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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.
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…