Google Apps, App Engine Tighten Cloud Services Security With SSAE-16 Compliance
A host of Google (NSDQ:GOOG) cloud services have been deemed secure for enterprise use and have passed the SSAE-16 Type II audit, a security compliance check that examines whether offerings comply with legal requirements like Sarbanes-Oxley…
Cloud Computing Middleware Company Announces Secure Content Distribution Services
CloudPointe, LLC announced today enhancements to its CloudPointe Connect service for secure controlled delivery of documents and digital assets. The enhancements enable organizations to share sensitive documents and digital assets, including video, to any recipient with an assigned passwords, expiration date, and restrictions for saving, printing and redistribution…
SoftLayer Has Record-Setting Second Quarter
SoftLayer Technologies on Tuesday announced that the company experienced continued operational and financial growth in the second quarter of 2011, hitting all new records. Along with other achievements, the company earned $83 million in revenue for the period…
Adaptive Computing Delivers Dynamic Cloud With New Moab Advancements
Adaptive Computing, a thought-leader in cloud systems management and the leading provider of Optimized Dynamic Cloud solutions, today announced that IT management and their staff no longer need to accept static cloud environments. The latest release of Moab Adaptive Computing Suite 6.1, a cloud decision engine, features extended dynamic cloud capabilities, accelerates workload management processes, maps and manages service component relationships to improve reliability and consolidates cloud event reporting. Enhanced dynamic cloud management capabilities in Moab allow IT departments to deliver applications, expand resources and keep services running optimally, all at the speed of business…
How to Gain Network Visibility in the Cloud
As more IT organizations migrate towards cloud computing, they are finding that managing this environment is particularly challenging because they lack end-to-end visibility into the network. They can see everything happening in their own network, but once the cloud service they are trying to manage needs to be extended across a network managed by a third-party service provider, everything goes dark…
How To Choose the Right Cloud Service Provider
As businesses are increasingly attracted to cloud computing, it’s necessary to clarify what portion of the cloud is of interest to a particular audience, a cloud service provider says.
"For the small to medium business, there are generally two areas of relevance in the evolution of IT services to the cloud," Todd Benjamin, vice president of enterprise hosting for the company Hostway, says. "The first is the application layer, commonly referred to as ‘Software as a Service‘ ― SaaS. The second is the infrastructure layer, known as ‘Infrastructure as a Service’ or ‘IaaS’."…
2016: All in the Cloud?
If there is one top-of-mind issue among CIOs today, it is Cloud computing. But how will it be positioned five years from now — as an innovation that brought about overriding change in the way IT delivers business service or, as some predict, something responsible for nothing more than incremental change to the familiar hosting arrangements and one that back in 2011 was wrapped in massive hype?…
Informatica Chairman Shares Vision On Future of Big Data Growth Driven by Cloud, Social and Mobile Computing
Informatica Corporation, the world’s number one independent leader in data integration software announced that, chairman and chief executive officer, Sohaib Abbasi, delivered a keynote address at the 11th Annual Pacific Crest Technology Leadership Forum. Speaking to the group of invited guests, Abbasi showcased the potential of the multi-faceted technology trend, Big Data, to deliver compelling business value and open up tremendous new possibilities…
IT Innovation in the “Cloud”
Designing world-class semiconductors, platforms and cores for our customers and OEM partners around the globe is one of AMD’s most complex and demanding engineering tasks. From an IT perspective, it means we have to meet the massive demand of computing power and the need for a flexible infrastructure while finding a way to deliver these resources to our engineers across multiple geographies on an as-needed basis. It’s been a daunting challenge but one that we have embraced…
Former Avanade Chief Takes the Helm at Cloud-Services Startup Opscode
Opscode, a young Seattle company that sells cloud-computing management services, has added some executive firepower to help manage its growth—co-founder Jesse Robbins is handing over chief executive duties to Mitch Hill, founding CEO of tech-services company Avanade.
Robbins, an Amazon.com veteran, is staying on board as chief community officer to guide work on Chef, Opscode’s open-source IT management software. And no, Robbins says, this isn’t one of those entrepreneur nightmares where the investors and board members jam a new executive down the founders’ throats…