July 29, 2011 Off

CA Technologies Addresses Complexity Surrounding ‘Cloud Choice’

By David
Grazed from PRNewsWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

Business demand for rapid time-to-market and lower operational costs is driving cloud computing adoption and creating tremendous choice around cloud services available today. CA Technologies (NASDAQ:CA – News) is helping simplify "cloud choice" with new and updated products and solutions for enterprises and service providers. The capabilities announced today advance the company’s strategy to enable cloud use and help both enterprise and service provider customers quickly deploy business services with the cost-efficiencies offered by cloud.

The term "cloud choice" describes the growing heterogeneity that includes traditional, cloud and hybrid application environments. Enterprises face a big decision today – if and when to move an application to the cloud. Once the decision is made to use cloud, enterprises must then select the right type of cloud – public, private, hybrid – based on the application and its current and future requirements….
 

July 29, 2011 Off

Cloud Client Computing Leader Wyse Hosts California Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom

By David

Grazed from MarketWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

Wyse Technology, the global leader in cloud client computing, is today hosting California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s unveiling of his plan to shift California’s economy into high gear, focusing on expanding exports, green industry, and new manufacturing.

The Lieutenant Governor’s unveiling at Wyse is a reflection of the success Wyse has had in remaking itself into a cloud client computing company, a transition that has resulted in major sales gains, and significant hiring, for the pre-IPO company…

July 29, 2011 Off

HP Joins OpenStack Cloud Project

By David
Grazed from eWeek.  Author: Jeffrey Burt.

Hewlett-Packard is jumping on the OpenStack cloud computing bandwagon, a day after rival Dell unveiled a cloud computing solution based on the open-source software stack.

In a blog post July 27, Emil Sayegh, vice president of cloud services for HP, said the company had joined the OpenStack project, which was kicked off a year ago by Rackspace and NASA and now has almost 100 organizations on its membership list…

July 29, 2011 Off

Google’s Schmidt to Testify for Senate on ‘Power of Google’

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Grazed from eWeek.  Author: Clint Boulton.

Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt has a set date with the Senate on Capitol Hill to discuss the search engine’s expansive Internet market power.

Schmidt, who served as CEO of Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) for a decade before co-founder Larry Page retook the reins in April, will testify in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights Sept. 21 in Washington, D.C.

July 29, 2011 Off

Open Cloud Initiative Launches to Drive Open Standards in Cloud Computing

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Grazed from PRWEB.  Author: Shanley Kane.

This week the Open Cloud Initiative (OCI), a non-profit organization established to advocate open standards in cloud computing, announced its official launch at the OSCON 2011 Open Source Convention. Its purpose is to provide a legal framework within which the greater cloud computing community of users and providers can reach consensus on a set of requirements for Open Cloud, as described in the Open Cloud Principles (OCP) document, and then apply those requirements to cloud computing products and services, again by way of community consensus…

July 29, 2011 Off

Know your Cloud Types

By David
Grazed from BusinessCloud9.  Author: Claire Galbois-Alcaix

You may know your nimbostratus (take an umbrella) from your cirrocumulus (you probably won’t need one) but what about the difference between Cloud backup and Cloud archiving?  Or Cloud services and Cloud applications?

July 29, 2011 Off

HP pledges support for OpenStack cloud platform

By David
Grazed from ZD Net.  Author:  Rachel King.

Hewlett-Packard is the latest Silicon Valley heavyweight to join in on the OpenStack open-source cloud platform.

HP already has plenty of its own cloud solutions for IT departments, ranging in scale as well as private and public. Nevertheless, because OpenStack is a collaborative effort and free for all under the Apache 2.0 license, lots of other tech companies have found some benefit in supporting the project.