Category: News

Grazed from InfoWorld.  Author: David Linthicum.

 Most enterprises do not have the experience or talent to effectively take advantage of private or public cloud resources, so adoption is a trial-and-error process.  Even if you use case studies from other enterprises with similar problem domains, you’ll still run into issues that are unique to your enterprise, including problems with data integration, governance, and poor application design.  When enterprises deploy their first cloud projects, there are three outcomes:

• ImplementIng something that’s not a cloud (such as virtualized servers); enterprise IT calls it a cloud, then declares success
• Implementing public or private cloud services in improper ways; enterprise IT falls on its face, then declares success
• Implementing cloud-based applications and other resources successfully; enterprise IT quickly moves on to the next cloud projects…

Read more from the source @ http://www.infoworld.com/article/2937730/cloud-computing/3-ways-to-screw-up-a-cloud-deployment.html

 Grazed from DataCenterJournal.  Author: Editorial Staff.

IT operational spending plans are rising in 2015 at the fastest rate since the Great Recession, but IT capital spending remains on hold and hiring is muted in what could signal a broad-based shift to cloud computing.  "There is a notable shift from IT capital spending to operational spending, which is exactly what we would expect as companies move from software licenses implemented on premises to cloud subscriptions,” said Frank Scavo, president of Computer Economics, Irvine, Calif.

“Economic uncertainty is also at play, but we think the shift to cloud computing is the greater factor.”  The findings from the executive summary of this year’s Computer Economics IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks study indicate investment in cloud-based applications is beginning to have a noticeable impact…

 Grazed from Reuters.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Oracle Corp founder and Executive Chairman Larry Ellison said his database company is expanding its cloud-computing offerings, bringing Oracle into more direct competition withAmazon.com Inc.  "We’re prepared to compete with Amazon.com on price," said Ellison in a webcast presentation on Monday, after announcing that Oracle would offer online storage and capability for customers to run their applications entirely in Oracle’s cloud.

The expansion is a major new step for Oracle, which is shifting its traditional database and customer relationship management businesses to the cloud.  "This is a really big deal," said Ellison, who stepped aside in 2014 as chief executive of the company…

Grazed from CIO.  Author: Paul Gillin.

If you aren’t doing DevOps now, chances are you soon will be. Results from the field show that DevOps is not only a more productive way to develop software, but also the resulting code is of higher quality and is delivered more quickly. In today’s business environment, who can afford to wait six months for new applications?

DevOps is an evolution of agile software development, which demands frequent releases and iterative feedback so that applications move steadily toward the business goal, nurtured by collaboration between developers and users. If you’ve ever waited months for your IT organization to deliver an application, only to find that it’s horribly different from what was requested, you know why this idea has appeal…

 Grazed from Bloombery Law.  Author: Dennis Garcia.

The high-profile data breach incidents that continue to occur highlights that companies will only use technology they can confidently trust. If your company is ready to reap the many well-documented benefits associated with cloud computing, it’s critical to select a “trusted cloud” provider.  While that sounds like a great idea, how does a company identify a trusted cloud provider?

Assemble Your Team

The first step is to assemble a team of stakeholders who will help your company conduct the necessary due diligence to select a trusted cloud provider…

 Grazed from CloudTech.  Author: David Auslander.

The first time I heard the acronym SDN was more than 10 years ago. At that time SDN was the cool way of saying “once the networking guys have racked, stacked and wired the switching and routing components we can install tools on a server and configure them through those tools from the comfort of the NOC”.

This was much more than just standard monitoring and management; we could setup whole networks and change them around, in software. But alas, this wasn’t really what we were hoping for and we would have to wait a number of years for the next advance…

Grazed from ZDNet.  Author: Charlie Osborne.

The face of cloud and IT is going to change rapidly in the next five years, and the enterprise needs to respond now to maintain their market positions in the future.

Speaking to attendees at the Asigra Cloud Backup Summit held in Toronto, Canada, Tiffani Bova, Vice President & Sales Strategies analyst at Gartner said the cloud market is transforming and it is up to companies to use this to advantage — or be left by the wayside…

Grazed from DigiTimes.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Taiwan-based InnoDisk, which develops and manufactures industrial-class storage products, has disclosed the company is partnering with NAND flash chip vendor Toshiba and Super Micro Computer (Supermicro), a specialist in application-optimized servers, workstations, blades, storage and GPU systems, to provide SSD solutions for data centers and cloud computing.

A joint venture between the companies, named AccelStor, has been formed to provide SSD solutions targeted at customers in the financial sector and telecom carriers, according to InnoDisk…

Grazed from SysConMedia.  Author: Editorial Staff.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it is enabling law enforcement agencies of any size to access one of the world’s largest networks of law enforcement data comprising more than a billion shareable documents from the Cloud. IBM i2 COPLINK on Cloudapplies analytics to vast quantities of data to help officials piece together seemingly unrelated information and generate investigative case leads.

For almost 20 years, IBM i2 COPLINK has transformed information sharing across more than 6,000 law enforcement agencies in North America, enabling them to uncover hidden relationships and patterns when investigating crime. Through the use of sophisticated analytics and "fuzzy searches," even partial information such as a portion of a license plate, tattoo or nickname can be processed and used to help accelerate investigations…

Grazed from HostSearch.  Author: Editorial Staff.

 In a move that took place in the latter part of 2014 and has not been highly publicized (it is only just being reported in fact), search giant Google acquired mobile cloud computing company Agawi. Led by founders Rajat Gupta, Rohan Relan, and Peter Relan, Agawi has headquarters in Campbell, California, USA. The company bills itself as a technology platform company which specializes in low-latency cloud-to-mobile device app streaming. Alongside mobile it is involved in cloud data services and cloud gaming.