Grazed from Enterprise Storage Forum.  Author: Drew Robb.

The race to the cloud is on. Companies are falling over themselves to get onto the cloud, much the same as they rushed headlong onto the Internet in the nineties. Of course, many of the early websites and e-commerce outfits were complete duds, which offers a warning for those eager to adopt cloud computing.  So here are some cloud storage pitfalls to watch out for—rather than just trying to set an Olympic record for getting yourself on the cloud.

1. Are Interfaces Compatible?

Although cloud storage brings the obvious benefits of pay-as-you-go storage, businesses using traditional storage systems may find a number of surprises once they deploy cloud storage. A big one is interface incompatibility.  “Cloud storage employs object-based interfaces, which are not compatible with today’s applications,” warned Nicos Vekiarides, CEO of TwinStrata…

Grazed from CloudPro.  Author: Jane McCallion.

Software maker SAP posted a 23 per cent rise in software and cloud subscription revenue and 25 per cent overall business growth in its first quarter results.  Revenue generated by the organisation’s software-as-a-service business was €167 million in Q1 2013, an increase of 380 per cent year-on-year, with the company claiming its annual cloud revenue run rate was approaching €900 million.

Revenues generated by SAP HANA, the organisation’s big data offering, have also increased. SAP HANA software revenues have tripled, the organisation claimed, adding €86 million to overall software revenue in Q1…

Grazed from the Wall Street Journal.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Kamere, a new social inspiration start-up company focused on the power of inspiration, today announced the formation of the company, its executive management team and advisory board. Kamere is developing a cloud-computing platform and mobile application that enriches people’s lives by connecting people and organizations with personalized, meaningful inspirational content that can be shared across major social networking platforms.

Kamere was co-founded by former Hewlett Packard Vice President, Kim Box, and John Kunhart, Managing Director for American River Ventures, a $100 million venture capital fund targeting early-stage technology companies. Box and Kunhart joined forces with a distinct purpose in mind — to build a purpose-driven company that amplifies the power of inspiration to uplift humanity…

Grazed from SeekingAlpha.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Cloud computing is no longer an emerging trend. For instance, salesforce.com has seen 14 years of operation and it has been more than 5 years since it topped 1 million subscribers. Similarly, other organizations operating in cloud computing have made significant progress in cloud-enabling their applications. However, recent innovations in this sector, such as everything-as-a-service (XaaS), are signs that there are still opportunities yet to be tapped into.

Realizing these trends and helping its clients to get the most business value from cloud computing along with an anticipation of a greater demand for public cloud, Accenture PLC (ACN) has launched the Accenture Cloud Platform. Also, Accenture will invest more than $400 million in cloud technologies, capabilities and training by 2015 in an attempt to deliver the right cloud services from its network of providers, as well as blending its own industry solutions and innovations with third party offerings…

Grazed from SilliconHills.  Author: Editorial Staff.

ZeroVM is creating the world’s first cloud hypervisor, which is a piece of software that creates and runs virtual machines.  The team from Israel has created an open source platform for cloud computing that is fast and efficient. The open source program runs on Openstack, the operating system for the cloud, which Rackspace created along with NASA.

The ZeroVM Team has spent the past week in Portland, Oregon at the Openstack Summit meeting with customers. They arrived back in San Antonio just in time to pitch ZeroVM at the TechStars Cloud Demo Day on Thursday.  Camuel Gilyadov, one of the team’s founders, presented the company. Its slide showing “5 Geeks with Russian accents,” got a big laugh…

Grazed from CRN.  Author: Joseph F. Kovar.

Condusiv Technologies is expanding its performance-optimization software line with a new version specifically targeting the I/O performance in physical IT infrastructures running Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT) applications.  Condusiv next week plans to release its V-locity Server optimization software, a new application designed to increase the performance of I/O-intensive applications like Microsoft’s SQL Server and Exchange running on physical servers, said Jerry Baldwin, CEO of the Burbank, Calif.-based vendor.

V-locity Server is a follow-on from Condusiv’s previous I/O accelerator, the V-locity VM, which was targeted at virtualized environments, Baldwin said. It also takes advantage of the company’s Diskeeper software for optimizing file read and write at the Windows level, he said…

Grazed from Xtium.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Cloud computing has been around for years now, and the technology’s growth has been driven largely by the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) sectors. 

As of now, Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) adoption has lagged behind the other two. There are a few reasons for this, most notably that it simply hasn’t been around for as long as IaaS and SaaS tools. But another reason for PaaS models’ late start is that decision-makers have been waiting for the technology to mature.  Contrary to many people’s perception, that time has already arrived, according to TechTarget…

Grazed from Business2Community. Author: Lindsey Nelson.

A disaster of any kind is a fear for so many of us. Events like house fires and freak thunderstorms can take all our personal belongings and remind us that no document or treasure is safe unless one of two things is true – you happened to either buy two or make a copy, or it’s been backed up. But what if you were not only a home owner, but also the owner of a small local bank. What would happen to all your transactional data if that freak storm came through your town?

What Is Cloud Disaster Recovery?

Cloud computing is great for a lot of things, collaboration, saving your company money, and improving app development; however, it’s perfect for one thing – a data disaster recovery. According to Wikipedia, cloud backup is “a service that provides users with a system for the backup, storage, and recovery of computer files…typically built around a client software program that runs on a schedule…once a day…it typically collects, compresses, encrypts and transfers the data to the remote backup service provider’s servers or off-site hardware.”…

Grazed from MyHostNews. Author: Editorial Staff.

Cloud is ideal for Virtual Desktop/Desktop Replacement. Most people, when they first hear about it don’t realize the power of cloud computing. Imagine all your servers, running all the time with limited downtime. Imagine all the machines in your business silently connected and ticking away, ready to share data at a moment’s notice. Imagine employees being able to access their work anywhere without the use of a VPN.

Cloud offers all of that and more. When you use cloud instead of a traditional desktop, you are gaining a whole host of features that aren’t possible with a traditional model. To start, cloud computing is incredibly fast and powerful. With traditional computing, the processing load is usually on the computer itself. This can cause certain tasks, like graphical tasks or compiling code, to take a long time. When you use the cloud, all of that processing power is offloaded onto a system vastly more powerful than a regular desktop. The entire process winds up taking a much shorter time than normal…

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.

Spanning Cloud Apps is making it possible for administrators and trusted advisors to monitor Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Apps domains from any iOS or Android device with the launch of its first mobile app. Audit Log for Google Apps alerts admins when changes are made to their domain settings so they can monitor their domains on the go and in real time.

Focused on providing cloud-based backup and recovery with Spanning Backup for Google Apps, the vendor tripled its funding last month to build out its direct sales team and its reseller channel. Although it has been trying to make a name for itself since its launch in 2010 as a cloud-based backup and restore service provider, Spanning also provides log management and monitoring through its Admin Audit Log Viewer, which is the technological basis for the new mobile app…