Grazed from CloudTech. Author: Sue Poremba.

Cloud block storage is a new way of thinking about how you store files and organise content. It allows you to abstract your infrastructure away from the implementation details specifying what hardware and operating system you need to manage to host the files your applications and organisation use.

“Cloud block storage allows organizations to focus on their content and trust the details of delivering that content to an established SaaS provider. It functions like a hard drive accessible via the Internet,” explained Troy Carl, vice president and lead tech engineer with Faith Comes by Hearing, an audio Bible organisation that utilises cloud block storage for its recordings. “Storing files and assets in the cloud is important because it means you have a large amount of flexibility in how you deliver them to your customers and employees,” Carl added. “Not only are the files constantly available, you have the ability to control – at a very granular level – who has access to those files and when they have access.”…

Grazed from WorkSpot. Author: PR Announcement.

Workspot launched a new bring-your-own-device solution for the mobile workplace. Workspot has created both a SaaS service for IT administrators, Workspot Control, and a mobile application for IPads called Workspot. Workspot also announced that it has raised $1.9 million in seed funding from Kleiner Perkins, Norwest, Redpoint, and angel investors including Peter Wagner and Gaurav Garg.

Workspot is a single app and secure mobile workplace that helps end-users and IT departments conveniently separate work-related content and personal information stored on the device. End-users can flip between applications inside Workspot with ease, in a single, contained workspace including Intranet, SharePoint, Email, and Microsoft Office documents. Collaboration with co-workers is possible through applications that reside behind their organization’s firewall making full use of SaaS applications…

Grazed from CloudPro. Author: Jane McCallion.

IaaS player SoftLayer and distributed software company Basho have come together in order to offer the latter’s NoSQL Riak database as a service operating on SoftLayer’s cloud. The companies claim the collaboration will make the open source database more accessible and flexible, as it is available on a pay-as-you-go basis. Marc Jones, vice president of product innovation at SoftLayer told Cloud Pro: “The overall goal is to launch a product on the SoftLayer platform that is very easy for customers to get started with their Riak and Riak enterprise deployments.

“We want to make it simple, starting from the up-front ordering process. We have designed what we call a solution designer and it allows customers to dynamically build Riak clusters and specify which SoftLayer data centre they want to build it in. So it’s not quite wizard style, but it is very easy to walk through.”…

Grazed from PRWeb. Author: PR Announcement.

TeleProviders Inc., a premier communications and technology solutions provider, expands its converged cloud and data center offerings with several technology providers in the cloud and data services sector. TeleProviders is able to help clients co-source products and services that include colocation, managed hosting and infrastructure as a service (IaaS.

“We are fortunate to be able to offer our clients innovative hosting and cloud solutions in addition to the traditional voice, data center and mobility services,” said Jason Sharek, TeleProviders CEO. “The convergence of enterprise hardware, software and IaaS services in our industry means our product mix is as varied as our clients’ needs. We have the specialized skill sets on staff to meet these needs.”…

Grazed from TechCrunch. Author: Alex Williams.

Mowbly, which recently launched and is here at Disrupt NY, takes a counter approach to mobile development platform environments. Instead of a steady stream of apps, Mowbly uses a single-app approach that it offers through its mobile platform as a service (PaaS), said Co-Founder Vignesh Swaminathan. Mowbly offers third-party app support. But it only processes the data by calling the third party app’s API. Mowbly delivers the data but not the user experience of the app.

At its core is an aggregator that filters data for the customer, employee or partner and presents it through the app. The service has a cross-platform capability, a mobile server for building, managing and deploying apps and a mobile user interface framework. It can be used across multiple mobile platforms and requires no special mobile development skills. It allows IT departments to deploy the apps using browser-based tools rather than hire developers…

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.

McAfee is giving a boost to its Security Connected portfolio with the addition of identity and access management capabilities. They were previously developed and sold by Dell (NASDAQ:DELL), but now McAfee is bringing them to market as McAfee Cloud Single Sign On and McAfee One Time Password.

Additionally, McAfee launched Identity Center of Expertise, which is staffed by experts in identity and cloud security that are specifically there to help users with questions related to identity and access management issues…

Grazed from CIOL. Author: Sunija Rishi.

As per Gartner, cloud-based security services market will be worth $4.2 billion by 2016, as companies seek out new ways to deliver low cost security offerings. Public and private clouds are interesting cloud sub domains to know about and yes the security aspect can not be ignored.

Public vs Private Cloud

A public cloud is one based on the standard cloud computing model, in which a service provider makes resources, such as applications and storage, available to the general public over the Internet. Yet, another feature of public cloud is that, it is available to all and believes in agility…

Grazed from PRNewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Managing and disseminating the rapidly increasing amount of geospatial data will be a huge challenge for governments and civilians responding to the world’s next big disaster, Eric Vollmecke of the Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC) told 350 global leaders at the NATO Network Enabled Capability conference held in Lisbon, Portugal, April 23-25.

"From an operational perspective, there is an insatiable appetite for overhead imagery to build situational awareness. Currently, platforms keep growing to collect and disseminate the necessary information. This information is not timely in its response, it’s unwieldy in its deployment and it lacks the flexibility to enable cross-domain interoperability," said Vollmecke. "Unless we get our arms around all of this, the amount of data will be overwhelming and we will miss precious days trying to get the right information to the right international stakeholders so they can do their work and not sit waiting on the sidelines."…

Grazed from FortMills Times. Author: Editorial Staff.

Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced the launch of the new AWS Certification Program with the first of several exams that will made available in 2013. With the accelerating adoption of cloud computing and the AWS Cloud around the world, organizations are increasingly seeking mechanisms to identify candidates and consultants with demonstrated knowledge of AWS best practices. The new AWS Certification Program helps to fill this need to recognize IT professionals that possess the skills and technical knowledge necessary for building and maintaining applications and services on the AWS Cloud. To learn more about the AWS Certification Program, visit http://aws.amazon.com/certification.

AWS Certifications help to recognize the skills, knowledge and expertise of IT professionals in designing, deploying and managing applications on the AWS platform. To earn an AWS Certification, individuals must demonstrate their proficiency in a particular area by passing an AWS Certification Exam. Individuals looking to prepare for an exam can attend courses through AWS Training to help gain proficiency with AWS services. Individuals that pass an AWS Certification Exam can display the applicable AWS Certified logo on business cards and resumes to gain visibility for their AWS expertise while fostering credibility with employers and peers…

Grazed from PRNewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

BlueKai, the only end-to-end SaaS solution for data management, analysis and activation, today announced a partnership with IBM, in which BlueKai will integrate with IBM Digital Data Exchange (DDX), part of the company’s Digital Analytics suite. Effective immediately, the partnership connects customers using IBM’s tag management solution with BlueKai’s DMP data intelligence across offline, online and mobile channels. IBM DDX is a tag management solution that simplifies the management of IBM and third-party page tags, enabling clients to deploy and maintain website pages with minimal support from IT.

As data-driven marketing transforms the way brands reach and connect with audiences, IBM’s partnership with BlueKai marks a watershed moment in the industry as it underscores how traditional marketing-related technology vendors are turning to innovative upstarts to help drive better engagement and ROI in a highly digital and fragmented media landscape…