Category: News

Grazed from UNSW.edu.au. Author: Editorial Staff.

UNSW researchers are using artificial intelligence to create a computer network capable of regulating its own consumption of public cloud services. The team, led by School of Computer Science and Engineering Lecturer Srikumar Venugopal, hopes the research will make truly elastic cloud computing a reality.

Elasticity is seen as a key benefit of the cloud, allowing companies to automatically and immediately dial up or down the consumption of cloud computing power based on need. The idea is to prevent companies over- or under-provisioning resources to run a particular workload. Presently, companies set rules to manage when to spin-up new virtual servers or shut them down. Systems administrators use their experience and historical data to set the rules…

Grazed from PRWeb. Author: PR Announcement.

Backupify, the leading provider of cloud-to-cloud backup and recovery solutions for Software as a Service (SaaS) applications, today announced a significant feature enhancement to its Backupify for Salesforce product with the ability to restore objects in Salesforce. Backupify for Salesforce users can now securely, automatically back up and restore data in their Salesforce accounts.

Salesforce data is often considered the lifeblood of an organization and as such, the Backupify for Salesforce solution gives Salesforce admins an automated, daily backup of their critical Salesforce data. Now restoring this important data back into Salesforce is a seamless process. The one-click restore feature ensures that objects such as accounts, contacts, leads, campaigns, opportunities, contracts and more are quickly and easily restored back into a company’s Salesforce instance. Users can choose to restore an entire object or just a selection of records from that object…

Grazed from PRWeb. Author: PR Announcement.

Jelastic, Inc., the first company to deliver Platform-as-Infrastructure, has been profiled in a new 451 Research report: "Jelastic eyes opportunity in converged IaaS and PaaS". The report describes a key cloud trend, the convergence of the current technologies of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and describes Jelastic’s strategy and product portfolio. The 451 Research report also provides some key insights into enterprise strategies as they undertake the migration to cloud including:

• Enterprise IT departments are intent on functioning like hosting service providers.
• Enterprises have a growing appetite for PaaS.
• Whereas PaaS adoption was previously being driven by the polyglot programming trend, a new important driver is IaaS-PaaS integration…

Grazed from Technorati. Author: Steve Shattuck.

There’s a lot to be excited about in the nonprofit sector today. New technologies are allowing charities to reach current and potential donors at a rate and ease never seen before. Although charitable giving grew 4.9% in 2013, some metrics paint a cloudier picture of the sector’s overall health. Donor retention rates have dropped year-over-year over the past seven years – the entire span in which its been officially studied – landing at only 39%.

That same metric dips into the 20s when considering first-time donors only. Online giving’s percentage of overall giving contracted from 7% in 2012 to 6.4% in 2013 and effective social media usage still lags behind the for-profit sector. Some sub-sectors of the nonprofit world are reporting annual employee turnover rates upwards of 100%…

Grazed from TMCNet. Author: PR Announcement.

The Cloud Computing Desktop-as-a-Service Awards, presented by Cloud Computing magazine, will honor products that have demonstrated innovation, unique features, and noteworthy developments toward improving virtualized office technologies. The Cloud Computing Desktop-as-a-Service Award is not granted to the best-selling products, but instead to those representing a significant contribution to the industry.

Learn more and apply. The early bird deadline is April 17, 2014. Final application deadline is April 30, 2014. Results will be published in the 3rd Quarter edition of Cloud Computing magazine and on the Cloud Computing website. Winners of this exclusive award will be provided with an award press kit to begin their award marketing campaigns. The press kit includes a customizable press release to announce the achievement and the award logo in multiple formats to be placed on sales and marketing collateral…

Grazed from Fool. Author: William Alder.

While the cloud-computing market continues to grow, there appears to be some degree of blowback with the upcoming IPO of Box. While there are a few cloud-computing companies that are seeing far more investor buzz than profits, there are companies turning profits in the cloud.

Adobe (NASDAQ: ADBE) has a nice niche with its subscription cloud model, while IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) have different, but successful cloud strategies. The three large-cap companies are diversified, but have solid positions within the cloud segment. They offer investors a less-risky alternative to the companies that are cloud-only, but still have the ability to capitalize on the anticipated growth in the cloud market…

Grazed from ECmanaged. Author: PR Announcemet.

Today, ECmanaged, the award winning multi-Cloud and IT management tool released an upgraded version of its SaaS application and website. New features include a multilingual user interface, a fully programmable autoscaling feature, and the ability to set different user levels for security purposes as well as additional automated management features.

“User-friendliness is our aim. Providing ECmanaged in French, Spanish and other languages is a logical step that will provide ECmanaged a competitive advantage compared to unilingual American solutions” says Juan Carlos Moreno, CTO of ECmanaged. “In addition we have rolled out some key Cloud management features that distinguish us even more from our competitors.”…

CloudCow Contributed Article. Author: Joanna Flis-Zwoinska, CEO of ComZetta.

We are currently witnessing technological advancement, which affects almost every aspect of life. Advanced solutions creep into our daily routines and change our habits. Furthermore, development of the services market and its advantage over the production sector is forcing us to change the ways and places in which we work.

BYOD is the response to these developments. Whether contemporary companies like it or not, this phenomenon is here to stay. You can fight it, but it’s a much better idea to use it effectively. Already 89% of companies consent to connection of private devices into their corporate networks and accept their use in the company…
 

Grazed from Orange-Business.  Author: Jamil Chawki.

In my article on how standardization can unleash the Cloud’s potential in Europe (in French), I talked about the European Commission’s new strategy for harnessing the Cloud in Europe. Among the various measures announced, the European Commission asked the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) to provide a roadmap for cloud computing standards (especially related to interoperability, portability and data security).  In this post, I will present the results of ETSI’s report. According to the organization, the cloud-standards landscape is complex but not chaotic, and by no means a jungle.

cloud standards: complex but not a jungle, according to ETSI

In September 2012, the European Commission published its new cloud strategy with a set of measures expected to create 2.5 million new jobs in Europe and contribute €160 billion to the European Union’s GDP by 2020. One of the key measures laid out by the Commission to unleash the Cloud’s potential in Europe is to “cut through the jungle of standards.”…

Grazed from BitCloud.  Author: Editorial Staff.

One of the main reasons quoted for moving some or even all of your in-house computing to the Cloud is the potential for significant cost savings.  The pay-as-you-go model of Cloud computing has indeed enabled some organisations to make major savings, however some others have finished up with bills far higher than they expected.

Be aware of exactly how your CSP (Cloud service provider, such as BitCloud) assigns costs. Cloud computing is rightly regarded as very cost effective because system resources are allocated “on demand” and in an “elastic” fashion.  It’s up to you, not the provider, to constantly monitor your usage of whatever cloud services you utilise…