September 1, 2011 Off

Cisco VXLAN ushers in cloud LAN era

By David
Grazed from Fierce Enterprise Communications.  Author: PR Announcement.

Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO), one of many companies announcing new cloud-related efforts at VMworld in San Francisco this week. One of the company’s new projects was hailed as a "LAN for the clouds," a virtual LAN (VLAN) aimed at cloud computing environments and based on the Virtual Extensible LAN standard (VXLAN)…

September 1, 2011 Off

Actuate and CoreMatrix Deliver Business Intelligence in Cloud

By David
Grazed  from Financial Tech Spotlight.  Author:  Carolyn J Dawson.

A strategic alliance with CoreMatrix Systems has been announced by Actuate (News – Alert) Corporation. Business Intelligence, or BI, will be delivered to the cloud through this alliance. The top open source BI vendor, Actuate Corporation is responsible for development of BIRT. CoreMatrix Systems is the top cloud computing consulting company. The organization is also a premier implementation partner of Salesforce.com (News – Alert)…

 
September 1, 2011 Off

Red Moon Solutions Introduces “Audit in a Box” – Newest Cloud Computing AuditRoom!

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

Red Moon Solutions, a premier provider of specialty tax software solutions, is proud to introduce an all new AuditRoom™ for corporations.  The newest release of this powerful, yet affordable Software as a Service (SaaS) tool manages the audit process, data, and documents, efficiently and effectively while also managing tax risk and improving internal controls…

September 1, 2011 Off

Security the key issue in cloud computing

By David
Grazed from TechCentral.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Concerns over information security are the biggest barrier to businesses moving to online cloud-based computing services, says Kgomotso Kganyago, chief security advisor at Microsoft SA.

As companies move to seamless computing and as more international cables land on the shores of the African continent, companies need to realise that security attacks will rise and secure their systems appropriately, he says…

September 1, 2011 Off

CampusIT Serves More Than 400,000 Students in the Cloud

By David
Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

CampusIT simplifies student interaction helping universities deliver a better and faster service

CampusIT ( www.campusit.net ), the education management systems provider, today announced that it is now serving the needs of more than 400,000 higher education students around Europe on its cloud computing model…

September 1, 2011 Off

ANX, OpSource Partner to Deliver Secure Cloud Computing Services

By David
Grazed from TMCNet.  Author:  Rajani Baburajan.

ANX has now become a Validated Cloud Solution provider for OpSource customers.

The association enables OpSource clients to deploy cloud-based solutions with ANX Secure Cloud Access, a managed service for user-to-cloud connections. Leveraging the secure solutions, OpSource clients can secure endpoints, eliminate access security concerns associated with cloud computing, company officials said…

September 1, 2011 Off

EnCrisp to Deliver Cloud Governance Risk and Security Management Solution on the Force.com Platform

By David
Grazed from OnlinePRNews.  Author:  PR Announcement.

EnCrisp LLC,a leading independent provider of governance, risk and compliance (GRC) solutions, today announced ClearGRC® Enterprise and Social Governance Service built and delivered natively on Force.com, the leading enterprise cloud computing platform. The suite of products include the patent-pending cloud Governance-as-a-Service™ platform named ClearGRC®. These sustainable governance, risk and security compliance applications are designed to effectively govern and provide transparency and monitoring across compliance with quality and security standards, industry regulations, risk programs and corporate policies for private and public global organizations of all sizes…

August 31, 2011 Off

VMware CEO says cloud computing technologies are the future

By David
Grazed from TechTarget.  Author:  Wendy Schuchart.

VMware Inc. CEO Paul Maritz has been around the IT world for a long time — he started back in what he calls the "mainframe era," but cloud computing technologies and virtualization were the focus of his keynote Monday at the 2011 VMworld General Sessions in Las Vegas.

"I spent my whole life working on the PC," he told the 19,000 audience members. However, he explained, the future of IT is seated in cloud technology. "In three years … more than 80% of the devices connecting to the Internet will not be Windows-based personal computers. With that kind of scale, we’re going to have to see new techniques and new approaches introduced into the world of IT."…

August 31, 2011 Off

LightEdge Launches VMware vCloud for Cloud Computing Customers

By David
Grazed from WebWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

LightEdge Solutions, a customer-centric leader in cloud computing and resilient collocation services, today announced that it has launched the initial phase of a vCloud administrative portal for its virtual server customers.  This addition elevates LightEdge within the industry as one of only two VMware VSPP partners in the Iowa with vCloud capabilities in place to support their public and private cloud virtual server customers.  LightEdge will use this tool as a critical differentiator for the company to continue to drive the rapidly expanding cloud computing market place…