Datapipe Outlines Key Cloud Computing Trends for 2012
Mainstream adoption has established cloud computing as a vital part of Enterprise IT strategic planning. As the model evolves, the ability to meet the developing governance and security requirements of global businesses will be crucial in 2012, according to Datapipe, a global provider of managed services and infrastructure for outsourced IT and cloud computing.
“Last year, we witnessed a growing number of applications – from enterprise back-office systems, to mobile and social gaming – begin to utilize the scale and resilience that cloud technology offers,” said Ed Laczynski, Datapipe’s vice-president for cloud strategy and architecture. “As a direct result of proven use cases seen in the past year, 2012 will see more businesses embrace this new class of efficient, flexible and reliable products and services.”
Datapipe predicts the following three trends will appear in 2012 as companies continue to turn to the cloud to safeguard valuable information:..
GlobalOne Launches Mobile Cloud Services Practice
GlobalOne, a leader in Cloud Computing, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Social Collaboration professional services for the enterprise, today announced GlobalOne Mobility, a new practice that will offer professional services for building, deploying and maintaining mobile cloud apps for both consumer and enterprise environments. Doug Maloney, former General Manager Innovation and New Business at Vodafone Hutchinson Australia, will lead the new practice as Vice President Mobility at GlobalOne.
"We are thrilled to have Doug Maloney and his team join GlobalOne," said David Northington, CEO of GlobalOne. "The Appland team has been wildly successful bringing highly scalable apps such as Who2Call and Cricket LIVE Australia to the consumer market. It’s time that companies were enabled to meet their desire to use mobile as a serious platform for business applications. This new practice will focus on the tremendous opportunity to bring consumer-style user experience and scale to mobile enterprise applications."…
5 steps to choosing the right cloud provider
Is your business considering a switch to cloud computing in the New Year? If so, you might want to take note of the following best practices from Andy Brewerton, Country Manager for cloud back-up specialists, EVault.
According to a recent Forrester Research report, about half of all midsize companies are either pursuing cloud-based services as part of their business practices, or they’re in their near-term implementation. Why? The realised benefits are clear– reduced infrastructure costs, pay-as-you-go services, flexibility, agility, and significantly reduced IT management and oversight.
Yet despite the massive migration to the cloud, businesses are still confused when it comes to data ownership, data privacy, data location, and cloud IT governance oversight…
Enterprises Cautiously Take Lead on Cloud Computing
Deal means more SAP cloud changes
If its $3.4 billion bid to buy SuccessFactors is successful, SAP could finally stabilize its cloud computing strategy — which has so far been mostly ineffectual.
The agreement to acquire SuccessFactors, a provider of cloud-based human resources applications, was announced earlier this month. SAP expects it will close in early 2012.
In recent years, SAP hasn’t been able to settle on a cloud strategy. The application vendor’s cloud-based Business ByDesign ERP suite was pulled back in 2008 and reworked. The much-hyped offering was finally released this year. SAP claimed to have 650 Business ByDesign customers in October and projected reaching 1,000 by year’s end.
Along with the ERP services, SAP is developing a series of on-demand applications aimed at specific enterprise functions, some of which appear to significantly overlap with SuccessFactors products…
StillSecure – jumping the gun on cloud security?
Security is one of the pressing issues when large enterprises consider deploying some workloads in a cloud computing environment. Rajat Bhargava, Chairman and CEO of StillSecure recently stopped by to discuss how his company is working to address this and other needs in a cloud computing environment.
StillSecure’s strategy is based upon two premises: 1) the industry is seeing a fundamental shift to outsourcing IT functions and 2) soon, enterprises will be looking to services providers, hosting companies and telecom providers for secure, well-managed environments in which to host their important workloads. Based upon those premises, StillSecure has been building tools and offering services to mid-market companies in the hopes of making their journey into the clouds safe.
To that end, StillSecure is offing the following products to service providers and services to end user organizations:…
Cloud Relevant to 90% of Thai Companies, VMware Survey Finds
I reported a couple of weeks ago on The Cloud Maturity Index, a study being conducted by VMware’s Singapore office and Forrester Research.
Initial findings covered Malaysia, where 64 percent of respondents said they have deployed or are actively planning cloud initiatives.
Now the companies have released survey results about Thailand. The study (now in its second year) found that 90 percent of Thai organizations surveyed believe cloud computing is relevant to their company, and 32 percent already have cloud initiatives in place – up from 21 percent a year ago.
An additional 40 percent of organizations said they are actively planning cloud initiatives – one of the highest rates amongst the eight Asia Pacific countries studied, according to VMware…
Home cloud: Hands-on with the new Pogoplug Series 4
Sick of living in the cloud?
The new Pogoplug Series 4 is a device that looks to take the best of cloud computing and home network-attached storage and combine the two into a seamless experience. Available today, it certainly seems like a perfectly timed idea in the wake of seemingly daily frustrations with services like Apple’s own iCloud and iTunes Match.
Maybe the fourth time’s a charm: I’ve reviewed multiple Pogoplugs before, but none of them came close to what this new version offers. The Pogoplug is a NAS drive without the complications, and it’s finally hit a sweet spot for price, size, and feature set. The newly released Pogoplug Series 4 is a latecomer to the holiday shopping season, but if you’re getting fed up with iCloud and what other cloud services have to offer, then this $99 device might be what you’re looking for…
Google Links Up to Microsoft Office with Cloud Connect
Cloud Computing is an example of human advancement in computers technology, an enormous leap in the area of technology that is simple and easily understandable to everyone, even with little or no knowledge of computers.
Most of cloud apps are either very costly, or are meant for a larger database. Simple users with simple data have to rely on more costly storage to upload their files to the cloud.
Google Apps is one the best and cheapest of the all cloud apps, and is also free – up to 1 GB of the storage for each user…
Joyent Announces SmartMachine Appliance for MongoDB
Joyent, the global provider of cloud computing software and services, today is launching its SmartMachine Appliance for MongoDB to serve the fast growing market for MongoDB products in the online game, mobile, social network and e-commerce sectors. Designed to run applications with the lowest possible latency and the highest possible availability and reliability, this purpose-built NoSQL cloud appliance is being developed by Joyent with guidance from 10gen. 10gen is the initiator, contributor and continual sponsor of MongoDB, providing unmatched production support, training consulting and online management services for this innovative open source database.
"We’re excited to work with Joyent to improve the experience of running MongoDB in Joyent’s Cloud," said Max Schireson, President of 10gen. "Joyent’s Cloud is enjoying great success and we are happy to be an important part of that ecosystem."…