Grazed from ComputerWeekly.  Author: Archana Venkatraman.

Public cloud rivals Microsoft and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have collaborated to help users manage Windows workloads on AWS cloud more easily, with Microsoft launching the System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) management pack for AWS.

The tool allows organisations running their Microsoft-based workloads at AWS to monitor their AWS resources directly in the Operations Manager console, eliminating the need for complex management consoles.  It can monitor AWS EC2 instances (Windows and Linux), Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes, Elastic Load Balancing, CloudFormation stacks, Auto Scaling groups and Elastic Beanstalk applications…

Grazed from MSPMentor.  Author: CJ Arlotta.

Moving to the cloud may seem simple on the front end, but it’s a lot more complicated if you are re-architecting your software to become an as-a-service offering.  Corent Technology has announced a software platform to assist with transforming software applications to software as a service (SaaS). What does this platform offer? We’ll reveal the details.

SurPaaS transforms applications to SaaS and can be deployed on any data center or cloud platform, the company said in its announcement. The solution’s capabilities include: self-service on-boarding capabilities and management of tenants, subscription management, SaaS lifecycle management, monitoring, metering, billing integration, business reporting, key performance metrics and dashboards…

Grazed from Business2Community.  Author: Louis Columbus.

Evangelizing development on any cloud computing or enterprise platform is challenging, costly and takes a unique skill set that can educate, persuade, sell and serve developers at the same time.

The companies who excel at this exude technical prowess and as a result earn and keep trust. For Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform providers, getting developers, both at partner companies and at enterprise customers to build applications, is a critical catalyst for future growth…

Grazed from TheVarGuy. Author: Christopher Tozzi.

Symantec and Webalo are partnering up on cloud computing. Here’s the background: How do you convince users that your apps — especially those that put their data in the cloud — are secure? In the past, pinky-swearing that you’ve reviewed all the code and are pretty sure there are no vulnerabilities might have sufficed. But in the age of the cloud, channel partnerships are playing an increased role in promoting security assurance, as a deal announced this week between Symantec and Webalo makes clear.

Webalo, which is based in California and was founded in 2000, develops what it calls an "enterprise mobility" platform. Essentially, the platform streamlines connections to the cloud-based mobile apps on which an enterprise relies, allowing users to connect from a single client and simplifying networking complications. The solution is subscription-based and offered in three different tiers according to the number of mobile users…

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: CJ Arlotta.

Dimension Data appears to be on a cloud computing collission course with Amazon (NSDQ:AMZN) Rackspace (NYSE: RAX). The reason: Dimension Data is introducing a tiered storage options capability, which will be part of the company’s public compute-as-a-service (CaaS) offering. The company’s offering is based on the EMC (NYSE: EMC) VNX storage platform, which provides a unified storage platform for virtual applications in the cloud. Options can be selected and provisioned through a web-based user interface or API. To accelerate performance, the company leverages solid state drives (SSD).

"Providing additional options around storage media is an important innovation that enables our clients to leverage the cloud for a variety of applications including high performance databases as well as less demanding applications such as archiving, backup and long term data retention," said Dimension Data Cloud Services General Manager Dave Hanrahan in a prepared statement…

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.

Equinix’s SE3 International Business Exchange (IBX) data center in Seattle is now sporting the Amazon Web Services Direct Connect service. This will provide Equinix’s Seattle customers with a direct connection to AWS so they can get millisecond latency between SE3 and AWS infrastructure.

In an email to customers, AWS noted that the launch of Direct Connect in Seattle provides local customers with direct connection access to the AWS US West (Oregon) region, which it stated is a frequently requested capability…

Grazed from Business2Community. Author: Sajjad Masud.

Cloud computing might be commonplace now, but it is still revolutionizing many traditional industries. One of those sectors is the hiring and recruiting space, where cloud computing has made it easier for your company to connect with candidates.

With your recruitment management system in the cloud, you can add and view candidate profiles at any time and from anywhere with an Internet connection. This allows team members to participate in the hiring workflow from anywhere and even recruit on the go using a mobile device. Cloud computing makes finding and organizing information for making critical recruitment decisions easier and faster than ever. Getting the most from your recruitment process now often means leveraging the cloud. Here are a few ways cloud computing can enhance your hiring:…

Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: David Linthicum.

SAP had a turbulent start in the cloud computing space. In 2010, it launched Business ByDesign as a SaaS offering to resounding yawns from the cloud computing industry. Vowing to improve, SAP did what all big companies do when they want to move quicker into a market. Innovate? Nope — it bought other companies. The shopping spree included SuccessFactors, a human resource management SaaS provider, and HANA, a sexy in-memory database and analytics engine that also serves as SAP’s big data strategy.

In its move to the Web, SAP’s actions have been a bit confusing. Months ago, SAP placed its All-in-One ERP app on Amazon Web Services as a public cloud SaaS offering — kind of. Now, it is making HANA available from its own cloud, as well as from partner public clouds…

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S4i Systems is widely known for its service to the IBM System i market with their EDMS solution, S4i Express. Driven by innovation, S4i Express is now available as a Cloud or SaaS offering. This provides organizations with the same stable and robust document distribution and content management solution without regard to the organization’s hardware infrastructure. Susanne Moore, Director of Marketing and Client Services at S4i Systems, states, “Over the past couple years, we have seen an increasing demand from our customers for a solution that will work with a variety of business server platforms.

Organizations want assurance that we can support them, not only today, but into the future regardless of the path that their core business applications take them. Additionally, organizations with limited IT resources are looking for more options that will allow for varying levels of support for managing business applications and servers. This has opened up a whole new market for us, which we feel we are well equipped to respond to. So when it comes to EDMS, we can respond with a proven application on a proven server platform that scales beautifully!”…

Grazed from Datamation. Author: Pedro Hernandez.

A booming software-as-a-service (SaaS) market is causing some in the industry to turn their attention toward managing and security enterprise cloud application data. PerspecSys, a cloud data protection firm whose U.S. headquarters is located in McLean, Va., announced today that it had secured $12 million in round of Series B funding, led be Paladin Capital Group and Ascent Venture Partners. Chipmaker Intel returned contributed to the round. To date, the company has raised $20 million.

PerspecSys’ flagship product is the Cloud Protection Gateway. The technology, which sits inside the firewall or at a managed service provider, allows organizations to add an extra layer of security to public cloud applications and meet compliance requirements. Supported applications include Oracle CRM On Demand and Fusion, Salesforce.com and Xactly Incent, among several others…