Category: News

Grazed from BWorldOnline. Author: Editorial Staff.

Academic institutions and health-care companies are picking sides between their cloud computing offerings — Google Genomics or Amazon Web Services — spurring the two to one-up each other as they win high-profile genomics business, according to interviews with researchers, industry consultants and analysts.

That growth is being propelled by, among other forces, the push for personalized medicine, which aims to base treatments on a patient’s DNA profile. Making that a reality will require enormous quantities of data to reveal how particular genetic profiles respond to different treatments…

Grazed from The Geek Desire. Author: Editorial Staff.

Data and the process of processing that data is the most vital aspect of any organization. Achieving this in the last time, with least efforts, and finally, at lower costs is all what makes an organization stronger. Cloud computing is the most recent technology, which doesn’t mean anything else but hosting data, or services not on the local storage elements, but the Internet and servers.

Cloud computing came into action some time back when the organizations felt the need of decreasing the hardware costs, improve efficiency in data processing, and keep everything global. Cloud computing also enables an organization to easily access its data anywhere, anytime. You need not carry those sensitive hard disks anymore, but just this access credentials to your cloud server…

Grazed from BusinessWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Veeam® Software, the innovative provider of solutions that deliver Availability for the Modern Data Center™, today announced Veeam Cloud Connect will be extended to include advanced image-based VM (virtual machine) replication capabilities as a part of the new Veeam Availability Suite™ v9, which will be generally available later this year.

The extended functionality also gives service providers the ability to provide their customers with cloud-based disaster recovery-as-a-service (DRaaS) with the new Veeam Cloud Connect Replication for Service Providers offering. First introduced in Veeam Availability Suite v8, Veeam Cloud Connect makes it easy for Veeam customers to extend their backup infrastructure to the cloud for offsite backups. Included in v9, Veeam customers get a fully integrated, secure and efficient means to create replicas in the cloud, enabling protection of mission-critical applications with dramatically improved recovery time objectives (RTOs)…

Grazed from FederalTimes. Author: Jennifer Sakole.

At a recent Federal IT Acquisition Summit, a panel of government representatives discussed cloud adoption by the federal government. Comments made during the panel – particularly by Stan Kaczmarczyk, Director of the Cloud Computing Services Program Management Office within the General Services Administration’s Office of Integrated Technology Services (ITS) – offer insight into what the future of federal cloud computing might look like.

Mr. Kaczmarczyk recognized the frustration that both employees and industry have with the slow adoption of cloud by the federal government. He pointed to several contributing factors, including the lengthy federal budget cycle, reduced budgets, and the temptation for agencies to exercise options on contracts already in place for legacy systems rather than initiating new procurement efforts required to move to cloud…

Grazed from TopTechNews. Author: Jeff Cozza.

A new security company has just entered the market with a new plan to defeat malware attacks over the Web and e-mail. Menlo Security, which just closed on a $25 million Series B funding round, unveiled its Isolation Platform aimed at protecting end users by executing all Web content in the cloud rather than on users’ devices.

Headquartered in Menlo Park, Calif., the company, which emerged from stealth on Monday, consists of several researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, along with experts in security, cloud, and virtualization technology. The new round of financing brings the total company funding to $35.5 million — Menlo also announced $10.5 million in Series A funding in November…

Grazed from Forbes. Author: Louis Columbus.

69% of enterprises expect to make moderate-to-heavy cloud investments over the next three years as they migrate core business functions to the cloud. 44% of enterprises are relying on cloud computing to launch new business models today, predicting this will increase to 55% in three years.

32% are using cloud computing to streamline their supply chains today. Senior executives predict this figure will increase to 56% in three years, a 24% increase. 59% say they use cloud-based applications and platforms to better manage and analyze data today, reflecting the increasing importance of analytics and big data enterprise-wide…

Grazed from HostReview. Author: Adam Groff.

If you want to take your business’s cloud activities to the next level, then bare metal might be the answer. That’s right, bare machines and the cloud are working together to improve the computing environments of millions of businesses. If your business is in need of a digital boost, here are a few ways bare metal and the cloud can help:

Performance Consistency

Also known as bare metal cloud computing, the cloud and bare metal servers can increase performance consistency for your business. Bare metal clouds dedicate all server resources to one tenant: your business. This reduces latency issues and ensures your business is getting the most efficient cloud experience possible…

Grazed from Electronics360. Author: Peter Clarke.

Toshiba Corp. (Tokyo) and Microsoft Corp. (Redmond, Washington) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to work together on solutions for the Internet of Things (IoT). Toshiba plans to combine its ApP Lite processors, sensors and memory components—and equipment based on them—with its own cloud-based data storage. Microsoft will provide its Azure access and data analytics cloud services to the team effort.

Toshiba plans to start delivering IoT applications for multiple market segments in 2015. Azure is a cloud computing platform from which Toshiba will use private line services called Azure ExpressRoute and advanced analytics known as Azure Machine Learning. Jagdish Rebello, senior director of cloud and computer electronics at IHS Inc., says the deal between Toshiba and Microsoft is a good first step for the two companies to come together and develop solutions that work seamlessly to drive efficiencies and reduce the barriers to IoT deployment. But, Rebello adds, to be effective, it’s important for the two firms to get other players into their ecosystem…

Read more from the source @ http://electronics360.globalspec.com/article/5388/toshiba-microsoft-team-up-for-iot

Grazed from CNBC. Author: Arjun Kharpal.

In its strongest push outside of China, Alibaba has struck a series of partnerships to bolster its global cloud offerings, putting it in direct competition with the likes of Amazon, Google and Microsoft. The deals – including one with Intel – will see Aliyun, Alibaba’s cloud division, use existing data centers built by the partner companies to push its own services.

By not building new data centers Alibaba will save money and through the partnership be able to localize its cloud offering and tap potentially new markets. "There are more and more storage problems and more and more clients are in need for bigger storage capabilities," Simon Hu, President of Aliyun, told CNBC by phone…

Read more from the source @ http://www.cnbc.com/id/102736537

Grazed from eWeek.  Author: Scott Petersen.

For Hewlett-Packard, it seems, breaking up really isn’t that hard to do after all. First of all, it’s actually happening. The new Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and the consumer PC and printer company HP Inc. are going to be operationally separated on Aug. 1, right on schedule, officials said this week at the HP Discover 2015 conference.

The legal separation will occur Nov. 1. It’s going to be the end of an era, not only for a venerable Silicon Valley company, but also for customers who can no longer ignore the benefits cloud computing can bring to their businesses and who must adapt their IT infrastructures to take advantage of those opportunities. The new Hewlett-Packard Enterprise is in a unique position to meet those needs…