Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author: Maureen O’Gara.

Google said first thing Tuesday morning that it’s closed on its $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc.

It’s been waiting nine months to clinch the deal and get its hands on Motorola’s patent portfolio. It finally got Chinese approval over the weekend albeit with conditions.

Motorola Mobility will be run as a separate business.

Google’s first move was to put its own boy in to run the joint. MMI CEO Sanjay Jha has stepped down replaced by Dennis Woodside, who has overseen integration planning for the acquisition and previously served as president of Google’s Americas region. Jha is supposed to continue working with Google to ensure a smooth transition…

Grazed from Business Insider.  Author: Julie Bort.

Amazon changed the world with cloud computing, giving the average Joe access to supercomputer power at ridiculously cheap prices.

Grazed from Business Insider.  Author: Ramon Ray.

Rackspace recently launched a Cloud Computing Certification program so that IT professionals can learn more about cloud computing and show their proficiency in it through taking a 10 quizzes with 10 questions each and a 50 question final exam.

So many IT professionals already know quite a bit about cloud computing and many are learning on the job and from their peers…

Grazed from DOTMed News.  Author: PR Announcement.

Telemis, the medical imaging solutions specialist, has added Cloud data storage offering increased flexibility, convenience and cost effectiveness to the options available for customers of its Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS). The Telemis cloud technology provides secure storage and access to data such as PET/CT scans, and meets all patient-data handling requirements imposed by local or national authorities.

Cloud computing is transforming the way many types of enterprises manage information and resources. Data in the cloud can be accessed where and when needed, while traditional in-house IT responsibilities like equipment maintenance, skills retention and backup can be avoided. Such advantages are attractive in the healthcare sector also, but additional, stringent security and privacy legislation applies. Moreover, the law can vary from country to country…

Grazed from PR NewsWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

Wyse Technology, the global leader in cloud client computing, today announced that the Wyse P20 PCoIP zero client will power the vSpecialist Labs at EMC World in Las Vegas at The Venetian. Wyse also will showcase its portfolio of cloud client solutions in booth #1043.

The Wyse P20 zero client will be the device that EMC World attendees will use at the EMC Hands On Labs. At the Hands On Labs (HoL) in Village Level 2, vSpecialists will guide users through a hands-on experience with the EMC portfolio of Cloud and Big Data. EMC Hands On Labs provide the opportunity for on-demand self-directed exercises on the full range of EMC products including: VMAX, VPLEX, RecoverPoint, VMware, RSA, Documentum, Avamar, Greenplum, VNX, Isilon, ProSphere, and Unisphere…

Contributed Article.  Author: Ron Robbins, Product Manager at Quest Software

 

 

Since Office 365 is a relatively new platform, it stands to reason there are a few things customers face in their migration projects that blindside them. Things come up that they did not expect that really throw a wrench into the project plan. Here are just three that I see most often:
 

Speed – Let’s face it, Microsoft throttles the speed at which you can migrate data into Exchange Online. They do this to make sure that no one tenant uses all the resources at once, to protect the service performance for the other tenants. This tends to slow down migrations, and really puts the scheduled date for completion in question when moving through a large migration project. At times, this is a surprise to customers, as they see their timelines extend. There are several ways to work around this. With a third party tool like Quest’s OnDemand Migration for Email you can run a migration with several hundred concurrent threads. All it takes is multiple accounts to gain access to the target mailboxes, and it will increase the number of mailboxes that can be migrated to simultaneously. This will help mitigate the risk of extended project timelines.

Grazed from PRWeb.  Author: PR Announcement.

RBA, a Minneapolis-based technology firm and a Microsoft Partner, is deploying Microsoft’s cloud-based Office 365 more and more for businesses looking to capitalize on the cloud’s efficiency. Cloud technology, an unproven concept until recently, has become commonplace in the modern information technology landscape.

RBA employees are finding that their “Cloud Computing 101” conversations with potential customers now frequently begin at a much higher knowledge level.

“It’s definitely settled more into, ‘I’m understanding the technology, it’s been proven and now I’m ready to think it through for my organization,’ ” said Karl Populorum, RBA’s vice president of sales and marketing…

Grazed from Network Computing.  Author: Steve Wexler.

EMC has kicked off its customer and partner event with 42 product announcements across its storage, backup, virtualization and management portfolio, and a major push into cloud computing. Along with the usual storage and backup rollouts, the world’s largest storage vendor says it’s accelerating the journey to cloud management by helping IT departments store, manage, protect and analyze information in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way.

Running this week in Las Vegas, EMC World is playing host to more than 13,000 customers and partners, who were introduced to a new suite of enhancements to the Atmos Cloud platform. According to the company, the changes transform the way service providers and enterprises manage big data in large, globally distributed cloud storage environments. EMC also announced new Atmos Cloud Accelerators, and the DataBridge infrastructure management tool…

Grazed from Computer Technology Review.  Author:  Tom Leyden.

At the NAB 2012 show last month, the storage industry was more visible than ever, and the buzzword emerging from the event was ‘object storage.’ The term is inextricably tied to storage clouds and certain kinds of Big Data applications. And it’s becoming increasingly relevant for private clouds as well as for service providers.

The cloud industry has been on steroids lately – moving from adoption of virtualization to more cloud-friendly architectures with the hypervisor support, control panels and Web services-based interfaces that are increasingly the norm. Industry analysts agree that cloud computing will continue to stimulate the astronomical growth in storage requirements…