Month: September 2015

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

Grazed from Business2Community. Author: Richard Thelwell.

The term “cloud computing” may be commonly uttered in businesses all over the world, but its complex history is less well known. This interactive timeline from Matillion charts the history of the Cloud, and its future!

1940s/50s – The Birth of Modern Computing

In 1947, researchers at the University of Manchester developed the “Manchester Baby”, the world’s first stored program computer. With its limited functionality and its vast size (over 17 feet in length) the Manchester Baby is almost unrecognisable from the computers we know today, yet it played a pivotal role in their development…

Read more from the source @ http://www.business2community.com/infographics/interactive-history-cloud-computing-01304429

Grazed from BCN. Author: Editorial Staff.

An influential group of senior business executives is being disillusioned by experiences with cloud hosted applications, according to new research. The proportions, though relatively low, are growing as cloud disenchantment threatens to set in. The revelations come from research by cloud service provider Stratogen.

Its main finding was that the expense, the lack of both applications and support and the downtime involved are all disappointing the company decision makers who backed cloud computing in their companies. If news of the disenchantment spreads among the business community, the bad feedback could nip cloud growth in the bud, according to Karl Robinson, chief commercial officer at StratoGen…

Grazed from ComputerWeekly. Author: Caroline Donnelly.

The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has selected IT services firm CSC to oversee its plans to downsize its datacentres and migrate its systems to the hybrid cloud. The $108m deal is set to last 10 years and will see CSC contracted to help the FAA consolidate its datacentre estate, migrate its data and systems off-premise and provide it with access to a range of cloud services from the likes of Microsoft and Amazon Web Services (AWS).

The FAA is the US body responsible for safe-guarding America’s aerospace and running its air traffic control operations. The FAA said in a statement that downsizing its datacentre footprint and moving more of its IT to the cloud will help the organisation save money and become more flexible…

Grazed from NetworkWorld. Author: Brandon Butler.

VMware VP of Cloud Services Mathew Lodge acknowledges that the virtualization vendor “got started later than other folks” in the IaaS public cloud market, but he flatly denies that the company is slowing investment in this area. VMware’s position is that while it has catching up to do with cloud market leaders Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft, it also has strengths that can make it stand out.

VMware used its annual VMworld conference in San Francisco this week to show off some of those differentiators, and teased more advances to come. The company’s cloud strategy centers around VMware’s Unified Hybrid Cloud platform, as CEO Pat Gelsinger stressed in a pre-VMworld interview with Network World…