CSC Introduces Secure Cloud Services to Streamline Insurance Agents’ Work
CSC (NYSE: CSC) today announced the introduction of Breezeway, a collection of cloud-based, Web-subscription services usable on multiple devices and platforms that enable insurers to tap into offerings in a secure, highly scalable environment. CSC’s first series of services in the Breezeway collection provides virtual agents with a desktop application built on Force.com, salesforce.com’s leading enterprise cloud computing platform, and will support a wide array of multiline insurance agency functions starting with the electronic new business application service…
Cloud computing and the public sector: What IT managers need from suppliers
Cloud buyers and suppliers on their first date
IT departments and suppliers have a long way to go before they understand each other on cloud computing.
That was the conclusion when IT practitioners and suppliers met at London law firm DLA Piper to discuss the barriers to cloud.
In the words of Mark O’Conor, partner at London law firm, suppliers and buyers are like a tentative couple out on a first date.
"It feels like we are at odds," he says. "Each side is looking to the other and both sides are waiting for each other to take a step forward."
Cloud computing – which offers IT departments the potential to buy in IT services as a commodity when they need them – has become one of the hottest, most hyped and perhaps most confusing topics in IT…
Cloud Computing: Data Center-On a Cloud
Cloud has always been associated with flexibility and economic viability. Cloud has successfully shrugged the hype factor and has over the years grown well in India. Currently most of the cloud market is addressed by Indian data center service providers and global cloud service providers. However telecom companies are taking significant share in overall cloud opportunity with strengths like broad network reach and wide customer access. From the time, telecom companies have started considering cloud as a serious business concept, storage companies have been their ‘friend in need’. While storage has been a de-facto component of the cloud architecture, telcos have been leveraging the relationship for the best business advantage…
The taxman cometh for cloud computing
You had to see this one coming. As local municipalities and states seek to find additional revenue in this down economy, they now have their sights on the emerging market of cloud computing. As more companies use cloud services, the traditional rules of taxation based on physical presence no longer fit. However, the new set of proposed tax laws could drive more confusion and remove much of the costs savings of transitioning to the cloud…
Interphase clouDevice VDI Thin Clients Achieve VMware Ready Status
Interphase Corporation (NASDAQ: INPH), today announced that its clouDevice™ K01 Series thin clients have achieved VMware Ready™ status. This designation indicates that Interphase clouDevice has passed a detailed evaluation and testing process managed by VMware and is now listed on the VMware Partner Product Catalog.
Passing the extensive VMware-specified testing helps ensure that clouDevice makes best use of VMware technology and is ready for deployment in customer environments…
Can any cloud catch Amazon Web Services? Part 1
While there has been an incredible increase in the competitive landscape for various cloud computing services, one company stands out to me as unique in both its approach and its success. That company is Amazon, and their Amazon Web Services offerings.
Before you accuse me of being some kind of fanboy, I want to explain why I say this. And in part 2 of this series, I’ll point out how this uniqueness will be challenged in the coming year or two. There is no guarantee that Amazon will be the dominant cloud capacity provider forever, but they deserve their props when it comes to what they have achieved to date, and how–at least for now–they continue to go about staying the leader…
HPC Startup Backs into Cloud
Some could argue that it really does take a rocket scientist to address the limitations of high performance computing systems.
According to one rocket scientist we talked to recently, the problem with HPC clusters for aerospace engineers has little to do with the applications or the real science behind the rockets. Rather, he says the thorny issues are rooted in the limitations, complexity, and general care and feeding distractions that require scientists and non IT-experts to work double-duty as HPC system managers…
Priming the private cloud pump, HP releases VirtualSystem for VMware at VMworld
HP is taking full advantage of the VMworld conference in Las Vegas this week to make a series of major announcements around its virtualization and cloud computing products. One of the most important is the announcement of HP VirtualSystem for VMware…NetApp and VMware Help Transform IT, Make Cloud a Reality
Cloud computing has quickly surfaced as an important IT initiative as more organizations evaluate alternatives to help manage the pace and growth of their business. To help accelerate customers’ transition to the cloud, today at VMworld(R) 2011, NetApp and VMware announced VMware cloud infrastructure and management on NetApp(R), a new joint solution that enables organizations to evolve to a secure cloud computing model at their own pace, gaining greater flexibility and efficiency without needing to rip and replace their existing infrastructure…
Solving the Cloud Security Problem
Study after study shows that the number one concern that IT organizations of any size have with cloud computing is security. But being concerned about something and actually doing something about it are two different things. The issue with cloud security is that it’s difficult to deploy and manage…