Category: News

November 15, 2011 Off

ScaleXtreme Introduces Dynamic Server Assembly™ for On-Demand Cloud Server Control

By David
Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

ScaleXtreme, Inc., a web-based server management company, today introduced Dynamic Server Assembly™, a new product update that gives ScaleXtreme Xpress and ScaleXtreme Xpert users the ability to quickly create highly structured servers. With Dynamic Server Assembly, organizations will now be able to model, provision and launch servers with a variety of cloud computing providers. This new technology enables IT professionals to create specific structures, or templates, and then easily apply them to new machines, across cloud and server systems – allowing customers to create automated and repeatable systems to help scale their cloud deployments…

November 15, 2011 Off

Cloud technology in a healthcare setting

By David

Grazed from Healthcare IT News.  Author: Geoff Webb.

The healthcare industry is under constant pressure to streamline the sharing and availability of information, while at the same time maintaining ever-more rigorous controls over patient privacy, and of course, reducing costs at the same time.  Therefore cloud computing offers some significant opportunities, perhaps even more significant than in many other industries…

November 15, 2011 Off

Skytap Introduces Hybrid Cloud Capabilities for Increased Simplicity, Security, Visibility and Control

By David

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Skytap Inc., the leading provider of self-service cloud automation solutions, today announced the addition of new cloud computing capabilities that deliver on enterprise demand for simplicity, security, visibility and control. Recently recognized as a "Best of VMworld 2011" award winner in the public and hybrid cloud category, Skytap is building upon its product leadership by introducing advanced notification services, self-healing automation capabilities for robust virtual private networking, and support for Open Virtualization Format (OVF). Together, these new features enhance Skytap Cloud’s ease of use for business users, while offering the visibility and control required by IT professionals…

November 15, 2011 Off

Cloud Channel Opportunities Abound, If You Take Them

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Grazed from CRN.  Author:  Andrew R. Hickey.

Cloud computing is scary. It changes channel business and forces solution providers to adopt new methods and models.

But the fear that the channel will be disintermediated by the cloud and that there are no opportunities for partners in a cloud computing world are straight up false, according to a panel of four cloud industry experts during the COMDEXvirtual session "Cashing In On The Cloud."…

November 15, 2011 Off

Heading To The Cloud? A Security Roadmap

By David
Grazed from FINalternatives.  Author:  Mary Beth Hamilton.

Cloud computing is gaining popularity within the alternative investment space as firms look to capitalize on the efficiencies, resiliency and cost advantages cloud-based services can deliver. From application hosting to delivering a firm’s complete information technology infrastructure via the cloud, this technology delivery model is here to stay…

November 15, 2011 Off

Best Cloud Computing Apps You’ve Never Heard Of

By David
Grazed from CloudTweaks.  Author: Jeff Norman.

This article’s title may arguably mislead you. Cloud connoisseurs will express familiarity with one app featured here. And even your grandmother has heard of yet another. But no matter where you are in your grasp of cloud computing, you should find something new here to inspire you – maybe even warm your heart…

November 15, 2011 Off

The Federal Government’s Map of the Clouds

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Grazed from ECommerce Times.  Author: John C. Higgins.

The U.S. government’s plan to shift major chunks of existing and future information technology programs to cloud-based systems has proven to be easy to say but harder to do. Technical, cultural and financial issues are frequently raised by agency managers as barriers to adopting cloud technology…

November 15, 2011 Off

The Utility of Cloud Computing

By David
Grazed from Bio-ITWorld.  Author: Kevin Davies.

In many ways, cloud computing has become an ever-present commodity since Bio•IT World published a special issue on the subject (Nov 2009). In September 2011, we held our first standalone conference on the topic. Experts—users and vendors alike—gathered for two days of sharing insights and progress. The takeaway was that more and more users were comfortable with the flexibility, cost, and even security afforded by the cloud. And while Amazon’s omniscient cloud capabilities were a recurring theme, what was even more impressive was the growing ecosystem of commercial and open-source initiatives offering a host of cloud-based services and applications…

November 15, 2011 Off

Ex-Amazon EC2 wizard pinpoints where your cloud is crap

By David
Grazed from The Register.  Author: Matt Asay.

Even as the world goes cloud/SaaS, monitoring tools have stayed doggedly old school. With the rise of complex web applications, the cloud, DevOps, agile computing, and continuous integration, application changes are rolled out much more frequently than the one or two times a year of old enterprise software updates, with multiple changes taking place as often as every day…