Grazed from BizTech2. Author: Editorial Staff.

EMC Corporation has announced EMC Proven Professional training and certifications to help Indian businesses address skill transformation and the looming cloud computing and data science talent gap. EMC will offer cloud computing, data science and Big Data analytics training and certification programs with an "open" curriculum to help develop professionals who can extract more value and insight for competitive advantage from the new expanse of data that businesses create and capture. In addition, the company aims to train over 30,000 engineering students in the first year itself as part of its EAA program.

The new data science and Big Data analytics training and certification helps build a solid foundation for data analytics with a particular focus on the opportunities and challenges presented by Big Data. Big Data and new analytics technologies are now unlocking new possibilities for the creation, collection and insightful analysis of data to drive meaningful and actionable business decisions and data science professionals/teams will help shepherd their organisations to realising increased success and the full potential from Big Data…

Grazed from CIO. Author: Editorial Staff.

Dell has announced an expansion of its end-to-end cloud client computing portfolio in Asia-Pacific (APAC). "Dell is pleased to expand our desktop virtualization solutions in the Asia-Pacific region, offering our customers the broadest portfolio of end-to-end cloud client computing solutions. These new solutions enable us to offer our customers and channel partners even more choice in designing, implementing and managing their VDI solutions," said Tarkan Maner, general manager and vice president, Cloud Client Computing at Dell.

Desktop Virtualization Solutions (DVS) Simplified Appliance

Dell is introducing Desktop Virtualization Solutions (DVS) Simplified Appliance in Asia-Pacific to specifically address the cost and complexity challenges of virtual desktop adoption…

Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Josh Taylor.

Increased teleworking, the adoption of mobility, and cloud computing will reduce the need for companies to have physical office space, according to Intel. Discussing Intel’s Future of Knowledge Work whitepaper, the company’s "chief evangelist and futurist" Steve Brown told journalists in Sydney this morning that over the next 30 years, 75 percent of the world’s population will move into major cities, and this will make commuting to the office more painful for office workers. At the same time, those people will be increasingly working outside the office, and cloud services will reduce the need for them to even be in the office.

"Office space is the second biggest overhead in companies after salaries. It is a significant piece of the cost of running a business, and yet they are delivering less and less value as people are travelling a lot," he said. "Space doesn’t make so much sense anymore. Workers, as they get empowered more, increasingly say they don’t want to be in the office. They don’t want to have to deal with that commute."…

Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Stacey Higginbotham.

Diablo Technologies is an Ottawa-based startup that has brought flash memory even closer to the processor — making applications run even faster. It has built chip technology as well as software and has raised $28 million to bring the technology to market.

Diablo Technologies, a Canadian company that is building a custom chip that will improve flash memory performance in the data center, has raised $28 million in a recapitalization round. The round was led by Battery Ventures, with Celtic House Venture Partners, BDC Venture Capital, and Hasso Plattner Ventures participating. The company plans to use the money to embark on a new strategy that involves building software and systems expertise in addition to semiconductor IP…

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With cloud computing services there are countless free or inexpensive services you can use. Xeround has made it easy for you and compiled a list of 43 of the best free cloud services for application developers.

One of the newest Internet based technological advances is cloud software. The cloud in its simplest form is a way to share files and programs between Internet-connected devices. For personal use it allows you to access your content from any devices that you or your immediate family owns. For example, you could use the cloud to save a file and access it from your tablet, smartphone and laptop without the use of a flash drive…

Grazed from Washington Today. Author: Lucy Battersby.

America’s largest telco, Verizon, is making a stronger push for corporate customers in the Asia-Pacific region in a move that will see it competing head-to-head with Telstra International. Verizon has "significant plans" for its secure internet and cloud computing products around the region following a company restructure earlier this year.

While it is not targeting Australia specifically, Verizon wants more business here as part of a global marketing drive. The maturity and growth of Australia’s services sector makes Australian companies a target, Verizon Enterprise Solutions chief marketing officer John Harrobin said on Wednesday…

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Robert Westervelt.

The private sector needs to iron out new ways to share anonymous attack data or face serious consequences, brought on by expanding information stores and cloud computing services that are complicating the process of deploying security technologies, said Dave Cullinane, CEO of Security Starfish LLC and chairman of the Cloud Security Alliance.

In Tuesday’s opening keynote of the Cloud Security Alliance Congress, Cullinane sought to inspire a room full of IT security pros to transform their security programs by implementing an intelligence-based security strategy. The goal, Cullinane said, is to allocate resources more effectively by perceiving future threats to systems based on actionable intelligence. He warned that many organizations are spending millions on security technologies that protect the wrong resources…

Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Barb Darrow.

Developers love Node.js for building web applications. But they need better, more user-friendly application monitoring tools to see what goes on in the innards of what they build. That’s where NodeFly’s new APM suite comes in, says NodeFly CEO Glen Lougheed.

The use of Node.js to build web applications is growing like gangbusters, so it’s time it had a big-boy application performance monitoring tool. And that’s what NodeFly Systems says it’s bringing to the table. Node. js is a server-side, event-driven programming language popular among developers — especially JavaScript developers because it lets them use their existing skills to write server as well as client code…

Grazed from CloudTimes. Author: Florence de Borja.

In the paper titled “Bridging the Tenant-Provider Gap in Cloud Services”, Microsoft researchers found out that cloud customers can purchase resources based on the “job-centric” standard. This cloud model will have and additional abstraction layer to cloud computing wherein an interface can be provided for customers to cite cost and performance goals as an alternative to an interface which allow them to allocate resources directly.

The research, which was released at the ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing 2012, was done by Microsoft Research Laboratory in the United Kingdom. The researches included Ant Rowstron, Thomas Karagiannis, Paolo Costa, Hitesh Ballani, and Virajith Jalaparti. According to them, cloud consumers will find a job-centric interface convenient and easy because it takes out the translation burden of high level objectives to the related resource necessities and it is flexible enough for cloud service providers to assign the amount of resources necessary to a particular job…

Grazed from The Motely Fool. Author: Justin Loiseau.

The cloud computing commoditization countdown continues. Spanish telecom Telefonica Digital (NYSE: TEF ) announced their newest "infrastructure-as-a-service" product on Tuesday, and the ripple effect could be felt throughout the tech world. Here’s what you need to know.

Store it. All of it.

They call it "Instant Servers," the ultimate offering that delivers on-demand, high performance cloud computing for developers, digital businesses, and large enterprises. "Telefonica Digital seeks to meet the needs of thousands of businesses that require a cloud services platform that is easily scalable, with low latency and totally trustworthy, enabling them not only to rapidly respond to their own needs, but also to the expectations of their customers," said Carlos Morales, Cloud and M2M Director. "This can all be done with significant cost savings as customers only pay for the type of cloud services they require and the time they use them for. This offering completes our portfolio of services to meet our business customer needs."…