The CloudTrust Program from Skyhigh Networks (www.skyhighnetworks.com) is designed to promote cloud services that have the highest rating of "Enterprise Ready." Skyhigh provides an objective and detailed risk assessment of more than 9,000 cloud services across 50 attributes developed in conjunction with the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA). IaaS vendors that satisfy the most stringent requirements for data protection, identity verification, service security, business practices and legal protection earn the highest rating of "Enterprise-Ready."
 

CloudVelox software automated key disaster recovery processes for MyPoints, including discovery, blueprinting, provisioning and deployment of the DR environment into AWS. The deployment was remarkably fast. Within a few weeks MyPoints had the option of shuttering its secondary data center.

Docker, the company that kicked off the recent enthusiasm for containers two years ago, today announced that it has raised a $95 million Series D round led by Insight Venture Partners. New investors in this round include Coatue, Goldman Sachs and Northern Trust. Existing investors Benchmark, Greylock Partners, Sequoia Capital, Trinity Ventures and AME Cloud Ventures also participated.

As Docker’s VP of enterprise marketing David Messina noted when I talked to him earlier this week, it’s interesting to see the support from financial services companies in this round. This somewhat atypical investment, he believes, speaks to the support Docker has from developer teams in all kinds of organizations and how these companies now look at Docker as a key platform for their teams.

Grazed from Cleveland Business.   Author: Timothy Magaw.

IBM announced late Monday, April 13, it had acquired Explorys Inc., a Cleveland Clinic spinoff that helps hospitals analyze patient data.  Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. In a news release, IBM, the Armonk, N.Y.-based computer powerhouse, shared little of its plans for the newly acquired company other than to say than it is now part of the company’s newly launched Watson Health unit. The Watson technology, with which the Clinic has experimented in recent years, is perhaps best known for handily defeating some of the best Jeopardy! contestants of all time.

IBM also announced its Watson division will work with tech heavyweights Apple, Johnson & Johnson and Medtronic. In addition to the Explorys acquisition, IBM also announced it had purchased and Phytel, a cloud-based computer services company based out of Dallas…

Grazed from Bloomberg.  Author: Alex Barinka.

IBM is joining with Apple Inc., Johnson & Johnson and Medtronic Plc to create a technology that will make it easier for health-care companies to analyze patient data.  International Business Machines Corp. announced a cloud-computing platform, called Watson Health Cloud, which can store and analyze anonymous patient data. A business unit will be created around the offering with at least 2,000 specialists, IBM said in a statement.

IBM has been seeking growth in newer areas like data analytics and cloud computing as tumbling demand for legacy hardware and services has dragged down revenue. The company has increasingly relied on industry-specific partnerships to help boost sales, like these latest tie-ups in health care…

Grazed from NextGov.  Author: Frank Konkel.

Almost two years ago, the National Security Agency forever lost its “No Such Agency” nickname at the hands of one of its contractors — a once-trusted insider by the name of Edward Snowden.

Snowden’s stream of leaked NSA secrets about classified surveillance programs shined the public spotlight on the clandestine government organization. Though the stream has now dissipated to a trickle, the impact to the intelligence community continues…

Grazed from Zacks.  Author: Editorial Staff.

At the Hannover Messe event, software developer Microsoft Corporation discussed three recent collaborations related to its cloud service, Microsoft Azure.  Microsoft announced that it has entered into partnership deals with Fujitsu Limited, a Japanese information and communication technology (ICT) company; KUKA AG, a manufacturer of industrial robots and automation solutions and Miele & Cie. KG, a manufacturer of high-end household appliances and commercial tools…

The Fujitsu Collaboration

The partnership is intended to power Fujitsu devices with the Windows 8.1 Pro to achieve operational distinction. In addition, the collaboration will integrate the Internet of Things (IoT) services of FUJITSU Cloud A5 for Microsoft Azure, and promote the Fujitsu IoT/M2M (machine-to-machine) platform…

Grazed from CCI.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Independent research commissioned by Peer 1 Hosting shows the use of on-premise and private cloud solutions is to fall over the next three years, with hybrid cloud taking up the slack, and with most of the respondents citing cost as the reason for their move to hybrid.

The study, which canvassed the opinions of IT decision-makers from the UK, US and Canada, asked: "What do you expect your organisation’s approach to look like in one and three years’ time?" 10% of respondents stated that currently they primarily use hybrid cloud, with 28% anticipating they will be using hybrid cloud in three years’ time. In contrast, use of on-premise hosting is anticipated to fall from 31% to 17% over the same period, whilst private cloud drops from 52% to 41%…