Piston Cloud Selected by AlwaysOn as an OnDemand Top 100 Winner
Piston Cloud Computing, Inc., the enterprise OpenStack company, today announced they have earned a spot on the AlwaysOn OnDemand Top 100 winners list. Inclusion in the OnDemand 100 signifies market leadership and game-changing approaches and technologies that are likely to disrupt existing markets and entrenched players. Piston Cloud was selected by the AlwaysOn editorial team and industry experts based on a set of five criteria: innovation, market potential, commercialization, stakeholder value, and media buzz.
"The last year has been a whirlwind for Piston Cloud. Taking Piston Enterprise OS from conception through development and now to general availability has been exciting, and it is an honor for the team to be recognized," said Joshua McKenty, CEO and co-founder of Piston Cloud. "Over the next year we look forward to working with the OpenStack Foundation to make OpenStack the world’s leading cloud framework, and innovating on solutions that allow enterprise businesses to take advantage of this groundbreaking new technology."…
Cloud Computing: Three Million New iPads Sold over the Weekend
After Apple said early Monday that it would start paying a $10.60-a-year dividend and buy back stock to spend down its massive cash horde – something some people say Steve Jobs would never have done – and after its stock closed at over $600 for the first time ever – you watching this up there, Steve – the company put a figure on the initial sales of the new iPad, something it wouldn’t do during the dividend call. It said it sold three million of the slabs since they went on sale Friday.
Worldwide marketing chief Philip Schiller called it a "blockbuster – the strongest iPad launch yet."
The thing is currently available in 11 major markets from the US to Hong Kong and Germany and will be available in 24 other countries by this Friday…
Etherios Set to Expand Enterprise Cloud Computing Services Globally
Etherios, a leading enterprise cloud computing services company, today announced it is expanding to serve a growing base of customers in North America and worldwide. Fueled by an investment from salesforce.com and a private investment from the energy industry, the company will accelerate the expansion of its practices that focus on salesforce.com’s social, mobile and open cloud technologies.
“The shift to the social enterprise is a positive disruptive force for businesses around the world,” says Mike Dannenfeldt, founder and CEO, Etherios. “With our expanded services, we can help more companies transform themselves into social enterprises and place customers at the heart of their business through social, mobile and open cloud computing technologies. Best of all, we have only just begun to realize the benefits and capabilities this transformation can deliver to our customers.”…
Cloud Computing is New Wall Street Boom Says National Inflation Association
After years of rumors about cloud computing going mainstream around the world, the cloud computing boom is now finally here. The National Inflation Association believes that by the year 2013, cloud computing could become a bigger boom on Wall Street than the dot-com boom was in the year 2000. Cloud computing is currently a $74 billion industry that accounts for 3% of global IT spending, but in 2013 cloud computing is expected to become a $150 billion market.
2012 will be remembered as the year in which cloud computing started to become widely adopted worldwide. Cloud computing is expected to create 14 million new jobs globally by year 2015. In the consumer space, Gartner is predicting that cloud services will be on 90% of personal consumer devices by year 2015 so that consumers can store, connect, stream, and synchronize content across multiple platforms at different locations…
CallidusCloud Sales Effectiveness Suite Selected as 2012 CODiE Awards Finalist
Callidus Software Inc., the leader in sales effectiveness and cloud computing, announced today that the CallidusCloud(TM) Sales Effectiveness suite has been selected as a finalist for the prestigious CODiE(TM) Awards in the "Best Cloud Application/Service," "Best Human Capital Management Solution," and "Best Financial Management Solution" categories. Established by the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), the CODiEs recognize excellence and achievement in the business software, digital content, and education technology industries.
"I am thrilled that CallidusCloud sales effectiveness SaaS platform has been named a finalist in the 2012 CODiE Awards," said Lorna Heynike, Senior Vice President, Marketing, CallidusCloud. "Callidus is dedicated to building innovative cloud solutions that help our customers optimize their investment in the sales force, leveraging the latest social, mobile, and analytics technology to drive sales performance throughout the buying cycle. We continue to redefine the sales performance market and exploit new technologies to find new ways to drive superior selling practices and maximize cost efficiencies. This recognition in three distinct categories is a testament to the value our solutions offer at a time when they are seeing unprecedented global momentum."…
Power your mobile strategy with a cloud
Mobile devices will soon be driving cloud computing — and vice versa. Here’s why: It’s very sensible to use a private cloud for security, management and other aspects of mobile applications. But getting there will require planning and investment by IT.
