Grazed from PRWeb.  Author: PR Announcement.

“As organizations grow, they find they need to migrate to new storage hardware” noted Yury Borukh, CEO of IT at Once. “This transition typically involves a significant investment of both capital and staff resources. Now, we can provide cost-effective solutions with cutting edge technology.”

According to Borukh, IT at Once cloud servers meet the need for connectivity and storage through web/database hosting and file storage.  “We created more innovative backup and recovery solutions to facilitate clients’ productivity and expansion,” he said. “Our initiative in this respect now provides enterprises a securer way to manage databases and a more dependable disaster recovery solution.”…

Grazed from TechTarget.  Author: Rebecca Wetzel.

Software as a Service (SaaS) providers face one critical objective: They must deliver an optimal end-user experience or risk languishing.  "SaaS providers face serious performance challenges," warns SaaS industry expert Jeffrey M. Kaplan, managing director of Wellesley, Mass.-based consultancy THINKstrategies and founder of the Cloud Computing Showplace, an online directory of cloud providers. "SaaS vendors must match the response times and availability of on-premises software applications offered by traditional ISVs in order to continue to satisfy end users and displace legacy applications."

But is it reasonable for customers to expect SaaS applications to offer equal performance of on-premises software? "Absolutely," says John Essex, marketing director at New Relic, a San Francisco-based application performance monitoring vendor that delivers its core product as SaaS. "If a SaaS vendor continuously monitors the end-user experience from pre-production on, the information gathered can be used to improve performance to meet the same performance standards as on-premises software."…

Grazed from Mobile Commerce News.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Recent studies have found that there is an acute shortage of qualified applicants for cloud computing jobs.  This shortage is forecasted to continue as cloud related positions are expected climb 26% annually through 2015.  In fact, a recent IDC white paper found that the biggest reason 1.7 million cloud-related positions remained unfilled in 2012 was because job seekers lacked the training and certification needed to work in a cloud-enabled world.

There has never been a better time to land that dream job in the cloud computing industry. The jobs are already there. It’s up to you to provide the required skills, education and experience to take advantage of this opportunity.  Job hunting is never easy, but here are a few things you can do to improve your chances:…

Grazed from ComputerWeekly.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Cloud computing underpins an important part of economic activity today, and has the potential to make a major contribution to future growth.To deliver its anticipated benefits, it must be easy to use and cost-efficient. This means that enterprises and individuals must be able to use cloud products and services as far as possible “off the shelf”.

The products and services should work together, and minimal effort should be needed to incorporate them into a user’s systems.  This is the case for the basic Internet, but not yet for the additional components that constitute the cloud. Lack of portability of and interoperability between these components could mean that the potential of cloud computing is not fulfilled…

Grazed from ScientBlog.  Author: Editorial Staff.

A six-month study conducted by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Northwestern University with funding from Google has found that moving common software applications used by 86 million U.S. workers to the cloud could save enough electricity annually to power Los Angeles for a year. The study is summarized in a report is isued today (June 11). The report looks at three common business applications — email, customer relationship management software, or CRM, and bundled productivity software (spreadsheets, file sharing, word processing, etc.).

Moving these software applications from local computer systems to centralized cloud services could cut information technology energy consumption by up to 87 percent — about 23 billion kilowatt-hours. This is roughly the amount of electricity used each year by all the homes, businesses and industry in Los Angeles. A primary goal of the project was to develop a state-of-the-art model that both researchers and the general public could use to analyze the energy and carbon impacts of cloud computing…

Grazed from BusinessWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

EVERTEC Inc., the leader in electronic transaction processing in Latin America and the Caribbean, announced today that it was recognized by Cisco as the Cisco Cloud Partner of the Year for the CANSAC (Central America, North of South America and the Caribbean) region for its innovation, leadership and best practices in developing the market for cloud services in this region.

“We recognized the successes of our partners within its geographic region. Cisco is deeply committed to supporting our partners to build their business, and to recognize those that have demonstrated outstanding achievement, like EVERTEC, which has been instrumental in expanding the market for the VBlock™ Systems in the CANSAC region”, explained Alexis Cervoni, Partner Account Manager of Cisco for the Caribbean…

Grazed from PRWeb.  Author: PR Announcement.

Marketing Software company Volacci has unveiled “Socialize”, a set of deep social media integrations for Automatr, their marketing automation SaaS program. The new features allow Automatr subscribers to post directly to Facebook or Twitter feeds from within the marketing automation software.

Socialize gives users the ability to post or tweet in real-time, or on a pre-determined schedule customizable by date and time. Organizational capabilities include a calendar view which allows a marketer to visually plan social campaigns. Automatr’s Socialize feature also includes its own search navigation bar allowing users quick access to scheduled posts…

Grazed from ITWorldCanada.  Author: Howard Solomon.

Two weeks ago we wrote about Google and Red Hat Inc. teaming up to create a new Java programming framework. A Gartner analyst thinks it could go far.  The industry needs a new programming model for clouds, Yefim Nais writes in a blog.  And Google, with its experience in cloud computing, and Red Hat, with its enterprise background, could be a dynamic duo.

Their project, dubbed CapeDwarf, is an implementation of Google’s AppEngine API which allows applications to be deployed on Red Hat’s JBoss Appliciation Servers without modification.  Ultimately all APIs of AppEngine would be implemented. A chart on the JBoss community page suggests that 12 of 18 APIs are done.  The question Nais asks is are the partners imaginative enough to grow the project to an industry standard.

Grazed from ZDNet.  Author: Brian Sommer.

In technology, everything evolves, mutates and, eventually, goes away after being replaced by something altogether better, newer, cooler and more powerful. Sometimes, even new technologies experience rapid evolution. Cloud computing is definitely in the mutating and evolving phase of its existence.  Let’s look at how cloud computing has changed in the application software space so far.

Early cloud pioneers, think salesforce.com and Plex, were launched in the late 1990s, offered a multi-tenant SaaS (software as a service) solution. Their chief selling points were economic in nature. There was no software to install, no on-site hardware required, etc. Many early cloud SaaS solutions even came priced on a monthly basis. These solutions could scale up or down based on business need…

Grazed from ComputerWeekly.  Author:  Archana Venkatraman.

First it was a money-haven, now Switzerland’s privacy laws and data protection regulations are turning it into a cloud-haven in the wake of US government surveillance revelations. That is the claim by Switzerland’s biggest offshore hosting company, Artmotion.

Recent leaks of the US National Security Agency’s (NSA) PRISM surveillance programme have sparked growing concern over data privacy, with implications for global corporations using US-controlled cloud services, such as AWS (Amazon Web Services) and Azure.   As a result, businesses are now turning to Switzerland for their data hosting needs.  Artmotion has witnessed a 45% growth in revenue amid this new demand for heightened privacy…