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Grazed from TMCNet. Author: Mandira Srivastava.
Cloud computing is buzzing word these days. However, consumers, enterprise owners, network service providers are still skeptical about the proper use of public or private cloud.
Addressing storage industry, Scality (News – Alert) CEO, Jérôme Lecat introduced why Scality RING, the storage solution from organic storage pioneer Scality, is the most cost-effective storage technology for building private clouds…
Organizations with any sort of data center face the challenge of managing and securing access to numerous servers in both local and distributed environments. Now as companies move to virtualized environments and cloud computing, the same security and device management issues are growing exponentially…
Agiliance(R), Inc., the leading independent provider of Security and Operational Risk Management solutions for Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) programs, today announced that the Agiliance Continuous Compliance Service(TM) (CCS) for Cloud Risk Management (CRM) has been named the Best Cloud Security Solution of the Year in the prestigious 2011 Computing Security Awards…
Enteracloud, a leading provider of cloud computing and cloud connectivity solutions released today a whitepaper documenting the top five emerging cloud trends. With the impact of cloud computing gaining significant traction worldwide, CIOs and CTOs are becoming so comfortable with the cloud that some important trends are emerging with respect to CIOs’ cloud usage…Leading global banks and other members of the Open Data Center Alliance, a group of more than 300 companies representing over $100bn in annual IT spending, are adopting cloud computing much faster than previously thought…
Dell on November 3 announced additional investment in Taiwan to mainly expand staff at its Taiwan Design Center from 600 members currently to 700 in an attempt to strengthen its ability to provide cloud computing solutions for business users in the Taiwan market…
Grazed from Forbes. Author: Bob Moul.
Now that cloud computing has turned from an “if” to a “when” proposition, enterprises of all sizes are asking a lot of questions beginning with “how.” How will we make the transition? How much will it cost? How long will it take? And perhaps most importantly, how high a return will we see?…
First, Oracle ignored the cloud. Then Larry Ellison, its CEO, ridiculed the cloud. And now that Oracle is trying to buy its way into the cloud. The question is: what exactly does the cloud mean to Oracle?
That depends on how you define the cloud. If there is a standard definition, it involves computing that is not so much a product you have to install and maintain but a service you tap into like a utility. Just as you turn on your faucet or your lamp, the cloud lets you watch a movie on Netflix (NFLX) instead of going out and buying a DVD, or share a document in Dropbox instead of emailing a Microsoft Office file back and forth…
It used to be easy journalistic shorthand to write ‘database-giant Oracle Corp.’, but that labeling no longer fits a company that’s now a key player in applications, appliances, servers, development tools, operating systems and, yes, even cloud computing. How do all these components gel into a coherent plan for IT customers? What makes Oracle better than the other big integrated systems players like HP and IBM? In this latest installment of the IDG Enterprise CEO Interview Series, Oracle President Mark Hurd spoke with IDGE Chief Content Officer John Gallant about Oracle’s strategy and why the company is uniquely positioned to help IT leaders deal with the difficult challenges they’re facing today. Hurd also clarified Oracle’s stance on cloud — a position clouded — sorry — by some earlier comments from CEO Larry Ellison — and what makes Oracle’s approach better than ‘very old’ cloud solutions like salesforce.com. He explained more about customer migrations to Oracle’s new Fusion applications and discussed how Oracle plans to win in the evolving server market…
Cloud computing, security and the mobile space hold the most growth potential in the coming years, according to IT professionals surveyed by tech staffing firm Modis.
While no single technology dominated that portion of the study, which polled 502 tech workers on issues related to their jobs and the IT industry, those areas took the top three spots. Cloud computing earned 29 percent of the vote, security tallied 21 percent and mobile scored 18 percent…