Category: News

September 16, 2011 Off

Windows Server 8 and Cloud Computing

By David

Grazed from Tech Broiler. Author: Jason Perlow.

Since last Thursday, I was ordered under strict nondisclosure to keep my mouth shut. And that was really hard for me to do because I could barely contain my enthusiasm for what is probably the most significant server operating system release that Microsoft has ever planned to roll out.

Nothing from Microsoft, and I mean literally nothing has ever been this ambitious or has tried to achieve so much in a single server product release since Windows 2000, when Active Directory was first introduced…

September 15, 2011 Off

Heads up: 3 cloud performance gotchas

By David

Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: David Linthicum.

Those moving to the cloud are weighing numerous factors, including the type of cloud and cloud brand to use, as well as the best path for migration. However, most IT organizations aren’t considering performance, and they’re making huge performance mistakes as systems on clouds move into production…

September 15, 2011 Off

Google Buys Some Java Patents Off IBM

By David

Grazed from Sys Con Media. Author: Maureen O’Gara.

Google has bought what appears to be another 1,023 patents from IBM, a transfer recorded by the US Patent and Trademark Office Wednesday and noticed by Bloomberg, which said Google bought them on August 17…

September 15, 2011 Off

SilkRoad Technology Appoints Roland Berthelot as Senior Vice President of Global Services

By David

Grazed from MarketWatch. Author: PR Announcement.

SilkRoad technology, inc., a leading provider of cloud-based talent management solutions, announced today that Roland Berthelot has been appointed Senior Vice President of Global Services. With more than 10 years of experience in cloud computing, consulting and sales, Mr. Berthelot joins SilkRoad with proven expertise in transforming business operations through a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) delivery model for major Fortune 500 companies. Mr. Berthelot will report directly to Brian Platz, COO of SilkRoad…

September 15, 2011 Off

EMC’s New Center Of Excellence And Cloud Data Center Powers Company’s Cloud Computing Vision

By David

Grazed from 4-Traders. Author: PR Announcement.

EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) today announced its new 450,000 square foot Center of Excellence (COE) in Durham, North Carolina, which will deliver on and demonstrate the promise of cloud computing and IT as a Service (ITaaS) for EMC and its customers. In addition to housing a highly-virtualized cloud data center that supports EMC’s more than 50,000 employees around the globe, the COE includes 130,000 square feet of global research and development labs and will be a technology showcase to help EMC customers accelerate their own cloud computing and IT transformations…

September 15, 2011 Off

SAP’s cloud offering – now ready for industrial deployment

By David

Grazed from CloudPro. Author: Adrian Bridgwater.

While SAP has been variously described as both ‘investing’ and ‘seeking customer feedback’ on its cloud computing strategy to date, the company’s insistence on its ability to ‘leapfrog current software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings’ by 2014 has arguably worn a little thin by now given the general maturity of the industry…

September 15, 2011 Off

Joyent arms cloud for death match with Amazon

By David

Grazed from The Register. Author: Cade Metz.

A month after open-sourcing what it calls "the first major hypervisor" to arrive in half a decade, cloud computing pioneer Joyent has added this hypervisor to its flagship service, allowing Linux and Windows applications onto the Joyent Cloud for the first time.

The Joyent Cloud – an "infrastructure cloud" along the lines of Amazon’s EC2 – is built atop a Solaris-based operating system known as SmartOS, and as originally conceived, the OS did not include hardware virtualization. This meant the Joyent Cloud could not run applications built for Windows or Linux or any other outside operating systems…

September 15, 2011 Off

Cloud data needs to be tracked to ensure security

By David

Grazed from Computing.co.uk. Author: Derek Du Preez.

Cloud service providers should layer their infrastructure to better protect their data and alleviate security concerns, according to Imperial College London lecturer Dr Peter Pietzuch, who was speaking at a Westminster eforum event yesterday.

Pietzuch told delegates at the event, Cloud computing – security, market development and prospects for the g-cloud, that the current security model for the cloud is not transparent enough, meaning software developers that want to deploy their applications in the cloud do not have enough knowledge of that provider’s security…

September 15, 2011 Off

Arcades, holograms, cloud computing the future of gaming -Square Enix CEO

By David

Grazed from GameSpot. Author: Laura Parker.

The Tokyo Game Show kicked off today with a keynote address on the future of gaming industry from three of Japan’s leading video game industry figures. Square Enix CEO and Computer Entertainment Supplier’s Association chairman Yoichi Wada, Sony Computer Entertainment worldwide studio president Shuhei Yoshida, and Sony Computer Entertainment senior vice president Yoshio Matsumoto took to the stage in the Makuhari Messe convention centre this morning to speak about evolving business models in the industry and the need to create new gaming experiences as the gaming audience continues to grow and diversify…

September 15, 2011 Off

Cloud computing service sees big increase across world this year

By David

Grazed from CenterBeam. Author: PR Announcement.

With its popularity seeing a big increase in large, small and medium companies, cloud computing, specifically software-as-a-service, has grown over 20 percent across the world this year and will continue its huge growth over the next four years, according to a new Gartner study…