Category: News

Grazed from ComputerWorld. Author: Cliff Saran.

The recent outage of Google’s Gmail service shows that even class-leading cloud services can and will fail. How can IT departments build in resilience to cloud computing failures? Google has been winning business over Microsoft by targeting the huge costs associated with running on-premise Microsoft Exchange servers. Analyst Forrester’s Forrsights Hardware Survey; North American and Europe showed that cloud adoption between 2009 to 2012 increased from 9% to 46%.

The growth in cloud adoption is set to rise as CIOs move more of their traditional IT spending away from capital expenditure to software as a service in the cloud, paid per-user as an annual or monthly subscription. As cloud adoption increases more IT departments will need to have a battle plan in place for a cloud service outages…

Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Charles Babcock.

"I can’t tell you how excited I was to get the call to come speak here," said Brad Anderson, Microsoft’s corporate VP for cloud and enterprise engineering, Tuesday as he faced the Oracle OpenWorld audience filled with several thousand potential Windows Azure cloud users. No Microsoft executive had ever made an OpenWorld keynote before.

Oracle and Microsoft, for the last decade, have bitterly vied to see which would be the dominant database on Windows: Oracle or SQL Server. The stakes grew higher as Windows Server became more strongly entrenched in the enterprise data center. At some point, both decided neither was ever going to own the market outright. At the same time, the rise of Amazon Web Services showed what had been brewing while they grappled with each other…

Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: Editorial Staff.

CloudTweaks has covered a number of emerging startups over the years, such as our “Top 25 European Cloud Computing Rising Stars” lists. The question many startups have is: What does it cost to run a startup? We have an infographic provided courtesy of staff.com which outlines some of these costs in a few of the main technological hotspots of the world. We believe as cloud adoption rates increase, and telecommuting is more prevalent worldwide, many of these costs can be reduced in some capacity.

To read more from the source and to view the infographic, visit: http://www.cloudtweaks.com/2013/09/costs-running-startup/

Grazed from NetworkWorld. Author: Brandon Butler.

Citrix Tuesday updated its cloud computing strategy, saying that its platform – which is based off the Apache CloudStack project – can span both private on-premises deployments and public clouds and is the only one in the market that takes an application-centric approach to architecting clouds.

Citrix officials say that the company’s chief competitors, VMware and Amazon Web Services, “pigeon-hole” users into architecting clouds a certain way. VMware is ideal for virtualized legacy applications, but not new, cloud-native apps, Citrix says. AWS, on the other hand, is perfect for these new apps that were born to run in the cloud, but not legacy applications. Citrix’s cloud platform, by being “application-centric” caters to both legacy and new-age apps, says Krishna Subramanian, vice president of marketing for Citrix’s cloud platform…

Grazed from Information-Management. Author: Joel Jacob.

The adoption of cloud computing has been an undeniable force spreading quickly across all segments of the technology market. In the legal industry, cloud or software as a service accounted for 49 percent of all e-discovery software revenues tracked in 2011, according to Gartner’s report, “Market Trends: Automated, Analytical Approaches Drive the Enterprise E-Discovery Software Market.” Cloud computing is attractive because it enables users to do more with less; however, with this great power comes great responsibility and risk.

This risk comes in the form of legal, security, business continuity and compliance issues. When e-discovery is involved, the risk considerations become increasingly complex. If your organization is considering moving data to the cloud, or transitioning e-discovery systems to the cloud, follow this checklist of the top 10 things to consider before taking the leap…

Grazed from GSNMagazine. Author: Editorial Staff.

Cyber Innovation Labs (CIL), a leading provider of innovative Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solutions and professional services, announced on September 23 the commissioning and operational delivery of its new 8,000-square-foot Tier 3+ enterprise Cloud computing center located in Iron Mountain’s underground facility in Boyers, PA.

The first phase of customer delivery will house the new disaster recovery center for a leading global insurance carrier and a primary security services vendor to the U.S. Government. The new data center is designed as a Tier 3 enhanced / 2N standard facility and meets SSAE SOC 1 / SOC 2 and PCI DSS LEVEL 2.0 PCI compliance…

Grazed from ComputerWorld. Author: Steve Pate.

There are many benefits to be gained by using the public cloud. Cost efficiencies, elasticity and collaborative access are mentioned most often. But will your data be secure in the cloud? And who is responsible for keeping it safe? These topics bear further exploration.

For small organizations – typically those that can’t justify adding someone with ‘security’ in their title to the team – outsourcing to a cloud service provider (CSP) may be more secure than trying to build and maintain their own data center. But for larger companies, especially organizations that must comply with privacy regulations like HIPAA/HITECH or PCI DSS, ensuring and validating data privacy can be more challenging in a public cloud environment…

Grazed from IT Business Edge. Author: Michael Vizard.

With just about every vendor trying to get in front of what will likely be a major shift to platform as a service (PaaS) in the enterprise, Red Hat has outlined a next-generation cloud computing strategy based on the company’s OpenShift architecture. According to Red Hat President Paul Cormier, the core element of the Red Hat PaaS platform is Red Hat JBoss xPaaS Services for OpenShift, which is based on the JBoss middleware that Red Hat acquired in 2006.

On top of that service are what Red Hat refers to as cartridges that IT organizations can plug in, which includes modules for integration, business process management (BPM) and building mobile applications. The end goal, says Cormier, is to give IT organizations an open source option for deploying a PaaS environment that can be easily deployed across private and public cloud computing services…

Grazed from MarketWatch. Author: PR Announcement.

Oracle is expanding the number of Oracle Cloud services to strengthen its position as the industry’s most comprehensive public cloud. Oracle Cloud offers a broad range of modern, functionally rich and integrated services running in a secure, enterprise and standards-based cloud platform. With new Application, Platform, and Infrastructure Services announced today, Oracle is helping customers and partners further capitalize on the power of cloud computing.

News Facts

— Extending the industry’s broadest and most advanced cloud portfolio, Oracle today introduced 10 new Oracle Cloud services for its customers and partners.
— The new services expand Oracle’s comprehensive portfolio of Application, Social, Platform and Infrastructure Services and are all available on a subscription basis…

Grazed from OneSpin. Author: PR Announcement.

OneSpin Solutions (www.onespin-solutions.com), provider of innovative formal assertion-based verification (ABV) and formal equivalence checking solutions, announced today full availability of its Cloud Computing System after a successful 90-day, limited-trial Beta program.

“With a successful limited-trial program drawing to a close, we can confirm the scalability and performance benefits of an EDA Cloud Computing strategy for static verification solutions,” says Dr. Raik Brinkmann, OneSpin Solutions’ president and chief executive officer. “Companies have expressed confidence in the improved performance, security and accessibility of our solutions.”…