Category: News

Grazed from CIOL. Author: Editorial Staff.

Microsoft recently announced a wave of new enterprise products and services to help companies seize the opportunities of cloud computing and overcome today’s top IT challenges. New Windows Server, System Center, Visual Studio, Windows Azure, Windows Intune, SQL Server, and Dynamics solutions will accelerate cloud benefits for customers. Complementing many services, these new offerings deliver on Microsoft’s enterprise cloud strategy.

Hybrid infrastructure and modern applications

To help customers build IT infrastructure that delivers continuous services and applications across clouds, Microsoft has released Windows Server 2012 R2 and System Center 2012 R2. Together, these new products empower companies to create datacenters without boundaries using Hyper-V for high-scale virtualization; high-performance storage at dramatically lower costs; built-in, software-defined networking; and hybrid business continuity…

Grazed from PRWeb.  Author: PR Announcement.

Corelynx has announced that all its cloud services and software will be based on Open Stack powered open cloud architecture. Open cloud architecture will benefit both Corelynx, and its customers. Corelynx will gain from the unparalleled innovation found in open source communities along with the vibrant ecosystem of ISV partners that grow from these open standards initiatives. The customers will benefit from the ability to leverage the open source and open standards APIs and to extend them—either through third-party capability or through innovation and extension of their own.

Corelynx and OpenStack

OpenStack is the largest active open source, cloud project community in the world with 189+ organizations and 9,100+ individuals participating. This huge global collaboration of developers and technologists are working to produce a ubiquitous Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) open source cloud computing platform…

Grazed from GigaOM.  Author: David Linthicum.

According to Midsize Insider (an IBM publication), “The term ‘cloud’ has been an IT catchphrase for a short period although the types of services that define this technology have been in use for some time. This kind of computing may already be mainstream and no longer have the need for a catchphrase.”

This is something I’ve been saying for awhile, that the term ‘cloud’ will eventually bake out of cloud computing and it will be just another model for computing.  Much like other technologies that came along in the past, it just becomes a part of our architectural arsenal.  The term “cloud” always seemed buzz-wordy to me.  Indeed, we called it other things before the term “cloud” stuck, including on-demand, Web 2.0, Internet-hosted, etc., but I’m not sure those are any better…

Grazed from IDG News.  Author: Sharon Florentine.

Thanks to cloud computing along with other disruptive technologies such as mobility, M2M and big data analytics, workers will have more and better information at their fingertips, allowing them to make smarter decisions faster in 2014.

"We are experiencing the democratization of enterprise technology," says David Small, chief platform officer of Verizon Enterprise Solutions. "Mirroring what has happened in consumer technology, enterprise technology users look for services to be delivered on demand, to a time and place of their choosing and in the way that they want. In 2014, enterprise success will be measured by how well organizations are able to use technology to meet user expectations and harness individual innovation."…

Grazed from Business2Community.  Author: Jamie Wadell.

Whilst the benefits of today’s online technologies are vast and varied, it’s nearly impossible for a novice to grasp the full extent of the online threats we expose ourselves to on a daily basis. According to a security survey by Fortinet’s, the levels of ignorance to more complex hazards is dangerously high.

Whether caused by inadequate safety measures or human error, enough leaks and security breaches have been reported in the news to make us wonder just how vulnerable our data really is. The evolution of cloud computing and the boom in tablet and smartphone sales leaves little room for doubt: the remote access phenomenon is moving ahead full steam…

Grazed from ReadWrite.  Author: Sharon Wagner.

When we look at the future of cloud, we have to consider the current business trajectory. It’s clear to me that the three most consumed cloud resources are compute, database and storage—they account for about 80% of the average business customer’s monthly cloud bill.

Given the fact that these three components are the basic foundations for any cloud application, it should come as no surprise that most cloud vendors expect to continue to invest in these domains in 2014…

Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: Tyle Gillings.

It isn’t far now; the celebrations of next year are just around the corner. Many are looking back over the year and studying what has already come to pass, while others are pondering on what’s to come. Many trends have been offered as possibilities surrounding Cloud Computing. However, what I am tremendously interested in comprises of budgets, security measures and consumer outcomes.

Considering that this time last year there were high debates as to how big the Cloud would actually get, to what extents it would be used and how much it would be worth by the end of the year. Now that the Cloud is bigger than ever, what are the analysts saying about the Cloud; what do they predict for 2014?…

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.

As organizations of all sizes adopt cloud computing services, many are beginning to take a more active role in evaluating cloud applications as part of the software procurement process. According to the annual SailPoint Market Pulse Survey, 63 percent of enterprises now require IT decision-makers to evaluate services during the procurement process.

However, just as businesses are starting to dive into the deep end of the cloud pool, the survey also indicates that they are not so quick to adopt security best practices around cloud. The survey indicated that many enterprises are adopting, or even mandating, cloud services, but many of those currently do not have the IT controls in place to properly manage them. It’s creating increased risk of fraud, theft and privacy breaches…

Grazed from eWeek.  Author: Jeff Burt.

When Verizon began laying the groundwork several years ago for its new public cloud, company IT executives set several goals for the environment. They wanted consistent performance, high security and availability, and they didn’t want customers to have to modify their applications in order to run them in the cloud.  They wanted few moving parts and no special hardware.

"We wanted very few actual hardware components," Paul Curtis, chief architect of cloud computing at Verizon, said during Advanced Micro Device’s Developer Summit 2013 in November. "My boss said, ‘I only have five fingers in my hand. Don’t make me use them all.’"  There was to be "no honking router outside of this. … No special firewall, no special anything. It just doesn’t scale."…

Grazed from ComputerWorld.  Author: Jaikumar Vijayan.

The leaking of classified documents detailing the data collection activities of the U.S. National Security Agency earlier this year reignited some long-standing concerns about the vulnerability of enterprise data stored in the cloud.  But instead of scaring businesses away from using hosted services, as some experts predicted, the leaks about the NSA spy programs are driving some long overdue changes in enterprise and service provider security and privacy policies.

When Edward Snowden first began spilling details of the NSA’s surveillance practices to selected reporters in June, industry analysts had expected that the revelations would put a severe crimp on plans for cloud deployment…