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Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author: Ray DePena.

We’re seeing a lot of changes in the IT landscape. Oracle buying its way into the Cloud, AMD wants in on the server business, Dell is no longer a PC company, and some legacy players are learning about the Cloud market the hard way (see: Harris Scraps Secure Public Cloud).

Harris claims customers have a preference for on premise (private cloud) solutions, though a McKinsey survey mentioned in the article indicates CIOs will take a “balanced” approach (read: Hybrid Cloud). Besides, acquiring on-premise IT business won’t get easier in the Federal government space with its shift to a Cloud First Policy, nor in State government (see Time For State And Local Govs To Head To The Cloud)…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

For businesses contemplating a move to the cloud, there’s backup — and then there’s backup.  According to Infinitely Virtual, a leading provider of virtual server cloud computing services for small and mid-size businesses, data protection and backup must occur at the highest level, if cloud migration and implementation initiatives are to be successful.

The company knows whereof it speaks. Infinitely Virtual announced today that it has passed the SSAE (Standards for Attestation Engagements) No. 16 Type II audit, one of the most rigorous auditing standards for hosting companies. Conducted by The Moore Group, CPA, the audit confirms the highest level of service and reliability attainable for a virtual server hosting company. To be SSAE compliant, a hosting provider should offer SSL capability, enterprise-level, application level protection, hardware firewall, IP-restricted FTP, managed backups with 14-day retention, advanced monitoring and multi-level intrusion prevention…

Grazed from ZDNet.  Author: Dan Kusnetzky.

Chris Marino, the CEO and co-founder of vCider, stopped by to both introduce himself and introduce his company. vCider is offering tools to help organizations create their own virtual private networks to link applications and their components together as if they were all on the same local area network.

Grazed from InformationWeek.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Networking and connectivity solutions provider, D-Link has announced ‘personal cloud’ networking solution for the first time for the Indian consumers. With mydlink Cloud product line, D-Link aims to enhance its consumer networking products with innovative cloud functionality in order to personalize consumer Internet experience like never before.

The company claims that ‘mydlink cloud’ allows consumers to effortlessly control, view, share and access their network devices – anytime, anywhere. Under the umbrella of mydlink cloud services, the company has introduced a gamut of devices like cloud routers, cloud camera and cloud storage. All D-Link Cloud products are based on its mydlink platform and can be managed through mydlink website www.mydlink.dlink.com…

Grazed from IT Business Edge.  Author: Michael Vizard.

Like most things in life cloud computing is a double-edged sword. It can either eliminate internal IT or be used by IT to drive business innovation.

Speaking at the IBM Pulse 2012 conference today, Danny Sabbah, general manager for IBM Tivoli, strongly urged IT organizations to be a lot more proactive about pursuing the latter path. Clearly, many line-of-business executives are taking advantage of cloud computing to sidestep IT. What internal IT organizations need to do in order to make it less appealing for business executives to go around IT is to simplify, standardize and then automate their IT environments.

According to Sabbah, it’s all the complexity within IT environments today that is making it hard for IT organizations to dynamically respond to the needs of the business. Instead of relying on a “tools du jour” strategy, Sabbah says that IT organizations need to implement cloud computing in a way that accelerates business innovation or you risk being bypassed all together…

Grazed from Computer Technology Review.  Author: Oliver Moazzezi.

Cloud adoption is quickly gaining traction. A 2010 Forrester Survey found that 45 percent of European companies plan to adopt cloud-based IT services and it’s no surprise, as the benefits abound. Citing key advantages such as reduced costs and improved business efficiency, cloud computing also provides companies with inexpensive access to IT experience that they might not have in-house.

But despite companies embracing hosted cloud infrastructure and service, they are all too aware of potential pitfalls – one of the largest being data security. Because hosted services often store data in locations that are external to customers’ operations, IT managers realize that they are depending on the hosted providers’ in-house security capabilities to protect their data. This causes concern when dealing with high value data, such as financial information and customer contact details…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Nebula co-founder and VP of Engineering Devin Carlen and Principal Engineer Joe Heck have been elected to lead two of the six core OpenStack(TM) projects. Engineers from Rackspace and Nicira were elected to lead the other four core projects.

"Nebula’s expanding technical leadership will ensure that OpenStack continues to be the most innovative cloud computing platform," said Chris C. Kemp, Nebula CEO and co-founder of the OpenStack project…

Grazed from eWeek.  Author: Clint Boulton.

In a megamerger of cloud software service providers, Cloud Sherpas and GlobalOne have joined forces to combine their expertise in installing and supporting Google Apps and Salesforce.com applications.

Cloud Sherpas counts itself as among the first Google Enterprise partners, migrating over 1.5 million workers to the Google Apps cloud, spanning over 1,500 customers.

GlobalOne helps new Salesforce.com customers integrate, install and configure Web-based software into legacy, on-premise ERP and CRM apps. GlobalOne has crafted custom solutions on Force.com, mobile apps, and enabled B2B collaboration on Salesforce.com’s Chatter app…

Grazed from PR NewsWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

Scala, Inc. today unveiled Scala Advanced Analytics, a cloud computing-based predictive analytics application for retailers which transforms market data and live third-party data streams into marketing messages that positively impact buying behavior. Advanced Analytics helps retailers know what their customers want to buy before the customers do and encourages them to make purchases through point-of-sale digital signage.

Scala Advanced Analytics’ capabilities enable retailers to leverage data they already own to predict and deliver optimum sales messages to in-store customers with digital signage…

Grazed from BSN.  Author: Theo Valich.

One of biggest news coming out of the first day of GDC 2012 is a new venture by co-founders of 3Dlabs. Numecent is exiting the stealth mode in a big way – by launching a revolutionary cloud service. The company originates from 1999 by Osman Kent, the co-founder and CEO of 3Dlabs. Osman is mostly known as one of the fathers of the GPU and OpenGL. After he sold 3Dlabs to Creative Technology, Osman focused on Numecent.

The magnitude of this announcement is much greater than the two earthquakes that hit San Francisco this morning, since we’re finally seeing a birth of cloud service that wants to simplify the life for the consumers, rather than tying them in proprietary software licenses…