Author: David

April 12, 2012 Off

Infinitely Virtual CEO to Explore Cloud Computing Reliability and Security at Prestigious Public Sector Conference

By David
Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

IT professionals in educational institutions and government agencies need to be confident that the data they move to the cloud will be secure and that the systems safeguarding that data are reliable. At the Cloud Computing in the Public Sector Conference, to be held in Miami on April 16-17, Infinitely Virtual CEO Adam Stern will explore how public sector organizations can ensure high-level security and reliability as they increase their investment in cloud-based IT operations.

Infinitely Virtual is a leading provider of virtual server cloud computing services and a strong proponent of advanced security and backup in cloud computing systems…

April 12, 2012 Off

Heirloom Computing Launches ELPaaS – a PaaS for COBOL & IBM CICS

By David
Grazed from PRWeb.  Author: PR Announcement.

Heirloom Computing, the Silicon Valley software company with a mission to enable existing applications to seamlessly participate in cloud computing infrastructures, today announced the availability of its ELPaaS platform.

Developers can start using ELPaaS today for free by signing up at www.elpaas.com. With ELPaaS, developers can create a fully-managed development and deployment environment in just a few minutes. ELPaaS uses Heirloom’s Elastic COBOL IDE (www.elasticcobol.com), which can run "as-a-Service" or on-premise, to quickly package, publish & deploy applications to their choice of target clouds…

April 12, 2012 Off

Manage Your Business In The Business Cloud

By David
Grazed from International Business Times.  Author:  Stefan Töpfer.

Cloud Computing is on everybody’s lips these days and we are bombarded with geek arguments telling us why we should use this technology to run our businesses. Many of us wonder what it’s all about, this cloud computing?

The answers are often not compelling. Why do I need 600 trillion megabyte storage and what is it anyway? My answer to these numbers — who cares?

Here are a few reasons to think about business cloud computing:

Start Your Business in 60 Seconds. That is how long it takes to sign up to business cloud computing providers. Another 10 minutes later and you’ll be sending out bills or quotes using your own domain name…

April 12, 2012 Off

HP takes on Amazon with public cloud offering

By David
Grazed from GMA.  Author:  Editorial Staff.

Hewlett-Packard (HP) is aiming to challenge Amazon’s dominance in the cloud service sector, as it launched Tuesday its own cloud service that can take advantage of its data centers.  Tech site BetaNews.com said the service, dubbed Converged Cloud, is similar to Amazon’s Web Services, which it said is so far the largest provider of public cloud access.
 
"HP will offer on-demand instances and virtual machines, and users will pay for the resources they use starting May 10," it said.  But it said whether this public cloud computing push will change the game remains to be seen.
 
Amazon is considered to hold a commanding lead in the space, and other Silicon Valley companies are making plays for what’s left, BetaNews.com said.  Presently, HP already provides private cloud services as well as running data centers for select partners, BetaNews.com said…
April 12, 2012 Off

Four Barriers to Cloud Due Diligence

By David
Grazed from CFO.  Author: Rob Livingstone.

As a CFO overseeing your organization’s transition to cloud, how can you ensure your journey delivers on its promises over both the medium and long term? Focusing on the short term is the comparatively easy part. Entry costs are – as cloud vendors are quick to tell you – low relative to on-premise.  But enterprise risk management is often one of the CFO’s key responsibilities and an uncontrolled shift to the cloud could expose you and your organization to unacceptable long and medium-term risks.

On the other hand, you could take your chances and hope to get lucky.

But seriously . . .

April 12, 2012 Off

NASA’s New Web Plans Stress Open Source, Cloud

By David
Grazed from InformationWeek.  Author: J. Nicholas Hoover.

NASA is building an entirely new Web architecture that leans heavily on cloud computing, open source tools, and social media. It will be used both for public-facing websites and internal Web services, the space agency announced Tuesday.

The new Web architecture is part of version 2.0 of NASA’s Open Government Plan. All the major federal agencies released updates on their open government efforts this week as part of the Obama administration’s larger Open Government Initiative, which was jumpstarted by a memo from President Obama in January 2009, soon after he took office…

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IBM launches cloud-ready PureSystems

By David
Grazed from SlashGear.  Author:  Rue Liu.

IBM has launched a new family of integrated, flexible, and scalable computing systems designed to simplify and automate enterprise cloud computing, acting as building blocks for cloud-ready data centers. The new integrated hardware and software solution is called PureSystems and will kick off with two models, PureFlex System and PureApplications System, that will begin shipping this quarter.

 PureSystems offers a more flexible approach to an integrated system. It supports four operating systems and five virtualization hypervisors, allowing users to manage all resources within a single management screen. The PureFlex system focuses on integrating servers, storage, and networking to anticipate resources and optimization. The PureApplication system uses IBM’s networking capabilities for easy deployment of new applications…

April 12, 2012 Off

Cloud Computing Skills Shortage Forces CIOs to Grow Their Own

By David
Grazed from CIO.  Author:  Meridith Levinson.

When Majestic Realty Co., a Los Angeles-based commercial real estate developer, moved to Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) for cloud-based email in early 2011, CIO Jon Grunzweig was shocked by the lack of technical support he found for BPOS in the marketplace.

"A year ago, no one knew anything about BPOS," he says. "We couldn’t get good advice ahead of time on what to look out for, what to think about. That knowledge wasn’t there. Microsoft didn’t have it. Neither did third-parties."…

April 12, 2012 Off

Ready for the One and Only Cloud Computing Event Designed for Teleco Professionals?

By David
Grazed from Telecom CloudServices Summit.

The 2012 Telecom Cloud Services Summit will feature practical operator case studies, expert presentations, training masterclasses and informal brainstorming sessions that will enable delegates to find answers to their most pressing Cloud questions while enjoying an interactive, fun atmosphere.

This 3rd annual event takes place April 23-25, 2012, at the Scandic Hotel Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, Germany.

>> Download your copy of the updated brochure.

For the first time the event will additionally feature a dedicated Enterprise Stream exploring the needs of enterprises and their synergy with Telecom Cloud providers! Telecom operators will take the floor with their clients and present the results of their Cloud solution innovations.

April 11, 2012 Off

How the cloud democratizes and complicates disaster recovery

By David
Grazed from InforWorld.  Author: Jeff Vance.

Cloud computing is slowly upending the disaster recovery market. Only a few years ago, disaster recovery meant one of two things: For large organizations, it necessitated huge capital investments; for the mid-market on down, it meant backing up only the most important data to tape and shuffling it off to a secure location.

Actually, there’s a third thing. For many organizations, even today, disaster recovery (DR) means doing the bare minimum, crossing your fingers and hoping for the best.

The cloud is changing all of that. On one hand, it is democratizing DR, making it affordable for even SMBs to sign up for DR services. On the other, the disruption is causing confusion, often giving companies a false sense of security and luring them into bad decisions…