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Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Beth Pariseau.

Chris Weitz, a director at Deloitte Consulting LLP, is charged with leading the financial services consulting company’s team for advisory services in cloud computing. He’s been in this role for five years, and previously held a global consulting position with Deloitte for nine years. Overall, he’s been in the IT business for a little over 30 years.

Thus, cloud computing is hardly the first seismic shift in IT that Weitz has seen. And when it comes to cloud security and data privacy — identified by 49% of the more than 950 people polled recently by Deloitte at its Dbrief event as the most challenging aspect of implementing a hybrid cloud environment — he says the major cloud providers are better at it than most people think…

Grazed from UCStrategies. Author: Editorial Staff.

Cloud computing is playing a more important role in enterprises. By 2013, cloud services will comprise 10 percent of IT spending, according to IDC. The adoption rate could slow, however, over reliability and security issues. When Amazon Web Services experienced an outage last week, taking several major web sites down with it, concerns were once again heightened over the reliability of cloud services.

Cloud outages of hosting companies are rare but nonetheless raise red flags for enterprises considering migrating business functions to a cloud computing environment. Following several high profile outages, service providers selling as-a-service technology need to provide added assurance of reliability and security…

Grazed from BusinessWire. Author: PR Announcement.

D&B, the world’s leading source of commercial information and insight on businesses, today announced that it is providing the most comprehensive, current, and complete business data for in-house developers on Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Azure cloud computing platform, through the just-announced Windows Azure Store. D&B Business Insight lets users generate a list of companies from D&B’s global database of more than 215 million records, from criteria matched to their business needs. This high-quality data will give in-house developers and their customers the business information they need to capture new business opportunities and make informed business decisions.

Whether scoping the size of a market in a given territory, generating prospect lists, qualifying leads, building marketing campaigns or sourcing new suppliers, Windows Azure corporate developers and their customers can gain practical, powerful business insights from the new service. Business Insight is based on D&B’s API platform, D&B Direct…

Grazed from PRNewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

TransparentBusiness.com, an online platform that helps to optimize performance, coordination and monitoring of virtual teams, was distinguished as a "Rising Star" in the category "Best Cloud Computing Solution for Enterprise" during the 14th edition of PC World Latin America Awards. The solution competed with five other cloud-based tools: SAP Sales on Demand, HP CloudSystem Enterprise, Microsoft Office 365, Citrix Cloud Platform and VMWare View 5.

Launched in April 2012 by KMGi, TransparentBusiness.com is a web application that allows managing and monitoring all computer-based work process. The system records time spent by each worker on each task and project, taking screenshots every three minutes and recording worker’s activity. It allows managers monitor their global workforce with the same effectiveness as if everyone were in the same office. Additionally, Transparent Business shows true status of each task and protects companies from over billing by external contractors…

Grazed from PRNewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

The recent shift to Cloud Computing and moving document management operations to remote locations allows for reduction of costs. RemoteDesktopTwain 4 is a proven solution to connect your business capture software and scanners in a Terminal Server environment.

RemoteDesktopTwain 4 allows security using any local TWAIN compatible scanner via Microsoft RemoteDesktop connection. A scanner is used like it would be locally connected and does not require any leaning or setup. It works with most EMR, patient billing and medical software systems and successfully used by:…

Grazed from ComputerWeekly. Author: Archana Venkatraman.

Cloud computing is moving away from being monolithic, where Amazon Web Services (AWS) was the only major cloud service provider, to a marketplace technology, with several cloud-based service providers, as users’ appetite for cloud grows, according to analyst firm 451 Research.

“It has taken a few years, but 2012 is the year we have seen some big difference, most of it driven by Openstack providers such as Rackspace,” said Simon Robinson, research vice-president of 451 Research, at the SNW Europe 2012 conference in Frankfurt…

Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: David Linthicum.

It’s just a matter of time before we migrate our existing IT assets to public cloud systems. Additionally, it’s a short window until the dead rise from the grave and attempt to eat our brains. In other words, "The Walking Dead" could be a documentary.

The first thing we must ask ourselves as lumbering corpses make their way to our office building: How can the migration to the cloud save us from forever roaming the earth as zombies? Here are some guidelines that should keep you safe in case of the zombie apocalypse…

Grazed from CRN. Author: Steven Burke and Jack McCarthy.

For Tim Shea, the founder and CEO of Alpha NetSolutions, a 10-year-old managed services and cloud computing provider based in Millbury, Mass., Hurricane Sandy was a non-event for his customers. That’s because of the technology advances that have come with dramatic improvements in cloud computing, Shea said, and its accompanying backup disaster recovery.

"We had a few calls, but it’s business as usual," said Shea, discussing the impact of Hurricane Sandy that wreaked havoc up the East Coast. "No one has lost data. All our managed services clients are prepped for this, and we have contingencies in place. None of my customers are in fear of losing their data. If something happens we know what to do. We have been through this so many times it isn’t even funny."…

Grazed from NetworkComputing. Author: Don Magrogan.

While many organizations have signed on to SaaS or piloted cloud computing deployments, lots of businesses continue to run critical production enterprise services in traditional data centers with applications running on dedicated hardware.

Why? Moving to a virtualized environment for new applications is easy; moving legacy applications and services is tough. Given the unique application-by-application analysis that is required to move environments to a virtual environment, whether a hypervisor in the data center, or a private or public cloud, many enterprises struggle with a psychical-to-virtual migration…

Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Derrick Harris.

Dell’s Data Center Solutions group recently shipped its 1 millionth server just five years after coming into existence. It’s proof of how important webscale buyers have become to the server market, as well as how different their demand are than those of traditional IT buyers. Dell is reporting today (on no less than three corporate blog channels) that the company’s Data Center Solutions unit shipped its 1 millionth server earlier this week. The DCS division, which sells stripped-down, energy-efficient servers by the thousands to hyperscale customers, has been a shining star for Dell over the past few years.

DCS doesn’t sell to just anyone, though. The unit’s banner customer used to be Facebook (although it has since begun building much of its own gear, and claims to be off vendor gear entirely for its newest data center), and others include Microsoft, Salesforce.com and eBay. In fact, Dell provided the bulk of the web servers for eBay’s Project Mercury data center that I profiled in April. Outside the web space, Dell’s DCS customers include large oil & gas companies and research centers…