Public or Private Cloud: Which Is Best for Application Marketplaces?
Cloud computing offers almost limitless possibilities for innovation and growth. It also provides fodder for endless debates about the pros and cons of hosted and on-premise software deployments.
In one corner, you have the advocates of hosting software in the public cloud who argue that it offers better flexibility and scalability. In the other corner, you have proponents of private, on-premise deployments who counter that this approach is more secure and offers greater control.
The growing popularity of cloud service marketplaces – application stores that offer a range of cloud-based software and services – is adding a new dimension to these familiar arguments. Which type of deployment, public or private cloud, is best for marketplaces like these?…
ShoreTel Jumps Into Cloud UC for Mobile Devices
Grazed from Network Computing. Author: Lee H. Badman.
Cloud-based VoIP and unified communications for the mobile space are both accurately described as growth markets. Though adoption rates may not quite be blistering, cloud UC is gaining traction as ShoreTel throws its offering into the mix.
ShoreTel is a well-established VoIP player that has made a couple of strategic acquisitions. Buying Agito last year gave the premise-centric ShoreTel platforms a mobility-minded boost, and the recent purchase of M5 Networks provided a well-respected anchor in cloud-based VoIP. This brings us to today’s news about the next big thing from ShoreTel, which combines compelling elements of all parts of the business. At the same time, what’s not quite in the ShoreTel announcement is also significant…
Turbulence pushing banks into the cloud
We all know that the old business model for investment banking technology doesn’t work and this is driving bank technology departments everywhere to cut costs. However I was struck by a recent special report in The Economist which outlines that, while investment banks are shrinking, their retail arms (Citibank, HSBC, Santander, etc.) are growing due to changes in technology. The key trends they found were:
- Improved services through standardized technology
- Data mining which allows better tailoring of products to customer needs
- Mobile banking
Oracle’s Shift To Cloud, Rivaling Salesforce.com, Gains Traction
Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL), the No. 1 database developer, reported full-year revenue rose 4 percent to $37.2 billion – with revenue from the Cloud, or Internet-based computing, reaching a record $1 billion.
That’s one reason why full-year net income jumped 17 percent to $9.98 billion, or $1.96 a share for the 12 months ended May 31. It could be why shares of the Redwood Shores, Calif., software behemoth rose as much as 6 percent Tuesday to $28.75, before easing back to close at $27.96, up 84 cents.
"The development of Oracle Cloud is strategic to increasing the size and profitability of Oracle’s software business," said CEO Larry Ellison, 67, the third-richest American on the Forbes list who owns 22.5 percent of the company…
Launch WordPress Cloud Servers In Minutes With EasyCloud
EasyCloud has just released the most powerful Wordpress Cloud Hosting platform available on the market today. Complete with 5 premium templates, 20 powerful features and instant scalability all running in a dedicated environment for under $20/month. EasyCloud Wordpress are built in 3 easy steps and only take 5 minutes to deploy. Each server comes with built-in administration tools to make support even easier.
"Our goal was to bring the development time for Wordpress installations down to a minimum while offering the power of the cloud to web designers and even regular consumers." says EasyCloud CEO, Jared Rice.
Easy Wordpress users are also greeted with several key common features, including Instant Facebook Page, iPad/iPhone /Android ready templates, Google Drive Backup, Dropbox Backup, Auto Local Backup, Auto Remote Backup and several popular SEO plugins. One of the most mentioned features is their "White Label” Support Chat.
Cloud Computing World Forum Highlights Increased Interest in Cloud
Over 4,500 IT professionals flocked to London this week, for one of Europe’s leading enterprise technology events, the Cloud Computing World Forum.
Held on the 12 and 13 June at Earls Court, the event showcased the growing business and consumer interest in cloud computing across the globe, hosting some of the biggest names and organizations from the IT industry, including over 100 global exhibitors and 200 expert speakers.
Among the highlights were Apple’s former CEO, John Sculley, who delivered a talk on how cloud computing is enhancing the telemedicine industry, while hundreds crammed into the keynote theater on day one to listen to Amazon’s iconic CTO, Werner Vogels, talk about the meteoric rise of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its role in the industry’s development.
