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iWave Software to Demonstrate Storage Automator at Dell Storage Forum 2012

By David
Grazed from iWave Software.  Author: PR Announcement.

iWave Software, a provider of storage and cloud automation solutions, today announced Storage Automator support for Dell Compellent storage arrays, allowing enterprise IT organizations and service providers to deliver Storage as a Service and to automate end-to-end storage provisioning. The product will be demonstrated at the at Dell Storage Forum 2012 at the Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel in Boston, Mass. on June 11-13, 2012. Conference attendees are invited to stop by the iWave booth for a hands-on opportunity to provision Compellent arrays using the Storage as a Service delivery approach.

"Automation is now a requirement for organizations to process the exponential number of service requests flooding the storage team," said Ron Smith, vice president of sales and marketing of iWave Software. "Storage Automator allows end users to provision their own storage, through a service portal, thereby lowering storage operating costs, enabling administrators to scale and improving end user satisfaction."

iWave Storage Automator provides IT departments with out-of-the-box automation for the administration of enterprise storage and private cloud environments. iWave Storage Automator offers organizations:

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The Midmarket’s Cloud Appetite Is Unsated

By David
Grazed from Internet Evolution. Author: Kim Davies.

Sometimes, a publication or a Website just has to say something to get attention. I understand that. In this case, there can’t really be any other explanation for Forbes posting a blog claiming that interest in cloud computing has "peaked."

Author Reuven Cohen bills himself as the "Digital Provocateur" (or "Provocator," depending which page you look at). Maybe "Digital Ironist" would be more appropriate, because there’s something deeply ironic about relying on sentiment analysis to draw conclusions about dwindling interest in cloud computing…

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Information Services Group Launches Cloud Security Assessment

By David
Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Information Services Group (ISG), a leading technology insights, market intelligence and advisory services company, announced today the launch of a Cloud Security Assessment service to help clients identify and address risks associated with their cloud computing initiatives.

"Many executives are conflicted about cloud services," said Steve Hall, Partner, ISG. "On the one hand, they’re eager to reap the benefits of cloud computing. On the other hand, they’re wary of the potential risks and uncertainty. This service will help our clients understand the current state of their cloud initiatives and point the way forward for them."…

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Analyts say that Cloud is not the future of IT

By David
Grazed from NetworkWorld.  Author: Antony Savvas.

Cloud computing is not the future of IT and commoditisation is, says analyst house Forrester, although the two support each other.

Forrester says that as a result of commoditisation and modernisation, IT portfolios will evolve over time so that many applications will become suitable for cloud deployment, but many will not.

James Staten, an analyst at Forrester, says in a report: "Not everything will move to the cloud as there are many business processes, data sets and workflows that require specific hardware or proprietary solutions that can’t take advantage of cloud economics. For this reason we’ll likely still have mainframes 20 years from now."…

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Cloud Computing World Forum This Week

By David
Grazed from OneStopClick.  Author: PR Announcement.

The Cloud Computing World Forum 2012 kicks off tomorrow at Earls Court, London and there’s still time to book your place for the event, which is free for IT professionals. The event is to include 150 seminars across eight theatres and runs from June 12-13th and is Europe’s biggest cloud event.

The event will include the opportunity for IT professionals to connect with business partners and peers through the event’s one-of-a-kind networking program, as well as hear talks from industry leaders. As well as 100 global exhibitors, there will also be the chance to see case studies which are relevant to all business types and discover the latest, most innovative IT products…

Leading speakers at the event include Amazon’s Werner Voguls, Microsoft’s Bill Hilf, and Dell’s VP for Cloud, Ricky Santos, as well as a number of representatives from government, commercial organisations and city councils, amongst others.

Now in its third year, the event pays tribute to some of the cloud computing industry leaders and it’s expected that this year’s event will see even more sophisticated and innovative products on display than last. Conferences are expected to focus on a number of subjects, including security and cloud maintenance and improvement.

Whilst security has been one of the biggest worries surrounding the deployment and take-up of cloud services, the Cloud Computing World Forum will look at how cloud providers are now leading the way in combatting cybercrime. A series of seminar sessions will be held to further debate the issue including: Strategy Theatre, which debates business reasons for cloud and two ‘vision theatres’, which will discuss compliance and "information security for tomorrow’s technologies”.

