Grazed from ITWorld. Author: Ian Paul.

When Flickr announced its 1TB free storage giveaway on Monday, the company said it was offering you enough storage to "take a photo every hour for forty years" without filling up your allotment. Not content to wait four decades, hackers are already figuring out how to pack their Flickr storage with more than just photos and videos.

Two Github projects making the rounds on Hacker News Tuesday morning offer the ability to store any file type on Flick including documents, PDFs, and music files. Flickr currently allows only JPEG, GIF, and PNG uploads, as well as a variety of video formats including AVI, WMV, MPEG4, and OGG…

Grazed from PCWorld. Author: Joab Jackson.

VMware has launched its long-anticipated public infrastructure as a service (IaaS), touting its virtual networking capabilities as a differentiator from other established hybrid cloud offerings. VMware’s vCloud Hybrid Service will be based on the company’s vCloud architecture, allowing customers to shift their VMware encoded workloads between in-house and the VMware hosted service, a practice known as running a hybrid cloud.

“You can write an application and be safe in the knowledge it can be run anywhere,” said VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger, in a Web conference announcing the new service, adding that much of the complexity enterprises experience in deploying their workloads in the cloud comes from preparing their in-house applications to run in a new environment…

Grazed from Business Insider. Author: Kevin McLaughlin.

Appcelerator, which makes a popular free mobile app development platform called Titanium, is now setting its sight on enterprises that build their own mobile apps for workers. On Tuesday, Appcelerator launched a new mobile development platform for enterprises, which it’s selling as a service over the web. Unlike Titanium, which is just for apps, the enterprise platform includes support, training and service level agreements.

It also includes analytics tech which tests apps while they’re being built, to make sure they’re performing well and no glitches make it into the final product. Once apps are finished, Appcelerator hosts them and tracks usage and other stats…

Grazed from NewsWire. Author: Editorial Staff.

SolarWinds Inc. (SWI) has agreed to buy N-able Technologies for $120 million in cash to expand its offerings into cloud-based information technology services for managed service providers.
Kevin Thompson, SolarWinds’ president and chief executive, said small businesses are increasingly looking for ways to deploy and efficiently manage IT and SaaS-based technologies and the acquisition helps the company better serve such needs.

Privately held N-able Technologies provides network monitoring and remote systems management software and counts companies such as Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) and Intel Corp. (INTC) as among its strategic partners…

Grazed from ZDNet. Author: John Fontana.

Identity and Access as a Service is poised for a strong run at enterprises of all size, and those who have done their homework will dodge the hype and know what’s right for them and what’s not. By the end of 2015, Identity and Access as a Service (IDaaS) will account for 25% of all new identity and access management sales, compared with 5% in 2012, according to recent Gartner research "Are You and the IDaaS Market Ready for Each Other?"

At the end of 2012, the market was $180 million. By the end of this year, that number is expected to jump to $265 million. Small and medium-sized companies are helping drive interest. They are extending their current IAM architectures and providing access to SaaS services or internal Web-apps. Larger companies in general are looking to support both cloud and on-premises applications with IDaaS offerings…

Grazed from VentureBeat. Author: Matt Quin.

We’re well beyond any question about whether cloud computing is the future. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) paved the way for the idea that organizations can operate some of their most important systems in an on-premise or off-premise cloud. Small, medium and even large businesses accept that cloud computing delivers flexibility, cost and scalability that business has never had before. Companies are gravitating to cloud because it brings very short time to value and doesn’t impact the current business model.

Lower cost and less risk are very attractive propositions. How big is this move? Forrester estimates that the average company has 9.3 different SaaS applications in use. Consulting firm Cap Gemini reports that 78% of new applications are deployed into the cloud. And that’s just the applications that are being tracked. In reality, workers today are practicing BYOS (Bring Your Own Service) as they experiment with SaaS in broad ways that IT and even business managers may not know about…

Grazed from ITBusinessEdge. Author: Michael Vizard.

The current fascination with deployment models in the cloud will soon give way to more practical approaches to managing tiers of private and public cloud computing resources. According to Saar Gillai, senior vice president and general manager for converged cloud at Hewlett-Packard, as cloud computing becomes more unified in the months ahead, thanks largely to open standards and APIs, hybrid clouds will simply become the new enterprise IT norm.

Gillai says all this fascination with deployment models is a temporary thing. In fact, Gillai says the deployment model is not the relevant discussion. It’s the ability to support multiple deployment models, ranging from public clouds to private clouds running on premise and every type of cloud in between, adds Gillai, which will ultimately distinguish HP from larger cloud rivals such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft…

Grazed from PRNewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

ScaleMatrix, a front runner in the evolving Cloud Computing and Data Center market, announced today, in parallel to Dell’s Cloud Partner Program announcement, that ScaleMatrix will be one of the three initial North American partners Dell will leverage in the to deliver cloud services.

Of the three providers chosen, ScaleMatrix, will bolster Dell’s Cloud offering with their innovative VMware based TruCore™ Performance Cloud hosting platform, which provides users enhanced control over functionality and performance. Services are delivered from proprietary world-class data centers, and leverage enterprise hardware, storage and cutting-edge security and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) mitigation services…

Grazed from OreganLive. Author: Mike Rogoway.

A new Portland cloud computing startup, Orchestrate.io, has raised $3 million in venture capital to help launch its technology. Orchestrate wants to make it easier to build online applications, and to make those apps run quicker. It has created standardized tools for frequently requested online information — location, search and recommendation features, for example — so developers don’t have to build their own databases.

It plans to store that information at data centers distributed around the world, starting with outposts in Silicon Valley and in Tokyo, so that the data is readily available to the apps’ users. Founder Antony Falco, 44, previously helped start a Massachusetts company called Basho Technologies, which has raised more than $30 million in venture capital and grown to more than 100 employees…

Grazed from MarketWire. Author: PR Announcement.

TIBCO Software Inc. today announced the launch of TIBCO Cloud Bus(TM), its new subscription-based Integration Platform-as-a-Service (iPaaS) offering that leverages the company’s extensive integration expertise and presents users with the ability to drastically shorten time to market and lower costs as they migrate applications and workloads to the cloud.

"With Cloud Bus(TM), TIBCO is combining the deployment flexibility of the cloud with enterprise-class integration features in a single subscription service that customers can run anywhere — on-premise, in the cloud, in bare metal or virtualized environments," said Matt Quinn, CTO for TIBCO Software. "TIBCO Cloud Bus provides ready-made integrations across popular SaaS and critical on-premise applications, while allowing subscribers the ability to identify, configure and extend integration templates for their own business context with ease. Finally, and as you would expect from TIBCO, Cloud Bus includes extensive capabilities for real-time integration, meaning changes are reflected in all connected applications as they happen, without waiting for the next batch update."…