BMC Software (NASDAQ: BMC) today announced additional capabilities integrated into its BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management solution that proactively ensures the service quality of cloud services and avoids many of the risks of cloud computing such as outages, performance and capacity issues, while simplifying cloud administration…
 

Service provider Logicworks has chosen the ScienceLogic^™ Inc. EM7^™ IT operations and cloud management platform to provide its enterprise managed hosting customer base with advanced monitoring options. New York-based Logicworks provides enterprise managed hosting and managed cloud solutions for mission-critical applications and content for clients including Dow Jones, Starwood Hotels, Radar Online, and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts…

Firstly, there was just the Cloud; now we have to deal with the hybrid Cloud. So what on earth is it?…

A commission of 71 top cloud computing experts has released IT and policy recommendations to help governments adopt cloud computing. IDN looks at core recommendations from the “Cloud First Buyer’s Guide for Government” with commission member Sanjay Poonen, president of SAP’s global solutions unit…

Amazon Web Services’ cloud-computing infrastructure experienced a brief network outage this evening that knocked offline popular sites such as Netflix, Quora, Reddit, and Foursquare.

The network connectivity issues struck Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) at Amazon’s northern Virginia site, which handles AWS operations for the U.S. East Coast at 7:39 p.m. PDT and were resolved about 25 minutes later, according to the Amazon Web Services Health Dashboard…

Cloud computing seems simple in concept, and indeed, simplicity of operation, deployment and licensing are its most appealing assets. But when it comes to questions of compliance, once you scratch the surface you’ll find more questions than you asked in the first place, and more to think about than ever before.

Compliance covers a lot of ground, from government regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley and the European Union Data Protection Act, to industry regulations such as PCI DSS for payment cards and HIPAA for health data. You may have internal controls in place, but moving to a public-cloud infrastructure platform, a cloud-based application suite or something in between will mean giving up some controls to the cloud vendor…

I wrote earlier about an IDC report that mentioned Cloud server revenue will grow to $9.4 billion in the US by 2015. This is up from a little more an estimated $4 billion this year.

What if companies were to be issued a 100% tax credit for such a purchase?

To be sure, purchase of these servers would already be included as a capital expenditure, to be deducted from profits over a period of years. A million dollars worth of hardware, depreciated over five years, means that $200,000 per year is not subject to taxes…

As health care companies grapple with whether to adopt cloud computing platforms to store patient data, providers face many choices on which services to choose and how to keep data secure.

A recent report by CDW found that health care companies are hesitant to adopt cloud services due to privacy concerns.

To get some insight on the state of cloud computing trends in the health care industry, eWEEK spoke with Chris Witt, president and co-founder of Wake Technology Services, an IT services company based in West Chester, Pa., that serves the health care, government and education sectors…

Okta, a San Francisco-based startup specializing in on-demand identity and access management service for enterprises using cloud computing, has closed a $16.5 million round of venture financing.

Founded by former Salesforce.com executive Tom McKinnon and launched in January, Okta now has raised more than $26 million in financing. New investors Greylock Partners and Khosla Ventures contributed to the latest round, joining previous investors Andreessen Horowitz and FLOODGATE…