Category: News

June 3, 2012 Off

Windows Azure Recipe: Mobile Cloud Computing

By David
Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author: Clint Edmonson.

A while back, mashups were all the rage. The idea was to compose solutions that provided aggregation and integration across applications and services to make information more available, useful, and personal. Mashups ushered in the era of Web 2.0 in all it’s socially connected goodness. They taught us that to be successful, we needed to add web service APIs to our web applications.

Web and client based mashups met with great success and have evolved even further with the introduction of the internet connected smartphone. Nothing is more available, useful, or personal than our smartphones. The current generation of cloud connected mobile computing mashups allow our mobilized workforces to receive, process, and react to information from disparate sources faster than ever before…

June 3, 2012 Off

Privacy Rules, Euro Crisis and Recession Stall European Cloud Adoption

By David
Grazed from MSP Alliance.  Author: Erin Harrison.

The combination of European privacy rules, multi-country business processes, the Euro crisis and a lingering recession will continue to delay cloud computing adoption in Europe by at least two years compared to the U.S., according to the IT research firm Gartner (News – Alert).

Although interest in the cloud is high in Europe, the diversity of Europe’s 44 different nations will result in slow cloud adoption this region of the world, according to Paolo Malinverno, vice president at Gartner.

“The opportunities for cloud computing value are valid all over the world, and the same is true for some of the risks and costs,” Malinverno said. “However, some of cloud computing’s potential risks and costs – namely security, transparency and integration – which are generally applicable worldwide, take on a different meaning in Europe.”…

June 3, 2012 Off

Cloud Computing: Elliott Management Turns Screw on BMC to Sell

By David
Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author: Maureen O’Gara.

Elliott Management, the $20 billion hedge fund that now owns 6.5% of BMC and wants it to sell out to anybody that’ll better its $6.8 billion market cap, filed a 36-page PowerPoint presentation with the SEC Thursday laying out its case.

Elliott helped push Novell into the arms of Attachmate and thinks that BMC could be fodder for Oracle, HP, Cisco, CA, Dell, EMC, Symantec, IBM or, for that matter, a technology-focused private equity firm such as KKR, TPG, THL, Bain Capital, Blackstone Group, Apax Partners, Silver Lake and Golden Gate Capital.

BMC’s software manages distributed server networks and mainframes. Wall Street has previously offered those names but figures BMC would probably have to be split up to get a sale done…

June 3, 2012 Off

Keeping Your Cloud Collaboration Services Options Open

By David
Grazed from IT Business Edge.  Author: Michael Vizard.

There’s lots of pressure on IT folks these days to address three issues at the same time: mobile, cloud computing and social networking. That’s a lot for even the largest of organizations to take on simultaneously. But business users are being relentless in their demands that IT organizations be proactive about delivering these capabilities to the organizations starting preferably tomorrow.

The interesting thing about these three trends is that in many ways they are really just natural extensions of each other, which is the thinking that went into the development of a new Bitrix cloud computing service that was launched today…

According to Stephen Ankenman, senior technology consultant for Bitrix, the Bitrix24 creates a social intranet workspace in the cloud that combines 30 content, project, collaboration, communication, reporting and management tools under a common social media-style interface. That interface makes the environment simple to use in a way that can easily be extended out to mobile computing devices using both HTML5 and native interfaces.

June 3, 2012 Off

Cloud Computing: HP and Oracle Go to Court

By David
Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author: Maureen O’Gara.

HP’s attempt to get a court to order Oracle to continue to develop software for HP’s mission-critical Itanium-based Integrity boxes began Thursday with jury selection, a selection that could be harder, the Recorder says, because of HP’s announcement last week that it’s going to lay off 27,000 people.

Oracle claims the Itanium is at end-of-life, that the only reason Intel hasn’t pulled the plug on the chip is because HP is paying Intel hundred of millions of dollars to keep it on life support and stopped writing new software for the "dying platform" 14 months ago, ending a disintegrating 10-year relationship with HP.

HP, which makes a packet on the system – or did before all this started – claims Oracle is in breach of contract – an unconventional agreement it claims was forged to overcome its objections to its former CEO Mark Hurd going to work at Oracle as co-president….

June 1, 2012 Off

Infosys opens development centre to train employees in cloud tech

By David
Grazed from Business Line.  Author: Venkatesh Ganesh.

Infosys has started a development centre within the company to train its current and prospective employees on cloud computing technologies.

This line of business started last fiscal, currently trains 3,000 of its employees who work on cloud computing-related technologies. It has the capacity to train 5,000 employees in a year.

Employees will be trained on technologies such as big data, virtualisation and new ways of coding for companies wanting to shift from mainframe systems to the cloud. Infosys is looking to train system architects and software engineers in Java and Hadoop technologies…

June 1, 2012 Off

enStratus Stresses Logging in the Cloud

By David

Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author: Roger Strukhoff.

Management and governance seem to be emerging topics in the cloud-computing world, as companies who’ve now committed themselves to the cloud focus on traditional enterprise IT headaches, er, issues.

Enterprise cloud computing has its roots in web services (the hot topic of 2004) and services-oriented architecture (SOA, the hot topic of 2007), and nothing was more prominent or less understood than issues involving governance back in those "early days."

enStratus, which provides cloud infrastructure management services, has redoubled its efforts in explaining some of these issues, as many enterprise IT managers prepare themselves for Cloud Expo in New York…

June 1, 2012 Off

Cloud could force shake-up of channel

By David
Grazed from CloudPro.  Author:  James Stirling.

CompTIA research shows that cloud computing is pressuring resellers to look again at channel programmes.

Cloud computing could force a transformation in channel programmes, a study by CompTIA has revealed.

The survey of 400 channel heads found that cloud, the consumerisation of IT and other trends would produce upheaval in the channel.

In its Second Annual State of IT Channel Programmes, the organisation said that 63 per cent of IT companies would shift from on-premise to cloud delivery models over the next 12 months. Cloud would exist alongside on-premise business for the channel, it suggested…

June 1, 2012 Off

SHMsoft Tests Open Source E-Discovery App in Cloud

By David
Grazed from Law.com.  Author: Evan Koblentz.

SHMsoft, which makes the FreeEed open-source e-discovery application, is expanding its product lineup into cloud computing and growing its staff.

SHMsoft released FreeEed 1.0 in June 2011 as a text-based processing tool. In January the company launched version 3.5, which sports a Windows interface and a search function for early case assessment. The newest edition is called SHMcloud that lets users process and store their e-discovery data on Amazon.com’s public cloud or in a private network.

SHMcloud is commercial software and closed-source, meaning that unlike FreeEed, it is not free and its code is not open for modification. It will cost $10 per hour when users process their own data, and $25 per hour if SHMsoft processes the data, explains Mark Kerzner, CEO of SHMsoft. Its companion SHMcloud Player is a desktop application that is free, but closed-source — both programs should exit their beta stages later this summer, he says…

June 1, 2012 Off

Work in the Cloud With Google Chromebox

By David
Grazed from The Gadgeteer.  Author: Ian Lim.

The Google Chromebox is a partnership between Google and Samsung that brings Cloud Computing to the desktop.  Mainly aimed at businesses, the unit can also bring benefits and advantages to the consumer.  It runs an Intel Celeron and has a 16GB SDD, built-in WiFi, Gigabit Ethernet, 6 USB 2.0 ports, 2 X Display Ports and Bluetooth; the box runs Google’s latest Chrome OS version 19. Made to allow you to work entirely from the Web (surprisingly generally with Google products), Google has alluded to off-line Google Docs support in the near future.

The Chromebox will be available from Best Buy in the US in the next few weeks for $320, and for business, can be purchased with management and support packages direct from Google for an additional $150.