Grazed from NetworkWorld. Author: Brandon Butler.

Citrix Tuesday updated its cloud computing strategy, saying that its platform – which is based off the Apache CloudStack project – can span both private on-premises deployments and public clouds and is the only one in the market that takes an application-centric approach to architecting clouds.

Citrix officials say that the company’s chief competitors, VMware and Amazon Web Services, “pigeon-hole” users into architecting clouds a certain way. VMware is ideal for virtualized legacy applications, but not new, cloud-native apps, Citrix says. AWS, on the other hand, is perfect for these new apps that were born to run in the cloud, but not legacy applications. Citrix’s cloud platform, by being “application-centric” caters to both legacy and new-age apps, says Krishna Subramanian, vice president of marketing for Citrix’s cloud platform…

Grazed from Information-Management. Author: Joel Jacob.

The adoption of cloud computing has been an undeniable force spreading quickly across all segments of the technology market. In the legal industry, cloud or software as a service accounted for 49 percent of all e-discovery software revenues tracked in 2011, according to Gartner’s report, “Market Trends: Automated, Analytical Approaches Drive the Enterprise E-Discovery Software Market.” Cloud computing is attractive because it enables users to do more with less; however, with this great power comes great responsibility and risk.

This risk comes in the form of legal, security, business continuity and compliance issues. When e-discovery is involved, the risk considerations become increasingly complex. If your organization is considering moving data to the cloud, or transitioning e-discovery systems to the cloud, follow this checklist of the top 10 things to consider before taking the leap…

Grazed from GSNMagazine. Author: Editorial Staff.

Cyber Innovation Labs (CIL), a leading provider of innovative Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solutions and professional services, announced on September 23 the commissioning and operational delivery of its new 8,000-square-foot Tier 3+ enterprise Cloud computing center located in Iron Mountain’s underground facility in Boyers, PA.

The first phase of customer delivery will house the new disaster recovery center for a leading global insurance carrier and a primary security services vendor to the U.S. Government. The new data center is designed as a Tier 3 enhanced / 2N standard facility and meets SSAE SOC 1 / SOC 2 and PCI DSS LEVEL 2.0 PCI compliance…

Grazed from ComputerWorld. Author: Steve Pate.

There are many benefits to be gained by using the public cloud. Cost efficiencies, elasticity and collaborative access are mentioned most often. But will your data be secure in the cloud? And who is responsible for keeping it safe? These topics bear further exploration.

For small organizations – typically those that can’t justify adding someone with ‘security’ in their title to the team – outsourcing to a cloud service provider (CSP) may be more secure than trying to build and maintain their own data center. But for larger companies, especially organizations that must comply with privacy regulations like HIPAA/HITECH or PCI DSS, ensuring and validating data privacy can be more challenging in a public cloud environment…

Grazed from IT Business Edge. Author: Michael Vizard.

With just about every vendor trying to get in front of what will likely be a major shift to platform as a service (PaaS) in the enterprise, Red Hat has outlined a next-generation cloud computing strategy based on the company’s OpenShift architecture. According to Red Hat President Paul Cormier, the core element of the Red Hat PaaS platform is Red Hat JBoss xPaaS Services for OpenShift, which is based on the JBoss middleware that Red Hat acquired in 2006.

On top of that service are what Red Hat refers to as cartridges that IT organizations can plug in, which includes modules for integration, business process management (BPM) and building mobile applications. The end goal, says Cormier, is to give IT organizations an open source option for deploying a PaaS environment that can be easily deployed across private and public cloud computing services…

Grazed from MarketWatch. Author: PR Announcement.

Oracle is expanding the number of Oracle Cloud services to strengthen its position as the industry’s most comprehensive public cloud. Oracle Cloud offers a broad range of modern, functionally rich and integrated services running in a secure, enterprise and standards-based cloud platform. With new Application, Platform, and Infrastructure Services announced today, Oracle is helping customers and partners further capitalize on the power of cloud computing.

News Facts

— Extending the industry’s broadest and most advanced cloud portfolio, Oracle today introduced 10 new Oracle Cloud services for its customers and partners.
— The new services expand Oracle’s comprehensive portfolio of Application, Social, Platform and Infrastructure Services and are all available on a subscription basis…

Grazed from OneSpin. Author: PR Announcement.

OneSpin Solutions (www.onespin-solutions.com), provider of innovative formal assertion-based verification (ABV) and formal equivalence checking solutions, announced today full availability of its Cloud Computing System after a successful 90-day, limited-trial Beta program.

“With a successful limited-trial program drawing to a close, we can confirm the scalability and performance benefits of an EDA Cloud Computing strategy for static verification solutions,” says Dr. Raik Brinkmann, OneSpin Solutions’ president and chief executive officer. “Companies have expressed confidence in the improved performance, security and accessibility of our solutions.”…

Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Charles Babcock.

Oracle, under pressure from competitor Workday, announced upgrades to Oracle Human Capital Management Cloud and Oracle Talent Management Cloud at Oracle OpenWorld Monday. Workday is an eight-year-old SaaS startup that went public last October and raised $685 million. It’s using the funds to compete for new human capital management (HCM) software users and existing Oracle PeopleSoft customers. SAP, IBM and Salesforce.com are also stepping up their efforts in human capital management.

Oracle is fighting back from its position as a deeper and more fully integrated software stack. Monday, the first full day of Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco, Oracle president Mark Hurd emphasized enhancements to the Oracle HCM products…

Grazed from TheEpochTimes. Author: Catherine Yang.

Microsoft Corp. has been criticized for being late to the game on many fronts. As Microsoft tries to remain a relevant player in markets they historically have ignored, questions abound as to how the company planned to overcome its competitors. Executives answered, in their first financial analysts meeting in two years, with much optimism but without much detail.

“Google happens to say let’s not have any profit be in the device. Let’s move it all into search. We and Apple kind of have a different view of the world,” Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said at the Sept. 19 meeting. “Amazon, I don’t know where they want to put market profit, they don’t seem to put the profit anywhere. And that’s not a shot, it’s just I can’t tell you what profit stream is important to them the way we can about us or Apple or Google.”…

Grazed from TechWeez. Author: Rebecca Wilcox.

Could computing security has gathered a lot of attention in recent times, but some key areas of progress are still being neglected. One such area is the aspect of dynamic offloading in mobile cloud computing (MCC). Using different solutions, the energy consumption and communications costs of cloud computing can be optimized. Furthermore, the decision process such as the Markov process can help achieve optimal offloading policy.

Myths around cloud computing services

Several myths continue to surround the domain of cloud computing. The recent Snowden case has also stirred the hornet’s nest, with users doubting whether their data is even safe in the cloud. The answer comes from security analysts and investors, who are the major stakeholders in the cloud computing industry…