Category: News

Grazed from TMCNet. Author: Ed Silverstein.

Revenue in the global server market dropped 2.1 percent when comparing Q3 of this year and Q3 of 2012 – in what was called “weak performance” by Gartner. Sector watchers blame competition from cloud computing services, as well as some other causes such as the wider economy. Small businesses, especially, may find moving to the cloud instead of replacing an old server more sensible. Cloud is well-suited for many small companies.

The cloud offers more flexibility, leads to lower costs and provides more security and greater efficiency, according to media reports. In fact, earlier this year one MYOB survey showed that small- or medium-sized businesses that adopted Cloud technology were “twice as likely to see an earnings uplift in the past year.”…

Grazed from WSJ. Author: Deborah Gage.

Despite the hype around cloud computing, there will always be some information that companies want to keep out of the cloud. File sharing and synchronization company Egnyte Inc. has built itself on that bet, and the company raised another $29.5 million this week as it moves toward a possible IPO. Valuation, while undisclosed, has more than doubled since the last round, when it was more than $100 million.

“The view that companies are going to move 100% of data to the cloud is unrealistic,” said Northgate Capital Group Managing Partner Brent Jones, whose firm invested in Egnyte. “[The idea that some] information is too sensitive to go to the cloud is a huge market [and] a real differentiator.”…

Grazed from CMSWire. Author: David Roe.

Enterprise software spending will recover next year driven by the combined forces of cloud computing, data management, mobile applications and social business, according to new research from Gartner. The research adds that the nexus of these four forces will result in the biggest disruption to the software market since 2000, but will also result in new opportunities for vendors.

The research, "Market Trends: Monetizing Gartner’s Nexus of Forces in the Enterprise Software Markets" by Tom Eid, found more than 26 percent of total software enterprise revenues will be driven by the dovetailing of these areas of software, up from 12 percent in 2012…

Grazed from ComputerWorld. Author: Patrick Thibodeau.

Cloud adopters face serious risk in the next two years because of the strong possibility that their provider will be acquired or forced out of business, according to Gartner. The research firm is predicting a major consolidation in cloud services and estimates that about 25% of the top 100 IT service providers in the infrastructure space won’t be around by 2015. "One in four vendors will be gone for whatever reason — acquisition, bankruptcy," said William Maurer, a Gartner analyst. Most of the time, the changes will come through acquisition.

"There is real risk," said Maurer to a packed room for his presentation at the Gartner Data Center Conference. "We’re in the phase of buyer beware with cloud," said Michael Salvador, who attended the presentation. He is a technical solutions manager at Belden, which makes cable, connectivity and networking products…

Grazed from MarketWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Persistent Systems (BOMBAY: PERSISTENT) (NSE: PERSISTENT), the global leader in software product and technology services, today announced that TMC, a global, integrated media company, has named Persistent Systems a 2013 Cloud Computing Excellence Award winner by Cloud Computing Magazine. The Cloud Computing Excellence Awards recognize companies that have most effectively leveraged cloud computing in their efforts to bring new, differentiated offerings to market.

Persistent Systems received the award in recognition of its role in helping Ittavi, the modern family financial management company deploy SupportPay, the first product to enable parents to directly manage their child support payments and expenses. Ittavi turned to Persistent Systems to develop a cloud-based and mobile child support solution that would allow parents to track child support and child expenses, upload receipts, communicate via the system and make payments online, either to each other or to a third party. Persistent’s development team provided Ittavi with a cost effective and robust solution using cloud and mobility best practices…

Grazed from CRIEnglish. Author: PR Announcement.

A leading information technology company on Wednesday unveiled China’s first cloud computer, a major breakthrough for Chinese cloud computing. The computer developed by the Unisplendour Corporation Limited of Tsinghua University, has a dynamically scalable function in computing power and storage capacity in accordance with customer requirements, according to a statement from the company.

The number of the computer’s CPU can be expanded to 65,535 and its storage space can reach up to 85 PB bytes, with a throughput of 1.2 GB bytes per second, according to the statement. It differs from personal computers and supercomputers in terms of distributed architecture and combines virtualization technology of cloud computing and computing resources with lower cost…

Grazed from CIO. Author: Bernadette Jew.

Not so long ago, cloud computing services were viewed as alternative or fringe options for large enterprises – useful for limited purposes, but not viable as mainstream solutions. However, given the rapid rate of technology evolution over the past 12 months, there is now an air of inevitability around migration to the cloud. In the past, the focus was on the risk to enterprises of moving to the cloud. That focus hasn’t gone away but the debate has now moved on.

The cost imperatives and speed-to-market capabilities are so compelling that we will be forced to find solutions to address any impediments arising from security, privacy, data sovereignty, etc. And it’s only a matter of time before just about everything will be delivered as a service…

Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Grant Moerschel.

The traditional worker bee comes into the office, logs in to a dedicated computer via Microsoft Active Directory credentials, and gets access to local applications and data shares needed to conduct daily activities. Simple, familiar, controlled — and totally out of date for companies dealing with mobile devices, cloud computing, BYOD, and the blurring line between work and home, business and personal.

As the use of mobile and cloud computing booms, we’re outgrowing our trusty old technology for identity and access management. But our future vision — to know a person’s identity across all the multiple devices, cloud services, and roles he has — isn’t possible with today’s still-emerging technology. This causes lots of confusion as vendors vie to be the next great thing and IT tries to determine where to place bets…

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: CJ Arlotta.

OwnCloud enables choice of storage, public or private. Cloud-based file sync and share technology provider ownCloud has raised $4.4 million of a proposed $7 million round of funding. The round of funding was disclosed in an SEC filing this week by OwnCloud. The funding will be used for the company’s sales and marketing, and developer organizations, a company spokesperson told Talkin’ Cloud.

An ownCloud spokesperson told MSPmentor explained the company’s differentiation from other vendors such as Box or Dropbox in the following way:…

Read more from the source @ http://talkincloud.com/cloud-computing/owncloud-raises-44m-expand-sales-and-marketing

Grazed from Forbes. Author: Dick Csaplar.

Cloud computing is and will have an extensive impact on the IT infrastructure of companies of all sizes. I’ve come to this conclusion thanks to my extensive research as a Senior Analyst with the Aberdeen Group. And after a survey of a wide range of companies in January, we’re able to see an even clearer picture of how the public cloud is being used.

The data show that small companies — organizations with up to 100 employees — are, in general, gaining much from using new services based in the cloud, specifically ones they could not afford to purchase and manage on their own. As seen in the chart below, small companies do not find application integration and customization a challenge. Because these tasks are very technical, small businesses don’t even attempt them: They use the cloud services as they are provided, “right from the box.”…