Month: March 2012

Grazed from V3.co.uk.  Author: Daniel Robinson.

Collaboration vendor Intralinks has upgraded its service aimed at giving organisations greater control over content sharing in line with corporate security and compliance restrictions, making it an enterprise alternative to services such as Dropbox.

Available now, Intralinks Connect is a cloud computing based service that provides authorised users with access to documents anywhere, at any time, but with role-based access to the information, with an audit trail and optionally backed by multi-factor authentication…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Joyent, a global provider of cloud computing software and services, today announced its plans to extend its real-time public cloud offering to Asia in the second quarter of 2012, starting with a public cloud in Tokyo and following with a Singapore-based operation catering to the greater Southeast Asia region.

The plan is in response to existing customers who plan to expand their businesses into the two regions, and from partners like Telefonica who are encountering heightening demands for bullet-proof, real-time infrastructure that can handle the increasing need for machine-to-machine and real-time mobile communications…

Grazed from Reuters.  Author: Robert Evans.

A statement from CERN, the Geneva-based particle physics organization, said the platform — dubbed "Helix Nebula-the Science Cloud" — would be made available to government bodies and industry after a two-year pilot phase.

Also participating in the program are the European Space Agency (ESA) and the German-based European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), which like CERN are gathering vast volumes of information that cannot presently be processed…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Callidus Software Inc., the leader in sales effectiveness and cloud computing, announced today that it has signed a partnership with SESTRA, to market the CallidusCloud(TM) suite in Mexico and Central America. The agreement was signed in the first quarter of 2012.

The two companies will showcase CallidusCloud sales effectiveness solutions at "Creando Lideres Comerciales Efectivos" — a sales leadership workshop that will bring together sales executives, managers, and industry thought leaders from Mexico to deliberate on the latest sales trends and opportunities in the country. The workshop will be held on March 1, 2012 at Hotel Fiesta Americana Grand Chapultepec, Mexico City, Mexico. The workshop will focus on techniques to drive sales effectiveness by optimizing sales process management using leading indicators and by developing effective sales leadership practices including sales coaching and collaboration…

Grazed from ComputerWorld.  Author: Bob Violino.

Many companies are just getting started with cloud computing, but others are already well entrenched. Indeed, some organizations in this latter camp have built massive private clouds that support significant portions of their operations.

These giant, multi-petabyte clouds present unique management challenges for CIOs and business leaders, including ensuring adequate security and service levels, and positioning the new cloud offering in such a way that internal customers want to use it. And because so much about cloud services is relatively new, organizations are learning to deal with the hurdles even as they deploy these mega-clouds. The biggest challenge in implementing private clouds is the massive culture and operating model shift from a ‘do-it-for-users’ model to a ‘user self-service’ model."…

Grazed from V3.co.uk.  Author: Dan Worth.

The outage on Microsoft’s Windows Azure cloud computing platform that caused the government’s G-Cloud service to go offline was the result of a calculation error caused by the extra day in February due to the leap year.

Writing on the Azure blog the firm’s corporate vice president for service and cloud, Bill Laing, said while the firm had still to fully determine the cause of the issue, the extra date in the month appeared the most likely cause…

Grazed from CIO.  Author: Bernard Golden.

I had the privilege of chairing the infrastructure track at last week’s Cloud Connect conference. Three of the presentations were particularly interesting, offering a good perspective on just how dramatic an effect cloud computing is having on IT. Summed up, the capability and agility of cloud computing is forcing an extremely rapid evolution.

In a sense, these effects are akin to what would happen to an established living ecosystem were significant change to occur within. One could expect to see existing species be stressed by the development of new characteristics in the ecosystem, forcing them to adapt rapidly to survive. Those that fail to adapt will, inevitably, dwindle into extinction…

Grazed from MaltaToday.  Author: Editorial Staff.

The Award was given by Cloud Computing Magazine, the authoritative source of news and articles for the global technology industry, which is published by TMC.

It is the first time that such an award, which gives recognition to companies that have most effectively leveraged cloud computing to bring new differentiated offerings to market, has been made.  2X Software in particular was identified as having demonstrated innovation, as well as the ability to improve the security of cloud environments, by the Award organisers.

2X Software is a privately-held global leader of desktop and application delivery, remote access and cloud computing solutions and has offices in the USA, Germany, UK, Australia and Japan apart from Malta. 2X is a highly-acclaimed innovator, whose products receive wide-spread recognition, and its customers include world-renowned organization such as Mazda, Harvard University, Fox News and many others…

Grazed from TechWorld.  Author: Derek du Preez.