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Grazed from PRNewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Attunity Ltd., a leading provider of information availability software solutions, announced today that it has been named one of the top 100 Coolest Cloud Vendors of 2014 by CRN Magazine. The annual list recognizes the most innovative cloud vendors and solutions tailored to address the industry’s unique needs. The list also helps solution providers navigate the growing cloud marketplace and identify the best solutions to support the IT channel. Winners are named across five major cloud categories, including platforms and tools, infrastructure, storage, security, and software. Attunity and its Attunity CloudBeam software were featured in the ‘Cloud Storage Vendor’ category.

"The adoption of cloud computing solutions is showing no signs of slowing down as solution providers look to offer their clients the scalability, flexibility and cost benefits necessary to compete in today’s business environment," said Robert Faletra, CEO, The Channel Company- publishers of CRN Magazine. "Each vendor on this list was carefully selected based on its ability to help organizations capitalize on those opportunities."…

Grazed from CloudComputingIntelligence. Author: David Grimes.

The cloud computing market has matured significantly in the past two to three years, becoming almost synonymous with infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS). But if the rapid adoption of IaaS was Cloud 1.0, what does the future hold for cloud beyond IaaS and what services will we see being enabled by cloud in the future?

Primarily cloud adoption was driven by cost. Not always in the sense that switching to cloud would reduce spend immediately, but the benefits of moving from a CAPEX to OPEX model was, and continues to be, a compelling proposition to businesses. Other factors have also helped to shape today’s cloud industry. These include the maturation of virtualisation technologies, the ever increasing capabilities of the underlying hardware platforms, and the expertise which service providers have developed in delivering robust, secure solutions using a shared infrastructure model…

Grazed from Forbes. Author: Joe McKendrick.

Okay, just about everyone is convinced at this point — cloud computing is a good thing that can provide tremendous business value, if applied properly and smartly. The question is, who is going to make this all happen? Organizations are relying on information technology managers and professionals, to a large extent, of course. However, many IT people say they aren’t receiving enough training or support to move their organizations into this new computing realm.

That’s the takeaway of a recent survey of 1,000 IT professionals, conducted by ScienceLogic. The survey finds 50 percent of organizations will spend more on IT in 2014, investing heavily in virtualization and cloud infrastructure. At the same time, half of the respondents participating in cloud initiatives within their organizations say they need more education on the technology — their current skillsets do not adequately prepare them to do their jobs well in the coming year…

Grazed from NextGov. Author: Editorial Staff.

The Marine Corp is considering using a commercial cloud service provider instead of the Defense Information Systems Agency to host its version of the Global Combat Support System. Separately, the Marines on Wednesday launched a procurement to cut personnel systems costs by selecting just one system integrator to manage 15 systems.

DISA currently hosts the Global Combat Support System Marine Corps (GCSS-MC) at its Enterprise Computing Center in Mechanicsburg, Pa. The Marine Corps Systems Command said in a request for information to industry on Feb. 4 that it is considering using a private cloud service “to increase IT efficiencies, minimize risk, achieve performance objectives and reduce total cost of ownership.”…

Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Bill Kleyman.

SDN may sound abstract, but the technology is on target to provide concrete advantages to network infrastructure — from increased global connectivity to better content delivery. The concept of the software-defined network (SDN) initially caused some confusion in IT, but the picture gets clearer the more we learn. Similar to network virtualization, SDN allows for the direct network-related abstraction of services.

This abstraction of services can be accomplished on both logical as well as physical infrastructures, but is not actually defined by specific physical devices or logical components. How will SDN affect the future of network infrastructure? Let’s take a look at the biggest benefits…

Grazed from TheStreet. Author: Chris Ciaccia.

If you thought that Google (GOOG) was done innovating, and VMware (VMW) was just about cloud computing, think again. The Chromebook is trying to revolutionize the modern business world. Google and VMware today announced that the two companies are going to "modernize corporate desktops for the Mobile Cloud Era," giving businesses secure cloud access to Microsoft (MSFT) Windows applications, data and desktops on Google’s Chromebooks.

Not only does this deal expand the presence of Google Chromebooks in the enterprise, it allows businesses to cut costs as well. "Google Chromebooks can save businesses about $5,000 per computer when compared to traditional PCs," said Amit Singh, President of Google Enterprise in the press release. "Chromebooks are designed for the way people use computers today and are a secure, easy and cost-effective solution to help organizations embrace a new way of doing business. Through our partnership with VMware, businesses can now capitalize on these advantages with access to legacy applications, data and desktops they need to keep employees productive."…

Grazed from PRNewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

The cloud infrastructure ecosystem represents a large-scale distributed computing paradigm that is driven by economies of scale in which a pool of abstracted, virtualized, dynamically scalable, managed computing power, storage, platforms, and services are delivered on demand to external customers over the Internet.

This report evaluates cloud management including types of cloud computing models, challenges facing cloud computing, implementation of cloud management, and analysis of key players in cloud management industry…

Grazed from PRNewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Companies are often held back by an inflexible and complex IT infrastructure that cannot keep up with the changing needs of business. These restraints result in slow deployment of critical applications and services, limited resources, poor operation management, and unpredictable system integration.

Virtualised servers and desktops hold the key to more efficient IT management. Although virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) has historically been deemed too expensive, the recent surge of cloud computing offers a cost-effective, managed platform for VDI that stands to revolutionise the structure of enterprise IT…

Grazed from PRNewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Helping its customers meet demands of business continuity and further capitalize on the power of cloud computing, StratITsphere Data Center Solutions today announced it has completed the expansion of its modern, functionally rich data center, located in Katy, Texas, 25 miles from downtown Houston. Online and available for secure data residency now, the additional 8,000-square feet of global cloud infrastructure is capable of supporting the most comprehensive portfolio of application services.

"The expansion our high available data center in the Houston market demonstrates our commitment to our growing customer base," said Darin Cook, President, StratITsphere Data Center Solutions. "With our fortified data center offering, we allow customers to have a 100 percent Service Level Agreement while at the same time, offering a flexible cost effective solution."…

Grazed from CloudTech. Author: Graham Jarvis.

While it is generally recognised that virtualisation is an important step in the move to cloud computing, as it enables efficient use of the underlying hardware and allows for true scalability, for virtualisation in order to be truly valuable it really needs to understand the workloads that run on it and offer clear visibility of both the virtual and physical worlds.

On its own, virtualisation does not lend itself to creating sufficient visibility about the multiple applications and services running at any one time. For this reason a primitive automation system could cause a number of errors to occur, such as the spinning up of another virtual machine to offset the load on enterprise applications that are presumed to be overloaded…