Category: News

Grazed from EconomicTimes. Author: Editorial Staff.

Over the next few years, what happens to the several trillion dollars businesses spend on technology will be decided by executives like Jeff Allen. As big business hitches its computer systems to the latest technology wave, Allen and others will have the tricky job of ensuring that old systems work with the many new systems finding their way into his company.

"A lot of normal companies are struggling to stitch together lots of different software" from different technology providers, said Allen, a marketing vice president at Standard Register, a specialty publishing and communications company in Dayton, Ohio. Eventually, he said, he will have to choose from only three or four big suppliers. Eventually. But not right now…

Grazed from CBROnline. Author: Claire Vanner.

Global information technology solutions company Mindtree, has announced a partnership with SAP America to enable customers to execute their cloud strategies on SAP’s cloud applications like SuccessFactors and mobile platforms. Mindtree has been an SAP Partner since 2005 and a SuccessFactors product development partner for the past six years. It continues to play a critical role in helping customers identify and implement ideal SAP solutions to address their unique business needs.

The new alliance will help Mindtree’s customers take advantage of its expertise in application development and deployment on cloud and mobile platforms. The partnership will complement SAP’s product landscape to provide best- in-class human capital management, mobile and analytics solutions on premise and on cloud…

Grazed from Dynamics. Author: Editorial Staff.

I had lunch with a friend today who manages internal IT systems for a large film and television media company. He said that he was swamped at work because of an unexpected business crisis: one of his company’s cloud storage service providers is going out of business and he has less than 30 days to try and transfer all of the critical data stored with the provider. He was not involved in the selection or setup with this provider, but is now having to figure out how to save all of the data.

The fun part: His company has over 160 TERABYTES of data stored online with this provider. (It is believed that other customers have many PETABYTES of data stored with this provider, so relatively, 160 TB isn’t nearly as bad.)…

Grazed from Codenvy.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Codenvy, the “Code Better Instantly” company, and Piston, the enterprise OpenStack™ company, today announced a partnership to deliver cloud integrated development environments (IDEs) to enterprise organizations.

Codenvy Enterprise enables the F5000 to code, build, test and deploy applications on their own servers, giving organizations unprecedented efficiency, control and extensibility. When Piston’s OpenStack solution is combined with Codenvy Enterprise, enterprises are given a scalable, zero-downtime and low-cost solution for all on-premises development needs…

Grazed from TheServerSide.  Author: Cameron McKenzie.

TheServerSide.com recently had the opportunity to speak with John Duimovich, a Distinguished Engineer with IBM, who also happens to be IBM’s Java CTO and a keynote speaker at OracleWorld 2013. Seeing that it has now been over three years since Oracle beat out IBM in a bid to acquire Sun Microsystems and Sun’s Java platform, the first thing we wanted to know from Duimovich was his insights on how the enterprise computing landscape would have changed if IBM had won the battle to become stewards of the Java platform instead of Oracle.

And like any good IBM exec, Duimovich dodged the questions with grace and determination. "That’s a fairly loaded question. If you catch me in a bar without a media person present, then maybe I’d talk about it. Speculation is fun, but I’d rather talk about the topics we will be covering at JavaOne."…

Grazed from NYTimes.  Author: Quentin Hardy.

Grazed from GreenTechMedia.  Author:  Jeff St. John.

For years, Verizon has been working on expanding from its traditional role as utility industry telecommunications provider to enabling a broader, deeper set of smart grid services. That work ranges from its 2011 partnership with eMeter, now part of Siemens, to host its meter data management (MDM) and analytics on Verizon’s cloud computing platform, to using the same IT expertise for building energy management and utility customer engagement.

Now, Verizon is plotting a new step on that path — becoming an end-to-end smart grid solutions provider. The telco giant is now central manager of a utility-scale smart meter and MDM deployment, Ernie Lewis, industry partner with Verizon’s global energy and utility practice, told me in an interview earlier this month…

Grazed from GigaOM.  Author: Derrick Harris.

The conventional wisdom is that Europe is a few years behind the United States in cloud adoption, but interest in cloud deployment remains sky high. That perception was borne out by panelists and attendees at last week’s Structure:Europe event and other reports that show cloud adoption growing despite PRISM-generated concerns over data privacy, which have yet to be sorted out.

Last week, Viviane Reding, VP of the European Commission and the EU’s Commissioner for Justice, called for a single data privacy law to cover the entire European Union. Currently, some European countries — Germany and Switzerland, for example — have more iron-clad data sovereignty rules than others.  According to a statement outlining the proposal, the proposed regulation is:…

Grazed from FierceEnterpriseCommunications.  Author: David Weldon.

The Google search results say it all:

… Nirvanix is Closing–Call the Pros at Savvis Today

… Nirvanix Out of Business? Try Egnyte Enterprise Cloud Storage

… CloudBerry Explorer Allows Moving Data Off of Nirvanix

… Nirvanix cloud collapse seen as a canary in the coal mine for IaaS

… After Nirvanix: How to assess the right cloud provider for you

Clearly, the smell of blood is in the water. With the sudden word that Nirvanix is closing up shop, a host of other cloud service providers are hoping to cash in and grab Nirvanix’s retreating customers.   Last week, San Jose, Calif.-based Nirvanix caught the industry by surprise when it announced it was shutting down its cloud services. It told customers to immediately seek a new cloud service provider to host their data and to put no more data on its servers in the meantime…