Austin-based Gravitant Inc. has spent about five years on intense software development to create a simplified way for businesses and government agencies with complex information technology needs to make better use of cloud computing.
What’s Intel’s vision for cloud computing?"The email crash took us down a couple of days. Email is very important to the function of the bank, so we couldn’t take that risk of a crash again," says Robert Porter, vice president and IT director at the bank, a $275 million-asset community bank based in Hazard, Ky. The bank moved its entire email system to a hosted Safe Systems solution called SafeSysMail. It’s also using an email archiving and encryption service from Safe Systems. For a bank that only has two IT workers, the move to a hosted environment is expected to save about $80,000 over the next three years…
September 2, 2012
Amazon quietly moves to harness the cloud computing future
Grazed from New York Times. Author: Quentin Hardy.
Within a few years, Amazon.com’s creative destruction of both traditional book publishing and retail may be footnotes to the company’s larger and more secretive gambit: giving anyone on the planet access to an almost unimaginable amount of computing power.
Every day, a startup called the Climate Corp. performs more than 10,000 simulations of the next two years’ weather for more than 1 million locations in the United States. It then combines that with data on root structure and soil porosity to write crop insurance for thousands of farmers.
Another startup, called Cue, scans up to 500 million emails, Facebook updates and corporate documents to create a service that can outline the biography of a given person you meet, warn you to be home to receive a package or text a lunch guest that you are running late…
Cloudant is a big data analytics company that has created a customized version of CouchDB called BigCouch that handles scalability and high-performance data distribution. BigCouch is distributed across multiple cloud providers throughout the planet.
Pano Logic, a provider of zero client desktop virtualization and ‘Desktop in the Cloud’ computing, has announced Pano System for Cloud/Terminal Services 2.0, which links cloud-based computing with legacy terminal services resources, easing migration to the cloud.
Secure-24, a leading provider of cloud computing, application outsourcing and enterprise hosting services – has become a recipient of the 2012 EMC® Journey to the Cloud Award.
Enterprise software vendor and cloud-computing pioneer Workday this afternoon filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission a prospectus for a highly-anticipated public offering of shares.