Category: News

January 12, 2012 Off

Retail Anywhere Announces POS SuiteApp For NetSuite’s SuiteCloud Computing Platform

By David
Grazed from PR NewsWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

Retail Anywhere, a leading provider of point of sale and retail management systems for midsize retailers, today announced the general availability of its Retail Anywhere POS SuiteApp built using the NetSuite SuiteCloud Computing Platform. The Retail Anywhere POS SuiteApp, combined with NetSuite’s cloud computing business management suite, unlocks a comprehensive, multi-channel retail management solution for retailers.

NetSuite’s SuiteCloud is a comprehensive offering of cloud-based products, development tools, and services designed to help customers and commercial software developers take advantage of the significant economic benefits of cloud computing. The complete SuiteCloud includes NetSuite’s multi-tenant, always-on SaaS infrastructure and the NetSuite Business Suite of applications which cover accounting, enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM) and Ecommerce…

January 12, 2012 Off

DeskStream Acquires Northern Irish Cloud Start-up WorldDesk

By David
Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

DeskStream Inc., a leading provider of desktop virtualisation software, has today announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire a prominent Northern Irish start-up in the cloud computing and virtualisation software space. DeskStream, with development centres in California, U.S.A., and Hyderabad, India, will acquire Belfast-based start-up, WorldDesk Ltd. The deal was announced at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.

The financial terms of the deal, which will close in the first quarter of 2012, have not been disclosed but the acquisition will see DeskStream adopt the WorldDesk name and branding with immediate effect.

With the acquisition of WorldDesk, DeskStream will take control of a unique cloud-based workspace delivery platform prototype built on Dropbox but is capable of being extended to leverage other cloud storage providers. DeskStream will also add customer support services, marketing expertise and additional software development capabilities. The deal will see the employees of WorldDesk, including co-founders Jonathan Chesney and Claire Moore, join DeskStream. WorldDesk, founded in 2010, will continue to be based in Belfast…

January 12, 2012 Off

Cloud Computing – A Look Back to Basics

By David
Grazed from CloudTweaks.  Author: Rick Blaisdell.

There has been much talk about the cloud and about how it can help businesses and how cloud computing is one of the top technologies of the future.  Although, at this point it is probably more appropriate to say cloud computing is the present and the future.  But starting with the name, cloud computing, and also looking at the vast majority of articles written about the cloud, one may think that it is an incorporeal thing, floating out there somewhere and providing services. The truth is, cloud computing as it is today has been made possible by technological advances in the data center industry.  Yes, data center, a term slightly less glamorous than cloud computing, that lays at the foundation of cloud computing.

The infrastructure serving the cloud may not be glamorous, but it is, nonetheless, essential.  There are a few key issues the infrastructure underlying the cloud has to provide for: scalability, flexibility, reliability, virtualization, and security…

January 12, 2012 Off

MuleSoft Wins 2012 Cloud Award; Recognized in PaaS Category with iON Integration Platform as a Service

By David
Grazed from PR NewsWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

MuleSoft, provider of the #1 integration platform for the cloud and enterprise, today announced that it has been named a winner of the 2012 Cloud Awards. The annual Cloud Awards program, open internationally across the US and EMEA regions, recognizes and celebrates industry leaders and pioneers in the field of cloud computing. MuleSoft’s iON, a cloud-based integration platform as a service (iPaaS), won the Best Platform as a Service category.

Cloud Awards organizer Larry Johnson said, “Almost 200 organizations entered the program, which is among the first of its kind. We were swamped by entries, and the standard was remarkably high. Judging the submissions was a challenging task. But we’re happy to endorse MuleSoft as among the best of the best in their field.”…

January 12, 2012 Off

Intelligent, Auto-Scalable Cloud Platform ‘eNlight’ by Eukhost Ltd.

By David
Grazed from PRWeb.  Author: PR Announcement.

eUKhost Ltd. a UK based company offering fully managed web hosting services, announced a public launch of their new cloud platform eNlight. The new Cloud Platform offers users’ privileges such as rapid deployment of VMs, VM management through an easy to use web based interface and an auto-scalable multi-server cluster architecture. eNlight focuses on a true pay-as-you-go payment model.

eNlight offers an altogether different approach to instant vertical scaling capabilities of a Cloud. With eNlight, users can avail flexibility, economy and security at the same time, unlike any other company in the industry.” claims a senior representative from eUKhost Ltd. eUKhost’s ten years of experience offers them the capability to serve a robust environment for eNlight servers as a service product. The web-based GUI powered by AJAX, helps customers with real-time deployment of new VMs as well as real time monitoring of the already created VMs. eNlight offers an on-demand intelligent auto-scalable service created on a cluster of high configuration dedicated servers…

January 12, 2012 Off

Cloud computing drives vendor lock-in: Dell

By David
Grazed from TechWorld.  Author:  Sophie Curtis.

