Category: News

Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: George Crump.

In my last column we discussed some of the limitations of cloud-based backup and why more cloud providers should provide some form of external, portable storage to overcome those challenges. I used tape technology as an example. The second and potentially larger problem with tapeless cloud backup is the recovery process. Vendors’ claims about the lack of tape value are getting out of hand.

If you lose an entire server, the data deduplication that helps you in backup is not going to save you from an extended period of downtime while this data trickles through the Internet. There is no baseline to compare it to and, even if there was, most software solutions can’t do a deduplicated recovery…

Grazed from CRN. Author: Kathy Kim.

Cisco distributor Comstor strengthened its cloud play with a new partnership. Comstor, the Cisco distribution business of WestCon Group, announced a new cloud distribution partnership with PeakColo Tuesday. The partnership will make PeakColo’s cloud services platform readily available to channel partners.

The PeakColo partnership will allow Comstor resellers to offer white-label, Cisco-powered cloud offerings, said Geoff Fancher, senior vice president of Comstor. "Our goal is to help partners grow and be successful in their businesses, and these offers will help them expand their portfolio to provide white-label, cloud-based offers that are based on Cisco technology," said Fancher. "White-labeling will offer the partner flexibility in how they want to bring the product to market."…

Grazed from Nasdaq. Author: Chris Ciaccia.

Adobe Systems shares surged in early Wednesday trading despite the company missing estimates, as its cloud subscription revenue and subscriptions came in better than forecast. Adobe is transitioning from a software company into a cloud computing company, putting its Creative Cloud software in the cloud. On that front, Adobe beat Wall Street’s estimates soundly, adding 331,000 subscriptions, well ahead of a Briefing.com estimate of 262,000 subscribers.

At the end of the quarter, the San Jose-based Adobe said subscribers topped the 1 million mark. “Our customers are overwhelmingly choosing subscriptions instead of perpetual model licenses which is accelerating our business model transition,” Adobe’s executive vice president and CFO Mark Garrett said in a press release. “During Q3, 41 percent of our revenue was recurring and we exited the quarter with record deferred revenue on our balance sheet…

Grazed from SBWire. Author: PR Announcement.

In todays business environment, organizations strive to meet the constantly changing global business dynamics. Most of the organizations view IT as a tool to be agile and to have a sustainable business success. At the same time, rising IT costs have become a major concern and cost cutting is the current business objective of corporations. Public cloud services have revolutionized the IT industry and have encouraged organizations of all sizes to implement advanced technologies in computing at lesser cost. However, enterprises migrated to private cloud due to security/privacy issue and loss of control over data. Besides, cloud providers have stepped forward and have implemented a hybrid cloud solution which combines the benefits of two or more of the clouds and to mitigate the security/ privacy concerns.

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The Global report provides a detailed research study which exhibits the issues around the cloud selection and how companies leverage the composition of two or more clouds to support cloud bursting at peak times. Major players such as, Hewlett- Packard, IBM, Amazon, Dell, Rackspace Inc, Intel, Equinix and others are profiled in the report. The report also provides the market trends, market dynamics, technology road maps, opportunity plots, regional and competitive analysis of the market…

Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Thomas Claburn.

Google’s BigQuery, a Web service for analyzing large amounts of data, is about to become more efficient in order to gain insight into data subsets and to refresh its interface. On Wednesday, Google plans to introduce several new features: support for real-time data streaming in BigQuery, the ability to query portions of a table, the query functions SUM and COUNT, and interface improvements designed to enhance productivity.

BigQuery was launched last year as a tool for interactive data analysis. It’s not a database, like Google Cloud SQL. Rather it brings MySQL-style querying to a NoSQL datastore. With additional tools, Hadoop clusters can be deployed to query multi-terabyte datasets, but the resulting system probably won’t return query results as rapidly…

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.

RightScale Cloud Management is getting an update to simplify and secure both public and private cloud networking. Additionally, the new Network Manager feature will give enterprises—or their channel partners—the ability to manage cloud networking across multiple clouds.

Simplification and ease-of-use—both are common discussion points when it comes to cloud these days, especially as they pertain to making it simpler to work across multiple clouds in both the public and private cloud realms. In the case of RightScale Network Manager, the goal is to help improve security and auditing, as well as making applications more easily portable across clouds…

Grazed from MarketWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Since its launch one year ago, ProfitBricks, the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) company that completely reengineered the delivery of cloud computing, has consistently received industry recognition for its cloud computing 2.0 solutions and price/performance leadership. Building further on this momentum, today ProfitBricks announced that it was named one of CRN Magazine’s Emerging Technology Vendors, as well as to CIO Review’s list of 20 Most Promising Cloud Companies.

The annual CRN Emerging Technology Vendors list highlights ProfitBricks and other hot tech startups making an impact on the channel and in the enterprise. Vendors on this list have recently introduced a new product or technology that is not only innovative, but generates the high margins solution providers require in today’s competitive marketplace…

Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: Padmanabha Sivanandan.

Cloud computing is the techno-business strategy of web-based access of diverse set of applications from any device and less workload on the Customer Service Representative’s (CSR) device as the software and data gets stored elsewhere. Any kind of application can be accessed through cloud, right from trivial word processing software to complex analytical engine for an enterprise. The primary benefit of cloud platform is that it allows an organization to focus only on its core competency as the complexity and overhead of managing IT applications and infrastructure will be addressed by the cloud platform vendor. Cloud based CRM enables organizations to manage customer experience via cloud in a flexible and cost effective manner. Salesforce.com, Microsoft and Oracle are major cloud based CRM vendors.

Benefits of Cloud CRM

There are a number of benefits of a cloud based CRM than an on-premise model, especially in terms of mobility, flexibility and cost.

• The CSRs can access the application from any device like desktops, laptops, tablets, Smart phones and PDAs via internet. So the customers are more quickly served.
• Cloud based CRM provides more flexibility as the upgrades and scaling-up of software are managed by the vendors.
• Typically cloud deployments have shorter implementation cycle and adhere to pay-per-use/subscription model and hence manageable cost…

Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: Serdar Yegulalp.

Google Translate is currently best known for being a quick and dirty way to render Web pages or short text snippets in another language. But according to Der Spiegel, the next step for the core technology behind that service is a device that amounts to the universal translator from "Star Trek."

Google isn’t alone, either. Apparently everyone from Facebook to Microsoft is ramping up similar ambitions: to create services that eradicate language barriers as we currently know them. A realistic goal or still science fiction? And at what cost?…

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: CJ Arlotta.

Cloud services provider Appirio has acquired TopCoder, an organization that hosts a community of more than 500,000 developers, designers and data analytics experts. The deal combines the TopCoder community with CloudSpokes, Appirio’s own crowdsouring platform and community of more than 75,000 developers, designers and analytics experts. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The company said the acquisition will promote a technology platform that enables crowdsourcing as a core part of next generation services.

As part of the deal, Narinder Singh, co-founder of Appirio, was appointed president of the combined communities; TopCoder founder Jack Hughes will join Appirio’s crowdsourcing advisory board; and David Messinger, vice president of community at CloudSpokes, has been promoted to chief community officer of the combined communities…