ID management for cloud-based apps
In addition to convenience, cloud computing is touted for its money saving capabilities as companies reduce software licensing costs and hardware requirements.
Identity management in the cloud isn’t as cut and dry. Standards are emerging to manage identities in the cloud but, until now, it hasn’t been a priority. The auditing and provisioning capabilities that are typical with enterprise-based ID management systems are tough to come by with cloud-based systems. “ID management is the biggest weakness we have right now,” says Tony Busseri, CEO at Route1, a digital security and ID management provider. “People have rushed to embrace a technology that’s great in concept, but they have ignored the ID management.”.
These issues exist more in the public cloud than the private cloud, Busseri explains. “The public cloud is great in terms of functionality but from a privacy standpoint you don’t know where the information is going,” he says…
Cloud Plans Getting More Cohesive
A new study from Saugatuck Technology suggests organizations are taking a more cohesive approach to purchasing and deploying cloud-based software.
In the early years of this decade, it seemed like most companies needed cloud computing like a fish needed a bicycle – to steal a phrase from the late feminist Gloria Steinem. Now, however, a growing number of companies need the cloud like a fish needs water.
Two new studies highlight not only the inexorable advance of cloud computing, but also a growing sophistication in how companies aim to use it.
According to Gartner, global revenue from software-as-a-service will hit $14.5 billion this year, up nearly 18 percent from 2011 revenue of $12.3 billion. That follows an increase of more than 20 percent in worldwide SaaS revenue from 2010 to 2011. Gartner is forecasting robust growth through 2015, when it expects SaaS revenue to reach $22.1 billion…
Cloud Computing: Cycle Computing Ramps Global 50,000-Core Cluster for Schrodinger Molecular Research
Cycle Computing provisioned a 50,000-core utility supercomputer in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud for Schroedinger and Nimbus Discovery to accelerate lead identification via virtual screening. This milestone — the largest of its kind — is Cycle Computing’s fifth massive cluster in less than two years on the heels of a 30,000 cluster in October 2011, illustrating Cycle’s continued leadership in delivering full-featured and scalable cluster deployments. Cycle Computing revealed the cluster creation during today’s opening keynote at the AWS Summit in New York City.
Schroedinger’s widely used computational docking application, Glide, performs high-throughput virtual screening of compound libraries for identification of drug discovery leads. Computing resource and time constraints traditionally limit the extent with which ligand conformations can be explored, potentially leading to false negative while the same constraints may require a less accurate level of scoring, which can lead to false positives. Tapping into Cycle’s utility supercomputing, Schroedinger ran a virtual screen in collaboration with Nimbus Discovery of 21 million compounds against a protein target. The run required 12.5 processor years and completed in less than three hours…
VMware earnings surge 52%; cloud spending soars
VMware Inc.’s VMW +5.42% first-quarter net income rose 52% on strength in license revenue and services, as companies continued to invest heavily in technology for cloud computing.
International revenue made up 54% of total revenue for the period, the highest level for any quarter, and helped VMware post quarterly net income of $191.4 million, or 44 cents a share, up from $126 million, or 29 cents a share, a year earlier. Excluding stock compensation and other impacts, earnings rose to 66 cents a share from 48 cents a year earlier. The consensus of analysts polled by Thomson Reuters projected adjusted earnings of 60 cents a share.
VMware dominates the market for virtualization software, which allows users to run multiple computers’ operations on a single machine, the first step in cloud computing. Customers that had turned to the company for software to virtualize their information systems are now buying software to build applications and run their enterprise…
Cloud Computing Certification And Future Job Opportunities
Cloud computing has a lot in store in terms of future job creation. It is anticipated that cloud computing will lead to a generation of an estimated 14 million novel job opportunities across the world in the span of the coming three years. Surprising enough, the scope of the fresh jobs may extend beyond the IT sector. The estimates are an outcome of research carried out by IDC funded by the Microsoft Corporation. Fourteen million expected jobs sure is a promising number in itself, but when stacked against the current volume of the available global workforce (a little greater than 3 billion to be exact) it equals a shy half a percent – a mere droplet compared against the pail…
Joyent Unveils Joyent Cloud Europe to Meet Customer Demand and Deliver Superior Value and Performance to European Businesses
Joyent, a global provider of cloud computing software and services, today unveiled Joyent Cloud Europe, an extension of the US-based Joyent Cloud that will provide high-performance real-time Infrastructure-as-a-Service in Europe, located in Amsterdam.
