Category: News

September 22, 2011 Off

The secret to cloud success: Get a grasp on SOA

By David
Grazed from InfoWorld.  Author: David Linthicum.

Those IT organizations that move to cloud computing are moving to SOA (service-oriented architecture), whether they understand it or not. Hear me out: Private and public clouds often rely on APIs for their functionality, which are typically Web services that can be combined and recombined into solutions. The result: SOA, at its essence…

September 22, 2011 Off

Federal Cloud Crucial To Economy, Tech Chiefs Say

By David
Grazed from Information Week.  Author: Elizabeth Montalbano.

The federal government’s adoption of cloud computing is not merely critical to technology innovation, but also is crucial to ensure that the United States can remain economically competitive across the globe, technology experts said Wednesday.

Testifying before the House Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation, a panel of experts from the public and private sector described a scenario in which U.S. competitiveness hinges on adopting the emerging IP-based technology model for how data and services are shared, allocated, and commoditized across networks…"The cloud is the foundation of the 21st century digital economy," said Dan Reed, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Technology Policy Group, adding that the United States is currently in the global lead for cloud adoption, a race "that’s ours to lose."

September 22, 2011 Off

Hexagrid Wins Best of Show Best Cloud Solutions Award at ITEXPO West

By David
Grazed from PR Web.  Author: PR Announcement.

Hexagrid, a leading developer of cloud enablement solutions, received the Best Cloud Solutions Best in Show Award from Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) at ITEXPO West in Austin, TX.

“Our event last week in Austin raised the bar in every conceivable way – from conference content, to attendee count, and for the quality and breadth of the products and solutions showcased on the Exhibit Hall floor,” said Rich Tehrani, TMC CEO and Conference Chairman. “We’re pleased to honor Hexagrid Computing with a “best-of-show” award, and we congratulate them for standing out amongst a large and highly competitive field.”…

September 22, 2011 Off

Salesforce.com Acquires Assistly

By David
Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Salesforce.com /quotes/zigman/338061/quotes/nls/crm CRM -3.81% , the enterprise cloud computing ( http://www.salesforce.com/cloudcomputing/ ) company, today announced it has acquired Assistly, an instant customer-service help desk built for the cloud.

Assistly lets small companies and emerging businesses set up and deliver social customer-service in minutes, with zero-touch onboarding. With Assistly, companies can manage service cases and engage with customers in real time over a range of channels – including Facebook, Twitter, Web chats, e-mail and phone – all from one, easy-to-use interface. An innovative business model makes it easy for all employees to join in and engage with customers as they’re needed and is why Assistly is used by some of the world’s fastest-growing companies like Instagram, Klout, One Kings Lane, Spotify and Square…

September 21, 2011 Off

Keeping Your Workloads Portable across Clouds

By David
Grazed from Information Week.  Author: Gordon Haff.

A hybrid cloud offers the promise of uniting resources across multiple cloud providers, including those running different virtualization technology stacks. Creating a resource pool that cuts across silos increases efficiency and flexibility relative to constraining a workload to some subset of the overall capacity...
 

September 21, 2011 Off

Thinking About Moving to the Cloud? There Are Trade-Offs

By David
Grazed from New York Times.  Author: David H. Freedman.

Most businesses, whether they realize it or not, already have at least a foot in the cloud. If they use Gmail, for example, they are going into the cloud to let Google’s computers handle their e-mail.

In fact, most of us have been tying into Internet-based services for more than a decade. But now, more and more business-oriented tools are becoming available online, including many that can be critical to running a company. This guide looks at the questions business owners ask and the trade-offs they have to make…

September 21, 2011 Off

AboveNet Enables Access to AWS Cloud Computing Platform

By David
Grazed from CloudTweaks.  Author:  Anuradha Shukla.

AboveNet, a provider of high bandwidth connectivity solutions, has signed an agreement with AWS to this end.

The company notes that companies of all sizes can leverage AWS Direct Connect to benefit from a web services platform in the cloud. Customers can use compute power, storage, and enjoy other services-gaining access to a suite of elastic IT infrastructure services to keep up with business demand.  Following this agreement, AWS customers can use the secure, advanced network connectivity delivered by AboveNet…

September 21, 2011 Off

Midmarket companies take the lead on cloud computing adoption

By David
Grazed from TechTarget.  Author: Linda Tucci.

This year’s Amazon EC2 outage and Dropbox security breach may have put a little scare into companies, but it didn’t completely spook them, according to a recent study on cloud computing adoption. Organizations remain bullish on cloud computing, particularly in the midmarket, where nearly half plan to adopt some form of infrastructure or platform cloud services, the CompTIA study revealed…

September 21, 2011 Off

Kaavo Partners with Logicworks to Extend Enterprise Cloud Application Automation

By David
Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Kaavo, an innovative provider of solutions for managing distributed applications in the clouds, today announced that it has entered into a strategic partnership with Logicworks, a leading provider of enterprise managed hosting and cloud computing for high-availability applications and content. Through this partnership, Kaavo has integrated with infiniCloud, Logicworks’ on-demand cloud computing service, to allow Kaavo customers to deploy and manage applications on the platform…

September 21, 2011 Off

Cloud Computing Pioneer Victoria Livschitz: The Cloud is the ‘New Reality’

By David
Grazed from Fox News.  Author: Liza Porteus Viana.

Victoria Livschitz immigrated to the U.S. from the Soviet Union in March 1991 along with her husband and infant daughter with $500, a few clothes and hope for a better future. All the political refugees knew about their new home city of Cleveland was that they had relatives there and that it was home to an orchestra.

They had no U.S. work experience, and jobs were hard to find in 1991. Livcschitz’s husband delivered pizza and she worked at a dry cleaners. Soon, they began giving chess lessons and Victoria played in a chess exhibition. Her skill caught the attention of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, which wrote up a story on her chess prowess and eventually the Livschitzs opened up a chess academy. They used the money generated from the academy and tutoring lessons to finish college. While Victoria was finishing her bachelor’s of science degree at Case Western Reserve University, she began to develop an interest in technology and computer programming, taking computer jobs where she could find them…