Grazed from Logility. Author: PR Announcement.

Logility Inc., a leading supplier of collaborative solutions to optimize the supply chain, today announced Logility Cloud Services, a comprehensive deployment portfolio that provides a flexible menu of services to accelerate the benefits of supply chain initiatives. Building on more than 10 years of cloud deployment experience, customers are able to tap into the industry-leading and award-winning capabilities of Logility Voyager Solutions either as a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Hosted or On-Premise deployment.

Today’s enterprise environment is growing more complex and each company is unique in their market, challenges and opportunities. Logility Cloud Services provides companies a choice in deployment methodology and services that best suit their individual needs and allows them to evolve as their business changes; moving between SaaS, on-premise, and managed services as their IT strategies transform…

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eXo, the Enterprise Social Platform company, today opened access to eXo Cloud. Built on the experience acquired with its previous SaaS offering, Cloud Workspaces, eXo Cloud offers online, instant access to all the features of eXo Platform 4. It integrates social and enterprise collaboration features in a single on-demand offering. This release of eXo Cloud is offered free of charge, and users can sign up for accounts at http://cloud.exoplatform.com.

A year and a half after launching Cloud Workspaces in beta, eXo launches its production-ready social intranet SaaS: eXo Cloud. The beta campaign of Cloud Workspaces enabled eXo to acquire valuable feedback on both its product and its cloud service, leading to visible improvements on eXo Platform 4 and its SaaS counterpart, eXo Cloud. These improvements include a design overhaul, an easier user experience and a more robust and flexible multi-tenant platform…

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Ed Tittel and Earl Follis.

Once you’ve bet your IT strategy on virtual desktops, availability and performance of those desktops become a priority. If users cannot access their virtual desktop or performance is too slow to get their work done, the villagers will no doubt come after you with torches, demanding their local desktops back. To help you avoid getting burned, let’s look at the top five factors that affect virtual desktop and application downtime, plus how to avoid — or at least mitigate — these risks.

1. Lack of end-user monitoring

Have you ever received a flurry of help desk complaints about poor performance for specific applications? Your infrastructure team checks the network, servers, databases and applications, only to indicate that all infrastructure components are up and running as expected. This situation illustrates the difference between IT services being up and IT services being available from an end-user’s perspective. If users perceive a performance issue, then you have a performance issue, whether your monitoring tools reflect that perception or not. You can avoid this problem by having an end-user performance monitoring tool in your overall monitoring toolkit. These tools can give you performance statistics and alerts based on availability and response time for your virtual desktops, from an end-user perspective…

Grazed from PR NewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) is an increasingly commoditized service dominated by vendors — most notably Amazon and Rackspace — that have the size and scale to compete on price. For competing cloud service providers to survive against these large players, they must offer more customized, unique and comprehensive business services to enterprises looking for flexible IT options.

In order to build and operate differentiated solution sets that are modular, flexible and cost-efficient, providers need more than just IaaS — they need an extensible platform that can enable a range of services. Differentiation can come in the form of:…

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Virtustream, Inc., the leading enterprise class cloud software and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provider, and SafeNet, Inc., a global leader in information security, today announced they have expanded their existing relationship to offer customers across high-risk industries, and all organizations that need to protect sensitive data, the ability to migrate to virtual and cloud environments securely.

"Virtustream has made strong security a core part of their enterprise class cloud. We’ve worked closely over the last year to ensure our solutions are well integrated so organizations can easily reap the benefits of the cloud, without losing control over their data," said Chen Arbel, director of business development, SafeNet. "We provide that protection regardless of where the data resides, affording separate security administration duties, enforcing granular controls, and establishing clear accountability with audit trails and compliance reporting. And we make it possible to easily scale the use of encryption in very large, dynamic cloud environments."…

Grazed from Business2Community. Author: Brian Wallace.

There is a vast multitude of web hosting options, so when users decide on which kind of host to use, it’s always best to know all the kinds out there. Web hosting, a service that allows people to create websites for themselves or their businesses, emerged during the dot-com era.

The first type of public hosting available was Shared Web Hosting in 1995, which is still available today. It didn’t offer infrastructure on demand or flexibility, but it was easy to use. Then in 1998 came VPS Hosting, which was a little more flexible and offered root access—a step up from Shared Web Hosting. Public Cloud Computing 1.0, which has been available since 2006, offered billing by the hour, a compute and storage infrastructure, and, eventually, scalability…

Grazed from Sys Con Media. Author: Jiten Patil.

The world of software applications and products is moving from on-premise to a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model. Perpetual licence earnings are shrinking, while subscription revenue including SaaS is growing increasingly fast and at a steady pace. According to a recent PWC report, subscription revenue (including SaaS) is set to grow at a 17.5% compounded annual rate, reaching 24% of total software revenue by 2016. Approximately 40% of the turnover of 10 of the top 100 software companies globally is generated by the SaaS service.

Gartner predicts that 77% of companies plan to increase their spending on SaaS in the next two years. So the big question is, how can you (as a software application or product vendor) quickly move to SaaS, test it and ride the wave of opportunity before losing your specific competitive advantage to some of the fast-progressing SaaS vendors like Workday, Oracle, Saleforce.com, SAP, Microsoft, Intuit, and Zuora…

Grazed from TechCrunch. Author: Alex Williams.

Startup AppScale has launched its open-source backup up service for Google App Engine (GAE), which is compatible with standard cloud services that developers use when building apps. The company, which was one of six startups that presented at the Structure conference last week, stood out even if it did not win an award for overall best startup and even though it wasn’t the audience award winner. Here’ why: It is a backup Platform as a Service (PaaS) for a PaaS and infrastructure services.

ScaleSafe, the company’s first product, automates the failover and migration of cloud apps and data from GAE. Company Co-founder and CTO Chandra Krintz calls the service a portability layer between a developer’s app and cloud services…

Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols.

Nervous about the NSA, PRISM and your public cloud? Not sure you want to put all your data eggs in one Amazon Web Services zone basket? Then, maybe ownCloud’s just released enterprise version of its open-source cloud program, ownCloud 5.0 Enterprise Edition, is what you want need.

OwnCloud is as an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud service. With it you can store your files, folders, contacts, photo galleries, calendars and more on your own servers. You can then access that storage from your mobile device, your desktop, or a Web browser. You can also sync your data with local devices and share your data either with the world at large or specific, approved users…

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Italtel announced today that it is the recipient of the Cisco Cloud Builder Partner of the Year award in the South Region of EMEAR. Cisco unveiled the winners during its annual partner conference which took place in Boston. The Cisco Partner Summit award recognizes exemplary partners who demonstrate best-in-class business practices and serve as a model to the industry within their respective region.

"Cisco values the efforts and contributions of its partners, and for this reason we are particularly pleased that Italtel has reached this important achievement," said Eric Moyal, Partner and Commercial Segment Director at Cisco. "The Cloud Builder award presented to Italtel recognizes its stellar performance and extensive expertise as a Cisco partner in EMEAR."…