Category: News

Grazed from Accenture.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Grazed from ITBusinessNet.  Author: PR Announcement.

 Cloud computing is no longer just a mysterious trend over-hyped by marketers. As its early adopters have found, the cloud offers a significant competitive advantage when it comes to cost, scalability and flexibility. And with the likes of Azure hitting the market in 2010, most security and reliability concerns have been allayed.

As a company that specializes in making collaboration easier, Qorus Software is always looking for ways to improve its service to sales, marketing and bid management teams around the world. Naturally, making its most popular solution, Qorus Breeze Proposals, available in the cloud was high priority but so was ensuring improved security and reliability…

 Grazed from TheMarketSurge.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Chip designer Mellanox Technologies is banking on newly unveiled innovations to quell doubts and extend its recent flurry of robust earnings deep into 2016.  The Israel-based company, a designer of chips used in servers and data storage systems, has generated strong earnings growth in recent quarters, in part on generational upgrades to high-performance data center computers that are equipped with Intel processors.

Grazed from BusinessInsider.  Author: Julie Bort.

Grazed from TechInvestingDaily. Author: Alex Koyfman.

It seems like just a little while ago that the world was introduced to the mysterious, abstract, and often confusing term “cloud computing.” Evocative of a fresh, clean, airy, futurist utopia, cloud computing took the world by storm, gaining millions of users — even though a good proportion of them weren’t even sure what it was they were using.

What cloud computing actually is may perhaps be a bit of a letdown to those imagining super-smart microprocessors floating in the sky. In reality, cloud computing is nothing more than shared data storage on a mass scale, operated by large companies offering countless terabytes at miniscule prices to anybody with Internet access…

Grazed from VirtualizationReview. Author: Dan Kusnetzky.

Recently SUSE announced that it has fully embraced Docker as a component of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 12. After having spoken to representatives of Red Hat, VMware and a number of other interested suppliers, I thought it would be good to speak with the SUSE team.

SUSE points out that its current Docker offering supports x86- and x64-based servers. It’s planning to introduce support for this technology on other hardware platforms in the future. The company also has plans to integrate Docker into its SUSE Manager for lifecycle management tool…

Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Joe McKendrick.

Ultimately, decisions around cloud application or platform development and adoption are driven by the business. But the people bringing cloud in and enlightening their enterprises are the "developer visionaries" who understand the implications it brings to businesses, as well as keeping the whole thing from becoming a tangled, hairy and expensive mess.

That’s one of the takeaways from a new report issued by Technology Business Research (TBR), which states that as cloud becomes a greater part of business technology infrastructures, business-side managers are increasingly getting involved in development decisions. In the process, the role of developers is being elevated, from a "coder" persona to that of consultant to business management…

Grazed from WNCY.com. Author: Editorial Staff.

The cloud has been around a long time, but recently there has been an increase in business’s urgency to move to the cloud and create a computing environment that is accessible from anywhere. Most businesses looking to create a cloud environment can greatly benefit from partnering with a cloud service provider – from choosing the best way to implement cloud services to establishing effective ongoing support. We’ve found the following provider services are essential to successfully utilizing the cloud…

1. Find the Best Approach

Many cloud conversations begin with misunderstood concepts about the cloud environment they require. For example, a common request from clients is to have their hardware moved off-site. This solution, typically referred to as co-location (or co-lo for short), will be perfect in some scenarios, but is not actually a cloud solution and likely does not address the technical or business case that is the true reason for migrating to the cloud…

Grazed from Forbes. Author: Ben Kepes.

Genomics is perhaps the perfect use case for the public cloud. Genomics workloads tend to have massive, yet irregular, processing needs. Researchers often need to run massive analytics workloads in order to crunch genomics data. Often, however, those workloads are needed for finite periods of time. In the old days, powering these workloads required investment in supercomputing resources – massively expensive hardware that might only be used for a short period of time.

With the advent of the public cloud, however, researchers can spin up almost unlimited amounts of computing power, but only use that power as and when they need it. It is hard to overstate just how revolutionary this is and the cloud has meant much research that wouldn’t have been viable previously, can now be performed…

Grazed from GovTech. Author: Larry Karisny.

A massive cyberattack at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) exposed the personal information of as many as 4 million federal employees. Though this type of news is not unusual, this particular case is different given that a multi-billion-dollar federal civilian cyberdefense systems was hacked.

The cyberdefense systems supposedly protecting the OPM are Department of Homeland Security programs known as Einstein and Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) — and were hailed as the cornerstone of repelling cyberthreats in real time. Unfortunately this is not actually the case, as it took five months to discover the intrusion — hackers hit the OPM in December, and the agency did not detect the intrusion until April. How bad the attack really was is still being analyzed…