Cloud News, Resources and Information
Four disruptive forces are causing executive teams to reconsider how the CIO function will add strategic value in a world where cloud computing, distributed architectures and mobile ubiquity are givens for future competitiveness…
Mobile developers see the heated competition between Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android operating systems reshaping the markets for cloud computing, enterprise IT, and social networking. Industry analysts, however, aren’t quite ready to count Microsoft out.
A Q3 2011 survey of more than 2,000 mobile developers, conducted by cross-platform development toolmaker Appcelerator and research firm IDC, finds developers divided about whether iOS or Android will come to dominate the mobile enterprise market. Some 44% of respondents sided with Apple while another 44% sided with Google when asked which OS would prevail in the enterprise market. The chance of other operating systems becoming relevant to enterprises was deemed to be small: 7% said they believed Windows Phone 7 would emerge ahead, 4% bet on BlackBerry, and just 2% foresee webOS triumphant…
Techaisle´s Cloud Computing research indicates that EMEA SMBs will be spending US$2.5 Billion on Cloud Computing in 2011 growing at a CAGR of 12 percent till 2015.
An estimated 35 million SMB users in EMEA are expected to use some form of Cloud by the end of 2011. UK, France, Germany will have a little more than 1 in 5 SMB Users on Cloud…
Cloud computing is without doubt the biggest IT story for a generation. But the concept is a broad one, with definitions of "the cloud" varying from one IT professional to the next. Rates of adoption also vary massively: some businesses are still sceptical about the cloud, while others have completed full migrations.
The V3 Virtual Cloud Summit has been developed to offer tailored insights to specific groups. Whatever stage of planning or implementation your cloud project is at, wherever your specific area of concern lies, there is a session for you at this event. And, because you can experience the entire conference without leaving your desk, you need only attend the sessions that are relevant to you.
Using the latest Virtual Trade Show technology, we have created an online environment that brings you all the features and benefits of a conference, through your PC…
As the business of hardware reselling goes the way of the dodo bird, smart solution providers are devising cloud-inflected services to take up the slack.
For example, GreenPages Technology Solutions will soon offer its own "data bus" that would help customers move data from on-premises data centers to hybrid and public cloud as well as remote desktop and server management as a service parlaying technology from BMC Software and CA…
CTIA ENTERPRISE & APPLICATIONS(TM) today announced mobile cloud computing and how it can benefit businesses will be a consistent theme at panels and exhibits during the tradeshow in San Diego, CA., October 11-13. In addition, the Mobile Cloud Computing Pavilion (Hall F) will provide attendees an opportunity to experience some of the game-changing solutions throughout this ecosystem, from network, infrastructure and data storage services players to those in data processing, security, applications and devices. Innovators that will be showcased include BelAir Networks, Microsigns Inc., ORBCOMM Inc. and SoftMaster…
We haven’t written much on Appistry, a St. Louis-based cloud data management and analytics applications vendor. So when it was in the news this week with raising a new round of venture funding, it seemed like a good time to cover it here…
Its product family is called CloudIQ and there are several different components. First is the CloudIQ Manager that configures the components and monitors their health. Next is CloudIQ Storage module, which allows Hadoop users to upgrade to their storage repository when you need more reliable operations and higher throughput. And finally there is CloudIQ Engine, which is used to build scalable analytical applications. Its family is designed for those very large data-intensive apps that are proliferating around the Internet these days, such as in genomics, that require huge horsepower and have to scale up tremendously and do it quickly, too…
Microelectronics Technology Co. (pinksheets:MELY) (hereafter "The Company") is pleased to announce that it has entered into a letter of Intent for the purchase of all of the existing outstanding shares of Cloud Data Corporation.
The terms and condition of the share exchange have been finalized and the closing is subject to certain due diligence to be completed over the following weeks. It is anticipated that the transaction will close and be effective August 26, 2011…
Grazed from CRN. Author: Stephen Burke.
Steve Dietch, vice president of marketing for cloud solutions and infrastructure for Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ), believes vendors that heterogenous cloud solutions are doing customers a disservice.
Speaking at GreenPages’ 15th annual technology summit, Dietch urged customers to avoid "vendor lock in" as they make the move to the cloud; doing so, he said, would ensure they do not perpetuate the IT sprawl that has resulted in as much as 80 percent of IT budgets being spent on maintaining systems with only 20 percent on innovation. Deitch said HP’s cloud strategy is aimed at supporting heterogenous, multivendor environments including everything from Cisco’s Unified Compute System to multiple hypervisors like VMware and Microsoft offerings…
Aimed at shaping the future of cloud computing and how increasing numbers of everyday devices will add computing capabilities, Intel Labs announced the latest Intel Science and Technology Centers (ISTC) both headquartered at Carnegie Mellon University.
These centers represent the next $30 million installment of Intel’s recently announced 5-year, $100 million ISTC program to increase university research and accelerate innovation in a handful of key areas. As with previously announced ISTCs for visual computing and secure computing, the new centers encourage tighter collaboration between university thought leaders and Intel. To encourage further collaboration, the ISTCs use open IP models with results publically available through technical publications and open-source software releases…