Contributed Article.  Author: Greg Jones, Manager of Solutions Architecture at Quest Software

 

 

When you are moving to Microsoft’s Office 365 cloud offering, choosing the right migration tool to help you get there is very important. It’s a good idea to evaluate third-party migration products that provide the extended functionality, support, and the capabilities necessary to ensure success.

 

Every organization might not require help from a third-party vendor, but, it’s a best practice to calculate the benefits a migration partner might bring to your project and compare them to the needs of your organization. I must caution you, however, to choose your vendors wisely, and be absolutely sure you’re getting the functionality you need.  

Grazed from CTV.  Author: Vanessa Greco.

When virtual clouds first rolled in, there appeared to be little indication that a downpour of privacy concerns would follow.

Web surfers tossed photos into online albums, logged errands on digital calendars and sent work files to personal email accounts. To this day, we continue to fling tidbits of information across the web and into invisible storage lockers.

All this online data hoarding is known as "cloud computing," the process of using the Internet to ship files over to a remote server instead of just saving to a local piece of physical media, such as a hard drive…

Grazed from Bisiness Line.  Author: K. Bharat Kumar and Sachin Sancheti.

Big data is just that – big, and a big opportunity, as well. It may be the first time that the IT industry has finally named a new concept crisply, aptly and lucidly. But, as with all things IT, it still needs explaining.

For instance, what was missing in data-warehousing and business intelligence (BI) that is now possible with Big Data?

Wikipedia, as always, puts it best: big data consists of data sets that grow so large that they become awkward to work with using on-hand database management tools. Difficulties include capture, storage, search, sharing, analytics, and visualizing. This trend continues because of the benefits of working with larger and larger data sets allowing analysts to "spot business trends, prevent diseases, combat crime.”…

Grazed from PRWeb.  Author: PR Announcement.

SmartSignin is a finalist for the 2012 CATAAlliance Cloud Computing Innovation Award, which will be presented at this year’s CATAAlliance Innovation Awards Gala in Ottawa. The winner will be selected by a committee consisting of members of CATA’s Board of Directors and industry experts. Voting by CATA members and subscribers through an on-line voting poll is also taken into consideration. Voting takes place later today, at http://www.cata.ca. Winners will be notified by May 8th.

Founder and CEO, Mayukh Gon expressed excitement at being nominated for this prestigious award. “This is great news for us and I would like to thank the CATAAlliance for recognizing the innovative nature of our offering and the importance of securing identity at a time when data security and privacy is breached on a daily basis. I think consumers deserve protection for their online identities, passwords, and most importantly their privacy. I wanted to give users a simple way to take charge of their own security and privacy. SmartSignin is the only Identity solution for consumers and enterprises that delivers convenience enhanced by robust security. Our cookie-less architecture, token free authentication, and patented Smart-Key algorithm developed in a Joint-venture with the University of Toronto, ensures no single point of weakness.”…

Grazed from PR.com.  Author: PR Announcement.

The CDM Media team announced today that Corbus, a global solutions provider of Information Technology (IT), Supply Chain Management (SCM) and Project Management (PMO) services, will be joining the CIO Cloud Summit, June 5-7, 2012, at the Montelucia Resort in Scottsdale, AZ.

The CIO Cloud Summit is an opportunity for CIOs and IT executives from multiple industries to explore critical cloud computing issues, connect with other executives in various stages of cloud computing projects, and learn about the latest cloud computing solutions. Attendees are encouraged to share ideas, explore technology solutions, and learn about the latest cloud computing topics and trends…

Grazed from RealWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

Cloud industry network EuroCloud UK (http://eurocloud.org.uk/) is aiming to highlight cloud computing’s contribution to European economic growth with the launch this week of its Awards and a special event for cloud startups later this month.

Both link into Europe-wide initiatives being organised by EuroCloud across the continent. Winners of the UK Awards, to be announced in July, will go forward to compete to win the European contest in Luxembourg in October.

The UK’s cloud start-up event on May 23rd is part of an event held simultaneously in 10 European countries. Attendees at every venue will view keynotes from Neelie Kroes European Commissioner for the Digital Agenda; Rainer Zinow, SVP On-Demand Strategy at SAP; and Forrest Lin of the Chinese Institute of Electronics. Local sessions will take place in between the shared keynote webcasts…

Grazed from NPR.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Apple and Amazon want to store your music in ‘the cloud,’ while companies from Google to Microsoft to Zoho offer ways to wrangle your office documents there. But what exactly is the cloud, and is the time right to start using it? Technology experts Tony Bradley and Nicholas Carr look at the switch away from traditional desktop computing…

Grazed from TechTarget.  Author: Beth Pariseau.

IT pros have begun to favor the idea of private cloud computing but they aren’t sure how to get there, especially in mixed virtualization environments.

Private cloud differs from high-level server virtualization in that it combines automation and policy-based provisioning, workload mobility and portability, and some sort of service catalog, for IT as well as end user self-service, according to attendees and presenters at the VMware User Group meeting in Connecticut on May 2…

Grazed from Midsizer Insider.  Author: Jennifer Marsh.

Printing is almost obsolete with cloud computing. Documents and important paperwork can be scanned and stored on a cloud storage drive, so no paper is needed. However, there are still times when a midsize business needs a hardcopy, and that’s where Google and Fedex are useful. Google has offered several cloud hosting packages and services, and with its partnership with Fedex, midsize businesses can send a printout of any document directly to the closest Fedex office. This means you don’t even need a printer in the office, but you do need to make a trip to the Fedex store closest to the business…

Grazed from ZDNet.  Author: Joe McKendrick.

My eighth-grade English teacher, Mrs. Pedrick, probably would have a field day with her red pen if she ever read many of the IT-related blogs out there – including mine. One of her pet peeves was the loading up of sentences with redundancies; most thoughts could be expressed neatly and cleanly with an economy of words. Consider phrases such as “free gift,” “all-time record,” “foreign imports,” “advance planning,” “join together” and “new recruit.”

Perhaps “cloud computing” has become one of those redundant phrases as well. I recently had the opportunity to moderate a panel discussion on cloud at IBM’s Impact conference. One of the panelists, Dr. Angel Diaz, vice president of software standards & cloud for IBM, predicted that we may not even be using the term “cloud” within the next five years – any and all forms of computing will be taking advantage of a mix of network and local resources…