Grazed from SBWire. Author: PR Announcement.

In todays business environment, organizations strive to meet the constantly changing global business dynamics. Most of the organizations view IT as a tool to be agile and to have a sustainable business success. At the same time, rising IT costs have become a major concern and cost cutting is the current business objective of corporations. Public cloud services have revolutionized the IT industry and have encouraged organizations of all sizes to implement advanced technologies in computing at lesser cost. However, enterprises migrated to private cloud due to security/privacy issue and loss of control over data. Besides, cloud providers have stepped forward and have implemented a hybrid cloud solution which combines the benefits of two or more of the clouds and to mitigate the security/ privacy concerns.

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The Global report provides a detailed research study which exhibits the issues around the cloud selection and how companies leverage the composition of two or more clouds to support cloud bursting at peak times. Major players such as, Hewlett- Packard, IBM, Amazon, Dell, Rackspace Inc, Intel, Equinix and others are profiled in the report. The report also provides the market trends, market dynamics, technology road maps, opportunity plots, regional and competitive analysis of the market…

Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Thomas Claburn.

Google’s BigQuery, a Web service for analyzing large amounts of data, is about to become more efficient in order to gain insight into data subsets and to refresh its interface. On Wednesday, Google plans to introduce several new features: support for real-time data streaming in BigQuery, the ability to query portions of a table, the query functions SUM and COUNT, and interface improvements designed to enhance productivity.

BigQuery was launched last year as a tool for interactive data analysis. It’s not a database, like Google Cloud SQL. Rather it brings MySQL-style querying to a NoSQL datastore. With additional tools, Hadoop clusters can be deployed to query multi-terabyte datasets, but the resulting system probably won’t return query results as rapidly…

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.

RightScale Cloud Management is getting an update to simplify and secure both public and private cloud networking. Additionally, the new Network Manager feature will give enterprises—or their channel partners—the ability to manage cloud networking across multiple clouds.

Simplification and ease-of-use—both are common discussion points when it comes to cloud these days, especially as they pertain to making it simpler to work across multiple clouds in both the public and private cloud realms. In the case of RightScale Network Manager, the goal is to help improve security and auditing, as well as making applications more easily portable across clouds…

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Since its launch one year ago, ProfitBricks, the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) company that completely reengineered the delivery of cloud computing, has consistently received industry recognition for its cloud computing 2.0 solutions and price/performance leadership. Building further on this momentum, today ProfitBricks announced that it was named one of CRN Magazine’s Emerging Technology Vendors, as well as to CIO Review’s list of 20 Most Promising Cloud Companies.

The annual CRN Emerging Technology Vendors list highlights ProfitBricks and other hot tech startups making an impact on the channel and in the enterprise. Vendors on this list have recently introduced a new product or technology that is not only innovative, but generates the high margins solution providers require in today’s competitive marketplace…

Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: Padmanabha Sivanandan.

Cloud computing is the techno-business strategy of web-based access of diverse set of applications from any device and less workload on the Customer Service Representative’s (CSR) device as the software and data gets stored elsewhere. Any kind of application can be accessed through cloud, right from trivial word processing software to complex analytical engine for an enterprise. The primary benefit of cloud platform is that it allows an organization to focus only on its core competency as the complexity and overhead of managing IT applications and infrastructure will be addressed by the cloud platform vendor. Cloud based CRM enables organizations to manage customer experience via cloud in a flexible and cost effective manner. Salesforce.com, Microsoft and Oracle are major cloud based CRM vendors.

Benefits of Cloud CRM

There are a number of benefits of a cloud based CRM than an on-premise model, especially in terms of mobility, flexibility and cost.

• The CSRs can access the application from any device like desktops, laptops, tablets, Smart phones and PDAs via internet. So the customers are more quickly served.
• Cloud based CRM provides more flexibility as the upgrades and scaling-up of software are managed by the vendors.
• Typically cloud deployments have shorter implementation cycle and adhere to pay-per-use/subscription model and hence manageable cost…

Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: Serdar Yegulalp.

Google Translate is currently best known for being a quick and dirty way to render Web pages or short text snippets in another language. But according to Der Spiegel, the next step for the core technology behind that service is a device that amounts to the universal translator from "Star Trek."

Google isn’t alone, either. Apparently everyone from Facebook to Microsoft is ramping up similar ambitions: to create services that eradicate language barriers as we currently know them. A realistic goal or still science fiction? And at what cost?…

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: CJ Arlotta.

Cloud services provider Appirio has acquired TopCoder, an organization that hosts a community of more than 500,000 developers, designers and data analytics experts. The deal combines the TopCoder community with CloudSpokes, Appirio’s own crowdsouring platform and community of more than 75,000 developers, designers and analytics experts. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The company said the acquisition will promote a technology platform that enables crowdsourcing as a core part of next generation services.

As part of the deal, Narinder Singh, co-founder of Appirio, was appointed president of the combined communities; TopCoder founder Jack Hughes will join Appirio’s crowdsourcing advisory board; and David Messinger, vice president of community at CloudSpokes, has been promoted to chief community officer of the combined communities…

Grazed from Forbes. Author: Louis Columbus.

I recently had the opportunity to speak with Jennifer Bewley and Rachel Ceccarelli of Dice.com regarding the trends they are seeing in cloud computing recruiters’ searched-for terms on their sites. They’re seeing exponential growth in cloud computing-related job listings today and provided an analysis of the top ten cloud computing skills recruiters are searching for. From just 13 cloud computing-related jobs listed in May, 2008, their site has over 5,000 today. The following graphic shows the growth in cloud computing job listings on their site over time. The following are the top ten cloud computing skills searched for on Dice.com as of today:

• Linux operating system
• Chef – The open-source systems management and cloud infrastructure automation framework
• Puppet – IT automation software that helps system administrators manage infrastructure throughout its lifecycle, from provisioning and configuration to orchestration and reporting
• Cloud, Legacy System and IT Consulting…

Grazed from TMCNet.  Author: Event Announcement.

Cloud4SMB Expo, to be held on January 28-31, 2014, is the first event of its kind focused on the unique needs and challenges of small and medium businesses (SMBs) seeking to leverage the benefits of cloud computing solutions. 



This conference is dedicated to real-world business strategies and implications for growing businesses utilizing the cloud. Until now, the Cloud Phenomenon has focused almost exclusively on opportunities for the large enterprise. Sessions at Cloud4SMB Expo are designed specifically to provide attendees with the knowledge and information SMBs need to compete and succeed...

Grazed from NetworkComputing. Author: Sean Leach.

Given that Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are becoming more frequent, it is a good time to review the basics and how you can fight back. A DDoS is an attack method used to deny access for legitimate users of an online service. This service could be a bank or e-commerce website, a SaaS application, or any other type of network service. Some attacks even target VoIP infrastructure.

An attacker uses a non-trivial amount of computing resources, which they either built themselves or, more commonly, by compromising vulnerable PC’s around the world, to send bogus traffic to a site. If the attacker sends enough traffic, legitimate users of a site can’t be serviced…