Category: News

Grazed from I.T. Business Edge. Author: Arthor Cole.

The latest research into cloud computing confirms what most of us already knew: The cloud is quickly becoming the new normal in enterprise computing, portending dramatic changes in hardware, software and service markets in the coming decade. But even as cloud adoption kicks into high gear, it should be noted that not every application is suited for full cloud deployment and that in some cases the cloud could end up costing more than traditional data center infrastructure.

First, the numbers. Verizon reported this week that cloud utilization grew by 90 percent over the past year, a reflection of the technology’s transition from a largely test and development platform to a full production environment, even for mission-critical apps. The result is that organizations are on average increasing their cloud budgets by 45 percent per month…

Grazed from Midsize Insider. Author: Joe Hewitson.

Cloud insurance recently received a boost in momentum when Liberty International Underwriters and CloundInsure announced a partnership to help mitigate the risks associated with the cloud. It is no secret that cloud computing has been a revelation to modern midsize IT with promises of increased scalability, performance and cost savings. Along with great promise comes great risk, however, and in the case of the cloud, the chief risks include decreased security and loss of control over data. Enter cloud insurance, a service that aims to protect businesses that entrust critical assets to the still maturing cloud.

Help with Risk Management

Cloud insurance is still very much in its infancy, but with new partnerships beginning to spring up, the market is clearly gaining steam. This is good news indeed for midsize IT. One of the greatest benefits midsize IT professionals stand to gain from the emergence of this insurance is third party risk assessment. The joint venture of Liberty International Underwriters and CloudInsure, as described by Insurance Journal, allows policyholders to utilize risk consultants with the ability to analyze existing cloud environments and provide midsize IT professionals with targeted pre-loss support services…

Grazed from Midsize Insider. Author: Marissa Tejada.

Cloud computing is on the list of top IT spending priorities for the next year. According to Forrester Research, software spending worldwide will continue to grow with a big focus on the cloud. These worldwide trends reflect the focus of midsize firms.

Popular Software

The research featured recently in the CloudTimes found that, in the past year, companies and governments spent more than $2 trillion on hardware, software and services. In the most popular segment, software firms allocated budgets for improving mobile apps, analytics, security and collaboration software. Software spending increased last year by more than $540 billion; it is expected to grow 3.3 percent this year and 6.2 percent in 2014, the largest projection for technology categories…

Grazed from CloudBerry Labs. Author: PR Announcement.

CloudBerry Lab, a cloud data management solutions vendor for Amazon S3, Windows Azure and Rackspace Cloud Files, announces a release of CloudBerry AD Bridge, a solution to connect Amazon S3 account with Active Directory service in Windows domain networks.

CloudBerry AD Bridge was developed to simplify cloud storage deployment in corporate networks. By installing and configuring AD Bridge on one workstation or server in a domain network, system administrators can automatically provide AD users with a restricted access to a certain folder in Amazon S3 account such providing users with native access to AWS resources. CloudBerry AD Bridge hides the complexity of the configuration process allowing to deploy cloud storage as simply as Network Attached Storage (NAS)…

Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Charles Babcock.

With the launch of its NSX platform Aug. 26, VMware has added virtualization to the list of things its willing to do in the data center. It’s also set a course that appears to intersect that of a venerated partner, Cisco.  If there’s a collision, it’s going to be hard to classify it as an accident.

VMware knows virtualization and understands very well the new control point that’s emerged at the virtualization management console. If there’s a software-defined data center someday, VMware will be deeply entrenched in the heart of it. Cisco knows networking, and counts many VMware users among its primary customers…

Grazed from OStatic. Author: Sam Dean.

The folks over at VentureBeat appear to have one of the best cloud computing events of the year coming up in San Francisco this month. The CloudBeat 2013 conference includes many speakers and participants from the various open source cloud computing platforms, as well as movers and shakers behind proprietary cloud platforms from companies like Salesforce and Netflix. The conference takes place Sept 9 to Sept. 10, and here is what you can expect.

The list of speakers for CloudBeat 2013 looks excellent. It includes George Hu from Salesforce and Paul Maritz, former CEO of VMware and now CEO at Pivotal. Saran Mandair is going to discuss PayPal’s cloud computing initiatives, which focus on OpenStack. There are also representatives from TopCoder and Elance, both firms that offer outsourced tech employment, including cloud services…

Grazed from MarketWired. Author: PR Announcement.

Domo, a new software-as-a-service (SaaS) company that is redefining the business intelligence (BI) market, is making waves with executives across all industries for its mobile app. Available via the iTunes Store, Domo’s mobile app works the way its customers do.

Josh James, Domo founder and CEO, says, "Users have been conditioned to believe that mobile applications are less functional than desktop apps. At Domo, we believe that mobile should outperform what the desktop experience delivers. From the beginning, we’ve focused on completely resetting expectations. In addition to making our mobile app on par with our desktop application, we’re adding new capabilities that deliver a surprisingly more insightful, intuitive and user-friendly experience."…

Grazed from BizJournals. Author: Carole Hawkins.

What is Cloud, and why should my company care? When our publisher, David Sillick, asked that question at a Business Journal breakfast two weeks ago, a panel of four Cloud computing executives went silent for a moment with that deer-in-the-headlights look. The question made sense, but the answer was complicated.

It’s like a businessman asking a computer engineer in the 1980s, what’s a personal computer and why should I care? Or, in the 1990s asking, what is the Internet and why should I care? Cloud is the next fuzzy new IT thing we all sense is hugely important, but don’t completely understand…

Grazed from MarketWired. Author: PR Announcement.

GreenBytes(R), Inc., a developer of full-featured desktop virtualization storage optimization software, today announced it was named a Best of VMworld 2013 finalist award winner in the Desktop Virtualization and End-User Computing category. The GreenBytes IO Offload Engine was honored for its unique approach to overcoming storage-related desktop virtualization hurdles, enabling orders-of-magnitude increases in performance and data storage savings.

An independent team of experts and editors from TechTarget’s SearchServerVirtualization.com selected GreenBytes’ IO Offload Engine from more than 200 nominees in nine categories. The annual Best of VMworld awards showcases the top technologies of the year, which are judged according to innovation, value, performance, reliability, and ease of use…

Grazed from MarketWired. Author: PR Announcement.

Piston Cloud Computing, Inc., the enterprise OpenStack? company, today announced that the editors of TechTarget’s SearchServerVirtualization.com? have selected Piston OpenStack? as a Best of VMworld 2013 award finalist in the Private Cloud Computing Technology category.

A team of independent judges comprising experts and editors from SearchServerVirtualization.com reviewed and evaluated over 200 products submitted for the awards. Products were judged according to innovation, value, performance, reliability, and ease of use…