Category: News

Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Peter Waterhouse.

I’m a sucker for blockbuster movies, and one of my all-time favorites is Fight Club starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton. For those of you unfamiliar with this gritty film, it’s the story of an insomniac office worker who meets a soap salesman and together they form an underground fight club. The fight club is a brutal affair, but founded on a set of spoken and indisputable rules.

This got me thinking about the importance of rules and the struggle IT professionals have every day trying to explain to their business counterparts the value of new disruptive technologies — and how like in the Fight Club, the winners will be those that stick to the rules…

Grazed from SimplerCloud. Author: PR Announcement.

SimplerCloud, a new Singapore start-up, has launched high-performance, real-time, 100% self-manageable cloud servers at record-low prices to boost the Asia-Pacific cloud hosting industry. Eschewing the complex ordering processes and long deployment times that are still commonly associated with cloud computing in the region, SimplerCloud servelets are instantly deployable pre-packaged virtual machines (VMs) that target businesses and developers who do not need the costly, proprietary enterprise cloud hosting services that currently dominate Asia’s cloud hosting offerings.

Despite the low price tag, SimplerCloud servelets are powerful the smallest $10/month plan is a fully redundant cloud server with self-healing, highly scalable and redundant distributed SSD storage, snapshot backups, choice of OS, database and server control panels, free DNS hosting, root access with password reset feature, console access, and high-availability failover upon physical node failure…

Grazed from BigStep. Author: PR Announcement.

A new Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) has launched in the UK today that uses bare metal power to bring supercomputing speeds to the commercial sector and provide a high-performance environment for big data applications.

Bigstep combines bare metal performance with the flexibility of the cloud to create what is thought to be the world’s most powerful public computing infrastructure. It allows organisations to process big data faster and more effectively than any other means and offers fully self-service bare metal allocation by the hour…

Grazed from Centrify. Author: PR Announcement.

Centrify Corporation, the leader in Unified Identity Services across data center, cloud and mobile, today announced that TMC, a global, integrated media company, has named its Centrify Cloud Service as a 2013 Cloud Computing Excellence Award winner, presented by Cloud Computing Magazine. The Cloud Computing Excellence Awards recognize the companies that have most effectively leveraged cloud computing in their efforts to bring new, differentiated offerings to market.

The Centrify Cloud Service is a multi-tenanted service that provides secure communication from on-premise Microsoft Active Directory infrastructure to mobile devices and to the MyCentrify User Portal for secure authentication to SaaS applications. For customers who don’t have Active Directory as a corporate directory, Centrify also offers a fully cloud-based offering for SaaS and mobile management…

Grazed from BusinessCloud News. Author: James Middleton.

Software as a Service (SaaS) provider Salesforce.com this week entered the Identity and Access Management (IAM) market, striking a deal with specialist player ForgeRock. Under the deal, ForgeRock announced an OEM agreement with Salesforce.com to deliver Salesforce Identity Connect, enabling enterprises to integrate with existing on-premise identity directories using Salesforce Identity.

ForgeRock is gaining a reputation for redefining IAM through its Open Identity Stack for externally-facing cloud applications. “We are delivering Salesforce Identity Connect to create a bridge between existing on-premise directory solutions and Salesforce,” said Chuck Mortimore, vice president of product management, Salesforce Identity, Salesforce.com…

Grazed from BigData World Congress.  Author: Event Announcement.

Taking place on the 3-4 December 2013, the Big Data World Congress arrives in Munich for the first time after two successful and insightful conferences in London.  A vital topic for all aspects of the modern-day enterprise, big data and our increasing ability to analyse in real-time and costeffectively is leading to new levels of understanding about our business efficiency, customers and ROI.

With an agenda driven by real-life case studies and a showcase of analytics and infrastructure solutions, the 3rd Annual Big Data World Congress promises to be one of the most interactive and engaging events on our calendar – a glimpse into the future of enterprise technology  beyond the foundations being set by cloud computing…

Angel Business Communications, organiser of the ‘Powering the Cloud‘ events, has published an initial agenda for the three co-located conferences SNW Europe, Datacenter Technologies and Virtualization World. Taking place on 29th and 30th October 2013 in Frankfurt, Germany, the three events, delivered in association with SNIA Europe, are a central fixture in the calendars of IT professionals who wish to stay on top of the key issues in data storage, cloud computing, data centre technologies and virtualisation. With over 130 informative and engaging sessions, the agenda offers a unique and balanced mix of ‘thought leadership’ presentations, keynote visionary viewpoints, analyst insights, innovative technology thinking and case study examples which will both challenge and inspire delegates. In addition to the comprehensive conference programme, the events offer the attendees multiple opportunities to network with some of the industry’s foremost thinkers and commentators, to meet their peers and to exchange ideas and experience.

A major highlight of the Powering the Cloud 2013 conferences are the Spotlight Sessions which address five of the most important challenges facing CIOs and IT managers. These sessions on Big Data, security, IT management, data centre architecture and application delivery are a comprehensive exploration of the latest thinking, new technological ideas and practical advice. Moderated by leading industry experts and analysts, the sessions will include Q&A opportunities for delegates to explore and challenge speaker ideas and opinions. Each speaker in the Spotlight Sessions has been chosen for their knowledge on the subject and their ability to deliver true ‘thought leadership’.

Grazed from BusinessWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Virtual Bridges, Inc. today announced VERDE 7 is now available worldwide, ideal for managed service providers (MSPs) who are looking for an alternative to Desktone, which was acquired by VMware today. “We invite all MSPs that are interested in exploring other options to contact us today for a free evaluation of VERDE 7. We’re confident we can offer the most robust features while allowing MSPs to get the ROI they desire.”

“With the news of VMware’s acquisition of Desktone today, many MSPs are rightfully concerned about their DaaS offerings, including potential price increases that impact margins; integration challenges that are consistent with VMware; and an overall lack of focus on DaaS now that Desktone is being absorbed into the network virtualization giant,” said Jon Senger, chief strategy officer at Virtual Bridges. “We invite all MSPs that are interested in exploring other options to contact us today for a free evaluation of VERDE 7. We’re confident we can offer the most robust features while allowing MSPs to get the ROI they desire.”…

Grazed from BizTechMagazine. Author: Steve Zurier.

About three years ago, Purdue Pharma L.P., a pharmaceutical company in Stamford, Conn., was at a crossroads. It was out of data center space, out of power and needed to improve disaster recovery. Purdue Pharma also wanted to deploy an IT infrastructure that would make the company more agile and able to quickly respond to the needs of its researchers, says Stephen Rayda, chief technology officer.

The pharmaceutical maker reached this point just as VMware, Cisco Systems and EMC formed the VCE unified computing solution. For Rayda, opting for VCE was a safer bet than it may have appeared. “When we looked at it, the VMware hypervisor had been out for close to a decade, Cisco was a proven networking company, and EMC storage products had been in use for many years as well, so we weren’t taking a leap of faith into an untested architecture,” Rayda says…

Grazed from FierceGovernmentIT. Author: Molly Bernhart Walker.

As cloud computing technology continues to become more pervasive, the application of the Fifth Amendment to protecting a suspect’s encrypted data is likely to become a more prevalent issue in litigation, finds a paper by J. Adam Engel, vice president of Lycurgus Group published in the Whittier Law Review.

Until now, suspects have infrequently invoked their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination when the government has sought to compel suspects and defendants to provide passwords and encryption keys to access digital assets, he writes. That’s due in part to the fact that the right is limited to testimonial evidence–evidence that explicitly or implicitly, provides or discloses information–and that the "foregone conclusion" doctrine usually applies, says Engle…