Grazed from BusinessWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation (Nasdaq: VTSS), a leading provider of advanced IC solutions for Carrier, Enterprise and Internet of Things (IoT) networks, announced that its SynchroPHY™ 1 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) and 10GE PHYs with Intellisec™ IEEE 802.1AE MACsec technology are the world’s first to achieve Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 197 256-bit AES encryption certification.

FIPS 197 is a de facto benchmark encryption standard issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) which specifies the approved cryptographic algorithm to protect electronic data. 256-bit AES offers exponentially better data protection and is required by the U.S. National Security Agency for highly sensitive data. The FIPS certification validates solutions correctly implementing the AES algorithm, enabling OEMs to dramatically accelerate end product qualification and entry into markets with stringent security requirements, including military, government, secure industrial, financial, and HIPAA-compliant IT infrastructure…

Grazed from Channelnomics. Author: Dave Long.

When Ingram Micro Inc. took the wraps off its latest cloud services offerings this month, partners on both sides of the distribution equation paused to consider the ramifications. Distributors like Ingram long ago shucked off the middleman mantle and moved toward a greater role in services that broaden and deepen the capabilities of channel solution providers.

Rarely, however, do such moves put the distributor in direct competition with the vendors it represents nor do they raise the hackles of partners made uneasy by the growing capacity of their trusted advisor and enabler. With Ingram Micro’s latest cloud services expansion, things are different…

Grazed from Forbes. Author: Ben Kepes.

Whenever an item becomes commonplace (some might use the word “commoditized”) we see marketplaces and brokerages rise up to make money from this commoditization. Cloud computing is an area in which brokerages have been long talked about (ever since vendor Enomaly launched its ultimately ill-fated, but arguably prescient marketplace SpotCloud many years ago).

The theory behind these cloud brokers is that they allow the relationship between vendor and customer to be optimized such that better outcomes are delivered for both parties. Or that’s the theory at least – it’s fair to say that brokerages haven’t really taken off. True, the Deutsche Boerse did launch a cloud exchange platform, the so called Cloud Exchange AG but for whatever reason, the concept has never really taken off…

Grazed from PRNewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Mobile computing devices have made headway in the Electronics industry in the last decade. Devices such as smartphones and tablets have become indispensable to most people across the world. Companies are increasingly encouraging their employees to work from home or other remote locations to ensure that employees are accessible during work hours.

On a similar note, there are organizations that are also implementing bring your own device policies, allowing employees to bring their personal mobile devices and connect them to the company’s network. All of this has been facilitated by mobile computing devices. The analysts have conducted an in-depth research on select mobile computing devices and forecast the respective markets to grow at the following CAGRs during the period 2012-2017…

Grazed from HealthDataManagement. Author: Joseph Goedert.

Many healthcare organizations migrating information systems to a cloud-hosted service struggle developing an appropriate strategy for the task, says Ed King, managing director of healthcare consulting services at disaster recovery and cloud-hosting vendor Sungard Availability Services. The Wayne, Pa.-based company split from software and processing services vendor SunGard in March and became an independent entity.

Moving to the cloud is not just a new way of doing computing-on-demand; it’s also a new way for personnel in an organization to use the technology. Almost always, not every system moves to the cloud, particularly legacy systems, King notes. There are a growing number of electronic health records systems and newer ancillary products being cloud-hosted by a remote vendor, while older secondary systems–back-office, financial, pharmacy and laboratory, for instance–may tie to cloud-based systems but remain in-house…

Grazed from PRLog. Author: PR Annoucement.

Databerry, a Boca Raton-based web marketing and cloud computing provider, has weighed in on Google’s recent decision to slash prices across the board on its cloud computing services. In late March at an event near its San Francisco headquarters, Google announced that it would be making huge drops in its pricing model for a variety of cloud services. Google Compute Engine, a virtual computer service offering users raw computing power, will see a price drop of 32 percent.

The Google App Engine, a similar service, will have its pricing reduced in kind. Google Cloud Storage, the company’s cloud hosting and storage platform, will be 68 percent cheaper, with Google BigQuery, a well loved analysis tool for mass data, receiving the biggest cut of 85 percent…

Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Larry Dignan.

IBM on Monday outlined a set of business continuity and disaster recovery services for its SoftLayer cloud customers. Should your business retain its in-house datacenter or outsource itr? What are the drivers and barriers when it comes to cloud infrastructure? We look at recent research on key IT architecture questions.

Big Blue has had managed disaster recovery services for years, but is now looking to extend them to its infrastructure as a service customers on SoftLayer. The company added that it will open two disaster recovery centers in Raleigh, N.C. and Mumbai, India. Those facilities will join SoftLayer’s 15 planned locations and 150 resiliency centers…

Grazed from TheBorneoPost.  Author: Editorial Staff.

The cloud and mobile era is marked by the exponentially increasing number of digitally savvy workers, impacted by the ongoing trends of IT consumerisation, and Bring Your Own (BYO) devices and apps.

According to IDC, 2014 will see the reality of tablets replacing laptops in the enterprise1. In addition, the Citrix Mobility in Business Report last year revealed that nearly one-third of the global workforce is believed to be utilising their own mobile apps for work purposes, such as employee intranet portals, file sync and sharing platforms…

Grazed from TheMalayMailOnline.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Shlomo Kramer, the Israeli entrepreneur who made his name by co-founding the world’s second-largest security networks maker, is seeing investor support vanish for his latest cyber venture.  Imperva Inc, the Redwood Shores, California-based company that builds security systems for data centers, sank 44 per cent last week after scaling back its first-quarter revenue growth outlook to a third of its previous forecast.

Almost all of the declines came in a single day, April 10. The rout erased US$584 million (RM1.9 billion) of market value and sent the stock to a 20-month low.  Imperva, one of six Israeli online-security firms that Kramer has founded or financially backed over the past two decades, is facing growing competition from global powerhouses including International Business Machines Corp and F5 Networks Inc, Kramer, who is also the chief executive officer of Imperva, said the company missed its sales projection as competition for larger deals delayed orders, according to an April 9 statement…

Grazed from RandGroup.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Switching to a cloud solution from your desktop application is more like going from driving a car with an automatic transmission to riding a motorcycle. It is a major shift in how you operate.

Recently, a CFO group I’m a member of went through a conversion from the desktop to cloud version of the same software and our treasurer had major challenges with the process. This is an organization of financial executives so you can only imagine what the average business owner or small business Controller’s experience might be…