Grazed from ITWorld. Author: Nancy Gohring.

One of the biggest barriers in OpenStack right now is deployment. It’s complicated. That’s why companies like Mirantis and eNovance that help businesses build OpenStack deployments are getting millions in investments. It’s why most of the marquee enterprise OpenStack deployments you hear of are at huge organizations that have the staff – or the deep pockets to hire a team of consultants – to build their OpenStack clouds. And it’s why companies like Puppet and Opscode have a big presence at OpenStack events, where they have a growing base of customers that use their products to help with deployment of OpenStack clouds.

That all could change. OpenStack now has an official program around TripleO, a project apparently largely funded by HP to develop tools that make it easy to deploy OpenStack. I suspect this isn’t welcome news for some of the third party tools designed to ease deployment, although it’s possible the two tool sets can work together…

Grazed from PRWeb. Author: PR Announcement.

Ajubeo, a national provider of high-performance virtual datacenters and cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), today announced that its cloud-based Graphics Virtual Desktop now features NVIDIA GRID, the industry’s most powerful GPU technology for the cloud. The addition of NVIDIA GRID technology contributes to a 35 percent or larger reduction in desktop total cost of ownership (TCO) when compared to traditional hardware-accelerated workstations.

Additional corporate and end-user benefits include accelerated time-to-market, faster loading and rendering of large files, and improved end-user experience and productivity. Ajubeo Graphics Virtual Desktops featuring NVIDIA GRID technology are available for immediate purchase and will be delivered from the company’s primary cloud hub datacenters in Denver and New York…

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.

Onehub is extending is mobile cloud application with the ability for Apple (AAPL) iOS users to securely share files directly to the Onehub file-sharing network. Essentially, this gives iPad and iPhone users to use the file-sharing service just as they would with other supported devices.

Onehub provides file-sharing cloud technology for businesses. The company noted that customers who receive an email can open attachments via their iOS devices, view the files and then choose to save them to the Onehub network…

Grazed from DubaiChronicle. Author: Editorial Staff.

Even though Microsoft released its Windows 8.1 Preview nearly a month ago, the company has already launched an entire array of updates for it. The improvements on the upgraded version of Windows 8 vary from interface deign to security bugs and even brand new features. You may become one of the first users by downloading Windows 8.1. Preview here right now.

One of the latest updates released for the OS concerns Microsoft’s cloud service SkyDrive. With it, the technology giant takes cloud computing one step further by allowing offline access to files and by greatly decreasing the size of SkyDrive files stored on physical devices. Actually, the latest Windows 8.1 update includes three main changes to the platform and the way it is used. Now SkyDrive is more deeply integrated into Microsoft’s latest operating system. However, that does not ruin the general experience on Windows 8.1 devices. Quite the opposite, it makes it better…

Grazed from InternetRetailer. Author: Amy Dusto.

IBM Corp. is forging ahead with its “cloud-based,” or Internet-hosted, e-commerce technology strategy as it faces growing competition from technology rivals. Last year IBM began offering software-as-a-service e-commerce technologies, rather than only licensed software that clients maintain on their own premises, in its Smarter Commerce suite.

With the latest Smarter Commerce applications that it released last month, including a tool to parse through the tomes of consumer sentiment data on social networks to help marketers track how consumers view their brands, the company says it now offers more than 100 cloud-based tools to retailers…

Grazed from Midsize Insider. Author: Marissa Tejada.

Business Intelligence (BI) is getting a market push thanks to Software as a Service (SaaS). A new report by Gartner found certain services, like SaaS, are helping to move the business intelligence market ahead. Midsize firms are part of this market growth because they often consider and implement SaaS, which has become a popular entry point for various BI solutions.

What’s Pushing the Market

The report, covered by Information Management found that besides SaaS, data discovery also helped support the business intelligence market. Gartner found that business intelligence, CPM, and analytic software revenue topped more than $13 billion last year. However, the research firm also found that overall spending went down approximately $700 million due to the economic climate, although it remains one of the largest IT segments. Earlier in the year, Gartner had predicted the market would grow by almost 25 percent up until 2017 to reach more than $17 billion…

Grazed from WebRoot. Author: Tracy Mardigian-Kiles.

More and more SMBs have their heads in the clouds and for good reason. Cloud computing is changing how computer needs are fulfilled. With the onset of the cloud, essential aspects of every business like data management, content, and collaboration tools are delivered from the Internet rather than supported by locally installed software and servers.

A Match Made in SMB Heaven
For SMBs there are many compelling reasons to migrate to cloud-based applications, like the following:

• Outsourcing the expensive burden of maintaining your own servers and software
• Accessing data from anywhere and from any device
• Replacing heavy IT expenditures with predictable operational expenditures…

Grazed from BusinessWire. Author: PR Announcement.

ResearchAndMarkets has announced the addition of the "Beyond Cloud Computing: Mobile Communications, Applications, Content, and Commerce in the Cloud" report to their offering. Cloud computing is one of the hottest segments in information technology today along with mobile and wireless. Today, the number of smartphones in the US exceeds the number of laptops, tablets are enjoying significant growth, and just about every employee has one, two or even three mobile devices.

Enterprise IT now has to deal with the additional responsibility of serving customers who use their mobile products to interact with the organization. Cloud is moving beyond computing and storage and into an entirely new realm of communications, applications, content and applications. Evidence of this evolution ranges from common examples, such as Google Voice for Cloud-based communications, to less common examples such as Cloud-based payments solutions within the mobile commerce arena…

Grazed from Sys Con Media. Author: Editorial Staff.

Google Cloud Platform allows the end users to build their website and applications, analyze and store data on the infrastructure powered by Google. Google Cloud Platform provides various resources that can be used for specialized purposes. One such resource offered by Google Cloud Platform is Google Compute Engine (GCE) which is an IAAS product. GCE was announced at Google IO by Google in June, 2012.

Google Compute Engine enables any developer or business to use the infrastructure of Google for their applications. GCE possesses several capabilities which make it more economical and easier to use for a wider set of applications. It provides flexible and scalable virtual machine computing capabilities in cloud. GCE provide you the capability of solving large scale analytic and processing problems on Google’s networking, storage or computing platform. It certainly is a powerful yet cost effective solution focused on workload processing on cloud…