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Concerns over information security are the biggest barrier to businesses moving to online cloud-based computing services, says Kgomotso Kganyago, chief security advisor at Microsoft SA.

As companies move to seamless computing and as more international cables land on the shores of the African continent, companies need to realise that security attacks will rise and secure their systems appropriately, he says…

CampusIT simplifies student interaction helping universities deliver a better and faster service

CampusIT ( www.campusit.net ), the education management systems provider, today announced that it is now serving the needs of more than 400,000 higher education students around Europe on its cloud computing model…

ANX has now become a Validated Cloud Solution provider for OpSource customers.

The association enables OpSource clients to deploy cloud-based solutions with ANX Secure Cloud Access, a managed service for user-to-cloud connections. Leveraging the secure solutions, OpSource clients can secure endpoints, eliminate access security concerns associated with cloud computing, company officials said…

VMware Inc. CEO Paul Maritz has been around the IT world for a long time — he started back in what he calls the "mainframe era," but cloud computing technologies and virtualization were the focus of his keynote Monday at the 2011 VMworld General Sessions in Las Vegas.

"I spent my whole life working on the PC," he told the 19,000 audience members. However, he explained, the future of IT is seated in cloud technology. "In three years … more than 80% of the devices connecting to the Internet will not be Windows-based personal computers. With that kind of scale, we’re going to have to see new techniques and new approaches introduced into the world of IT."…

LightEdge Solutions, a customer-centric leader in cloud computing and resilient collocation services, today announced that it has launched the initial phase of a vCloud administrative portal for its virtual server customers.  This addition elevates LightEdge within the industry as one of only two VMware VSPP partners in the Iowa with vCloud capabilities in place to support their public and private cloud virtual server customers.  LightEdge will use this tool as a critical differentiator for the company to continue to drive the rapidly expanding cloud computing market place…
 

Remember that whole debate over whether moving to cloud computing is a greener option? Well, data center monitoring startup Sentilla is introducing an analytics tool that can predict whether moving your company’s IT to cloud computing (both private and public) is a smart play from an energy bill perspective…
 

Today at VMworld(R), 2011, Symantec Corp. /quotes/zigman/78627/quotes/nls/symc SYMC +1.30% and VMware /quotes/zigman/464645/quotes/nls/vmw VMW +4.51% announced an expansion of their strategic partnership to define and architect Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) solutions with the goal to provide secure, pre-integrated and well-managed enterprise-quality virtual desktop computing environments for enterprises and IT service providers. This initiative will leverage VMware virtual desktop and cloud infrastructure solutions including VMware View(TM), VMware vShield(TM), VMware vCloud(R) Director 1.5 and VMware vSphere(R) 5 with Symantec Endpoint Protection and the Altiris Client Management Suite to deliver a secure, manageable and cost-effective DaaS solution…
 

Cloud computing is still riding high on Gartner’s Hype Cycle, with private clouds at the peak of "inflated expectations" as of August 2011. 

High expectations leads to high demands in the enterprise, and CIOs now face questions from their bosses and their IT managers about developing a cloud strategy — especially one that saves energy and money…

In today’s (more or less) post-recession market, CIOs and other senior IT decision makers are under pressure to do more with less. The demands on IT solutions are escalating, but execs are unable, or unwilling, to let technology budgets expand at the same speed…