Grazed from TheHostingNews. Author: Editorial Staff.

EXIN, the global independent certification institute for ICT professionals, has signed an agreement with HP to develop a certification program for OpenStack™, the open source cloud operating system that is already used by many organizations worldwide, with support from HP. HP will be first to offer the opportunity to gain certification through the training course, which will be based upon the established HP OpenStack course.

Empowering users

With the continuous growth of cloud computing, organizations are realizing that cloud computing is not merely a technological change. Cloud computing has an impact on all layers of an organization, especially the ICT professionals. This leads to new questions about the changing role and position of ICT departments and professionals. That is the reason why EXIN has developed a number of certifications in the area of Cloud Computing…

Grazed from V3.co.uk. Author: Editorial Staff.

As another year draws to a close, we’ve been reflecting on the main events, launches and products of 2014. Here, the team at V3 each pick their highlight of the year, along with their choice of the most disappointing in the technology space.

Editor Madeline Bennett

V3’s Madeline BennettThe coding revolution is my pick for the most exciting thing in tech this year. There’s a huge market for tech skills in the UK and abroad, and the younger generation is currently missing out on these opportunities by being taught about technology in the wrong way. But that all changed in September, when the new curriculum came in, bringing with it encouragement and an obligation on schools to teach students about programming and computer science, rather than spreadsheets and websites…

Grazed from NDTV. Author: Editorial Staff.

Professional networking website LinkedIn has revealed 25 hottest skills that were in demand in 2014. LinkedIn analyzed the skills and experience data in over 330 million member profiles to gather the data. The LinkedIn report shows that tech skills dominated the ‘hottest skills’ list. "Across the globe, statistics and data analysis skills were highly valued.

In the US, India, and France, cloud and distributed computing skills were in particularly high demand," wrote Sohan Murthy, research consultant at LinkedIn, wrote in blog post. Mr Murthy also said that digital, online, and SEO (search engine optimization) marketing skills were also in demand. With Indian economy showing signs of an upturn and the positivity continuing in the business sentiment, HR experts believe that the hiring activities should get only better in 2015…

Grazed from TechCrunch. Author: Alison Wagonfeld.

At Emergence Capital, we have had the opportunity to invest in visionaries such as Marc Benioff, Aaron Levie and David Sacks who have built major enterprise cloud applications that have formed the basis of the next generation of business software around the world. As we look out to 2015, we are excited to invest in what’s next for the enterprise.

We spend so much time talking about the future, so I thought it would be fun to share the 2015 predictions from Emergence’s five partners — Gordon Ritter, Jason Green, Brian Jacobs, Kevin Spain, and Santi Subotovsky — about the emerging themes for enterprise technology and the technology investment environment:…

Grazed from Vlocity. Author: PR Announcement.

I am pleased to announce that Vlocity has been named a finalist in the CRM Solution of the Year category for the 2014-2015 Cloud Awards. This international awards program is now in its fourth year and recognizes the leaders and innovators in cloud computing. Vlocity is joined on the CRM Solution of the Year short-list by CRM companies including Infusionsoft, Zendesk and SugarCRM. The final winner will be announced on Tuesday January 27th with a public vote also announced on this date to decide who will win the Cloud Computing Organization of the Year Award.

Last year’s CRM Solution of the Year winner was Veeva Systems, the leading provider of life sciences cloud software. Veeva was founded by several of the same founders of Vlocity, including Craig Ramsey, Mark Armenante and Young Sohn…

Grazed from Forbes. Author: Louis Columbus.

