Author: David

Close to 80 percent of the world’s population now has access to a mobile phone, and new devices like the iPhone and Android smartphones are bringing a throng of applications and services to the palms of people’s hands. At the same time, cloud has become the new way of delivering—and charging for—IT services and functionality. So what happens when two of the hottest technology trends—“mobility” and “cloud”—collide?

To find the answers, Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG) conducted a survey of more than 1,000 U.S. mobile users to understand their current and future needs. The results revealed a host of opportunities to capitalize on this ready-to-explode market…

Dome9 Security on Wednesday announced Dome9 Lite Cloud – a new free cloud security service that provides centralized firewall management for an unlimited number of servers and clouds in virtual private, cloud, collocated, and hosted environments. Starting today, the service is available at no cost via http://www.dome9.com/LiteCloud.

Dave Meizlik, Dome9 VP of Marketing and Business Development, noted that "Security is the number one concern among cloud adopters, and now Dome9 has taken price out of the equation to ensure every cloud server is secured, with absolutely no limit to the number of servers you can protect."…

Case in Point
A few months ago, a midsize Australian organization decided it needed to either upgrade or replace one of its legacy enterprise applications. This organization, with about 3,500 employees, has upward of 20,000 system users across its customer base. The organization approached a number of local and global suppliers, and some responded with on-premise offerings (meaning the application would be loaded onto the business’s servers), while two responded with software-as-as-service (SaaS) solutions (in which the application would be hosted by the provider and accessed through a browser). Surprisingly (to the organization, at least), what was expected to be a relatively straightforward exercise was not, due to the nature of SaaS pricing…

This is the tenth in a continuing series on startups raising funding.  The series continued…Read the previous post/s

Today, there are two startups in focus – Nivio and Clio.

Nivio (http://us.nivio.com/)

Palo Alto, California-based cloud startup Nivio recently announced the raising of $21 million from Indian consumer products giant Videocon and American private equity firm AEC Partners. While AEC Partners has a record of tech investing, this is the first such move by Videocon. In addition to the potential of this company founded in 2004, there’s a family connection at play – Saurabh Dhoot, one of Nivio’s founders, is a nephew of Videocon chairman Venugopal Dhoot, one of the richest men in India with a personal fortune of $2 billion…

Not a week goes by without reports on security gaps, data theft or hacker attacks. Both businesses and private users are becoming increasingly uneasy. However, when it comes to technologies like cloud computing, trust and security are essential if we intend to use data and applications that are flexible, cost-effective and above all, mobile. That’s why Fraunhofer researchers are working on a series of security solutions that they will present in Hall 26, Booth E08…

If you are an IT decision maker and your job is to determine the best route your organization should take to fully reap the benefits of the cloud, you might be considering a Virtualized Desktop Infrastructure solution as one possible method of working in the cloud.

VDI will help you move your current IT to the cloud via the virtualization of your current desktop. Yes, it works, but finding a more-comprehensive solution that truly delivers on all of your cloud computing objectives should be an even more important goal. A better solution? Web-based desktops, also known as Webtops…

A LEGISLATOR has asked the House of Representatives’ Committee on Information and Communications Technology to conduct an inquiry into the use of offshore cloud-computing services for government data and networks.

This after the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) sealed a partnership with IP Converge Data Center Inc. (PSE ‘CLOUD’), the local re-seller of Google Apps and other cloud-based office productivity tools in January 2012…

Google has cut the price of its Cloud Storage, a hosted service designed for enterprise developers who want to store their applications’ data in the cloud, as opposed to in their own servers.

The fees, based on monthly usage, have been cut between 8 percent and 15 percent, depending on the amount of data involved, said Navneet Joneja, product manager for Google Cloud Storage.  "We’re committed to building extremely high availability storage in the cloud," he said. The price cuts will be applied retroactively to March 1st, Google said on Tuesday…