Author: David

July 30, 2011 Off

How the Cloud Ultimately Improves the User Experience

By David
Grazed from IT Business Edge.  Author: Michael Vizard.

One of the things that has always been problematic for IT organizations is that there has always been a marked difference between what the application management dashboards have been telling them and what end users were actually experiencing.

 

July 30, 2011 Off

One Tool to Rule Virtual and Physical Servers All

By David
Grazed from IT Business Edge.  Author: Michael Vizard.

In a lot of large IT organizations, virtualization grew up as a separate discipline, resulting in separate management teams to administer virtual and physical servers.

 

But as virtual servers become more common, large IT organizations are reintegrating these management teams, resulting in many of them looking for tools that will allow them to simultaneously manage both virtual and physical servers under a common management framework.

July 29, 2011 Off

Amazon cloud hosts nasty banking trojan

By David
Grazed from The Register.  Author: Dan Goodin.

Amazon’s cloud storage service has been caught hosting services used to control the notorious SpyEye banking trojan, researchers said.

Data compiled by antivirus provider Kaspersky Lab over a 11-day period in July showed Amazon’s Simple Storage Service being used regularly to host SpyEye command and control channels. The botnet operators are most likely using victims’ pilfered financial data to set up fraudulent Amazon Web Services accounts, researcher Jorge Mieres wrote.

July 29, 2011 Off

Citrix Continues to Lead the Market For Cloud-based Remote Support Services

By David
Grazed from BUSINESS WIRE.  Author: PR Accouncement.

Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXSNews), the world leader in cloud-based remote support services, today announced that it has again been ranked number one in the remote support services market with more than 31.5% share by top analyst firm IDC. With offerings for both IT management and customer support, Citrix grew its share of the market by 14.5 percent from 20091 by providing solutions that drastically reduce costs and increase productivity. The remote-support market, IDC reports, is showing significant growth as companies seek comprehensive support options that increase productivity while drastically reducing the costs associated with IT and customer support management….

July 29, 2011 Off

CA Technologies Addresses Complexity Surrounding ‘Cloud Choice’

By David
Grazed from PRNewsWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

Business demand for rapid time-to-market and lower operational costs is driving cloud computing adoption and creating tremendous choice around cloud services available today. CA Technologies (NASDAQ:CANews) is helping simplify "cloud choice" with new and updated products and solutions for enterprises and service providers. The capabilities announced today advance the company’s strategy to enable cloud use and help both enterprise and service provider customers quickly deploy business services with the cost-efficiencies offered by cloud.

The term "cloud choice" describes the growing heterogeneity that includes traditional, cloud and hybrid application environments. Enterprises face a big decision today – if and when to move an application to the cloud. Once the decision is made to use cloud, enterprises must then select the right type of cloud – public, private, hybrid – based on the application and its current and future requirements….
 

July 29, 2011 Off

Cloud Client Computing Leader Wyse Hosts California Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom

By David

Grazed from MarketWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

Wyse Technology, the global leader in cloud client computing, is today hosting California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s unveiling of his plan to shift California’s economy into high gear, focusing on expanding exports, green industry, and new manufacturing.

The Lieutenant Governor’s unveiling at Wyse is a reflection of the success Wyse has had in remaking itself into a cloud client computing company, a transition that has resulted in major sales gains, and significant hiring, for the pre-IPO company…

July 29, 2011 Off

HP Joins OpenStack Cloud Project

By David
Grazed from eWeek.  Author: Jeffrey Burt.

Hewlett-Packard is jumping on the OpenStack cloud computing bandwagon, a day after rival Dell unveiled a cloud computing solution based on the open-source software stack.

In a blog post July 27, Emil Sayegh, vice president of cloud services for HP, said the company had joined the OpenStack project, which was kicked off a year ago by Rackspace and NASA and now has almost 100 organizations on its membership list…

July 29, 2011 Off

Google’s Schmidt to Testify for Senate on ‘Power of Google’

By David
Grazed from eWeek.  Author: Clint Boulton.

Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt has a set date with the Senate on Capitol Hill to discuss the search engine’s expansive Internet market power.

Schmidt, who served as CEO of Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) for a decade before co-founder Larry Page retook the reins in April, will testify in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights Sept. 21 in Washington, D.C.