Category: News

Grazed from Business2Community. Author: Katelyn Roberts.

Enterprises have loved data for years, but technology is bringing big data to the forefront for many small to mid-sized businesses in recent years. Thanks to the “as-a-Service” model, businesses can take full advantage of data center technology at a fraction of the cost of building their own data centers. Cloud computing relies on a data center infrastructure to function. But interestingly, it’s cloud computing technology that’s paving the way for the data centers of the future – which will be more flexible, more efficient, and more dynamic than ever.

The Cloud Relies on Infrastructure

Cloud computing is an abstract concept even to many businesses that utilize it. Cloud services, such as Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), still rely on the same hardware and servers that power any standard data center. The difference is that the storage, servers and networking of multiple systems are pooled and the resources shared among multiple applications or organizations. Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) are variations on this model with different levels of control and operational responsibility between the consumer and the provider…

Grazed from TheVarGuy. Author: Michael Cusanelli.

Arrow Electronics (ARW) unveiled an expansion of its cloud services today with the introduction of the VMware (VMW) vCloud Hybrid Service, which will be distributed via the ArrowSphere platform to its North American channel partners. The announcement came as part of VMware’s Partner Exchange 2014 (PEX 2014) in San Francisco. According to Arrow, the vCloud Hybrid Service offers automated replication, monitoring and high availability of applications without requiring code changes, allowing for simple deployment into public, private and hybrid clouds for low overall costs of ownership.

“We are pleased to join with Arrow to offer VMware vCloud Hybrid Service, which enables customers to obtain comprehensive IT services from partners, while providing an easy and fast path to achieve the agility and efficiency of the public cloud,” said Frank Rauch, vice president of Americas Partner Organization at VMware, in a prepared statement…

Grazed from Sys Con Media. Author: James Carlini.

COMCAST’s recent $45 billion acquisition of Time-Warner Cable was big news in the Cable TV world, but it should be big news in the area of cloud computing and network diversity. Instead of looking at COMCAST as a cable TV provider, it is time that we should be looking at it as another alternative to the traditional network carriers like AT&T and Verizon for our data needs both at home and at the business location.

Re-Thinking Cloud Computing Strategy

Do you have network redundancy in place in your cloud computing applications? They cannot be considered "mission critical" if you only have them running on one connection to the central office. Ninety-nine percent of the commercial buildings are still in the horse-and-buggy days of having one main connection to one central office of the phone company for connectivity…

Grazed from FCW. Author: Editorial Staff.

As government agencies work to become more agile, efficient and cost-effective, cloud adoption has become an increasingly important part of the federal IT agenda — and rightfully so. Cloud computing has the power to transform the way the government does business and the way it delivers services to the American people despite resource constraints.

In fact, research by IDC Government Insights shows that by 2018, the government will decrease traditional IT spending by 15 percent and redirect spending to the cloud. Despite the need to rapidly provision cloud service technologies, the public sector’s adoption of cloud computing has been slowed by questions about acquisition policy, financial management, service-level agreements (SLAs) and IT sprawl…

Grazed from TheLawyer. Author: Editorial Staff.

Nuix, a worldwide provider of information management technologies, today announced it has developed the ability to apply massive eDiscovery processing power on demand by adapting the Nuix Engine for popular cloud computing infrastructures. Nuix continues to invest in innovation and product development, now enabling customers to meet court deadlines by conducting rapid, large-scale eDiscovery indexing, searching, case assessment and export in the cloud. Crucially, processing can take place within cloud environments such as Microsoft Office 365, without having to move it or download it behind the firewall.

“I have been saying for many years that as more organisations move their data to the cloud, it will become essential to conduct eDiscovery and investigative search in the cloud, alongside the data,” said attorney and forensic technologist Craig Ball. “Nuix remains ahead of the game in building the next-generation tools the legal industry needs now and will need in the future.”…

Grazed from GlobeNewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

ChinaCache International Holdings Ltd., the leading total solutions provider of Internet content and application delivery services in China, today announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding ("MOU") with Server Farm Realty, LLC, a leading data center developer throughout North America, to form strategic partnership relating to ChinaCache Atecsys International Data Center ("Atecsys") in the Tianzhu Comprehensive Bonded Zone in Beijing. The cloud data center will focus on helping multinational enterprises host their cloud services in China.

Server Farm Realty’s senior management recently visited Atecsys, which has been under development since 2013, and is strategically located in Beijing’s tax free, custom bonded zone. Atecsys is a green, eco-friendly and low-carbon data center that meets national cloud computing data center standards…

Grazed from ComputerWeekly. Author: Michael Gillespie.

Hybrid cloud or private cloud within a public cloud is an attractive proposition for any business looking to harness the benefits of cloud computing, while acknowledging the need for adequate security layering on differing types of information. Different information and sub-sets of information has differing security needs. This will vary by organisation and should be subject to a comprehensive information triage process.

The challenges arise when factoring in the security, for many reasons. As we know, there are some very cheap solutions on offer from brokers, so if the priority is cheap then we may as well stop talking about security and move on to the businesses that want to use cloud, have properly identified their organisational risk appetite and want to build a strategy to do it securely…

Grazed from PRNewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

The explosion of mobile applications and devices has lead to an extremely crowded and fragmented market leaving mobile developers searching for new opportunities to differentiate and improve the user experience. Increasingly, successful mobile apps are supported by data feeds and services in the cloud such as databases, messaging, location, and social networking status.

At the same time, enterprises are realizing the importance of the mobile channel and are moving beyond devices and applications devising new strategies to broaden their reach. Extending enterprise data and services to mobile developers via APIs is an approach enterprises are increasingly pursuing. These macro trends are driving demand for mobile cloud services platforms…

Grazed from Business2Community. Author: Laura Hall.

Remember when we thought CDs were a fad? Is the Cloud Applicable to Small Businesses? Or how about the Internet? I myself was skeptical, but seemingly overnight these advancements were mainstream. That’s what the cloud is doing for IT.

The “cloud” is proving to be more than just a buzzword. More and more business are adopting cloud solutions to run their business in an easier, more cost effective way. In fact, Gartner research indicates that the cloud computing market reached $150 billion in 2013!
As a small business owner, what’s in it for you?…

Grazed from BusinessNewsDaily. Author: Elizabeth Palermo.

"Where do you work?" There was a time when that question might have received a simple answer: a company name, or a physical address. But in the age of cloud computing, smartphones and telecommuting, workers are moving away from the confines of cubicles and corporate addresses and toward something more difficult to plot on a map.

Andrew Jones — an organizational business consultant, educator and partner at Conjunctured, a co-working space in Austin, Texas — believes that the mobility of today’s workforce is an integral part of any discussion on employment in the 21st century. His new book, "The Fifth Age of Work: How Companies Can Redesign Work to Become More Innovative in a Cloud Economy" (Night Owls Press, November 2013), redefines conventional ideas about where, when and how people go to work in the modern age…