This launch is driven by demand from customers in North America who are expanding into Europe and need the same level of real-time performance, reliability and unmatched Cloud Analytics they receive from Joyent in the U.S. Joyent’s Amsterdam facility will also provide Europe-based businesses and developers with access to Joyent Cloud’s superior value.
Joyent Cloud Europe uses Joyent’s SmartDataCenter, the company’s cloud infrastructure platform, to deliver in-depth analytics, reliability, performance and scalability all while ensuring data security…
Riding on Cloud 9, Cisco paves way to the top
Networking giant Cisco bet big on the cloud computing space a decade ago, and today, it has emerged as a leader in that universe.
In conversation with CNBC-TV18’s editorial director Senthil Chengalvarayan and Forbes India’s consulting editor, Mitu Jayashankar, the CEO and chairman of Cisco, John Chambers discusses his strategy based on market transitions.
Below is an edited transcript. Watch the accompanying videos for more.
Chengalvarayan: It’s increasingly becoming a wireless world and you are synonymous with switches, routers and in the wire world, your margins are been stretched thin by Juniper and HP and others. In the world of the cloud, you have got formidable competitors – Microsoft, Google,
Chambers: No, it’s actually the reverse. Cisco focusses on some market transitions and we are customer driven; the trend being in all those areas that you talked about from Intelligent Networks i.e. switches and routers in services, into the cloud i.e. the data centre activity, service coming together with a network, through video capabilities, which will be 90% of the loads on the internet, through collaborations, social media – all tied together, architecturally solve customer’s business problems that’s what we are about…
Honeywell rolls out Attune cloud computing service for building automation systems
Honeywell International Inc. (NYSE: HON) recently announced a set of services in which it uses its own computer hardware to remotely monitor customers’ meters and analyze buildings’ use of gas, steam and electricity.
Attune Advisory Services, introduced in March by Morris, New Jersey-based Honeywell, includes software that collects information from utility meters, and is also designed to provide insight on building performance and identify opportunities to cut energy costs.
It uses technology from E-Mon LLC, a Langhorne, Pennsylvania submeter manufacturer that Honeywell acquired in July, 2010…
DEMO Spring 2012 Conference Opens, Defining Future of Mobile, Enterprise, and Cloud Technology
The DEMO Spring 2012 Conference, world-renowned for launching the most innovative companies in enterprise, mobile, cloud computing, consumer, social media and disruptive technologies, officially kicked off today — featuring ground-breaking new innovations and product launches in the areas of cloud computing, enterprise, and mobile technologies and applications from companies across the globe.
To start, DEMO executive producer Matt Marshall welcomed the audience of technology innovators, decision-makers, press and investors to the 22nd year of DEMO. Following those remarks, CNBC Technology Contributor Jon Fortt sat down with Intuit President and CEO Brad Smith for an insightful one-on-one conversation about the state of today’s technology industry. Later in the day, Marshall hosted an exclusive one-on-one session with Zach Nelson, president and CEO at NetSuite, about some of the challenges and opportunities that established and emerging technology companies face, before he spoke with Aaron Levie, CEO and co-founder of Box on entrepreneurship and taking a startup from conception to reality…
Cloud Computing in the Real World.
There are clouds in the forecast, in Boston and everywhere else.
A host of press reports suggest that Google Inc. will next week launch a new product called Drive, a free “cloud storage’’ service that’ll let you stash five gigabytes of data online, and access it anywhere through any Internet-connected device.
It’s welcome news, but a bit late. More than 50 million people worldwide already use a similar service called Dropbox. There are many more cloud storage offerings, too. SugarSync, Microsoft Corp.’s SkyDrive, and a new offering called Cubby, from Woburn-based LogMeIn Inc., to name only a few of the more appealing ones that I have tried…