Category: News

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Wyse Technology, the global leader in cloud client computing, is announcing today that its popular mobile virtualization and personal cloud software app, PocketCloud, is now available on the newly released Amazon Kindle Fire. The productivity app, which is available in the Amazon Appstore, transforms the lightweight Kindle Fire tablet into a full computing machine, capable of accessing and working within any file or application on a user’s remote PC, Mac or virtual desktop environment.

As the app that is pioneering personal cloud computing through remote desktop access, Wyse PocketCloud utilizes the existing storage on customers’ Macs, PCs or virtual desktops rather than storing files on third-party servers. This provides users with a less expensive and more secure peer-to-peer experience. The highly efficient Wyse PocketCloud interface goes beyond simply accessing files; it gives users the power to search, move, and edit files securely on their desktop or laptop computer as if it were right in front of them. These functions can be used with media and any application installed on the user’s computer such as Microsoft Office and Apple iWork…

Grazed from ARN.  Author: Spandas Lui.

Grazed from Technology Spectator.  Author: Supratim Adhikari.

Cloud computing is here to stay and if anything 2012 could the year the trend makes the jump to the mainstream.

What that means is adoption is no longer the issue with almost everybody in agreement with regards to the benefits of the cloud and the focus now shifting to the new wave of applications and their implementation.

As Charis Palmer points out in her piece, the early adopters are already reaping the benefits of the shift to the cloud and looking forward to what’s next on the horizon…

Grazed from Web Host Industry Review.  Author: PR Announcement.

In a press release issued Thursday, December 1, cloud computing technology provider ScaleMatrix announced that it had used the CA World 2011 event as the launch platform for its “Cloud in a Box” mobile compute platform.

According to ScaleMatrix, more than 6,000 partners attended the CA Technologies event in Las Vegas in November, many of them demonstrating technologies, frequently with an emphasis on the CA private cloud platform AppLogic (originally developed by the company 3Tera, which was acquired by CA).

As a bronze-level sponsor of the event, and a “key” infrastructure partner for CA, ScaleMatrix used the event as an opportunity to launch the product, which offers a combination of servers, software, networking hardware and environmental equipment, built into a proprietary high-density server rack, in order to simplify the deployment and creation of private cloud infrastructure…

Grazed from Technorati.  Author: Stephen Alexander.

A seismic shift is occurring in cloud computing demands as businesses around the globe want to connect employees through a myriad of computing devices. This seismic shift turns worldly wisdom on its head according to research conducted by TNS and funded by CSC.

In a survey of more than 3,500 IT decision makers in eight countries, thirty-three percent of survey respondents said that accessibility to information through multiple devices was the most important reason for their decision to convert to cloud computing. The other key motivating factors were accelerating the speed of business at twenty-one percent and cutting costs at seventeen percent…

Grazed from GigaOM.  Author: Derrick Harris.

Cloud computing is not the money saver it’s sometimes made out to be. But don’t fret — it’s still a very valuable delivery model for IT resources, according to a new survey by systems integrator Computer Science Corporation.

While cost savings, where present, were small among the survey’s 3,645 respondents — under $20,000 in 35 percent of cases — the cloud brings a wealth of benefits around mobility, efficiency and, believe it or not, jobs. Mobility, the ability to access applications and data from a variety of end-user devices, was actually the No.1 reason respondents gave for adopting cloud computing. The survey results aren’t entirely surprising when one considers ideal cloud use cases, especially with regard to infrastructure-as-a-service clouds…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

A new survey conducted by CoreNet Global and Newmark Knight Frank shows that despite increases in cloud computing, 50 percent of companies are investing and planning over the long term to build or expand data centers that they manage as a corporate entity.

The survey pointed out that companies are most concerned with risk management and business continuity when deciding where to locate their data centers. One result is a preference for most companies to maintain management of data center operations internally, and not to outsource the function…
 

Grazed from eWeek.  Author: Jeffrey Burt.

Cisco Systems and Hewlett-Packard continue to push their cloud computing agendas with new offerings and services.

Cisco executives, including Lew Tucker, CTO of cloud computing at the vendor, and Padmasree Warrior, senior vice president of engineering and CTO of Cisco, are expected to discuss the company’s cloud strategy and unveil a host of new technologies aimed at cloud service providers during a Webinar scheduled for Dec. 6. A number of Cisco cloud partners and customers also will join the discussion.

Details for the online event can be found on Cisco’s Website…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Big Switch Networks, an OpenFlow company bringing the benefits of virtualization and cloud architecture to enterprise networks, today announced that it has been selected as one of three finalists for the UP-START 2011 Most Promising Startup Cloud Award.

The UP-START Award finalists are disruptive and next-generation cloud computing companies, as well as innovative stealth mode and emerging solution providers who are defining cloud technology. The panel of judges, representing recognized leaders in technology, evaluated 350 nominations before selecting a shortlist of finalists. Winners will be announced at this week’s UP Cloud Computing Conference…