Grazed from OStatic. Author: Sam Dean.

The folks over at VentureBeat appear to have one of the best cloud computing events of the year coming up in San Francisco this month. The CloudBeat 2013 conference includes many speakers and participants from the various open source cloud computing platforms, as well as movers and shakers behind proprietary cloud platforms from companies like Salesforce and Netflix. The conference takes place Sept 9 to Sept. 10, and here is what you can expect.

The list of speakers for CloudBeat 2013 looks excellent. It includes George Hu from Salesforce and Paul Maritz, former CEO of VMware and now CEO at Pivotal. Saran Mandair is going to discuss PayPal’s cloud computing initiatives, which focus on OpenStack. There are also representatives from TopCoder and Elance, both firms that offer outsourced tech employment, including cloud services…

Grazed from MarketWired. Author: PR Announcement.

Domo, a new software-as-a-service (SaaS) company that is redefining the business intelligence (BI) market, is making waves with executives across all industries for its mobile app. Available via the iTunes Store, Domo’s mobile app works the way its customers do.

Josh James, Domo founder and CEO, says, "Users have been conditioned to believe that mobile applications are less functional than desktop apps. At Domo, we believe that mobile should outperform what the desktop experience delivers. From the beginning, we’ve focused on completely resetting expectations. In addition to making our mobile app on par with our desktop application, we’re adding new capabilities that deliver a surprisingly more insightful, intuitive and user-friendly experience."…

Grazed from BizJournals. Author: Carole Hawkins.

What is Cloud, and why should my company care? When our publisher, David Sillick, asked that question at a Business Journal breakfast two weeks ago, a panel of four Cloud computing executives went silent for a moment with that deer-in-the-headlights look. The question made sense, but the answer was complicated.

It’s like a businessman asking a computer engineer in the 1980s, what’s a personal computer and why should I care? Or, in the 1990s asking, what is the Internet and why should I care? Cloud is the next fuzzy new IT thing we all sense is hugely important, but don’t completely understand…

Grazed from MarketWired. Author: PR Announcement.

GreenBytes(R), Inc., a developer of full-featured desktop virtualization storage optimization software, today announced it was named a Best of VMworld 2013 finalist award winner in the Desktop Virtualization and End-User Computing category. The GreenBytes IO Offload Engine was honored for its unique approach to overcoming storage-related desktop virtualization hurdles, enabling orders-of-magnitude increases in performance and data storage savings.

An independent team of experts and editors from TechTarget’s SearchServerVirtualization.com selected GreenBytes’ IO Offload Engine from more than 200 nominees in nine categories. The annual Best of VMworld awards showcases the top technologies of the year, which are judged according to innovation, value, performance, reliability, and ease of use…

Grazed from MarketWired. Author: PR Announcement.

Piston Cloud Computing, Inc., the enterprise OpenStack? company, today announced that the editors of TechTarget’s SearchServerVirtualization.com? have selected Piston OpenStack? as a Best of VMworld 2013 award finalist in the Private Cloud Computing Technology category.

A team of independent judges comprising experts and editors from SearchServerVirtualization.com reviewed and evaluated over 200 products submitted for the awards. Products were judged according to innovation, value, performance, reliability, and ease of use…

Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: David Linthicum.

These days, many enterprises have processes or data they want to share with the world — and they want to do it with cloud computing. At least, that’s what I find in my travels. The reasons vary, but some emerging patterns are pushing enterprises to become, in essence, small public cloud providers. The patterns include:

• The need to provide information to outside parties using well-defined and secure interfaces. For example, the company wants to allow its partners or customers to see the status of an inventory item, or perhaps the company wants to provide complex data analytics services.
• The need to define access to core business processes to outside partners or customers. For example, a company might want the ability to expose small tactical processes, such as purchase and shipment of products, using cloud-delivered APIs…

Grazed from BizTech2. Author: Editorial Staff.

Ericsson is planning to set up three new ICT centers over the next five years, of which two will be located in Sweden and the third one in Canada. These centers will be another step in providing industry leading cloud-enabled technology.

The new centers will house the company’s complete portfolio, enabling the R&D organisation to develop and verify solutions, creating the foundation for the next generation technology and cloud-based services. The centers will be the new platform for more than 24,000 Ericsson R&D engineers around the world, supporting their lean and agile ways of working…

Grazed from The Register. Author: Phil Muncaster.

Analysis The devastating triple whammy of earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown which struck Japan in March 2011, has led many IT managers to rebuild their infrastructure with a key focus on disaster recovery and business continuity, according to experts.

It’s an effort which has had obvious knock-on benefits for cloud computing, virtualisation and mobile vendors touting their wares in the land of the rising sun but also teaches some important lessons about IT best practice. Now the dust has settled on one of the world’s worst disasters in recorded history, the short and longer term impact on IT operations becomes clear…

Grazed from eWeek.  Author: Nathan Eddy.

Just 38 percent of all organizations indicate cloud services use today, according to a survey of 651 organizations across nine countries from IT research firm Gartner. However, 80 percent of organizations said that they intend to use cloud services in some form within 12 months, including 55 percent of the organizations not doing so today.

The results revealed that although the use of cloud services is growing faster than the overall enterprise IT market, it is still a small part of overall IT spending. The objective of the survey was to better understand how organizations are shifting from the use of traditional technology products to new technology delivered as cloud services and to understand end-user organizations’ use of external service providers for IT services, Gartner explained…

Grazed from Servora.  Author: Editorial Staff.

In order to save on the cost of IT maintenance and installation, many companies have chosen to use cloud computing. Cloud computing has allowed companies to experience the benefits of Software-as-a-Service, strengthening their businesses and make them more efficient all around without the capital expense. But how do you know if you should engage in a private or public cloud?

In order to understand the question being asked, let us first define cloud computing. Cloud computing is essentially SaaS by internet with faster setup and scalability. Once the cloud is set up, these programs, applications and processes are accessed via the internet. The cloud is maintained by the cloud vendor and is paid per use by the company…