Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

RightScale(R) Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, today announced that 87 percent of its customer cloud usage comes from customers using more than one cloud provider and cloud type. This confirms the growing trend to leverage multiple clouds — public, private and hybrid — to meet IT needs such as high availability, business continuity, disaster recovery, application performance and reduced cost.

Over the past year, RightScale customers have been accelerating their multi-cloud usage, not only accessing more than one public cloud but increasingly building private clouds to complement public cloud usage. In an analysis of aggregate customer cloud usage, RightScale found that 87 percent of compute power managed through the RightScale platform comes from companies that utilize multiple clouds…

Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author: Pat Romanski.

CiRBA Inc. on Tuesday announced it has raised $15 million in its third round of institutional funding led by Tandem Expansion Fund.  Existing investors Sigma Partners and Edgestone Capital Partners also participated in the deal. The growth round of financing follows a series of enterprise-wide sales to some of the largest financial institutions in the world. These enterprise customers helped CiRBA achieve record software bookings in 2011.

Chris Legg, Managing Partner, Tandem Expansion Fund, noted that "CiRBA is far ahead of other software products both in terms of capability and customers with enterprise deals of up to 100,000 servers. We feel we have made a great investment and look forward to supporting their growth."…

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…

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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…

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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…