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Grazed from PR.com.  Author: PR Announcement.

StarWind Software Inc., a leading provider of software-defined storage and storage virtualization software, announced today that their solution, StarWind iSCSI SAN & NAS, has been nominated as a finalist in the SVC Awards 2013 in two categories: "Virtualization Management Product of the Year" and "Storage Virtualization Product of the Year." These highly prestigious awards reward products, projects and services, and honor companies and teams which operate in the cloud, virtualization, and storage sectors.

StarWind iSCSI SAN & NAS delivers industry-adopted storage architecture, which helps to solve common challenges in storage environments including: storage system costs, capacity growth, securing confidential data, inability to scale efficiently, and other complex management problems. One of the most affordable and easy-to-use solutions available, StarWind software provides innovative and advanced technologies which deliver powerful data protection, cost savings and business process improvements…

Grazed from Midsize Insider.  Author: Sue Poremba.

The future of cloud computing seems to be in the hybrid cloud. In an October press release, Gartner predicts that by 2017, half of all large enterprises will have adopted a hybrid environment, and CWCS Managed Hosting predicts that 43 percent of all businesses will be using hybrid, up from 27 percent today.

Predicting Hybrid Cloud Growth

In an article in BusinessNewsDaily, staff writer Sara Angeles reports that midsize businesses will likely be the driver for this move to hybrid due to the fact that they have taken the lead in other cloud technologies. Based on the data from various areas of cloud usage in midsize businesses, all data indicates a good degree of growth for the hybrid option…

Grazed from PRWeb. Author: PR Announcement.

Talygen, the world leader in Business Management Automation today unveiled its cloud storage feature. Companies can now store and share their files in the cloud for easy access and collaboration among managers, team members and clients. Users no longer have to worry about saving files in the wrong device or carrying large disk drives with them. Since everything is stored in the cloud, users can gain access to their documents as long as they have access to the internet.

This also means that users no longer have to worry about failed back-ups or corrupt documents. “Cloud computing is essential in project management since it involves a lot of communication and collaboration among teams and clients,” mentioned Harold Saini, Chief Program Manager at Talygen. “With our cloud storage capabilities, users can do that and so much more.” Some of the features and benefits that come with Talygen’s cloud storage include: …

Grazed from TechSling. Author: Thomas Parent.

Cloud computing technology continues to evolve at an astounding pace. As more individuals and organizations have embraced this technology, cloud computing architecture has changed to accommodate increasingly diverse requirements. Initially, cloud computing was synonymous with public clouds which are hosted on shared servers.

When security concerns were raised, many organizations adopted private clouds which are housed on dedicated servers. These developments spawned hybrid clouds which incorporate both public and private clouds. Now multi-clouds are becoming popular. The term multi-cloud refers to multiple public and/or private clouds (this generally includes hybrid clouds as well)…

Grazed from Channelnomics. Author: Larry Walsh.

There’s nary a tech vendor in the market that doesn’t have a cloud computing story to tell. Every vendor – hardware or software – is touching cloud services in one form or another. And, correctly so, most see cloud computing and the services model as the wave of future.

The problem is cloud transformation – the conversion of revenue streams from traditional product sales to recurring revenue – isn’t easy. IBM’s most recently quarterly earnings reveal this fact, even as the company’s cloud revenue’s top $1 billion for the first time…

Grazed from GCN. Author: Michael C. Daconta.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and IBM recently have been battling in court over a $600 million contract to build a private cloud for the CIA. That’s a sizable contract, but it’s worth much more than its face value. Let’s briefly examine the facts in the case and their ramifications:

• AWS wins the contract from the CIA in late 2012.
• IBM protests to the Government Accountability Office in February 2013.
• GAO sides with IBM on two points and recommends the CIA rebid the contract.
• AWS sues the government to stop the re-bid. IBM files as “intervener” in the case.
• On Oct. 7, a federal judge rules in favor of AWS…

Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Charles Babcock.

"I can’t tell you how excited I was to get the call to come speak here," said Brad Anderson, Microsoft’s corporate VP for cloud and enterprise engineering, Tuesday as he faced the Oracle OpenWorld audience filled with several thousand potential Windows Azure cloud users. No Microsoft executive had ever made an OpenWorld keynote before.

Oracle and Microsoft, for the last decade, have bitterly vied to see which would be the dominant database on Windows: Oracle or SQL Server. The stakes grew higher as Windows Server became more strongly entrenched in the enterprise data center. At some point, both decided neither was ever going to own the market outright. At the same time, the rise of Amazon Web Services showed what had been brewing while they grappled with each other. If some database users were finding a home on AWS, they potentially weren’t using either Oracle or SQL Server. It might just be time for a strategic re-alignment…

Grazed from Barron’s. Author: Tiernan Ray.

The fervor for disruption has become a fever. Last week I noted that cloud-computing software companies such as Salesforce.com (ticker: CRM) and Workday (WDAY) are the new stock-market darlings because they are disrupting the traditional businesses of Microsoft (MSFT) and Oracle (ORCL) and the like.

But the market’s appetite for everything cloud is rapacious, and those current darlings will have to soon make way for a flood of new stock issues. Some of the new players are essentially building the cloud itself: They’re building the infrastructure that is allowing computing work to move off of the server computers stored in an enterprise’s own data center, and instead be run at the facilities of a telecommunications operator or a hosting provider…

Grazed from ExecutiveBiz. Author: Mary-Louise Hoffman.

VMware has unveiled a series of updates to its virtualization software portfolio that will work to help enterprises manage workloads in multiple cloud computing-based platforms, Network World reported Tuesday.
Brandon Butler writes the company updated its vCloud Automation Center that is built to automate information technology services delivery.

Version six of the automation tool is built to work with Red Hat OpenStack in addition to Microsoft‘s and Amazon‘s cloud infrastructures, according to the report. Butler reports vCenter Operations Management Suite 5.8 incorporates analytics technology that is designed to help users monitor configuration issues in cloud platforms from Microsoft, Amazon Web Services and VMware…

Read more from the source @ http://blog.executivebiz.com/2013/10/vmware-updates-multi-platform-cloud-mgmt-products/

Grazed from F5. Author: PR Announcement.

F5 Networks (NASDAQ: FFIV) announced today it is joining the OpenStack Foundation as a Corporate Sponsor. By supporting the rapidly emerging and popular OpenStack cloud software, F5 is demonstrating its commitment to evolving standards-based cloud platforms and providing customers with greater choice and flexibility in deploying public and private cloud solutions.

OpenStack is an open source cloud computing platform that helps organisations manage compute, storage, and networking resources in private and public cloud environments. Service providers, enterprises, government agencies, and academic institutions around the world use OpenStack to power demanding production workloads…