Cloud Computing: Finance as the Last SaaS Frontier
Grazed from Sys Con Media. Author: Jon Kondo.
If history has taught us anything, it’s that once word about a good idea gets out, everyone wants a piece of it. The U.S. gold rush of the mid 1800s is a perfect example. All of the ingredients fell into place to make it an extraordinary time for budding entrepreneurs looking to make it rich. Gold was the commodity that was a saving grace for countless people that put everything on the line to transform their lives for the better…
Okta and Cloud Sherpas Partner to Accelerate Enterprise Adoption of Cloud Computing
Today, Okta, the leading on-demand identity and access management service, and Cloud Sherpas, the world’s leading Google Apps(TM) cloud service provider, announced a new partnership with the goal of accelerating enterprise adoption of cloud computing. This partnership between Okta and Cloud Sherpas will help organizations of all sizes adopt Google Apps(TM) and streamline initial set-up and reduce IT expenses, as well as increase productivity for employees and administrators.
Cloud Sherpas is a preeminent reseller and solutions provider, simplifying the process of ‘going Google,’ and has helped more than one million end users from hundreds of companies migrate to Google Apps(TM) — the leading cloud email and collaboration platform for businesses from start-ups to large enterprises…
Breach fears push federal cloud computing initiative to private cloud
Under pressure to move to cloud computing by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), yet harboring intractable concerns about protecting sensitive data, many federal agency managers are opting for private clouds, which they consider more secure than public cloud environments…
IronKey, Imation Partner on Secure Cloud Access
IronKey, a provider of secure data and online access platforms, announced a partnership with data storage and protection specialist Imation dedicated to helping businesses store, protect and connect to cloud-based data and services. The partnership would allow IronKey to focus its efforts on helping enterprises secure access to cloud-based Internet services, the companies said in a joint statement…
Juniper’s Chief Security Architect Outlines Cloud Security Automation Challenges
Chris Hoff, chief security architect for Juniper Networks (NSDQ:JNPR), sees parallels between historical innovation in the sanitation industry and the current state of affairs with security in the cloud.
In a presentation Monday at the United Security Summit in San Francisco, entitled "Commode Computing: Relevant Advances In Toiletry & I.T. – From Squat Pots to Cloud Bots – Waste Management Through Security Automation," Hoff discussed how operational issues are impeding automation and flexibility of cloud security and putting a crimp on innovation in this space…
NSN (Nokia Siemens Network) to push cloud computing to telco gear market
The technology from the world’s No. 2 mobile gear maker after Ericsson shares network resources across mobile and broadband networks, similar to cloud computing.
"For operators it offers a better use of capital. You invest in total network load, not in peak levels," Phil Twist, head of marketing at NSN’s Network Systems unit, said in an interview.
Telecom operators around the world are struggling with a shortage of network capacity as the use of video on smartphones and tablets proliferates. The shortages usually occur during rush hours at specific locations…
EMC Opens New Datacenter
EMC Corp. (EMC – Analyst Report) recently announced that it has opened a new datacenter in Durham, North Carolina. The 450,000 square foot Center of Excellence (COE) is EMC’s seventh datacenter and the first one in the US. The other six COE’s are located in India, China, Egypt, Israel, Ireland and Russia.
The new COE will extend EMC’s private cloud and will support more than 50,000 users across 400 corporate offices in more than 80 countries. In addition to the data center, the COE includes 130,000 square feet of space for research and development labs. COEs perform essential services for EMC business units, including engineering and research and development, customer service, translation services, IT and technical support, and customer executive briefings. ..
Open Group releases a book on reaping cloud’s benefits
The Open Group has released a book on how organizations can use cloud computing to gain business benefit.
The aim of "Cloud Computing for Business" is to give businesses and government organizations the information needed to gain maximize benefit from the cloud, said Chris Harding, director of interoperability for the Open Group, a consortium of companies working to develop neutral standards for IT…
Cloud Computing Could Cut Data Center Energy Consumption by Nearly One-Third by 2020, According to Pike Research
Though the inner workings of the global communications network are so complex that they remain opaque even to those who operate it, the redundancy and fail-over capabilities of the system have made it so reliable that the internet-based cloud has become a trusted place to store and transmit critical data. The rapid spread of cloud computing has enabled enterprises to outsource many information technology capabilities, including and especially data centers, leading to savings on manpower, money, and energy. According to a recent report from Pike Research, the energy-efficiency benefits of cloud computing are substantial, and growth in the market will have important implications for both energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The cleantech market intelligence firm forecasts that the continued adoption of cloud computing will lead to a reduction of data center energy consumption of 31% from 2010 to 2020…
Blue skies for Microsoft’s Azure cloud offering
Once a cloud market denier, Microsoft has clouded right over in recent years, beginning with a pitch that pushed the hybrid model, which played to its vast on-premise software base.
But last week, CEO Steve Ballmer went all in on cloud, telling a developers’ conference in Los Angeles that Microsoft was "re-imagining" every part of its software empire to run on and through the cloud and that the upcoming Windows 8 was being recast as a cloud OS…