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Grazed from ITNewsOnline. Author: PR Announcement.

To help enterprises and cloud computing service providers achieve tighter data security, Blancco, the global leader in data erasure and computer reuse solutions, has introduced Blancco vCloud Eraser. The new software provides complete erasure and auditable reporting capabilities for virtualized data center environments that use the popular VMware vCloud Director tool.

Designed in conjunction with the VMware Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) Program, Blancco vCloud Eraser adds an extra dimension to vCloud Director’s security foundation. With seamless integration and access through the vCloud Director user interface, Blancco vCloud Eraser automatically destroys all data when a virtual server?vApp? is deleted and provides a detailed report as proof…

Grazed from WSJ. Author: Don Clark.

An already fierce battle for primacy among cloud services will shift into a more costly phase next year, IDC predicts. To the victors go the spoils–software developers. The research firm, as a part of a broad annual year-ahead forecast being issued Tuesday, predicts that the big companies jockeying to take over more corporate computing jobs will pony up to expand their computing capacity in 2014.

“I wouldn’t be surprised to see them grow their cloud data centers by 20%,” said Frank Gens, an IDC analyst who helped lead the forecasting effort. Amazon.com’s Web services unit has a head start in the field, but players like IBM, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, VMware and Salesforce.com are jostling to catch up. Such services–part of what IDC calls the 3rd Platform market–don’t simply provide generic computing cycles, Gens said. Rather, they have assembled distinct stacks of software to help companies make Web-based applications…

Grazed from MarketWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Datapipe, a global provider of managed services and infrastructure for outsourced IT and cloud computing, today announced that it has selected SolidFire, the leader in all-flash storage systems for next generation data centers, as the primary storage system for its Stratosphere® Cloud platform. The Stratosphere® Cloud platform was designed to meet the increasing demands of current and prospective enterprise customers, whose businesses depend on guaranteed performance and reliability.

Datapipe’s Stratosphere® Cloud platform delivers support for a wide range of customer solutions including high performance computing (HPC), managed private cloud, as well as elastic self-service public and private cloud offerings. All offerings are accessible via the Stratosphere® Cloud Management Portal or programmatically via API. Stratosphere® enables enterprises to solve complex business problems and drive new revenues using popular big data applications and NoSQL databases in a secure and predictable high performance cloud…

Grazed from PRNewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Evolve IP, The Cloud Services Company, today announced that it has acquired Paragrid, an Inc. 5000 cloud services company headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio. The strategic acquisition is part of Evolve IP’s national expansion plans and complements its current presence in the Midwest market.

Founded in 2008, Paragrid is a cloud computing provider with a product set that compliments Evolve IP’s current portfolio of cloud computing services. Paragrid’s services, including virtual servers, managed and consulting services, disaster recovery and virtual desktops, are deployed with a national customer base that consists of corporate, healthcare, higher education and government organizations…

Grazed from PR NewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Release of OpenNebula Retina with a simple but feature-rich, customizable and open solution to manage enterprise private clouds and virtualized data centers. The OpenNebula Project is excited to announce the nineteenth stable release of its widely deployed OpenNebula cloud management platform, a fully open-source solution for data center management and enterprise cloud computing. With a sysadmin-centric approach, OpenNebula is the open operating system of choice in the converged data centre, combining a powerful virtualization manager that supports traditional IT features such as fault tolerance and failover, with the dynamic provisioning, elasticity and multi-tenancy of the enterprise cloud.

OpenNebula 4.4 Retina includes support for multiple system datastores, which enables the definition of scheduling policies for storage load balancing. The monitoring subsystem has switched from a pulling mechanism to a massively scalable pushing model, being now able to monitor hundreds of thousands of VMs in a few minutes…

Grazed from New York Times. Author: Quentin Hardy.

Google already runs much of the digital lives of consumers through email, Internet searches and YouTube videos. Now it wants the corporations, too. The search giant has for years been evasive about its plans for a so-called public cloud of computers and data storage that is rented to individuals and businesses. On Tuesday, however, it will announce pricing, features and performance guarantees aimed at companies ranging from start-ups to multinationals.

It is the latest salvo in an escalating battle among some of the most influential companies in technology to control corporate and government computing through public clouds. That battle, which is expected to last years and cost the competitors billions of dollars annually in material and talent, already includes Microsoft, IBM and Amazon…

Grazed from WhaTech. Author: Ed Rooney.

With all the talk about cloud computing, many businesses leaders are left wondering which approach is best to ensure moving to the cloud results in a successful outcome. Like anything that involves change, a prudent strategy from the outset will reduce the risk and this is no different for cloud adoption.

There is no shortage of promises made by cloud providers. Benefits like agility, speed to market and cost reduction are common talking points during cloud presentations. With the benefits of the cloud model well defined, the biggest challenge for many organisations is how to change from delivering on-premise IT to a cloud alternative…

Grazed from Midsize Insider. Author: Shawn Drew.

The public cloud, and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) solutions in particular, may have developed a proven track record over the past few years, but that has not led to universal business adoption as some had predicted. All that could be about to change, however, in light of a new survey that shows more and more businesses are ready to take the plunge into the cloud. IT managers at midsize businesses need to be cognizant of this fact in order to keep their departments up to date and their companies a step ahead of the competition.

Cloud Computing and IaaS Are Mainstream

The new research comes from a survey taken by Riverbed at Amazon’s AWS re:Invent 2013 conference held in November. The 122 participants, all responsible for IT management or application development, were asked a number of questions regarding their company’s current cloud situation…

Grazed from GreatResponder. Author: Maria Dehn.

The CEO of Salesforce Marc Benioff announced one of the most ambitious cloud computing based platform of the company last week. He unleashed the innovative and highly capable cloud platform during the IT event of the company “Dreamforce” in San Franscisco. He termed the platform as the most promising, futuristic and ideal for the integrated approach for customers to experience the internet of customers on a single platform.

Explaining the features and capabilities of this cloud platform, Benioff said, “This platform is very suitable for the developers for mobile, social and cloud applications – and we have strived to provide the best way to interact with the customers the way they deserve to be interacted.” He further said that mobile applications are a bit difficult to build but this new generation platform makes it more convenient for the developers. He further pointed out that they have assessed the way to connect with the customers very delicately and developed this platform as a complete and consolidated solution to connect the customers entirely new way…

Zadara Storage, provider of enterprise-class private cloud storage by the hour, today announced that it has further expanded North American channel availability of its award-winning Virtual Private Storage Array (VPSA) enterprise Storage as a Service (STaaS) offering by naming two new members of its Zadara Integration Partner Program (ZIPP). Capella Telecommunications Inc., a value-added reseller to Canada’s telecommunications industry, and SoftNet Solutions, a solutions provider specializing in high performance enterprise computing applications, will be able to provide their customers with the option of accessing data center-grade SAN and NAS features to support Tier 1 primary storage for low latency, high IOPS applications – affordably, with a monthly payment option, and without the downsides of traditional enterprise storage.