Grazed from InfoQ. Author: Matthias Marschall.

Rackspace, cloud computing platform provider and founder of OpenStack, is currently introducing its new DevOps Automation Service. They offer managed support for things like infrastructure and workflow automation, monitoring and log aggregation, and source control for infrastructure code.Rackspace has identified the shortage of DevOps engineers as a major problem in the industry.

Based on the technology and processes they use in-house, they’ve crafted the new service to help their customers to speed up their development and IT.When a client signs up to their DevOps Automation Service, Rackspace works with the client to understand the client?s existing infrastructure…

Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: Doug Henschen.

Two big names in technology held events in New York this week to declare the beginning of a third big wave in computing, but they were talking about different waves. On Wednesday, Salesforce.com welcomed in the connected computing era, pointing to mobile, social, cloud, and billions of connected sensors and devices as things that will transform our personal lives, industries, and the ways organizations interact with individuals.

Giving its own spin to the Internet of Things, Salesforce talked up the "Internet of Customers," seeing connected aircraft engines, cars, appliances, tablets, phones, wrist watches, and other devices as ultimately connected to somebody’s customer. On Thursday it was IBM’s turn, and it asserted that the coming third wave will be the cognitive computing era…

Grazed from SAP. Author: PR Announcement.

German software giant SAP said today that cloud-computing boosted sales and earnings in the fourth quarter of 2013 and the year as a whole. Cloud computing is a term used to cover many functions of external and shared resources to provide computer services such as the distant storage of information.

According to preliminary figures, SAP’s underlying or operating profit rose by 10 per cent to $4.47 billion (RM19.8 billion) in the whole of 2013 and revenues advanced by 4 per cent to $16.81 billion. In the fourth quarter alone, operating profit was up 13 per cent at $1.8 billion and sales grew by 2 per cent to $5.1 billion. The software giant said it would publish more details of the earnings figures on January 21.

Grazed from BusinessWire. Author: PR Announcement.

The rap on cloud computing has been that it’s out there, vague and amorphous, and not really anything you can touch. Think again. Leading cloud server provider Infinitely Virtual (www.infinitelyvirtual.com) today introduced TouchCloud — and with it, virtually any cloud-based app can be touched from just about anywhere. TouchCloud combines Windows 2012 Server and Windows 8 or 8.1 touch-screen capabilities, automatically touch-enabling all Windows 8/8.1 applications in the cloud.

"Users in small and midsize businesses have wanted to be able to run their Windows apps in the cloud, and share them with coworkers –and now they can," said Adam Stern, Infinitely Virtual founder and CEO. "TouchCloud provides incredible mobility. Any tablet or mobile app in the world can take advantage of it. Now, it’s easy to walk around and touch your windows apps."…

Grazed from InforWorld. Author: David Linthicum.

Want to reduce carbon emissions from cloud computing? A bunch of algorithms developed by computer scientists at Trinity College Dublin and IBM Research in Dublin can help reduce the carbon cost of cloud computing, the researchers claim. The algorithms, collectively called Stratus, can model a worldwide network of connected data centers and predict how best to use them to keep carbon emissions low. However, they also carry off the necessary computing and deliver the required data.

"For the simulation, the scientists modeled a scenario inspired by Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) data center setup that incorporated three key variables: carbon emissions, cost of electricity, and the time needed for computation and data transfer on a network. Amazon EC2 has data centers in Ireland and the U.S. states of Virginia and California, so the experimental model placed data centers there too, and it used queries from 34 sources in different parts of Europe, Canada, and the United States as tests," according to the IEEE Sprectrum report on the research…

Grazed from BusinessWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Iron Bow Technologies LLC, an information technology solutions provider, announced today that it has achieved the highest level of cloud and managed services certification by Cisco Systems, Inc., the worldwide leader in networking. The Cisco® Cloud Master Service Provider Certification recognizes Iron Bow for having the capabilities to sell and deliver cloud and managed services to help accelerate time to market and time to revenue.

"Customers today are looking for a trusted and experienced partner to navigate the challenges of implementing a complex cloud solution," said Jim Smid, Chief Technology Officer at Iron Bow. "Our team takes a holistic approach to cloud services – offering strategic expertise to identify business demands, and best-in-class technologies and skills to design, build, deploy and manage – helping our customers recognize a true return on investment."…

Grazed from GreatResponder. Author: Maria Dehn.

This was announced by ViaWest, the cloud computing, data center and managed service provider company that it has started a new cloud based service targeting the healthcare industry. This announcement was made public on this Wednesday. According to the statement issued by the company the service will be based on Compliance as a Service CaaS model and it will be compliant with the latest standards such as HIPPA and HSS that are very important to regulate the targeted field of industry (healthcare).

It was further explained in the statement that the security is one of the important thing as far as the healthcare industry is concerned, and that importance even doubles when the healthcare industry data is to be maintained under business model of the cloud computing services. The ViaWest has taken the security and privacy matters very seriously and has implemented the dedicated solutions related security and Virtualization provided by Abonology Inc. This company offers the most robust security solutions based on the partitioned cloud environment to maximize the data protection…

Grazed from TechVibes. Author: Editorial Staff.

The Canadian Cloud Council (cCc) is excited to announce an organizational restructuring, new website and two new initiatives: patronage opportunities and the The 400 collective. The restructuring brings a new patronage model with sponsorship opportunities available to a select group of organizations who are global leaders in the rapidly evolving cloud computing industry.

The organization also launched The 400, a collective of the 40 most influential cloud computing executives around the world. The 400 will meet annually to discuss the future of enterprise technology and its impact on the global socio-economic landscape. "Cloud Computing is the most significant paradigm shift in technology since the industrial revolution," said Robert Hart, CEO of the cCc…

Grazed from GreatResponder. Author: Marie Dehn.

It was announced by cloud computing vendor Citrix this week that it is buying the FrameHawk company to strengthen its Desktop Virtualization product portfolios. The statement does not disclose the financial terms of this acquisition but it is very clear that the FrameHawk technologies would be very useful for improving the efficiency of Citrix desktop product portfolios.

According to the statement, Citrix will use the technologies developed by the FrameHawk Company in the domain of communication, especially its light weight efficient protocol called Lightweight Framebuffer Protocol LFP would be used in combination with the cloud computing frameworks of Citrix such as – XenApp and XenDesktop…