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Grazed from SBWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Verticomm.com offers secure and dexterous cloud-based workspace for businesses for better communication and effectiveness. With their efficient and Secure Cloud computing, everything is stored in the cloud and IT administrators just have to analyze and determine the average usage of their organization and acquire only the licenses, their business needs.

Verticomm.com is one proficient Cloud Computing Vendor for business of all sizes, whether there are just 10 employees or 1000 employees. Their Cisco cloud computing services can be adjusted as per the requirement and delivers unmatched customer service for better business efficiency and profitability…

Grazed from CRN. Author: Kevin McLaughlin.

Ravello Systems, a startup whose founders created the KVM open source hypervisor, launched a SaaS offering Wednesday that lets enterprises tap into the virtually unlimited capacity of the public cloud to test their on-premise apps. This is important because enterprises are under pressure to build apps faster to keep pace with business needs. Many are using Agile development methods, and they need to test their apps in a replica of their own environment to make sure bugs aren’t getting through to the final product.

But, testing apps requires a lot of free capacity, more than most enterprises have available in their data centers. Public clouds from Amazon (NSDQ:AMZN) Web Services, Rackspace, HP (NYSE:HPQ) and others have plenty of capacity, but the public cloud is very different from the enterprise data center, which means apps have to undergo major changes in order to run on it…

Grazed from The Var Guy. Author: DH Kass.

Distributor Tech Data (TECD) last week added Ontario, Canada-based AirVM, a white-label infrastructure provider and VMware (VMW) cloud specialist, to its supplier lineup to help channel partners capitalize on cloud services sales without significant capital expenditure for infrastructure.

Under terms of the agreement, Tech Data’s channel partners will gain access through the TDCloud portal to AirVM’s Cloud Delivery and Commercialization Platform—built on VMware’s virtualization infrastructure—for services housed under the hosted AirSembly brand. The AirVM-backed AirSembly white-label infrastructure enables channel partners to brand, sell, and manage their own customized catalog of cloud services and hold down infrastructure-associated costs…

Grazed from Diginomica. Author: Phil Wainewright.

For all the talk of computing as a utility, it seems that the motto ‘You get what you pay for’ applies as much to infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) as it does to any other commodity. The computing you get for Amazon’s low prices may not be as cost-effective as that of other providers, depending on what you’re using it for. That’s the message from a set of benchmark tests published last month by independent tester The Tolly Group, commissioned by IT and managed services provider Dimension Data.

As you’d expect from research it commissioned and promotes, Dimension Data’s cloud offering does well in the benchmarks. Let me disclose upfront too that Dimension Data’s cloud unit recently paid me for some speaking engagements; but the company arranged to brief me on these benchmarks through normal media/analyst channels. Some circumspection in interpreting the results is evidently advisable. Nevertheless, the factors that gave rise to the findings are worth digging into…

Grazed from ComputerResellers. Author: Nestor Arellano.

Avnet Technology Solutions’ reseller partners largely support the recommendation of the of global technology distributor for them to re-align their businesses towards selling more software and services, but they want the company to provide them with a viable payment scheme attuned to the software-as-a-service (SaaS) model.

A number of the value-added resellers that attended Avnet’s IBM Compass 2013 conference said it would not be “unsustainable” for them if customers paid them on a subscription basis, which has surfaced in recent years with the introduction of the “as-a-service” model of selling technology solutions, while VARs continue to pay upfront for products they purchase from distributors…

Grazed from HPCWire. Author: Alex Woodie.

Since it launched last July, the UberCloud Experiment has held three rounds of trials that demonstrate the viability of running HPC workloads in the cloud. With the fourth round set to begin soon, attention once again focuses on encouraging the HPC community to invest in the development of cloud HPC resources that have the potential to benefit smaller organizations.

While the cloud computing has really started to take off in the last few years, interest in running HPC applications in the cloud has not kept up with spending and interesting levels in the overall cloud market, according to Wolfgang Gentzsch, who co-founded of the UberCloud Experiment with Burak Yenier in 2012…

Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Barb Darrow.

Amazon Web Services-like public cloud infrastructure offers great scale and flexibility. What it’s not so strong on is being easy for non IT types to comprehend and use on their own without having to call in a devops or IT professional as intermediary. That’s the market Tier 3 is attacking with the latest release of its public cloud infrastructure.

In startups, devops or sysadmins typically set up (and wind down) compute resources in the cloud, but established companies want their business folks to be able to manage their cloud and oh-by-the-way self-provision the applications they need without bothering techies…

Grazed from ConsumerAffairs. Author: Mark Huffman.

Hackers and identity thieves are increasingly focused on mobile computing. With so many smartphones and tablets now in use, mobile is increasingly becoming how consumers use the web. Criminals also like the fact that many mobile devices have little or no security protection – not on the device itself and not on the data that is stored in the cloud.

Mobile data can be stored both places and security experts say both need strong protection. Chris Rancourt, an editor at NextAdvisor.com, says consumers who use an online backup service to store and share their data in the cloud need to be especially careful…

Grazed from Epoch Times. Author: Kannan Sankaran.

We live in a time where nearly everyone is participating in creating a very large amount of data everyday—from engaging with social media sites like Twitter and Facebook, to watching videos in multimedia sites like YouTube and Vimeo, to performing searches using Google and Bing. What happens to this data? Where does it get stored? How does it all become relevant? Understanding big data gives us the answer. To understand big data, it is essential to first know about the three main Vs of data – Volume, Variety, and Velocity, as outlined by Doug Laney of Gartner Inc. in a report in February 2001:

1) Volume – It refers to the volume of data that is being stored everyday by companies, in data centers. According to StatisticBrain.com, a staggering 58 million tweets are sent out each day that is stored by Twitter.

2) Variety – This refers to the collection of data in various structured and unstructured formats like GPS sensors, images, videos, and blog posts. My personal Samsung Galaxy Note 2 phone has numerous sensors that are also contributing to this data…

Grazed from PRNewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

IBM today announced it will work with the United States Department of the Interior (US DOI) as the Department embarks on a decade long transformation of their information technology (IT) systems to a cloud computing model. As part of an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract, valued for IBM up to $1 billion, the Department may use IBM cloud computing technologies, services and hosting as the foundation of their next generation infrastructure.

IBM’s solution for the DOI is based on the company’s secure and high availability Federal Data Center capabilities using open computing and process standards. The US DOI will leverage IBM expertise in data storage, secure file transfer, virtual machines, database, web hosting, development testing and SAP Application Hosting. The Department will also be able to tap IBM’s Smart Cloud for Government hosted at the IBM Federal Data Center, the Smart Cloud for Enterprise (SCE) commercial offerings and the very cost competitive IBM AIX Cloud…