Category: News

Grazed from Ed Tech Magazine. Author: David Weldon.

From government to finance to education, it seems that everyone wants to work in the cloud these days — even robots. As cloud computing captures the public imagination, it also has become the latest area of serious study in robotics on numerous college campuses, including Philadelphia’s Drexel University and the University of Minnesota.

James Kuffner, a research scientist at Google, purportedly coined the term "cloud robotics" in 2010 to describe "a new approach to robotics that takes advantage of the Internet as a resource for massively parallel computation and sharing of vast data resources," writes the University of California, Berkeley’s Ken Goldberg…

Grazed from StreetInsider.com. Author: Editorial Staff.

Verizon Communications, Inc., announced Verizon Cloud – its new cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform and cloud-based object storage service. With this service, Verizon is fundamentally changing how public clouds are built. Large enterprises, mid-size companies and small development shops will get the agility and economic benefit of a generic public cloud along with the reliability and scale of an enterprise-level service with unprecedented control of performance.

The public beta for Verizon Cloud will launch in the fourth quarter of this year. "Verizon created the enterprise cloud, now we’re recreating it," said John Stratton, president of Verizon Enterprise Solutions. "This is the revolution in cloud services that enterprises have been calling for…

Grazed from CloudPro. Author: Maxwell Cooter.

The world of cloud seems a long way from the world of high finance. Sure, there have been some institutions who have turned to cloud for some of their IT activity, but these are few and far between – and certainly none of the major finance houses have gone down that route; the twin problems of legacy systems and compliance will serve as a barrier to cloud adoption for some time to come.

And yet, it’s not true to say that finance and cloud are truly incompatible. There is one area where there’s a connection and that’s with the idea that cloud can be traded as a commodity. In a world where everything has a value, is it any surprise that he financial masters of the universe are looking at cloud?…

Grazed from Wired. Author: Tim Panagos.

Cloud computing is a technology megatrend whose explosive growth and broad adoption is radically changing the IT world. The availability of cloud computing resources has opened up a wide range of architectural options for enterprise IT. It has also dramatically increased the expectations of shareholders and executives. With a range of new regulations that differ by industry and geography, it appeared possible that cloud computing had fueled the perfect storm.

But, today, hybrid cloud architectures–those that span from private (onsite, on-premise data centers) to public cloud computing platforms and back–are creating practical ways for even the most conservative, regulated industries to gain value from the cloud revolution. Despite the many benefits provided by the hybrid cloud, this technology is still in its infancy and exhibits some weaknesses that prevent enterprise adoption; however technology is quickly evolving to solve these issues and unlock greater possibilities…

Grazed from Forbes. Author: Reuven Cohen.

Cloud computing is quickly becoming, or possibly has already become, the de facto way new applications are developed and deployed. The days of on-premises, device specific software for the most part, has come to end. Data and its related API’s is now the platform of choice for developers. At the forefront of this transition are online tools like the free open source hosting platform GitHub, which has become the key method for where and how developers contribute and collaborate in 2013. In many ways, GitHub is the very definition of “openness” with-in the development world with millions of hackers around the globe actively and openly collaborating with one another.

A recent ReadWrite.com post describes GitHub as “the largest online storage space of collaborative works that exists in the world. Whether you’re interested in participating in this global mind meld or in researching this massive file dump of human knowledge, you need to be here.”…

Grazed from NetworkWorld. Author: Brandon Butler.

When most people who track the industry think of the cloud computing market, big names like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google, Rackspace, Verizon Terremark and others come to mind. HP, Joyent, IBM and Dell even. But Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC)?

Each year research firm Gartner puts out its Magic Quadrant, and this year’s report caused some to do a double-take. CSC beat out all those other companies – except for Amazon – and was the only company named with AWS in the coveted "leaders" quadrant of the report…

Grazed from Bloomberg. Author: Leslie Picker.

Veeva Systems Inc. (VEEV), the maker of Web-based software for pharmaceutical sales, plans to raise as much as $182.6 million in a U.S. initial public offering. The company and existing shareholders are offering 13 million shares at $12 to $14 each, according to a regulatory filing today. Pleasanton, California-based Veeva plans to list on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol VEEV.

The funds will help Veeva step up its challenge to Oracle Corp. (ORCL), the world’s largest database-software maker, with tools to help drugmakers promote treatments to doctors. It has already won over many of the world’s top drugmakers with technology tailored to the pharmaceutical industry, counting 33 of the 50 largest global pharmaceutical companies among its customers, according to the filing…

Grazed from PRNewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Cloud Security Corporation, an emerging technology company focused on the next generation of Internet and mobile security, today announced that the Company is pursuing the purchase option of the assets of Hong Kong-based, App Ventures Ltd. as part of its previously announced joint venture agreement. The acquisition of App Ventures’ assets will allow Cloud Security the opportunity to expand its App and website security development and marketing in North America, as well as give it access to critical Asian markets.

The two companies formed a joint venture agreement to pursue technology and intellectual property that was equally owned. Cloud Security Corporation and the joint venture filed a patent (US Serial Number 61/832,534) for a process and methods for one-time password generation on mobile computing devices. This patent-pending process reduces several risk factors related to current one-time password technology. Cloud Security Corporation will own 100% of this patent following completion of the asset purchase agreement…

Grazed from MarketWire. Author: PR Announcement.

RiverMeadow Software, Inc., developer of the world’s only automated server migration platform developed specifically for carrier and service provider clouds, has announced that the RiverMeadow Cloud Migration SaaS is now available through the Cosentry Cloud Computing platform. Under terms of the agreement RiverMeadow will serve as Cosentry’s exclusive cloud migration platform, integrated into the Cosentry cloud services portfolio and providing clients with a quick and efficient migration path into the cloud.

"Cosentry offers a dynamic opportunity that enables comprehensive computing solutions and delivers great value to mid-market and enterprise customers," said Mark Shirman, President and CEO, RiverMeadow Software. "The Cosentry Cloud Computing platform gives clients’ access to the RiverMeadow Cloud Migration SaaS and makes for a world-class combination capable of migrating a broad range of servers quickly, and for a fraction of the cost of competitive offerings."…

Grazed from FierceCIO. Author: Derek C. Slater.

From a cost perspective, cloud computing decisions are often cast as OpEx versus CapEx–simplified even further to "rent versus buy". But if that’s the discussion in your organization, you’re missing some crucial points, says Bernard Golden. "Cloud is serving as a forcing function in IT," he writes, making companies arrive at a much more fine-grained understanding of their costs.

The fact that Amazon Web Services pricing is posted openly on the web creates discomfort for its competitors, who are traditionally more accustomed to the leverage that comes with closed-door negotiations. However, it also puts the onus on IT shops to provide the same level of transparency for internal IT service costs…