Category: News

Grazed from DCProgressive.  Author: Lisa Michaels.

Investors bought shares of salesforce.com, inc. (NYSE:CRM) on weakness during trading hours on Friday, Analyst Ratings Net reports. $215.54 million flowed into the stock on the tick-up and $49.94 million flowed out of the stock on the tick-down, for a money net flow of $165.60 million into the stock. Of all stocks tracked, salesforce.com, inc. had the 31st highest net in-flow for the day. salesforce.com, inc. traded down ($0.92) for the day and closed at $71.40

Several brokerages have commented on CRM. Roth Capital reaffirmed a “buy” rating on shares of salesforce.com, inc. in a report on Monday, August 24th. FBR & Co. reiterated a “buy” rating and issued a $82.00 target price on shares of salesforce.com, inc. in a research report on Monday, July 13th. Jefferies Group restated a “sell” rating on shares of salesforce.com, inc. in a research report on Monday, August 24th…

Grazed from  ITOnline.  Author: Kathy Gibson.

Kathy Gibson reports from Huawei Cloud Congress in Shanghai – The network has become the bottleneck stifling the ability of cloud computing to scale effectively; but software-defined networking (SDN) could hold the key to unlocking performance and scale.  “SDN is becoming necessary because, as the cloud gets bigger, traditional networking cannot satisfy the requirements,” says Swift Liu, president of Huawei’s switch and enterprise communications solutions.

“More and more enterprises are moving into SDN because they want to get more value from their investment in networking and their data centres.  “We think SDN is the future trend because it can provide more power utilisation and other features that we cannot provide today. The whole industry is moving to cloud, and networking has to move as well.”…

Grazed from BulletinLeader.  Author: Watson Dong.

The company is working on building Azure Cloud Switch (ACS), a software which will make it simpler to control hardware which powers cloud-based services.  So it was logical to expect that Microsoft was, in fact, hacking together its own network operating system.

It’s supposed to make it easier for IT pros to manage their networking infrastructure across different types of hardware – important when you’re running a bunch of networks across a bunch of data centers at cloud computing scales…

Grazed from eWeek.  Author:Jeffrey Burt.

Juniper Networks and Aerohive Networks are jointly developing a wired and wireless networking solution aimed at distributed enterprises that are wrestling with such trends as the consumerization of IT, cloud computing and the Internet of things (IoT) and the need for a secure and scalable network from the edge to the data center.

The two companies will create an interoperable enterprise offering that will include cloud-managed WiFi capabilities via Aerohive that combine with Juniper’s networking products that will give businesses of any size with multiple remote locations an easy-to-manage wired and wireless solution that can be deployed in the cloud or on premises…

Grazed from Fool.  Author: Andrew Tonner.

Given the lucrative economics, competition in the red-hot cloud-computing market among many of the space’s most powerful incumbents will probably remain fierce for a long time. Attempts to redefine the fabric of computing from leading companies such as Amazon.com and Google befit their sky-high ambitions. In one recent example, Google unveiled a new cloud-computing product in its ongoing attempt to steal market share from Amazon.

Supercomputing showdown

Last week, Google announced the public release of its pre-emptible virtual machines, or VMs, a cloud-based supercomputing product that offers a number of benefits both to Google and its cloud-computing customers. At their most basic, VMs allow customers to affordably run advanced supercomputing tasks at steep discounts to current alternatives. However, the discount comes with a catch, and that’s why the term "pre-emptible" deserves some attention…

Grazed from NetworkWorld. Author: Brandon Butler.

Salesforce.com is seen as one of the pioneering inventors of the cloud computing market, but company co-founder and CEO Marc Benioff says Salesforce is not about the cloud. Here’s an excerpt of Benioff’s interview with CNBC host Jim Cramer. You can watch the full interview here, this quote comes at the 6:15 mark.

This isn’t about the cloud, Jim, and it never was about the cloud. It’s about the customer…. The cloud is about technology, and technology is transient. The technology we’re talking about today will be obsoleted in 3,4,5 years from now, it will be all new technology. What’s the one thing though that will be the same five years from now? … We’ll still be talking about the customer…

Read more from the source @ http://www.networkworld.com/article/2984644/cloud-computing/benioff-backs-salesforce-away-from-the-cloud.html

Grazed from MSPMentor. Author: Mike Vizard.

Moving to make it simpler to use an OpenStack cloud management framework to manage network functions virtualization (NFV) software that promises to change how network services are delivered and managed, Mirantis, in partnership with Citrix, Metaswitch Networks and Overture Networks, this week announced a Mirantis NFV Initiative.

In effect, Mirantis is creating a reference architecture for deploy NFV software that not only spans its distribution of OpenStack, but also encompasses session border controllers from Metaswitch Networks, application delivery controllers from Citrix (CTXS) and service orchestration software from Overture Networks…

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: David Linthicum.

As modern enterprise networks move into the world of public cloud computing, certain facts come to light. One is that enterprise network managers are forced to work with public cloud providers to ensure that the network continues to support the needs of the business. This means that some IT fundamentals are undergoing change.

First, cloud network architectures need to be more flexible: Static networks drastically limit the use of cloud. Second, network services need to be decoupled from a single physical location, since the delivery of data, compute and user interfaces are now ubiquitous. Finally, many network resources need to be abstracted so provisioning can be automated and orchestrated…

Grazed from ScientificComputing. Author: David Bradley.

The most obvious disadvantage of putting your data in the cloud is losing access when you have no Internet connection. According to research published in the International Journal of Cloud Computing, this is where “dew” could help. Yingwei Wang of the Department of Computer Science, at the University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, Canada, describes what he refers to as a “cloud-dew” architecture that offers an “efficient and elegant way” to counteract cloud downtime and communication difficulties.

In the world of cloud computing, users and organizations keep their data in the cloud, users access the data from their computer, which means their data is mobile and can be accessed from any computer…but only as long as an Internet connection is available. The problem with this arrangement is that the user relies heavily on an Internet connection and the cloud servers, Wang explains…

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Jason Sparapani.

It’s a given — you need to make changes when moving IT operations to the public cloud. There are new management tasks you need to emphasize, new processes you need to implement, new technologies you need to bring in. But you don’t need to change everything. “There’s a whole set of things that you’ve been doing for decades in the data center that don’t go away,” said Mindy Cancila, an analyst at Gartner, at the recent Gartner Catalyst Conference in San Diego.

“They look a little different with public cloud adoption, so you’re going to have to evolve those traditional management procedures into a public cloud environment.” Among those data center best practices are creating templates to determine how deployments should be carried out, development and test procedures and data governance polices…

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