October 7, 2011 Off

Can an Open Cloud Compete?

By David
Grazed from MIT Technology Review.  Author:  Michael Fitzgerald.

A new foundation, announced today, will attempt to promote a free, "open source" alternative for cloud computing.

The OpenStack Foundation, announced at the OpenStack conference in Boston, will maintain a suite of free software tools for building and managing a cloud-computing platform. The OpenStack software suite includes software for computation, storage, networking, and system management…

October 6, 2011 Off

Feds: Cloud Computing Doesn’t Increase Security Risk

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Grazed from InformationWorld.  Author: Elizabeth Montalbano.

Federal officials defended their move to adopt cloud computing, stressing steps federal agencies are taking to ensure the technology does not present greater cybersecurity risks than already exist today, on Capitol Hill Thursday.

"Our problems with security are not unique to cloud-computing systems," David McClure, associate administrator for the General Services Administration’s (GSA’s) Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies, told the House Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection, and Security Technologies in a hearing about the security implications of the federal government’s aggressive move to the cloud…

October 6, 2011 Off

OpenStack’s secret weapon is modularity

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Grazed from Computer World.  Author:  Joab Jackson.

Although somewhat late to the market for cloud computing infrastructure, OpenStack enjoys an advantage over other cloud stacks in that it has a modular architecture, said one of the first developers of the open-source cloud software.

"This is very important. There is no one way to do OpenStack, and this is very important," said Chris Kemp, who oversaw the development of the OpenStack cloud controller when he was CIO of the NASA Ames Research Center. Kemp spoke Thursday at the OpenStack Conference in Boston…

October 6, 2011 Off

Syntergy Unveils Distributed SharePoint Computing in the Cloud

By David
Grazed from PR NewsWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

At the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2011, Syntergy, Inc., a leading provider of products for enhancing Microsoft SharePoint® Products and Technologies, demonstrated its flagship product, Syntergy Replicator for SharePoint, as a cloud solution. Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, and on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction…

October 6, 2011 Off

Cloud computing is the future of networking

By David

Grazed from Gulf News.  Author: Naushad K. Cherrayil.

Every new technology is hyped as a miracle, but cloud computing managed to fog the eyes of even experienced IT people because its whole purpose is to behave as if it is a miracle.

Resources appear magically wherever and whenever they’re needed, data travels to find the questions it needs to answer, servers pitch in with whatever work needs doing.

Cloud computing refers to networks of virtual servers that allow individuals and businesses to access information from any internet-connected device…

October 6, 2011 Off

With great cloud comes great responsibility

By David
Grazed from Voice And Data.  Author: Vince Lee.

There’s a good reason why everyone is talking about cloud computing. With infrastructure-as-a-service, for example, whatever computing power and storage capacity you might need is immediately available on tap. Combine this with virtualisation technology and organisations gain unprecedented flexibility to deploy virtual servers whenever and wherever they are needed…

October 6, 2011 Off

Vision Solutions Appoints Bob Johnson to Executive Vice President as Part of Sales and Marketing Expansion

By David
Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Vision Solutions, Inc., the world’s leading provider of information availability software and services for Windows, Linux, IBM Power Systems and Cloud Computing market today announced that Bob Johnson is now the new executive vice president of sales and marketing for the company, leading its communications and business development strategies as it moves aggressively into new technology markets…

October 6, 2011 Off

Survey shows shift to cloud-based services, despite concerns

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Grazed from Network World.  Author:  Ellen Messmer.

A survey of 5,300 IT and security managers in 38 countries about cloud computing offers a vivid snapshot of expectations, anxieties and sometimes shattered hopes.

According to the Symantec "State of the Cloud" survey, 19% of the respondents said they had moved at least some applications to public software as a service, while 17% said they had adopted a private cloud arrangement. When it comes to public infrastructure as a service, 17% were using that, while 11% said they were using a hybrid arrangement linking private and public cloud services…

October 6, 2011 Off

Quipu Cloud Computing Provider Selected for Private Equity Event

By David
Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Quipu Applications, Inc., a cloud computing company revolutionizing the way entrepreneurs and VCs communicate and collaborate, today announced that the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) BioVentures has selected its cloud-based BusinessPlan(TM) and incQubator(TM) business tools. incQubator will standardize presentations from 20 start-ups allowing 120 seed and venture capitalists attending the university’s Private Equity Roundtable event to easily identify the most promising organizations. The Private Equity Roundtable will be held on October 6th and 7th at the Little Rock Regional Chamber in Little Rock, Arkansas. The event is the fifth annual gathering of VCs reviewing start-up companies licensed by UAMS and will be streamed live on http://arcapital.com . One of the 11 companies previously funded, Myeloma Health, LLC, a cancer reference laboratory operating out of UAMS BioVentures incubator, is currently analyzing and reporting data on clinical samples from cancer centers in the U.S. and Europe…