Category: News

Grazed from Barrons. Author: Tierman Ray.

Amazon.com (AMZN), hosting its “AWS Summit” in San Francisco for its Amazon Web Services, today, announced a number of new initiatives, including a “Marketplace” in which to buy desktop applications delivered over the Internet, a new set of tools for managing files, the “Elastic File System,” and a new service for helping companies make predictions.

The company also made a pitch that more and more companies are moving all their computing to AWS, and talked up companies that are doing so, such as publisher Time Inc. Amazon shares rose 47 cents to $381.67 following the presentation. The EFS is the “missing piece” in Amazon’s cloud computing initiative, said Andy Jassy, senior VP for AWS. He billed it as a “file system that grows and shrinks, automatically.”…

Grazed from CloudTech. Author: James Bourne.

Cloud service providers (CSPs) can no longer treat security as a luxurious add-on, and customers have to ensure their providers take care of the issue, a new report asserts. The research, the latest cab off the rank from Ovum and FireHost entitled “The Role of Security in Cloud Adoption within the Enterprise”, offers sound advice to vendors and users alike. True, it’s stuff everyone will have heard before – but it’s worth repeating.

“On too many occasions, security has been positioned as an afterthought when new technology initiatives have been brought to market,” Ovum analyst Andrew Kellett writes. “Any service that includes access via public networks cannot ignore user and data protection requirements.”…

Grazed from BusinessWire. Author: Editorial Staff.

A new report from ABI Research estimates that the volume of data captured by IoT-connected devices exceeded 200 exabytes in 2014. The annual total is forecast to grow seven-fold by the decade’s end, surpassing 1,600 exabytes—or 1.6 zettabytes—in 2020. Principal Analyst Aapo Markkanen says, “The data originating from connected products and processes follows a certain journey of magnitudes.

The yearly volumes that are generated within endpoints are counted in yottabytes, but only a tiny fraction of this vast data mass is actually being captured for storage or further analysis. And of the captured volume, on average over 90% is stored or processed locally without a cloud element, even though this ratio can vary greatly by application segment. So far, the locally dealt data has typically been largely inaccessible for analytics, but that is now starting to change.”…

Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: Editorial Staff.

Since cloud computing hit the commercial market, cloud service providers have exploded in popularity, with a huge variety of different services each tailored to its own unique variety of client. For clients, though, this presents a challenge: how to find the right provider? Out of all the numerous options, which one is best for your business?

Of course, in order to answer that question, you first need to know what needs a cloud provider will serve. In other words, what is your unique set of priorities in making the selection? For most people, the primary benefit of cloud computing is that it reduces costs, and so price will be a prime consideration in choosing a service provider…

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…