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Grazed from Forbes. Author: Editorial Staff.

Hold on to your seat, because the battle for cloud computing is just getting interesting. Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) leadership is going to determine the winner of the battle for dominance in the cloud. Amazon, Google GOOG -0.37% and Microsoft MSFT -0.36% are all offering cloud platforms and vying for ownership in this space. Someone will become today’s cloud equivalent of what Windows was to desktops in the 1990s. However, it is as yet unclear who that leader will be.

What is clear is that whoever can win over the most developers for their cloud platforms will take home the trophy. More and more, developers are influencing how and where apps are built. They helped Microsoft win the desktop wars, and that developer-centric pattern is set to repeat in the cloud…

Grazed from The Var Guy. Author: Christopher Tozzi.

Looking through a computer parts catalog the other day as I contemplated building a new PC for myself, I was shocked by how affordable solid state drives (SSD) have become. The channel seems to be noticing, too, and not just in the DIY-PC market. SSD is also becoming increasingly popular in the cloud, and providers are working hard to pitch it to cloud users—as SolidFire, for instance, has started doing in discussions around Citrix (CTXS) CloudPlatform powered by Apache CloudStack.

When I last built a PC, just a couple of years ago, SSD disks large enough to store all of my data were just too pricey. As much as I would have liked the faster I/O, longer lifespan and lower energy use of SSD storage, I couldn’t fit it into my budget…

Grazed from PRNews Wire. Author: PR Announcement.

CloudJee, Inc. (www.cloudjee.com), a startup providing a world-class cloud development platform for building and running mission-critical Java applications on the cloud, launched its platform today. CloudJee is a spin-off from Pramati, a Java infrastructure company and technology incubator. CloudJee brings together a commercialized package of the same Java cloud platform that has been successfully used to launch multiple enterprise software companies, each offering multi-tenant applications for web, mobile and social environments to some of the world’s largest companies.

The CloudJee platform is built around Pramati’s world-class, cloud-optimized enterprise Java app server and load balancer that’s been proven over the last decade across large global customers. The platform also incorporates visual development and instant cloud deployment using WaveMaker technology, recently acquired from VMware, and supported by a 35,000 strong development community. Multi-cloud platform services, auto scaling, provisioning, monitoring, operations management, disaster protection and security are parts of the platform…

Grazed from ITWorld. Author: Ian Paul.

When Flickr announced its 1TB free storage giveaway on Monday, the company said it was offering you enough storage to "take a photo every hour for forty years" without filling up your allotment. Not content to wait four decades, hackers are already figuring out how to pack their Flickr storage with more than just photos and videos.

Two Github projects making the rounds on Hacker News Tuesday morning offer the ability to store any file type on Flick including documents, PDFs, and music files. Flickr currently allows only JPEG, GIF, and PNG uploads, as well as a variety of video formats including AVI, WMV, MPEG4, and OGG…

Grazed from PCWorld. Author: Joab Jackson.

VMware has launched its long-anticipated public infrastructure as a service (IaaS), touting its virtual networking capabilities as a differentiator from other established hybrid cloud offerings. VMware’s vCloud Hybrid Service will be based on the company’s vCloud architecture, allowing customers to shift their VMware encoded workloads between in-house and the VMware hosted service, a practice known as running a hybrid cloud.

“You can write an application and be safe in the knowledge it can be run anywhere,” said VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger, in a Web conference announcing the new service, adding that much of the complexity enterprises experience in deploying their workloads in the cloud comes from preparing their in-house applications to run in a new environment…

Grazed from Business Insider. Author: Kevin McLaughlin.

Appcelerator, which makes a popular free mobile app development platform called Titanium, is now setting its sight on enterprises that build their own mobile apps for workers. On Tuesday, Appcelerator launched a new mobile development platform for enterprises, which it’s selling as a service over the web. Unlike Titanium, which is just for apps, the enterprise platform includes support, training and service level agreements.

It also includes analytics tech which tests apps while they’re being built, to make sure they’re performing well and no glitches make it into the final product. Once apps are finished, Appcelerator hosts them and tracks usage and other stats…

Grazed from NewsWire. Author: Editorial Staff.

SolarWinds Inc. (SWI) has agreed to buy N-able Technologies for $120 million in cash to expand its offerings into cloud-based information technology services for managed service providers.
Kevin Thompson, SolarWinds’ president and chief executive, said small businesses are increasingly looking for ways to deploy and efficiently manage IT and SaaS-based technologies and the acquisition helps the company better serve such needs.

Privately held N-able Technologies provides network monitoring and remote systems management software and counts companies such as Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) and Intel Corp. (INTC) as among its strategic partners…

Grazed from ZDNet. Author: John Fontana.

Identity and Access as a Service is poised for a strong run at enterprises of all size, and those who have done their homework will dodge the hype and know what’s right for them and what’s not. By the end of 2015, Identity and Access as a Service (IDaaS) will account for 25% of all new identity and access management sales, compared with 5% in 2012, according to recent Gartner research "Are You and the IDaaS Market Ready for Each Other?"

At the end of 2012, the market was $180 million. By the end of this year, that number is expected to jump to $265 million. Small and medium-sized companies are helping drive interest. They are extending their current IAM architectures and providing access to SaaS services or internal Web-apps. Larger companies in general are looking to support both cloud and on-premises applications with IDaaS offerings…

Grazed from VentureBeat. Author: Matt Quin.

We’re well beyond any question about whether cloud computing is the future. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) paved the way for the idea that organizations can operate some of their most important systems in an on-premise or off-premise cloud. Small, medium and even large businesses accept that cloud computing delivers flexibility, cost and scalability that business has never had before. Companies are gravitating to cloud because it brings very short time to value and doesn’t impact the current business model.

Lower cost and less risk are very attractive propositions. How big is this move? Forrester estimates that the average company has 9.3 different SaaS applications in use. Consulting firm Cap Gemini reports that 78% of new applications are deployed into the cloud. And that’s just the applications that are being tracked. In reality, workers today are practicing BYOS (Bring Your Own Service) as they experiment with SaaS in broad ways that IT and even business managers may not know about…

Grazed from ITBusinessEdge. Author: Michael Vizard.

The current fascination with deployment models in the cloud will soon give way to more practical approaches to managing tiers of private and public cloud computing resources. According to Saar Gillai, senior vice president and general manager for converged cloud at Hewlett-Packard, as cloud computing becomes more unified in the months ahead, thanks largely to open standards and APIs, hybrid clouds will simply become the new enterprise IT norm.

Gillai says all this fascination with deployment models is a temporary thing. In fact, Gillai says the deployment model is not the relevant discussion. It’s the ability to support multiple deployment models, ranging from public clouds to private clouds running on premise and every type of cloud in between, adds Gillai, which will ultimately distinguish HP from larger cloud rivals such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft…