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Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Virtustream, Inc., a leading Cloud Solution Provider, today introduced Virtustream Advisor 2.0, a resource analytics and analysis engine that collects current, actual performance data on a client’s compute landscape and recommends a company’s ideal cloud computing environment. In addition to performance enhancements that deliver enterprise-class capacity and availability to support Virtustream Advisor 2.0 deployments, Virtustream also announced that its partners — global systems integrators, enterprise ISVs and value-added resellers — can now use Virtustream Advisor 2.0 to evaluate their clients’ needs…

Grazed from InformationWeek.  Author: Thomas Claburn.

In an effort to remain relevant as desktop computing gives ground to cloud computing, Adobe on Monday announced two acquisitions, a Creative Cloud to augment its Creative Suite software, and a handful of touch-based tablet apps…

Grazed from The Engineer.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Businesses expecting automatic improvements to their IT infrastructure by moving to the cloud are misunderstanding the platform, a panel of cloud computing experts has warned. The cloud, they say, must be properly managed and tailored to the needs of the business to reap the maximum benefits the platform provides…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

ServiceMesh, provider of the market-leading enterprise cloud platform for Global 2000 companies, today announced that ServiceMesh’s Agility Platform has been integrated with Juniper Networks(R) vGW Virtual Gateway to deliver policy-driven security for cloud-based applications and data.

Cloud security consistently ranks as a primary concern in the adoption of cloud computing for enterprise customers. Unfortunately, most cloud management products require manual configuration of multiple security systems to provide end-to-end cloud security. This significantly reduces the core benefits of cloud computing’s rapid provisioning and lower operating costs…

Grazed from Reuters.  Author: Georgina Prodham.

Few organisations have moved to cloud computing — the delivery of computing as a service from remote centres — and of those that have, many are disappointed with the results, a survey published on Tuesday found…

Grazed from GigaOM.  Author: Stacey Higgenbotham.

Both mobile and high-performance computing are placing huge power efficiency and performance demands on chips, but the $64,000-question is how long until such extreme computing use cases hit the server mainstream. Asked another way, the question becomes, how long until AmazonWeb Services adopts ARM-basedservers?…

Grazed from MIT Technology Review.  Author: Brian Bergstein.

For many companies, cloud computing sounds like risky business. They worry that storing customer details or running critical software on the servers of cloud providers such as Amazon or Google could make their data more vulnerable to being hacked, exposed, or lost. A lot of data in the cloud resides on shared servers—think public data dormitories—where only virtual walls might separate one company’s bits from those of its competitors…

Grazed from V3.co.uk.  Author: Madeline Bennett.

Oracle has launched an upgrade to its Enterprise Manager product, designed to take advantage of the latest cloud computing technologies.

The latest edition has been branded Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c as a reflection of the new cloud focus. It is the first major release for three years, according to Richard Sarwal, Oracle senior vice president for product development…

Grazed from ReadWriteWeb.  Author:  Scott M. Fulton.

First and foremost, ADP has always been a data services provider, processing payroll information for corporations, and later adding human resources and tax services. You’d think, in the era of massive corporate data centers, these services might have already become antiquated. But it’s the handling of that data that’s been part of ADP’s value proposition. It is perhaps the original data management outsourcing specialist…