The Dramatic Shift in Cloud Computing Intentions
Grazed from Sys Con Media. Author: Patrick Burke.
A new survey suggests that as cloud moves into the mainstream of business, it brings new sources of anxiety as well. This disruption and the dramatic shift in cloud computing intentions over the past few years is revealed in a report by Saugatuck Technology.
"Buying and deployment patterns have shifted rapidly toward a near full embrace of the cloud, from the more tactical and point solution-focused initiatives not long ago," writes Bill McNee, author of the report…
VMware Cloud Ecosystem Starts to Mature
Grazed from Channel Insider. Author: Michael Vizard.
From the perspective of cloud service providers VMware may be faulted for being a little late to the cloud computing party. But if current momentum is any indication of things to come, the size of the VMware cloud ecosystem is expanding faster than any other.
According to Matthew Lodge, senior director for cloud services for VMware, there are now over 100 verified VMware vCloud public clouds, which he says is an order of magnitude greater than rival platforms combined total. Customers can now also access vCloud in 24 different countries…
Cloud Computing: ‘Re-Platforming’ The Workplace: Welcome To Next-Gen IT
It’s no secret that recent consumer-technology innovations, from social networking to online chat to iPhones, are fundamentally transforming corporate IT. At the office, people are now demanding the same types of easy-to-use devices and social features they use at home. Witness new corporate-software products like Salesforce.com’s Chatter product, a sort of Facebook for business, or the decline of BlackBerry maker Research In Motion. That device is losing dramatic market share in corporate environments to the application-rich, consumer-focused Apple iPhone.
But there’s another, much bigger story to this “consumer-ization” of IT. We call it the “re-platforming” of enterprise computing. By that, we mean a move by enterprises to build the next generation of new applications and core services on top of the emerging “cloud-computing” and mobile-device platforms. This re-platforming will fundamentally re-shape the enterprise and usher in a massive new wave of tech innovation, just as similar platform waves such as the personal computer, client-server and the Internet did in the past…
Software maker SAP eyes cloud acquisitions
German enterprise software maker SAP AG aims to double its cloud computing market share this year, and to expand it thirty-fold over the next five years, manager magazin reports, citing an email to employees from board member Vishal Sikka.
Part of the expansion strategy includes further acquisitions in the field, the advance release of the report adds, citing employees at the company’s development facility in the German town of St. Leon-Rot who were present at a meeting with new cloud chief Lars Dalgaard.
A spokesman for SAP declined to comment…
Nervous About Cloud Computing? Hybrid Clouds Are A Safety Blanket
Grazed from Business Insider. Author: Ramon Ray.
do not blame the business owner who is a bit nervous about having all of her data in remote servers. Of course, I do think this is the way to go and your data is 99.999% safe. However, having your data on premise might be comforting as well and maybe there are clear legitimate reasons why you want to have on premise access to your data as well.
Some companies are using a dual approach – having their data in the cloud (hosted online) but also readily available on premise. Egnyte has been pushing this kind of solution for some time now and they have an updated solution, Egnyte HybridCloud…
Cloud-Oriented Architecture and the Internet of Things
Quick quiz for all your Cloud aficionados out there: what’s missing from the NIST definition of Cloud Computing? To make this challenge easy for you, here’s the definition: “Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction.” Give up? What’s missing is any mention of data centers. Sure, today’s Clouds typically consist of resources in data centers, running one way or another on racks full of physical servers. But there’s nothing in the definition of Cloud that specifies anything about the physical location of Cloud resources…
How to Do Cloud Marketing in a Recession?
Most of the time people look at cloud computing as challenge or they think that cloud computing is luxury and we can implement it only when we are in stable condition. But in fact, in today’s situation where the world is already suffering from a big economic crisis, most companies want to reduce their expenses on IT and IT-related tasks. But at the same time, it is required that those tasks get done, as in today’s cutting-edge technology world, automation of most of the processes are important and we just can’t stop these processes because of a recession . Now, you must be thinking, how to achieve this and how to convince your client to opt for Cloud Computing? Let’s have a look at the main challenges step-by-step and area where we can focus…
ATEN and US Micro Showcasing Cloud Computing Solution at Cloud Fair 2012
ATEN today announced that it is exhibiting and showcasing new cloud technology at this week’s Cloud Fair 2012 with partner US Micro, Inc., a WA-based manufacturer of innovative computing solutions. Cloud Fair is held from April 17-19, 2012 in Seattle, WA where ATEN and US Micro are demonstrating a new hardware-based cloud computing solution at booth #9. Available now, CriKit (Cloud Resource and Infrastructure Kit), is a compact and energy-efficient, multi-node desktop cloud computing solution.
Custom developed by US Micro, the CriKit solution is comprised of several hardware components: powerful micro-servers, Networked Attached Storage, a 1GB Ethernet switch, a 19" LED monitor, keyboard, optical mouse and finally, ATEN’s CS1768 — an eight-port DVI/USB KVM (keyboard/video/mouse) switch. CriKit was developed to provide unique business value for a variety of applications such as software development, software test and quality assurance, training, demonstration and education. Since it employs generic Intel x86 computing platforms that run all major hypervisors and operating systems, it can be used across industries on a wide variety of applications…
StratITsphere Partners with NetSocket to Assure Clear Cloud Communications in Real Time
Users of StratITsphere’s cloud computing service will soon be able to assure the quality of their communications in real time, thanks to a partnership announced today with NetSocket.
Plano-based NetSocket’s Service Visibility Solution Suite assures a positive user experience for cloud-based communications, such as voice over IP, video conferencing, or Unified Communications in the Cloud as a Service (UCaaS), at all transmission levels in real time. The result is that errors can be detected and corrected before they cause critical communications problems.
"After considerable research, it became clear to us that NetSocket’s real-time software assurance solution is unique in the market, and can play a critical role in assuring the quality of collaboration and communication services offered through our cloud computing services," said Stephen Webster, president and Chief Executive Officer of Houston-based StratITsphere. "Under this partnership, we plan to provide our customers with per-session visibility into the service quality of their cloud communications, something which no other cloud computing service currently offers…
ServiceMesh Named “Cool Vendor in Cloud Management” by Leading Analyst Firm
ServiceMesh, provider of the market-leading enterprise-class cloud application management platform for Global 2000 companies, today announced it has been named a 2012 Gartner Cool Vendor in Cloud Management. Published April 11, 2012, the Gartner, Inc. survey of global CIOs identified cloud computing as one of the top-three strategic technology investments and recommended that IT executives take advantage of cloud computing innovations in self-service provisioning, software tool chain automation, and policy-driven governance to improve the agility and efficiency of their infrastructures, platforms, and applications.
ServiceMesh’s cloud management platform enables enterprise IT organizations to maximize the strategic competitive advantage of these investments by managing the plan, build and run lifecycle of cloud resources leveraging a sophisticated, policy-based framework…