Grazed from V3.co.uk. Author: James Dohnert.

The growth of cloud computing and other emerging technology trends are changing corporate business models, according to general partner of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz Peter Levine.

Levine contends that the growing focus of software-based technology is changing the way companies plan for growth. Taking part in a panel at BoxWorks 2012 about the growing trends in Silicon Valley Levine said that he believes that better hardware no longer means better growth. "Microsoft needs a wake up call. Cisco needs a wake up call," Levine said during the panel discussion which featured a diverse group of Silicon Valley venture capitalists…

Grazed from PRWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Cloud computing has become business-as-usual for many operators, while others are being left behind due to fear of the unknown and inexperience. So, MYOB is releasing its top tips for bringing the cloud into a business.

The technology company’s national study of small and medium business managers found lack of knowledge was a key barrier to cloud usage for almost half of the 79% who said they don’t use it. The same proportion applied to those concerned about the safety and security of data in the cloud…

“Businesses of all sizes are leveraging a decade of virtualization investments to transform IT through the software-defined datacenter,” said Raghu Raghuram, executive vice president, cloud infrastructure and management, VMware. “VMware’s cloud management offerings fundamentally recast management for the cloud era, allowing customers to operate at cloud scale and begin to act as brokers of IT services to the business.”
 

Why Notes Applications Migrations are Different From Other Types of Migrations

Grazed from SiliconRepublic. Author: Editorial Staff.

A massive IT transformation wave is sweeping the world as cloud computing, virtualisation and mobile technology transform the landscape, EMC’s head of product marketing Eric Herzog said today. According to EMC’s own research 81pc of local businesses will transform their IT functions in the next 12 months.

Herzog, whose full title is senior vice president of product management and product market, who was in Ireland to address the EMC Forum in Dublin, said that EMC itself has embraced cloud computing across 52,000 employees worldwide and discernable changes in work practices and roles are already apparent. EMC employs 2,700 people in Ireland. “You’ll need to pay close attention to how this revolution will impact the jobs market, it will mean redefining people’s roles in a team and the key is to make sure your team is adequately trained in terms of security, for example.”…

Grazed from ITBusiness Edge. Author: Julie Knudson.

Now that cloud technology is seeping into every corner of the business world, IT departments are focusing on how efficiently and effectively their cloud providers and platforms are performing. Founded in 1999, Plixer International is a network performance management provider that helps organizations get a holistic view of the entire enterprise regardless of equipment vendor.

Sanford, Maine is not Silicon Valley but …

The Sanford, Maine-based (yes, Maine) company specializes in analyzing network traffic using NetFlow and the newer IPFIX exporters.

"Enterprise adoption of cloud computing is expected to be the most important factor driving the demand for the market of cloud-based application monitoring," said Srihari Padmanabhan, senior industry analyst for Frost & Sullivan’s Measurement and Instrumentation practice. "This factor will boost the demand for cloud-based monitoring services in future" adding that metrics offered as part of a cloud service providers package "don’t provide enough visibility into the network or application."…

Grazed from Seeking Alpha. Author: Amit Bilgi.

Medidata Solutions (MDSO) is not a company you may have heard of, and with good reason. The computer technology company had its initial public offering in 2009 and maintains a market capitalization of just over a billion dollars. This New York-based firm specializes in providing drug companies software for the clinical development process. Using a cloud-computing approach, the business provides a "software as a service" (colloquially known as SaaS) to help increase the efficiency of various clients’ clinical trials. As there are a plethora of restrictions and protocols a company must adhere to when going through the trial process, it’s vital to ensure all of these regulations are met and done in a proper and well-organized manner to ensure overall legitimacy and increase the probability of approval.

This market can be bifurcated into electronic data capture and clinical data management. The former involves a simplified method of data entry to help expedite the trials themselves, along with various tools to assist with analysis and reporting. CDMS is oftentimes used in conjunction with EDC software to manage much of the data from these various trials. As Medidata is currently attempting to maximize their market share of this business, they have represented themselves as a powerhouse taking a commanding lead with much room for growth…

Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Barb Darrow.

If the OpenStack Summit is anywhere near as dramatic as the events leading up to it, it will be a really good show. As the open-source cloud effort transitions from a Rackspace-dominated move to a true community effort, here are 8 big questions.

To say there’s been a lot of build up to this year’s OpenStack Summit would be an understatement. The drama around VMware’s application to join the OpenStack Foundation and the delayed acceptance of that bid got tongues wagging. It’s only natural, as OpenStack transitioned from a Rackspace-dominated project to a multi-vendor effort with participation from IBM, SUSE, Cisco, HP and pretty much the rest of the known tech universe with the notable exception of Amazon…