Category: News

Grazed from MyTechBits. Author: Keith Hearn.

Cloud computing has become quite popular over the past decade among SMBs as well as large scale enterprises. There are thousand and one reasons why businesses, these days, opt for cloud computing. Whether you are running a large enterprise and aiming to improve the services that you offer to your customers, or you own a small scale start up and struggling to make your business stand out among the crowd, cloud computing is the new age solution for every problem.

Unless and until you are able to run all the applications and websites smoothly, how will you be able to establish yourself as a promising business entity? This is where cloud computing helps you best. With a robust cloud computing environment, you can keep your business running 24X7, without any interruption…

Grazed from ComputerWeekly. Author: Caroline Donnelly.

The day-to-day frustrations of cloud users have been laid bare in a new survey, which suggests high levels of discontent exist among adopters of off-premise tools and technologies. Cloud services firm StratoGen conducted a survey featuring responses from 1,000 UK senior business decision makers.

The survey found nearly three quarters of cloud adopters (73.84%) experienced frustrations on a day-to-day basis while using off-premise apps. The biggest frustration – cited by 21.41% of respondents – was the cost of hosting applications in the cloud, followed by availability issues, which was flagged by 16.95%.  Meanwhile, 16.45% flagged the lack of IT support as their biggest bugbear when using cloud…

Read more from the source @ http://www.computerweekly.com/news/4500252860/Cloud-users-speak-out-about-day-to-day-SaaS-frustrations

Grazed from TelecomPaper. Author: Editorial Staff.

Cloud infrastructure and mobility software specialist VMware has unveiled end-user computing innovations for universal application delivery and device management to help organisations transform their business processes and deliver a more app- and user-centric experience. VMware’s End-User Computing product portfolio is positioned to help customers navigate the transition to the mobile-cloud era.

The company introduced its Project A Squared (A2) technology preview showcasing the ability to redefine Windows management by focusing on application rather than endpoint management. Project A Squared can accelerate the adoption of Windows 10 by eliminating the costly and complex process of managing and upgrading Windows PCs and apps by using VMware’s AirWatch enterprise mobile management (EMM) coupled with new VMware App Volumes app delivery technology…

Read more from the source @ http://www.telecompaper.com/news/vmware-unveils-mobile-cloud-end-user-computing-products–1100423

Grazed from Business2Community. Author: Richard Thelwell.

The term “cloud computing” may be commonly uttered in businesses all over the world, but its complex history is less well known. This interactive timeline from Matillion charts the history of the Cloud, and its future!

1940s/50s – The Birth of Modern Computing

In 1947, researchers at the University of Manchester developed the “Manchester Baby”, the world’s first stored program computer. With its limited functionality and its vast size (over 17 feet in length) the Manchester Baby is almost unrecognisable from the computers we know today, yet it played a pivotal role in their development…

Read more from the source @ http://www.business2community.com/infographics/interactive-history-cloud-computing-01304429

Grazed from BCN. Author: Editorial Staff.

An influential group of senior business executives is being disillusioned by experiences with cloud hosted applications, according to new research. The proportions, though relatively low, are growing as cloud disenchantment threatens to set in. The revelations come from research by cloud service provider Stratogen.

Its main finding was that the expense, the lack of both applications and support and the downtime involved are all disappointing the company decision makers who backed cloud computing in their companies. If news of the disenchantment spreads among the business community, the bad feedback could nip cloud growth in the bud, according to Karl Robinson, chief commercial officer at StratoGen…

Grazed from ComputerWeekly. Author: Caroline Donnelly.

The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has selected IT services firm CSC to oversee its plans to downsize its datacentres and migrate its systems to the hybrid cloud. The $108m deal is set to last 10 years and will see CSC contracted to help the FAA consolidate its datacentre estate, migrate its data and systems off-premise and provide it with access to a range of cloud services from the likes of Microsoft and Amazon Web Services (AWS).

The FAA is the US body responsible for safe-guarding America’s aerospace and running its air traffic control operations. The FAA said in a statement that downsizing its datacentre footprint and moving more of its IT to the cloud will help the organisation save money and become more flexible…

Grazed from NetworkWorld. Author: Brandon Butler.

VMware VP of Cloud Services Mathew Lodge acknowledges that the virtualization vendor “got started later than other folks” in the IaaS public cloud market, but he flatly denies that the company is slowing investment in this area. VMware’s position is that while it has catching up to do with cloud market leaders Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft, it also has strengths that can make it stand out.

VMware used its annual VMworld conference in San Francisco this week to show off some of those differentiators, and teased more advances to come. The company’s cloud strategy centers around VMware’s Unified Hybrid Cloud platform, as CEO Pat Gelsinger stressed in a pre-VMworld interview with Network World…

Grazed from eWeek. Author: David Needle.

Can hospitals and other medical providers tap cloud computing to get a better picture of patient’s needs? That’s the promise of Salesforce Health Cloud, a new service that’s been developed with the help of several leading care provides including Centura Health, DJO Global, Radboud University Medical Center in the Netherlands and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).

With Health Cloud, patients will also be able to access their medical community via mobile and desktop devices via the Salesforce Community Cloud that works on iOS and Android devices. Bringing cloud services to healthcare providers is a natural progression for Salesforce.com, which pioneered cloud-based Customer Relationship Management, says Joshua Newman, a physician who heads the Health Cloud product as chief medical officer and general manager of Salesforce Health Care and Life Sciences…

Read more from the source @ http://www.eweek.com/cloud/salesforce-health-cloud-aims-to-make-patient-data-more-accessible.html

Grazed from CIO. Author: Rich Murr.

Is the cloud everything it’s cracked up to be? Any new technology goes through a hype curve, but generally speaking, I believe cloud-based solutions have done a pretty good job of matching some very lofty expectations. The growth numbers continue to prove this out, as companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Salesforce, and others experience extraordinary growth on what are already multibillion-dollar cloud businesses. By solving very real problems for their customers, they’re being amply rewarded.

That’s not to say there aren’t significant areas for improvement, however. One of the biggest challenges facing cloud adopters is integrating applications and data, something that has also been challenging for traditional IT departments ever since they moved beyond the mainframe. Not sure what integrations are? Trust me, you’ve been impacted by them – at least when they haven’t been implemented well. Do any of these scenarios sound familiar?…

Read more from the source @ http://www.cio.com/article/2977606/cloud-computing/how-the-cloud-makes-data-integrations-easier.html

Grazed from Lexology. Author: Davis Wright Tremaine.

In a move that highlights the changing winds of federal cybersecurity policy, the Department of Defense (“DoD”) has issued an interim Rule (“Rule”) that imposes new security and reporting requirements on federal contractors, and new requirements for DoD cloud computing contracts.

The Rule requires federal contractors to report cyber incidents that result in an actual or potentially “adverse affect” on covered defense information (CDI), a covered contractor information system (a federal contractor’s information system that handles CDI), or on a contractor’s ability to provide operationally critical support. CDI includes “controlled technical information, export controlled information, critical information, and other information requiring protection by law, regulation or Government-wide,” but does not include classified information which is governed by a separate rule. The Rule also imposes restrictions on cloud computing contracts, including that data covered by the contracts be maintained within the 50 states…