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

Birst figures it’s got the first SaaS-based BI software appliance.

The virtual appliance in Tuesday’s release of Birst 5 is supposed to deliver enterprise-class BI capabilities to customers on their premises with the agility and economics of a Software-as-a-Service architecture…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Sensible Cloud, the industry’s first cloud control company, today introduced sense(TM), a new solution that makes cloud computing easier, more cost-effective and transparent, ensuring that organizations have tighter governance over cloud investments. sense automatically right-sizes cloud resources in real-time, driven by customers’ business, cost and performance parameters. sense is delivered in two configurations: as a platform with a highly-customized series of cloud control applications targeted at large enterprise organizations; or through controlmycloud.com, which offers a range of hosted template-based cloud control applications tailored specifically for SMEs. In both cases, customers select or design cloud control apps that enable them to scale cloud resources up and down as necessary to meet key business requirements, minimize costs and eliminate downtime and concerns associated with cloud outages…

Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author: PR Announcement.

Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK), a world leader in 3D design, engineering and entertainment software, introduced Autodesk Cloud, a collection of more than a dozen web-based capabilities, products and services that enable customers to extend their desktops with greater mobility, new viewing and sharing capabilities, and more computing power, helping them better design, visualize and simulate their ideas. In addition, Autodesk Subscription customers will now have exclusive access to cloud-based, high-performance rendering and design optimization, and enhanced collaboration capabilities. Autodesk Subscription now provides 3 GB of online storage for each seat of software on Subscription for greater access to design and engineering documents, anywhere, anytime…

Grazed from TechCrunch.  Author:  Sara Perez

Piston Cloud Computing, Inc. is today emerging from stealth and introducing its new enterprise-ready cloud operating system for private clouds called pentOS. The new OS is built on OpenStack, the open source IaaS cloud computing project that now has over 1,450 contributors and 110 participating companies, including NASA, Rackspace, Citrix, Intel, Cisco, Arista Networks, Microsoft and Dell…

Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author:  Ray DePena.

I always enjoy hearing from those of you who have come to the conclusion that Cloud computing will not work, and decided you will not be developing plans to shift your business to the Cloud.

Sometimes the analysis is sound. More often than not, it omits key variables…

Grazed from Virtual Strategy Magazine.  Author: Vishy Narayan.

In their relentless quest for agility and growth to attain that critical competitive advantage, enterprises look to IT for progressively effective answers. Virtualization has provided one such answer for more than two decades. Enabling enterprises to create multiple virtual machines or instances – with each instance a computing resource independent of the underlying physical hardware – virtualization helps save costs, enhance agility and go-to-market speed, create new business streams, and increase revenues. Virtualization began around the hardware platform but now spans software, memory, storage, and data…

Grazed from Network World.  Author: Chris Nerney.

A recent survey indicates that the mid-market is far from sold on cloud computing.

Conducted by SWC Technology Partners, the survey of more than 200 mid-market IT and business executives found that more than half (54.2%) of respondents reported their companies aren’t pursuing a single cloud project…

Grazed from TechTarget.  Author: Adam Riglian.

Enterprises are increasingly using cloud computing applications, but most have yet to develop plans for the new challenges they will face in cloud data quality, consistency and data governance.

According to a recently published report from Ventana Research Inc. in San Ramon, Calif., 43% of enterprises have three or more cloud-based applications deployed, with that number expected to rise to 66% in the next 12 months. However, not everyone is ready…

Grazed from CRN.  Author: Andrew R. Hickey.

Google (NSDQ:GOOG) is arming itself for cloud storage battle against Amazon (NSDQ:AMZN) and Apple (NSDQ:AAPL) iCloud with the upcoming of Google Drive, or GDrive, reports indicate…

Grazed from InfoSecurity.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Research just released by Kaspersky Lab claims to show that around a quarter of companies (23%) see the cloud as a threat to their IT security.