Category: News

Grazed from The Data Center Journal.  Author: Rakesh Dogra,

Cloud computing in Middle East Asia region gets a new high as NCR Corporation, a leader in helping companies across the world connect and transact business, has been given Data Center Unified Computing Authorized Technology Provider certification from Cisco. This recognition comes after NCR has gone through the required training and programs from Cisco to sell and support the UCS or Unified Computing System from Cisco. NCR had to also meet requirements like Cisco Data Center Networking Infrastructure Specialization and Cisco Data Center Storage Networking Specialization. The Cisco program is an integral part of its strategy to implement advanced technologies in this sphere…

Grazed from The Nation.  Author: Editorial Staff.

NetApp, Cisco, VMware, Microsoft and CAT Telecom have joined the government cloud-computing initiative, whereby a new information-technology platform will be designed to pool resources and reduce the government’s IT spending.

Information and Communications Technology Minister Anudith Nakornthap said at the launch today that the scheme should help reduce the government’s IT spending by at least 30 per cent, while ensuring regularly updated technology as well as advancement in electronics-based public services.

He noted that each year, government units spent nearly Bt50 billion on hardware and software, but they ended up buying old but pricey technology…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Based on its recent analysis of the sensor cloud computing market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes MicroStrain, Inc. with the Global Frost & Sullivan Award for Product Leadership for SensorCloud(TM), a platform for sensor data storage, visualization, and remote data management. MicroStrain leverages advanced cloud computing technologies in SensorCloud(TM) to provide data scalability, rapid graphing, and user programmable online analytics for sensor data.

One of the unique features of SensorCloud(TM) is Fast Graph, a visualization and graphing tool that allows customers to rapidly navigate through gigabytes of data, and discover points of interest. However, it is the computational engine feature that really makes MicroStrain’s SensorCloud(TM) stand out. This feature enables customers to remotely process and analyze vast quantities of sensor data in the cloud. As a result, users can quickly and easily create virtual sensors based on mathematical relationships. Scalable user options benefit academics, small companies, and large companies alike…

Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author: Mustafa Kamal.

For the past few weeks I have been reading different articles, publications, blog postings and so one regarding the generic software architectural model for cloud-based applications, and I am very interested in hearing other ideas about this as well.

Through my reading, I have found the following three types of software architecture in use within the current industry  for different types of web-based distributed applications…
 

Grazed from Technorati.  Author: Lisa Stephens.

As we move in to this new year, questions on many of our minds course with anticipation over what might we expect moving forward in 2012 in the world, in our lives, and with our technology. Technology as a tool for our lives has given the economy a new dimension and we make an economy more effective and maneuverable as a consequence of its usage. This year, as predictions, resolutions and preparations for health, hearth, and livelihood convene, technology endeavors top the list for performance. Technology begins in Silicon Valley, where possibility meets imagination, and ideas grow with a well-executed plan. Topping the list for technology predictions for 2012, Vivek Wadhwa, a columnist for Bloomberg BusinessWeek and the Washington Post, waxes prophetic on topics of security in this new era of cloud computing, and wanes subjectively on social media platforms and start-ups, in general…

Grazed from Correctional News.  Author: Jack Ryan.

The term “cloud computing” is increasingly becoming part of the American vocabulary and the concept is seen as the next big thing in Internet computing. And while cloud computing is still in its relative infancy, it will cause government agencies and other businesses to undergo significant changes.

Cloud computing is altering the way computers are utilized — from computing power and infrastructure to application usage and program access. Business collaboration processes, online classrooms and information sharing services are now accessible online and not necessarily purchased individually and restricted to one computer…

Grazed from GigaOM.  Author: Barb Darrow.

Much has been written about the U.S. government’s plan to shutter 1,200 data centers. There’s been considerably less chatter about the fact that some of the remaining, revamped federal data centers are now leasing out excess capacity to other government agencies.

That strategy of going big and selling off extra capacity is right out of the Amazon playbook. Amazon data center guru James Hamilton has long maintained that it makes zero sense for most businesses to build their own data centers any more given the huge economies of scale they can get by putting their workloads with a data center provider that gets the best possible pricing on energy, servers etc. But, the corollary that applies here is that very large organizations that must field their own facilities should build big. Real big. And sell off what they don’t use…

Grazed from Business Weekly.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Texas cloud hosting innovator Rackspace has handed the Springboard tech accelerator programmes in Cambridge and London UK this year a massive boost.

The San Antonio-headquartered business is sponsoring both the Cambridge and London Springboard programmes in 2012 and will provide cloud hosting for applicants and winners.

Fanatical Support® has made Rackspace the world’s leading specialist in the hosting and cloud computing industry. It delivers enterprise-level hosting services to businesses of all sizes and kinds around the world…

Grazed from MSP Alliance.  Author: Laura Stotler.

Sales and marketing automation and lead management has moved further into the cloud with an announcement from Callidus Software Inc. that it has acquired SaaS provider LeadFormix.

Callidus (doing business as CallidusCloud) offers sales effectiveness and cloud computing solutions, while LeadFormix provides next-generation marketing automation and lead management. The deal amounts to about $9 million cash, subject to final adjustments, and a portion of the consideration is also subject to a holdback with respect to LeadFormix shareholders’ indemnity obligations to CallidusCloud…