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…
Cloud Computing Could Heat Homes in the Future
Grazed from Online Journal. Author: R.E. Christian.
Microsoft says installing cloud computing servers into homes and businesses could heat them instead of wasting energy by cooling the air in server data centers.
A research paper published by Microsoft in conjunction with Virginia University researchers examined the feasibility of selling "Data Furnaces" to consumers, who would benefit by having their winter heating bills reduced down to almost zero, PhysOrg.com reported Tuesday.
Because servers generate so much heat, the paper envisioned having server "furnaces" in the basements of homes all over the country, clustered around cites where most demand for those servers exists…
VMware Licensing Change Opens Doors for Competing Virtualization, Cloud Providers
When VMware announced last week that it would loosen the radical change in price structure it announced only a month ago, it was doing more than mollifying a few disgruntled customers. It was responding to a revolt among customers, analysts say, even at large companies that rarely considered competing virtualization platforms due to VMware’s lead in the technology.
VMware was also responding to increasing pressure from a whole new class of competitors who see the cloud not as a higher level of abstraction on the data center (as VMware has traditionally approached it), but as the primary platform on which end-user companies can run the applications they actually want…
Cloud computing employed at one-third of small and medium businesses: study
When talking about public cloud and Software as a Service, the most natural market is small to medium-size businesses. (Defined as companies with fewer than 500 employees). Larger organizations are more likely to have bigger IT departments, and many of their own resources…
BMC Software Announces Cloud Operations Capabilities to Safeguard Cloud Users
BMC Software (NASDAQ: BMC) today announced additional capabilities integrated into its BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management solution that proactively ensures the service quality of cloud services and avoids many of the risks of cloud computing such as outages, performance and capacity issues, while simplifying cloud administration…
Managed Cloud Computing Provider Logicworks Selects ScienceLogic IT Management Software
Service provider Logicworks has chosen the ScienceLogic™ Inc. EM7™ IT operations and cloud management platform to provide its enterprise managed hosting customer base with advanced monitoring options. New York-based Logicworks provides enterprise managed hosting and managed cloud solutions for mission-critical applications and content for clients including Dow Jones, Starwood Hotels, Radar Online, and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts…