Grazed from PRWeb.  Author: PR Announcement.

Flux, a leading cross-platform workload automation and managed file transfer solution, today released a brand new service called Floify to automate and orchestrate workflows and file transfers securely in the cloud. The kicker? It is free. There are no contracts, subscriptions, or fees.

Floify is a hybrid, cloud-based workflow service for business. For example, businesses can use Floify to download daily sales data and then feed the data files to their report server. Floify does all of this in the cloud, with only a minimal application installed on a user’s computer. Users can manage and monitor all their workflows at Floify.com. In fact, Floify can be managed from anywhere with a web browser…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Today Evolve IP announced that five industry veterans have joined the company to support its rapid growth in the areas of cloud computing services and virtual call centers. Joe Corvaia, Rich Fox, Bill Maun, Ritzcel Exconde, and Greg Drake bring decades of customer-focused technology experience to Evolve IP. They will work to further expand Evolve IP’s award-winning virtual call center and cloud solutions, help customers capitalize on these services, and meet growing demand.

Joe Corvaia joins Evolve IP as Vice President, Cloud Services, and will use more than 16 years of experience with infrastructure as a service (IaaS), software as a service (SaaS), hosted virtual desktop (HVD), and communications as a service (CaaS) to keep Evolve IP on top of the competitive cloud landscape and draw in high-end business opportunities. Joe will play an active role in the development, marketing, and sales of Evolve IP’s cloud computing services, focusing on The Evolved Office: Desktop and vServer solutions. Joe previously served as Vice President, Cloud Computing Sales and Solution Engineering at Broadview Networks, where he led technical sales and support company-wide, and drove growth of cloud computing and cloud VoIP solutions…

Grazed from InfoWorld.  Author: David Linthicum.

We love new technology, whether in the form of software or devices, though planning, strategy, and architecture aren’t as universally adored. But if you don’t understand both, you can count on huge project disasters as you move into the cloud. Unfortunately, far too many in IT are blindly in love with technology, especially as they consider the new-to-them cloud. I see this problem every day, so please heed this friendly warning.

Foundational planning for the use of cloud computing is an architectural problem. You need to consider the enterprise holistically, starting with the applications, data, services, and storage. Understand where it is and what it does…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

V3 Systems, the industry leader in Desktop Cloud Computing (DCC), announced today it has been chosen by CLEARLINK, a leading provider in content and conversion services for various nationally recognized home service companies, to replace more than 500 legacy desktop computers with a V3® Desktop Cloud Infrastructure. V3 Systems is the first and only company to provide desktop-replacement grade cloud computing infrastructure to the SME/Enterprise market.

During a paid proof-of-concept, V3 Systems dramatically increased the performance of CLEARLINK’s call center applications, while decreasing the time involved in managing the company’s desktops…

Grazed from PRNewsWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

Large companies in Latin America and Asia Pacific are the most aggressive adopters of the cloud computing paradigm, while their European and US counterparts remain conservative about shifting applications to the cloud. A study by Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) involving senior managers and corporate IT executives from over 600 large companies[1] across the globe, reveals that while cloud applications are still in the minority of all applications, companies in Latin America and Asia Pacific have a much higher proportion of cloud applications to total applications…

Grazed from ITWire.  Author: Beverly Head.

At a roundtable event in Sydney today hosted by four technology vendors – Eaton Corporation. Kroll Ontrack, WatchGuard and Tecala – warned that without proper technology plumbing companies could be achieving short-term financial benefits, while putting themselves at risk in the future.

According to Rodney Gedda, a senior analyst with Telsyte, Australian enterprises are enthusiastic adopters of both virtualisation and cloud computing. He said that 56 per cent of organisations had begun virtualising their servers, while 19 per cent of companies were now committed to, or were building private clouds…

Grazed from Cloud Computing World Forum.  Author: PR Announcement.
 

Grazed from eWeek.  Author: Chris Preimesberger.

In North America, hosting (42 percent and cloud IaaS have achieved the highest level of client adoption, while the markets in the rest of the world are dominated by data center outsourcing (80 percent), Gartner reported.

Depending upon where they are located in the world, enterprises are buying and using data center-related and cloud-based services very differently, researcher Gartner revealed March 26 in a new report…

Grazed from IEEE Times.  Author:  Brian Bailey.

Today, Cadence announced additional support for companies designing the cloud. The cloud is not only a form of centralized computing and storage, but also requires very fast and rich interfaces. Cadence is adding two protocol standards used in cloud computing applications, 12Gb/s SAS and NVM Express, to the Cadence Verification IP (VIP) Catalog.

I spoke with Susan Peterson, director, of product marketing within the System Realization group at Cadence about this announcement. While everyone will cover the new protocols, and I will talk about them a little, I was more interested in the role that Cadence plays within the community. This impacts the way in which standards get created and this VIP eventually becomes available to you…

Grazed from CRN.  Author: Edward J. Correia.

Many IT departments have been committing acts of virtualization for years. Servers, storage, networking and desktops all have fallen victim to our erstwhile inventiveness, while demonstrating with relative ease that virtualization readily scales up to meet the needs of human busywork.

But does it also scale down? The answer is yes, of course, and most corporate executives could testify as to at least one good and practical reason for making it so: the IT-issued mobile phone. According to VMware, 75 percent of corporate employees who use computers for work are using or interested in using smartphones for work. But for security, compliance and ease of management, corporations typically don’t allow employees to access corporate assets from personal phones…