Category: News

Grazed from eWeek.  Author: Nathan Eddy.

Worldwide enterprise IT spending is projected to total $2.7 trillion in 2012, a 3.9 percent increase from 2011 spending of $2.6 trillion, according to research from IT analytics firm Gartner. While enterprise IT spending growth is slowing (from the expected 5.9 percent increase in 2011), analysts said it’s important to note that despite the global economic challenges, enterprises will continue to invest in IT…

Grazed from ZDNet.  Author: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols.

As people are getting their heads around the economic benefits of cloud computing–pay just for what you use servers and services–I’ve been hearing a lot of people say they’d use the cloud if only they could move their existing servers to the cloud without a lot of blood, sweat, and toil. This is where Racemi, a cloud-services company, comes in with its easy server migration program…

Grazed from ZDNet.  Author: Paula Rooney.

The Apache Software Foundation — which now oversees more than 150 open source projects — officially launched today version 1.0 of the “Cassandra” NoSQL database.

The highly scalable, distributed database, tailored for cloud computing, handles distributed massive workloads in real time without disrupting systems, ASF notes. It was originally developed at Facebook and made available as open source in 2008. It is released under Apache License 2…

Grazed from Cloud Tweaks.  Author: Sourya Biswas.

Growing up as a high school student in the late 90s, I became interested in computers, and for the first time, considered making a career out of it. When I graduated high school in 2000, the love for computers hadn’t died down and I resolved to study computer engineering. Of course, that was the heyday of the dotcom boom, when any company with the word “technology” in its name had no problem getting millions of dollars in financing. We all know how it ended…

Grazed from Federal Times.  Author: Nichole Blake Johnson.

Grazed from PC Magazine.  Author: Michael J. Miller.

In a session at Gartner Symposium yesterday, Gartner’s David Cearley listed the top ten strategic technology trends that the research and advisory company think will impact IT departments most of the next year.

Grazed from PC Magazine.  Author: Michael J. Miller.

For the last several years, Gartner’s Daryl Plummer and David Mitchell Smith have presented "the cloud scenario," at the company’s annual Symposium. What struck me this year, however, is that much of the discussion has moved from defining cloud computing toward specific models of implementing cloud computing that will differ for each organization.

First, Smith shared Gartner’s definition of cloud computing: "A style of computing where scalable and elastic IT-related capabilities are provided ‘as a service’ to external customers using Internet technologies." …

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

CX Inc. announced the most recent production release representing, a new higher-level intuitive user experience, a new pricing model and the addition of two new executives. The new production release is the culmination of ten months of effort for the cloud computing and collaboration company. CX now offers customers free groups with potential to add up to 1 million participants per group, a collaboration and real time notification suite and 10 gigabytes of free, secure storage…

 

Grazed from PR NewsWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

As cloud computing continues to reshape today’s enterprise landscape, IT administrators are demanding flexible management solutions that enable them to define how they provide support capabilities to end users. In order to meet this growing demand, LANDesk Software, a global leader in systems lifecycle management, endpoint security and IT service management, today announced LANDesk® Service Desk as a Service. LANDesk Service Desk as a Service can be leveraged in the same way as a typical cloud-based solution, with all data and services accessible remotely over the Internet; or a hybrid approach can be taken – where services, integration points and even data can be split between on premise and cloud. This flexible delivery method provides the ultimate synergy across the enterprise, enabling secure usage based on business priorities, the type of data, the service or the location, both in the cloud or on premise…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

VMware, Inc. /quotes/zigman/464645/quotes/nls/vmw VMW +4.30% , the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today unveiled three product suites designed to simplify and automate IT management. With significant enhancements to VMware vCenter Operations(TM) and the introduction of new VMware vFabric Application Management(TM) and VMware IT Business Management suites, VMware will help customers amplify the value of their virtual environments and achieve the agility and economics of cloud computing…