Author: David

June 27, 2012 Off

Pano Logic Reinvents Cloud Computing for the Desktop

By David

Grazed from MarketWatch. Author: PR Announcement.

Pano Logic, the leader in zero client desktop virtualization (VDI), today announced Pano System for Cloud, the lowest cost desktop computing platform for organizations moving to web-based applications. Pano System for Cloud eliminates the need for a local operating system and central processing unit and delivers web-based computing, using Google’s Chrome browser as the interface.

Pano System for Cloud is the most cost-effective computing platform available for many businesses, schools, governments and other organizations seeking an alternative to PC-based or thin client models that rely on costly end user software and hardware. The platform centralizes all computing activities in the cloud; end users see a familiar browser interface and use software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions or web-based applications to do their work. Other web-based computing solutions still require endpoint processing, increasing the overall cost by 50 percent over the new Pano System for Cloud, which utilizes a new low cost Pano Zero Client, the G2M, introduced at $149. The new platform also strips away costly infrastructure layers including software licensing, expensive SAN or NAS hardware and ongoing operational expenses…

June 27, 2012 Off

‘Shadow IT’ Illuminates New Cloud Computing Opportunities: Survey

By David

Grazed from Forbes. Author: Joe McKendrick.

Today’s “shadow IT” – in which business users acquire and run their own IT resources as a way to circumvent their IT departments – may eventually become part of tomorrow’s corporate IT portfolios. However CIOs and IT managers need to be proactive in broadening their resource base to include new platforms and devices. And, while until recently cloud providers attempted to mimic corporate data centers, now corporate IT seeks to mimic cloud service providers.

I recently had the opportunity to chat with John Engates, chief technology officer at RackSpace, about the new role IT leaders need to play in the new world of cloud computing. He discussed some of the surprises that emerged from RackSpace’s latest survey of 500 IT decision makers, particularly the fact that “shadow” or “rogue” IT is now prevalent across many enterprises, large and small…

June 27, 2012 Off

Cloud Computing: Startup Challenges Microsoft With Completely New Business Computing Platform

By David

Grazed from PRWeb. Author: PR Announcement.

Today, CrowdPC, Inc. announces the public unveiling of its completely new business computing platform for small businesses. The CrowdPC platform consists of an on-site wireless computer, a suite of business software applications, and an online data center, all working together to dramatically improve usability and flexibility, and decrease costs and complexity compared to Windows-based small business systems.

Developed quietly over a six-year period, the CrowdPC computer platform has been designed to leap ahead of the 25-year old Windows based approach now used in businesses around the world. Using state of the art hardware and software technology, CrowdPC delivers PCI and HIPAA compliant security, data safety, all commonly used small business software, real-time off-site backup, and easy connections to smartphones, tablets, and other customer and employee devices at a price of $299…

June 26, 2012 Off

Private Cloud Hosting: Have Your Cake and Eat It, Too

By David
Grazed from Smart Data Collective.  Author:  Jon Dawson.

Industry titans like Google and Microsoft have put billions of dollars into cloud computing initiatives over the past five years in an effort to pre-empt inevitable consumer demand in an industry poised for phenomenal growth. Some of that growth has already taken place, so much so that the cloud industry has already diversified its service suite and offers 31 flavors of cloud for the consumers – among them, they can be split into two groups: public and private.

A Line in the Sand

A public cloud has significantly less regulatory hurdles and as such host services that aren’t necessarily tightly integrated into the manifold arms of a large business. You probably use about five cloud services right now — Dropbox, Evernote and Gmail are three notable and widely used cloud-based services. Public clouds are great for bringing services to market quickly, but aren’t secure enough to host highly critical applications. That’s where private clouds come in…

June 26, 2012 Off

Securing Your ‘Data at Rest’ in the Cloud

By David

Grazed from Computer Technology Review. Author: Gilad Parann-Nissany.

We’re all hungry for best practices and tips for securing data in the cloud and also how shared computer resources can and should work to ensure privacy and protection. The focus is on data security, especially data at rest.

Cloud computing is all about increased scalability and productivity. However, new cloud security threats such as “snapshotting” a virtual disk are emerging. These create new threats to private data, compared to when data was stored and secured between the four walls of a datacenter.

With cloud computing, multiple customers may share a single physical disk, although logically separated from each other. In theory, one can share the same physical disk with a competitor – without data crossing over. The same is true for physical servers. Equally, within a single cloud account, different projects may be sharing the same physical disks or physical servers. This virtualized approach is at the heart of cloud computing; it provides many of its benefits…

June 26, 2012 Off

Google App Engine: What developers want at Google I/O

By David
 Grazed from GigaOM.  Author: Barb Darrow.

