Author: David

Grazed from MarketWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

Aryaka, the world’s first cloud-based WAN optimization and application acceleration solution, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) LLC, an Amazon.com company and the leader in cloud computing (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced they have brought to market a solution that delivers a unified infrastructure for accessing global cloud and enterprise resources. Aryaka provides an optimized network that ensures IT application instances running on AWS behave as if they were on the local network with any-to-any connectivity, regardless of where end-users are located around the world.

Using Aryaka’s network, enterprises provide optimized access for all of their locations and users to their designated locations within the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) environments without installing appliances or private links. Aryaka has multiple Points of Presence (POPs) across the world, interconnected via a secure, dedicated and redundant core network as well as a full-featured WAN optimization software stack running at each of these POPs. Aryaka integrates the Amazon cloud to the enterprise headquarters and all its remote office locations in a meshed environment. This is especially relevant for global organizations with business needs where AWS does not currently have a presence, such as China and Australia. Current Aryaka customers are also able to enjoy optimized access to all AWS services via Aryaka’s global network…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

V3 Systems, the industry leader in Desktop Cloud Computing (DCC), announced today availability of the V3 Desktop Cloud Orchestrator(TM), a powerful new management addition to its industry-leading V3 Desktop Cloud Computing appliance. V3 Desktop Orchestrator empowers organizations to deliver and manage a dedicated pool with local storage virtual desktops with guaranteed performance, availability and high-density utilization across their entire enterprise.

V3 Desktop Cloud Orchestrator (V3 DCO) is the first management system specifically designed to simplify and improve the management of a virtual desktop environment and reduce the need for multiple management consoles. A key component of the V3 DCO is V3 Optimized Desktop Allocation(TM) (V3 ODA), a technology that delivers seamless virtual desktop recovery in the event of a failed virtual desktop appliance…

Grazed from PRWeb.  Author: PR Announcement.

GigaOM, a leading business and technology media company, today announced more headline speakers for GigaOm Structure 2012, the number-one cloud computing conference now in its fifth year. Scheduled for June 20-22 in San Francisco, Structure is the seminal event in cloud computing, expected to bring together over 1,100 innovators shaping the future of the technology industry.

“When dozens of top minds from companies like Cisco, Amazon, Box, Zynga, Netflix, Microsoft, Intel and more convene in one place to debate the future of the tech industry, you know it’s the most important cloud computing conference in the world – and Structure 2012 is that conference,” said Om Malik, founder and senior writer at GigaOM. “The fifth-annual Structure is shaping up to the be the largest, most influential, and well-attended one yet; it’s the only conference where leaders from large enterprise technology companies mingle with cutting-edge startups, venture capitalists, journalists, and analysts in an open-format debate.”…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

As the role of cloud computing is growing significantly in its ability to deliver business applications, many IT decision makers are facing challenges with their existing network infrastructure to support the migration of their business applications to the cloud. An international study announced today by Cisco CSCO -1.97% revealed that without the proper cloud migration strategy, more than one third (38 percent) of IT decision makers would rather get a root canal, dig a ditch, or do their own taxes than address network challenges associated with public or private cloud deployments.

These research findings provide insight into the current state of cloud networking and the chasm between IT expectations and network realities. The survey also examines the experiences of IT professionals regarding the level of difficulty and time required to update their networks and migrate their applications to the cloud…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Wyse Technology, the global leader in cloud client computing, today announced ongoing customer momentum of the adoption of Wyse hardware and virtualization software alongside desktop virtualization solutions from Citrix. Wyse is currently exhibiting at Citrix Synergy(TM) 2012, the premier event on cloud computing, virtualization and networking at Booth #206. Citrix Synergy runs from May 9-11, 2012.

"Citrix and Wyse have been working together to deliver the best technology solutions for IT users for many years now," according to Maryam Alexandrian, Senior Vice President Worldwide Sales and Channels at Wyse Technology. "Across industries such as financial services, healthcare, government, education and many more, both companies strive to improve end user and IT experience through the development of innovative new technologies."…

Grazed from PRWeb.  Author: PR Announcement.

VDIworks, a leading provider of management and enablement software for virtualization and cloud computing, announced today that it is making available an open, free infrastructure for Desktops as a Service (DaaS), Desktop Virtualization and Cloud-hosted VDI.

DaaSStack is built on free, open components and includes VDIworks’ just-released, DaaSManager, to provide a complete end-to-end solution that can power the next generation of end user computing.

“We’re essentially announcing two very important things today”, said Amir Husain, President and CEO of VDIworks. “First, we’re committing ourselves to building a powerful, free and open infrastructure for DaaS, based on proven components. We hope this will free customers from vendor lock-in, unbelievably high costs and the challenges associated with proprietary infrastructure. Second, as part of this initiative, we’re launching our new DaaSManager application, and making it available to users for free.”…

Grazed from PRWeb.  Author: PR Announcement.

Whether you call it Cloud Computing, Software as a Service or On-Demand Software, cloud-based applications are becoming more prevalent in today’s business world.

Software as a Service (SaaS) has become a common delivery model for many applications, including accounting, billing, collaboration, customer relationship management, invoicing, human resource management, and content management.

Written by Jeremy Diviney, Co-Founder of Bill4Time, "Top Reasons to Switch to the Cloud", covers topics such as the top six reasons businesses switch to SaaS (based on a recent survey), nine key differences between traditional software and SaaS (including a handy infographic), 15 software issues that SaaS addresses, a list of popular SaaS applications used by many small businesses, and information to help businesses decide if making the switch is right for them…

Grazed from MonteyControl.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Grazed from InfoWorld.  Author: David Linthicum.

I’ve been saying for some time that virtualization and cloud computing are not mandatory partners. Certainly, virtualization is a tool that makes creating and managing cloud computing services easy. However, more and more, as organizations move to cloud computing, they’re asking for the omission of that virtualization layer for better performance and control. Cloud providers are now agreeing to those demands.

As reported last week, the cloud, managed hosting, and colocation service provider Internap is the latest to provide a bare-metal cloud offering. With this technology, customers get automated provisioning of dedicated managed hosting environments, meaning no hypervisor virtualization platform that has performance and functional trade-offs.

Internap is not the first; SoftLayer, Rackspace, Liquid Web, and New Servers (also known as BareMetalCloud.com) also provide access to the bare metal. You can count on more providers to join the fray as cloud computing users continue to demand that their managed hosting environments work like their native environments…

Grazed from Investors Daily.  Author: Reinhardt Krause.

Rackspace (RAX) Hosting dived in late trading after the cloud-computing service firm reported Q1 profit below views and cloud services growth slowed sequentially.

Rackspace earnings rose 70% to 17 cents a share. Revenue grew 31% to $301 million. Analysts expected 18 cents and $300 million.

Shares, up 69% since early October, slid 13% late. They fell 1% to 57.80 in the regular session.

Cloud services revenue rose 74.5% to $64.75 million. That’s down from Q4 2011’s 86% gain.  Rackspace rents out computer resources in remote data centers via the Internet. Revenue for its main business, website hosting, rose 22.7% to $236.6 million…