Email Overload from the Exchange Admin’s Point of View

Grazed from Wired. Author: Nick Kephart.

From technology startups to multinationals, cloud computing has arrived, and the change is evident. According to Gartner, nearly 20% of companies are using cloud computing for most of their production applications.Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is already a $6 billion market and it’s growing nearly 50% per year. The popularity of IaaS means that more applications and services are being delivered via the cloud by an ever­expanding group of business units, teams, developers, and systems administrators.

IaaS consumers are now looking to cloud management platforms to help manage their growing portfolio of cloud applications. A cloud management platform enables organizations to deploy, manage, monitor, and control applications across public and private clouds ­ ensuring that companies can achieve both agility and cost savings. Here are six key capabilities you should look for in a cloud management platform:…

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Jeff Cogswell.

When working with a cloud installation, costs can easily skyrocket — whether you build a private cloud or adopt public cloud computing services. Though enterprises factor in initial purchasing costs, they often overlook costs associated with building and managing clouds, as well as ongoing maintenance they require from IT teams.

There are ways to keep the costs of cloud computing down, but with proprietary software, in-house development and open source options, the right choice is not always clear. Though there is no one-size-fits-all answer for controlling cloud costs, with the right information, an enterprise can choose an option that works…

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.

A new email reporting service from Message Bus enables companies to keep better tabs on how corporate email is being abused for illicit or unauthorized purposes. Message Bus’ Discover is a free reporting service designed to give more visibility into email senders so companies can see if their email systems are being abused or misused. Additionally, Message Bus also launched Global Delivery Network, a software service aimed at enterprises, email service providers and application developers that need to send millions to billions of emails, mobile and social messages per month.

Combined, Message Bus hopes to help businesses get a handle on dealing with unauthorized email senders. While Discover provides the visibility into who is sending email on behalf of the company, the Global Delivery Network was designed to lock out unauthorized email senders even as it lets legitimate senders send email across multiple channels…

Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Derrick Harris.

Netflix has forged a cottage industry building tools to fill gaps in Amazon’s cloud infrastructure or otherwise add value to it. Now the company is open sourcing its Hystrix libraries, which manage interactions between the myriad distributed services that power its applications.

Netflix, it seems, is to cloud computing what Google and Facebook are to distributed systems, generally. Today, Netflix has open sourced its latest technology for keeping its cloud-hosted applications running — a set of libraries, called Hystrix, that is designed to manage interactions between the myriad services that comprise the company’s distributed architecture. If you’re building service-oriented architectures in the Amazon Web Services cloud, it might be worth a look…

Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Barb Darrow.

New Deepfield analysis out just after Black Friday and in time for Cyber Monday shows (spoiler alert!) Amazon is by far the most popular online retail site. But there are some surprises as well. Just in time for Cyber Monday, Deepfield released new numbers ranking online retail sites based on their traffic. Some of the results are surprising (Shopify, which offers an ecommerce platform for e-commerce sites, shows pretty good numbers); some less so (Amazon remains by far the largest and busiest site).

Deepfield, which offers services to build, manage and optimize network infrastructure, studied online shopping infrastructure by sampling internet backbone traffic across a “large cross section of North America and multiple collaborating infrastructure and internet providers.” The goal: To estimate how many users hit these sites daily and determine market share of the sites based on those numbers…

Grazed from PRNewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

iCIMS, a leading provider of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) talent acquisition software solutions for growing businesses, announced today that TMCnet, a global, integrated media company, has named the iCIMS Talent Platform a 2012 Cloud Computing Excellence Award winner.

The Cloud Computing Excellence Awards recognizes companies that have most effectively leveraged cloud computing in their efforts to bring new, differentiated offerings to market. In addition to iCIMS, this year’s winners included Citrix Online Services Division, EarthLink, Inc., and iCIMS NOW customer Enghouse Interactive. "TMC is proud to announce iCIMS, Inc. as a recipient of the second annual Cloud Computing Excellence Award," said Rich Tehrani, CEO, TMC. "The iCIMS Talent Platform has demonstrated innovation as well as the ability to improve the cloud," Tehrani concluded…

Grazed from TelecomReseller. Author: Jeff Owen.

I’m a member of several online discussion groups so get regular updates on a variety of topics. One conversation that has been going on for awhile was started with this question, “I hear a lot about the cloud and cloud computing. Can someone explain to me what that is?” This came from a telecommunications professional within a discussion group for same. It got me thinking that some of our readers may be asking the same question, and we should provide an answer.

This is a natural question coming from someone either new to the profession or unfamiliar with data communications and nuances of emerging technologies. As a telephony professional or vendor, you may be asking why this is important to you. My answer is simple. The day of separate telecommunications or network disciplines is rapidly disappearing…

Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Barb Darrow.

With this update to its open-source cloud, Eucalyptus focuses on better usability, a web-based user console, better reporting tools and key bug fixes to harden the cloud foundation for production use, says CEO Marten Mickos.

With its third major update in 12 months, open source cloud-software company Eucalyptus has added a graphical user interface and better reporting tools to its open-source cloud, and has hardened the underlying engine to make it more robust for production use. A pioneer in the private-cloud arena, Eucalyptus now finds itself competing other open source projects such as CloudStack and OpenStack, as well as with VMware’s vCloud Director…

Grazed from SiliconRepublic. Author: John Kennedy.

With the intention of turning ideas into new start-ups and jobs, Ireland’s Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation Richard Bruton, TD, has unveiled the new €5m Irish Centre for Cloud Computing and Commerce (IC4) at DCU. The purpose of the new centre is to accelerate the development and adoption of cloud computing in Ireland.

The IC4 operation is jointly supported by Enterprise Ireland and IDA Ireland and is the 11th Government-funded technology centre to be established in Ireland. The centre is also guided by an industry panel including Fujitsu, Intel, IBM and Microsoft. It will be based at DCU but will be supported with additional research capabilities from UCC and Athlone Institute of Technology…