May 22, 2012 Off

Washington Trust Bank Goes Mobile With VDI Using VMware View, Wyse, and Atlantis Computing

By David
Grazed from PR NewsWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

Atlantis Computing™, the leader in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) storage and performance optimization solutions, today announced that Washington Trust Bank, the largest independently owned full-service commercial bank in the Northwest, has deployed Atlantis ILIO as part of its VMware View™ 5 desktop virtualization deployment to enable employees to access their virtual desktop from anywhere using Wyse thin clients and zero clients, iPads, personal computers or repurposed corporate PCs.

"For us, VDI is really for our knowledge workers because they require mobility," said Christopher Green, vice president, IT Infrastructure Systems, Washington Trust Bank. "VMware View and Wyse cloud client computing solutions allows our mobile users to access their virtual desktop from anywhere they have an internet connection, over Wi-Fi or through the 3G devices that are provided to them."…

May 22, 2012 Off

Transferring Big Data Securely with SEEBURGER

By David
Grazed from Business Wire.  Author: PR Announcement.

Along with Mobility and Cloud Computing, Big Data is one of the most important IT trends of 2012. All companies, to compete effectively, must deal with Big Data. But how can these huge files reach their location safely? Which transmission paths should be used?

Many companies expect to gain a competitive edge through the systematic evaluation of all its database information (Big Data). Such evaluation can lead to better customer service, streamlined logistics processes, targeted mailing lists, clarified market trends and more…

May 22, 2012 Off

Cloud Computing: Google Closes Motorola Mobility Acquisition

By David
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…

May 22, 2012 Off

Money, not technology, drives cloud growth, IT shrinkage

By David

Grazed from ITWorld.  Author: Kevin Fogarty.

Cloud computing may be the biggest thing ever to hit IT, but not for good solid technical reasons, and not because it gives IT the chance to show it really does know what their companies really need from technology to make the business shine.

Unfortunately, it’s finance, not technology driving the market for and implementations of cloud. It is also business units, not IT, that is driving adoption of cloud and the drastic changes to which IT is more observer than driving force…

May 22, 2012 Off

Amazon CTO Tells Us How It Built Its Cloud Business Into The Best In The Industry

By David
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.

Werner Vogels is Amazon’s CTO and a chief architect of its cloud. He is also one of most innovative people in the tech industry. He keeps Amazon Web Services (AWS) two steps ahead of the competition, even as countless new clouds come online to compete.

We wanted to know how he does it. So we asked. His advice can be boiled to to these six tips …

May 22, 2012 Off

Rackspace’s Cloud Certification Program – Cheesy or Useful for IT Professionals?

By David
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…

May 22, 2012 Off

Cloud computing comes to healthcare as Telemis rolls out PACS data storage service

By David
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…

May 22, 2012 Off

Wyse Brings Cloud Client Computing to EMC World; 200 Wyse P20 PCoIP Zero Clients Power Hands On Labs

By David
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…

May 22, 2012 Off

Office 365 Migration: Plan for the unknown

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

Office 365 Migration: Plan for the unknown

 
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.
May 21, 2012 Off

RBA Spotlights Cloud Efficiency in Growing Business Trends

By David
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…