Cover Story: VMware’s Maritz Aims To Run The Table In Cloud
Spooks Get Their Own Cloud
Huddle figures it’s the first cloud-based collaboration and content management service to offer an eyes-only private collaboration service to government customers with highly classified clearance that they can use to access and share their very private data stores.
It seems that the only way spooks on both sides of the pond can collaborate is still through couriers, the all-purpose drop box, phone calls and e-mail. Huddle means to bring them in out of the cold but its solution, which resembles Microsoft’s SharePoint, isn’t just meant for three-letter agencies like the CIA and MI6.
Platform Computing to Host Webinar on How to Select a Private Cloud Solution
Platform Computing, the leading independent cloud management software provider, today announced it will be hosting a webinar, entitled "Private Cloud Selection Best Practices: How to Select a Private Cloud Solution," on Thursday, Aug. 4.
Dr. Songnian Zhou, CEO of Platform Computing, will be joined by James Staten, principal analyst at Forrester Research, to discuss strategies and best practices that mid- and large-sized enterprises must consider when choosing a private cloud vendor. Mr. Staten will also discuss findings from his recent report, "Market Overview: Private Cloud Solutions" (May 2011)…
Translattice Shakes Up Distributed Computing
One of the basic assumptions about cloud computing is that services outages are bad. An application that goes down for one reason or another is an expensive problem when it happens. But it’s also an expensive problem for which to plan ahead, usually involving buying a lot of redundant hardware and software that kicks in when the primary systems fail. It’s not an attractive notion, but then again neither is downtime…
4 reasons why cloud computing is efficient
There have been a few recent analyses showing that cloud computing has significant efficiency and cost advantages. The most recent one with which I am directly familiar was conducted by Jon Taylor’s team at WSP Environment & Energy for Salesforce.com, and it showed per-transaction emissions reductions averaging 95 percent for companies that shift to using the cloud…
University of Western Australia consolidates to private cloud
The University of Western Australia has embarked on an 18-month project to consolidate approximately 1000 disparate servers to a private cloud platform in Amcom data centres.
The institution would look to migrate 400 terabytes of data currently held on-campus to Amcom’s two Perth-based facilities under a $9 million, three-year agreement signed with the Western Australia service provider over the weekend…
Telcos face ‘significant’ cloud challenges
Ovum analyst and author of a just published report into the market, Mark Giles, telcos face “considerable challenges when it comes to supporting and selling cloud services.”
Europe turns to the Cloud
When the founders of Shutl, a British courier service that makes deliveries in 90 minutes in busy London, decided to set up a business that ran exclusively on cloud computing, they needed to get creative.
Data privacy laws in Europe restrict the transfer of information about individuals outside the 27-country European Union. That had prevented many companies on the Continent from moving to the cloud, where data may be stored on remote servers in Asia, the United States or elsewhere at a lower cost than what a company would pay for its own servers…
2nd Cloud Computing Live World Series Forum Asia and Cdn World Forum Asia Announced
The Cloud Computing World Series will make its final stop of 2011, when it arrives in Hong Kong for the 2nd Cloud Computing World Forum Asia, taking place on the 30th and 1st December at the Mira Hotel. The event follows on from the success last year’s first World Forum in Asia, which saw over 450 delegates attend. Over 700 delegates are expected this year.
The Cloud Computing World Forum Asia is the place to meet all the key decision makers from the cloud service and SaaS market in one place…
UK Uses Cloud Computing for Secure Collaboration
FCO Services, a part of the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office, is implementing a collaboration service on the the organization’s Government Secure Application Environment (GSAE) private cloud infrastructure. On their website, FCO Services describes themselves as:
“[T]he trusted partner of governments and other organisations for whom security is essential. We develop close relationships with our customers building a deep understanding of their needs protecting their people, information and working environment.