Most of the noise coming out of Google I/O  this week will be around the company’s long-percolating infrastructure as a service plan. But many developers who have banked on Google App Engine, the company’s platform as a service, will be looking for other things.

For many, Google App Engine has seemed a sideline for the big search company, a perception some Google execs have labored to correct. Google claimed 150,000 active GAE developers going into the show, a number it will doubtless update.

Having talked with a couple of the GAE faithful, here’s a developer wish list for GAE…

June 26, 2012 Off

Cloud Computing: Red Hat Moving to Commercialize OpenShift PaaS

By David

Grazed from Sys Con Media. Author: Maureen O’Gara.

Red Hat is planning to commercialize its 13-month-old OpenShift PaaS later this year when it splits the widgetry into two initial tiers: FreeShift and MegaShift. Until then it’ll be available as a developer preview.

FreeShift will offer three small gears, the ability to auto-scale and access to the languages, frameworks and data stores developers like to use. It will leverage community-provided support. Developers using the OpenShift PaaS now will be able to automatically migrate to FreeShift.

MegaShift, the initial paid tier, will offer up to 16 gears, and the ability to add storage past the 1GB-per-gear limit in FreeShift. MegaShift users will get support from Red Hat. The platform fee is supposed to be $42 a month with a per-gear-an-hour fee for gears past the first three. However, Red Hat says the pricing is provisional and subject to change…

June 26, 2012 Off

OneOps building development tools for the cloud generation

By David

Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Tom Krazit.

The lightweight mobile or web application is the must-have computing product of our time: both consumers and businesses demand access to key resources while on the move. But the intense pressure on mobile developers to quickly design and deploy apps requires solid tools to get the job done, and that’s what OneOps, a GigaOM Structure Launchpad finalist, hopes to bring to developers.

OneOps, currently in private beta with plans to go live later this year, has designed a set of application development tools to help developers build cloud-based apps block by block, said Kire Filipovski, co-founder of the company and — like fellow founders Vitaliy Zinchenko and Mike Schwankl — a code slinger at heart…

June 26, 2012 Off

Logicalis Expands Cloud Computing Offerings with Premises-based Private Cloud Solutions

By David
Grazed from PRWeb.  Author: PR Announcement.

All things IT are moving to the cloud, but not always to the “public cloud” according to Logicalis, an international IT solutions and managed services provider, which today is announcing a new Private Cloud Practice created to support premises-based, fully-customized cloud solutions. While competitive, semi-private cloud solutions offer the appearance of security and control, Logicalis Private Cloud solutions are tailored specifically for each customer’s environment and computing needs and the customer keeps control of all of the IT assets at the data center of their choosing. The company has a well-established history providing managed services, data center services and a variety of cloud solutions. It was recently named a “Top 100 Cloud Service Provider” by industry publication Talkin’ Cloud and a “Top 500 Solution Provider” by UBM Channel. The new practice will help organizations that are seeking the flexibility and expansion capabilities of cloud computing, with the security and access provided by a premises-based data center.

“For many organizations, cloud computing offers game-changing strategies necessary to increase business agility, add flexibility and mitigate risk. We help clients define and design a private cloud solution that specifically addresses the business problems they are trying to resolve. This allows IT staffs to refocus on the highest value activities and provide targeted services to their organizations,” says Kevin Gruneisen, vice president of data center solutions for Logicalis…

June 26, 2012 Off

EasyCloud and the Revolutionary IPSaaS Technology

By David

Grazed from PRWeb. Author: PR Announcement.

Infrastructure + Platform + Software as a Service. IPSaaS is finally here. This is the first of its kind solution that ultimately brings the cloud to the masses. Combining award winning Infrastructure and “Fanatical Support” from Rackspace with the power of Openstack and virtually unlimited amounts of Software choices, EasyCloud makes using the cloud, easy. Where other Service providers focus on a single aspects of cloud computing, EasyCloud is the only “one stop shop” on the block that gets it right. This new technology allows EasyCloud to compete across multiple horizontal markets while reducing complexity for end users and avoiding proprietary lock in.

EasyCloud IPSaaS technology allows consumers to focus on using the software they choose while eliminating the complex back-end of cloud technology. Since it is interactive with the Openstack Platform it is fully dynamic and scalable with the user’s needs. Including multiple built-in features, like “white label” in-app chat support and hundreds of other API plug-ins. Compared to custom cloud deployments, the $20 starting cost really changes the game…