Category: News

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Nicole Henderson.

Citrix has selected Microsoft Azure as its preferred and strategic cloud partner, according to an announcement Tuesday at Citrix Synergy. The extended partnership will help customers move to the cloud, and more specifically, migrate to Windows 10 and Office 365. Citrix Synergy is taking place this week in Las Vegas where Citrix is making a number of announcements, including an expanded Citrix Cloud, which brings together every major Citrix product and can be accessed individually or together as a unified Workspace as a Service solution.

Citrix and Microsoft will work together on new integrations between Citrix XenMobile, NetScaler and the Microsoft Enterprise Mobility Suite (EMS) as well. “Companies of all sizes across all industries around the world have an amazing opportunity to embrace digital transformation and empower their people to work productively from anywhere at any time,” Kirill Tatarinov, president and CEO of Citrix said in a statement…

Grazed from WSJ. Author: Don Clark.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. plans to spin off most of its technology services operations and merge them with those of Computer Sciences Corp., in an $8.5 billion transaction that marks HP Enterprise’s latest adjustment to a shifting landscape that is roiling the market for corporate technology.

HP Enterprise will shed a business that accounts for roughly 100,000 employees, or two-thirds of the Silicon Valley giant’s workforce. The deal, a blockbuster follow-up to the breakup of Hewlett-Packard Co. last fall, will create a corporate technology services specialist that will be led by Computer Sciences executives and have roughly $26 billion in annual revenue, the companies said…

Grazed from NetworkWorld. Author: Brian Butte.

In the early 2000’s when the IT world was in the throes of ERP, CRM, SFA and ecommerce, IT infrastructure was invariably designed to support the absolute worst-case scenario. I quickly learned there were two options when launching any self-serve solution: it either flat-lines or takes off like a rocket—there is no in-between.

The capacity planning challenge drove the development of grid computing, then virtualization, and finally cloud computing. Although with cloud we now have a way to rapidly scale up to meet increasing demand, it seems we have forgotten scaling down to conserve resources is equally important. Instead of provisioning “just in case” our worst fears came true, I find repeated examples where cloud is provisioned “just because.”…

Grazed from CloudComputing. Author: David Auslander.

Even in mid-2016, very few who are serious about cloud computing will tell customers that out of the box public cloud services are as secure as their corporate data centres. At the same time no-one would suggest introducing mission critical applications and data into a brand new data centre environment without first planning and implementing proper physical, network, server, and application security controls.

Many organisations distrust moving corporate data and application assets into the public cloud. Loss of control of these assets is the most common reason stated; this is code for loss of control over the security aspects of the environment. To answer this, public cloud providers have developed some form of Shared Security Responsibility model…

Grazed from CSOOnline. Author: Scott Montgomery.

The prices and services that cloud infrastructure providers offer change so often that you may be doing yourself a disservice by tying your hybrid cloud to one particular vendor. We’re even starting to see services emerge that shift workloads transparently between cloud providers to give customers the best deal.

Security should be a high priority in any scenario, however, and strategies for hybrid cloud environments must take into account the potential for frequent movement of data between public clouds as well as between public and private clouds. Here are six factors to consider to ensure that your security strategy is portable across all services and service providers…

Grazed from eWeek. Author: Darryl K. Taft.

IBM is applying the strength of its cloud computing platform and its extensive research organization to help combat the Zika virus. Big Blue’s World Community Grid has launched an international study to identify drug candidates to cure Zika, a fast spreading virus that the World Health Organization has declared a global public health emergency.

Known as the OpenZika project, the new initiative will run on the World Community Grid to identify drug candidates to treat the Zika virus in people who have been infected. The project will target proteins that the Zika virus likely uses to survive and spread in the body, based on what is known from similar diseases, such as dengue virus and yellow fever…

Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Larry Dignan.

Sri Viswanath, CTO of Atlassian, will outline his vision for the company’s cloud platform plan and tech strategy on Tuesday and you can expect a heavy dose of scale and new use cases. Before coming to Atlassian, a collaboration software company, Viswanath spent three years at Groupon when he was CTO. Before Groupon, Viswanath was vice president of research and development for mobile computing at VMware. He also had stints at Ning, Glam and Sun Microsystems. We caught up with Viswanath to talk shop ahead of his appearance at AtlasCamp, Atlassian’s developer conference in Barcelona.

How does the Groupon experience apply to Atlassian? Viswanath said that the Groupon provided experience in managing a large number of people at scale. For instance, Groupon had 1,700 people spread across 10 areas across the globe. "That experience was good for learning how to run a large organization at scale," said Viswanath. "It takes a lot of focus and organization to get 1,700 people productive." Atlassian is similar in that its dispersed and global…

Read more from the source @ http://www.zdnet.com/article/atlassian-cto-viswanath-talks-cloud-computing-platforms-scale-innovation/

Grazed from FederalNewsRadio. Author: Jared Serbu.

In a step that may go some way toward reducing some of the red tape between the Defense Department and cloud computing vendors, the Department of the Navy (DoN) said last week that the Navy and Marine Corps can sign off on their own business cases for migrating to commercial cloud vendors without seeking higher-level approval.

The change shaves at least one level of bureaucracy from the process. Previously, any naval component that hoped to move its systems to the cloud had to first complete a standard template making their business case for doing so and then submit it to the DON chief information officer…

Grazed from CloudTech. Author: James Bourne.

It is a question which carries more resonance as technology matures: what is the major role of the CIO today? The usual responses range from improving business efficiency, to spearheading the organisation’s technological revolution. At the MIT Sloan CIO Conference earlier this month, the answer was simple.

“The perfect CIO is enabling the perfectly friction-less business,” argued Steve Rosenbush, the editor of CIO Journal. Yet there are many layers to uncover to get to the heart of this statement. Harvey Nash and KPMG have today released a report on ‘the creative CIO’. The authors, Harvey Nash chief executive Albert Ellis and KPMG International global CIO advisory service network lead Lisa Heneghan, conclude that despite an increasing examination of security, the CIOs with a creative mindset are winning out over those with an operational focus…

Read more from the source @ http://www.cloudcomputing-news.net/news/2016/may/23/what-does-role-cio-look-2016/

Grazed from AFR. Author: Paul Smith.

Australian software company TechnologyOne will begin a three-year process to lay the groundwork for ambitious US expansion plans, as its ten year old UK operations approaches profitability for the first time. Speaking to The Australian Financial Review as the 29-year-old company – valued at $1.6 billion – released half-yearly results which reaffirmed guidance for 10-15 per cent full-year profit growth, founder and CEO Adrian Di Marco said the company would take a measured approach to entering the potentially lucrative US market.

This will involve opening up a US research and development centre in 12-18 months, to ensure its software works properly with US regulations, ahead of a launch within two or three years. "We have not fragmented our code line, it is one global codeline that we have built here in Australia, that is exactly the same code that runs in the UK, so we have actually already done the globalisation of the product from that regard," Mr Di Marco said…

Read more from the source @ http://www.afr.com/technology/cloud-computing/technologyone-plots-us-expansion-to-take-down-oracle-and-sap-in-the-cloud-20160519-goyqyo#ixzz49UX5fWPX