Grazed from Plant Engineering. Author: Editorial Staff.

A new reliability-centered maintenance tool from IFS is designed to deliver maintenance data through a cloud-based computing platform. IFS announced the launch of the tool at its global conference in Gothenburg, Sweden.

“The IFS RCM Toolkit is based on IFS’s long experience in asset-intensive industries enabling our customers to secure asset safety, cost effectiveness, and uptime,” IFS CTO Dan Matthews said. “The RCM Toolkit is available with the IFS Cloud in line with our strategy to enable customers to extend the capabilities of IFS Applications with applications in the cloud.”…

Grazed from NetworkComputing. Author: Joe Onisick.

Private and public clouds have many elements in common, including high degrees of virtualization and automation and a usage-based service model. But that doesn’t mean an enterprise application will run equally well in either environment. Most legacy applications are better off staying in your data center. At the same time, the public cloud should be the first place you consider deploying new applications. Here’s why.

Traditional enterprise applications are better suited to the private cloud. These applications are typically built in a silo-centric fashion and are dependent on the hardware, particularly homegrown applications. Don’t let virtualization fool you; even if the applications are virtualized, they’re still silo-centric. The only difference is it’s now virtual hardware. You’re still working on the outdated model of one application, one OS…

Grazed from TechWeekEurope. Author: Peter Judge.

Six months ago, IBM launched PureSystems, new-wave mainframes which combine RISC and Intel servers and promise a new and simpler way to develop enterprise applications. But since that initial fanfare,we have heard almost nothing about the supposedly revolutionary servers.

That doesn’t mean nothing is happening, though, says IBM senior server consultant IBM Tikiri Wanduragala. He grabbed TechWeekEurope last month, to tell us that PureSystems is a response to commodity cloud computing. It might take time to mature, but it is on track. The meeting took place in the run-up to the announcement of new PureSystems tailored for Big Data analytics…

Grazed from CSO. Author: Bobby Violino.

Like many other companies, processor manufacturer Intel Corp. is having to evolve its information security focus to meet the changes underway in the technology landscape—particularly with the rapid growth of mobile devices and applications and the rise in cloud computing services.

"We realize the importance of detective controls and building out our security business intelligence capabilities to scale and meet future business objectives around computing," says Alan Ross, senior principal engineer at Intel. "We must have the ability to aggregate, correlate and even visualize many billions of events per day. This type of scale requires investment in many areas."…

Grazed from BCS. Author: Editorial Staff.

Security is one of the main factors preventing companies from switching to cloud computing, particularly cloud storage, as they are worried about how well protected their data will be. But according to Google’s enterprise director of security, the cloud is probably a lot more secure than the in-house systems most firms are currently using.

Speaking to ZDNet, Eran Feigenbaum acknowledged that the exact level of security provided would largely depend on the type of organisation in question and who the cloud service provider was. However, he insisted that in most cases greater security would be offered in the cloud…

Grazed from EINPressWire. Author: PR Announcement.

IT Governance Ltd, the leading expert in information security training, consultancy, books and tools, has reported that the Cloud Computing Foundation training course in November is available at a special discounted price of £450 + VAT. This exceptional offer of the EXIN-accredited course will help cost-effectively train your whole IT team in the basics of Cloud Computing. Places can be immediately booked online at www.itgovernance.co.uk/products/3719.

Cloud Computing presents every organisation with the opportunity to increase the effectiveness of its information technology, while potentially significantly reducing costs. Alan Calder, CEO of IT Governance, says, "Understanding the additional risks and supplier relationship issues associated with Cloud-based services are essential for all IT professionals." …