Grazed from ZDNet.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Cloud management platforms — they’re a little bit like those desktop search and indexing applications that gained brief popularity in the 1990s and early 2000s, and which had to be updated each time a new application or file format appeared.

Why might you want one? The problem with cloud computing is that, unless you are a small company with relatively limited IT requirements — just office productivity, web browsing and email, for example — moving to some form of cloud computing model is complex and therefore expensive.

Let’s assume for a moment that going cloud is, all things considered, a positive thing. If so, then you’ll need to find a cloud provider who does it all. But if you’re a company of any size, you’re unlikely to find one that meets all your needs…

Grazed from BusinessWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

Vordel, a provider of Application Gateways for Cloud, Mobile and SOA computing, announced today it has been selected as a finalist in the “Best Business Integration Solution” category by the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA).

“The recognition bestowed on Vordel by this SIIA award nomination is a true testimony to the quality of product built by the team at Vordel,” said Vic Morris, CEO of Vordel. “We are very pleased to be a CODiE Award finalist and see it as an acknowledgment by our industry peers of the calibre of the Vordel Application Gateway and a validation of our strategy. It is a real honor.”…

Grazed from CloudTweaks.  Author: Florence G. de Borja.

Cloud security or cloud computing security evolved from information security and includes a wide set of controls, technologies, and policies used to protect the associated infrastructure, applications, and data of cloud computing. It is not related to the cloud-based security software services or commonly referred to as security-as-a-service.

Security issues related to cloud computing can either be security issues experienced by end users or security issues experienced by cloud suppliers. In general, cloud providers must make sure that what they’re offering is secure and their customers’ applications and data are also protected. The client, on the other hand, must ensure that the cloud supplier has the appropriate security implemented in order to protect his data and applications. Because of virtualization, customers of public clouds have growing concerns regarding the clouds security primarily because virtualization has changed the relationship between the hardware and the operating system. Additional concern about the virtualization software, with a tendency to be compromised, makes users wary about the capability of cloud computing to be secured…

Grazed from The Information Daily.  Author:  Saverio Romeo.

More than a year ago, Neelie Kroes, Vice President of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda, claimed that she wanted to create a cloud-friendly and coud-active Europe. The use of cloud computing should bring benefits to large and small companies and individuals. Since then, the European Commission has launched a consultation on cloud services involving cloud solution providers, cloud users and consumers. The consultation highlighted some key challenges such as security, interoperability, lock-in, certification and standardisation. It also brought attention to the topic, particularly from national governments and local authorities across Europe. Such organisations see cloud services as a way to optimise their resources and offer better services for citizens…

Grazed from PRWeb.  Author: PR Announcement.

Acumatica, a provider of Cloud ERP software, today announced it was named one of CRN’s Top 100 Coolest Cloud Computing Vendors of 2012 as well as one of CRN’s Top 20 Coolest Cloud Software Vendors in 2012. The CRN list highlights the most cutting-edge and exciting cloud products to hit the channel over the past year. Each winning vendor offers a cool new product that delivers benefits to both solution providers and end-customers.

"This year’s Top Cloud Computing Vendor award is presented to vendors for creating an innovative cloud product, or an innovative approach to supporting solution providers in the IT channel," said Kelley Damore, Vice President and Editorial Director CRN. "Each vendor was carefully selected by the CRN editorial team based on their ability to deliver a cool new cloud-based product that helps organizations and enterprises take advantage of the ease, flexibility, scalability, elasticity and cost savings that leveraging cloud computing has to offer.”…

Grazed from HostReview.  Author: William Smith.

Cloud computing technology makes enormous computing processing capacity and software available for an economical price through the help of Internet. By availing services of a cloud computing or cloud hosting service provider, users gets many economic benefits as they have to pay only for the amount of computing resources that they consume.

A cloud computing or cloud hosting service provider offers a great number of advantages to the end user organizations. User organizations have to pay only for the amount of computing resources that they consume. User organizations can buy only the required services as and when actually needed, and do not have to buy the costly infrastructure…

Grazed from PEHub.  Alastair Goldfisher.

ClearDATA Secures Funding from Norwest Venture Partners for Healthcare Cloud Computing Capital to Meet Growing Customer Demand and Increase Market Penetration in Cloud Hosting and Information Security Services

Phoenix, AZ, March 28, 2012 – ClearDATA Networks, Inc., the leading healthcare cloud computing platform and service provider, today announced it has secured funding from Norwest Venture Partners (NVP) and several industry angel investors. The company has demonstrated strong revenue growth through its existing customer base which ranges from single provider practices to small and large hospitals throughout the U.S.  Over the past three years, ClearDATA has entered into several strategic partnerships and currently provides cloud hosting and information security services to over 10,000 healthcare practitioners.  The funding will be used to grow the company’s products and presence in order to meet the increasing demand for its secure, HIPAA-compliant cloud computing services in the healthcare industry…

Grazed from Noobpreneur.  Author: Mariam Noronha.

Cloud computing has proved to be a boon for small businesses across the globe.  It has changed the way business is done; products and services are bought and sold as well as revolutionized marketing today.  As marketers everywhere are left with no option other than to embrace the cloud here is a look at why cloud computing makes advertising (a major marketing function) for big and small businesses tick…

Grazed from Datamation.  Author: Pedro Hernandez.

HP is the cloud equipment king, but IBM and Cisco aren’t far behind, according to a new report from Synergy Research Group.

As with any hot market, the research firm’s "4Q11 Cloud Equipment Market Share" report paints a rosy, if volatile, picture of the cloud server, storage and networking equipment sales. In the last quarter, HP took home 17.4 percent of worldwide cloud hardware revenues. IBM was close behind with 15.9 percent.  All told, IT vendors booked $39.4 billion in cloud equipment revenues last year, a 15 percent increase over 2010. In the fourth quarter alone, they brought in a healthy $10.6 billion haul…

Grazed from MarketWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

Netlist, Inc. (NASDAQ: NLST), a leading provider of high performance memory solutions for the cloud computing market, today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office ("USPTO") recently issued two favorable Office Actions in the reexaminations of US Pat. No. 7,532,537 (‘537) and US Pat. No. 7,636,274 (‘274). In the reexamination of the ‘537 patent, the USPTO allowed all 60 claims, while in the reexamination of the ‘274 patent, the USPTO allowed all 104 claims.

By allowing these claims over the cited art, the USPTO rejected each and every prior art challenge raised by Inphi Corporation in its initial reexamination requests filed in June 2010, and subsequently during the reexamination proceedings of the ‘537 patent and the ‘274 patent. Inphi has a right to appeal these decisions…