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Grazed from MarketWire. Author: PR Announcement.

RightScale® Inc., a demonstrated leader in enterprise cloud portfolio management, today announced the results of its 2014 State of the Cloud Survey. The survey found that cloud adoption is reaching ubiquity as enterprises increase both public and private cloud adoption, but enterprise governance is lagging. In addition, the survey found as enterprise cloud maturity progresses, cloud security concerns abate and attention increasingly shifts to managing ongoing challenges of compliance, cost management, and performance.

The survey also identified significant interest in infrastructure-as-a-service offerings from Microsoft and Google, and a looming face-off between VMware and OpenStack in the private cloud market. The full results of the survey are available in the RightScale 2014 State of the Cloud Report at www.rightscale.com/2014-cloud-report…

Grazed from Neusoft. Author: PR Announcement.

Neusoft Corporation ("Neusoft", SSE: 600718) , a leading IT solution & service provider in China, recently announced that it has signed a strategic partnership agreement with Alibaba Cloud Computing Co., Ltd. ("AliCloud") to together develop the global cloud service market. This cooperation will cover cloud-based products, technologies, solutions, services, and joint marketing catering for government & utility sectors, businesses and IT operators.

According to this agreement, Neusoft and AliCloud will jointly promote the development of cloud computing services. Neusoft’s SaCa and UniEAP series of products will support the deployment and maintenance of AliCloud platform, and provide services for AliCloud’s cloud applications. Meanwhile, AliCloud will become a strategic partner of Neusoft in cloud computing business to serve customers with more flexible, controllable information systems…

Grazed from MarketWire. Author: PR Announcement.

ProfitBricks, the price/performance leader in Cloud Computing IaaS, is now helping big data systems integrators like Altoros bring the power of the cloud to the high demand of its customers. Thanks to second generation technologies like software-defined networking (SDN) and InfiniBand that are at the heart of the ProfitBricks cloud, Altoros customers can easily deploy Hadoop clusters for both temporary projects and continuous big data analysis programs.

Altoros implements and scales enterprise-level Hadoop solutions for its clients’ data mining, analyses and visualization needs. ProfitBricks’ high-performance InfiniBand-based IaaS enables Altoros’ clients to scale on-demand, no matter the size of the project. Big data cloud project deployments are growing at rapid rates, as businesses of all sizes collect ever-increasing amounts of unstructured data using new NoSQL and MPP databases like MongoDB, Cassandra, Greenplum, and Vertica. Hadoop distributions from MapR and Hortonworks make all of this data available for analytics tools…

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.

Sookasa, a newcomer to the as-a-service scene, has entered the market with the launch of Sookasa Compliance as a Service, a solution that "radically simplifies the protection of sensitive files across popular cloud services and mobile devices." Sookasa may have finally solved a problem that has been plaguing end users for some time and could open the possibilities companies that fall under compliance regulations of using some of the more common cloud computing services without concern.

Sookasa’s offering enables end users to natively use cloud services such as Dropbox and Google Gmail, as well as mobile devices, while transparently encrypting sensitive data and addressing compliance regulations, including HIPAA and FERPA. Aimed at small and medium businesses (SMBs), Sookasa is targeting vertical markets where data compliance is a top concern…

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.

The CloudEthernet Forum unveiled the Open Cloud Project at Interop this week, and the industry organization is working with the MetroEthernet Forum to make it happen. Together, the two organizations are hoping to create an open test and iterative standards development program for service providers, vendors and over-the-top cloud services providers.

Included in the new project is a dedicated proof of concept test laboratory in Silicon Valley, which will provide ongoing testing and support for the iterative development of CEF’s CloudE 1.0 open cloud environment. According to CEF, the Open Cloud Project will also provide the basis of future compliance and benchmark testing…

Grazed from Arnnet. Author: Nermin Bajric.

The impact of the Cloud, while undoubtedly massive in the long term, remains nebulous and hard to pin down, according to ICT experts. Yes, this ‘Cloud thing’ is making some serious noise, yet there are mixed messages wherever you look. Organisations which have overcome their fear of ‘it’ are looking to deploy, while Cloud services and solutions providers are scrambling to make ends meet in a growingly congested Australian market filled with confusion and, often, a lack of direction.

Add to that the fact that no one strategy has yet been determined as definitively successful (if there is such a thing), and it becomes a tough task. What is certain for now is that the multi-faceted Cloud market, on both the compute and services fronts, is chugging along; some components are ballooning, while others crawl…

Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Wyatt Kash.

GSA’s leap to cloud computing began as a billion-dollar real estate problem. As part of its mandate to provide a range of services to other federal agencies, the General Services Administration owns or leases 354 million square feet of office and warehouse space in 9,600 buildings, and it provides workspaces for more than 1 million federal workers. The problem: Half the time, those people are out in the field or working away from their desks. For a government agency that spends roughly $10 billion annually on leasing and construction costs, officials knew there had to be a smarter approach.

They moved toward a hoteling model, whereby employees check in and out of workspaces. However, that move required GSA to overhaul its IT infrastructure, says acting CIO Sonny Hashmi. Enter cloud computing. Beginning in 2010, when cloud computing was still mostly a vision for federal policy-makers, GSA officials, including Casey Coleman, the CIO at the time, crafted a multiyear strategy to migrate core agency systems to the cloud…

Grazed from eWeek. Author: Wayne Rash.

Ask pretty much anybody who is in the process of moving some business operations to the cloud exactly what they think the cloud is, and the chances are you’ll get a different answer from each one. This is, as you might expect, a problem when it comes to moving critical business functions to the cloud. "The cloud doesn’t have to mean the public cloud," Margaret Dawson told eWEEK in an interview at the Interop conference here.

Dawson, who is Hewlett-Packard’s vice president of product marketing and a cloud evangelist" for the company said that the misunderstandings of what the cloud is and how it works play a significant role in slowing cloud adoption for many companies. This is because a surprisingly large number of people assume "the cloud" means the "public cloud." In reality, Dawson said, most companies don’t, and shouldn’t, use the public cloud for their operations…

Grazed from MobileInsight. Author: Editorial Staff.

Cloud computing has changed the way that people work by overhauling the manner in which computer data is stored and accessed. Essentially, “the cloud” stores data through the Internet rather than a hard drive. Through the cloud, employees can now work remotely, operate more efficiently as a team, and data can be permanently secured. Here are the five benefits of cloud computing for your field team:

1. Enhanced Collaboration

One of the largest benefits of cloud computing is the ability for your field team to access the same documents, share information, simultaneously work on projects, and provide real-world updates to other group members. By allowing information to be shared instantaneously, the days of mailing private documents, printing and scanning, or team members only working on one file at a time are over; rather, team members can multitask, assign out projects that can be viewed amongst everyone, and exchange data with the click of a button…

Grazed from Fool. Author: Tim Brugger.

With a market capitalization of over $180 billion, and a flamboyant, America’s Cup-winning CEO in Larry Ellison, it’s not often Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) flies under the radar. But it may have done just that last year, as the company quietly went about making a significant dent in one of the most cutting-edge industries around, cloud computing. Now it’s prepping for the expected growth to come from the Internet of Things, or IoT.

New research from Gartner showed software stalwarts Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) at or near the top for software sales in 2013, as measured by revenue. That’s to be expected, but what may be a bit surprising is the leap Oracle made last year compared to its software peers…