Grazed from CBROnline.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Amazon Web Services has agreed to acquire Elemental Technologies as it looks to boost its cloud-computing services. Oregon-based Elemental Technologies, founded in 2006, has developed a technology which uses software-based video processing to distribute video over IP networks.

The firm translates the code of original digital video content for over 700 customers across the media industry, which includes ESPN, HBO, British Broadcasting and Comcast, for web distribution.  Its technology can offer flexibility, scalability and performance required to deliver high quality video via turnkey, cloud-based and virtualised deployment models…

Grazed from TelecomPaper.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Nigerian operator MainOne’s data centre subsidiary MDX-i announced the launch of its new cloud-based service offering with Microsoft. The service is built on Microsoft Azure infrastructure for secure private computing to companies on a pay-as-you-go basis. Benefits of the Infrastructure as a Service include access to a wide range of computing resources, such as storage, CPU, memory, security firewalls and network bandwidth, provisioned on a subscription basis.

This the first cloud offering MDX-i is launching in partnership with Microsoft and positions the company to meet the computing infrastructure needs of companies deploying private, public or hybrid clouds from its Tier III data centre in Lagos…

Read more from the source @ http://www.telecompaper.com/news/mainones-mdx-i-partners-microsoft-on-cloud-computing–1100694

Grazed from FederalNewsRadio.  Author: Jared Serbu.

The General Services Administration and the Defense Department are working together on a possible new contract vehicle to help federal agencies buy commercial cloud computing services.

Nothing’s final yet, but the talks, between GSA’s Office of Integrated Technology Services (ITS) and the Defense Information Systems Agency could result in a multiple award contract solely for cloud, perhaps similar to GSA’s Networx contract, which lets agencies buy telecommunications services with pre-existing service level agreements…

Grazed from NetworkWorld. Author: Jon Gold.

Google Compute Engine, the company’s IaaS cloud computing offering, got a facelift today with the announcement that new autoscaling features and 32-core VMs would be available to the general public. Autoscaler, according to an official blog post, is the same system that Google itself uses to dynamically scale the number of VMs being used by a given application based on load – users set utilization targets, and the autoscaling system spins up or shuts down VMs in order to keep, say, RAM utilization at 50%. The idea is to remove the need for extensive capacity planning and management, Google said.

“This saves you money and headaches since you don’t have to buy and hold spare capacity,” the announcement said. “Furthermore, Autoscaler can scale from zero to millions of requests per second in minutes without the need to pre-warm.” In addition, VMs on GCE are getting bigger – customers can now use 32-core VMs for load-intensive tasks like video rendering and heavy database workloads…

Grazed from CloudTech. Author: Editorial Staff.

Now we’ve had a few years of cloud adoption under our belts, it’s a good time to take a look at how some of the models are performing. Public cloud has its own great case study with Amazon AWS, and private clouds see strong supporters with forward-thinking IT teams. But there is another model that is winning over IT teams, the hybrid cloud, and it has good reason to.

With the rise of cloud models, we’ve heard a lot about the benefits of public and private clouds. Public clouds gave us the ability to leverage low-cost services to help organisations transition to cloud models through availability of services such as Amazon AWS. Private clouds were either built in-house to start taking advantage of the same type of technologies that make public clouds so attractive, but sadly the scale of efficiencies often doesn’t work for small organisations because the upfront costs of purchasing hardware and licenses can be more than simply leveraging cloud services from a third party provider…

Read more from the source @ http://www.cloudcomputing-news.net/news/2015/sep/03/why-hybrid-cloud-so-important-market-prediction-large/

Grazed from PRNewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Perspecsys, a leader in enterprise cloud data protection solutions recently acquired by Blue Coat Systems, Inc., announced today that TMC, a global, integrated media company, has named the Perspecsys Cloud Data Protection Platform a 2015 Cloud Computing Excellence Award winner.

The Cloud Computing Excellence Award, presented by Cloud Computing Magazine, recognizes companies that have most effectively leveraged cloud computing in their efforts to bring new, differentiated offerings to market. "We are thrilled TMC has honored us with The Cloud Computing Excellence Award," said David Canellos, CEO of Perspecsys. "As demand for strong data security and regulatory compliance in the cloud has surged, we have been laser focused on delivering the best enterprise-class capabilities for encryption and tokenization in public cloud environments. To have our efforts and success recognized with this award is a significant achievement for our entire team."…

Grazed from Forbes. Author: Editorial Staff.

Having scaled the peaks of the global customer relationship management software market, cloud computing vendor Salesforce.com has now expanded into cloud solutions for industry verticals. Industry verticals refer to cloud solutions specifically designed for particular industries. The newly released Salesforce Financial Services Cloud is Salesforce’s first such industry vertical offering. More products for the public sector, healthcare and life sciences verticals are slated to follow in the future.

Salesforce, which specializes in CRM solutions and is the leading vendor in this segment, is tackling slowing growth as it approaches a $7 billion annual revenue run rate. To be sure, the company is still managing to grow at over 20% year on year every quarter, but its track record of over 30% year on year growth rate may now be a thing of the past. Indeed, revenue growth of Salesforce’s flagship Sales Cloud has fallen to single digits in the last few quarters…

Grazed from MyTechBits. Author: Keith Hearn.

Cloud computing has become quite popular over the past decade among SMBs as well as large scale enterprises. There are thousand and one reasons why businesses, these days, opt for cloud computing. Whether you are running a large enterprise and aiming to improve the services that you offer to your customers, or you own a small scale start up and struggling to make your business stand out among the crowd, cloud computing is the new age solution for every problem.

Unless and until you are able to run all the applications and websites smoothly, how will you be able to establish yourself as a promising business entity? This is where cloud computing helps you best. With a robust cloud computing environment, you can keep your business running 24X7, without any interruption…

Grazed from ComputerWeekly. Author: Caroline Donnelly.

The day-to-day frustrations of cloud users have been laid bare in a new survey, which suggests high levels of discontent exist among adopters of off-premise tools and technologies. Cloud services firm StratoGen conducted a survey featuring responses from 1,000 UK senior business decision makers.

The survey found nearly three quarters of cloud adopters (73.84%) experienced frustrations on a day-to-day basis while using off-premise apps. The biggest frustration – cited by 21.41% of respondents – was the cost of hosting applications in the cloud, followed by availability issues, which was flagged by 16.95%.  Meanwhile, 16.45% flagged the lack of IT support as their biggest bugbear when using cloud…

Read more from the source @ http://www.computerweekly.com/news/4500252860/Cloud-users-speak-out-about-day-to-day-SaaS-frustrations

Grazed from TelecomPaper. Author: Editorial Staff.

Cloud infrastructure and mobility software specialist VMware has unveiled end-user computing innovations for universal application delivery and device management to help organisations transform their business processes and deliver a more app- and user-centric experience. VMware’s End-User Computing product portfolio is positioned to help customers navigate the transition to the mobile-cloud era.

The company introduced its Project A Squared (A2) technology preview showcasing the ability to redefine Windows management by focusing on application rather than endpoint management. Project A Squared can accelerate the adoption of Windows 10 by eliminating the costly and complex process of managing and upgrading Windows PCs and apps by using VMware’s AirWatch enterprise mobile management (EMM) coupled with new VMware App Volumes app delivery technology…

Read more from the source @ http://www.telecompaper.com/news/vmware-unveils-mobile-cloud-end-user-computing-products–1100423