Category: News

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Cisco today announced it is joining forces with EMC to offer comprehensive technical education solutions in the areas of cloud architecture, virtualization, storage, data center networking and data science. The joint education solutions from Cisco and EMC, which also incorporate courseware from VMware, will offer advanced training and certifications to help organizations acquire the skills required to successfully architect, build, and transform their IT infrastructures, adopt cloud computing, and realize the promise of big data and data science…

Grazed from Wired.  Author: Dustin Amrhein.

The basic building block of many cloud computing environments is the virtual image. Most IT departments have been using virtualization for quite some time and are comfortable with the technology. This level of comfort is why I believe it is often overlooked as a crucial element of many cloud-based services. And trust me, what may seem like a minor oversight can have significant impacts that reverberate for the life of your cloud environment.

Put simply, poorly designed virtual images are far more likely to increase management overhead, decrease agility, and hamper an enterprise than they are to contribute to achieving the benefits we often associate with the use of cloud computing…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Eucalyptus Systems, creator of the most widely deployed on-premise cloud computing platform, today announced a strategic partnership with China Electronics Technology Group Corporation No. 32 Research Institute (CETC32), one of the largest IT solutions and services providers in China. CETC32 will leverage Eucalyptus to provide integrated solutions to customers implementing cloud computing as part of their business strategy. CETC and Eucalyptus will formalize the partnership at a signing ceremony on April 6 in Shanghai.

Under the agreement, Eucalyptus’ on-premise Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform will serve as the foundation of CETC32’s Hua-Cloud, which serves the Public Security, Health and Medical, Smart Traffic, Food Security and SME markets. Based on Eucalyptus’ technology, CETC32 will develop specific features to meet local customer requirements under the Hua-Cloud brand. Eucalyptus and CETC32 will also set up a joint lab facility in Shanghai to accelerate local research and development…

Grazed from SlashGear.  Author: Ben Kersey.

While Dell lost some market share last year to Lenovo, they still hold a strong presence in both the desktop and server market. It looks like the company is hoping to make more inroads into the virtualization market, as Dell this morning announced the acquisition of cloud client computing company Wyse Technology.

Wyse currently offer several thin and zero cloud clients, as well as cloud management and virtualization software. Wyse also offer similar software for mobile devices to enable access to data in the cloud for businesses…

Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author: Larry Carvalho.

After writing my last blog on the government use of cloud solutions, I attended two events and found solutions that can address the need of leveraging data analytics toimproving business outcomes. The internet of things has been a hot term for a long time and the associated challenge has always been on how to leverage this data. Challenges facing governments in collecting a wide realm of data from multiple sources has been a perpetual challenge but cloud computing and big data analytics makes it a “solvable” problem…

Grazed from New Straits Times.  Author: Datuk Badlisham Ghazali.

CLOUD  computing is a buzzword that seems to be on everyone’s lips. You are forgiven if you imagine that this is some celestial data centre with cherubic technicians playing harps of code, but there’s a reason why engineers chose maths over language!

Wikipedia defines cloud computing as the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product, whereby shared resources, software and information are provided to computers and other devices as a utility over a network (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing)…

Grazed from TimesDaily.com.  Author: Jim Blasingame.

One of the greatest products of human society is the marketplace. Webster defines it as a place where goods and services are offered for sale.

Over millennia, innovations took markets from local to global, and now to the 21st century iteration – virtual. Virtual markets are powered by “cloud computing,” aka “the cloud,” and accessed via the Internet.

Historically, as trade expanded markets, products led the way because services were difficult to convey to the last mile of consumption. But technology has helped services catch up, and now digital services are delivered efficiently from the cloud. And more than anything else, this last reality is helping small businesses compete and grow in ways that were formerly the domain of larger companies…

Grazed from RealWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

Actian Corporation today announced that it has signed a strategic partner agreement with FlyingBinary, provider of disruptive analytics and cloud computing solutions, and Tableau, the global leader in rapid-fire business intelligence software, to take Big Data and Social Measurement Optimization solutions to market. The announcement was made ahead of the Tableau European Customer Conference in Barcelona from April 2-4 where Actian is a sponsor.

FlyingBinary will integrate Actian’s Vectorwise, holder of multiple world records for performance and price performance, and business intelligence (BI) software Tableau in a cutting-edge, comprehensive business analytics solution that allows organizations ranging from financial institutions, retail and investment banking, online communities, manufacturing, advertising agencies and telecommunications companies to distill business insight from the growing tsunami of data…

Grazed from Talkin Cloud.  Author: Joe Panettieri.

Cloud computing and cloud services stocks rose a robust 26 percent in Q1 2012, according to our Talkin’ Cloud Stocks Index, which includes 20 companies. But which cloud computing companies saw their shares rise the most in Q1 2012?

According to our index, here are the top 10 cloud computing stocks and their returns for the quarter…