Category: News

Grazed from PR NewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

For leading cloud server provider Infinitely Virtual (www.infinitelyvirtual.com), 2014 is getting off to a rewarding start. The company earned Top #10 rankings in two categories in the January 2014 Web Host Awards – Best Cloud Computing Provider and Fastest Growing Provider. The accolades follow on the heels of Infinitely Virtual’s finalist status in the 2013-2014 Cloud Awards Program – again in two categories, Best Cloud Hosting Provider and Best Cloud Reseller/Reseller Program.

“While we don’t develop our products and services expressly to garner awards, it’s gratifying when the industry recognizes that our way of doing business is worthy of this kind of attention,” said Adam Stern, founder and CEO, Infinitely Virtual. “In every solution we offer, we think of the real-world issues that confront small and midsize businesses as they migrate to the cloud. In our view, that partnership mentality is behind our success in the market.”…

Grazed from EFYTimes. Author: Editorial Staff.

As organizations look to consolidate their existing data centers and shift more of their workloads to the cloud, IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced that this trend has helped fuel the growing momentum for the IBM PureSystems family of expert integrated systems, which have now shipped more than 10,000 units through the 4th Quarter of 2013.

Another aspect of this trend is that as more organizations embrace cloud computing, they are looking to Managed Service Providers (MSPs) to help them quickly develop and deploy cloud based services in a more secure and economical way. These MSPs – many in key regions such as India, Brazil and China – are increasingly turning to IBM PureSystems over other vendors’ offerings in order to transform their data centers and provide the IT infrastructure that meets the needs of their clients…

Grazed from Datamation. Author: Editorial Staff.

Due to the increasing importance of virtualization and cloud computing in the enterprise, the Software Defined Data Center, or Virtual Data Center, is gaining momentum. Once applications are separated from underlying hardware, it makes sense to push the concept further. And once application assets reside in a nebulous cloud that may be difficult for IT to gain visibility into, let alone maintain and manage, ideas like Software Defined Data Centers (SDDC) start to make a quite a bit of sense. To date, the only Software-Defined market with any real traction is for Software Defined Networking products. A 2012 study by IDC predicted that SDN spending would reach $360 million in 2013, expanding to $3.7 billion by 2016.

Analyst forecasts aren’t the only way to measure the potential of SDN, though. In 2012, VMware acquired SDN startup Nicira for $1.26 billion. Brocade, Cisco, and Juniper followed suit by acquiring Vyatta, Cariden, and Contrail, respectively. Moreover, VCs are pouring serious money into this sector, heavily financing such startups as Affirmed Networks ($103 million raised to date), Big Switch Networks ($45 million), and Plexxi ($48 million)…

Grazed from PRNewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Based on Current Population Survey statistics from July 2012, the Computer and Internet Access in the United States infographic provides household and individual level analysis of computer use and Internet access, as well as a profile of individual smartphone usage. A set of tables will accompany the infographic. Internet address: http://www.census.gov/hhes/computer/

To view the inforgraphic directly, visit http://www.census.gov/hhes/computer/files/2012/Computer_Use_Infographic_FINAL.pdf

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Grazed from BitCloud. Author: Editorial Staff.

There’s a lot of noise and hubbub in the cloud computing marketplace, with vendors large and small vigorously promoting their individual cloud offerings, leading to a fair degree of uncertainty and confusion. How much of it is “pie in the sky” as they say? Perhaps a little history can put “the cloud” into perspective before we examine the hybrid cloud concept. Back in the 1970s distributed computers were interconnected via a networking architecture, using telephone circuits that were permanently-connected or dial-up point-to-point lines.

The early 1980s saw the arrival of packet-switched networks (such as X.25), in which the computers were connected more loosely, without permanent point-to-point lines, with the abstraction of dynamic “logical” circuits rather than a direct physical circuit connection for an entire session. Data packets for a message could travel across different circuits at different times, and the packet-switching protocols saw to the proper eventual reassembly of each message at the destination…

Grazed from Sourceable. Author: Editorial Staff.

A crucial factor for the success of a business is choosing the right location. One of the biggest challenges for efficient BIM project management has been file size, central storage, and equal and timely access to project files and raw computing power. Web-based BIM projects (located in the BIM Cloud) provide team members with the advantage of remote access to a centralized location on the Internet. This provides on-demand global team access to the BIM-based project regardless of their geographic location.

Centralized Storage: A web-hosted BIM project site provides scalable, centralized project storage. As the project grows, additional file storage can be purchased when required. Contractually, owners are requesting more documentation to be delivered for Facility Management (FM) and Operations and Maintenance (O&M)…

Grazed from FierceGovernmentIT. Author: David Perera.

A public sector cloud computing association says court filings made by Google in its defense against a lawsuit filed over email keyword-targeted advertising show the search engine giant mining educational users data for ad targeting purposes. Google offers "Apps for Education," for which it turns off ads by default, notes Jeff Gould, chief executive officer of San Francisco, Calif.-based Peerstone Research, in a blog post on SafeGov.org.

SafeGov describes itself as a forum for information technology providers and experts who are dedicated to promoting trusted and responsible cloud computing solutions for the public sector. But, declarations by a Google attorney (.pdf) and an employee (.pdf) in lawsuit filed in the U.S. Northern California district by some Gmail users who allege that Gmail machine email reading amounts to a violation of wiretapping law show that Google is in at least some cases scanning Apps for Education emails in order to target ads on other Google platforms, such as YouTube…

Grazed from CRMBuyer. Author: Richard Adhikari.

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said last week that his main rivals were the new generation of cloud companies, and that IBM and SAP were no longer in his gun sights. Oracle is focusing on cloud infrastructure companies such as Amazon and SaaS providers such as former ally Salesforce.com, Ellison told attendees at CloudWorld in San Francisco.

"Oracle may have some big ambitions, but if it thinks it’s going to severely dent this IaaS/PaaS market share picture any time soon, it’s kidding itself," John Dinsdale, chief analyst at the Synergy Research Group, told CRM Buyer. "IBM, Microsoft and Google are all pushing very hard and aggressively growing their IaaS/PaaS revenues, but [Amazon Web Services] remains in a league of its own," he continued…

Grazed from ITProPortal. Author: Del Lunn.

The term hybrid cloud is used to refer to a combination of public and private clouds that are tailored to suit an organisation’s specific business needs. As a minimum, a single private cloud and single public cloud are all that are required to create a hybrid cloud computing platform. However, organisations can always combine multiple private and public clouds to suit the business’ requirements.

A public cloud enables organisations to adopt enterprise class technologies for their environment at an affordable price point. However, security, availability, compliance, performance, portability and the cloud provider’s market longevity can often be of concern. A private cloud can answer these concerns but is more expensive to deploy and operate. A hybrid cloud offers both these benefits by integrating an organisations data and processing the data into the correct cloud. This prompts the following question: with regards to the hybrid cloud, which data goes where?…

Grazed from ReadWrite. Author: Editorial Staff.

Among the several reasons for Red Hat to embrace CentOS, its erstwhile copycatting nemesis, one explanation has largely been overlooked: The cloud made them do it. More specifically, OpenStack made them do it. Red Hat had all but sewn up the market for Linux in the data center. But in the cloud, the market for Linux is both wide open—and perhaps nonexistent.

OpenStack Loves Freedom

OpenStack polls its user base every few months to see which technologies are popular on the open-source cloud platform. The most recent results from October show strong adoption for Ubuntu and CentOS, and very little for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL):…

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