Category: News

February 20, 2014 Off

CloudLock Launches Selective Encryption System for Cloud Security

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Grazed from MorningNews. Author: Fahad Saleem.

Cloud platforms have always been vulnerable to security threats mainly because of their architecture that makes them more like an “Anything-as-a-Service (AaaS) platform. There have been a plethora of researches and professional of the Cloud computing platforms are working restlessly to mine out the cross platform independence within the cloud platform which can ensure stable cloud connection across different platforms.

Among these start-ups and professional entities in the industry, CloudLock has been the most prominent pioneer which has rolled out many products and services for beefing up the security of the Distributed, Cross Platform Cloud structures. It was only a month ago when CloudLock announced that it had raised $16.5 million in Series C funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners, bringing its total funding to $28.2 million. Today, the impeccable Cloud service has launched ‘Selective Cloud Encryption Service’ which will make sure to select and secure the Cloud traffic based on the calculations by the intelligent algorithms meshed at the back end servers…

February 20, 2014 Off

Balance cloud costs, performance with AWS Auto Scaling

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Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Dan Sullivan.

The pay-as-you-go model of cloud computing favors developers and architects who can design applications that run with the optimal amount of resources at all times. Overprovisioning a server means paying more than necessary to meet your needs. Erring in the other direction can be even worse: Underprovisioning resources causes an application to suffer in performance. Variations in application demand make the challenge of server sizing even more difficult, as the optimal set of resources does not stay constant.

One way to address these variations when using the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud is to create a load-balanced cluster of servers, then add or remove servers according to demand. You can manage the load-balanced cluster yourself, but another option is the AWS Auto Scaling service. The service maintains adequate performance levels without overprovisioning, while also alleviating some administrative overhead. Good candidates for the service are use cases that allow for readily distributed workloads across multiple servers, with significant variation in workloads…

February 20, 2014 Off

Cloud hosting is not (really) cloud computing

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Grazed from GCN. Author: Michael C. Daconta.

In a recent customer meeting, several IT staff members were explaining some serious performance problems they were having with a newly deployed IT system. It began with a general discussion among us about the benefits of scalability and agility in cloud computing. Then they dropped a bombshell: “Oh, our application is in the cloud!”

Given our discussion about scalability in the cloud — juxtaposed with a newly deployed IT system that was not scaling even under a normal load — this statement seemed out of place. And here we have the crux of the matter: Why host a brand new IT system in the cloud and not take advantage of a core cloud benefit like scalability?…

February 20, 2014 Off

MicroStrategy Reveals New Generation of Analytics for Cloud and Mobile Computing

By David

Grazed from Information-Management.

At its recent MicroStrategy World 2014 conference, the enterprise software company introduced a portfolio of products to make it easier to perform analytics and make them easier to access through the cloud and mobile forms of computing. These announcements accelerate MicroStrategy’s transition to approaching corporate business users of analytics from its past focus on business intelligence, which typically is purchased by IT. This is a subtle but strategic shift that recognizes where growth opportunities lie and that analytics must be available on any device at any time. MicroStrategy made it clear that advances in the cloud, mobility and big data were integral to its product releases last year and is continuing in this direction in 2014 with the products in its MicroStrategy 9.4 suite.

A little recap from the end of 2013 will illustrate the trend. MicroStrategy launched a product called Analytics Desktop that is freely available to download and use. The product runs locally and provides capabilities for data and visual discovery, the building of dashboards and standard business intelligence…

February 20, 2014 Off

Demand for Linux Skills Rises with Cloud Computing

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Grazed from ComputerWorld. Author: Patrick Thibodeau.

Demand for people with Linux skills is increasing, a trend that appears to follow a shift in server sales. Cloud infrastructure, including Amazon Web Service, is largely Linux based, and cloud services’ overall growth is increasing Linux server deployments. As many as 30% of all servers shipped this year will be cloud services providers, according to research firm IDC.

Demand for people with Linux skills is increasing, a trend that appears to follow a shift in server sales. Cloud infrastructure, including Amazon Web Service, is largely Linux based, and cloud services’ overall growth is increasing Linux server deployments. As many as 30% of all servers shipped this year will be cloud services providers, according to research firm IDC…

February 20, 2014 Off

Brother Takes Mobile Office-Tech Beyond The Cloud

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Grazed from PRNewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Taking office technology to a new level, Brother is preparing to showcase its latest mobile-focused innovations – and has literally gone beyond the clouds and into space. The office tech specialist’s newest technology is designed to meet the demands of today’s mobile savvy workforce – so office functions like printing, digitising and virtual conferencing are more accessible.

Speaking ahead of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Simon Stones, Senior Manager, S&S Commercial from Brother International Europe (BIE), said: "We are making giant leaps to ensure technology is available when and where it is needed. Taking this to the extreme – children at venues across Japan have communicated in real-time with an astronaut during a space mission, using our OmniJoin web conferencing platform[1] – proving just how powerful today’s office technology can be…

February 20, 2014 Off

TechOne commits $80 million to enterprise cloud

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Grazed from ZDNet.  Author: Editorial Staff.

TechnologyOne has announced that it has invested over AU$80 million to date in creating its cloud offering, which the company hopes will allow its customers to amplify their computing model, reduce costs, and improve productivity.

Speaking at the company’s Evolve user conference at the Gold Coast this week, executive chairman Adrian Di Marco said TechologyOne is committed to continue the drive of enterprise software as a service (SaaS) with the announcement of its TechnologyOne Cloud, which has already been implemented by Noosa Council…

February 20, 2014 Off

Cloud Computing: Need to Know – Satya’s Microsoft

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Grazed from WindowsITPro.  Author: Paul Thurrott.

After six months of speculation and rumors, Microsoft this month finally announced that it had selected Satya Nadella as its next CEO, replacing Steve Ballmer. But who is Satya Nadella, and are there any clues –in his decades of experience at the software giant or otherwise—to suggest whether he’ll toe the line on "devices and services" or plot a new path for the world’s largest maker of software?

A cursory examination of Mr. Nadella’s resume shows that he hails from Hyderabad, India, has serious education credentials—including an engineering bachelor’s degree, a master’s in computer science, and a second master’s degree in business administration—and worked at Sun Microsystems before joining Microsoft in 1992. But this early experience will almost certainly have less impact on his leadership tendencies than will his two decades at Microsoft…

February 19, 2014 Off

CloudBees and Verizon Add Enterprise PaaS to New Verizon Cloud

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Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

CloudBees, Inc. , the Enterprise Platform as a Service (PaaS) innovation leader, today announced an agreement with Verizon Enterprise Solutions to make the CloudBees PaaS available on the new Verizon Cloud .

This agreement is part of Verizon’s ongoing strategy to add enterprise-class services to Verizon Cloud, the company’s new cloud computing and cloud storage platform, creating an ecosystem of enterprise technologies in the cloud…

February 19, 2014 Off

What’s Next In Cloud Architecture Evolution?

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Grazed from IBTimes.  Author:  Editorial Staff.

The innovative technology of cloud computing delivers hosted services over the Internet that allows unlimited number of machines to act as one system. With cloud computing, integration of several resources to enable Web site growth, such as RAM space is easy. It makes the creation of virtually "anything" possible from a set of building blocks.

The cloud architecture provides business owners to have full access to their applications and data. They can manage their data in the system for applications such as inventory and payroll. In mobile applications, iCloud by Apple Computer Inc. gives cloud apps and storage for desktop, mobile and tablet devices. It can save videos, photos, documents, music and any data online and sync them with other iOS devices…