Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Karen Goulart.

Jessica Carroll, managing director of IT and digital media at the United States Golf Association in Far Hills, N.J., was something of a pioneer in her embrace of cloud disaster recovery and business continuity.

In 2008, when cloud computing was still a blip on the technology horizon, Carroll was faced with the challenge of bringing her ’90s-era IT shop into the 21st century. She knew that tape rotation and colocation weren’t going to be the wave of the future. Higher expectations for disaster recovery — quick, seamless, gap-free — led her to consider and ultimately adopt a cloud disaster recovery solution from IBM. "It enabled us to port our data to an off-site location without adding strain to the administration of managing the backups, without adding huge amounts of infrastructure and without unreasonable costs," she said…

Grazed from PC Advisor. Author: Brandon Butler.

The OpenStack cloud computing project needs to get a move on it, says Forrester analyst James Staten. Specifically, he says member organizations need to start seeing a return on their investments, or else may become disinterested.

More than two and a half years old now, the OpenStack project has gained significant momentum in the past year, in large part because big-name companies such as VMware, Red Hat and IBM have joined the likes of Rackspace, Cisco, Dell and HP to contribute more than $10 million to the project. Despite the investments, Staten points out there have been relatively few "enterprise-ready" OpenStack-powered products on the market. Canonical, SUSE, Rackspace and Morphlabs are some of the companies with OpenStack distributions so far, he notes. Meanwhile, Rackspace and HP are two of the biggest companies to use the OpenStack code to power their own clouds…

Grazed from ITPNet. Author: Editorial Staff.

Ipoque is returning to GITEX TECHNOLOGY WEEK for its fourth year and is showcasing its policy control and bandwidth management solutions at the show. Enterprises are turning to ipoque to help manage large data volumes to enhance the experience of their customers and employees rather than adding more bandwidth.

“In times of cloud computing and exploding mobile data traffic in corporate networks, enterprise users have special requirements when it comes to their networks,” says Christian Müller, VP Product & Sales. “With cloud computing, decentralised office structure and more and more mobile devices sucking up resources, the pressure on network infrastructure is at an all-time high…

Grazed from AMEInfo. Author: Editorial Staff.

Huawei Enterprise unveiled at GITEX a complete ‘one-stop-shop’ cloud data centre solution, providing Middle East businesses with robust and highly secure networks, IT infrastructure and facilities that support applications and systems in the cloud computing era.

The news reflects Huawei’s commitment to modernising traditional data centres that can be empowered by safe, intelligent network switches and high capacity storage systems. The new generation of data centres will meet the high growth requirements of Middle East organisations and help them cope easily with the changing landscape brought by cloud computing…

Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Jack Clark.

Amazon Web Services’s main cloud computing service, EC2, is having problems, which means businesses and developers could have trouble accessing their rented compute resources. The network connectivity issues with EC2 began at 10:08am (2:08am PDT) on Monday and were still in place at lunchtime.

"We are continuing to work to resolve the networking connectivity issues resulting in elevated packet loss for some EC2 instances in the US-EAST-1 region," Amazon said on its AWS global status page…

Grazed from PRNewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

2X Software, a global leader in corporate mobility and cloud computing, announced its partnership with Intel to deliver 2X ApplicationServer XG as a Hybrid Cloud solution through Intel’s AppUp SMB Service.

2X ApplicationServer XG is an award-winning virtual desktop and application delivery software package supporting major hypervisors including Citrix Xen, VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V. Features include integrated thin client management, universal printing & scanning functionality and high-capacity resource-based load balancing. 2X also offers customers secure remote access to ApplicationServer XG with the free 2X Client RDP/Remote Desktop for Android, Apple iOS, BlackBerry, Facebook and more…

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From the OpenStack Summit, Opscode®, the leader in cloud infrastructure automation, today announced that DreamHost, a global leader in web and cloud hosting, has deployed Opscode Private Chef™ to automate configuration and environment management for its new DreamCompute public cloud and DreamObjects cloud storage service. DreamHost is using Private Chef to automate the Ceph-powered object storage infrastructure behind DreamObjects, plus the OpenStack-powered virtual machine management and Ceph-powered block storage infrastructure behind its DreamCompute public cloud computing service. Private Chef enables DreamHost to reduce operations overhead and drive down the cost of its service for customers, while simultaneously ensuring maximum reliability and flexibility.

DreamCompute is a flexible, cost-efficient public cloud platform powered by OpenStack that delivers an easy-to-provision, secure and highly scalable solution for the full spectrum of compute demands. DreamHost’s DreamObjects is an inexpensive, scalable object storage service based on Ceph – the open source, scalable, distributed storage system – that provides an enterprise-class cloud storage solution for individuals and organizations of all sizes…

Grazed from PRNewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Salesforce.com [NYSE: CRM], the enterprise cloud computing company, today announced Cloudforce New York—the largest enterprise cloud computing event on the East Coast. The event will take place Oct. 19 at the Javits Center in New York City, where Chairman and CEO Marc Benioff will deliver a keynote on how companies are transforming their businesses for the social revolution.

More than 10,000 attendees are expected to register to be inspired at Cloudforce, as industry leaders including General Electric and Toyota reveal how social, mobile and cloud technologies are enabling them to connect with their customers, partners, employees—and even products—in entirely new ways. With more than 30 sessions and 80 cloud companies in the expo, attendees can attend visionary keynotes, participate in interactive sessions, see hundreds of live demos and join in unparalleled networking opportunities…