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Grazed from PRNewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Today JobDiva Inc.® (www.JobDiva.com), the proven technology leader in the staffing industry, announced winning the coveted 2014 Cloud Awards Program’s "Cloud Company of the Year." In earning the top award in this year’s competition, JobDiva bested the more than 200 organizations that entered from around the globe, hailing from the U.S., Europe, and the Middle East—including several staffing technology competitors.

"JobDiva presented our judges with a variety of convincing arguments for their nomination and subsequent win as Cloud Computing Company of the Year," Cloud Awards organizer Larry Johnson said. "Without up-and-coming innovators like JobDiva, the Cloud would not continue to be the disruptive force that it is. We were particularly impressed by their powerful and holistic approach to recruitment."…

Grazed from AP. Author: Ryan Nakashima.

As longtime Microsoft insider Satya Nadella takes the company’s helm, he is declaring a new focus on a "mobile-first, cloud-first world." So far, he only has the latter half of the formula figured out. Microsoft and its new CEO are trying to catch rivals such as Apple, Google and Amazon, which are each building their own thriving ecosystems for mobile devices. At the same time, the company wants to expand its burgeoning business as a provider of software and services over the Internet.

Nadella, head of Microsoft’s cloud computing business, was named Tuesday to be Steve Ballmer’s immediate replacement. He is only the third chief executive in Microsoft’s 38-year history. The 22-year Microsoft veteran has enlisted the help of company founder and first CEO Bill Gates, who is leaving his role as chairman to serve a more hands-on role as an adviser at Nadella’s request. Gates will spend a third of his time working on products and technology…

Grazed from MarketWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Aspect Software, a leading provider of fully-integrated customer interaction management, workforce optimization, back-office and award-winning cloud solutions, today announced that Voxeo, an Aspect company, has been awarded the 2014 Best Hybrid Cloud Solution award from the Cloud Awards Program. Voxeo, also as a finalist in Best Cloud Infrastructure category, was selected for its low latency, strong security and reliability. The Cloud Awards program celebrates the brightest and the best in Cloud Computing. Open to organizations across the globe, the Cloud Awards is the first and largest recognition platform of its kind.

Voxeo’s Triple Cloud hybrid cloud solution makes it possible for companies to deploy on-premise solutions in a private cloud, leverage Voxeo’s global cloud hosting, or take advantage of both models in a hybrid deployment that enables low-cost disaster recovery and overflow during peak traffic. The hybrid approach allows companies to maintain the cost benefits of a fixed infrastructure and only use the cloud when needed for peak call volumes, delivering the cost effectiveness of a premise solution with the bursting capabilities and support of the cloud…

Grazed from Scoop.co.nz. Author: Editorial Staff.

What do IBM, Dell, HP, Oracle and SAP have in common? All are mature technology companies – the youngest is Dell formed in 1984 – and they all banking on cloud computing getting them out of the doldrums. There are a few things wrong with that idea.

First, it was cloud computing that got them into trouble in the first place. Hardware sales, particularly servers, fell as companies switched applications and processing to the cloud. Cloud hosted applications disrupt high-end software. It challenges high-margins, undermines the need for infrastructure and support than allows software giants to get away with huge costs.

Oracle, originally a software company but since buying Sun Microsystems with a large hardware business, is in a more nuanced position. It lost server sales to cloud computing while its software business is challenged by nimble, commoditised cloud-based apps. SAP faces just the app challenge…

Grazed from Intel. Author: Editorial Staff.

As Chris Peters recently wrote in his blog, Business Innovation – Opportunities and Trends for 2014, “cloud computing is here to stay.” It seems indisputable that as business becomes more mobile and IT becomes more decentralized, cloud technology will enable the majority of business initiatives.

Intel and Cisco recently teamed up to survey 4,226 IT leaders on the ways cloud technologies were impacting their respective IT organizations. The result was a comprehensive, multi-industry view of the cloud. While IT leaders overwhelmingly agreed that the cloud was a positive presence in their operations, it was also clear that there is no one-size-fits-all cloud solution…

Grazed from ProgrammableWeb. Author: Michael Vizard.

The emergence of platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings as a foundation to build applications in a way that abstracts traditional middleware is proving to be a boon for developers in the age of the cloud. The challenge is that there is no such thing as a single cloud. The cloud actually consists of a mix of programmable platforms that lie both inside and out of the traditional enterprise.

Apprenda wants to make it easier to invoke those cloud resources with the inclusion of an API that allows developers to dynamically scale resources in response to user traffic demands or a specific policy requirement within the PaaS environment. As a (PaaS) offering that can be deployed on premise or in the cloud, Rakesh Malhotra, vice president of product for Apprenda, says version 5.0 of the company’s namesakes PaaS offering is the first PaaS environment that provides an API through which developers can dynamically control how IT resources are consumed across a hybrid cloud computing environment…

Grazed from FedTechMagazine. Author: Jimmy Daly.

Cloud computing is no longer an option for federal agencies — it’s a must. Many agencies have moved their core IT to the cloud, and the rest are either in progress or in search of the right solution. Cloud computing is one of just a few technologies that is so powerful and beneficial that the government has no choice but to adopt it.

Like email and mobility before it, cloud computing is forcing government IT leaders to make hard choices about the future of their agencies. According to IDC, the government will be spending $7.7 billion on cloud computing by 2017. MeriTalk’s Cloud Computing Exchange recently released the Cloud First Consumer Guide, the result of interviews with 15 federal IT leaders and several years of monitoring cloud-computing trends…

Grazed from Microsoft. Author: Editorial Staff.

Microsoft Corp. today announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Satya Nadella as Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors effective immediately. Nadella previously held the position of Executive Vice President of Microsoft’s Cloud and Enterprise group.

“During this time of transformation, there is no better person to lead Microsoft than Satya Nadella,” said Bill Gates, Microsoft’s Founder and Member of the Board of Directors. “Satya is a proven leader with hard-core engineering skills, business vision and the ability to bring people together. His vision for how technology will be used and experienced around the world is exactly what Microsoft needs as the company enters its next chapter of expanded product innovation and growth.” …

Grazed from PRNewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Offering Public or private cloud operators greater choice and flexibility in the provisioning and management of enterprise applications, MPSTOR today announced a new VMware VMDK version of its Orkestra™ Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platform based on the open-source operating system OpenStack™.

As an innovative and award-winning leading developer of storage and cloud management software products, MPSTOR developed the Orkestra cloud management platform to make datacenter infrastructure invisible, programmable and immediately available to end users, allowing them to self-serve the exact quantity and quality of data storage, networking and computing resources required for their applications…

Grazed from Arista. Author: PR Announcement.

Arista Networks, Inc. today announced the crossing of another major milestone, shipping its two millionth, high speed, 10/40/100Gb Ethernet port for data center and cloud applications. This is being fueled by the increased acceptance of cloud computing and services, causing significant growth since the internet boom of the 1990s.

“We are pleased with the migration to modern data center and cloud platforms from legacy networks. This is providing significant opportunity for Arista’s disruptive innovations,” stated Jayshree Ullal, president and CEO at Arista Networks. “Arista EOS, coupled with advanced platforms, demonstrates our unwavering commitment to customers towards open standards and software defined networks (SDN).”…