Grazed from Sys Con Media. Author: Maureen O’Gara.

The inspiration for GreenButton was the devilishly complicated battle scene in the 2003 movie "The Lord of the Rings" that its founder Scott Houston pulled together in two weeks for director Peter Jackson against all odds. It was accomplished in record time with thousands of servers and little sleep.

Fade to today. The GreenButton start-up claims its newfangled Cloud Fabric is the first server solution to let users – both the enterprise and service providers – deploy, manage and run compute-intensive applications in either private or public clouds or, for that matter, in multiple multi-tenant clouds…

Grazed from CNNMoney. Author: Paul R. La Monica.

Salesforce.com (CRM) bulls should be singing the following refrain today. "Hey. Hey! You. You! Get onto my cloud." (Still bummed that I didn’t get Rolling Stones tickets for their upcoming show at the new Barclays Center in Brooklyn.)

The cloud computing giant reported earnings and sales on Tuesday that topped analysts’ forecasts. Salesforce’s stock shot up 8% on the news Wednesday, making the company the best performer in the S&P 500 Wednesday…

Grazed from BostInno. Author: Howard Davidson.

A recent study by the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) and the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) revealed that changing government regulations, plausible exit strategies, and international data privacy are the most pressing concerns of business enterprises about to the viability of Cloud Computing adoption. The study, published as “Cloud Market Maturity,” draws on responses from 250 cloud users in 50 countries, provides unique insight into the future of en-mass cloud adoption by contemporary global business enterprises.

Other points of contention about the cloud include questions of legality, contract solvency, fundamental data ownership, stability of providers, cloud integration with local systems, provider’s credibility, and industry testing and assurance policies…

Grazed from BusinessWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Interactive Intelligence Group Inc. (Nasdaq: ININ) has been honored with a 2012 Cloud Computing Excellence Award from TMC’s Cloud Computing Magazine. The vendor received the award for its business communications cloud offering, Interactive Intelligence Communications as a Service^(SM), which was designed to give mid-size to large organizations secure and reliable access to a wide range of contact center and unified communications (UC) applications. “Interactive Intelligence has close to twenty years of experience delivering innovative business communications technology and services,” said TMC’s group editorial director, Erik Linask.

“It’s taken this experience to develop an equally innovative and trusted cloud solution that provides enhanced security and reliability, maximum flexibility, and broad functionality.” The Interactive Intelligence CaaS^(SM) offering keeps customer applications and data isolated from one another for enhanced security. Customers also have the option to keep their voice path, recordings, and other sensitive data within their network…

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Bill Claybrook.

The overwhelming need to provide centralized management and security for multiple types of mobile devices is driving the increased adoption of mobile cloud computing and mobile cloud applications. This is especially true for organizations adopting a bring your own device (BYOD) strategy. Over time, mobile devices will be able to access many of the traditional mission-critical business applications.

The growing acceptance of the mobile cloud has led to several notable trends in IT. Here’s a rundown of those trends, the advantages and disadvantages of cloud computing and some thoughts on how they might affect organizations going forward:…

Grazed from Information-Technology. Author: Charlie Burns.

What is Happening? As significant sections of the heavily populated Northeastern US are still recovering from the destruction caused by “Superstorm” Sandy, we are also approaching the traditional US celebration of bounty we call Thanksgiving. At Saugatuck we are thankful for avoiding injury and significant damage to our homes and our office space. At the same time, our hearts go out to many others who were not so fortunate.

In this environment of local problems and a world economy that continues to struggle, we felt it is appropriate for us to pause and consider other things to be thankful for. Primarily we are thankful for the continued importance of information systems. And, we are thankful for what we see as burgeoning changes in the fundamentals of enterprise IT. The net result should be increasing bounty for the IT industry at large, along with increasing and improved business effectiveness and opportunity for user enterprises…

Grazed from Business Courier. Author: James Ritchie.

Hebron-based IT firm Pomeroy acquired the assets of Boca Raton, Fla.-based BluePoint Data Inc. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. BluePoint, founded in 2000, provides cloud-based managed services for networks, servers, storage, security, applications and databases.

“With this acquisition, Pomeroy significantly strengthens its managed cloud and remote monitoring capabilities and broadens the spectrum of managed IT services that deliver value to our clients,” said Chris Froman, CEO of Pomeroy. Pomeroy is a portfolio company of Los Angeles-based private equity firm Platinum Equity…

Read more from the source @ http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2012/11/21/pomeroy-acquires-cloud-computing.html

Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: Peter Wayner.

The sales pitch for servers in the cloud has always leaned on the word "commodity." You push a button, and voilà, a root password is yours within minutes. The machines in the cloud may not be exactly what you would order if you were filling out a P.O. for your own metal box, but they’re probably close enough. The number of options may not be great, but you can choose among enough standard sizes and enough standard operating systems to get approach the ideal. In return for limiting your options, you can click a few buttons and run a machine in less than 180 seconds.

Joyent is a commodity cloud provider, but with a twist. Joyent Cloud offers many of the same basic machine options and standard distro choices you’ll find on Amazon and other clouds, but you can also try what Joyent has waiting behind door number two. In addition to Linux and Windows VMs, the company builds custom machines with not-as-common operating systems and calls them appliances. If you decide to go with Joyent’s machines, you might find they can be dramatically faster than the commodity server next door, at least when performing standard tasks like answering requests for basic Web pages or data from a database…