Category: News

Grazed from Web Host Industry Review.  Author: Justin Lee.

Web and cloud hosting provider Rackspace recently introduced its new Rackspace Advisory Services to help enterprises with migrating to a cloud computing model.

As enterprises take on the complicated task of moving to a cloud computing model, they must decide which applications or platforms to transition to cloud computing, as well as prepare for the transformation that their internal IT departments will undergo.

The new Rackspace Advisory Services will provide the detailed intelligence and insight necessary for enterprise customers to complete their strategic IT vision, while providing Rackspace with another value-added recurring revenue stream…

Grazed from OneStopClick.  Author: Dan Blacharski.

The language of IT backup, security, disaster preparedness and business continuity can be confusing. Having a network backup procedure in place doesn’t necessarily mean you also have a disaster plan, and having a disaster plan doesn’t mean you also have a business continuity plan. In short, the disaster plan outlines what to do when disaster strikes, the business continuity plan outlines how to keep things moving in the aftermath.

As any CIO who has been through a fire, hurricane or earthquake can tell you, the hardest part doesn’t come until days after the terrible event has already occurred. Business failure occurs less as a result of immediate loss, and more a result of the delays suffered in getting back to business as usual. With every passing day, full recovery becomes less likely…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Patriot Technologies has launched a High Performance Computing (HPC) Solutions division that provides customized hardware solutions designed to enable the best-designed configuration at the lowest possible cost of ownership to support even the most demanding technical computing environments — including the Cloud and Hadoop.

Industries with the greatest need for HPC include life sciences, weather modeling, computer-aided engineering, energy and financial due to the massive processing power needed to optimize their applications. Patriot is able to help customers create the highest performing platform at the lowest total cost of ownership by utilizing our lifecycle approach; including discovery of needs and requirements, production & design of a hardware system, and a lifecycle management approach that includes post-sales maintenance and remote monitoring capabilities…

Grazed from ZDNet.  Author: Ken Hess.

Bear with me, if you will, for a moment while I put forth an interesting idea concerning Microsoft’s future in the cloud computing business marketplace. I believe that traditional server operating systems (OSs) will go out of style long before desktop format computing will and there’s a very good reason for that: We just don’t need standalone servers anymore. Yes, I realize that’s a pretty strong statement in any arena but, as I wrote above, bear with me while I discuss this salient point with you. I think that Microsoft will replace standard, standalone Windows Server with Hyper-V and App-V. And, you’ll probably select which one you want to use during installation. Windows vServer 2015 or Windows Application Server 2015?

Click. Restart. Deploy.

Once your system is up and running, you can select through a series of Roles for your new Server, if you selected Windows Application Server 2015, such as Remote Desktop Server, Exchange Server, SharePoint Server, Communications Server, Media Server, Active Directory Server, Office Applications Server or Custom Applications Server. The Custom Applications Server would allow you to deploy applications that don’t fall into one of the other categories…

Grazed from InfoWorld.  Author: David Linthicum.

What is it with data-transfer cloud computing performance? Some people think cloud services provide great performance, and some think they don’t perform well at all. The reality is that both beliefs are true, depending on how you use cloud services and the cloud providers themselves.

There are a few basic, core patterns that define data-transfer performance:

• Enterprise to cloud
• Mobile to cloud
• Cloud to cloud

Enterprise-to-cloud seems to be where the problems exist. Information is transferred, typically over the open Internet, from servers in the enterprise to public cloud computing providers. If you’ve ever checked out the speed difference in downloading data from a remote website versus an intranet site, you already know what the issues are in this arena. As a rule, try to avoid transfer of large chunks of data from the enterprise to the public cloud computing provider…

Grazed from CFO World.  Author: Anuradha Shukla.

Business leaders see cloud computing as a way to circumvent IT in order to acquire cloud services on their own and this is creating tension between business and IT stakeholders.

This finding is apparent by a new commissioned cloud survey conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of BMC that suggests a comprehensive cloud strategy can alleviate growing tensions between business and IT teams.

BMC Software’s study entitled ‘Delivering on High Cloud Expectations’, includes in-depth responses from 327 enterprise infrastructure executives and architects across the United States, Europe and Asia Pacific…

Grazed from VietnamNet Bridge.  Author: PR Announcement.

The 2012 Cloud Computing and Security World Conference & Exhibition, themed “Security and Modernity: Building social confidence in modern services”, is being held at Hanoi Tower in the capital city from March 22-23.

The annual event is the seventh of its kind in Vietnam, and has become the largest and most prestigious national forum about security in the Southeast Asian country.

This year’s event is expected to create an ideal venue for leading information technology (IT) experts and businesses to introduce innovative initiatives and effective solutions related to cloud computing application for both government and enterprises…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Yardi announced today the release of Voyager S, a Software as a Service (SaaS) successor to its popular Yardi Voyager™ software. Voyager S has all the features of Yardi Voyager version 6.0 in a SaaS model and is initially available for residential and commercial clients in North America.

SaaS solutions have gained wide acceptance in many industries including real estate. SaaS solutions enable suppliers to provide more seamless integration of new releases and updates. The first release of Voyager S will provide improvements in reporting and supports Microsoft reporting services. The second release of Voyager S will provide iPad, tablet and Mac support…

Grazed from Dome9.  Author: PR Announcement.