Category: News

Grazed from ComputerWorld. Author: Jeff Baxter.

The inaugural IDC Government Insights report, released earlier this year, paints a revealing picture of how the U.S. Federal Government is spending and planning to spend information technology (IT) dollars on cloud solutions.

The report projects that federal cloud services spending will reach $1.7 billion in FY2014, and, boosted in part by U.S. Federal CIO Cloud Council efforts the past few years to usher agencies away from standalone computing to the Cloud, we are starting to see more tangible evidence of not only federal agency cloud spending, but also results…

Grazed from GlobalNewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

SingleHop, a global leader in highly automated bare metal and cloud infrastructure, today announced it will exhibit its wide range of hosted bare metal and cloud infrastructure solutions at Cloud Connect Chicago, the premier technology event for the cloud community. Featuring the latest technologies, strategies and innovations, as well as a variety of cloud providers showcasing cutting edge products and services, Cloud Connect takes place October 21-23, 2013 at McCormick Place in Chicago.

As cloud computing continues to grow in importance and influence, the Cloud Connect event, produced by UBM Tech, provides CIOs, IT professionals, and developers with the information they need to deploy cloud solutions which drive business value. Through first-hand interactions with peers, luminaries, and emerging as well established companies, Cloud Connect attracts the best and brightest in the field, creating opportunities for conference attendees and customers to learn about cloud computing’s most important issues…

Grazed from Diginomica. Author: Phil Wainwright.

European policy makers are in a race against time to flesh out their strategy for encouraging the development and adoption of cloud services in Europe. But with so many different stakeholders to satisfy and so much at stake — almost €1 trillion in estimated economic benefits for example — the risk of failure is high.

The potential prize is the creation of a single market for cloud computing that allows European businesses to participate globally in the digital era. But it could all go off the rails in a matter of months.Speaking at the EuroCloud Congress in Luxembourg earlier today, Andreas Tegge, vice president of EU government relations at SAP, warned of the risks if the cloud industry fails to produce answers to the policy makers’ concerns:…

Nimbix, Inc. today announced the appointment of Leo Reiter as Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Software Engineering. He will lead technology strategy and execution for the company, including planning, positioning, evangelism, and software development.

Reiter brings more than 20 years of experience in software development and technology strategy, most recently serving as Co-founder and CTO of Virtual Bridges, Inc., where he was responsible for technology strategy, architecture, and software development of the company’s highly differentiated hosted virtual desktop and cloud computing product lines. Throughout his career, Reiter has been directly involved with design and development efforts of large scale enterprise and high performance computing software.

Grazed from CIO. Author: Christopher Janoch.

I sat next to a senior sales executive from a large cellular reseller on a plane recently, who was bitterly complaining about how mobile devices were complicating his life. He was carrying two cell phones, an iPad and a laptop—all with different applications and services—and he was struggling to access and email a document from the device he created it on to another. His struggle is a common one; studies show that more than 52 percent of information workers use three or more devices for work.

In another example from a recent client engagement, I was interviewing a remote office manager who was required by her office to carry two separate laptops—one for use in her client’s network environment (which she used for meetings, presentations, and project scheduling), and another for her company’s native environment (which she used for resource management, corporate email, and secure document access)…

Grazed from ScientificComputing. Author: Editorial Staff.

Based on the success of the recent ISC Cloud and ISC Big Data conferences in Heidelberg, the organizers will once again conduct the conferences in tandem next fall. The ISC Cloud’14 event will be held on September 29th and 30th, followed by ISC Big Data’14 from October 1st to 2nd, again at the Heidelberg Marriott.

A diversity of use cases at ISC Cloud’13

“We see a continuous and growing interest among researchers, engineers, and service providers to participate in this event as there is no other conference that is dedicated to addressing the HPC cloud topic in such depth, and the addition of digital manufacturing into this year’s program made this year’s conference an absolute highlight,” said Wolfgang Gentzsch, the ISC Cloud’13 chair…

Grazed from NetworkComputing. Author: Joe Masters Emison.

This is the second part in a series of articles about creating my own IaaS performance benchmarking project. In the first part, I explained the methodology I’m using to I’m test instance types across major IaaS providers. In this part, I post the results from my tests of Amazon Web Services instance types.

I launched more than 175 AWS VMs across current instance types, in all three U.S. regions (East, West, and Oregon), and in three availability zones (AZs) per region. (West and Oregon only have three AZs, and East — for me — only has three AZs that allowed me to launch all of the instance types in it). I ran instance-store-backed instances for every instance type I could; I ran EBS-backed for the t1.micro, and HVM- EBS-backed for the m3s and high-computing instance types…

Grazed from GCN. Author: Rutrell Yasin.

Almost half of U.S. state and local governments in a recent survey by the Unisys Corp. are planning or are already involved in cloud computing projects, according to the firm, which found that hardware and software cost savings were top drivers moving agencies to the cloud. The research, conducted for Unisys by the Center for Digital Government, surveyed 109 IT managers from 18 states between July and August 2013.

In addition to cost savings, about one-fifth of the respondents said the ability to meet the demands of a growing mobile workforce was a top incentive for cloud adoption. Forty-six percent of all respondents reported they have or are planning to launch mobility or bring-your-own-device programs…

Grazed from MarketWire. Author: PR Announcement.

CloudPassage ®, a leading cloud infrastructure security provider, announced today that its Halo cloud security platform has received HP ArcSight Common Event Format (CEF) Certification. Businesses today require IT support when they need it and only when they need it. That is the benefit of cloud computing and also the challenge. The adoption of cloud infrastructure creates new security and compliance burdens.

Security and compliance teams need extensive controls and processes built on Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions and seek to extend those investments to audit complex, highly dynamic cloud environments. The completion of CloudPassage’s Halo CEF certification unlocks the ability for these enterprise teams to gain deep visibility into cloud infrastructure systems anywhere, including virtualized, private cloud, public cloud, and even traditional hardware devices…

Grazed from RedHat.  Author: Event Announcement.

The Red Hat Summit, to be held on April 14-17, 2014, is the premier open source technology event to showcase the latest and greatest in cloud computing, platform, virtualization, middleware, storage, and systems management technologies.

The Red Hat Summit is meant for anyone looking to exponentially increase their understanding of open source technology and identify powerful solutions for their business needs. There is something for everyone to benefit from at both events. From community enthusiasts and system administrators to enterprise architects and CxOs, we have sessions and tracks for each level of interest and need.  By attending, you’ll gain the best knowledge in the industry through:…