Category: News

Grazed from ITProPortal. Author: Michele Nemschoff.

The cloud and Hadoop are arguably two of the most talked about IT initiatives of the past couple of years. Both of these technologies have matured to the point where we are no longer talking about what they are, but instead talking about how to best take advantage of them. In the beginning, Apache Hadoop was just a software framework that could store massive volumes of data in a cost-effective manner. Now the uses around Hadoop are more for data analytics and processing, and how new insights and real-time computing can give businesses a significant competitive advantage.

In the world of cloud computing, businesses have started to trust cloud services more and more, as security issues have been addressed. With the maturation of both Hadoop and cloud services, enterprises have started to see value in combining the two – taking advantage of the cloud’s scalability, speed and cost-effectiveness in order to really delve deep into big data analytics…

Grazed from MidsizeInsider. Author: Marissa Tejada.

Cloud computing is on the rise at midsize firms, and many IT professionals understand exactly what they want from cloud providers. A new report shows that, as a result of the rising demand for cloud services, cloud providers are paying attention to these specific needs, and that is changing the way in which options are presented and pricing models developed.

Cloud Contracts

According to a new analysis by CloudScreener, featured in the E-Commerce Times, small and midsize companies are seeking less costly cloud storage capacity. Sixty-five percent of companies prefer not to be locked into a long contract with a service provider, compared with 25 percent that would sign a contract for a year or more. The companies that exhibited confidence in their ability to predict their future needs admitted that they would agree to a contract with a discount. Short-term contracts are increasing in price, and some vendors continue to offer pay-as-you-go packages…

Grazed from MarketWire. Author: PR Announcement.

BizCloud® Inc., a cloud computing and infrastructure provider, announced today that it has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California seeking to prevent Computer Science Corporation (CSC), AT&T Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., VMware Inc., and EMC for continued infringement and willful and deliberate use of BizCloud®’s registered "BIZCLOUD" trademark. The suit, filed on January 10, 2014, includes claims of willful trademark infringement, unfair competition, unfair business practices, injury to business reputation and unjust enrichment.

In continuous operation since late 2008, BizCloud® has been providing cutting edge technology and cloud infrastructure solutions to the clients in the U.S. and Europe, and has built a strong, recognizable brand that is trusted in the cloud computing market. BizCloud® has been continuously using the "BIZCLOUD" name since 2009 to establish a leading brand of cloud computing products and services in the U.S…

Grazed from TechRadar. Author: Al Parvin.

Cloud computing is being widely adopted by many businesses, however, for some organisations, one of the perceived barriers is the multitude of data regulation. Highly regulated industries such as finance and healthcare have a multitude of laws and rules governing data.
For these industries, data ownership is a highly sensitive and extremely important issue which makes implementing cloud technology complex and difficult.

For those wanting to take advantage of the benefits of cloud computing, could the answer lie in creating a vertical or community cloud. A vertical cloud would be a public cloud developed and delivered with regulations and compliance geared towards a particular sector. For example, a dedicated healthcare cloud could be created which followed the UK laws regarding patient data…

Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: Simon Phipps.

With the shift to cloud well under way, can we expect to see the same innovation-crushing surge of patent abuse in the field of cloud computing? Given the increasing deal sizes in the cloud space, the move by market leaders to focus on cloud for future growth, and the shortfall of current reform activity to restrict only the most egregious patent trolls (and not those using trolling as a line-of-business within a larger enterprise), it seems foreordained.

Much of cloud computing relies deeply on open source software. So the cloud news from the OIN (Open Invention Network) that broke in December — that Google would join and OIN would cover OpenStack — should come as no surprise. Why is the attack of the trolls inevitable? First, cloud computing has deep roots in clustering, scientific computing, and data analysis — and those have been favored topics for university research for years…

Grazed from PRNewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Birlasoft, the IT services arm of the CK Birla group and a global Information Technology Services provider present across US, UK, Europe and APAC, has announced the acquisition of EnablePath, a fast growing CRM solutions provider and Salesforce.com Gold Cloud Alliance Partner based in Atlanta, USA. With this acquisition Birlasoft aims to drive specialized expertise in strategic high-end business consulting, cloud transition, implementation, integration and app exchange services developed on the Salesforce.com platform to provide full-suite of solutions around sales, service, marketing and related cloud environments value chain, in the enterprise and commercial mid-market segments.

This acquisition is a part of larger strategy of Birlasoft to leverage the shift in enterprises from ‘build model’ to business process led ‘consume model’ and a focus on ‘IT outcome’ to ‘business outcome’ based services enabled by technology disruptions like cloud, analytics and mobility…

Grazed from GreatResponder. Author: Maria Dehn.

This was announced on January 10, 2014 by the Verizon Company that its customers can now use Oracle Fusion middleware and Oracle DB on their cloud computing infrastructure. The customers have double options to use Oracle platforms; they can bring their own Oracle license to use Oracle DB and middleware on Verizon infrastructure or they can also get the Oracle DB and middleware services that are already available with licenses on Verizon cloud services.

In the statement of the company, the commitment of the company to provide the consolidated ecosystem of enterprise level information technology services on the cloud computing based infrastructure of Verizon Company. Verizon has started its cloud based enterprise IT service in the month of October 2013 in beta version. These cloud computing services of the Verizon company are being offered under the auspices of the Enterprise Solution Group of Verizon…

Grazed from ITWorld.  Author:  Jeremy Kirk.

Dropbox said Sunday it was making progress in restoring service after the popular file storage service went offline on Friday.  As of Sunday afternoon Pacific time, the service said more than 99 percent of users can access their files. But five percent of users were having trouble syncing files from the desktop client, and about 20 percent were having issues with Dropbox’s mobile applications.

"Within a few hours, well be rolling out a change that will further improve things for those users," according to a blog post.  Dropbox dismissed claims on Friday that it had been hacked and attributed the problems to "routine internal maintenance."…

Grazed from TechTimes.  Author:  Vamien McKalin.

The cloud computing industry in the United States is under threat as several businesses have chosen to move data outside of the country as a result of the shocking revelations by Edward Snowden of National Security Agency’s (NSA) snooping programs. Many companies fear the NSA might gain access to their data, which is the main reason for moving data from the U.S. into another country. This is a huge problem for the United State’s cloud industry, and it could lead to the loss of billions of dollars if the exodus continues.

The information came from a survey performed by PEER 1 Hosting. The website claims that its findings were based on a 10 minute survey conducted on 300 small companies and 250 employees based in Canada and the UK…