Category: News

Grazed from ChannelInsider.  Author: Nathan Eddy.

EMC (NYSE: EMC) has announced the start of EMC Proven Professional training and certifications to help businesses address skills transformation and the looming cloud computing and data science skills gap. Building on the company’s Cloud Architect training and certification program—the an "open" training and certification for cloud computing that focuses on the principles, best practices and underlying technology prevalent in the industry—EMC expanded the cloud computing curricula to include foundational cloud infrastructure and services and expert-level EMC cloud architect IT-as-a-service training and certifications.

According to a global survey of the data science community that was released by EMC, the most commonly cited barrier to data science adoption is a lack of employees with the right skills or training, and 65 percent of data scientists believe that in the future, demand for data scientists and data-driven teams will outpace the supply of talent. To address this, EMC is announcing a data science and big data analytics training and certification program with an open curriculum…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Rackspace Hosting(R) today announced the promotion of Lew Moorman to President, effective immediately. Moorman, 41, will continue to report to Lanham Napier. With the promotion, Moorman will assume the title of President and Napier will continue to serve as Chief Executive Officer. Previously Moorman was President, Cloud and Chief Strategy Officer.

For several years Moorman has driven strategic planning, product development, acquisitions, and other new business initiatives across the company. As President of Rackspace’s Cloud business he has led the company’s fastest growing business. In his new role as president of the company, Moorman will continue to own strategy and product development, including cloud computing technologies as well as the sales and support segments globally…

Grazed from TopHosts.  Author: PR Announcement.

Cloud computing and Grid computing are two different realms of managing IT related work activities in the smoothest way possible.

Where cloud computing is a branch of Information technology that invites businesses to become virtual, grid computing on the other hand calls for a shared environment on a common computer system from multiple administrative domains. Although, both of them function with a purpose to provide a good percentage of scalability levels to high-end computer networks, the cost of deploying these is equally high…

Grazed from CIO.  Author: Bernard Golden.

I don’t know how I missed this, but at the Gartner IT Symposium in October, Darryl Plummer (Chief of Gartner Cloud Research) apparently stated that enterprises should deploy applications in a public cloud provider as a default, and only deploy them in a private cloud if the public alternative is not appropriate.

I became aware of Plummer’s recommendation, which caused quite a stir in the blog world when he first announced it, via Twitter earlier this week.

Naturally, much of the furor over Plummmer’s pronouncement was a reaction to the quick summary: Gartner prefers public cloud. Wow. That’s a big deal, right? Gartner is probably telling all of its clients that they should trim their private cloud plans and instead focus on public cloud service providers. And, in response, all of its clients are scrapping their private cloud initiatives and planning a big move to public providers, right?…

Grazed from eWeek.  Author:  Nathan Eddy.

As businesses get ready to capitalize on emerging technology trends in 2012, cloud computing remains at the top of many companies’ lists: Fifty percent of respondents to a recent Unisys (NYSE: UIS) online poll said cloud computing is their top IT investment priority for 2012. This is the second straight year respondents to a Unisys poll named cloud as the chief priority for IT investments in the coming year.

In a similar poll conducted in December 2010 and January 2011, 44 percent of 262 respondents said cloud computing topped their IT priority list for 2011. The more recent poll, which drew 300 responses, was conducted on the company’s Website in September and October 2011. Other respondents to the poll listed cyber-security (21 percent), mobile/social computing (21 percent) and big data (8 percent) as their top 2012 IT priorities…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Cloud computing continues to transform the way business is done. Through the power of the cloud and Telsist Communications the $10 billion and growing video surveillance industry is experiencing this transformation with video surveillance as a service (VSaaS). VSaaS is an IT solution routed through the cloud for greater efficiencies with more features and flexibility. This solution radically alters the landscape of the on-site DVR/NVR and analog camera dominated video surveillance market.

Telsist Communications is a cloud ready data center located in Montreal, Canada whose focus is to deliver comprehensive managed IT services. Partnered with VideoCells of Israel, Telsist is equipped to offer cloud-based managed video surveillance to its growing list of professional managed IT services. This VSaaS solution eliminates the need for on-site DVR/NVR as the video is transferred, hosted and stored at Telsist…

Grazed from CRN.  Author: Andrew R. Hickey.

HP (NYSE:HPQ) Enterprise Services and Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT) have joined forces to offer global public and private cloud services, a four-year deal that will offer packaged bundles of HP and Microsoft gear and through which HP will resell Microsoft Office 365.

The two tech titans said Thursday that the goal of the pact is to bring customers into the cloud and help them make the shift from capital IT expenses to operational expenses.

For private cloud deployments, HP will offer Microsoft cloud productivity applications like Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and Microsoft Lync Server 2010 as a service from HP data centers as part of its HP Enterprise Cloud Services-Messaging, HP Enterprise Cloud Services-Collaboration and HP Enterprise Cloud Services-Real-Time Collaboration.

For public cloud, Microsoft will offer Microsoft Office 365 and other collaboration and productivity tools…

Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author: Maureen O’Gara.

IBM said Thursday morning that it was buying DemandTec for $13.20 a share, close to 57% premium.

Big Blue will ante up roughly $440 million, net of DemandTec’s cash on hand, to take over the cloud-based ISV for its 10-month-old Smarter Commerce initiative. IBM estimates the market opportunity for Smarter Commerce at $20 billion in software alone.

By running different customer buying scenarios, DemandTec’s subscription-based price, promotion, merchandising and marketing analytics are supposed to help users define their best price points and product mix based on customer buying trends both online and in stores…