Category: News

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.

McAfee is giving a boost to its Security Connected portfolio with the addition of identity and access management capabilities. They were previously developed and sold by Dell (NASDAQ:DELL), but now McAfee is bringing them to market as McAfee Cloud Single Sign On and McAfee One Time Password.

Additionally, McAfee launched Identity Center of Expertise, which is staffed by experts in identity and cloud security that are specifically there to help users with questions related to identity and access management issues…

Grazed from CIOL. Author: Sunija Rishi.

As per Gartner, cloud-based security services market will be worth $4.2 billion by 2016, as companies seek out new ways to deliver low cost security offerings. Public and private clouds are interesting cloud sub domains to know about and yes the security aspect can not be ignored.

Public vs Private Cloud

A public cloud is one based on the standard cloud computing model, in which a service provider makes resources, such as applications and storage, available to the general public over the Internet. Yet, another feature of public cloud is that, it is available to all and believes in agility…

Grazed from PRNewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Managing and disseminating the rapidly increasing amount of geospatial data will be a huge challenge for governments and civilians responding to the world’s next big disaster, Eric Vollmecke of the Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC) told 350 global leaders at the NATO Network Enabled Capability conference held in Lisbon, Portugal, April 23-25.

"From an operational perspective, there is an insatiable appetite for overhead imagery to build situational awareness. Currently, platforms keep growing to collect and disseminate the necessary information. This information is not timely in its response, it’s unwieldy in its deployment and it lacks the flexibility to enable cross-domain interoperability," said Vollmecke. "Unless we get our arms around all of this, the amount of data will be overwhelming and we will miss precious days trying to get the right information to the right international stakeholders so they can do their work and not sit waiting on the sidelines."…

Grazed from FortMills Times. Author: Editorial Staff.

Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced the launch of the new AWS Certification Program with the first of several exams that will made available in 2013. With the accelerating adoption of cloud computing and the AWS Cloud around the world, organizations are increasingly seeking mechanisms to identify candidates and consultants with demonstrated knowledge of AWS best practices. The new AWS Certification Program helps to fill this need to recognize IT professionals that possess the skills and technical knowledge necessary for building and maintaining applications and services on the AWS Cloud. To learn more about the AWS Certification Program, visit http://aws.amazon.com/certification.

AWS Certifications help to recognize the skills, knowledge and expertise of IT professionals in designing, deploying and managing applications on the AWS platform. To earn an AWS Certification, individuals must demonstrate their proficiency in a particular area by passing an AWS Certification Exam. Individuals looking to prepare for an exam can attend courses through AWS Training to help gain proficiency with AWS services. Individuals that pass an AWS Certification Exam can display the applicable AWS Certified logo on business cards and resumes to gain visibility for their AWS expertise while fostering credibility with employers and peers…

Grazed from PRNewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

BlueKai, the only end-to-end SaaS solution for data management, analysis and activation, today announced a partnership with IBM, in which BlueKai will integrate with IBM Digital Data Exchange (DDX), part of the company’s Digital Analytics suite. Effective immediately, the partnership connects customers using IBM’s tag management solution with BlueKai’s DMP data intelligence across offline, online and mobile channels. IBM DDX is a tag management solution that simplifies the management of IBM and third-party page tags, enabling clients to deploy and maintain website pages with minimal support from IT.

As data-driven marketing transforms the way brands reach and connect with audiences, IBM’s partnership with BlueKai marks a watershed moment in the industry as it underscores how traditional marketing-related technology vendors are turning to innovative upstarts to help drive better engagement and ROI in a highly digital and fragmented media landscape…

Grazed from ComputerWeekly. Author: Cliff Saran.

IT departments will need to ramp up skills in developing for the cloud, to support mobile apps that make use of back-end services. According to Gartner, by 2016, 40% of mobile application development projects will leverage cloud back-end services. Gartner defines cloud mobile back-end services as "a specialised form of platform as a service (PaaS) to support mobile application development".

These cloud services provide the back-end capabilities commonly required by mobile applications, such as user management, data storage, push notifications and social network integration. In addition, some cloud mobile back-end services allow developers to deploy server-side code. "Cloud mobile back-end services stand to become a key component of the application development ecosystem," said Gordon Van Huizen, research director at Gartner…

Grazed from FortMills Times. Author: Editorial Staff.

ExtraHop Networks, the leading provider of real-time IT operational intelligence, has been named a finalist in two Best of Interop categories. ExtraHop’s flagship EH8000 appliance, the industry’s first 20Gbps real-time analysis platform, has been named a finalist in the Management and Monitoring category while ExtraHop for Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been named a finalist in the Cloud Computing and Virtualization category. ExtraHop is the only finalist in two award categories. ExtraHop CEO Jesse Rothstein will also deliver a joint presentation at Interop with a leading online brokerage firm to demonstrate how the ExtraHop platform is transforming their IT operations through cross-tier visibility of all applications and infrastructure.

The EH8000 is the first all-in-one performance management solution capable of real-time, L2–L7 transaction analysis at a sustained 20Gbps of throughput for both encrypted and unencrypted traffic. ExtraHop’s software architecture makes the EH8000 the undisputed price-performance leader in the IT operations management industry, enabling companies to extract application, infrastructure, and transaction details from massive volumes of wire data with a single appliance…

Grazed from BusinessWire. Author: PR Announcement.

HotLink® Corporation, the market leader in transformation solutions for heterogeneous virtualization management, today announced it has been included in the list of "Cool Vendors" in the “Cool Vendors in Cloud Management, 2013” report by Gartner, Inc.

HotLink’s award-winning solutions, HotLink SuperVISOR and HotLink Hybrid Express, dramatically simplify IT management complexity for heterogeneous and hybrid computing infrastructure. The solutions are built on a game-changing transformation engine that enables native interoperability of all major hypervisors and public cloud platforms using existing management consoles such as VMware vCenter and Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager…

Grazed from Business2Community. Author: Matthew Ramsey.

Major changes in cloud computing have occurred in recent months. Enterprises have seen a barrage of new service offerings, ranging from cloud service brokerages to ground-breaking storage services from the big players. Services like Microsoft SkyDrive are great for automating key processes. Who doesn’t benefit from comprehensive storage and backup solutions? The dominance of the app market has spread into the cloud arena to address these needs.

While game and sports apps dominate consumer markets, the enterprise has a seemingly endless array of productivity apps to choose from. CloudLock, a leading cloud security vendor, compiled a list of the most often used cloud apps based on Google results. At the top of the list are applications used for communications and collaboration, storage, and document sharing. These will all have an impact on changes in how your organization is run in 2013. They also contribute to the phenomenon of assembling numerous cloud services into one cohesive process…

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Tom Nolle.

If OpenStack is the embodiment of the community cloud model, then VMware vCloud Suite is an example of a focused, single-vendor cloud. The goal of vCloud is to create a data center that’s completely virtual — all resources, all locations. And while vCloud is neither free, open source, hypervisor-agnostic nor backed by a consortium of vendors, it could be a good choice for companies that see the benefit in commercial software’s documentation, centralized support and focused development and enhancement.

VMware vCloud Suite creates a virtual data center defined by software, and it is close to a completely transparent resource pool. It also aims to link the cloud to productivity and business agility value at all levels, unlike the positioning for most cloud computing services, which tends to focus on the public cloud or on a simple extension to virtualization. The cloud platform builds on the wide success of VMware Inc.’s virtualization products — vSphere and vMotion…