Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Barb Darrow.

Box will use six Equinix IBX data centers worldwide to serve the business users of its file-sharing and storage solution. Up till now, Box had no data center capacity outside the US although more than half of its customers were international. Box, which offers a cloud storage and file sharing to business customers, is getting more global, inking a deal to with Equinix to run on six of that company’s IBX data centers around the world.

Up until now, more than half of Box’s claimed 14 million customers were outside the U.S. but all of its data center capacity were there. Now, Box will also run in Equinix IBX data centers in Chicago, Ashburn, Virg., Amsterdam, Sydney, Hong Kong and Tokyo, the company said. Using Equinix, Box said it can boost performance for those customers by 60 percent…

Grazed from PRWeb. Author: PR Announcement.

LuxCloud recognized Southeast Asia as a rapidly growing market and are eager to develop strong partnerships in the region as part of their globalization plan. Jatis, a company founded in 1997, is headquartered in Jakarta with offices in Indonesia, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Manila; they serve over 400 international corporate clients and are the leading provider of wealth management services in Indonesia. The partnership will maximize the best from both companies and substantially benefit all their customers by meeting new demands and offering innovative services.

Leading up to the partnership

LuxCloud, founded in 2010, is the global channel-centric market place for cloud services offering a SaaS delivery platform providing automation of billing and full provisioning of SaaS services; their portfolio includes the full range of Microsoft Hosted Services, as well as a growing range of commodity, proprietary and open source software applications. LuxCloud’s latest product, Hosted365, is a compilation of cloud services in a securely hosted desktop with web based versions of Microsoft Office programs; with the full support of Microsoft it currently offers Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Lync and Microsoft Office Web Apps. Jatis customers were requesting subscription based cloud services, as opposed to the more traditional, one-off license models; initial discussions revealed mutual benefits for both organizations that resulted in the eventual partnership…

Grazed from ReadWriteCloud. Author: Brian Proffitt.

If you look at cloud computing, you might think, based on the hype, that enterprise-cloud management systems like OpenStack, OpenNebula or Eucalyptus have things wrapped up. But ignore CloudStack at your own peril, because this is a product that deserves a look by IT organizations ready to move into the cloud. All of these products belong to a class of software known as enterprise cloud management, and they are what large companies use to create a hybrid or private cloud environment. They are all – importantly – also open source. That matters because virtualization giant VMware wants to play in this space, too, with it’s own proprietary solutions. More on that later.

CloudStack’s readiness was demonstrated quite clearly earlier this week with the release of Apache CloudStack 4.0.0-incubating, a rather unfortunate name that undercuts the serious maturity of this cloud orchestration platform and its capability to be a big star on this increasingly crowded stage…

Grazed from CloudTimes. Author: Xath Cruz.

Cloud computing service providers are steadily increasing their reach as they continue to provide service outside of their home markets while using service delivery models that require the transmission of information across borders. In this article, we examine the hurdles that face cross-border cloud computing, particularly with regard to main policy challenges including data privacy, security, and the need to maintain free flow of information. We also delve into the challenges faced by developing countries as they try to participate in the cloud computing market.

Definition of Cloud Computing

Due to the fact that cloud computing has entered the lexicon and has been used to define an eclectic range of services offered over the internet, it can be difficult to differentiate the cloud from other related IT services. However, there are already kinds of cloud related services that are familiar to consumers, such as web based email, file storage, and financial management programs….

Grazed from CFOWorld. Author: Editorial Staff.

SafeNet, Inc., a global leader in data protection, today announced that it will be demonstrating ProtectV, an encryption solution that has achieved VMware Ready status, as part of its participation at the VMware vForum2012 event in Sydney from 14-15 November. While efficiency, automation and availability are key benefits of virtualisation and cloud computing, many organisations cannot take full advantage of these because of concerns about regulated data and security risks. By demonstrating ProtectV at vForum2012, SafeNet aims to overcome these concerns.

“What’s stopping organisations from trying to fully virtualise is the same issue stopping them from fully investing in cloud infrastructures – regulated data,” said Vince Lee, Regional Director, Australia & New Zealand for SafeNet. “In the physical datacentre, you had a red rack with a lock on it and you knew exactly where all your regulated data was and who could access it. You put that data into a virtual machine or the cloud and suddenly it’s fuzzy. Where is that data exactly? And who has access to it?”…

Which cloud do I choose?

Grazed from GigaOM.  Author: James Urquhart.

Nick Carr famously wrote about the lack of differentiation that IT brings to the business in his 2004 book Does IT Matter?. His argument was essentially that as computing is more and more expected in business, the things IT does for the business provide less and less differentiation. That means that each business owning its own information technology makes less and less sense…