Grazed from PRNewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Backupify, the leading provider of cloud-to-cloud backup and recovery solutions for Software as a Service (SaaS) applications, will be participating in several upcoming CIO events to share best practices on protecting digital assets in the cloud. According to a recent Aberdeen Group report, "SaaS Data Loss: The Problem You Didn’t Know You Had," 80 percent of survey respondents reported some form of SaaS application in their organization and of that group, a third had experienced data loss within these applications. With more data in the cloud than ever before, data backup is a key component of any IT strategy.

Rob May founded Backupify in 2008, helping to create the first cloud-to-cloud backup solution. He serves as the company’s chief strategist and under his leadership, Backupify has secured $19.5 million in venture capital funding and is now backing up more than 1,000,000 accounts in total. A frequent speaker at cloud events, Rob also actively contributes to publications including Wired and Xconomy…

Grazed from IT News Online. Author: PR Announcement.

CloudSigma, an international, customer-centric, pure-cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider, today announced that it has been named a Cool Vendor in the Cool Vendors in the European Cloud Computing Market, 2013 report, authored by Gartner Research Director Gregor Petri, Gartner Research Director Tiny Haynes and Gartner Research Director Hanns Koehler-Kruener.

According to Gartner’s analysis, "Cloud computing in Europe is developing slower than in other parts of the world, especially North America, but this region is home to some bright spot vendors that warrant closer examination." Gartner names CloudSigma’s IaaS offering as innovative, impactful and intriguing…

Grazed from BusinessWire. Author: PR Announcement.

iYogi a global provider of software and technical support services has launched a cloud based solution that drives service innovation through support automation and customer experience management. With iYogi’s ‘Digital Services Cloud’ (DSC), telecom companies, OEM’s, technology retailers and BPO companies can address new opportunities and generate revenue, while enhancing customer experience and reducing costs.

“Digital Service Cloud has a proven capability to increase customer lifetime and value, and can generate operating income between USD 15 and USD 20 for every customer interaction. By using Digital Service Cloud telcos, technology retailers, OEMs and global service providers or BPO companies can not only use support as a channel for new revenues, but also expand their business by adding tech support services, the market for which is estimated at USD 100 Billion globally and at least INR 20,000 crore in India.” said Uday Challu, CEO and Co-founder of iYogi…

Grazed from LoginVSI. Author: PR Announcement.

Login VSI B.V. announces 4.0, a major new release of its flagship product Login VSI, the industry standard performance and scalability testing tool for Virtual Desktop Infrastructures and Server Based Computing environments.

The design of this new release has been driven by extensive customer feedback programs, and production testing projects executed at multiple customer and vendor sites, including the tests done for the acclaimed independent research project Virtual Reality Check. Login VSI 4.0 makes testing of VDI and SBC environments easier and more realistic than ever before…

Grazed from BusinessWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

The latest benchmark testing by Heirloom Computing revealed that the company’s ELPaaS cloud platform for legacy applications is much faster than mainframe computing alternatives, while costing companies 90% less.  The results strongly validate the viability of cloud computing as a less expensive and highly reliable alternative to traditional and expensive mainframe computing solutions.

In this TPC-C benchmarking test, Heirloom used an HP Compute Cloud “Standard, Extra Large” (4 CPU, 16GB RAM) instance as its building block. Blocks can be added or removed dynamically for exceptional scalability and flexibility. Heirloom used 1,500 terminals to achieve a transaction throughput rate of 12,105 CICS transactions per minute, equivalent to a 905 MIPS mainframe – well within the needs of the vast majority of mainframe users…

Grazed from CRN.  Author: Steven Burke.

The recurring revenue cloud computing offensive from Intelisys is paying off in big sales gains for the master agency and its partners.   Solution providers say Intelisys has delivered the sales training and technical muscle that have allowed them to start quickly booking significant recurring revenue cloud computing sales. They say none of the other master agents have put as much muscle into helping them make the leap into the fast growing cloud computing services market.

What’s more, partners credit Intelisys with bridging the gap between telecom agents and VARs and even sparking partnerships between the historically distinct channels with what at one time seemed impenetrable cultural and business model differences…

Grazed from ERPCloudNews.  Author: Christopher Allen Samson.

When it comes to the future of technology, cloud computing is seeing a massive growth for many reasons. Most individuals and companies that have adopted cloud services are reporting positive experiences and results, which are helping this area to grow at a fast rate. Over the next four years, it is expected that spending for public IT cloud computing services will near $100 billion.

The annual growth rate is expected to be 26.4 per cent, which is five times that of the traditional growth of the IT industry. More and more leaders in business are shifting to using cloud services over other IT applications…

Grazed from eWeek.  Author: Eric Lundquist.

"The software-as-a-service ship has sailed," Google CIO Ben Fried told attendees at the Bloomberg Enterprise Technology Summit in New York City late last month.  Where once there were entire conferences dedicated to whether or not cloud computing would ever be right for the enterprise, that argument is now moot. OK. So it is a moot argument, but the reality is that it isn’t one boat but an entire flotilla of boats that have sailed.

Not to belabor the metaphor all that much, but there is the SS Amazon, the SS Rackspace, the SS OpenStack and a mixed crew of major vendors, independent developers and CIOs. The CIOs attending the Bloomberg forum weren’t disputing the value of cloud computing, but were still concerned about security, privacy and liabilities related to the cloud…

Grazed from MSPMentor.  Author: Tom Flink.

Citrix (NASDAQ: CTXS) is launching a new program designed for cloud service providers to take Citrix cloud-based services offerings to market. Anticipated partners for the program include large service providers and telecom providers, especially those outside of the United States. Here are the details.

The new program is called the Citrix Cloud Advisor Program and Tom Flink, the company’s VP of Worldwide Channels and Marketing, told MSPmentor that the program will roll out in the months ahead and expand the go-to-market strategy for Citrix’s cloud-based services.  There are two models for this…

Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Steve Ranger.

Cloud computing, with its promise of cheap, easy access to enterprise-class applications via the internet, is a seductive concept for many cash-strapped organisations as it seems to offer state-of-the-art infrastructure without the need for epic IT integration projects — or expensive staff.

At the moment cloud still accounts for a relatively small slice of enterprise IT spending — perhaps no more than five or six percent of the total software market, although one prediction sees this climb to 20 percent by the end of the decade. That’s partly because companies remain cautious about the new technology, but also because they have significant investments in their existing on-premise IT infrastructure, both hardware and software…