Category: News

Grazed from LiquidM. Author: PR Announcement.

LiquidM today announced the public availability of its white-labeled Mobile Advertising Management Platform (MAMP), which allows mobile media buyers to optimize their management processes across the full range of premium to performance advertising. To customers who care about returns, quality, and efficiency, LiquidM provides a business model-agnostic full stack to manage and optimize their mobile advertising campaigns.

LiquidM’s modular, cloud-based SaaS replaces Build-Your-Own (BYO) or inadequate point solutions of ad tech infrastructure with a standardized, open platform that is customizable to individual needs. Additionally, the company is also announcing a $5M series A funding from Blumberg Capital, Earlybird, and Asset Management to fuel the growth and marketing of the product…

Grazed from Adaptive Computing. Author: PR Announcement.

Adaptive Computing, the company that powers many of world’s largest private/hybrid cloud and technical computing environments with its optimization and scheduling software, today announced it has been awarded five patents by the United States Patent and Trademark Office related to technologies that make cloud computing more energy efficient. This raises the company’s total number of patent grants to 31 and bolsters its private cloud portfolio as one of the richest in existence.

The patents apply to Adaptive Computing’s Moab software and cover multiple significant aspects in intelligent power management, including patented concepts of:

• Calendar-based power capping – Helps navigate power quotas by identifying optimal times to operate data-intensive simulations
• On-demand power management – Optimizes workload by properly allocating resources and powering off servers as needed
• Predictive placement – Employs power-aware policies to manage energy consumption within data centers more evenly and save on cooling costs…

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.

Capgemini, the global consulting, technology and outsourcing services provider, is expanding its cloud portfolio by becoming a Virtustream partner. By partnering with the IaaS vendor, Capgemini is expecting to expand its hybrid and private cloud solutions for its customers.

This announcement follows less than two months after Capgemini’s rollout of a Big Data analytics offering on Amazon (AMZN) Web Services. In the last couple of years or so, Capgemini has also partnered with Microsoft (MSFT) Windows Azure. Although those announcements focused on the public cloud sector, the Virtustream partnership is intended to build out the consulting firm’s hybrid—and to a lesser extent, private—cloud solutions…

Grazed from ImprovedDataRecovery. Author: Gene De Libero.

According to an article in CIOinsight.com, a new report from 451 Research, in conjunction with the Uptime Institute and the Yankee Group, indicates that while cloud computing adoption is becoming more common, a number of barriers to entry still exist. 83% of the respondents participating in the study said they faced significant roadblocks when deploying projects. But what surprised me most about the results of the research was that, according to the article, IT roadblocks have declined while non-IT roadblocks have increased by 68%.

Some of the more prevalent non-IT issues cited by respondents centered on people, processes, budgets, time, politics, security challenges, contractual agreements and change management issues. Each one of the challenges cited here is significant when taken individually; when taken together, they can absolutely crush an initiative…

Grazed from IT Business Edge. Author: Michael Vizard.

Three months after IBM acquired SoftLayer for $2 billion, the company is aggressively transitioning all of its cloud computing services to the SoftLayer platform. IBM announced that it is moving the IBM Social Learning Platform and the recently acquired Xtify mobile messaging software to the Softlayer cloud platform. The company also reported that it has signed up 1,100 additional customers since acquiring SoftLayer.

Dennis Quan, IBM vice president of cloud infrastructure services, says the total base of customers using the SoftLayer platform is more than 22,000, and IBM now has over 100 software as a service (SaaS) applications…

Grazed from ChicagoTribune. Author: Neha Alawadhi and Aditya Kondalamahanty.

Cloud computing software maker Citrix Systems Inc estimated quarterly results below analysts’ expectations as businesses delayed contracts, sending its shares down as much as 14 percent in extended trading. Cloud computing companies such as Citrix and VMware Inc have been facing delays in closing large deals as customers review IT budgets to prune discretionary spending.

Citrix’s warning could set the tone for other software companies as it comes just ahead of the third-quarter reporting season. VMware shares fell 3.3 percent after the bell. Cloud computing software allows customers to access applications remotely from a central server, and reduces costs by eliminating the need to upgrade and install software on each individual computer on site…

Grazed from NetworkWorld. Author: Brandon Butler.

Today, cloud computing resources are bought and sold in a fairly straightforward process: A company needs extra compute capacity, for example, so they contract with a provider who spins up virtual machines for a certain amount of time.

But what will that process look like in, say, 2020? If efforts by a handful of companies come to fruition, there could be a lot more wheeling and dealing that goes on behind the scenes. An idea is being floated by several companies to package cloud computing resources into blocks that can be bought and sold on a commodity futures trading market. It would be similar to how financial instruments like stocks, bonds and agricultural products like corn and wheat are traded on exchanges by investors…

Grazed from ITWorld. Author: Nancy Gohring.

In case you missed it, there’s been a bit of a hubbub about whether Google is serious about its Compute Engine offering or likely to shut it down on a whim, like it did with Google Reader and countless other services. The question popped up when analyst Rene Buest raised the alarm after reading a GigaOm story that said Google Cloud Platform manager Greg DeMichillie “wouldn’t guarantee services like Compute Engine will be around for the long haul.”

DeMichellie went on to say that given Google’s compute services also run internal offerings, the company is unlikely to shut them down. ”There’s no scenario in which Google suddenly decides, ‘Gee, I don’t think we need to think about storage anymore or computing anymore,’” he said, according to GigaOm…

Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Larry Dignan.

IBM was awarded a patent for dynamically managing network bandwidth in a cloud computing environment. IBM’s bet is that its invention can optimize cloud computing performance. The patent, U.S. Patent #8,352,953, is for a method that automatically decides the best way for users to access a cloud system based on available network bandwidth.

IBM said that the approach should allow clouds to better handle surges in traffic because systems can reassign work to system nodes with bandwidth. Usually, a cloud user has access to a virtual machine and the more people tap the system the more networking bandwidth matters…