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Grazed from eSchools. Author: Bridget McCrea.

It’s no secret that being able to access enterprise applications and other types of software online—in a 24/7/365 environment—beats having to install, maintain, and upgrade individual applications across multiple desktops and laptops. Especially when maintaining software at school, classroom, teacher, and individual student levels is such an arduous task.

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) or “cloud computing” has helped districts and schools streamline their applications while at the same time introducing new challenges to the mix—such as online privacy and security concerns. These and other obstacles aside, cloud computing has been growing in popularity lately due to its low entry costs, short installation/implementation times, and the fact that it lessens the burden on schools’ IT teams when it comes to software maintenance and upgrades…

Through the partnership, applications delivered by next generation VDI 2.0 from Workspot will be available in record time using Algiz Technology’s virtualization process. Compared to traditional packaging which delivers one or two applications per day, Algiz can automatically process up to 250 applications per day ready to stream to target desktops. Now core products such as Microsoft Office and Google Chrome which are included in virtual workspaces delivered by Workspot can be quickly complemented by user-specific applications.

Grazed from StreetInsider. Author: Editorial Staff.

Cisco Systems Inc. has struck a deal with Pivotal Software Inc to offer each other’s products in the cloud arena, a sign the giant network company is looking to work with others as it tries to build its presence in one of the fastest-growing areas of computing. The agreement, to be announced later on Tuesday, means the two companies will jointly sell Pivotal Cloud Foundry, which helps developers build and run software on the cloud, and Cisco’s Metapod, a service that lets companies make their data centers more cloud-friendly.

Pivotal’s service helps companies deploy a free, but hard-to-use open-source technology also called Cloud Foundry, much as the free operating system known as Linux generally requires services of a consultant like Red Hat Inc. Pivotal Cloud Foundry competes with services such as IBM’s Bluemix and HP Enterprise’s Helion, while Mirantis competes with Metapod…

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Cisco’s first fully integrated, threat-focused Cisco Firepower Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) marks a significant departure from the focus of legacy NGFWs on application control. By focusing instead on threat defense, Cisco will help organizations better manage and minimize risk. Think of it as legacy NGFWs protecting "homes" by securing windows and doors, whereas Cisco’s approach is to identify, detect and protect against would-be burglars no matter how they try to gain access to a property.

Based on the existing TMS relationship with Red Hat, today’s announced Tibero AWS VM allows Red Hat customers to configure and order Tibero conveniently from the AWS marketplace directly.

"The Office 365 services market has become highly commoditized and thousands of partners that used to make money from migrating email to the cloud are now looking for new ways to grow their business," said Jennifer Martin, vice president of global sales at BitTitan. "Attaching managed services to Office 365 sales is the best way for most service providers to remain competitive."

Grazed from ScientificComputing. Author: Editorial Staff.

One of the most notable changes in the culture of pharmaceutical research and development is the move towards collaboration and outsourcing as the business model. This has been driven, at least in part, by a shift from the development of traditional small-molecule drugs, to large molecule biologics, biomarkers and personalised medicine.

‘Biologics discovery and development will generally require collaboration with CROs, small biotechs or academia that have required IP, or are specialised in different segments of the biologics workflow, perhaps next gen sequencing or biomarker discovery,’ according to Anthony Uzzo, president and cofounder of Core Informatics. ‘This means that collaboration and outsourcing will become an inevitable part of biologics and precision medicine initiatives."…

Grazed from ScientificComputing. Author: Editorial Staff.

Although commerce and consumers have been computing in the cloud for years, the high-performance computing sector has been more hesitant. But all that may now be changing. The cost of cloud computing for HPC is falling, while new programming models that will allow HPC workloads to run more efficiently in the cloud are becoming available. ‘Public cloud’ providers are installing hardware configurations that are more suited to HPC, while private clouds are giving users experience of how to run their jobs in a cloud environment.

Nonetheless, HPC in the cloud has not got off to a flying start. The market research company Intersect360 reported last year that the HPC users they surveyed spent only about three per cent of their budgets on cloud computing – and the percentage has not changed much over the past five years…