Some have already moved in this direction. In a December 2011 survey of 3,645 IT decision-makers in eight countries, a third of the respondents said that providing information access to multiple devices was their top reason for implementing cloud computing. The survey, fielded by researcher TNS and funded by service provider CSC, said that cutting costs was the third most popular reason for implementing cloud, with only 17% of respondents choosing that option…
Cloud Computing: Risk Management Considerations
There are obvious advantages of Cloud Computing such as the huge savings in staff salaries, software licensing and power charges.
However close attention must be paid to risk management. Principally it is critical to recognise that data being hosted in the Cloud does not necessarily replace the necessity of a solid Business Continuity plan. It is crucial to ensure that companies establish how responsibility for their data is being handled.
To be competitive in the market Cloud providers must therefore be open to probing questions ranging from queries over access controls to data encryption…
Oracle has some cloud convincing ahead
Oracle’s third quarter earnings conference call will have a healthy dose of Exadata hardware chatter, but a survey indicates that a little more elaboration on the cloud computing story is in order.
The fiscal third quarter will be an interesting one for Oracle. The company had a rare stumble in the second quarter and analysts are looking to see if sales execution issues were a mere blip or something more worrisome. Wall Street is looking for third quarter earnings of 56 cents a share on revenue of $9.02 billion…
Radware Wins TMC’s 2011 Cloud Computing Excellence Award
Radware, a leading provider of application delivery and application security solutions for virtual and cloud data centers, today announced that TMC, publishers of Cloud Computing magazine has named Radware’s ADC-VX™ application delivery controller (ADC) virtualization platform winner of its 2011 Cloud Computing Excellence Award.
Radware’s ADC-VX is the industry’s first ADC virtualization and consolidation technology, specifically designed to combine ADC hardware devices into fewer hardware units. Cloud service providers benefit from Radware ADC-VX’s functionality as a delivery model for on-demand ADC services that can be offered to their end-user customers. It enables real-time provisioning of virtual ADC (vADC) instances while ensuring the resilience and performance predictability needed to provide application delivery offerings backed with high service level agreements (SLAs). Radware’s ADC-VX also delivers fully isolated ADC services to support the cloud provider’s customer or their applications, in solutions containing the industry’s highest density of vADCs to support a wide range of cloud service cost models…
JouleX’s Scott Paisley to Speak at the Green IT and Cloud Summit 2012
Thought leaders from around theworld will convene in Northren Viginia on April 18, 2012.It has been confirmed that Scott Paisley, the Americas Technology Director at JouleX, will be speaking at the Green IT | Cloud Computing 2.0 Summit hosted by the Green IT Council. The venue is located at the Sheraton Premiere near Washington DC on April 18th, 2012. The Green IT Council is a leading Green and Sustainable IT, and cloud computing association dedicated to the energy efficient computing across the enterprise, data center, and society.
JouleX is the leading innovator in sustainable energy management systems for the enterprise. Its flagship solution, the JouleX Energy Manager (JEM), provides the Global 2000 and government agencies with the ability to monitor, analyze and control energy usage for all network-connected devices and systems across the enterprise, including in distributed offices, data centers and facilities. Importantly, JEM is the first network-based energy management system that works without the use of software agents, dramatically reducing installation time and removing the maintenance burden associated with similar technologies. JEM decreases energy costs by up to 60 percent while ensuring availability and provides robust reporting that enables compliance with emerging carbon monitoring requirements…
JouleX was founded in 2009 and since has been distinguished with recent awards and accolades including Gartner Cool Vendor in Green IT and Sustainability, GE Ecomagination Award, BT Green Economy Success for Future Award and Clean Tech Media Award. The company is headquartered in Atlanta with worldwide offices located in Tokyo, Shanghai, Paris, Munich, and Kassel, Germany and throughout the United States.