Further topics include mobile and applications, virtualization, CMS, storage and big data, Platform-as-a-Service, social and communications.

Entry is free for the expo and many of the seminars and both Gold and Diamond one and two day passes can be purchased for access to extra seminars, private lounge and Wi-Fi, as well as an executive delegate bag. Places for the event can be reserved on the Cloud Computing World Forum website.

CloudCow.com is proud to be a media sponsor of this event.

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End to end cloud security

By David
Grazed from ZDNet.  Author: Alan Priestley.

Organisations that have adopted public clouds have experienced a higher number of security breaches than with their traditional IT infrastructures. This interesting snippet comes from recent research, ‘What’s Holding Back the Cloud?’ carried out by Intel IT Centre.

The research goes on to show that among the IT professionals surveyed, almost one third believe the security threats came from internal sources. Other key findings included concerns around lack of control, security measures and compliance…

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Cloud Computing: ScienceLogic Achieves Sponsored Validation for Cisco UCS

By David
Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

ScienceLogic, an award-winning data center and cloud management software vendor, is now validated on the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS), the industry’s first converged data center platform that delivers smart, programmable infrastructure to simplify and accelerate enterprise-class application and service deployment in bare-metal, virtualized and cloud-computing environments. The ScienceLogic management platform provides consolidated visibility and control for heterogeneous, multi-vendor systems located in data centers, private clouds, and public clouds.

The ScienceLogic platform has been a network management module in the Cisco Smart Business Architecture (SBA) since 2009. Cisco SBA provides reference architectures that simplify and speed deployment of Cisco solutions for midsize to enterprise networks. Selected for its ease of use and speed of deployment, the ScienceLogic solution includes a set of management templates that begin to provide availability, performance, and configuration information immediately, covering the spectrum of Cisco devices and services, including:…

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Can Cloud-Computing Take On The Health Care Establishment?

By David
Grazed from Forbes.  Author: Zina Moukheiber.

“I just met the man who will kill me…such a beautiful app! Oh the envy!!” Jonathan Bush generously tweeted, after viewing a demo from a three-year-old upstart called CareCloud. Bush is the chairman and chief executive officer of athenahealth, an electronic health records company with $324 million in revenues (2011). The would-be killer: Albert Santalo, the founder and CEO of CareCloud, which introduced an EHR earlier this year, and has between $8 million and $12 million in revenues.

I ask Bush what he meant by that compliment. He recalibrates it. “I doubt they could win against athenahealth because of our accumulated experience,” he says. But, he adds: “I thought finally, people are entering the cloud!”…

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Effective data management is key to cloud success

By David
Grazed from ITNewsAfrica.  Author: Gary Allemann.

Despite several barriers to entry and risks involved, cloud computing is gaining traction, as it offers numerous potential benefits to organisations of all sizes. However, while the benefits of cloud computing may outweigh the risks, this does not mean that the risks can simply be ignored. In order to leverage the benefits of the cloud without falling foul of regulations and compliance legislation, it is vital to firstly implement sound data governance and effective data management processes.

One of the most attractive benefits of the cloud model is its ability to lower initial implementation costs. Accessing new technologies therefore becomes an operational expense as opposed to a large capital expense, and internal IT costs can be dramatically lowered. The cloud also offers greater scalability and flexibility, reduced time to deploy new applications and services, and can help organisations to standardise services and technologies…

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How to Plan Your Cloud Migration

By David
Grazed from Forbes.  Author: Dan Woods.

Many enterprises are struggling both with deciding which applications should be moved to the cloud and which combination of vendors to use. In the fourth article in the Open Cloud Visionaries series, we interviewed Sadagopan (Sada) Singam, Global Vice President, Cloud Computing, at HCL Technologies Ltd., a pre-eminent technology services company in India. Singam offers battle tested advice for CIOs and CTOs who are trying to map out a coherent cloud migration strategy.

Getting Ready

Typically, IT infrastructure is split into three areas: on-premise, the private cloud, and the public cloud. As enterprises come to better understand the nature of their on-premise environments, they can find better ways to take advantage of the cloud, reaping both cost savings and business benefits. With this aspiration, however, comes the sobering recognition that they often don’t understand their existing assets all that well…