Whenever this time of the year arrives with its proliferation of predictions, William Gibson’s quote “the future is already here — it’s just not very evenly distributed” comes to mind. The best predictions provide a glimpse into the future while also providing mile markers to measure the journey. Those are the most fascinating of all because they take a firm stand on where, how and why a given area is scaling and at what pace. Instead of adding to the many cloud computing and enterprise software predictions being made for 2015, I’m providing a listing of those that are the most interesting and thought-provoking. They are listed below:

• 10 Hadoop Predictions For 2015 – Well-researched series of Hadoop predictions and market forecasts. Key insights include the following: Over the next five years, the Hadoop-MapReduce market is expected to hit $2.2BV, attaining a compound annual growth rate (GAGR) of 58%, according to MarketAnalysis.com; IDC predicts that worldwide revenues for the Hadoop-MapReduce market will increase to $812.8M by 2016, up from $77M in 2011; IDC, which expects Hadoop to be in use in 45% of European organizations by the end of 2015; and SQL to become Hadoop’s killer app for 2015…

Grazed from ZDNet. Auhor: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols.

Linux and open-source software had many high points this year, but it also had many low ones as well. Let’s just get it over with and start with the worst.

Linux and open-source fiascoes

1) Heartbleed

When you program with open-source the right way, it creates great software. When you accept open-source as magic, you end up with Heartbleed. Heartbleed, if you don’t recall, was an OpenSSL security hole that affected hundreds of millions of websites, It’s root cause was that everyone–and I mean everyone–just assumed that it was safe because it was open source. So, for years no one bothered to check to see if the code really was reliable. It wasn’t…

Grazed from EpochTimes. Author: Veronica Davis.

Simply put, cloud computing is ‘computing power delivered anywhere, anytime, driving on the global connectivity of the World Wide Web.’ It’s become a fascinating revolution, writing the first chapter of a new era of web browsing and web experiences. Not only do small and growing businesses get to enjoy the power of computing without having to deploy file servers, storage systems, e-mail servers, and what not, but it also means that you can have access to a whole library of your personal data and your most important productivity applications anytime, anywhere.

All you need is your account and login details to access the cloud based service or application on any smartphone, tablet or other device and you can resume from where you left off. File storage services offering GBs of space, web based content management, website publishing, online video clip making and other multimedia services such as a super cool one I discovered earlier today: ShakeM. Here’s a toast to some of the best cloud based services making the internet such an enjoyable and empowering experience for the most demanding of web users…

Grazed from BizTech. Author: Ricky Riberio.

The technology that companies use is changing at a blistering pace. While companies are still considering whether or not to virtualize their servers, other enterprises are planning on turning their entire infrastructure into a software-defined machine. The software-defined enterprise starts, first and foremost, with fundamental architectural shift we are seeing in the industry.

And that is the movement to a software-defined data center. And that software-defined data center can be delivered on-premise or off-premise, known in the world as hybrid cloud computing. That’s where the world is going," said VMware President and COO Carl Eschenbach. Eschenbach was one of several IT leaders who gathered to discuss the most important and needle-moving technology challenges facing businesses today, as part of CDW’s Bring IT On technology leadership series…

Read more from the source @ http://www.biztechmagazine.com/article/2014/12/vmware-president-carl-eschenbach-says-software-defined-data-center-future

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Kristen Lee.

In this third of three blog posts on IDC’s IT outlook for 2015, analysts tackled the topic of cloud. Here IDC’s Robert Mahowald, program vice president of SaaS and cloud services; Mary Johnston Turner, research vice president for enterprise system management software; and Rick Villars, vice president of data centers and cloud, outlined three ways in which the cloud will shake up IT ecosystems in 2015 and how IT leaders can prepare.

Hybrid cloud adds complexity to IT environments

IDC predicts that by 2016 more than 65% of enterprise IT organizations will commit to hybrid cloud technologies. “This is going to really drive a number of changes across the structure, management, and just operational velocity of many IT organizations,” Turner said. Enterprises are being driven to adopt hybrid cloud for a number of reasons, Turner said. These include the need for cloud service diversity, the demand by end users for more and more self-service IT, and the growth of OpenStack and open source containers…

Read more from the source @ http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/total-cio/cloud-2015-continued-unrelenting-disruption-to-traditional-it/