On Tuesday, December 1^st, Senior Director of Product Marketing Sushant Rao will present “Using SDS to Combine Hyperconverged and Cloud Storage with a SAN” from 3:00-4:00 p.m. in Session SDS-4: Applications. During this presentation, Rao will discuss how Software-Defined Storage can combine an existing SAN with hyperconverged and cloud storage to accelerate applications, making them highly available at reduced costs, combating the introduction of more storage silos which create “islands of data.”

Unlike existing cloud brokerage solutions that manually recommend workload placement to public cloud service providers (CSPs), Intelligent Cloud Control enables Verizon customers to take advantage of software to drive real-time, automatable, price, performance and compliance-based placements. It also allows sizing and configuration decisions to deploy and migrate workloads to and among CSPs.

"There’s a wave of innovative companies launching products that are reshaping the way business customers interact with and take advantage of their public and private cloud environments," said Joseph Tsidulko, a senior editor at CRN. "They’re making clouds more manageable, agile, visible, affordable, insightful and secure — and easier to adopt."

Grazed from CRN. Author: Meghan Ottolini.

Threats against the cloud are on the rise, according to Houston-based cloud security company Alert Logic’s founder and chief strategy officer, Misha Govshteyn. Govshteyn sat down with CRNtv to talk about the security landscape for cloud computing. “This year the number of cloud attacks is rising,” Govshteyn said. That trend can be attributed to the growing number of cloud users.

Govshteyn said the numbers indicate that attacks on the cloud are not yet at the level of those on on-premise environments, but he expects threats to grow in 2016. Alert Logic specializes in helping customers move to the cloud “in the most secure way possible,” and the company has seen rapid growth as cloud adoption continues to explode…

Grazed from Forbes. Author: Adrian Bridgwater.

Cloud computing is busy changing the world, we all know the hype. Industrial processes are being transformed with data analytics intelligence and firms are enjoying new agility on service-based clouds as they move from CapEx (capital expenditure) structures to leaner OpEx (operational expenditure) frameworks.

So where are the human touch points and good news stories? Simon Wheatcroft has run more consecutive miles than most people could imagine walking. But he is blind. Wheatcroft uses the GPS fitness-tracking app RunKeeper to gauge the world around him like anybody else. With some additional custom-built software application development and programming intelligence, here’s how he does it…

Read more from the source @ http://www.forbes.com/sites/adrianbridgwater/2015/11/23/blind-runner-uses-ibm-cloud-to-see-mental-map-of-the-world/

Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: Eric Knorr.

InfoWorld’s David Linthicum recently suggested it was time to retire the phase “cloud computing” and simply say “computing.” That’s how essential cloud has become — and why for the past couple of years cloud has framed my annual attempt to identify the nine key enterprise tech trends going forward.

In 2015, it became a lot clearer what cloud infrastructure in all its scalable, self-service glory will be best for: running applications composed of microservices outfitted with RESTful APIs. Most likely those services will run in containers, which give developers more control than ever in building, testing, and deploying applications…

Grazed from CloudTech. Author: James Bourne.

The push is on to better streamline unused data centre capacity – and according to a missive from network provider Emerson Network Power, 2016 will see a greater emphasis on shared service distributed cloud computing models. According to the company’s five trends shaping the data centre landscape for 2016, enterprises which have data centres either as ‘comatose’ – buildings which have not delivered computing services for at least six months – or data centres with free room will be able to sell excess capacity on the open market as the evolution from basic software as a service to more hybrid environments intensifies.

Recent Stanford research found 30% of physical servers were comatose. This greater use of resources is seen elsewhere in Emerson Network Power’s predictions. No longer are companies focused on efficiency, but a greater emphasis on sustainability and social responsibility is key – and the company argues this trend will not just be limited to on-premise technology decisions…

Grazed from Examiner. Author: Waqar Hassan.

In simple terms, cloud computing can be defined as computing that’s done on the internet. In the past, people would usually run their programs or applications from software that was downloaded on a physical server or computer in their building. Not anymore. Now, they can use cloud computing for getting access to the same kind of software via the internet.

Everyone takes advantage of cloud computing in their daily routine; we use it when we upload a status on Facebook or when we check our bank balance on our smartphone. Businesses also use cloud computing services for solving problems or overcoming challenges like using apps for workload management or sending emails while traveling. To sum up, cloud has become the new normal and there are lots of benefits that can be enjoyed. Some of them are highlighted below:…

 Grazed from TechTimes.  Author: Dave Calpito.

Google has just welcomed VMware cofounder and ex-boss Diane Greene as the person who will the charge in Google’s goal to further expand its cloud business.  The tech company’s chief executive Sundar Pichai reveals in a blog post on Thursday, Nov. 19 that Greene is going to head a freshly converged team of cloud businesses consisting of Google Cloud Platform, Google for Work and Google Apps.