The ongoing battle for the cloud
Grazed from ITBusinessNet. Author: Editorial Staff.
The last couple of years has introduced us to a relatively new phenomena, which has seen some big names in the technology industry taking over various cloud computing firms. It’s been deemed ‘The battle for the cloud’, and as IT companies continue to increase their spend on software and marketing software, let’s take a closer look at what’s going on in this ‘battle’.
This June, SAP AG acquired Swiss-based firm Hybris AG, to compete against Saleforce’s market share gain which had left the company falling behind the global cloud computing company in the market. Salesforce had previously acquired ExactTarget, a marketing software film earlier in the month, after they received $300,000 in financial assistance from the Bank of America. Firms such as these seem eager to acquire marketing companies such as ExactTarget and are willing to do what it takes to make it happen…
Xerox is offering managed service tools for enterprises that want to reduce the costs of remote printing. Xerox has added features to its Mobile Print app and bundled more security and audit tools so the app can be easily incorporated within existing managed print services in enterprises, the company said Monday. From PCs or mobile devices, users will be able to print documents at remote locations, but the cost and volume of the printing will be monitored by managed-print service administrators.
One of the goals of cloud computing is to cut down on the work it takes to maintain a company’s underlying hardware and software infrastructure. Servers are virtualized, and tools like Puppet and Chef make it easier to manage and configure hundreds or even thousands of servers. Everything from application design to storage management is being rethought thanks to the cloud.
Leading cloud service provider, RapidScale, is quickly becoming the preferred cloud computing provider for carriers. They have established themselves in the rapidly growing cloud industry by developing the first fully managed multi-tenant cloud solution for the SMB market. One of the keys to success for carriers is the CloudCompliance automation software integrated into the bundle. CloudCompliance gives an organization the ability to fall within compliance regulations for any industry. This ability has truly made RapidScale one of the most secure and compliant cloud service providers in the world.
The next two weeks of tech conferences can be boiled down to one phrase: Cloud computing. Another thread worth noting is whether CIOs and their departments will increasingly become irrelevant due to the cloud. Amazon Web Services will kick off its Re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. Last year’s AWS powwow was an inaugural voyage that highlighted a broad customer base and plenty of C-level types running around. This year’s AWS event will be much larger.
Object storage provider Cloudian announced its effort with two partners Penguin Computing and Intel to provide object storage product as a bundled solution for Cloud OpenStack users. They are now supporting S3 APIs, The product has great elasticity, and is well integrated with OpenStack’s Nova cloud computing, Penguin Computing that built Glance, Horizon, and Keystone now has a new scale-out and multi-datacenter for low power consumption and bring a high storage density, This will enable the Intel® Atom™ 64-bit C2000 processor’s to work very efficient. This system will be provided to users by using Penguin’s global network. The software is also available for users to be used on their own hardware servers.