One example is Ottawa-based human resources software firm Corporate Renaissance Group, which specializes in performance management. CRG recently spearheaded a partnership dubbed "HR in the Cloud," which includes a Montreal software company and two from the United States. The software-as-a-service product integrates each company’s HR product into a cloud application, giving one point of entry for HR professionals to access all four companies’ products…
November 25, 2011
Cloud computing pick up will depend on data safety: Trend Micro
Grazed from Economic Times. Author: Editorial Staff.
Security software provider Trend Micro today said the adoption of cloud computing services in India would largely depend on factors such as data safety.
"A major concern today about cloud services is the security of the data hosted on someone else’s data centre in some part of the world, all the more when they are using the public cloud model," Trend Micro Country Manager (India and SAARC) Amit Nath told reporters here…
November 25, 2011
Collaborating in the cloud
Grazed from the Ottawa Business Journal. Author: Greg Markey.
With competition intensifying in the emerging cloud computing sector, companies are increasingly pooling resources to lower their costs, says one local industry observer.
November 24, 2011
Hybrid clouds 2012: the private cloud myth lives
Grazed from The Register. Author: Matt Asay.
Hybrid clouds are all the rage in cloud computing today, with Gartner naming them "a major focus for 2012", even as hybrid clouds constitute fully 20 per cent of enterprise clouds today. But are they really anything more than a new face on private clouds? Marten Mickos, chief executive of private cloud company, Eucalyptus Systems, doesn’t think so.
As Mickos pointed out to me over email, private clouds don’t actually make sense unless they have a hybrid ability. Yes, he went on to say, there are and will always be some specific private clouds that are private and only private. But they are few and far between…
November 24, 2011
NIST tries to look to private sector to help with cloud standards
Grazed from CenterBeam. Author:
In growing the government’s cloud computing outreach, the National Institute of Standards and Technology is trying to help businesses and agencies alike make their way into the technology, according to a post on Federal News Radio’s website.
Dawn Leaf, the NIST’s cloud computing executive program manger, said the agency’s new goal is to figure out how private sector efforts to help standardize the cloud can be converged with the federal effort. Leaf told the news source that the institute will look to revise the plans for cloud guidance over the next two months…
November 24, 2011
Silicon Valley Cloud Entrepreneurs Still Picking Up the Funding
Grazed from Business Cloud9. Author: Stuart Lauchlan.
Venture funding for entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley remains buoyant and plentiful – once you get beyond a certain point and if you have the right idea in the Cloud.
The past few weeks have seen two US Cloud Computing start-ups – Marketo and Zuora – raising further rounds of funding that will be used in part to fuel their expansion into Europe. (Both announced their new funding while their CEOs were on visits to London.) Marketo, which set up its European HQ support centre in Dublin this year, has secured $50m in new venture financing, led by Battery Ventures…
November 24, 2011
Asustek enters race on Cloud services
Grazed from ComputerWorld. Author: Editorial Staff.
Taiwan’s Asustek Computer Inc, known foremost for making laptops, says it is branching out into Cloud computing services as it seeks to keep up in a highly competitive technology market.
The world’s fifth-largest personal-computer maker said it focused on security as it unveiled its Asus Private Cloud package of motherboards, servers and software…
November 24, 2011
Today’s cloud winners: the cybercriminals
Grazed from CSO. Author: Editorial Staff.
Legal complexities make it difficult to use public cloud computing, according to Raimund Genes, Trend Micro’s chief technology officer. Unless you’re a criminal, that is.
"Public cloud for me is not really a security challenge. It is a change in the way we operate with data. It doesn’t decrease security. It increases complexity, and that’s a problem," he told the company’s Canberra Cloud Security Conference yesterday.
"The cloud, from a legal point of view, will keep our internal lawyers and everybody else busy for the next fifty, one hundred years," he said.
November 24, 2011
Apple Recruiting Executives for Cloud Computing Division
Grazed from ITPro Portal. Author.: Erica Thinesen.
Apple is reportedly on the look out for senior executives to run its cloud computing division as it tries to reinvent the way people store their data using its iCloud service.
Citing people familiar with the matter, The Wall Street Journal revealed that Apple is planning to hire senior level executives with strong backgrounds in web based software…
November 23, 2011
Adaptive Computing Addresses Converging HPC-Cloud Market
Grazed from Network Computing. Author: Steve Wexler.
After a less-than-stellar 2009, the high performance computing industry turned in a strong showing in 2010, surging 22.4% to $25.6 billion in total product and services revenue, and will continue to grow at a 7.0 percent compound annual growth rate, reaching $36 billion in 2015 (Intersect360 Research Worldwide). HPC specialists Adaptive Computing are looking to cash in on this growth with the launch of the Torque 4.0 beta and the new Moab HPC Suite – Enterprise Edition.
Torque offers petaflop scalability and enterprise-ready speed and reliability, while the Enterprise Edition combines Moab’s battle-tested HPC workload management products with implementation services and 24 x 7 support, says Lane Franks, VP strategy and operations. HPC and cloud customers concerned with scale, and costs are looking for alternative solutions, says Franks…
November 23, 2011
The Cloud and the Perfect Marketing Storm
Grazed from Sys Con Media. Author: Ian Truscott.
While there are many benefits to cloud computing, one group particularly well served by this technology are marketers. When it comes to engaging with audiences over the web, there are a number of attributes of cloud-based services that make them a natural fit for the technical marketers’ arsenal.
Marketing campaigns are very often short term, seasonal or opportunist. The ability to create something quickly and easily and then tear it down is key. Deploying to the cloud can provide an easy route versus attempting to grow a fixed IT asset…