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Dr. McCoy was always one of my favorite Star Trek characters. Among his many endearing quirks was a healthy skepticism of transporter technology. Being a doctor, he understood the complexity of the human body and all its constituent systems. Taking someone apart, molecule by molecule, and then reassembling them somewhere else is fraught with peril.

It’s not enough to get the skeleton and muscles right. You need the heart and lungs to be there, too, in the right places. You need the brain, down to every firing neuron and synapse. And it all has to rematerialize just so for the person to walk away from the experience. Otherwise, McCoy knew, you end up with a mass of vaguely humanoid Jell-O on the transporter room floor. Consequently, I’m certain that McCoy would have made a great DevOps manager…

The 35-year-old company hailed its technological transition Wednesday at its Redwood Shores, Calif. headquarters, where hyperbolic CEO Larry Ellison announced plans to distribute more than 100 business software applications over the Internet instead of selling them as products that have to be installed on individual office computers.

The concept of leasing software applications reachable on any Internet-connected device is known as "cloud computing." It’s an idea that Ellison has frequently mocked as a passing fancy, but his comments Wednesday made it clear that he realized some time ago that the trend had become a serious business…

ArcGIS Online organizational subscriptions, in beta since December, also provide:

• Tools for application development using geospatial data;
• An open API for integration with software such as Microsoft Office, Salesforce and Cognos;
• Mapping of data within Excel as long as that data has a street address or city name (geocoding will be automatic);
• Cataloging of GIS assets, making such data easier to find (and less likely to be duplicated by others in an organization who don’t know it’s there);
• Private sharing among internal groups;
• Maps that display across numerous mobile devices as well as in Web browsers;
• And hosting on either public or private cloud infrastructure…

The last time, we discussed how private Clouds weakened the enterprise value proposition for Cloud Computing, eliciting consternation far and wide, not from enterprises implementing such Clouds, but from consultants and vendors in the business of building and outfitting them. To which we say: well, duh! Cloud Computing is a paradigm shift precisely because we won’t need to hire pricey consultants or buy a lot of gear to use them!

In fact, enterprise software vendors are running scared. Cloud Computing represents an enormous threat to their entire business model, and they’re fighting it every step of the way. Of course, if you ask them, they’ll sing a different tune: they’ll talk about how Cloud-ready they are, how you can get their stuff via a pay-as-you-go SaaS or PaaS model, or if you like, install it yourself in your own IaaS Cloud. Yeah, right. Just as they crossed off the word “Web” from their software boxes and wrote in “SOA” back in 2004, now that word has gotten the axe, and “Cloud” is the mantra of the day…

As with any new technology, the big question surrounding Hadoop as a viable market is whether enterprises will adopt it. The answer seems to be a resounding “Yes.” Already, Hortonworks CEO Rob Bearden told me, “We are seeing Hadoop in almost every Fortune 500 in either a proof of concept or a pilot.” Bearden doesn’t mean that his company has accounts with everyone in the Fortune 500, though, just that the majority of those companies are looking into Hadoop…

 

Grazed from Accounting Today.  Author: Michael Cohn.

Cloudera offers enterprise a powerful data platform built on the popular Apache Hadoop open-source software without proprietary vendor lock-in. Hadoop is designed to enable effective distributed parallel processing of huge amounts of data across inexpensive, commodity servers. The AMD Opteron processor-based cluster on Colfax makes it easy for any business to leverage the analytical power of big data…

Grazed from PR Web.  Author: PR Announcement.

Green House Data, a leading provider of sustainable cloud hosting and colocation services, today announced that its Green House Data Cloud service has achieved VMware vCloud Powered status, illustrating to customers that the company’s cloud services are underpinned by VMware’s leading virtualization and cloud computing technology, namely VMware vSphere® and VMware vCloud Director™. A member of the VMware Service Provider Program (VSPP), Green House Data provides its VMware vCloud Powered service as a set of cloud computing services across a common platform, supporting the largest set of existing applications and offering distinctive application mobility uniquely available from VMware.

"We are excited to join the VMware vCloud Powered program and are committed to providing our clients with simplified management of all their IT needs,” shared Shawn Mills, President, Green House Data. “The Green House Data vCloud Powered service is just another way for our customers to manage and customize their infrastructure on-demand.”…

On July 16-18 at the John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center in Boston, Massachusetts, more than 1,800 hosted services professionals from all over the world will meet at HostingCon 2012. A hotbed of technology start-up activity and the heart of business academia, Boston, Massachusetts, offers a vibrant environment for small business entrepreneurs and hosted service providers to learn, network and grow…

 

For those not in the know, enterprise resource planning (or ERP) entails an IT system that manages the influx and outpouring of critical information throughout the entirety of an organization — a Big Concept Idea upon which Wikipedia thankfully elaborates with clarity. Suffice it to say that ERP systems are the current rage with IT-mindful businesses of every size, and cloud computing ensures that the concept reaches beyond just marketing strategy, influencing every department of a corporation, from finance to customer service and project management. The cloud’s seminal emphasis on simplicity and efficiency is just now beginning to be appreciated in the ERP conversation, and we can expect for its impact to be felt with increasing profundity as the year progresses…