Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Mike Vizard.

With the number of servers moving into the cloud accelerating rapid solution providers with cloud migration expertise are in high demand. To help automate that process Racemi, a provider of server migration tools, has expanded the number of data centers managed by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and IBM SoftLayer that it supports.

With this latest release of its DynaCenter software Racemi is adding support for eight data centers that are part of the IBM SoftLayer cloud, which in addition to the 12 IBM SoftLayer and the ten AWS data centers it already supports, gives solution providers and their customers a total of 30 data centers to choose from around the globe…

Grazed from Fortune. Author: Barb Darrow.

Google has been energetically pushing its cloud as a viable alternative to Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure when it comes to big, burly computing jobs. As part of that effort, on Tuesday it made previously announced “preemptible virtual machines” available to customers and said that the Broad Institute will be able to use these computing instances, along with software services from Cycle Computing, to perform complex cancer research.

Pre-emptible VMs is tech talk for deeply discounted (70% off!) cloud computing processors which can be applied to big research projects or other tasks as needed. Amazon AMZN 3.35% has long offered “spot instances” that customers can bid on in an auction-like format…

Grazed from The Economist. Author: Editorial Staff.

SUPPOSE FBI agents were to break into the postbox of an American company in Dublin to seize letters which might help them convict an international drug dealer. There would be general uproar, if not a transatlantic crisis. But that is essentially what the FBI wants to happen, albeit in the virtual realm: it has asked a court to order Microsoft, in its capacity as a big e-mail provider, to hand over messages from a suspect in a drugs case which are stored in a data centre in Ireland.

On September 9th an appeals court in New York will hear oral arguments on whether Microsoft has to comply. The case has many wrinkles, mainly due to the fact that the relevant American laws were written before the internet took off. In a sense, the court has to guess what lawmakers would have written into legislation if the global network had already been around…

Grazed from DigitalJournal. Author: PR Announcement.

IT magazine InsightSuccess has listed Cloudways Cloud Web Hosting Platform among the Top 20 Most Valuable Cloud Computing Companies for 2015. Cloudways has been ranked among the best Cloud Computing companies after going through a rigorous evaluation process.

Headquartered in Malta, the Cloudways Platform has grown over the years into a solid cloud hosting industry presence. Being ranked in the Top 20 for Cloud Computing is a result of the consistently positive client feedback, and frequent technical improvements to the Cloudways Platform. InsightSuccess recognized this trend of enhancements by recommending Cloudways as a premium managed cloud web hosting solution…

Grazed from Whir. Author: Bill Kleyman.

Whether you’re hosting a simple website or a complex application – you and your business are now directly tied to the cloud and its services. Cloud hosting now impacts all verticals and pretty much every business segment. Mid-market and SMBs are quickly realizing the benefits of cloud computing and use it to directly enable their business and their users.

Consider this, global spending on IaaS is expected to reach almost US$16.5 billion in 2015, an increase of 32.8 percent from 2014, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) from 2014 to 2019 forecast at 29.1 percent, according to Gartner’s latest forecast. Furthermore, Gartner points out that in 2014 the absolute growth of public cloud IaaS workloads surpassed the growth of on-premises workloads (of any type) for the first time…

Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: David Linthicum.

Stop me if you’ve heard this before. (Or don’t!) A new survey of 3,600 enterprise executives from IDC (sponsored by Cisco Systems) found the following:

* 54 percent expect the cloud — public, private, and, increasingly, hybrid — to allow them to allocate IT budgets more strategically
* 53 percent believe the cloud will help their company increase revenues

Duh, right? We’ve seen such surveys for years, with no new info. Why mention it? Because what’s changed is who is doing the surveys: Nowadays, the establishment technology companies and analyst firms create these surveys to state the benefits of the cloud. Part of the shift comes from the establishment tech firms trying to join the cloud bandwagon, so they want to be associated to the cloud in buyers’ minds…

Grazed from ITProPortal. Author: Editorial Staff.

There is growing popularity in the use of hybrid cloud environments as organisations bring together private and public clouds for the benefit of the business. This white paper looks at the burgeoning hybrid cloud market and outlines why companies see the solution as the ideal strategy for their cloud needs.

Organisations that want to use cloud computing have a trio of options available to them in the form of private, public, or hybrid infrastructures, with the right solution depending on the specific needs of the company. Organisations with greater privacy concerns, for example, will be more likely to choose a private cloud environment, whereas for others that are prepared to outsource their IT operations, the public cloud might be preferred…

Read more from the source @ http://www.itproportal.com/2015/09/08/the-growing-hybrid-cloud-market/#ixzz3l9jFPs3n

Grazed from Diginomica. Author: Phil Wainewright.

What is the exact meaning of the term ‘platform as a service’? Often shortened to PaaS, the simple definition is that it is a cloud resource on which you can build and run your own application. But like many definitions in the field of cloud computing, this simple explanation is open to many different and potentially misleading interpretations.

PaaS sits between the two other ‘aaSes’ of the cloud computing stack, offering more functionality than bare infrastructure as a service (IaaS), while falling short of the finished, ready-to-run applications provided by software as a service (SaaS). This broad spectrum contains so many different permutations that one vendor’s PaaS can be very different than another’s…

Grazed from ParkMyCloud. Author: PR Announcement.

ParkMyCloud, the only lightweight app that lets cloud computing customers schedule on/off times for their idle cloud computing services, today announced its general availability for users of Amazon Web Services (AWS). Based in Sterling, VA, ParkMyCloud raised a seed round from White Hall Capital in July 2015.

Beta customers have realized dramatic reductions in their AWS cloud costs, allowing a yearly subscription of ParkMyCloud to pay for itself in less than a month in most cases. A monthly subscription starts at only $29 for its “Startup” tier. “Whenever your boss comes over and says ‘Hey, why are we spending $8,000 a month on AWS EC2?’ you can show him how much you’re saving with parking,” said beta customer David Levinger, Senior Director of Information Technology, Paxata, a data preparation software company headquartered in Redwood City, California…

Grazed from CloudTech.  Author: James Bourne.

A new paper from Osterman Research in conjunction with CTERA Networks argues a clear need for organisations to adopt enterprise grade file sync and share (EFSS) software due to security and shadow IT fears.  Naturally, the conclusion of the report is less than surprising given CTERA’s continued push against consumer grade (CFSS) software.

Back in July the firm released research detailing how three quarters of firms are looking for an alternative to public file sync and share services. VP strategic marketing Rani Osnat told this publication how while the likes of Box and Dropbox have made a concerted effort at greater security, more still needed to be done…