Author: David

Grazed from TechJournal.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Is the cloud living up to CIO & CTO expectations? There has been a lot of speculation about what top computing experts think of the cloud and its advantages.

To clear things up, Logicalis, an international provider of integrated information and communications technology solutions and services, analyzed more than 35,000 online forum and social media posts from CIOs and CTOs over the past 60 days, and found their comments to be overwhelmingly in favor of cloud computing. “Positive” and “very positive” comments outweighed “negative” and “very negative” comments by a dramatic 23:1…

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

Hewlett-Packard is planning to sell ARM-based servers and is working with Calxeda (née Smooth-Stone), the three-year-old Texas start-up partially owned by ARM, on the boxes, according to Bloomberg, which got it from "two people familiar with the matter." The Dow Jones is saying the same thing…

Grazed from CIO.  Author: Bernard Golden.

I was interested in this week’s ZDNet piece, Cloud computing’s real creative destruction may be the IT workforce. The piece discusses a presentation at last week’s Gartner Symposium that posited cloud computing will be a net destructor of IT jobs…

Grazed from HostReview.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Today at Citrix Synergy(TM), the conference where cloud computing, networking and virtualization meet, Citrix announced the next stage of its strategy for Citrix CloudGateway(TM), the industry’s first unified service broker that aggregates, controls and delivers Windows, web, SaaS and mobile apps to any user on any device. The CloudGateway product line empowers end users with self-service access to all of their business apps, and gives IT unmatched control over apps and data from public cloud environments, accelerating enterprise adoption of cloud and mobility…

Grazed from Gov Info Security.  Author: Eric Chabrow.

Grazed from InfoWorld.  Author: Ted Samson.

Cloud computing has given organizations worldwide on-tap access to compute power, storage, and applications, resulting in a huge boost in flexibility coupled with cost savings. A new study foretells that the IT workforce soon may become the next on-tap resource thanks to the cloud, which could mean even greater agility and lower costs for companies — but it could also hurt job security and breed resentment among tech pros…

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

There’s been a small cluster of hysterically big funding rounds lately exemplified by Dropbox’ $250 million B round last week.

On Monday six-year-old Workday, which logically enough does a SaaS version of PeopleSoft’s HR, payroll and financial management widgetry since it was started by PeopleSoft founder Dave Duffield and his trusty lieutenant Aneel Bhusri, said it got a handsome $85 million in Series F financing led by cloud-struck new investors including T. Rowe Price, Morgan Stanley Investment Management, Janus Capital Group and Bezos Expeditions, the personal investment arm of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

PreAxia Health Care Payment Systems Inc. introduces their automated platform for managing Health Spending Accounts (HSAs) in Canada. This follows three years of development to create the first fully integrated HSA solution for Canada’s brokerage and broker community. Through the use of Cloud Computing technologies, PreAxia allows HSA brokers to more easily offer and manage HSA accounts. PreAxia technology simplifies fund-management, claims adjudication, transaction processing and on-line health benefit administration, through a broker’s own web site. This automation results in cost savings for both HSA brokers and the companies that purchase these services…