Challenges of cloud computing in healthcare integration
Despite widespread adoption of cloud-based solutions by most industries, the healthcare industry has been slow to embrace cloud computing. While this slow adoption is partially due to concerns about safeguarding confidential patient information and compliance with key regulations such as HIPAA, many healthcare IT departments are simply burdened with outdated legacy systems and feel overwhelmed with the prospect of supporting yet another standard or protocol.
If these obstacles can be overcome, cloud computing solutions can bring tremendous benefits to healthcare organizations as well as help them improve patient care and reduce overall healthcare costs.
CA’s Cloud Push Births New Wares For Service Providers, Enterprise
CA Technologies’ recent cloud assault has given way to a host of new products aimed at service providers and enterprise cloud users, many taking pieces from the multiple cloud-focused acquisitions CA has made in the past two years.
CA’s massive cloud push was kicked into high gear Wednesday with the launch of 10 new and enhanced cloud-specific products, and a new partner program for service providers to get them fully immersed in the cloud game.
CLOUD2 Commission Spurs, Recommends Federal Cloud Initiatives
A consortium of cloud and academic leaders released a set of recommendations this week that it says will aid the transition of the federal government to cloud computing technologies.
The group also released a buyer’s guide with recommendations and best practices for federal government agencies making the move to the cloud.
Do OpenStack clouds need “bootstrapping”?
Previously famed as a darling of the ‘box-shifting desktop’ market, Dell appears to be putting its boldest foot forward yet in the cloud solution space. This week sees the company launch what the company says is the "first available" cloud solution offering based on the OpenStack platform.
The launch of the Dell OpenStack Cloud Solution is being presented as a major play on the road to further advancing the adoption of the OpenStack open source Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) technology.
IBM launches services research lab
IBM on Thursday will launch a research effort to bolster its services around cloud computing, analytics and delivery.
Big Blue’s creation, the Services Innovations Lab, will be staffed by 200 experts picked from around the company…
CA launches cloud product barrage: Can it boost growth?
CA on Wednesday stepped up its cloud computing push with a series of products designed to automate and manage data centers and allow customers to easily swap between various providers.
The initiative, dubbed cloud choice, revolves around deploying, planning, designing and delivering public and private cloud services…
Cloud Sherpas Buys Google Apps Cloud Services Provider in New Zealand
Cloud Sherpas has acquired a Google Apps reseller and cloud service provider (CSP) in New Zealand as part of a strategy to dramatically expand its business in the Asia-Pacific region. WaveAdept, based in Wellington, is the third company acquired by Cloud Sherpas, a top Google Apps partner, in the past six weeks. To cement its commitment to helping Asia-Pacific clients go Google, Cloud Sherpas has opened an office in Sydney, Australia…
Former NASA CTO Launches Nebula For Web-Scale Private Clouds
Large Internet companies such as Facebook and Google have each built their own private cloud computing infrastructure to save money and increase speed and efficiency. A new start-up, Nebula, founded by former NASA CTO Chris Kemp is providing open source-based technology so that any company can build its own private cloud computing system like those Internet giants…
DNA Sent to the Cloud
China-based DNA-sequencing giant BGI announced this month that it will take its business to the cloud, harnessing the power of a network of computers to analyze massive quantities of sequence data from clients around the world, reports Nature…
World Wide Technology Achieves Cloud Builder Certification from Cisco Systems
World Wide Technology, Inc. (WWT), a market-leading systems integrator that provides innovative technology and supply chain solutions, announced today it has received Cloud Builder certification from Cisco. The Cloud Builder certification recognizes partners who design and implement cloud-ready infrastructures or fully provisioned private or public clouds. The designation validates WWT’s competency in three aspects of building clouds: Infrastructure, Management Applications and Cloud Professional Services…