Grazed from ClearData.  Author: PR Announcement.

ClearDATA Networks, Inc., the leading healthcare cloud computing platform and service provider, today announced it has secured funding from Norwest Venture Partners (NVP) and several industry angel investors. The company has demonstrated strong revenue growth through its existing customer base which ranges from single provider practices to small and large hospitals throughout the U.S…

Over the past three years, ClearDATA has entered into several strategic partnerships and currently provides cloud hosting and information security services to over 10,000 healthcare practitioners. The funding will be used to grow the companys products and presence in order to meet the increasing demand for its secure, HIPAA-compliant cloud computing services in the healthcare industry…

Grazed from BusinessTimes.  Author:  Amit Roy Choudhury.

THE adage, if you can’t beat them, then join them, applies as much to technology as it does to anything else. Established enterprise software giants, whose business models revolve around selling packaged software to companies at high margins, are aggressively moving into the cloud and in the process carving out new business models.

German enterprise software company SAP is a good example. With its traditional business model under challenge, the firm has tweaked its portfolio so that it can seamlessly move into the cloud. It is doing this using its hugely successful Hana platform, which is an in-memory database and analytics tool…

Grazed from SupplyChain24x7.  Author: Roberto Michel.

For all of the hype about cloud computing in recent years, when it comes to the cloud for deploying supply chain execution (SCE) software such as warehouse management system (WMS) solutions, the numbers tell a pretty modest story.  While some other enterprise software categories such as customer relationship management (CRM) have seen cloud solutions catch on in a significant way, the SCE segment lags behind.

For instance, cloud-based WMS sales in 2013 only accounted for about 8 percent of the WMS market, according to Chad Eschinger, an analyst with Gartner Research.  By comparison, Gartner estimates that 45 percent of the CRM market was cloud-based in 2013, while the overall supply chain management software market was 21 percent cloud in 2013…

Grazed from eWeek.  Author: Darryl K. Taft.

IBM aims to make cloud environments more efficient and scalable with a new job scheduling system that the company refers to as "air traffic controllers."
IBM researchers have come up with a method of deploying what the company refers to as digital "air traffic controllers” to help make the cloud computing environment more efficient and more scalable.  The new invention helps manage how resources are used and work is done within a cloud by distributing control throughout the interconnected systems, reducing bottlenecks and increasing efficiency.

The IBM Research-built cloud computing invention, U.S. Patent #8645745: Distributed Job Scheduling in a Multi-Nodal Environment, was originally designed to help manage resources in high-performance computing systems used for government and academic research. These systems consist of hundreds or thousands of computing resources that are connected to perform complex tasks where demands for system resources can rise and fall dynamically—similar to the model for cloud computing, IBM said…

Grazed from Upstart.  Author:  Lauren K. Ohnesorge.

Tim Whitehurst, the CEO of open-source software developer Red Hat, is more than the guy who brought a tech giant to downtown Raleigh.  He’s an entrepreneur-advising, cloud-computing evangelist who once aspired to be a pro football player.  Whitehurst, a STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education enthusiast, took the time to give us our own education into what makes him tick.

What led you to a career in technology?

I’ve always been interested in technology. My first job was when I was 16 and worked as a part-time computer programmer for a stockbroker in Columbus, Ga. I had been interested in computers for a couple of years at that point. In fact, I can remember that my prized possession was a Kaypro II with 64K RAM and dual floppies…

Grazed from BroadGroup.  Author: Event Announcement.

The programme for this European summit is designed to provide a proactive, solution-oriented approach to the legal and regulatory challenges cloud presents for enterprises. It could actively drive policy change.

Assessing the overall challenges and problems format and content of the programme is framed to encourage debate between the key stakeholders. The debate is geared towards delivering possible solutions to current legal and regulatory blockers.

Within the one-day format, the scope of the content focuses on the enterprise, rather than consumers although inevitably, some commercial elements will seep in – such as those surrounding issues of liability…

Grazed from SanJose Mercury News.  Author: Heather Somerville.

The wild ride of hundred-million-dollar investments and soaring initial public offerings that opened the year for the technology industry has stalled thanks to the recent gyrations on Wall Street, forcing big-name software companies, most recently cloud storage startup Box, to rethink their market debuts.

The reluctance to go public is the latest sign that the tech sector is cooling off — which some experts say is a healthy change from the irrational levels of investments and off-the-chart valuations over the last year or more that sparked fears of a bubble.  "We need a slowdown," said Stamos Venios, co-founder and managing director of San Francisco startup venture fund Data Elite. "Things are a bit over-hyped."…

Grazed from BusinessInsider.  Author: Julie Bort.

No question about it: cloud computing is changing the world. It’s the invisible part of your smartphone and tablet, the part that holds your apps and files, and lets you work from anywhere.  IBM estimates that 85% of new software today is being built for the cloud and that one-quarter of the world’s apps will be available on the cloud by 2016.

By 2017, enterprises are expected to be spending $235 billion on the cloud, predicts market research firm IHS.  All thanks to many people at tech companies, big and small…

To view the list, visit  http://www.businessinsider.com/most-important-people-in-cloud-computing-2014-4?op=1

Grazed from RedmondMag.  Author: Jeffrey Swartz.

One day running your own datacenter will be as rare as producing electricity on-site. While IT pros have heard this refrain for decades, that day remains way out into the future. Still, it’s now possible to run an enterprise without having any servers, storage, networks or software on-site. Indeed, it’s now rare for most startups to build large datacenters. Now they turn right to the cloud for most of their IT when launching new businesses. Yet very few — if any — established enterprises have shut down their datacenters and even the most progressive of enterprises don’t plan to anytime soon.

Even so, that journey has begun. Anywhere you turn enterprise IT is rapidly moving toward cloud architectures based on software-defined datacenters (SDDCs). Though still lacking in true convergence and automation, many of the pieces are now available to let enterprises build scale-out, or elastic, infrastructures and platforms…

Grazed from EUKHost.  Author: Asher Ross.

t is recognised that Cloud Computing is the main driving force for the future ICT. Many IT organisations  have predicted that spending on cloud services results in the secure deployment of services. But as the cloud revolution continues, companies must consider how they will update their ICT infrastructure to prepare for this growth.

There are already many companies that have realised the benefits of ICT infrastructure hosting in Cloud data centres. The ecosystem that is generated in data centres is ideal for those services in the cloud as it provides the opportunity to grow according to demand fluctuation and the necessary electrical power, connectivity and security necessary to ensure reliable performance and continuous availability…