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Grazed from Asigra.  Author: PR Announcement.

Asigra Inc., a leading Cloud Backup, Recovery and Restore (BURR) software provider since 1986, announced today that hundreds of  cloud backup service providers and experts from around the world will gather at the Sheraton Centre downtown Toronto from June 11th to June 13th at the 2012 Asigra Cloud Backup™ Partner Summit. The  sold out event is focused on providing attendees with the opportunity to network with their peers, discuss strategies on how to grow their cloud backup and recovery business by embracing marketing best practices and proven sales methodologies to enhance customer acquisition, retention and service while also getting a roadmap preview of the next generation of Asigra Cloud Backup. Attendees will leave the Summit feeling empowered to OutMarket, OutSell and OutPerform which happens to be the theme for this year’s event.

“The market changes year by year and one of the signs of that change is that the market has become more crowded,” said Tom Dugan, CEO, Recovery Networks. “More companies are considering the value of cloud backup and recovery and updating their disaster recovery plans, all of which leads to more competition.  So staying ahead of the wave is paramount to not only success but survival. The Asigra Cloud Backup Partner Summit gives us the sales, marketing and technical tools and knowledge we need to stay ahead of that wave.”

Grazed from Nimbula.  Author: PR Announcement.

 

Grazed from GlassHouse Technologies.  Author: PR Announcement.

For virtualized environments, the ACE service delivers operational intelligence with a cloud management layer and includes:

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Cisco — According to the 2012 Cisco(R) Global Cloud Networking Survey, the majority of IT decision makers cite a cloud-ready network as the biggest requirement to enable the migration of business applications to the cloud.

To meet these challenges, Cisco today announced the Cisco Cloud Connected Solution, a new product solution that delivers cloud-enabled routing and wide area network (WAN) optimization platforms, along with Cloud Connector software and services, enabling users to securely connect to cloud services.

The Cisco Cloud Connected Solution helps organizations easily and securely take advantage of cloud computing and accelerate the deployment of cloud services while delivering an optimal user experience at the lowest cost…

IT organizations must be able to automate and manage both simple and complex workflows based on business policies in which virtual and cloud resources are automatically provisioned due to either a SLA-sensitive workflow or based on peak demand requirements in which many workflows are executing. ActiveBatch V9 delivers this by providing new functionality to allow users to set policies governing both the execution of workflows and the provisioning of workflow resources to ensure SLAs are being met. Finally, ActiveBatch V9 enables IT to deliver cost savings by allowing resources to be provisioned and de-provisioned based around workflow execution and completion…

She mentioned a few specific cloud computing efforts, including a project at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory that uploaded 250,000 photos of Mars onto Windows Azure, Microsoft’s cloud computing platform as a service. The resulting Be A Martian initiative served up more than 2.5 million data queries, “proving that the cloud can be a terrific way to reach and engage the public,” she wrote.

She also said Amazon Web Services played a big role at NASA:..

There is a lot of buzz going around about big data and cloud computing, but there is also a lot of confusion about how to incorporate them for an advantage. Cloud computing is all about providing services over the network, and big data is all about analyzing lots of data to gain insights and find trends. Government regulations are all about protecting the data and forcing the owners of the data to save it, just in case…

Grazed from ZDNet.  Author: Jack Clark.

Peer1 Hosting has launched a GPU-backed cloud service designed for high performance computing workloads.

The HPC Self Serve Cloud became available to buy on Tuesday, Peer1 announced at the Cloud Computing World Forum in London. It has enough scalability to let customers provision up to 50 physical servers in 15 minutes and gives them the option of using Nvidia GPUs.

When asked why a company would go for Peer1 rather than cloud king Amazon Web Services which launched its GPU service in 2010, Mike Bainbridge, a solutions engineer for Peer1, told ZDNet UK he thought the company was "a lot more flexible" and noted that Peer1 is in talks with a major UK university to run chemistry analysis workloads on its cloud…

To get a concept of how big a trillion is, Amazon’s Jeff Barr in a blog post announcing the new peak calls on the following examples: “That’s 142 objects for every person on Planet Earth or 3.3 objects for every star in our Galaxy. If you could count one object per second it would take you 31,710 years to count them all.” I recently heard TED founder Richard Saul Wurman discuss the national debt by noting that in order to reach a trillion-dollar debt, you’d have to lose $1 million a day every day for about 2,739 years…

According to Computerworld, technology departments are discovering that they cannot control access to popular cloud applications like Salesforce, Box, and GoogleApps because in many cases, the department that purchased the application handles provisioning. The articles goes on to identify five signs that signal IT has lost control of security for cloud applications:..