Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: Daniel Price.

Edward Snowden, the NSA, Heartbleed – it seems every technology story at the moment is in some way linked to these topics. Whether or not you believe that the NSA was directly involved in the Heartbleed security flaw, it is apparent that cloud customers around the world have been rattled by the disclosure of mass government surveillance and security leaks. What affect have these revelations and worries had on United States-based cloud providers?

Contract Cancellations

A Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) survey found that ten percent of non-United States companies cancelled contracts with American service providers following the admission of the NSA spying program in the middle of 2013.Worryingly for those providers, the survey also found that a massive fifty six percent of respondents are now reluctant to work with any US-based cloud service. Only thirty percent of those surveyed said that ‘spygate’ would have no impact on their use of cloud services…

Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: Daniel Price.

Edward Snowden, the NSA, Heartbleed – it seems every technology story at the moment is in some way linked to these topics. Whether or not you believe that the NSA was directly involved in the Heartbleed security flaw, it is apparent that cloud customers around the world have been rattled by the disclosure of mass government surveillance and security leaks. What affect have these revelations and worries had on United States-based cloud providers?

Contract Cancellations

A Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) survey found that ten percent of non-United States companies cancelled contracts with American service providers following the admission of the NSA spying program in the middle of 2013.Worryingly for those providers, the survey also found that a massive fifty six percent of respondents are now reluctant to work with any US-based cloud service. Only thirty percent of those surveyed said that ‘spygate’ would have no impact on their use of cloud services…

Grazed from MarketWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Fujitsu today announced that it is offering private cloud products and services that support OpenStack, the open cloud environment, to meet diverse customer cloud needs in the era of cloud computing. To support an open cloud environment, Fujitsu is offering a private cloud platform product based on OpenStack technology and an integrated service catalog management portal product for hybrid cloud environments that combine private and public clouds. The company is also offering support services for building and operating Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform, the OpenStack distribution from Red Hat, Inc.

Fujitsu has long been an active participant in Japan’s open source software (OSS) community, and it has a wealth of experience deploying cloud systems. With its track record in applying Linux and other OSS to mission critical systems, and with its development and support unit of 700 Japan based people involved in OpenStack and other OSS projects, Fujitsu delivers safe and reliable open cloud environments…

Grazed from MarketWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Atlantis Computing®, the leading provider of In-Memory Software-Defined Storage, today announced the release of a free version of its Atlantis ILIO Diskless VDI? and ILIO for XenApp solutions. The Atlantis ILIO? suite of products delivers industry-leading benefits to organizations deploying desktop virtualization, including the ability to deploy high-performance desktops with no storage or SSDs.

Atlantis ILIO simplifies the deployment and scaling of any desktop virtualization projects, de-risking the traditional challenges associated with managing and maintaining storage at scale. The largest successful deployments in the world, including some of the largest financial, healthcare, education, and government organizations rely on Atlantis ILIO to de-risk their projects and deliver successful implementations on time and on budget…

Grazed from ComputerWeekly. Author: Archana Venkatraman.

HP is launching an automation and cloud management service – Orchestrated Datacenter – to allow the IT to deploy the full stack and automate IT delivery and management. IT workers can deploy physical, virtual servers, networks, storage and databases to the middleware and the application layer using HP’s Orchestrated Datacenter service suite.

HP’s aims the portfolio of services at helping businesses optimise the operations in the datacentre to meet their infrastructure and application delivery requirements, said the company. The HP Orchestrated Datacenter service includes HP Enterprise Maps, an Archimate 2 certified enterprise architecture solution; HP Cloud Service Automation (CSA) 4.1; HP Operations Orchestration (OO)10.1; and HP Server Automation (SA) 10.1…

Grazed from TalkinCloud.  Author: CJ Arlotta.

Proofpoint, Inc. (PFPT) has agreed to acquire Mountain View, Calif.-based NetCitadel for the purpose of expanding its advanced threat solutions portfolio.  The cloud-based security-as-a-service solutions provider announced the $24 million cash deal on Tuesday, noting that the acquisition will assist enterprises with preventing data breaches and data loss.

Proofpoint said the combination of disparate threat intelligence data with automated incident response will enable security professionals to respond to threats faster.  "NetCitadel’s incident response platform has been fulfilling a critical need for our customer base by slashing incident response times and cost," said NetCitadel co-founder and former CEO Mike Horn, who is now vice president of threat and response products at Proofpoint…

Grazed from BusinessIntelligence.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Companies today are facing a torrent of digital opportunities – a CIO’s dream come true if properly tamed.  A 2014 Gartner survey reveals that cybersecurity –once the number one concern for enterprise cloud adoption – is becoming a lower strategic priority among CIOs. This is a shocking fact, considering that just two years ago most IT departments approached cloud computing with a huge degree of apprehension.

According to James Staten at Forrester, 2013 was the year enterprises got real about cloud computing. 2014 will be the year the cloud is integrated into existing IT portfolios.  This shift in priorities is fueled by some major changes that have been transforming the cloud industry over time…

Grazed from Nimbic.  Author: PR Announcement.

Mentor Graphics Corp. (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced that it has acquired Nimbic, Inc., a leading provider of Maxwell-accurate, 3D full-wave electromagnetic (EM) simulation solutions. Nimbic’s high-performance high-end simulation capability and ability to accurately calculate complex electromagnetic fields will expand and strengthen Mentor’s chip-package-board simulation portfolio.

“Nimbic’s world-class 3D electromagnetic simulation solutions for signal integrity, power integrity, and EMI (electromagnetic interference) analysis are used by numerous leaders in the electronics industry to address their enterprise-wide challenges for chip-package-board design,” said Raul Camposano, CEO, Nimbic, Inc…

Grazed from TechTarget.  Author: Beth Pariseau.

Lance Crosby is the CEO and founder of SoftLayer, a company IBM purchased in 2013 to boost its cloud computing credibility among enterprise customers. Modern Infrastructure caught up with him this spring to suss out SoftLayer’s progress at IBM.

Modern Infrastructure: What’s IBM’s cloud pitch to enterprises?

Crosby: Everything we do can be either single-tenant or multi-tenant, and we give complete control and transparency, which is unlike all the other clouds. Our background is in enterprise and government hosting. The look and feel of SoftLayer is a lot more familiar to enterprise customers than other clouds, which is why IBM was drawn to SoftLayer at the time of the acquisition…

Grazed from RJSSoftware. Author: Editorial Staff.

Most professionals can hardly turn a corner these days without hearing about the Cloud. From Gmail to Dropbox we use cloud services in our everyday lives, allowing us to access content on-the-go from just about anywhere at any time. The big benefits of cloud-based applications and software include no hardware or licensing costs, no software installs or upgrades to deal with plus predictable monthly fees.

Sounds like a good deal, so why isn’t everyone jumping on-board? Most companies are working in some sort of hybrid-state with a combination of on-premises software and cloud software; that’s because there are pros and cons to both solutions. In Part I of this series we outline the difference between on-premises software and cloud software…