Category: News

Grazed from CloudPro. Author: Rene Millman.

Unisys has unveiled its latest enterprise computing platform, which is aimed at helping large firms and cloud service providers cut physical server requirements by up to 70 per cent. Dubbed Forward, the platform combines Unisys’ security partitioning technology (S-Par) with Intel’s Xeon virtualisation technology to give organisations a flexible computing fabric to handle mission-critical workloads.

The company said the platform, available in December, would be ideal for organisations looking to move away from expensive Unix environments to Linux and Windows-based ones. Furthermore, the platform is reportedly capable of handling secure cloud and big data workloads, according to Unisys, and can cut down on server sprawl by consolidating datacentre resources…

Grazed from BizTech2. Author: Editorial Staff.

While most business professionals are worried about the security of cloud-based applications, they are not deterred from using them to store their personal and professional data, and they are not losing sleep over their data and information, according to a recent survey from SafeNet Labs, the creator of SafeMonk.

When SafeNet Labs, a technology incubator initiative of SafeNet, Inc., asked hundreds of business professionals worldwide if they were worried about the security of the cloud-based applications or data stored in the cloud, 52 percent checked “Yes”; however, sixty-four percent of respondents said they still frequently use cloud-based apps to store their personal and professional data. Ironically, when asked what keeps them up at night regarding their data and information, more than half answered, “Nothing keeps me up; I sleep like a baby.”…

Grazed from IT Jungle. Author: Jenny Thomas.

Whether you are part of a large enterprise or a small business, it is inconceivable to think your company is not aware of the explosion in cloud computing in recent years. Even if a cloud deployment isn’t in your organization’s immediate future, keeping an eye on the trends can help you make a better decision about going cloud should the time ever come.

The analysts at Gartner make it their business to follow what’s happening in IT, and there has been some movement in the cloud market that has caught their attention. In a recent report, Gartner says nearly half of large enterprises will have hybrid cloud deployments by the end of 2017. Which means there must be some serious cloud action happening when you consider 2017 is really right around the corner at less than four years away…

Grazed from The New York Times. Author: Danny Hakim.

The words “cloud computing” never appeared in a 119-page digital privacy regulation introduced in Europe last year. They do now. Even before revelations this summer by Edward J. Snowden on the extent of spying by the National Security Agency on electronic communications, the European Parliament busied itself attaching amendments to its data privacy regulation. Several would change the rules of cloud computing, the technology that enables the sharing of software and files among computers on the Internet.

And since the news broke of widespread monitoring by the United States spy agency, cloud computing has become one of the regulatory flash points in Brussels as a debate ensued over how to protect data from snooping American eyes…

Grazed from GigaOM.  Author: Barb Darrow.

The new Verizon Cloud,  which entered public beta last week, has some big game in its sights. Verizon CTO  John Considine said the cloud offers the scale of a huge cloud but without the “noisy neighbor” issues associated with other public clouds (read: Amazon Web Services). Noisy neighbor happens when one customer’s cloud workload on shared infrastructure sucks up most of the resources impacting other jobs on the same infrastructure.

Verizon Cloud builds on work by CloudSwitch a company Verizon acquired in 2011 again optimized version of the Xen hypervisor. And Considine said it will run existing VMware workloads  – an important consideration given that VMware virtualization dominates in corporate server rooms. for more on the guts of the system and its prospects check out Gartner cloud guru Lydia Leong’s take…

Grazed from TechTerrain.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Due to the enormous amount of data stored on company servers today, owners who want to transition to the cloud computing server environment must understand how the threats to cloud computing security impacts their business.

Even though there are many attractive advantages to making this move, it is important that the business owner understands the potential for financial loss or ruin if the inevitable does occur. When the owner reviews the pros and the cons of cloud computing, they may find the disadvantages outweigh the advantages to this investment. Also, once the move has been made, they may not feel comfortable with going back since a third party will already have access to all of the company’s confidential information…

Grazed from Business2Community.  Author: Lindsey Nelson.

As the demand for access to information anytime and anywhere only continues to grow within businesses, many are turning to not one, but rather two solutions, to fulfill their needs: mobile and cloud. Mobile cloud platforms provide the tools, technologies, and infrastructure businesses require to be successful in today’s world.

Both cloud and mobility, alongside big data, and social networks are forming a powerful business and computing model says an Oxford Economics white paper, Unleashing the Cloud – Putting Mobility to Work. This blend is the driving force behind the transformation in how we communicate with colleagues and also make business decisions…

Grazed from SpiceWorks.  Author: Savvis.

IT professionals have been reluctant for years to embrace cloud computing, but they’re starting to not have a choice. CIOs, IT directors and business users are demanding that their IT departments use cloud computing solutions. In fact, many business users are simply circumnavigating the IT department and using cloud apps for different business functions.

IT professionals don’t want to lose control over their designated arena, but using cloud computing solutions doesn’t mean that you have to give up all control. There are many different ways to use cloud computing to your advantage, which also benefits your company…