Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Webair, the leader in hosting solutions, today unveiled their Carrier Neutral Cloud Service, offering clients the flexibility and freedom of a cloud hosting environment while providing total control over all network infrastructure and carrier choices. This groundbreaking new service allows transparent access from cloud environments to thousands of transit and transport providers. Clients can now choose any carrier, multiple carriers, or build custom network configurations and tie it all into their own cloud topology.

In the late 1990s, physical data center infrastructure became disassociated from particular carriers. The result was increased competition among carriers, greater consumer choice among business owners, lower bandwidth costs and more reliable services. Then cloud computing came along and businesses were choosing between the computing scalability of the cloud or the network freedom of physical infrastructure. Now, by offering scalable cloud computing services with complete carrier neutrality, Webair gives clients the best of both worlds…

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InfoReliance launched today its innovative, turnkey cloud solution, called Capitol Cloud(TM), for the federal government. The company has developed Capitol Cloud to enable secure and reliable business productivity for the federal workforce anytime, anywhere, and on any device.

Currently, the Office of Management and Budget requires government organizations to use cloud-based solutions "whenever a secure, reliable, cost-effective cloud option exists." To help federal customers meet this initiative, InfoReliance created its new offering to address cloud computing concerns about security, reliability and cost.

Capitol Cloud is designed with multiple levels of security to provide end-to-end protection of information assets, regardless of the consumption device. InfoReliance also ensured it follows National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) guidelines, is compliant with the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA), and meets many other government standards…

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Redpine Signals, Inc., a leading developer of ultra-low-power, high-performance multi-standard wireless chipsets and modules, and Exosite, a provider of cloud-connectivity solutions for embedded applications, today announced a cloud-connected solution enabled on Renesas RX62N and RX63N microcontrollers. Showcased exclusively at the Arrow Electronics M2M Seminar Series, the partnership solution demonstrates Wi-Fi enabled, cloud-based M2M applications on several Renesas development kits.

The Exosite platform provides remote device monitoring and management, data storage and interaction with remote devices while maintaining open-source device software product developers may re-use to accelerate time-to-market when designing their own cloud-connected products. "Redpine’s 802.11n wireless technology drives the power of cloud-connectivity for low-power systems across multiple vertical segments," said Erik Rorvick, business development manager for Exosite. "Redpine’s offerings make it easy to integrate 802.11 technology to drive the next generation of M2M cloud-connected devices."…

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RSA, The Security Division of EMC and Zscaler today announced they are jointly developing a cloud-based solution to assert continuous trust in identities accessing any web application or cloud service. The solution is designed to help enable organizations to apply policy and control to identities even outside corporate networks, and simplify the challenge of managing user credentials associated with multiple cloud applications and web services.

The integration of risk-based authentication and identity federation from RSA’s Cloud Trust Authority and RSA® Adaptive Authentication solutions along with the inline web security capabilities of Zscaler’s Cloud Security service would enable a ubiquitous service for continuous, risk-aware identification of users accessing the Internet…

Grazed from Humans Invent.  Author: Nigel Brown.

The Cloud was once an IT buzz word, understood only by a select group, but increasingly it has started to infiltrate all of our lives, originally, through personal home use with online email such as Google’s Gmail, photo storage on services such as Flickr and social media tools, such as mySpace and Facebook, and now it is gaining ground in the business world.

Computing on the Cloud can save your business money, provide up-to-date technology, flexibility in terms of scalability with how your business grows, and provide data access and print capabilities for mobile workers and their handheld devices…

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Grazed from ITWeb.  Author: Gina Murphy.

Moving enterprise applications to the cloud can be a complex and daunting task. What you want to find is a cloud provider that offers a high touch engagement process from beginning to end to smooth the transition.

A high touch process ensures you can engage with various members of the deployment team through the three stages of the on-boarding process, which consists of: readiness assessment; development of a migration, transition or transformation plan; and optimization for cost and efficiency…

Grazed from DataCenterKnowledge.  Author: Colleen Miller.

In a blue-chip partnership targeting the intersection of colocation and the cloud, data center service provider Equinix and cloud computing specialist RightScale are helping customers connect private clouds with large-scale public clouds, along with access to leading cloud management tools.

RightScale and Equinix (EQIX) today announced their cloud package for corporations and service providers that both increases the speed and reliability of developing and managing automated clouds. With this partnership, the RightScale Cloud Management Platform will provide Platform Equinix customers with a comprehensive management offering for all cloud infrastructure ― including public, private and multi-cloud/hybrid clouds — managed and controlled through a single cloud service…

Grazed from ComputerWorld.  Author: Accenture.

Today, the world of information technology is somewhat akin to a jigsaw puzzle. Contemporary catchphrases like "cloud computing", "Big Data" and "service-oriented architecture" may be increasingly better understood, but they are no more than pieces of a complex puzzle and they do little to unveil the larger picture.

Nevertheless, three forces appear to be shaping the emerging image of IT…