Grazed from PR NewsWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

Adaptivity’s Blueprint4IT software supports IT transformation, including data center evolution, application portfolio optimization, and cloud enablement.   Its Visualization Studio™ software’s forensic discovery allows companies to:

• Reduce time to implementation with fact-based, accurate blueprints of the current IT environment
• Mitigate risks of the unknown application and infrastructure interdependencies
• Decrease resource requirements through automated discovery and analytics

Grazed from BetaNews.  Author: Joe Wilcox.

Cloud computing presents both challenges and opportunities for personal computing giants. Microsoft is "re-imagining" Windows for cloud-connected devices. Meanwhile, Intel rethinks its microprocessor strategies for mobile devices and servers, seeking to embrace the cloud at both ends of the consumption supply chain. For these incumbents that defined the personal computing era, the post-PC era future requires leaping from the past, not clinging to it.

Where the "Wintel" marriage is likely to remain strongest is the server. Microsoft’s post-PC — what I call cloud-connected device — strategy is two-fold: Providing direct, hosted services or applications businesses can host internally and expanding Windows’s support for additional chip architectures. For its part, Intel develops microprocessors for more device categories, while optimizing server chips for cloud applications and services, such as the recently announced Xeon processor E5-2600 product family…

Grazed from HPC Wire.  Author:  PR Announcement.

Nimbis Services, Inc. announces the beta release of their on-demand Caedium CFD Accelerator cloud product, the first of two Caedium-based computational fluid dynamics (CFD) service products running on Microsoft’s Windows Azure cloud platform.

Caedium, by Symscape, is a complete desktop CFD workflow environment with an easy to use graphical user interface integrated with OpenFOAM CFD solvers. Nimbis extends the use of Caedium beyond the desktop to the Windows Azure cloud with on-demand access and pay-as-you-go billing through a convenient and unique ecommerce technical computing marketplace. Examples of CFD models frequently analyzed with Caedium include airflow over a moving car or an aircraft wing, water flow around watercraft, and water flow through pipes…

Grazed from Zacks.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Red Hat Inc. (RHT) is set to release its fourth quarter 2012 results on Wednesday, March 28, 2012. In the run up to the earnings results, we do not notice any substantial movement in analysts’ estimates for the quarter.

Highlights from the Prior Quarter

Both top line and bottom line of Red Hat surpassed the Zacks Consensus Estimates in the third quarter, driven by higher demand for cloud computing technologies, as customers increasingly upgraded their datacenters to facilitate the adoption of cloud computing. Moreover, the company witnessed solid double-digits growth across all the regions during the reported quarter…

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

Several web developers, especially the new ones, have continuously misunderstand grid computing and cloud computing as one and the same. Both concepts, when compared to other solutions, are relatively new concepts in computing. Grid computing is a component of cloud computing to work perfectly, along with thin clients and utility computing. It serves as a link among different computers so that they form a large infrastructure thereby permitting sharing of resources. Utility computing, on the other hand, allows a user to pay for what he actually used. Cloud computing allows for on-demand resource provisioning and takes out over-provisioning when paired with utility computing so that the demands of a multitude of users are met.

Cloud computing allows companies to scale instantaneously. These corporations do not need to buy infrastructure, software licenses, or train personnel. Cloud computing is of primary importance to small and medium sized enterprises because they can outsource the computing requirements to data centers. In some instances, large companies can also benefit from cloud computing when they desire peak load capacity without spending on enlarging their internal data centers. Cloud computing allows its users to access their data and applications through the internet. The users are also charged for what they actually use…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

HOB, Inc. today announced it has addressed the debate of public versus private cloud computing. Enterprises are progressively recognizing the advantages of central data storage. This trend is being driven by the promise of cloud computing. Whether public or private, the cloud demands centralized data and applications. Public cloud designs are, due to security concerns, still being hesitantly deployed. Private cloud solutions, however, are very much sought after.

Public vs. Private Clouds

If an organization leverages the public cloud, enterprise data are transferred to the cloud provider. In a private cloud, however, the data remain solely in the company’s hands: physically as well as virtually. Public clouds promise much: Economies of scale, lower cost and less administrative expense — including fail-safety. These are only some examples. A private cloud is more modest: Economies of scale are smaller, whether costs can be reduced is questionable, but: Security for data and applications is always in safe hands and can be controlled. Additionally, a private cloud can be structured as a user wants — here, a public cloud is not so flexible….

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

8×8, Inc., provider of innovative business communications and cloud computing solutions, today announced the addition of numerous feature enhancements to its Virtual Office cloud PBX business phone service and integrated Virtual Office Pro unified communications solution, to be unveiled at the Enterprise Connect 2012 conference, March 26 — 29 in Orlando, Florida.

With the 8×8 Virtual Office unified cloud communications solution, businesses can access their core communications services from any location using an IP phone, PC and web browser or smart phone. The latest feature enhancements provide businesses with additional call handling capabilities and more intuitive web-based options, making day-to-day business communications simpler and more productive…

Grazed from Business Wire.  Author: PR Announcement.

Cetrom Information Technology, Inc. (Cetrom), a leader in providing comprehensive Cloud Computing solutions, announces it will bring its custom Cloud Computing solutions for Law Firms to the American Bar Association (ABA) TECHSHOW in Chicago March 29 — 31, 2012. Designed specifically for the needs of the legal community and implemented according to each law firm’s specific needs, Cetrom’s Cloud Computing for Law Firms offers a technology solution to help law practices run more efficiently and focus on clients instead of IT maintenance and upkeep. D.C.-area law firm, Holtzinger Weaver, a professional association, was one of the first law firms to benefit from this custom solution…

Grazed from Computer Business Review.  Author: Editorial Staff.

The utilities prefer private or hybrid cloud deployment options

Big data is increasingly driving the adoption of cloud computing by Western European utilities, with 46.2% of utilities positive that cloud would be able to solve big data issues, according to a new survey by IDC.

The survey found that budget allocation for cloud computing is still not a priority for Western European utilities, with only 25% allocating 1% to less than 3% of budgets to it in 2012, while short-term expectations for cloud computing budget shares are positive…

Grazed from Xconomy.  Author: Curt Woodward.

More money is pouring into Seattle-area enterprise computing startups. Today’s exhibit is Opscode, a cloud-computing software provider that just scored $19.5 million in new venture financing.

The funding round, led by Bellevue, WA’s Ignition Partners, will help Opscode grow its engineering team, which already has a branch office in Raleigh, NC. Previous investors Battery Ventures and Draper Fisher Jurvetson also participated.

Opscode created the open-source-based Chef line of software, which allows IT professionals to set up their cloud-computing resources—and change them more or less on the fly—with a ton of different options…