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Grazed from Enterprise Apps Today. Author: Pedro Hernandez.

Tableau Software launched a new cloud-based business intelligence (BI) platform named, appropriately enough, Tabeau Online. Available as a software as a service (SaaS) offering or as a hosted version of the company’s Tableau Server product, the cloud BI software helps bring business analytics to organizations of all sizes and all levels of IT competency, according to the company. "Tableau Online will allow people to get their analytics up and running in minutes and add users in a few clicks," said Tableau’s co-founder and Chief Development Officer Chris Stolte, in company remarks.

"It’s completely scalable and secure and requires no infrastructure. It’s the fastest way to get everyone in your company using powerful analytics to make better decisions today," Stolte said. Tableau Online delivers the functionality of the company’s Tableau software platform, but in a manner that requires less investment in IT, promotes collaboration and better supports mobile workforces, asserts Ellie Fields, senior director of product marketing for the company, in a blog post…

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Mark Eisenberg.

During a recent cloud industry conference, Satya Nadella, president of Microsoft Corp.’s Server and Tools Business, referenced the perception that non-Microsoft technologies, while supported on Windows Azure, are considered "second-class citizens." This perception isn’t surprising when you consider how far Microsoft has strayed from its original vision for Windows Azure PaaS. Microsoft intended that Windows Azure’s two roles — Web and worker — would only be the beginning; there would be others.

The core of the Windows Azure PaaS includes the Web and worker compute roles. Though in a very general way, these are not dissimilar to the Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud Amazon Machine Images and instances, the difference lies in the level of abstraction…

Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: Salman Ul Haq.

Mobile based cloud computing has been getting a forward nudge in the market swiftly because of the increasing benefits related to data manageability and user experience. Probably the most alluring factor of mobile based cloud computing is introduction of Augmented reality(AR), a technology to virtualize the sensory perceptions of human beings into augmented computer generated form in order to give the look and feel of the real time environments.

Using and deploying remote resources for mobile based cloud architectures have become easy and more efficient amid the implementation of Cloud-Mobile Convergence (CMC) paradigms which argue the adaptation of remote resources for the allocation of resources pool for mobile based cloud models. CMC models have given rise to prodigious and state of the art AR based hardware equipped with optimized cloud computing capabilities, such as being offered by Google Glass. Google Glass uses the colossal AR based implementations to offer the enhanced user experience…

Grazed from The Var Guy. Author: Christopher Tozzi.

Local storage and the Google (GOOG) cloud have become one in the most recent offering from Egnyte, which has unveiled a platform for enterprises to offer users access to data of all types from a single location. Now, the question is whether it can steal market share from alternative storage services such as Dropbox.

Egnyte has been around since 2006, and it first began offering its namesake cloud file server product in 2008. With the latest release of the platform this week, however, Egnyte now offers Google Drive integration that it says "provides enterprise customers with the flexibility and security to use the collaboration, storage and sharing tools that best fit their needs."…

Grazed from InsuranceTech. Author: Kevin Mason.

Talking about cloud computing can bring on a serious case of déjà vu. The concept of consuming information technology as a utility sounds, on its surface, a lot like the application service provider (ASP) model of the 1990s that faded away by the early 2000s.

However, this time around the concept of consuming information technology as a service has manifested itself differently, and the widespread adoption of cloud computing in the insurance industry is inevitable. Interest in and usage of cloud is being driven by three key factors:..

Grazed from CloudTech. Author: Phil Turner.

It’s important to examine the current ‘state of play’ for cloud delivered solutions based on a couple of key dimensions; what is being deployed in the cloud and who is providing the IT service from the cloud. The image conjured up by the term “cloud” is that of companies like Amazon, Google and Microsoft delivering large-scale computing infrastructure that eliminate the need for on-premises IT equipment and software. Since these cloud providers build their own infrastructure rather than buying from product manufacturers, it could be argued they are shrinking the market share.

The Opportunity is Larger than the Threat

However, there are other categories of service providers that balance, more than offset the reduced spend and create an opportunity: Consumer SaaS providers aggregate consumer-spend into centralised shared enterprise infrastructure. Consumer applications that traditionally consumed end user equipment are moving to the cloud triggering a need for enterprise infrastructure. While some of these service providers build their own infrastructure others leverage product manufacturers…

Grazed from BSMInfo. Author: Jay McCall.

Most VARs and systems integrators make their foray into the cloud by offering data backup, hosted Exchange, and/or selling SaaS (software as a service) offerings. After gaining a comfort level with the cloud, some service providers take the next step, which is building solutions in the cloud, a service that’s known as PaaS (platform as a service).

PaaS is an outgrowth of SaaS and offers several advantages for developers and MSPs. With PaaS, operating system features can be changed and upgraded frequently, geographically distributed development teams can work together on software development projects, and services can be obtained from diverse sources that cross international boundaries. Additionally, initial and ongoing costs can be reduced by the use of infrastructure services from a single vendor rather than maintaining multiple hardware facilities that often perform duplicate functions or suffer from incompatibility problems…

Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author: Events Announcement.

Two unstoppable enterprise IT trends, Cloud Computing and Big Data, will converge in Silicon Valley at 13th Cloud Expo – November 4–7, 2013, in Santa Clara, California.

Cloud Expo offers a vast selection of technical and strategic breakout sessions, General Sessions, Industry Keynotes, "Power Panels" and a bustling Expo floor.

For more information and registration details, please visit  http://www.cloudcomputingexpo.com/

Grazed from CIO. Author: Thor Olavsrud.

Today, OpenStack turns 3. The open source Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform, released under the Apache license, launched in July 2010 with a seemingly simple idea: to deliver a ubiquitous open source cloud computing platform for public and private clouds. Launched in July 2010 with code donated by Rackspace and NASA, OpenStack has become one of the fastest growing open source efforts in technology: More than 500 individuals from more than 200 different companies contributed to its latest release, Grizzly.

Developers have contributed more than 1 million lines of code, and the stack currently has more than 70,000 contributions from more than 120 countries—an average of 238 contributions per month. The first OpenStack Design Summit & Conference, held in July 2010, boasted 75 attendees. The most recent conference, held in April, had 3,000, and the next one is expected to have more…

Grazed from CMO. Author: Editorial Staff.

The Cloud Security Alliance, a not-for-profit organisation set up to promote best security practices for cloud computing, has released a white paper on conducting forensic investigation in cloud environments and has formed an Incident Management and Forensics Working Group. It warns that “While digital investigations, on the surface, seem to have little to do with the competitive position or profit-and-loss of CSPs, forensic readiness cannot be ignored.”

The co-chair of the group, Dominik Birk from Zurich Insurance, said the aim of the group was to define best practices that consider the legal, technical and procedural elements of responding to security incidents in the cloud in a forensically sound way. "This initial white paper represents a significant effort on behalf of numerous individuals and marks an important first step in conducting proper forensic investigations in cloud environments following a security incident,” he said…