Category: News

Grazed from PRLog. Author: PR Annoucement.

Databerry, a Boca Raton-based web marketing and cloud computing provider, has weighed in on Google’s recent decision to slash prices across the board on its cloud computing services. In late March at an event near its San Francisco headquarters, Google announced that it would be making huge drops in its pricing model for a variety of cloud services. Google Compute Engine, a virtual computer service offering users raw computing power, will see a price drop of 32 percent.

The Google App Engine, a similar service, will have its pricing reduced in kind. Google Cloud Storage, the company’s cloud hosting and storage platform, will be 68 percent cheaper, with Google BigQuery, a well loved analysis tool for mass data, receiving the biggest cut of 85 percent…

Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Larry Dignan.

IBM on Monday outlined a set of business continuity and disaster recovery services for its SoftLayer cloud customers. Should your business retain its in-house datacenter or outsource itr? What are the drivers and barriers when it comes to cloud infrastructure? We look at recent research on key IT architecture questions.

Big Blue has had managed disaster recovery services for years, but is now looking to extend them to its infrastructure as a service customers on SoftLayer. The company added that it will open two disaster recovery centers in Raleigh, N.C. and Mumbai, India. Those facilities will join SoftLayer’s 15 planned locations and 150 resiliency centers…

Grazed from TheBorneoPost.  Author: Editorial Staff.

The cloud and mobile era is marked by the exponentially increasing number of digitally savvy workers, impacted by the ongoing trends of IT consumerisation, and Bring Your Own (BYO) devices and apps.

According to IDC, 2014 will see the reality of tablets replacing laptops in the enterprise1. In addition, the Citrix Mobility in Business Report last year revealed that nearly one-third of the global workforce is believed to be utilising their own mobile apps for work purposes, such as employee intranet portals, file sync and sharing platforms…

Grazed from TheMalayMailOnline.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Shlomo Kramer, the Israeli entrepreneur who made his name by co-founding the world’s second-largest security networks maker, is seeing investor support vanish for his latest cyber venture.  Imperva Inc, the Redwood Shores, California-based company that builds security systems for data centers, sank 44 per cent last week after scaling back its first-quarter revenue growth outlook to a third of its previous forecast.

Almost all of the declines came in a single day, April 10. The rout erased US$584 million (RM1.9 billion) of market value and sent the stock to a 20-month low.  Imperva, one of six Israeli online-security firms that Kramer has founded or financially backed over the past two decades, is facing growing competition from global powerhouses including International Business Machines Corp and F5 Networks Inc, Kramer, who is also the chief executive officer of Imperva, said the company missed its sales projection as competition for larger deals delayed orders, according to an April 9 statement…

Grazed from RandGroup.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Switching to a cloud solution from your desktop application is more like going from driving a car with an automatic transmission to riding a motorcycle. It is a major shift in how you operate.

Recently, a CFO group I’m a member of went through a conversion from the desktop to cloud version of the same software and our treasurer had major challenges with the process. This is an organization of financial executives so you can only imagine what the average business owner or small business Controller’s experience might be…

Grazed from PRWeb.  Author: PR Announcement.

PhotonVPS make virtual private servers available with top spec builds for rock bottom prices, opening up the next generation of computing to more people than ever.  Virtual Private Servers offer a plethora of uses from website hosting, virtual private networks, script development, VoIP, software development and increasingly as a gaming server.

These virtual servers often offer greater processing power, increased storage and the ability to access the data from anywhere in the world from any device. However in the past these services have previously been expensive or unreliable…

Grazed from NBCBayArea.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Welcome to Salesforce city.  The cloud computing giant will make its name on the San Francisco skyline, after signing the biggest-ever lease of office space in city history, according to reports.  Salesforce has inked a deal to occupy 714,000 square feet of the Transbay Tower once the 1,070-foot office building is completed in 2017, according to the San Francisco Business Times. That’s half of the building.

The Transbay Tower, the largest skyscraper west of the Mississippi, will be renamed the Salesforce Tower, the newspaper reported.  Luminaries such as Mayor Ed Lee and U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi were on hand Friday for the announcement.  Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff touted the lease of 30 floors of office space — which begins in 2018, and could be worth as much as $560 million over 15 years — as a landmark achievement for his company, which was founded 15 years ago in San Francisco.

Grazed from Utlizer.com.  Author: Nikita Ivanov.

In the last year, conversations about In-Memory Computing (IMC) have become more and more prevalent in enterprise IT circles, especially with organizations feeling the pressure to process massive quantities of data at the speed that is now being demanded by the Internet. The hype around IMC is justified: tasks that once took hours to execute are streamlined down to seconds by moving the computation and data from disk, directly to RAM…

Through this simple adjustment, analytics are happening in real-time, and applications (as well as the development of applications) are working at-pace with this new standard of technology and speed…

Grazed from GigaOM.  Author: Derrick Harris.

RightScale has been managing public cloud resources for companies since 2006, and thousands of users later, it appears to have a pretty good sense of what’s happening in the cloud space. Recently, the company released its State of the Cloud report, including a survey of more than 1,000 companies about the clouds they’re using and plan to use. Kim Weins, RightScale’s vice president of marketing, came on the Structure Show this week to talk about the results.

Here are the highlights of that interview, but you’ll want to hear the whole thing for all of Weins’s thoughts on which cloud platforms are most popular (as well as for my and Barb Darrow’s takes on the week in cloud and big data news)…

Grazed from SiliconAngle.  Author: Maria Deutscher.

Traditional enterprise vendors are embracing the public cloud as software-as-a-service continues to disrupt on-premise applications. SAP, for one, is already well along its way in transforming into a cloud services company, and it marked another milestone in its journey this week with the introduction of a hosted business operations suite.

SAP Business Suite via the SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud is powered by the company’s in-memory database and features all the apps in the standard on-premise edition, including its widely-used enterprise resource management (ERP) and customer, vendor, supply chain and product management solutions…