Category: News

Grazed from Sys Con Media. Author: Editorial Staff.

Cloud-based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions are finally gaining steam and vendors offering cloud solutions are starting to significantly outpace those that are slower to embrace cloud options, the H1 2015 Technology Value Matrix for ERP from Nucleus Research finds.

“While customers have been slower to migrate to cloud-based ERP compared to other enterprise software, such as CRM, we are now seeing a tipping point where the cloud is starting to take charge. Given the cloud benefits of lower cost, more flexibility and faster deployment times, we predict cloud ERP will only accelerate and quickly become the dominant solution. Cloud is changing the pace of ERP innovation,” said Rebecca Wettemann, VP of research at Nucleus…

Grazed from ComputerWeekly. Author: Caroline Donnelly.

HP has dismissed reports that it’s planning to exit the public cloud market, after one of its senior vice-presidents admitted the supplier has given up trying to compete with the likes of Amazon, Google and Microsoft. According to a New York Times report, HP thought it would be battling it out with the aforementioned public cloud giants for market supremacy, but things didn’t work out that way.

To back this point, HP senior vice-president of cloud product management, Bill Hilf, is reported to have said: “We thought people would rent or buy computing from us. It turns out it makes no sense for us to go head-to-head.” The comments have been seized on by some quarters of the tech industry as an admission the technology giant is giving up on the public cloud market – a point of view HP has been quick to correct…

Grazed from MarketWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Avi Networks, the Cloud Application Delivery Company, today announced that Computer Technology Review (CTR) has named the recently announced Avi Networks Cloud Application Delivery Platform (CADP) as a 2015 Most Valuable Products Award winner for uniquely delivering the benefits of a hyper-scale approach to application delivery for any infrastructure, at any scale, for on-premise and cloud-based applications.

Founded in 1981, CTR is one of the most respected editorial authorities in the computer storage, networking and information technology industries. In fact, CTR was the first storage publication to have a Web presence. Today, the CTR website has a very loyal following and is one of the largest sites devoted to data storage and data management. The complete list of 2015 winners can be found at CTR at http://wwpi.com/mvp-award-winners/…

Grazed from Amber Corrin.

In line with broader Defense Department initiatives, the Army expects to soon release a new commercial cloud services provider policy that will outline service-specific acquisition requirements and provide further details about the Army’s growing use of the commercial cloud.

"Transitioning to cloud-based solutions and services advances the Army’s long-term objective to reduce our ownership, operation and sustainment of hardware and other commoditized information technology," Gary Wang, Army deputy CIO/G-6, wrote in an April 2 blog post. "Procuring these capabilities as services will allow the Army to focus resources more effectively to meet evolving mission needs."…

Grazed from ITProPortal. Author: Barclay Ballard.

You could be forgiven for thinking that there’s nothing more to say on the subject of cloud computing. After all, the technology has been available and widely adopted for some years now, with businesses of varying sizes moving their data and infrastructure to the cloud. In fact, the recently published State of the Cloud report by RightScale found that 93 per cent of organisations are using the cloud in some capacity.

However, whether it’s a move towards a hybrid cloud approach or analysing why some businesses have not yet made the transition, there are still plenty of reasons to get excited about the cloud…

Grazed from CIO. Author: Charlie Cooper.

The trend lines are clear: Laptops began replacing desktops, and then tablets began replacing laptops. And at this rate, smartphones one day might replace them all. It’s hardly hyperbole: IDC expects mobile workers to number slightly more than 37 percent of the global workforce by the end of this year. Putting it another way, we’re talking about some 1.3 billion mobile workers.

That tectonic shift also underscores the changing landscape that CIOs are navigating, one in which increasingly mobile employees expect reliable and seamless access to their corporate networks, no matter what device they carry with them. This has major implications for the future of the cloud…

Grazed from Forbes. Author: Ben Kepes.

HP has had an incredibly tortured history in the cloud. One of the backers of the OpenStack open source cloud platform, HP has re-branded and relaunched its own cloud offering several times. The product, now called Helion, is widely regarded as being little more than shelfware – actual customer usage is low to non-existent.

Last year HP made a big bet by acquiring another open source vendor, Eucalyptus. This was a strange sort of a deal considering that Eucalyptus sold itself as being AWS-compatible. AWS is, after all, OpenStack’s natural nemesis. At the time the saving grace in the deal was that HP got the services of Eucalyptus’ former CEO Marten Mickos…

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Mike Vizard.

Looking to provide solution providers with a way to defray the costs associated with managing hybrid cloud computing environments, Egenera today unfurled a white-label cloud orchestration service for the channel. Based on management software that Egenera originally created to manage converged infrastructure, Egenera CEO Pete Manca said the Xterity cloud orchestration service is designed to enable solution providers across the channel to become provider of cloud management service without having to incur any capital costs.

While Egenera plans to continue to sell software for managing converged infrastructure on premise, Manca said that work that was initially done by one of the company’s partners in Ireland demonstrated how the company’s software could be applied to managing hybrid cloud computing environments…

Grazed from PRNewsWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), a not-for-profit organization which promotes the use of best practices for providing security assurance within cloud computing, today announced it will hold its third Hackathon at the RSA Conference 2015 in San Francisco, to continue to test the CSA Software Defined Perimeter Specification V.1. A top prize of $10,000 is available to the first participant to gain access to a password provided account.

The CSA’s Software Defined Perimeter (SDP) research project represents a breakthrough approach to security, and is a collaboration among more than 100 companies and U.S. government organizations. Companies such as Coca-Cola, Verizon Communications Inc., Mazda Motor Corp. and other members of the CSA are contributing to a new standard for perimeter security…