Author: David

January 10, 2012 Off

Loron Data releases enterprise cloud-based mail list processing solution

By David
Grazed from EON.  Author:  PR Announcement.

Lorton Data, a leader in data driven marketing services, today announced the release of A-Qua Command™, a fully automated, cloud-based, enterprise mailing software alternative that integrates directly into mailers’ workflows. Just two years after launching the first complete cloud-based pre-mail processing service, A-Qua Mailer™, Lorton Data adds another powerful solution with A-Qua Command.

“Now, they can seamlessly incorporate this solution into their current workflow at a much lower cost, and also take advantage of everything that cloud computing has to offer.”

In comparison to A-Qua Mailer, where a browser is used to access services, A-Qua Command provides a Windows command line interface for users to configure templates and scripts that automate repetitive or similar address quality and mail list processing jobs. No mailing software is needed…

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CFC Underwriting Develops Cloud Coverage

By David
Grazed from Insurance Journal.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Lloyd’s MGA CFC Underwriting has launched a new cyber liability product with wording to cover the risks of storing data in the “cloud.”

CFC identified a gap in coverage for firms that use cloud computing services and designed the new policy to include the risk of data breach at a third-party cloud provider.

“Cloud computing services are increasingly popular and undoubtedly a huge step forward,” said Graeme Newman, CFC director. “But they do present businesses with new risk exposures.”

Newman said that when a cloud service is adopted, data is effectively ‘given away’ without any type of contractual agreement to protect it. Since most cyber liability policies focus on the policyholders’ systems, these policies end up excluding the third-party coverage in the event of a breach…

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Gartner Predictions: IT Faces Nexus of Big Data, Cloud, Social, and Mobile

By David

Grazed from Infoboom.  Author: Karren Hanna.
 

New Gartner predictions for 2012 paints a picture of a changing landscape for IT organizations in business due to a convergence of "four IT forces" that will bring changes to the way IT manages its infrastructure. The analysis from Gartner Predicts 2012 describes the push stemming from the rapid evolution and convergence of cloud computing, social media, mobility, and big data as a force for creating a climate of IT change in 2012. But how IT pros attempt to control their new landscape is what is in question. Gartner states, "They need to ask themselves how they will handle the nexus–whether in individual pieces, or as a unified phenomenon all of itself."…

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UnboundID Debuts Industry’s First Identity Management Products based on SCIM Specification

By David
Grazed from EON.  Author: PR Announcement.

UnboundID, a leading provider of identity data solutions for cloud, telco, and enterprise computing, today released the industry’s first commercially available products based on the Simple Cloud Identity Management (SCIM) standard. By supporting SCIM, UnboundID can provide a standardized and simpler solution for organizations provisioning and managing user identities across multiple cloud-based services, including IaaS, PaaS and SaaS offerings.

UnboundID’s SCIM-enabled directory server enables developers to build scalable and secure directory applications using simple, REST-based interfaces. In addition, UnboundID announced that it will release an extension to its Synchronization Server that makes it possible to synchronize identity data from existing data stores—such as Active Directory, LDAP and relational databases—to SCIM-enabled cloud applications, like SalesForce.com. By supporting SCIM-enabled data stores as a destination for its Synchronization Server, UnboundID has delivered a complete solution for integrating identity data from on-premise data stores with SCIM-enabled cloud-based services…

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StrikeIron Wins 2012 Cloud Awards for Cloud Infrastructure and Cloud Computing Company of the Year

By David
Grazed from PR NewsWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

StrikeIron has won the Cloud Infrastructure and Cloud Computing Company of the Year awards in the inaugural 2012 Cloud Awards Program.

The annual cloud computing awards program, open internationally across the US and EMEA regions, recognizes and celebrates industry leaders and pioneers in the field of cloud computing. Categories include Best Cloud Infrastructure and Cloud Computing Company of the Year.

Cloud Awards organizer Larry Johnson said, “Almost 200 organizations entered the program, which is among the first of its kind. We were swamped by entries, and the standard was remarkably high. Judging the submissions was a challenging task. But we’re happy to endorse StrikeIron as among the best of the best in their field…

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Cloud business analytics full of promise but hitting barriers

By David
Grazed from Techtarget.  Author: Stephen Pritchard.

