Category: News

Grazed from PCWorld.  Author: Bernard Golden.

IT is in a time of disruptive transition, caused by the rise of cloud computing. CIOs are in the midst of a maelstrom, and–like Ulysses, the fabled hero from Homer’s Odyssey–are torn between the Scylla of established IT practices and the Charybdis of the future, both of which loom dangerously and portend trouble. Also like Ulysses, many CIOs must inure themselves to the din of tempting Sirens: the vendors who sing a sweet song of painless cloud transformation, made possible by the purchase of some software, or hardware, or a set of cloud services…

Grazed from Server Watch.  Author: Paul Reubens.

Grazed from eWeek.  Author:  Chris Preimesberger.

Grazed from IT Business Edge.  Author: Michael Vizard.

One of the things that has always been problematic for IT organizations is that there has always been a marked difference between what the application management dashboards have been telling them and what end users were actually experiencing.

 

Grazed from IT Business Edge.  Author: Michael Vizard.

In a lot of large IT organizations, virtualization grew up as a separate discipline, resulting in separate management teams to administer virtual and physical servers.

 

But as virtual servers become more common, large IT organizations are reintegrating these management teams, resulting in many of them looking for tools that will allow them to simultaneously manage both virtual and physical servers under a common management framework.

Grazed from The Register.  Author: Dan Goodin.

Amazon’s cloud storage service has been caught hosting services used to control the notorious SpyEye banking trojan, researchers said.

Data compiled by antivirus provider Kaspersky Lab over a 11-day period in July showed Amazon’s Simple Storage Service being used regularly to host SpyEye command and control channels. The botnet operators are most likely using victims’ pilfered financial data to set up fraudulent Amazon Web Services accounts, researcher Jorge Mieres wrote.

Grazed from BUSINESS WIRE.  Author: PR Accouncement.

Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS – News), the world leader in cloud-based remote support services, today announced that it has again been ranked number one in the remote support services market with more than 31.5% share by top analyst firm IDC. With offerings for both IT management and customer support, Citrix grew its share of the market by 14.5 percent from 2009¹ by providing solutions that drastically reduce costs and increase productivity. The remote-support market, IDC reports, is showing significant growth as companies seek comprehensive support options that increase productivity while drastically reducing the costs associated with IT and customer support management….

Grazed from PRNewsWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

Business demand for rapid time-to-market and lower operational costs is driving cloud computing adoption and creating tremendous choice around cloud services available today. CA Technologies (NASDAQ:CA – News) is helping simplify "cloud choice" with new and updated products and solutions for enterprises and service providers. The capabilities announced today advance the company’s strategy to enable cloud use and help both enterprise and service provider customers quickly deploy business services with the cost-efficiencies offered by cloud.

The term "cloud choice" describes the growing heterogeneity that includes traditional, cloud and hybrid application environments. Enterprises face a big decision today – if and when to move an application to the cloud. Once the decision is made to use cloud, enterprises must then select the right type of cloud – public, private, hybrid – based on the application and its current and future requirements….
 

Grazed from eWeek.  Author: Jeffrey Burt.

Hewlett-Packard is jumping on the OpenStack cloud computing bandwagon, a day after rival Dell unveiled a cloud computing solution based on the open-source software stack.

In a blog post July 27, Emil Sayegh, vice president of cloud services for HP, said the company had joined the OpenStack project, which was kicked off a year ago by Rackspace and NASA and now has almost 100 organizations on its membership list…