IU and Penguin Computing partner to provide secure cloud computing service
Grazed from Indiana University NewsRoom. Author: PR Announcement.
Indiana University and Penguin Computing today (Nov. 2) announced a partnership to offer US researchers access to powerful shared computing resources in a secure environment. This type of service — also known as on-demand or cloud computing — lets individuals and organizations share the resources of large computing systems without individually purchasing and maintaining the costly equipment…
Feds Aim To Speed Cloud Adoption With New Roadmap
The federal government Tuesday released a draft version of a roadmap that aims to accelerate federal agencies’ adoption of cloud computing and support the tech industry’s development of cloud services by defining and communicating standards and requirements, as well as action plans to meet those standards…
Rackspace Joins EMC Velocity Service Provider Partner Program
Grazed from MarketWatch. Author: PR Announcement.
Rackspace(R) Hosting /quotes/zigman/259867/quotes/nls/rax RAX +0.63% , the service leader in cloud computing, today announced it will expand its relationship with EMC by joining the EMC Velocity(TM) Service Provider Program to develop new cloud-based service offerings. The two companies have collaborated since 2001 to bring a full range of innovative solutions leveraging EMC’s portfolio of information infrastructure products including virtual storage and a range of cloud-based data management services…
Minimizing public cloud disruptions
Cloud computing depends on connectivity and availability, but those can be far from perfect with some providers. Disruptions to a public cloud can impair the productivity of an entire organization, unless data center administrators know what to do when it happens—and it will happen. In this tip, you will learn how to choose a public cloud provider and how to best respond to outages…
IBM talks up cloud BPM
IBM has laid out its ‘big data’ vision and the role that cloud, management and analytic technologies have to play in defining business processes in future.
The IT vendor recently unveiled a broad portfolio of new software that applies its business process management (BPM) expertise to the emerging hybrid cloud infrastructures end-user organisations…
IaaS vs. PaaS vs. SaaS
Grazed from NetworkWorld. Author: Jeff Caruso.
Several different flavors have sprung up in cloud computing and each has their pros and cons. Add to these the plethora of vendor-created acronyms and it can be confusing to figure out the best option.
The three primary types of cloud computing are IaaS, PaaS and SaaS – infrastructure, platform and software as a service, respectively. When you take a closer look, you’ll see that what will decide this argument are your own company’s needs and comfort level…
Ten reasons why cloud is good for startups
Cloud computing may not be all things to all businesses. But one area it does appear to excel is in helping startups, particularly but not only technology-related.
But what, specifically, does cloud computing bring to startup companies? With the caveat that a poorly considered technology solution will always be higher risk, higher cost and lower benefit, whether it is running in the cloud, in-house or any other way, here’s our ten benefits of cloud for savvy startups…
Two Concerns Cloud Providers are Taking Seriously
Cloud! Cloud! Cloud! These days cloud computing is a buzzing word among enterprise owners. It is considered as the next revolution in IT industry. It has become an increasingly attractive option for many small businesses as a convenient and cost-effective method for data storage and applications. It remains a good option for a company to migrate all of its data services to a cloud service and it is definitely going to get more popular in the future…
StillSecure Joins the Rackspace Cloud Tools Program
StillSecure(R), a managed network security solutions and certified compliance company, today announced that it has joined the Rackspace(R) /quotes/zigman/259867/quotes/nls/rax RAX +3.18% Cloud Tools Program. The relationship with Rackspace, the world’s leading specialist in the hosting and cloud computing industry, provides easy access to StillSecure’s Cloud Security Monitoring Service (Cloud SMS) for Rackspace Cloud customers free of charge. Details on the Cloud SMS solution can be obtained by visiting the Rackspace Cloud Tools site…
Deloitte Expands Cloud Computing Services with CloudPrint
Deloitte is expanding its cloud computing consulting services with the addition of Deloitte CloudPrint (CloudPrint), a proprietary delivery framework specifically designed to help guide clients through the process of becoming a cloud service provider or subscriber…