Category: News

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Intelisys Communications, Inc., the nation’s leading master agency distributor of business technology services, announced today the successful completion of the acquisition of Cloud Services Coalition (CSC), a wholly owned DBA of Terrapin Solutions.

The acquisition creates a new business unit, Intelisys Cloud Services and Complex Bids. It will continue to fulfill the charter of Cloud Services Coalition to centralize a superior portfolio of Cloud-related service providers and act as a trusted advisor to telecom agents and IT solution providers seeking to add cloud-based services to their current offerings…

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Kenandy, Inc. today announced release 2.0 of Kenandy(TM) Social ERP, the first cloud ERP built entirely on Force.com, salesforce.com’s social enterprise cloud computing platform specifically for product companies. The new release adds financials and order management to Kenandy’s manufacturing management core, creating end-to-end enterprise management. Kenandy Social ERP is built for companies that design, manufacture, and distribute products to give them new ways to get control and visibility into their supply and distribution networks. The product is to be unveiled at salesforce.com’s Cloudforce event in Chicago.

"With the addition of financials and order management, Kenandy Social ERP becomes the backbone of the social enterprise," says Sandra Kurtzig, Chairman and CEO of Kenandy. "It’s time to re-think ERP, and that’s what we’ve done. Kenandy release 2.0 now offers fully integrated end-to-end ERP and it’s entirely on the cloud, easy to use, fast to deploy, mobile, global, and social."…

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Callidus Software Inc. CALD -0.22% , the leader in sales effectiveness and cloud computing, announced today that it launched its new CLOUD (Continuous Learning On User Demand) Pass(TM) Learning Platform. Sales operations practitioners can now tap into CallidusCloud’s library of the latest tips and techniques in optimizing their use of the CallidusCloud(TM) product suite.

"CLOUD Pass augments the instructor-led curriculum at the CallidusCloud University, and is designed to have a profound positive impact on productivity, motivation, and ultimately, the satisfaction of our user community," said Saied Karamooz, Senior Vice President, Customer Solutions, CallidusCloud. "With CLOUD Pass, users will be just a few clicks away from learning how our solutions can help them execute better on their growth targets without stepping away from their daily routine. Coupled with our best-in-class suite of products, our enriched training program ensures that the value that our customers gain from CallidusCloud is unrivaled in the industry."…

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VMware, Inc., the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today unveiled VMware View(TM) 5.1 and an updated portfolio of end-user computing solutions designed to empower a more agile, productive and connected enterprise.

"Customers are looking for solutions that break down current technology barriers and shift the focus to delivering services that can be accessed anywhere, on any device," said Boaz Chalamish, senior vice president and general manager, End-User Computing, VMware. "VMware View(TM) 5.1 and our growing portfolio of personal cloud solutions will address the needs to simplify technology, manage more efficiently and better connect employees."…

Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author: Gilad Parann-Nissany.

MySQL is probably the most popular open source database. While there is a wealth of discussion online for MySQL database encryption,doing it right in a cloud computing environment is tricky.

The discussion here is quite long, and contains a lot of interesting details. So if you want a spoiler: it is possible to achieve true confidentiality for your MySQL database today; using the industry best practice which is split-key encryption…
 

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QualiSystems announced today its TestShell enterprise software framework’s compatibility for advanced testing of the cloud infrastructure, covering lab management, device provisioning and test automation. Using TestShell, cloud testers can accelerate automation and simplify the time-consuming and complex task of mimicking cloud infrastructure in the lab to assure performance and bring new services rapidly to the market.

TestShell’s advanced user-friendly features allow network, storage and test engineers to easily adapt to the dynamic cloud-computing testing environment. By offering a holistic solution that requires no programming skills, it is simpler and quicker for cloud architecture, designers and testers to accomplish set-up and testing of the infrastructure. The different cloud components that must interoperate – computing, services, storage and networking – are each tested individually and in concert to assure performance, stability, security, QoE and QoS using TestShell...

Grazed from CRN.  Author: Jack McCarthy.
 

The growth of cloud computing is forcing solution providers to rethink their business and decide how to operate in a changing market environment, a technology consultant said Tuesday.

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Piston Cloud Computing, Inc., the enterprise OpenStack company, today announced its Co-founder and CEO, Joshua McKenty will be presenting "Big Data: It’s Rocket Science" at the Enterprise Data World Conference taking place in Atlanta, Georgia, April 29 – May 3, 2012. This event will include workshops, tutorials, case studies and discussions directed toward IT professionals, big data experts, and architects dealing with data and information management.

What: Hear how NASA, via an open-source cloud computing project, developed an alternative to the costly construction of additional data centers, provided a simplified avenue for the sharing of large, complex data sets with external partners and the public, and ultimately save hundreds of staff hours, allowing its scientists to focus on mission-critical activities instead of IT infrastructure requirements…

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Nebula, the cloud systems company that will enable all enterprises to easily, securely and inexpensively deploy large scale private cloud computing infrastructures, today announced that Jon Mittelhauser has joined the company’s executive team as Vice President of Engineering.

Mittelhauser is considered one of the founding fathers of the World Wide Web. He was co-author of the first widely used Web browser, NCSA Mosaic, and was a founding engineer of Netscape Communications Corporation. He was integral to building the products that made the Web a powerful business tool. As Netscape Navigator’s first product manager, Mittelhauser led the effort to make the browser a platform by integrating and creating technologies such as browser plug-ins, Java and JavaScript that today are still core to the power of the Web within the enterprise…

Grazed from ITWorld.  Author: Brandon Butler.

In a pairing of unlikely partners, Piston Cloud Computing announced it will work to support integration of VMware’s open source platform-as-a-service offering Cloud Foundry with OpenStack, the open source infrastructure-as-a-service model.

In recent weeks, the rhetoric between the open source and proprietary cloud offerings in the IaaS market has intensified. But today’s move signals a more collegial tone in the PaaS market and what one analyst calls a recognition by providers that integration across multiple clouds and between IaaS and PaaS is key for cloud adoption by end users.

Piston Cloud announced today the Cloud Provider Interface, an open source project that will allow for integration of OpenStack with Cloud Foundry. Piston Cloud leverages the open source OpenStack code to create an IaaS cloud deployment model aimed at enterprise users. Piston Cloud officials say they hope Cloud Foundry support will be available in a future release of its OS product and plan to submit Cloud Foundry as an incubator project for the full OpenStack project…