Abiquo and Hosting Provider Customers Share Insights Into New Cloud Computing Business Models
One of the most significant shifts in Cloud Computing for hosting providers this year has been the move from delivering cloud-enabling technology to the delivery of new applications and business models built atop that technology. Abiquo, a leading Enterprise Cloud Management software company is featuring a webinar interview on this emerging trend entitled, “The Changing Business Model of Service Providers.” Wendy Perilli, Abiquo’s VP of marketing is joined by Mike Carpenter, VP of business development for CARI.net, a global service provider offering on-demand cloud resources, and Kevin Brady the CEO of Solasus Web Solutions, a CARI.net customer that is aggressively pursuing this new model for technology delivery for its customers…
Control A Submarine From Cloud? DARPA’s On It
The Department of Defense (DOD) is seeking a way to use cloud computing to power embedded military applications that so far have not been able to take advantage of the technology.
The Microsystems Technology Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has released a request for information on what it is calling "military critical clouds."…
Cloud computing startup Cedexis raises $6 million in venture backing
Cedexis, a cloud computing company with offices in France and Southeast Portland, has raised $6 million in venture backing.
The Series A money comes from Seattle investment firm Madrona Venture Group and from a Palo Alto firm, Advanced Technology Ventures…
Google Apps, App Engine Tighten Cloud Services Security With SSAE-16 Compliance
A host of Google (NSDQ:GOOG) cloud services have been deemed secure for enterprise use and have passed the SSAE-16 Type II audit, a security compliance check that examines whether offerings comply with legal requirements like Sarbanes-Oxley…
Cloud Computing Middleware Company Announces Secure Content Distribution Services
CloudPointe, LLC announced today enhancements to its CloudPointe Connect service for secure controlled delivery of documents and digital assets. The enhancements enable organizations to share sensitive documents and digital assets, including video, to any recipient with an assigned passwords, expiration date, and restrictions for saving, printing and redistribution…
SoftLayer Has Record-Setting Second Quarter
SoftLayer Technologies on Tuesday announced that the company experienced continued operational and financial growth in the second quarter of 2011, hitting all new records. Along with other achievements, the company earned $83 million in revenue for the period…
Adaptive Computing Delivers Dynamic Cloud With New Moab Advancements
Adaptive Computing, a thought-leader in cloud systems management and the leading provider of Optimized Dynamic Cloud solutions, today announced that IT management and their staff no longer need to accept static cloud environments. The latest release of Moab Adaptive Computing Suite 6.1, a cloud decision engine, features extended dynamic cloud capabilities, accelerates workload management processes, maps and manages service component relationships to improve reliability and consolidates cloud event reporting. Enhanced dynamic cloud management capabilities in Moab allow IT departments to deliver applications, expand resources and keep services running optimally, all at the speed of business…
How to Gain Network Visibility in the Cloud
As more IT organizations migrate towards cloud computing, they are finding that managing this environment is particularly challenging because they lack end-to-end visibility into the network. They can see everything happening in their own network, but once the cloud service they are trying to manage needs to be extended across a network managed by a third-party service provider, everything goes dark…
How To Choose the Right Cloud Service Provider
As businesses are increasingly attracted to cloud computing, it’s necessary to clarify what portion of the cloud is of interest to a particular audience, a cloud service provider says.
"For the small to medium business, there are generally two areas of relevance in the evolution of IT services to the cloud," Todd Benjamin, vice president of enterprise hosting for the company Hostway, says. "The first is the application layer, commonly referred to as ‘Software as a Service‘ ― SaaS. The second is the infrastructure layer, known as ‘Infrastructure as a Service’ or ‘IaaS’."…
2016: All in the Cloud?
If there is one top-of-mind issue among CIOs today, it is Cloud computing. But how will it be positioned five years from now — as an innovation that brought about overriding change in the way IT delivers business service or, as some predict, something responsible for nothing more than incremental change to the familiar hosting arrangements and one that back in 2011 was wrapped in massive hype?…