Category: News

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Skytap, the leading provider of self-service cloud automation solutions, today announced a new secure remote access experience called SmartClient, which offers users a fast, easy, and secure way to connect and interact with computing environments in Skytap Cloud. SmartClient offers the flexibility to access Skytap Cloud virtual machines using a new browser app, or a Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP)-capable client, on any device including desktops, laptops, smartphones and tablets.

SmartClient brings to market innovation that spans both the unique software layer that powers Skytap Cloud and the remote access clients used by Skytap customers. These new capabilities make it easy for users to access any Skytap Cloud supported guest host — including Windows, Linux, or virtual appliances — just like they were sitting in front of a physical machine…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

SoftLayer(R) Technologies, a leading provider of global cloud infrastructure, and RightScale(R), Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, have partnered to provide unmatched scalability and automation solutions that allow internet-centric companies to speed their time to market. Companies such as social gaming developer Broken Bulb Game Studios are able to use SoftLayer’s public and private cloud infrastructure with RightScale cloud management to easily deploy, automate and manage their computing workloads across the globe.

"Our business is growing dramatically as we launch new games on Facebook and mobile platforms," said Robert Nelson, CEO at Broken Bulb Game Studios, which is the developer of games such as My Town, Braaains, Ninja Warz and Miscrits. "The combination of RightScale and SoftLayer has made our cloud environment more robust and simplified our deployment process, enabling us to automatically scale to meet customer demands. With this solution, we have lowered our costs and increased our redundancies allowing us to quickly react to massive influxes of new traffic as our games spread extremely rapidly to new players."…

Grazed from Forbes.  Author: Joe McKendrick.

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

ScaleXtreme, the leading provider of server and cloud management products, today released a new set of tools that enable IT professionals to gain visibility into cloud provider costs, establish role-based budgets and prevent the launch of unauthorized cloud machines. With this new functionality, ScaleXtreme is the only product on the market that ties together cost monitoring and budgeting to actual server launch control.

ScaleXtreme’s cloud management tools give IT professionals the power to set budgets based on user, role or organization and obtain granular usage information. Customers can set soft and hard budget limits to either warn systems administrators of over spend or actively prevent individual users from launching new machines. This additional control comes directly integrated into ScaleXtreme’s powerful cloud server management console, which customers use to build, deploy, monitor and patch public cloud instances…

Grazed from The Los Angeles Times.  Author: Michelle Maltais.

A paradigm shift may be coming to the digital lifestyle. Instead of the PC being the center of the personal computing universe, consumers will be opting for tablets as their primary computing device and relying on cloud storage to access their content across their devices, according to a new report.

"This burgeoning market is set to disrupt the personal computing device and OS markets," says the  report from Forrester Research on the future of computing.

Instead of serving as a supplement to a desktop or laptop computer, the report said, these burgeoning cloud services will play such an integral role in the connected future that consumers will first choose a service, then the compatible device as the focus shifts from device to personal content storage services. And tablets such as iPad will become the conduit between consumers’ digital devices such as smartphones and PC and the cloud-stored content…

Grazed from PR NewsWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

Luciad, the market leader in high performance visualization, is pleased to announce its support for Cloud based Geospatial Situational Awareness applications and services.

Cloud computing is a rapidly emerging technology in the Defense, Security and Aviation domains, and an essential element of Geospatial Situational Awareness applications and services. Cloud computing brings many benefits in terms of flexibility, scalability and cost of maintenance which are essential in today’s world.

Luciad has a complete product portfolio that enables the development of Cloud based Geospatial Situational Awareness applications and services. This offering ranges from mobile and web-browser applications to full desktop applications and Geospatial services:…

Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author: Udayan Banerjee.

Recently Gartner has come up with a press release which talks about Five Cloud Computing Trends That Will Affect Cloud Strategy Through 2015.

The release talks about 5 points – (1) Formal Decision Frameworks Facilitate Cloud Investment Optimization, (2) Hybrid Cloud Computing Is an Imperative, (3) Cloud Brokerage Will Facilitate Cloud Consumption, (4) Cloud-Centric Design Becomes a Necessity and (5) Cloud Computing Influences Future Data Center and Operational Models.

In simple terms Gartner is telling the CIO and the IT department that in next 3 years cloud computing MAY make you redundant unless you learn to answer these questions:…

Grazed from The Viodi View.  Author: Alan Weissberger.

At the April 12, 2012 TiE Cloud meeting in Santa Clara, CA, three leading Cloud Service Providers presented their views as to where the cloud industry is now and where it’s going.  Microsoft, HP and Salesforce are each addressing a different segment of the cloud market with what they believe are compelling value propositions for their customers.

Some of the issues they addressed included: changing business models, cloud advantages, cloud bursting, defacto cloud standards (e.g. Amazon AWS API’s), cloud developer support programs, evolving operations needs for cloud deployments and the viability of telcos as cloud service providers…

Grazed from eWeek.  Author: Nathan Eddy.

Information and communication technology specialist Fujitsu announced the development of software offerings that help customers use big data. The new lineup consists of parallel distributed processing and complex event-processing products, standard technologies in big data applications, and products to employ big data in a range of uses.

The offerings include two new products: Interstage Big Data Complex Event Processing Server V1, which is a complex event-processing solution, and Interstage eXtreme Transaction Processing Server V1, an extreme transaction solution. Fujitsu is also releasing an enhanced version of its Symfoware Server V11 database solution. Currently available in Japan, Fujitsu said it plans to gradually roll out the products worldwide…

Grazed from VentureBeat.  Author: Editorial Staff.

For businesses that wish to embrace cloud technology in order to simplify their operations, provide a forum for project collaboration, and operate on a secure platform, the Cisco CloudVerse aims to meet those needs. One might say it allows businesses to go from partly cloudy to the Cisco CloudVerse.

In the spirit of its strong history of providing network solutions, Cisco’s cloud technology unifies and optimizes computing, storage, and networking resources to meet the needs of its users. CloudVerse works by bringing together the intelligence of the network, the power of the data center, business applications, and cloud enablement services optimized for the network…