Attunity Ltd., a leading provider of information availability software solutions, announced today the imminent release of an optimized data loading solution for Amazon Redshift, AWS’s new data warehouse in the cloud. Attunity’s offering is being designed to provide a high-speed, scalable and fully-managed solution designed to move data from enterprise databases into Amazon Redshift quickly, easily and affordably. The new Attunity solution is expected to be available for customer preview in March 2013. Amazon Redshift customers can find more information and pre-register here.

Data warehousing has long been a critical enabler for business intelligence and growth, used by many enterprises to enable Big Data analytics. Amazon Redshift brings to market an innovative approach to data warehousing, leveraging cloud computing to enable significant reductions in the total costs of owning and operating a data warehouse. While organizations look to capitalize on these potential gains in agility and cost, they face the challenge of moving large amounts of information from their on-premises data centers into Amazon Redshift in the cloud. Attunity’s solution will be designed to simplify this process, leveraging high-performance database replication, ease of use, and high-speed data transfer technologies.

Grazed from MSN Money. Author: Jim J. Jubak.

I think Akamai’s (AKAM +1.64%) almost 18% plunge on Feb. 7 after what Wall Street decided was a disappointing fourth-quarter earnings report has taken some of the risk out of this stock. You may have to be patient, since the company is entering one of those capital-intensive periods that can cut margins, but for investors willing to hold past a quarter or two (or for investors who can time their entry point with more exactitude that I usually can), Akamai is one of the best ways to play the growth of cloud computing and what looks like a coming explosion in video on demand as Netflix (NFLX +1.13%), Amazon.com (AMZN -1.54%) and Google (GOOG +0.64%) gear up to go head-to-head-to-head? in that space.

On Feb. 6, Akamai announced fourth-quarter earnings of 54 cents a share, 5 cents a share above the Wall Street consensus, and revenue of $378 million. That represented revenue growth of 17% but fell slightly below the Wall Street consensus of $381 million for the quarter. Gross margins of 82% and operating margins of 33.2% were both ahead of the consensus of 81.1% and 32.3%, respectively…

Grazed from SiliconIndia. Author: Editorial Staff.

Cloud computing has a very rich and elegant history. Filled with intellectuals and pioneers, the cloud paradigm is simply an amazing piece of archetype. But it’s quite hard to pick out each and every cloud innovators since the list is neither exhaustive nor all inclusive. And we are sure the list will get bigger from time to time because there are quite new innovators out there whose names we’re just beginning to hear and whose accomplishments will be well-known in the coming years.

The interesting part of cloud computing is that it’s just a decade old, but the growth rate simply has been astonishing when compared to slow nurturers like personal computing and client-server technology. And then there are these pioneers. These guys grounded the seeds of cloud computing, watered them, waited for the exact time for the fruit to get ripe and then later on reaped the well-deserved benefits. From leaders like Amazon Web Services to Google’s Compute Engine and the recent Microsoft’s Azure, cloud computing has it all. So hold on to your seats, as its time that we delve into our list encompassing top 10 pioneers who are the forgers behind the incredible technology called Cloud Computing…

Grazed from TheAge. Author: Trevor Clark.

Data sovereignty and privacy concerns resulting from the extension of US-government mass-surveillance powers raised in an EU report publicised last week should not dissuade Australian businesses from actively considering and adopting cloud computing services, legal experts say. The reach of the US Patriot Act – which essentially compels US companies to hand over data stored anywhere in the world – has been a major point of contention in debates over risk and the use of cloud computing services for some time.

So much so that vendors such as Rackspace and Google have publicly said they would fight any requests to hand over data – which is welcomed by those with data sovereignty concerns but of little practical effect in countering the risk posed by the law – and led others to invest heavily in data centre facilities or siting IT infrastructure in Australia…

Grazed from TechnologyTell. Author: Charles Moore.

A friend of mine—a longtime and formerly ultra-enthusiastic Mac fan—recently summed up his frustration with the direction Apple has taken. He still uses Apple computers because, he says, he’s too lazy to learn a new system, but he detests the walled garden model Apple has constructed around the iOS and, increasingly, OS X as well. He’s not a convert to the philosophy of cloud computing, with the exception of using DropBox for backups and file synching, but of course you could do that with a Windows or Linux system.

Meanwhile Apple’s new regime is making users more and more dependant on connection with the iTunes / iCloud / App Store mothership, which my friend says puts him in mind of 19th-Century sweatshops. They make people 100% dependent on the factory owner—in this instance the manufacturer of machines we depend on, like the iPhone, iPad, and, increasingly, the Mac as well…

Grazed from SFGate.  Author: Editorial Staff.

The Idaho House Revenue and Taxation Committee has agreed to introduce legislation to clarify that cloud computing services delivered over the Internet aren’t tangible goods subject to sales tax.

The Spokesman-Review reports (http://bit.ly/VXhBd9) that high-tech businesses in Idaho requested such legislation after an Idaho Tax Commission memo in October interpreted a 1993 state law as saying software is taxable property no matter how it is delivered…

Grazed from TechTarget.  Author: Beth Pariseau.

Although a recent report on PCI DSS offering guidance on cloud computing has received some criticism, some experts say it clarifies cloud computing security risks and responsibilities, and could spur cloud adoption.

Opinions on the viability of achieving compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) in cloud computing scenarios are mixed; however, Chris Brenton, director of security for CloudPassage and a member of the PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) special interest group (SIG), said it’s possible — but not easy — with due diligence…

Grazed from TechTarget.  Author: Jack Vaughn.

It has long been thought that the place to find the most accurate information about customers is in a company’s enterprise resource planning system. But some within the IT industry say cloud computing applications — and specifically Software as a Service-based sales applications like Salesforce.com — may eventually become the place to find the most up-to-date customer data. A subtle shift in power may be underway.

Master data management (MDM) programs may someday look on Software as a Service (SaaS) cloud computing applications as the "newspaper of record" for customer data, some viewers predict. They may already provide access to the best and most recent information about customer names, addresses, phone numbers and histories, according to MDM veteran Zeb Mahmood, head of product management and strategy at SnapLogic, a data integration software vendor based in San Mateo, Calif…

Grazed from Business2Community.  Author: Pere Hospital.

The idea of Cloud Computing is that an Enterprise instead of purchasing expensive licensed software’s and hardware spends comparatively a fraction of that amount to rent out resources needed to fulfill its Computing requirements (Hardware and Software’s) from a Cloud Service Provider (CSP) via a network system (Internet).

Cloud computing works on the basis of three models:

• Infrastructure as a service (e.g. Servers, Storage, Network)
• Platform as a Service (Database, Web Servers, Development Tools)
• Software as a Service (e.g. CRM, Email, Games)…