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…

Grazed from GlobeNewswire. Author: PR Announcement.

Ilesfay(R) Technology Group, a leading provider of cloud-based data replication solutions, today announced it has received its second patent that protects and legitimizes its MatchMaking(R) technology. MatchMaking allows data to be replicated and transferred anywhere in the world 10-30 times faster than traditional methods, speeds only possible since the advent of cloud computing. The algorithm computes the most efficient way to replicate data between sites, only transferring new data in a set rather than the entire data set.

Issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office on March 26, 2013, the second patent is No. 8,407,315 and titled "Method for horizontal scale delta encoding." "We’re proud to have invented technology that’s truly unique in the marketplace," said President & CEO Chris McLennan. "One that’s helpful to so many existing and potential customers, adding value to our company at large, and providing even more upside to our investors. We expect to announce additional partnerships and customer relationships in the near future."…

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.

Unified public and private cloud log management, monitoring and analytics are key to the acceleration of enterprise cloud deployments—at least according to Sumo Logic. The vendor has updated its log management and analytics product with new functionality that enables customers to quickly analyze logs generated by SaaS, PaaS or IaaS environments, but it also unveiled new support for Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) S3.

The update includes support for hosted collection for companies that want to store their logs directly in Amazon S3. This follows up on support for Amazon Web Services (AWS) that Sumo Logic announced last spring. At that time, the company introduced its Sumo Logic Free log management and analytics service to AWS. The new functionality really centers on new collection capabilities, which include the ability to:…

Grazed from All Things Digital. Author: Arik Hesseldahl.

Justin Somaini, the former chief information security officer at Yahoo who left that company in January, has landed a new job at high-flying cloud-computing startup Box. In an announcement set to be made later today, Somaini, whose title will be VP and chief trust officer, is one of three high-profile hires at Box that will be announced later today. The other two are Niall Wall, who will be SVP and head of business development, and Jeff Mannie, who will be VP, controller and chief accounting officer. Wall will take over for Karen Appleton, who has been promoted to senior VP in charge of global alliances.

What does the new title — chief trust officer — mean? “Two things,” Somaini told me in a brief conversation yesterday. “Really driving a trust strategy for the company around the products and services we provide and how that relates to internal functions of how we perform. Second, we have to make sure there’s a tight integration with our customer to base to really understand their needs. And it’s not only that we’re able to respond to their pain points, but that we’re able to predict them.”…

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Alex Barrett.

The value of building a true private cloud is murky at best, and five years from now, the push to build private clouds may be remembered as a detour along the road to the ultimate destination: widespread use of the public cloud. In a panel discussion entitled, Building a Private Cloud: Is It Worth It?, at the Modern Infrastructure Decisions conference here last week, IT professionals with and without private clouds discussed the security, cost and management implications of building and operating a private cloud.

Implementing the private cloud on top of an existing VMware Inc. vSphere environment is a way to free up staff from doing low-level tasks, such as spinning up new servers, according to Bob Plankers, a virtualization and cloud architect for a major Midwestern university, and who runs VMware vCloud. "The cloud is about a lot of non-technical things," Plankers said. "I look at staff time spent. Are we able to take advantage of what the humans are good at?"…

Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Jordan Novet.

IBM reported $23.4 billion in revenue in the first quarter of the year, down more than 5 percent year over year, and $3.03 billion in net income, down 1.1 percent. Analysts had been expecting more than $24 billion in revenue. The company said cloud-computing revenue was up more than 70 percent year over year in the first quarter of 2013, following an 80 percent revenue gain in the previous quarter.

Revenue from software-as-a-Service (SaaS) products, including Tivoli software, were up 65 percent, Mark Loughridge, senior vice president and chief financial officer for finance and enterprise transformation, said during a Thursday call with investors. Revenue coming from enterprises setting up their own private cloud with IBM Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offerings was up “more than 75 percent,” Loughridge told investors…

Grazed from SailPoint. Author: PR Announcement.

SailPoint AccessIQ provides single sign-on (SSO) for internal Web applications, including company portals, custom Web applications, collaboration tools like SharePoint, and enterprise applications like SAP and Oracle E-Business suite. Additionally, SailPoint announced the immediate availability of the SailPoint AccessIQ mobile app for iOS and Android devices, providing today’s mobile workforce with secure and greatly simplified access to cloud and Web applications from mobile devices.

With these new capabilities, AccessIQ is the industry’s only solution that can provide business users with a single SSO solution spanning cloud and on-premises Web applications, as well as mobile devices, while enforcing appropriate levels of security policy and controls…

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Editorial Staff.

Microsoft’s Office 365 cloud is now a $1 billion business, according to the software giant’s Q3 2013 earnings statement. For Microsoft, that milestone proves Office 365’s momentum is accelerating. And that’s also a big win for Channel Chief Jon Roskill, who wants partners to back the suite. But there’s more work to be done when it comes to the Office 365 channel partner program. Here’s why. First, the progress. According to Microsoft’s earnings call with analysts today, Office 365 has:

• a $1 billion annual revenue run rate;
• strong increase in net seat adds; up 5 times;
• 1 in 4 enterprise customers now have cloud seats with Microsoft;
• over 75 of Office 465 enterprise seats are running premium (i.e, higher-priced) versions; and
• recent wins include City of Chicago and the International Federation of Red Cross.
• Office 365 Progress and Partner Challenges…

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.

Following Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) announcement of Windows Azure Infrastructure Services, RightScale isn’t missing a beat. The cloud management solutions provider is adding Azure to its list of supported cloud platforms. RightScale is making quite the to-do about its Azure support, as well, with a program it’s calling "Get Your App to Azure" (catchy, ain’t it?). With the new program, RightScale is going to help Azure customers accelerate application development on the Microsoft cloud platform with its multicloud management platform.

"RightScale has the experience and the technology to get companies up and running quickly on Windows Azure Infrastructure Services," said Michael Crandell, CEO of RightScale, in a prepared statement. "Enterprises want IaaS choice. RightScale enables our customers to provision, configure, and automate individual servers or entire deployments on Windows Azure in minutes."…