NetSuite Benefits From Trend Toward Cloud Products
Grazed from Investors Business Daily. Author: Editorial Staff.
Even as cloud computing continues to gain a foothold in more markets and with more customers, companies that supply cloud-based services still must do some convincing to get certain clients onboard.
That’s the case even for leading cloud firms such as NetSuite (N), a pioneer in software-as-a-service (SaaS) products.
NetSuite provides cloud-based financials/enterprise resource planning (ERP) software suites to customers in the U.S. and abroad.
Its suite of products provide a platform for financials/ERP, customer relationship management (CRM), professional services automation (PSA) and e-commerce capabilities that automate processes across departments…
Apacer addresses cloud computing storage needs with 16GB DDR3-1600 ECC RDIMM – Double Capacity with Higher Efficiency
Grazed from Hexus. Author: PR Announcement.
As cloud computing becomes a more mature sector of the IT industry, most enterprises have already regarded this technology as a key point in the building of future information architectures to meet the needs of massive data processing. To better address the high demands for cloud computing, Apacer, a leading memory module manufacturer, has announced an industry-leading and enterprise-level 16GB bulk storage DDR3-1600 high-speed server memory module. Ituses both internal and external voltage reference (Vref.) circuits, allowing the storage system to directly use external Vref.with high efficiency while eliminating signal noise. It helps to facilitate continuous massive data processing and helps to optimize the cloud computing and storage performance in those environments, giving a more stable server storage experience.
This newly-launched DDR3-1600 16GB 2Rx4 ECC RDIMM server memory module from Apacer is 100% JEDEC compliant and has built-in ECC. Thanks to its outstanding hardware design and advanced memory chips, server systems can boost operation efficiency by 20% and builders can provide multiple and superior storage device options to customers. To help create optimal product performance, the DDR3 server memory module has gone through rigorous reliability tests. It is fully compatible with the latest Intel/AMD 2-way server platforms and supports the latest Intel Quad-Channel Xeon E5-2600/4600 series and AMD Quad-Channel Opteron 6000 series server platforms for communication network devices, demonstrating incomparable platform compatibility…
Why schools are hitting the books on cloud computing
Grazed from Mass High Tech. Author: Bob Burke.
Cloud computing is becoming increasingly popular in higher education, normally a slow adopter of new technology. Cloud computing can be used for business continuity planning, or storing archived copies of data off to a cloud storage area – even students’ papers and music that can be stored and retrieved whenever they want. This reduces hardware, software, and personnel costs and saves on space, repair, and electricity. It also allows the school to stay current with technology and enables multiple staff to view admissions simultaneously — in or out of the office.
However, the issue of security cannot be overstated in a cloud computing scenario. In reality, security is less about the nuts and bolts of how to protect the data than the idea that administrators must determine who actually owns the data and who has access to it. All this information is being put on these machines out there “somewhere”; thus, the college administrator needs to know who is administering these machines and who has access to them…
Eucalyptus Delivers Next Generation Open Source Cloud Software
Grazed from MarketWatch. Author: PR Announcement.
Eucalyptus Systems, creator of the most widely deployed on-premise cloud computing platform, today announced a new version of its product that aligns the open source community and enterprises on the same platform to contribute, build, run and manage cloud development and deployments. The release features performance improvements and several new capabilities, including FastStart, which enables users to deploy on-premise AWS-compatible IaaS clouds in under 20 minutes. Eucalyptus 3.1 brings numerous community development and contribution enhancements, such as Eucalyptus 3 source code availability on Github, enterprise platform deployments for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, VMware vCenter 5, and community project management capabilities that provide management support for defects, fixes and feature requests.
"Hybrid cloud computing is the next phase of enterprise cloud adoption; however, one of the most challenging aspects of this approach is having the solutions in place to quickly deploy and manage the implementation," said Thomas Bittman, vice president and distinguished analyst, Gartner. "A majority of large enterprises consider speed, agility and scalability to be the primary benefit of private and hybrid cloud adoption."…