The move to cloud computing is undoing a lot of the good work that IT managers have done over the past decade to enable solutions based on open standards that can be built, supported and replaced, regardless of vendor.

According to Ed English, Dell’s EMEA marketing director for next-generation computing solutions, cloud is allowing some enterprise IT vendors to shoehorn their proprietary technology back into the data centre.

“Companies and IT managers alike have worked very hard to drive more flexibility and more interoperability into the data centre. It started at the desktop level, but it’s now permeating the data centre as well. There is this big shift from proprietary to open,” said English…

January 12, 2012 Off

What to Do When Your Organization Says ‘No’ to Cloud Computing

By David
Grazed from Forbes.  Author: Joe McKendrick.

There are many objections or issues that get raised with cloud discussions. That’s why cloud proponents need to do their homework, and understand the dynamics of their organizations. That’s the gist of a new book to be released next month, authored by Pankaj Arora, Raj Biyani and Salil Dave, all Microsoft executives. In To the Cloud: Powering an Enterprise, the authors explain how to make the case for enterprise cloud.

Objections that typically arise as cloud computing can be put into three categories:

Priorities. The move to cloud, as with any major technology migration, can potentially be disruptive. “Any work performed to ramp up on cloud computing or move applications tends to shift some focus away from adding business functionality or other IT improvements,” the authors point out…

January 12, 2012 Off

Rackspace and ScaleXtreme to Host Joint Webinar

By David
Grazed from EON.  Author:  PR Announcement.

ScaleXtreme, the leading provider of server automation for the distributed datacenter, is presenting a joint webinar with Rackspace® Hosting (NYSE: RAX), the world’s leading specialist in the hosting and cloud computing industry.

“Our service helps people get their servers provisioned faster and their basic server tasks automated so they can spend more time working on what matters most.”

The webinar will show how Rackspace customers can use ScaleXtreme’s server management products to launch, manage and control Rackspace servers. Attendees will learn how to launch multiple servers using ScaleXtreme’s powerful Dynamic Server Assembly™ technology, run automation scripts to help with routine server management and create a bridge between your on-premise servers and your cloud-hosted machines…

January 11, 2012 Off

UBM TechWeb’s Cloud Connect Makes 12 Cloud Predictions for 2012

By David
Grazed from PR NewsWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

Cloud Connect, the premier technology event for cloud computing produced by UBM TechWeb, presents the top 12 predictions in cloud computing for 2012.  In five years, cloud computing has evolved from a novelty to information technology’s growth area.  As Cloud Connect works to drive the adoption of cloud computing, these predictions speak to the latest technologies, platforms, strategies, and innovations that will drive business objectives forward.  Cloud Connect will take place February 13-16, 2012 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA. For more information, visit http://cloudconnectevent.com/santaclara.  

Entering into the new year, Alistair Croll, Conference Chair, Cloud Connect and Principal Analyst, Bitcurrent offers the top 12 predictions in cloud computing for 2012:…

January 11, 2012 Off

Health IT Managers Slow To Implement Cloud

By David
Grazed from Information Week.  Author: Nicole Lewis.

Healthcare IT managers understand that cloud computing has its benefits, but many are concerned about privacy and security issues and are delaying plans to move their critical patient data onto cloud-based systems, according to a recent KLAS study.

The recently published study–Path to Cloud Computing Foggy: Perception Study–which interviewed 97 healthcare CIOs and other executives at health organizations, found that while 58% of respondents are considering using cloud computing, only 35% who expressed interest in cloud technology said they have any concrete plans to implement it.

Weighing heavily on the minds of CIOs is how to manage the exponential growth of data that has come with the move to digitized medical records, as well as the growth of digitized medical images. With tighter budgets and a need to do more with less, healthcare delivery organizations are evaluating cloud computing as a way to cut costs and create greater efficiency, but the thought of putting sensitive patient data in a cloud environment is still a worry for many health IT managers…