As businesses struggle to process ever-larger volumes of data, the uptake of cloud-based business intelligence (BI) is expected to grow rapidly.

Figures from market research firm IDC suggest that cloud analytics and BI deployments, though still a small part of the business intelligence market as a whole, will grow at three times the rate of conventional, on-premises BI systems through 2013.

IDC’s most recent survey of the market found that half of businesses were considering BI in the cloud — a far higher level of potential take-up than for cloud computing technologies overall…

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“OnLive Desktop” Brings No-compromise Windows Apps to iPad

By David
Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Full Windows® Apps, Including Microsoft® Office, Delivered Instantly from the Cloud.  OnLive’s Instant-action Cloud Computing Provides Seamless, Media-rich Experience.  Remote Feels Local: Revolutionizing Cloud Computing for Consumers and Busines.

OnLive, Inc., the pioneer of instant-action cloud computing, announced that it is bringing the first no-compromise Windows desktop to iPad® through its free OnLive™ Desktop app, available Thursday in the iTunes® App Store. OnLive Desktop provides instant access to full-featured, media-rich Windows 7 applications, including Microsoft® Word, Excel® and PowerPoint® software, remotely hosted on powerful PC servers in the cloud. Based upon OnLive’s instant-action cloud gaming technology, OnLive Desktop delivers a seamless Windows desktop experience, with instant-response multi-touch gestures, together with a full on-screen Windows keyboard and handwriting recognition, enabling complete and convenient viewing and editing of even the most complex documents. Rich media, such as video, animation, slide transitions and even PC games, never before practical via remote desktop delivery, run fluidly and dynamically with instant-action interactivity. OnLive Desktop makes remote feel local…

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Applications In Cloud Platforms

By David
Grazed from HostReview.com.  Author: David Frankk.

In the world of application development the technology of Cloud computing has brought a huge innovation. The migration from old technology to the new cloud computing infrastructure for application development has made it possible to make strong applications in lesser time and at a lower cost. Cloud-based applications are much faster. Companies can use cloud computing in almost all spheres of their business activities. Businesses nowadays are running all kinds of applications on the cloud platform, like customer relationship management, HR, accounting and much more. World’s largest software development companies moved their applications to the cloud after testing the security and reliability of cloud platform.

Cloud technology focuses on developing applications that deliver true value to your business. Starting from general word processing software to a custom-made program anything can run on a cloud computing platform. With the help of cloud computing, companies would be able to access their applications and data from anywhere at any time as the cloud system can be accessed from anywhere using any computer linked to the Internet. Cloud computing bring the hardware costs down. It just needs a monitor, a keyboard and a mouse and a processor to connect to the cloud system. Cloud applications need large storage spaces and the right software to achieve goals as the entire information gets stored on remote servers…

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Home Networks Reach for the Cloud

By David
Grazed from PC World.  Author: Yardena Arar.

The move to cloud computing isn’t just for businesses. At CES, home network giants D-Link and Netgear are showing a range of equipment that leverage cloud services to give consumers more access to and control over home networks–and network content–from mobile devices.

D-Link cloud routerCloud features don’t have to cost much. D-Link’s $40 Cloud Router (DIR 605L) lets you use the free MyDLink iOS or Android app to check up on what’s using your network, what sites they’re browsing, and whether a firmware update is available; you can also block unauthorized Wi-Fi users. The Cloud Router is a basic, two-antenna 802.11n router operating on the 2.4GHz band only and delivers top speeds of 300 megabits per second; it’s available now…

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Brocade Networks is Reportedly Entertaining Bids for Buyout

By David
Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author: Maureen O’Gara.

Brocade Communications Systems, which has tried to get bought at least twice before, is entertaining bids according to Reuters, which explains why its stock was up 8% Monday.

The wire service heard from nameless knowledgeable sources that Brocade has gotten "first-round bids from a handful of potential buyers."

The switch maker has reportedly had Qatalyst Partners out looking for a leveraged buyout and Qatalyst is famous for bringing home juicy deals. However, Brocade is apparently no easy sell. According to Bloomberg Qatalyst has been looking for two years. Meanwhile, Dell bought Force 10 and HP bought 3Com. Reuters says Qatalyst was brought back in in November…