Grazed from Federal Computer Week.  Author: Rutrell Yasin.

Cloud computing could revolutionize the intelligence community’s analytical and big data processing capabilities, according to a white paper released by The Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA).

“However, before adopting a cloud architecture, organizations must fully articulate and assess how this technological approach will enable their organization’s mission capabilities, cost-effectiveness, and the security of their classified data and intelligence,” said Bob Gourley, INSA’s Cloud Computing Task Force Chair and principal author of the paper, reported Rutrell Yasin at FCW’s sister site, GCN.com…

Grazed from PRWeb.  Author: Editorial Staff.

While the concept of cloud computing has been garnering headlines for some time, businesses are now starting to see the benefits of moving their information technology infrastructure to the cloud.

As these new solutions go from theory to reality, CloudStrategies is leading the way. Based in the New York metro area, CloudStrategies is an IT consulting firm that is dedicated to life on the cloud. At the heart of their business is Microsoft Office 365, the newest online services offering from Microsoft…

Grazed from MSPMentor.  Author: Joe Panettieri.

Sometimes you can learn a lot when you stop talking and start listening. Such was the case during a recent conversation with Logicalis VP Wayne Kiphart, ViaWest CTO Jason Carolan, and Nimsoft VP Tim Van Ash. Our chatter explored how MSPs could differentiate while moving into cloud computing. By the end of the conversation, Kiphart, Carolan and Van Ash identified three paths that can lead MSPs to cloud success.

So what do those cloud experts potentially bring to the table?…

Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author: Liz McMillan.

Adaptive Planning on Wednesday announced that it has secured $22 million in new venture financing. Norwest Venture Partners (NVP) led the round, with existing investors Cardinal Venture Capital, Clairmont Capital, Monitor Ventures, and ONSET Ventures also participating. Adaptive Planning will use the new capital to accelerate growth in sales and marketing, product development, and new channels and markets.

As part of the funding, Sergio Monsalve, Partner at Norwest Venture Partners, will be joining Adaptive Planning’s board of directors…

Grazed from PRWeb.  Author: PR Announcement.

Eze Castle Integration, Inc., a leading provider of strategic IT solutions and private cloud services to hedge funds, today announced it has won two prestigious hedge fund industry awards. The company won Most Cutting Edge Cloud Computing Solution in the FTF News Technology Innovation Awards 2012 and Best Managed Technology in the 2012 Hedgeweek Awards.    

The Eze Private Cloud is the most widely used hedge fund cloud spanning two continents and supporting thousands of users. The FTF News Most Cutting Edge Cloud Award recognizes the Eze Private Cloud as the solution that best fulfills the promise of cloud technology for hedge funds and investment management firms. Eze Castle was also named a finalist in the Service Provider of the Year and Most Effective Use of Social Media categories…

Grazed from Wired News.  Author: Eric Johnson.

Virtualization has been increasingly used for leveraging underutilized compute resources, but there are questions about whether we are trying to use virtual machines (VMs) in situations for which they were not intended. Virtual computing has a much longer history than most imagine. Like many technological approaches that have been repurposed over time (Tag Switching/Multiprotocol Label Switching, or MPLS, comes to mind), virtual computing initially had a different value proposition, enabling legacy applications to execute on modern systems.

Today as we use VMs more extensively we tend to gloss over the fact that from a systems engineering perspective, regardless of how much we abstract the virtual from the physical we are still left with physical system constraints. In cloud computing architectures one of the key factors that will distinguish between successful — even viable — cloud computing architectures and those that are unsuccessful or unreliable, will be the degree to which these virtualization implementations map to the physical world…

Grazed from Flow Corporation.  Author: PR Announcement.

Flow Corporation today announced the Flow Platform, a cloud-based platform-as-a-service (PaaS) that greatly simplifies the development of real-time applications, while enabling powerful stream-processing, data routing, and information interoperability between mobile, web and enterprise applications. The Flow Platform provides developers of all skill levels unprecedented capabilities to quickly and affordably create, aggregate, filter, process, route and share real-time data streams with minimal coding effort.

Grazed  from NEXThink.  Author: PR Announcement.

NEXThink, whose real-time user-centric analytics make it possible for the Global 5000 and cloud service providers to rethink and transform their IT infrastructure, today announced that it has closed $5.5 million in Series C funding, bringing the total capital raised by the company to $13.1 million. This round – led by the company’s current investors, Auriga Partners and Venture Incubator, and new investor Mannai Corporation – will be used to expand its global presence and to develop new products that accelerate its business around cloud computing and mobility.

Grazed from InfoBoom.  Author: Rick Robinson.

Google is cutting prices on its Cloud Storage hosted service. Needless to say this is good news for firms looking for a deal on their cloud computing needs. And it might presage more price cutting to come. The cloud is becoming a commodity good.

It’s not only cloud vendors fighting for market share. A cloud alternative, in the form of less expensive and more easily managed server capacity, is being touted by hardware firms. It all adds up to a buyer’s market for data storage and storage-related services, which could be good news for an IT department close to you…