Grazed from BaselineMag. Author: Samuel Greengard.

Over the last few years, IT and business executives have witnessed a profound shift in enterprise computing. While organizations continue to rely on internal data centers to manage an array of tasks, clouds have drifted into the mainstream of IT and business.

"Clouds are becoming the foundation for a new IT platform," says Mike Pearl, U.S. cloud computing leader for PwC consulting. "Organizations are combining IT assets in order to create far greater value. In many cases, they’re able to react to market dynamics faster and more effectively."…

Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Kristin Burnham.

For the first time since 2011, Yahoo ranks as the most-visited website in the U.S., according to the latest report from ComScore, which tracks unique visitors to U.S. properties across the Web. Yahoo received 196.6 million unique visitors in the month of July compared to Google’s 192.3 million. Microsoft, Facebook and AOL rounded out the top five.

According to the report, Yahoo saw 20% more unique visitors in July 2013 as compared to July 2012. Traffic to Tumblr, the blogging platform that Yahoo acquired in May for $1.1 billion, did not contribute to Yahoo’s overall traffic number, said Andrew Lipsman, ComScore’s VP of industry analysis. Tumblr ranked as the 28th most popular U.S. property in July, according to the report. The latest ComScore numbers also do not include mobile usage…

Grazed from DimensionData. Author: PR Announcement.

In a move to accelerate momentum and broaden scope across its solutions and services for client computing, cloud, networking, data centre and enterprise mobility, Dimension Data has expanded its global collaboration with Citrix.

The two-year Global Market Acceleration agreement will see the two organisations co-invest to drive product management, sales and marketing efforts across Asia, Australia, Europe, the Americas, the Middle East and Africa. Dimension Data will develop and integrate Citrix technologies more deeply in its existing solutions and services, all designed to meet growing client demand. Joint initiatives will be governed globally and executed locally to maximise market penetration…

Grazed from PRWeb. Author: PR Announcement.

AppZero, the fastest and most flexible way to move server applications from the datacenter to the cloud, will be exhibiting at VMworld 2013, booth #647, August 25-29 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California. Now in its 10th year, VMworld highlights how virtualization and cloud computing can help you spend less time and money supporting underlying IT.

AppZero will showcase its “Up-level” OS migration, new technology that provides one-step migration of applications running on Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2012. With Windows Server 2003 end of life approaching, companies will be faced with moving large numbers of enterprise applications. AppZero provides the only way to upgrade existing server applications from WS2003 to WS2008 or WS2012 in a cost-effective and time-saving way…

Grazed from GCN. Author: Rutrell Yasin.

As the cloud computing market continues to evolve, the focus is shifting from software as a service to infrastructure as a service (IaaS), offering more options and opportunities for government agencies to manage their own solutions and services, according to a leading industry expert on cloud technology. IaaS is a provision model in which an organization has on-demand access to computing resources including storage, hardware, servers and networking components.

Meanwhile, organizations are still learning how to extend platform as a service – a delivery model for software development – to custom application development, said Kevin Jackson, vice president and general manager of cloud services for NJVC, a provider of information services to civilian and defense agencies…

Grazed from MarketWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Piston Cloud Computing, Inc., the enterprise OpenStack(TM) company, today announced that it is now the community OpenStack infrastructure provider for Cloud Foundry(TM), the industry’s Open Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). Piston will continue to be one of Pivotal’s partners for rapid Cloud Foundry deployments, and its Co-founder and CTO, Joshua McKenty, will serve on the Cloud Foundry Advisory Board.

Pivotal selected Piston to provide the initial community OpenStack infrastructure because of their ability to rapidly deploy a complete cloud environment, dynamically scale it to meet the needs of the community as it grows, and Piston’s demonstrated commitment to the open source development project and the Cloud Foundry(TM) ecosystem…

Grazed from MarketWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Piston Cloud Computing, Inc., the enterprise OpenStack™ company, today announced it will provide live demos of its global-scale private cloud software, Piston OpenStack™ 2.5, at the 2013 VMworld® Conference, taking place August 25 – 29 in San Francisco.

Piston delivers best-of-breed storage, compute and networking virtualization through the OpenStack interfaces, with award-winning service, system orchestration and enhanced enterprise features under the hood. Built on OpenStack Grizzly, product features and benefits in version 2.5 include:…

Grazed from CRN. Author: Kathy Kim.

The U.S. Department of the Interior chose 10 IT companies, including IBM (NYSE:IBM), Verizon (NYSE:VZ) and AT&T (NYSE:T), to compete for a massive, $10 billion cloud computing project. The Department of the Interior said the cloud migration project will be split into 10 IDIQ (indefinite delivery indefinite quantity) contracts that are each worth up to $1 billion. The 10 competing vendors selected by the department are IBM, Verizon, AT&T, Aquilent, Autonomic Resources, CGI, Global Technology Resources, Lockheed Martin, Smartronix and Unisys.

IBM already has been awarded one of the 10 contracts, which is a 10-year cloud hosting service deal. "We’re thrilled because these don’t come along every day and it’s a recognition of our cloud, past performance and technical expertise," said Andy Maner, managing partner of IBM Global Services. "It’s a real advantage for us because we are one of the few that can position seven of the tracks to do transformational projects of a large infrastructure."…

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.

No matter what kind of flak Adobe (ADBE) is getting from its customers for the decision to move all of its Creative Suite products away from the store shelf and strictly into the cloud, it does seem like Adobe’s channel partners are finding ways to capitalize on the decision. Following the announcement earlier this month that Adobe was going to change its sales model slightly with the introduction of Adobe Creative Cloud for teams, we now have an Adobe partner using that change as a springboard to boosting its Adobe practice.

Los Angeles-based En Pointe Technologies is a large Microsoft (MSFT) partner that has found success in selling Office 365 to its customer base. Now, the solutions provider is hoping to replicate the success it has experience with Office 365 with Adobe Creative Cloud. And comparatively speaking, Microsoft Office 365 and Adobe Creative Cloud do have very similar business models, so it makes sense. It just so happens, though, that Adobe’s products are a little more niche than the office productivity software suite from Microsoft…

Grazed from Global Newswire. Author: PR Announcement.

As enterprise adoption of cloud computing continues to grow, organizations are now facing the prospect of being locked into a single cloud provider due to a lack of cloud standards. By forcing customers to use their proprietary products, the restrictions on portability, cost competition and ecosystem offerings are mitigating the value of the cloud. Transcend breaks the shackles of cloud lock-in by focusing on:

1. Providing solutions that adhere to the leading cloud API, Amazon Web Services

2. Leveraging today’s most popular cloud platform, OpenStack

3. Offering both open source and commercial licenses that are enterprise ready…