Dell Helps XS Deliver Cloud Based Agricultural Application to Increase Farming Yields with End-to-End Enterprise Infrastructure
As a drought in the Midwest raises food prices, farming efficiency and getting the most from farm lands has become more essential than ever. XS, Inc. is known in the food and agriculture industry for its ability to provide internet-based applications to help its agricultural clients drive efficiency and business value within their own organizations. To keep those online applications up and running, XS, Inc. selected Dell Compellent storage arrays, PowerEdge servers, PowerVault disk storage, and Latitude laptops. Since XS, Inc. moved to Dell Compellent this year, the company has maintained 99.999 percent storage availability to support the company’s rapid growth and expects to realize an annual cost savings of $500 per deployed workstation and $2,000 per deployed server.
GE Working to Bring Air Traffic Management into “The Cloud”
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A global leader in avionics and software development, the General Electric Company (NYS: GE) has embarked on an 18-month project with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to help bring NextGen air traffic management (ATM) technology into "The Cloud." Cloud computing will enable airlines and air traffic controllers to perform their tasks by sharing not only real-time information but also data analysis and decision support tools to improve aircraft operations and airspace efficiency.
GE researchers are working with NASA to enable NextGen air traffic management to be operated through …
GE researchers are working with NASA to enable NextGen air traffic management to be operated through cloud computing to improve aircraft operations and airspace efficiency. The effort to bring cloud computing to air traffic management is part of GE’s efforts to build the Industrial Internet.
Emerson’s Trellis platform plays integral role in public and private clouds
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Emerson Network Power, a business of Emerson (NYSE: EMR) and a global leader in maximizing availability, capacity, and efficiency of critical infrastructure, today announced a strategic partnership with high-performance cloud infrastructure provider Joyent to transform and optimize how physical and logical data center resources are packaged and delivered for public and private clouds.
“We selected Emerson as our partner because the Trellis™ platform is the only DCIM solution available today that can provide holistic, real-time visibility from service processor to power grid and enable the dynamic optimization of data center physical resources,” said Jason Hoffman, founder and CTO of Joyent. “Our partnership will enable us to offer a unique, tightly integrated, modular, highly efficient solution that optimizes the entire infrastructure based on the energy consumption of application workloads.”…
The tipping point for cloud management is nigh
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Businesses typically don’t think too much about managing IT resources until they become too numerous and cumbersome to deal with on an ad hoc basis — a point many companies will soon hit in their adoption of cloud computing.
As enterprises continue to use IaaS (infrastructure as a service) and PaaS (platform as a service) cloud services to solve pressing business problems, the number of cloud services used will continue to grow. Although dozens of services are relatively easy to track, many companies are quickly using hundreds or even thousands of services. This means they’re approaching a tipping point where the number of services used exceeds IT’s ability to manage them manually…
Cloud Computing: When archiving goes interactive
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The advent of cloud computing has come and gone, says NATHANIEL BORENSTEIN, chief scientist at Mimecast. But how can we harness this technology to fuel further innovation within the e-mail environment?
Not all too long ago, cloud computing was a foreign and distant concept. Although it promised to fundamentally alter the way in which we relate to and store information, it was little more than a notion or idea that was beginning to find its feet within the technological community…
Lenovo Makes First Software Buy to Expand in Cloud
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Lenovo Group Ltd., the world’s second-largest maker of personal computers, agreed to buy Stoneware Inc. of the U.S. to gain cloud-computing products in its first acquisition of a software vendor.
Stoneware produces software used mainly by governments and schools to synchronize data across multiple mobile devices, Mark Cohen, a Lenovo vice president, said in a telephone interview. The closely held, Indianapolis-based company has 60 employees, he said, without disclosing terms…
Microsoft boosts enterprise productivity with new cloud service
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Microsoft Corporation says it is contributing significantly to the development of Nigeria’s Small Medium Enterprise (SME) sector through the provision of cloud-based technologies specifically designed to enhance enterprise productivity and efficiency.
Industry analysts told Business Day at the launch of the solution in Lagos, weekend that Microsoft was finally stepping into the small-business cloud-computing segment with the company executives claiming downright that the internet is the one and only future for Microsoft. Branded as Office 365, the service costs $6 per user per month, and is Microsoft’s Web-based version of its franchise Office product…
5 things you need to know about cloud in Europe
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Yes, cloud adoption in Europe hasn’t happened at as fast as in the US. But despite the difficult economy, there’s considerable interest in cloud on the continent. The market bears watching and here are 5 things you should know about it.
Most of what we hear about cloud computing in Europe tends to fixate on the notion that cloud adoption there lags that in the US by one to three years. That may be generally true, but it’s still a simplistic analysis. Despite the economic mess over there, IDC predicts a 30 percent compound annual growth rate for cloud deployments between 2011 and 2016 compared to an 18.5 percent CAGR for the US during that period. Not too shabby…
Oracle to Buy SelectMinds to Expand Cloud-Based Recruiting
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Oracle Corp. (ORCL) has agreed to acquire social-recruiting company SelectMinds as the software giant continues to expand its footprint in the cloud. Oracle, which didn’t disclose the terms of its deal, has been on an acquisition spree lately, targeting companies in the cloud-computing sphere.
SelectMinds offers companies ways to recruit employees, distribute job opportunities, and manage corporate alumni relationships through a cloud-based social network. The deal is expected to complement Oracle’s cloud recruiting, performance management and human capital management offerings…
Enterprise skepticism remains despite cloud benefits, growth
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Skeptics still question cloud computing’s value, reliability and security, but users who have taken the cloud plunge say those on the sidelines are missing out. This long-running debate over cloud benefits and challenges shows no signs of stopping, even as cloud computing growth increases in a number of enterprises.
“There are legitimate security and compliance concerns to be sure,” said Christopher Wolf, partner at Hogan Lovells US LLP, a law firm based in Washington, D.C. that represents cloud providers and cloud services users. “But most of them are manageable.”…