Category: News

Grazed from Diginomica. Author: Phil Wainewright.

What is the exact meaning of the term ‘platform as a service’? Often shortened to PaaS, the simple definition is that it is a cloud resource on which you can build and run your own application. But like many definitions in the field of cloud computing, this simple explanation is open to many different and potentially misleading interpretations.

PaaS sits between the two other ‘aaSes’ of the cloud computing stack, offering more functionality than bare infrastructure as a service (IaaS), while falling short of the finished, ready-to-run applications provided by software as a service (SaaS). This broad spectrum contains so many different permutations that one vendor’s PaaS can be very different than another’s…

Grazed from ParkMyCloud. Author: PR Announcement.

ParkMyCloud, the only lightweight app that lets cloud computing customers schedule on/off times for their idle cloud computing services, today announced its general availability for users of Amazon Web Services (AWS). Based in Sterling, VA, ParkMyCloud raised a seed round from White Hall Capital in July 2015.

Beta customers have realized dramatic reductions in their AWS cloud costs, allowing a yearly subscription of ParkMyCloud to pay for itself in less than a month in most cases. A monthly subscription starts at only $29 for its “Startup” tier. “Whenever your boss comes over and says ‘Hey, why are we spending $8,000 a month on AWS EC2?’ you can show him how much you’re saving with parking,” said beta customer David Levinger, Senior Director of Information Technology, Paxata, a data preparation software company headquartered in Redwood City, California…

Grazed from CloudTech.  Author: James Bourne.

A new paper from Osterman Research in conjunction with CTERA Networks argues a clear need for organisations to adopt enterprise grade file sync and share (EFSS) software due to security and shadow IT fears.  Naturally, the conclusion of the report is less than surprising given CTERA’s continued push against consumer grade (CFSS) software.

Back in July the firm released research detailing how three quarters of firms are looking for an alternative to public file sync and share services. VP strategic marketing Rani Osnat told this publication how while the likes of Box and Dropbox have made a concerted effort at greater security, more still needed to be done…

Grazed from ITProPortal.  Author: Brian Brinker.

In a big move earlier this week, the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) inked a deal worth more than a hundred million dollars with Computer Sciences Corporation to provide cloud computing services.  The deal generated quite a bit of news coverage earlier this week, but we want to take a moment to explain why this is such a big development and what it could mean for the cloud computing industry.

Over the past few years the Federal government has emerged as one of the most aggressive proponents of cloud technologies, and numerous federal agencies have begun to move data and services into the cloud.  It should come as no surprise then that the Federal Aviation Authority has a big interest in cloud computing…

Grazed from Forbes.  Author: Maribel Lopez

Mobile, cloud computing and Software as a Service (SaaS) have changed the IT infrastructure landscape. These trends are equally disruptive and transformative for business processes such as CRM, logistics management and hiring. Recently, I spoke with David Hale, the CEO of Gigwalk, on how mobility is reinventing work.

Today, a massive amount of  temporary positions aren’t filled because companies can’t quickly match open opportunities to available talent. This issue is particularly acute when a company needs to hire temporary talent for short intervals, such as a day or a week. In the past a company had to call prospective workers to know if someone was available at a certain time and location and to confirm the person had the right skills. This manual process is cumbersome and many jobs went unfilled because it was too difficult to find a temporary worker…

Grazed from CloudComputing.net.  Author: Louis Columbus.

Big data is providing supplier networks with greater data accuracy, clarity, and insights, leading to more contextual intelligence shared across supply chains.  Forward-thinking manufacturers are orchestrating 80% or more of their supplier network activity outside their four walls, using big data and cloud-based technologies to get beyond the constraints of legacy enterprise resource planning (ERP) and supply chain management (SCM) systems.

For manufacturers whose business models are based on rapid product lifecycles and speed, legacy ERP systems are a bottleneck.  Designed for delivering order, shipment and transactional data, these systems aren’t capable of scaling to meet the challenges supply chains face today…

Grazed from Fortune.  Author: Barb Darrow.

As the enterprise software giant pumps up its cloud resume, it appears to be cutting back on Java evangelists. Not that it’s acknowledging that.  It looks like Oracle is paring back its Java team. There were reports last week on Twitter and Reddit, picked up by Infoworld, that top Java evangelists have left the database giant.

Cameron Purdy, a senior vice president for development and a noted Java evangelist, left Oracle  ORCL -1.71%  in August after more than 8 years at the company, according to his LinkedIn bio.  In a few tweets, he indicated that this was Oracle’s decision:…

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Grazed from CIO.  Author: Stephen Lawson.

The cloud is where the action is in enterprise storage.  Sales are way up for little-known manufacturers that sell directly to big cloud companies like Google and Facebook, while the market for traditional external storage systems is shrinking, according to research company IDC.

Internet giants and service providers typically don’t use specialized storage platforms in their sprawling data centers. Instead, they buy vast amounts of capacity in the form of generic hardware that’s controlled by software. As users flock to cloud-based services, that’s a growing business…

Grazed from WhaTech.  Author: Divya Bourse.

Cloud IBN, a leading provider of open source solutions, speaks about the next generation cloud based platform as a service. Budget, no. of employees or size of your service can not limit your enterprise growth when you are using a broadly deployed Platform as a Service (PaaS). Developers can build new services or applications in the cloud, which can run on any platform, and also can be made available to the end users through internet.

PaaS also provides some additional tools for hosting, testing, maintaining and collaborating applications. These key driving factors of PaaS market accelerates the application development process and offers scalability, easy deployment, agility, limited need for expertise, reduced cost and less development time…

Grazed from BusinessSolutions.  Author: Christine Kern.

The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has released a best practices guide designed to help Defense Department (DoD) “cloud mission owners” migrate to the cloud. The guide follows the release of three other documents in July regarding cloud computing security requirements.

The “Best Practices Guide for Department of Defense Cloud Mission Owners” is intended to smooth the way for cloud migration among the Department of Defense’s many layers, in response to changes last winter…