Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Aryaka, provider of the world’s first cloud-based WAN optimization and application acceleration solution, today announced the results of a survey of 110 IT and cloud professionals ranging from C-level executives to Senior Networking Managers conducted among 5,000 attendees at the recent Cloud Computing EXPO 2011 in Santa Clara, CA. Results indicate offshore development (30%) tied to continued global expansion is driving further adoption of cloud computing, in addition to 24X7 support (18%) and call centers (12%). 49% of respondents said that the need for successful and timely application development specifically was pushing their companies into new geographies, mainly Asia (55%), Australia (26%), South America (26%) and Eastern Europe (25%)…

Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author: Maureen O’Gara.

On-demand subscription billing and payment house Zuora is expanding its multi-tenant cloud into Europe on the back of a $36 million D round led by Index Ventures. Greylock Partners and Workday co-CEO Dave Duffield, who started PeopleSoft, are also kicking in…

Grazed from PR NewsWire.  Author:  PR Announcement.

NextCloud, a state-of-the-art cloud computing service provider, today announced that its NextCloud hybrid cloud service has achieved VMware vCloud Powered status, illustrating to customers that the company’s cloud services are underpinned by VMware’s leading virtualization and cloud computing technology, namely VMware vSphere® and VMware vCloud® Director™.  A member of the VMware Service Provider Program (VSPP), NextCloud provides its VMware vCloud Powered service as a set of cloud computing services across a common platform, supporting the largest set of existing applications and offering distinctive application mobility uniquely available from VMware…

Grazed from GigaOM.  Author: Barb Darrow.

Servicemesh snagged $15 million in venture money from Ignition Partners to fuel its enterprise software push. Ignition partner Frank Artale will join Servicemesh’s board.

The four-year-old company focuses on helping large companies use private and public cloud computing services within existing compliance and regulatory frameworks, said Servicemesh CEO and chairman Eric Pulier…

Grazed from InforWorld.  Author: David Linthicum.

At Cloud Expo last week, many vendors focused on "private PaaS" as a form of cloud computing. They follow the logic that if you can have a private (IaaS) cloud, then you certainly can have a private PaaS cloud — but should you?…

Grazed from Tech-FAQ.  Author:  Will Spencer.

Over the last few years, cloud computing has rapidly grown from an untested technology paradigm to a reliable, scalable, and economical hosting solution for many businesses. The next step in the evolution of cloud computing is implementation of cloud architectures in enterprise data centers…

Grazed from ZDNet.  Author: Kevin Kwang.

Cloud computing will reach mainstream adoption in the enterprise market by 2015 when key issues such as security, service availability and data sovereignty are expected to be ironed out.

According to Simon Piff, associate vice president for enterprise infrastructure research at IDC Asia-Pacific, businesses today are still hesitant in utilizing cloud computing for much of their IT needs due to concerns over security, service reliability, data location and sovereignty, as well as vendor support…

Grazed from Business Day.  Author: Sean Wainer.

THE most recent data leakage scandals have all been about information assets in the incorrect places, both in terms of insecure storage and the wrong hands. The business of e-security concerns itself with monitoring and tracking data as it moves around — an increasingly difficult task given the complexities of modern working practices and the diversity of devices in use. One answer is cloud computing, the system of storing data in one place and delivering it to computers across the internet. Cloud removes these difficulties in a very simple way: data never moves. With desktop virtualisation, data assets and applications are centralised in the cloud, but are accessible from a number of devices and locations…

Grazed from CM Crossroads.  Author: Anders Wallgren.

With its promise of immediate availability, unlimited scalability, and dramatic cost savings, cloud computing is revolutionizing the way business works. While the economic justifications for this exciting new technology are self-evident across a broad range of IT initiatives, the process of developing software is particularly well-suited to the elasticity and scalability offered by the cloud…

Grazed from PR NewsWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

With the adoption of cloud computing continuing to accelerate, the need to adopt and maintain effective security and compliance practices is more important that ever.

"Securing a cloud-based computing environment is key to creating a robust compliance program," said Bart Vansevenant, executive director, global security solutions, Verizon.  "The essential elements – planning, design and operations – are the same for traditional and cloud platforms.  By applying proven security best practices and paying special attention to the unique characteristics and features of the cloud, enterprises can develop and maintain compliance programs while leveraging the agility, flexibility and improved economics the cloud has to offer."…