Category: News

Grazed from Business Wire.  Author: PR Announcement.

AppFog (formerly PHP Fog), the leading cloud-based PaaS that makes it easy to deploy and scale web based applications, today announced it has been named PHP Community Lead for VMware’s Cloud Foundry, the industry’s first Open PaaS. In this role, AppFog will contribute and maintain PHP support for CloudFoundry.org, and Cloud Foundry will be used within AppFog’s core technology. AppFog today is delivering a fully managed, multi-tenant Cloud Foundry-based platform service running on Amazon Web Services (AWS) with plans to integrate the ecosystem of services available on AWS. Developers can now sign up for the private beta at http://www.appfog.com/…
 

Grazed from Government Technology.  Author: Steve Towns.

Calvin Rhodes, CIO of Georgia, is part of a growing number of state IT chiefs who have spent most of their careers in the private sector. Prior to becoming state CIO in January, Rhodes served as managing partner at Paladin Investments, a private firm he established in 2009. The bulk of his career – 27 years – was spent at Fulton Paper Company, where he served as executive vice president. Rhodes spoke to Government Technology about his move to the public sector and the challenges he’s facing...
 

Grazed from IEWY News.  Author: PR Announcement.

HP today expanded its Converged Storage portfolio with HP Peer Motion, new federated storage software that enables clients to transparently move application workloads between disk systems in virtualized and cloud computing environments…
 

Grazed from Ottawa Business Journal.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Grazed from Mashable.  Author: Christina Warren.

As buzzwords go, few have conjured up as much debate and discussion as cloud computing.

The idea behind cloud computing is that software, services and information can be provided to users over a network connection and through a web browser, rather than running locally on a computer or a local network server…

Grazed from PRWeb.  Author:  PR Announcement.

ThreatMetrix™, the fastest growing provider of fraud prevention solutions that do not require personally identifiable information (PII), announced today it has received two Golden Bridge Awards for innovation in "SaaS or Cloud Computing," as well as "Software-as-a-Services (SaaS)" under the respective categories for all industries and in information technology…

Grazed from Cloud Pro.  Author: Jennifer Scott.

We all appreciate something new. From a new mobile phone to a new car, even a nice new pair of shoes can makes us grin like a Cheshire cat who got the cream.

But the definition of ‘new’ is becoming a bit of a joke within the IT industry.

Since the inception of cloud computing as a term to describe a number of IT services, old school hosting companies have claimed the technology is nothing new at all.

Then, as the trend began to take off, numerous companies packaged up their products and stuck the word ‘cloud’ on them to try and sell more units and make them appear to keep up with the times – otherwise known as "cloud-washing."..

Grazed from Boston Business Journal.  Author: Kyle Alspach.

Verizon said the acquisition would accelerate its capabilities in cloud computing, and that CloudSwitch will be combined with Verizon’s Terremark IT services subsidiary. Ellen Rubin, co-founder and vice president of products at the company, said in an interview that the company was attractive to Verizon for its software development expertise and proximity to the Boston area’s development talent pool.

CloudSwitch assists enterprises with more easily moving applications or workloads between company data centers and the cloud. The technology eliminates a key barrier to widespread cloud adoption, according to CloudSwitch…