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Grazed from The Cloud Factory.  Author: Events Announcement.

PLANET EARTH’S PREMIERE ENTERPRISE TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE.   The Cloud Factory is a premiere enterprise technology conference to be held in the stunning resort town of Banff, Alberta, Canada on April 7 and 8, 2014. This conference will bring together senior enterprise executives, corporate M&A teams, venture capitalists, startups, industry disruptors, technology thought leaders and global media to discuss disruptive innovations in cloud computing, big data and enterprise technology.

Each day will focus on a distinct theme – Democratizing the Enterprise, and Growth Hacking the Enterprise – featuring keynote presentations, fireside chats, panel discussions, startup pitches, demo alleys and post-event excursions and activities. The conference will culminate in the first ever Canadian Cloud Awards dubbed as the Oscar’s of Cloud Computing…

Grazed from The Canadian Cloud Council. Author: PR Announcement.

The Canadian Cloud Council and Boast Capital have just announced a 2-day mega conference titled The Cloud Factory to be held from April 7 and 8, 2014 in the beautiful resort town of Banff. This enterprise focused conference will bring together senior executives, corporate M&A teams, venture capitalists, enterprise startups, industry disruptors, technology thought leaders and global media to discuss disruptive innovations in cloud computing, big data and enterprise technology.

Day 1 of the conference is specifically focused on Democratizing the Enterprise and Women in Technology. Featured tech women leaders include Linda Cureton, Former CIO of NASA; Theresa Payton, Former CIO of the US Federal Government; Paula Long, Founder and CEO of Data Gravity; Whitney Bouck, GM at Box; Cynthia Stoddard, CIO at NetApp; Perry Hewitt, Chief Digital Officer at Harvard University; Michelle Zatlyn, Cofounder of CloudFlare; Janet Wood, EVP at SAP; Shelley Kuipers, CEO of Chaordix; and Tori MacLean, Cofounder of BeauCoo…

Grazed from CIO-Today. Author: Editorial Staff.

It’s getting cloudier over at Hewlett-Packard. On Wednesday, HP announced new additions to its Converged Cloud portfolio that deepen its position in the OpenStack camp and position the company as a facilitator for hybrid clouds in the enterprise.

HP’s announcements focused on its next phase of OpenStack-based architecture for its private, managed and public cloud offerings, as well as new software and services for cloud implementations. In its announcements, HP noted research it had commissioned, which found that "it is expected to be a hybrid world," with 75 percent of enterprise IT to be "delivered across private, managed and public clouds" within three years…

Grazed from PR NewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Worldwide markets are poised to achieve significant growth as the SOA systems provide the base for cloud computing and support the use of smartphones for transactions and collaboration. SOA is useful for addressing the need for flexible systems, the need for adaptation to mobile handset presentation of information, and the need for marketing analytics.

SOA supports cloud computing solutions with a platform. IBM is the market leader, setting the defacto industry standard in SOA systems implementation. IBM WebSphere is the defacto SOA standard by virtue of providing a way to interconnect disparate siloed web applications within a large data center…

Grazed from ChicagoTribune. Author: Editorial Staff.

Tidemark said Thursday it has raised $13 million in venture backing for its cloud-based analytics services, boosting the startup’s efforts to challenge enterprise giants in a fast-growing sector of business technology. The investment round, which brings Tidemark’s total funding to $48 million, was led by Tenaya Capital, with participation by existing investors Greylock Partners, Andreessen Horowitz and Redpoint Ventures.

The Redwood City, California-based company, whose competitors include Oracle Corp’s Hyperion and SAP , allows businesses to analyze data on a cloud-based basis, using remote computers rather than a customer’s own computing infrastructure…

Grazed from Business2Community. Author: Kamran Maqbool.

Cloud computing is becoming a successful option for a growing number of organisations, effectively freeing resources and promoting flexible collaboration. If you are considering the switch to cloud computing but are put off by concerns over security, there may be a way for you to gain assurance. Below we have created a list of the main issues posed by cloud computing, along with some suggestions of simple solutions. Where is Your Data? The thought of your data being stored in a different location to your base of operations is one of the biggest concerns for many potential clients.

What happens when your contract ends, or the provider goes into administration? The way around this is to get to know your provider and the data centres they use. This way you can be sure of the exact locations where your data will be stored, and what protocols are in place for worst-case scenarios. Create a Backup Even when you gain reassurance from a provider, you may still hear a worried voice in the back of your head. It is hard to give up control over information normally safeguarded by your business to a third party…

Grazed from SiliconRepublic. Author: Editorial Staff.

More than three-quarters of IT managers felt that a lack of trust in security was the biggest barrier to adoption of cloud computing technologies in their organisations. The study by IT security service provider SecureData highlighted that although cloud offers many benefits to IT departments there are still huge concerns over how to securely migrate to online services. As a result, over half (59pc) of IT managers thought having a fully outsourced managed security service offering was of importance in order to safely support the roll out and management of cloud technologies.

Furthermore, 67pc of IT managers thought that a Security as a Service (SaaS) provider should be held responsible for any security breaches, highlighting that SaaS providers have a significant responsibility to provide best of breed security…

Grazed from SCMagazine. Author: Dan Raywood.

Kaspersky has confirmed that it will commence winding down its hosted security service this month. In an email to SC Magazine, Kaspersky confirmed its announcement from August 2012 that it was ceasing to sell Kaspersky Hosted Security (KHS), but that all existing customers would be fully supported through to August 2013.

Now it is passing users to partner Spamina after ‘an exhaustive study of the SaaS market’. “Spamina has proven to be extremely successful at providing their customers with industry-leading hosted email and web security services,” it said. “Having integrated Kaspersky Lab’s industry leading engine as a substantial component of our malware detection system, we ensure customers have the same high level of protection they’ve become accustomed to with KHS…

Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Colin Barker.

Over the past 30 years, enterprise resource planning (ERP) has become the mainstay application of most companies. These systems sit on mainframes or servers, fussed over by a select bunch of IT people, cosseted and quietly churning through the vital work of keeping the company going. Whether it is supplying all the right information on a just-in-time basis, keeping close control of inventory or just printing out employee time-sheets, the ERP system will be the ultimate controlling mechanism.

The software used always needs to be state of the art and is often so expensive that it can turn CEO’s hair white overnight if it has so much as a glitch: in short, ERP is both mundane and absolutely crucial to any production company’s success…

Grazed from The Vary Guy. Author: Christopher Tozzi.

Moving is never fun. That’s true whether the move is between houses, offices or Microsoft (MSFT) Windows Server platforms. But for enterprises migrating from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2012, Rackspace (RAX) hopes to make life a little easier with a "Cloud Assessment" tool it unveiled this week to help analyze and plan cloud computing needs on Server 2012.

With the latest service pack for Server 2003 now more than 6 years old, and with Server 2012 having been on the market for more than a year, it’s making less and less sense to continue running Web and cloud applications on a server platform more than a decade old. Enough cloud users are apparently still doing so, however, that Rackspace thinks pushing them toward an upgrade to Server 2012 is worthwhile…