Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Margaret Jones.

Because cloud technology changes and evolves so quickly — and has so many acronyms — it can be tough for IT administrators to keep up with new cloud file-sharing definitions. More and more employees are using cloud-file sharing services for work, so IT, vendors and marketers are responding in kind with new tools, such as IDaaS, SaaS and EUC platforms. If you’ve never heard of those terms or you don’t know the difference between SoMoClo and SoLoMo, you’re not alone. Check out these cloud file-sharing definitions to start sorting things out.

IDaaS
Identity as a Service is a kind of single sign-on for the cloud. It’s an authentication infrastructure that a third-party service provider builds, hosts and manages. Usually, companies buy IDaaS as a subscription service. For an additional fee, cloud file-sharing service providers sometimes also host apps and give subscribers role-based access to certain apps or virtual desktops through a secure portal…

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Mark Fontecchio.

Oracle announced that it added more than 500 new Software as a Service (SaaS) customers in the last quarter, though an analyst thinks most of them are existing Oracle customers and those gained in acquisitions. The Redwood Shores, Calif.-based IT company reported quarterly earnings on Thursday, announcing that total revenue was up 2% since the same quarter last year, and software revenues were up 5% year-over-year.

However, most of Oracle’s growth is its "existing client base and acquisitions (more) than net new standalone sales," according to Chad Eschinger, research vice president at Stamford, Conn.-based Gartner Inc. That said, Eschinger added that Oracle continues "to be a strong provider with a growing presence in SaaS."…

Grazed from CloudPro. Author: Jane McCallion.

Three quarters of companies are using a cloud platform of some type, according to the third annual Future of Cloud Computing Survey. This represents an increase of eight per cent compared to 2012. The survey of 855 respondents, most of whom were c-level executives, showed Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) products remain the most popular. Sixty three per cent of organisations said they used this type of cloud service, compared to 55 per cent last year.

However, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), while not yet as popular, is growing faster. Usage of this type of solution has risen from 35 per cent in 2012 to 45 per cent in 2013. The Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) market, while not yet on the same scale as SaaS or IaaS, is expected to grow sharply over the next five years. Seventy two per cent of respondents said they expect to be using a PaaS offering in their business by the end of 2018…

Grazed from eWeek. Author: Darryl K. Taft.

New Relic, a provider of software analytics solutions, has announced a new application performance monitoring, or APM, software-as-a-service platform. The new New Relic offers more than 50 plug-ins, including plug-ins for services Amazon Web Services (AWS), MySQL and Rackspace Hosting. And New Relic users can discover or easily build plug-ins to customize the monitoring of their unique and evolving modern app environments.

With the new APM SaaS solution, data from any component of the application stack, including database, caching, networking, queuing, and platform as a service (PaaS) and cloud services, will be available in a single location to streamline and automate workflows. Software builders can have a single, consistent interface for all the monitoring metrics of their choice. There is no need to log in and out of different solutions to manage the performance of different components of their app environment…

Grazed from VirtualizationReview. Author: Jeffrey Swartz.

The large brokerage firm Fidelity Investments is running private clouds based on the OpenStack open source environment with an eye toward eventually bursting to public Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) clouds. Kevin Finn, group technology VP at Fidelity, on Wednesday gave the nod to the company’s OpenStack initiative at the GigaOM Structure conference during an onstage interview with Rackspace CTO John Engates. Also on the panel was Jim O’Neill, CIO of HubSpot, a marketing services startup that is using OpenStack for private clouds.

While Finn didn’t provide significant detail about Fidelity’s OpenStack implementation, he indicated it was still early on. Finn did say Fidelity has participated in the open source collaboration efforts of the OpenStack Foundation and has attended its summits, the most recent one being held in Portland back in April…

Grazed from ECManaged. Author: PR Announcement.

ECmanaged – a new powerful online Cloud management tool – was awarded “Best Solution” and will represent Spain in the 2013 EuroCloud Europe awards next October. “We are very proud for this recognition and are ready to showcase our application at European level in Luxemburg next fall”, says Juan Carlos Moreno – CTO at ECmanaged.

ECmanaged was able to stand out because of its key features and user-friendliness. ECmanaged is the first Cloud management tool allowing users not only to deploy and monitor new platforms and applications but also enabling daily maintenance of platforms trough automated management tasks and monitoring. “ECmanaged allows users to take full control of their Clouds”; says Moreno…

Grazed from Appcara. Author: PR Announcement.

Infrastructure software distributor Dupaco from the Netherlands has recently signed a distribution agreement with the California based cloud application management company Appcara. With this agreement, Dupaco adds a vital component to its ecosystem of cloud solutions.

Appcara’s flagship product AppStack solution enables enterprises, MSPs and service providers to build and deploy complex distributed infrastructures on top of generic IaaS clouds. This capability helps customers to distinguish themselves from the competition and engage specific market verticals…

Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Jordan Novet.

Platform as a Service (PaaS) has gotten lots of attention usage from developers looking for easy ways to build and run applications. PayPal sees lots of value in the PaaS model, too. But rather than run on shared infrastructure, it’s chosen to make developers lives easier while deploying PaaS on premise, explained Ryan Granard, PayPal’s vice president of platform engineering, at GigaOM’s Structure conference on Thursday.

Companies big and little have been jumping aboard the concept of on-premise PaaS, to some degree because security, regulatory compliance and cloud vendor lock-in fears remain part of the conversation about running on public infrastructure. How is PayPal going about this? It’s been running Red Hat’s OpenShift on-premise PaaS to build out products such as PayPal Here — the company’s answer to Square — as well as a developer sandbox…

Grazed from CloudSigma. Author: PR Announcement.

CloudSigma launched CloudSigma 2.0, a next-generation public cloud that enables high-performance hybrid environments.

Direct private patch/hybrid cloud capability: CloudSigma 2.0’s industry-first transparent private patching capability allows customers to connect their own infrastructure directly to the vLANS within CloudSigma’s public cloud, all exposed via the same subnet, vastly improving data portability and security.

While other IaaS offerings place cumbersome restrictions on cloud deployments, CloudSigma 2.0’s private patching allows for a totally private IP-only solution at full line speed and with low latency, by avoiding the need for inefficient VPNs. Combined with CloudSigma’s open software and networking layers that allow any x86 operating system to run unmodified, customers can mirror on-premise infrastructure for cloud bursting or disaster recovery purposes…

Grazed from BroadwayWorld.com. Author: Editorial Staff.

Perfecto Mobile, provider of The MobileCloud Platform and integrated mobile application quality suite, today announced the availability of its new cloud-based, mobile web and native application monitoring product – MobileCloud Monitoring. This new solution is the first to reveal a complete view of mobile end-user experience using out-of-the-box smartphones, phablets and tablets operating on local carrier networks, enabling enterprises to proactively and continuously monitor business-critical transactions in real-world conditions.

This new offering completes Perfecto Mobile’s integrated SaaS product suite by addressing mobile application quality throughout the application lifecycle, from development through functional and performance testing, to production. MobileCloud Monitoring captures the impact of the "last mile" on the user experience by leveraging real devices running on various OS versions and operating on local cellular and Wi-Fi networks deployed worldwide to accurately measure response time across different platforms and networks during working hours, peak hours, weekends and holidays. The solution issues real-time alerts when a service is down or performance (i.e., response time) declines, dramatically reducing mean-time-to-resolution (MTTR)…