Category: News

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author:  PR Announcement.

The Open Virtualization Alliance (OVA), a consortium committed to fostering the adoption of open virtualization technologies, including Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM), today announced that it is experiencing rapid growth in participation from companies focused on cloud computing and emerging markets around the globe…

Grazed from PRNews Wire.  Author: PR Announcement.

ClearCube Technology, the leader in virtual desktop products for cloud computing, including rack-mounted workstations, blade PCs and zero clients, today announced that it has acquired privately-held Network Elites, a cloud computing and managed services provider based in Dallas, TX.

The acquisition accelerates ClearCube’s entry into the public cloud services market and expands on ClearCube’s portfolio of private cloud computing offerings…

Grazed from The Economic Times.  Author: Ashok Saxena.

Cloud services have grown in popularity over the past couple of years. Cloud computing is the number one strategic trend in the recently released top 10 strategic technologies from Gartner. According to Gartner’s report, Cloud Computing is a computing model in which providers remotely deliver a variety of IT-enabled, on-demand capabilities to consumers…

Grazed from ITWire.  Author:  Stephen Withers.

Some of the major barriers to the adoption of cloud computing involve trust and security. Part of the problem is that even if the parties are prepared to exchange information, the many-to-many relationships mean a lot of work…

Grazed from Politico.  Author:  Tony Romm.

Grazed from Politico.  Author: Jennifer Martinez.

Grazed from Washington Post.  Author:  Marjorie Censer.

Local information technology contractors have taken the federal cloud-first policy quite literally.

Since the government announced last year that it would give priority to cloud — or Web-based — computing, contractors have been overloading their Web sites with images of puffy white clouds and blue skies…

Grazed from PR.Com.  Author: PR Announcement.

The company will make an overview of the different modules that compose the platform that offers advanced analytics, dashboards, data integration, alarms and scorecards. This allows the company to offer a full-featured business intelligence suite, pursuing a constant and transparent evolution to the customer. Among this range of new features one can find the new interface, easy and user-friendly and the new LiteSCORECARD module which allows users to define and monitor the company’s strategy and detect possible deviations following the Balanced Scorecard methodology…

Grazed from eWeek.  Author: Clint Boulton.

Gmail application commands only 1 percent market e-mail market share in the enterprise, but that’s enough for Gartner to proclaim the application has become a credible competitor to Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) Exchange Online and other Web-based e-mail services, proclaimed Gartner…

Grazed from Forbes.  Author: Kevin Jackson.

Cloud computing, as defined by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, is a model for enabling “… convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction.” NIST is implying the economies of scale that go with cloud computing when it refers to a pool of configurable computing resources…