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Cloud computing, security and the mobile space hold the most growth potential in the coming years, according to IT professionals surveyed by tech staffing firm Modis.
While no single technology dominated that portion of the study, which polled 502 tech workers on issues related to their jobs and the IT industry, those areas took the top three spots. Cloud computing earned 29 percent of the vote, security tallied 21 percent and mobile scored 18 percent…
In my previous article on Need for BpaaS Consortium, I stressed the need for interoperability as a number one concern for the enterprises to adopt SaaS and in particular BpaaS. I pitched for the need for a generic body or a consortium that can act to address the interoperability concerns so that the consortium can do activities such as:
Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) accelerates delivery of industry standard cloud adoption announcing collaborations on potential standards with the Cloud Security Alliance and DMTF as well as release of best practices for cloud application development and resiliency.
–With the addition of Hewlett Packard (HP) and Computer Associates to member ranks, the Alliance now includes representation from over 90% of the virtualization software market, over two-thirds of the server hardware market, and the leading networking, storage and enterprise management vendors.
By now, it’s no secret that cloud computing will change the IT landscape immeasurably in the next 10 years. Much of the discussion to date has been somewhat narrow, focusing on cost-savings to the enterprise and the public versus private cloud debate. When viewed from a global perspective, however, the potential of cloud computing is far beyond server consolidation and virtualization. Cloud computing fundamentally shifts the benefits of the Open Source movement, fueling innovation from new sectors, and impacting our culture at large in ways that parallel how we have seen Twitter and Facebook up-end the status quo. Now imagine these changes in the context of the billions of citizens joining the digital economy in India, China or the Next-11…
AT&T is now accustomed to the bursts of traffic it gets on its site when, say, a new iPhone is announced. Problem is, its Oracle infrastructure isn’t flexible enough to scale up and down to accompany the peaks and valleys. So the company is considering partially moving its Oracle environment to cloud computing…
Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Barb Darrow.
Scale-out SAN vendor Coraid raised $50 million in venture funding in a Series C round led by Crosslink Capital. Seagate, Kinetic Ventures, and Silverlake AG are also new backers in this round. The seven-year-old company has now garnered a total of $85 million. Early investors were Menlo Ventures, Allegis Capital and Azure Capital Partners…
Today, ViaWest announced the launch of its KINECTed™ Cloud service, which, unlike other cloud computing offerings, provides users a choice between two different hypervisors: a VMware-based vCloud® Powered hypervisor and an open source Xen®-based hypervisor. With KINECTed™ Cloud, users can choose the cloud type that best meets their needs and avoid the pitfalls of a "one-size-fits-all" solution…
Richard Spires wants the Homeland Security Department to follow the minimalist approach when it comes to its back-office technology.
Spires, the DHS chief information officer, said the set up now — mostly a client-server approach — leads to too much clutter…
Australian cloud computing provider Ninefold has fired the latest shot in a growing battle for the start-up, announcing a scheme identical to multinational rival Rackspace offering start-ups $24,000 worth of cloud computing services and storage.
Under Ninefold’s Cloud Booster Program, start-ups approved by Australian incubators Pollenizer and Startmate would be offered free cloud computing and storage worth $2000 per month for a year…
Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions, a business segment of Arrow Electronics Inc. [NYSE: ARW], today announced it has expanded its portfolio of cloud-based business continuity and disaster recovery offerings in North America with the addition of Geminare’s online Managed Data Protection Services suite.