Grazed from Sys Con Media. Author: Editorial Staff.

Cloud computing can be simply understood as a model that enables on demand and convenient access to a shared & collective pool of configurable computing resources like servers, storage, services, applications networks etc. which can be rapidly released and provisioned with service provider interaction or management effort.

Since cloud involves service provides, it becomes quite clear that there will always be partners in reference to cloud services where one would be involved in providing the clod based services to the other. Whenever there is such relationship between two enterprises where one is providing certain services to the other in return for the financial gain then the relationship must be channelized through a standard agreement which can define the roles and responsibilities of both the parties in order to execute a smooth relationship…

Grazed from BroadWay World. Author: Editorial Staff.

SwiftStack today announced the general availability of its private cloud storage offering. The SwiftStack solution, powered by the OpenStack Swift object storage system, was developed to provide the integration and control needed to serve the growing data demands of today’s data-intensive applications. It enables organizations to rapidly deploy private cloud storage that offers application users the same experience and scale they have when accessing data on the public cloud. The SwiftStack system has a software-defined storage architecture that runs on commodity hardware, offering flexibility, significantly lower costs, and more control in comparison to legacy storage systems.

"Private cloud storage is an increasingly popular model among enterprises that prefer to have the control associated with keeping their information stored within their own data centers but the flexibility and speed of a cloud service model. This approach is becoming more common as the trend of BYOD and use of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) creates increased pressure on IT to speed time to provision and scale the infrastructure," said Terri McClure, senior analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG)…

Grazed from BroadWay World. Author: Editorial Staff.

Leveraging its deep expertise in identity and access management (IAM), SailPoint today announced the industry’s first IAM-as-a-service (IDaaS) that delivers enterprise-grade identity governance, provisioning and access management in a single, unified solution. Based on more than two years of dedicated R&D, SailPoint IdentityNow provides all the benefits of software-as-a-service (SaaS) – including faster time to value, ease of use, and lower operational and upgrade costs – combined with the security, scalability, and enterprise integration capabilities that global organizations require.

To date, enterprises have been slow to adopt IDaaS because of data security concerns, cross-domain integration challenges, and the limited capabilities of existing IDaaS offerings, which focus primarily on single sign-on (SSO) capabilities. With more than a decade of history and experience delivering IAM to the world’s largest organizations, the SailPoint team is uniquely qualified to deliver a comprehensive IDaaS suite that meets the most stringent security, availability, scalability, and performance requirements…

Grazed from MarketWire. Author: PR Announcement.

RiverMeadow Software(TM) Inc., developer of the world’s only automated server migration solution developed specifically for carrier and service provider clouds, today announced that RiverMeadow Cloud Migration SaaS is available through the ArrowSphere cloud services platform. Under terms of the agreement, Arrow will integrate RiverMeadow’s Cloud Migration SaaS into the ArrowSphere cloud services portfolio and resell RiverMeadow to its Cloud Service Provider channel as a standalone service or bundled with other cloud services.

"RiverMeadow’s Cloud Migration SaaS provides an easy and cost-effective cloud migration solution," said Jim Livingston, vice president of services for Arrow’s enterprise computing solutions business in North America. "Adding RiverMeadow to our solutions portfolio strengthens our leading position in the cloud market and provides our solution provider community with a tool to automate the migration of applications into the cloud."…

Grazed from CloudTimes. Author: Saroj Kar.

Forrester released the data of its annual survey on IT spending worldwide and detects areas with higher spending, including apps and tablets. Forrester Research annual report on worldwide IT spending split the amount of 2.06 trillion dollars spent this year from businesses and governments between hardware, software and services related to information technology world. CIOs and IT decision-makers plan their biggest software spending increases in mobile applications and middleware, analytics, security, and collaboration software.

Software registered largest share of tech spending in 2013 and companies will continue to spend in this segment particularly on smart and cloud computing in 2014. While investment in legacy applications (both desktop and server) begins to languish, most investment moves towards cloud computing solutions, SaaS solutions development and towards the smart computing, i.e. Big Data and mobile application development…

Grazed from NetworkComputing. Author: Brian Prince.

Poll after poll shows that security remains a major concern for enterprises moving to the cloud. Despite all that concern, companies appear to be increasingly adopting Infrastructure-as-a-Service without paying much attention to IaaS security. According to analysts at TechNavio, the global IaaS market is expected to grow at a compound annual rate of about 45% between 2012 and 2016. In May, the Ponemon Institute and CA Technologies released a survey that indicated many organizations have not been practicing due diligence when it comes to selecting cloud providers.

The survey, which fielded responses from 748 IT professionals, found that only 49% of organizations evaluated security before deploying IaaS in 2012. Security experts cited a number of security issues to consider and security best practices to follow when signing a contract with an IaaS provider…

Grazed from PRWeb. Author: PR Announcement.

Ping Identity, The Identity Security Compan, today announced it is the first identity security provider to be listed on the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Security, Trust & Assurance Registry (STAR). The CSA STAR is a publicly accessible registry that documents the security controls provided by various cloud computing offerings, thereby helping users assess the security of cloud providers they currently use or with whom they are considering contracting.

Committed to encouraging security best practices for cloud providers and promoting higher quality procurement experiences, Ping Identity joins Amazon, Box, HP, Microsoft and other leading cloud vendors in the STAR Registry. The Registry is based in part on the CSA Consensus Assessments Initiative Questionnaire (CAIQ), a guide on the industry-accepted ways to document what security controls exist in IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS offerings…

Grazed from Fox Business. Author: Donna Fuscaldo.

Cloud computing is all the rage with small and large businesses alike, but don’t jump blindly into this technology. Sure you can save money by adopting a cloud strategy, but there are risks to be considered.  “Before you sign on to the cloud you should stop and think for a moment about what you want to put in the cloud,” says Scott Hazdra, principal security consultant at Neohapsis, the cloud security provider. “You shouldn’t do it without thinking about it first.”

According to security experts, small businesses should have a cloud security policy in place before choosing a provider. With that in mind, here’s a look at three questions Hazdra says all small businesses need to ask before moving anything to the cloud — even if it’s just email…

Grazed from BizTechMagazine. Author: Ricky Ribiero.

What if the secret to faster, better networking speeds didn’t lie solely in hardware, additional switches and access points, but in letting the machines do the network management decision making? Network administrators might be breaking out into a sweat after reading that first line, but hear me out. According to a press release from the MIT News Office, a machine-driven system called Remy can generate TCP algorithms that could double network speeds.

In tests that simulated a high-speed, wired network with consistent transmission rates across physical links, Remy’s algorithms roughly doubled network throughput when compared to Compound TCP and TCP Cubic, while reducing delay by two-thirds…