Grazed from Data Center Knowledge.  Author: Jason Cowie.

The IT community has identified, discussed and brooded over the challenges of reaching the cloud. We’ve examined and addressed the causes of virtual sprawl and stall, we’ve figured out the importance of automation in private cloud deployment, and we’ve come to an understanding about the value of bringing cloud computing into the enterprise, where end users can gain some autonomy for provisioning and self-service management. The biggest hurdle left to clear will become the most pressing in 2012. IT is still struggling to communicate cloud realities to business leaders. Until the CIO and the CEO see eye to eye on the path to the private cloud, too many companies will fail to reach that goal.

IT must overcome that communication challenge in 2012. Doing so will require some frank conversations with the executives in corner offices. In 2012, there are seven truths CIOs must be ready to tell their bosses when it comes to cloud objectives. These include:…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Maximizing its expertise in cloud computing, mobility, and voice and IP networking services, AT&T* is bringing the benefits of Unified Communications to businesses of all sizes as a simple, reliable, carrier-grade service. AT&T Unified Communications Services helps organizations control costs and eliminate unpredictable expenditures.

AT&T UC Services gives customers the ability to unify their communications – conveniently delivered over the highly-secure and reliable AT&T network. As with AT&T’s other cloud solutions, which are embedded directly into the AT&T managed network, AT&T UC Services is accessible from almost any device, enabling employees to collaborate and communicate in real-time regardless of location. It is designed to meet the needs of today’s mobile workers by:..

Grazed from PRWeb.  Author: PR Announcement.

Today, ZapThink, a Dovèl Technologies Company, a global Enterprise Architecture, Service-Oriented Architecture, and Cloud Computing advisory, training, and thought leadership firm, announced that it will be running a series of one and two-day training courses on Enterprise Cloud Computing.

Jason Bloomberg, President of ZapThink, will be delivering each course personally. His itinerary currently includes the UK, Singapore, Australia, and India, and will also include South Africa, the Middle East, and other regions…

Grazed from eWeek.  Author:  Darryl K. Taft.

Cloud9 IDE launches support for developing and deploying Microsoft Windows Azure applications from the Cloud9 cloud-based IDE.
 
Cloud9 IDE, provider of the like-named cloud-based integrated development environment (IDE) for Web and mobile applications, has announced the availability of Windows Azure deployment from the IDE.

Cloud9 made its announcement Jan. 24 at the Node Summit in San Francisco. The integration offers Node.js developers the advantages of a cloud-based development environment paired with the scalability and interoperability of Microsoft’s Windows Azure cloud computing platform…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

GlobalOne, a leader in Software as a Service (SaaS), social collaboration and cloud computing professional services for the enterprise, announced today the acquisition of Weblinc, one of Australia’s most innovative providers of cloud computing applications. The acquisition deepens GlobalOne’s capabilities in the Asia Pacific region, while broadening the company’s expertise in building and deploying enterprise cloud applications across the globe.

"Acquiring Weblinc gives us the necessary knowledge, experience and tools to create a Global Architecture Practice," said John Orrock, COO at GlobalOne. "This new practice will take cloud computing foundation assets and thought leadership in cloud architecture to market. Clients will see benefits in terms of strategy around governance, design, delivery, training and certification of their staff."…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Catbird, the pioneer in comprehensive security and compliance for virtual, cloud and physical networks, today announced the next generation of its award-winning vSecurity®. vSecurity 5.0 will empower IT managers with the control and assurance they need to capitalize on the benefits and cost-savings of virtualized and cloud computing.

Security and compliance are the principal objections affecting virtual and cloud rollouts. Legacy security monitoring and compliance tools cannot reliably protect increasingly complex and dynamic IT environments created by virtualization. Catbird has pioneered a new class of automated security that is context-aware and adaptive to the fluid and mobile nature of virtualized data centers. vSecurity 5.0 integrates directly with the hypervisor to provide comprehensive and automated control, visibility and efficiency. Its vCompliance® engine monitors and enforces virtualized data center compliance with PCI, FISMA, NIST, HIPAA and other standards for regulated industries looking to take advantage of virtualized infrastructure for their mission-critical computing…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Virtualization Review today announced that cloud client computing products from Wyse Technology have been named Winner and Preferred Products in the 2012 Virtualization Review Readers Choice Awards. Wyse Z90 is Winner in the Thin/Zero Client Computing category, and Wyse Xenith Pro was named Preferred Product. This is the second year in a row that Wyse has received recognition as the winning product in the thin and zero client computing category.

Wyse PocketCloud also was named as a Preferred Product in the Virtual PC category. The 2012 Winner and Preferred Product awards are presented to vendors in 14 different categories of products, ranging from desktop and storage virtualization to application virtualization and cloud computing solutions…