of children with autism and their siblings and parents. The hope of those involved is to accelerate research on the developmental disorder.

Studying genes has been touted as a key to understanding Alzheimer’s disease, cancer and autism. But huge DNA databases require computing and storage that many universities and research hospitals don’t have. The database will be part of the AUT10K, the Autism Speaks genome-mapping program…

Grazed from WSJ. Author: Joel Schectman.

The U.S. is loosening its policy on how companies may store sensitive defense data, allowing use of cloud services like Google Inc.’s Gmail, provided adequate security steps are taken, according to U.S. State Department officials. The State Department recently told the startup Perspecsys Inc., in an advisory opinion, that it could store defense data in the cloud provided it “take all steps necessary” to make sure only U.S. persons could view the data, according to an official from the agency.

Both Perspecsys and the State Department denied Wall Street Journal requests to review the advisory opinion. To stop rivals from eroding the U.S. military edge, defense contractors are prohibited from bringing both physical arms and information on how to build them out of the U.S., without special permission…

Grazed from EnterpriseTech. Author: George Leopold.

The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) has appointed a tech industry veteran to help oversee its uneven cloud rollout. Jennifer Kerber, former president of the industry group TechAmerica Foundation and most recently executive director of the Government Transformation Initiative, will join GSA’s Office of Citizens Services and Technologies as director of its Federal Cloud Credential Exchange program.

Kerber’s move to GSA was first reported by the web site federalnewsradio.com. The GSA exchange is working with agency partners that include the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology that its developing security standards for the federal cloud initiative FedRAMP, or Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program…

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Grazed from MarketWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Exoprise, a provider of software-as-a-service (SaaS) based monitoring and enablement solutions for enterprise cloud applications and services, today announced the availability of a new weekly report on the health and performance of leading enterprise cloud services. Leveraging data aggregated from Exoprise’s global network of performance monitors, deployed at user points of access by customers, the service provides a free weekly report card on the health and performance trends of mission critical, enterprise cloud services.

Initially, the reports will cover leading cloud services including Microsoft Office 365 and Azure, Amazon Web Services, and Google Apps. Additional enterprise services, such as Salesforce.com, Dropbox, and Workday are scheduled to be added over the next several weeks and months…

Grazed from MarketWire. Author: PR NewsWire.

Ingram Micro Cloud, a global division of Ingram Micro Inc. (NYSE: IM), today announced the general availability of three new, Ingram Micro-branded and Ingram Micro-hosted cloud solutions. Available now to channel partners in the U.S., the new cloud solutions are managed by Ingram Micro’s wholly-owned subsidiary SoftCom and include:

• Ingram Micro Hosted Exchange – Based on Microsoft Exchange 2013, Ingram Micro Hosted Exchange offers sophisticated communication and collaboration tools which provide seamless access to email, calendars, contacts, and tasks; regardless of location or device.
• Ingram Micro Virtual Private Servers (VPS) – Powered by Parallels virtualization technology, Ingram Micro VPS offers a full-service Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solution that allows customers to easily spin-up and manage their own server based solutions.
• Ingram Micro Web Hosting – Designed to simplify sales and service, Ingram Micro Web Hosting provides all the resources and services needed for channel partners to host fully managed and secure business websites for their customers…

Grazed from eFolder. Author: PR Announcement.

Atlanta-based eFolder, a provider of software that protects cloud-stored data, said it has acquired Cloudfinder of Sweden, a company that provides business-to-business cloud data backup and text searches.
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Cloud computing relies on a network of remote servers hosted on the Internet and used to store, manage, and process data rather than storing and processing the data on a local server or personal device, such as a PC, tablet or smartphone. The remote servers can process everything from e-mail to complex data analysis programs…

Grazed from FierceCIO. Author: David Weldon.

CIOs obviously have many different priorities around the world, but one priority that seems to be common among IT leaders everywhere is interest in the cloud, new studies find. According to recent research from Gartner, while there are some differences in the way IT managers around the world work and the challenges they face, there are also consistencies and "the importance of the cloud is one," notes an article at ZD Net.

Gartner recently surveyed 2,339 global IT businesses on their priorities this year. Differences cited includes growth (according to IT leaders in China), the danger of complacency (emerging from U.S. data), strategic alignment (topping the Latin American companies), and outsourcing (in the U.K. and Europe). But the most common similarity was interest in cloud computing…

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: David Linthicum.

Data warehouses back in the day were hugely expensive. No matter which database you deployed to, you could count on a cool million-dollar minimum investment to get things up and running. A data warehouse, while often defined differently, is just a database that contains abstractions of transactional data used for making business decisions. Data analysis tools run against the data, and the output is different views of that, including reports and visualized data.

In the past, Oracle and other larger enterprise players ruled the data warehousing world. With the emergence of cloud-based solutions, such as data warehouse storage that runs on public cloud providers, the cost of building and deploying a data warehouse has been significantly reduced…