Category: News

Grazed from FierceEntperpriseCommunications.  Author: David Weldon.

Though he never lived, a century and a quarter after his first appearance, Sherlock Holmes is still known as the greatest consulting detective of all time. Which is why it is so fitting that a new cloud- and analytics-based initiative looking to solve some of today’s most complex information challenges has been named Sherlock.

The Sherlock cloud computing effort is based at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and looks to duplicate the great problem-solving skills of the fictional detective.  According to a recent report at HPC Wire, Sherlock is being aided by SD Technologies and Chickasaw Nation Industries, as well as a number of academic, industry and government stakeholders…

Grazed from FierceEnterpriseCommunications.  Author: David Weldon.

The results of more studies on cloud computing were recently released, and they confirm the rapid rate of adoption of cloud-based applications.  Verizon released the results of its latest study about the cloud, the "State of the Enterprise Cloud Report," indicating that the use of cloud technology for storage grew by 90 percent from January 2012 to January 2013. The use of the cloud for memory increased by 100 percent during the same period, the study said.

The Verizon study found that the growth rate for virtual machines being deployed on the cloud increased by 35 percent during this time.  These dramatic results aren’t surprising when taken in the context of another cloud computing survey from Dimensional Research. The survey was commissioned by cloud business intelligence provider Birst…

Grazed from GigaOM.  Author: James Urquhart.

I wrote in July about how cloud computing isn’t the same for every enterprise, and the true implications of this have been becoming clearer to many over the last several months. VMware’s vCloud Hybrid Service, in particular, offers a view of an entirely different cloud story targeted at a largely different buyer audience than the likes of Amazon, Microsoft or Google.

What VMware’s story most demonstrates to me is the one question that matters more than any other when it comes to cloud buying patterns: To what extent does a company engage in software development to define its business?  The answer to this question will determine the mix of technologies and services that company will demand — at least for the next few years…

Grazed from Skytap.  Author: PR Announcement.

Skytap Inc., the leading provider of self-service application development environments in the cloud, today announced it was recognized by Seattle Business magazine as the cloud computing vendor in the 2013 Tech Impact Awards. The awards program recognizes Washington-based software, information technology and mobile-app companies that are making an impact on business operations across various industries, including mobile, cloud and analysis.

Skytap was honored at an awards ceremony on Thursday evening at the Renaissance Hotel in Seattle, and will be featured in the October issue of Seattle Business magazine. Other winning companies include PayScale, Simply Measured, Tableau Software, and Zillow…

Grazed from TechTarget.  Author: Caitlin White and Michelle Boisvert.

Enterprises wary of moving mission-critical data off-premises to a public cloud provider such as Amazon may find an OpenStack private cloud fits the bill.  But private clouds can be costlier than public clouds, and relatively few IT employees have OpenStack skills.

"We had quite a bit of developer need for self-service; we were spending quite a bit of time on deploying images for developers and just needed to get out of that for my team," said Joe Specht, senior director of system infrastructure at Seattle-based Tableau Software.  Tableau adopted Metacloud’s "Private Cloud as a Service" product a little more than a year ago to help out…

Grazed from Security Sense.  Author: Chandan Bhattacharya.

Grazed from Bloomberg.  Author: Aaron Ricadela.

Oracle Corp., the world’s largest database-software maker, will boost operating margins by shifting to services delivered via the Web from software installed on computers, Chief Financial Officer Safra Catz said.

Oracle will be more profitable as technology spending is directed toward cloud-computing tools, Catz, who is also co-president, said at a meeting with analysts in San Francisco yesterday. Analysts project on average that Oracle will reach an operating margin of 48 percent for the fiscal year through May, compared with 39 percent in the previous year …

Grazed from Xconomy.  Author: Benjamin Romano.

What’s the biggest thing stopping big companies from using cloud computing for their business? People with outdated skills.  So says Simon Crosby, co-founder and CTO of Bromium, a cloud security company, and a panelist at this week’s Washington Technology Industry Association TechNW: North to Innovation event on cloud computing and big data.

Crosby, who previously co-founded XenSource, maker of the Xen open-source hypervisor used by services including the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, says public clouds are ready for enterprise IT use. But the people working in enterprise IT organizations came up in the world racking and stacking on-premises servers, and installing and managing Windows—”skills we don’t need anymore,” he says…

Grazed from PRWeb. Author: PR Announcement.

BrightBox Solutions, the innovative technology company behind Help Desk Premier, is pleased to announce the upcoming availability of a private cloud version of the application. BrightBox Solutions is a leading provider of help desk software for the SMB market, and they recently received $500,000 in new investment. The investment is targeted at, among other things, strengthening their SaaS offering. The product, which has long been offered as an on-premise solution, will be offered as a hosted solution, and now as a private hosted solution.

BrightBox Solutions began beta testing the cloud-based version of the program on September 3, and along with that testing comes the announcement of the availability of a private cloud option. As with any cloud application, BrightBox Solutions will host the clients database, but instead of commingling the data with that of other companies, the customer will have a dedicated cloud instance that operates exclusively as a home for their data…

Grazed from ADTMag. Author: Jeffrey Swartz.

Red Hat this week announced an expansion to its OpenShift Platform as a Service (PaaS) portfolio. The tools are targeted at letting developers build modern, composite and mobile apps to public, private and hybrid cloud environments

The company outlined its new JBoss xPaaS services for OpenShift suite, based on its development environment for enterprise Java and middleware. In addition to providing new tooling for developers to build modern and mobile apps for PaaS clouds, Red Hat officials said the new suite will help developers connect existing legacy apps to cloud environments without recoding them…