Category: News

Grazed from SBS.  Author: Editorial Staff.

IBM has introduced its first cloud-based data-mining and analysis services that have arisen out of its new partnership with Twitter.  The US technology giant is offering to trawl through Tweets posted on the micro-blogging site, evaluate and analyse them for the benefit of its business clients.

A half a billion Tweets appear daily on Twitter and, with the help of intelligent analytical tools, trends can be identified and client requests fished out, IBM manager Alistair Rennie said at CeBIT, the world’s largest info technology fair in Hanover, Germany…

Grazed from MotleyFool.  Author: Anders Bylund.

Hillary Clinton has certainly been newsworthy recently. Stretching from the late 1990s and all the way through her stints as U.S. Senator and Secretary of State, ending in 2013, Clinton shunned government-run email services in favor of a system running in the home she shared with former president Bill Clinton. Critics argue this practice violated government policies, not to mention allowing her (and Bill) to avoid public disclosure of her service-related communications.

The official policy that ties federal officials to government-run email systems wasn’t the law of the land until 2014, nearly two years after Clinton stepped out of the political life again. Nevertheless, she’s still in the national spotlight over this old-yet-fresh scandal…

Grazed from ChannelPro.  Author:  Editorial Staff.

Grazed from ComputerTechReview.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Dell announced this week virtual workstation appliance to support the growing use of graphics-intensive, workstation-class workloads with dedicated GPU pass-through and shared NVIDIA GRID vGPU options in a number of work settings.

The Dell Precision Appliance for Wyse helps a variety of organizations – from media and entertainment to engineering firms to the exploration and energy industries – reap the benefits of workstation-class computing with improved IT efficiency, better data security and improved user workflows, while delivering on performance…

Grazed from Business2Community. Author: Ted Navarro.

One of the most significant factors influencing cloud adoption is the promise of enhanced availability. Because it’s so much less complex and expensive to create redundant infrastructure architectures, the cloud makes building reliable and highly available networks economically viable. The key word here is “building”. Clients have to build redundant infrastructure — it doesn’t come as a given simply because infrastructure is deployed on the cloud.

It’s true that at the data center level, cloud platforms may have some built-in redundancy for compute, and especially for storage, but at levels higher than the data center, clients have to actively think about and deploy redundant systems if they’re obtain acceptable levels of consistent availability…

Grazed from Huffington Post. Author: Jeff Fernandez.

The rise of cloud computing is arguably the most consequential tech development of the past decade. Businesses now find it cheaper and easier than ever to access scalable, agile processing power and storage, and end users enjoy unprecedented platform flexibility. Software is more responsive, more social, and crucially, more portable than ever.

Meanwhile, developers are gaining new access to high-performance processing just as the diversity of digital consumer devices is about to explode. CES 2015 saw the debut of smart objects that we’ve never seen connected before, including "rings, pendants, jackets, handbags and so on." All of these devices that are part of the so-called Internet of Things, as well as devices like smartphones and tablets, will run cloud-based applications…

Grazed from BusinessWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

Windstream, a leading provider of advanced network and cloud communications, announced today that TMC, a global, integrated media company helping clients build communities in print, in person and online, has named Windstream’s Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) as a 2015 Unified Communications Product of the Year Award winner.

Windstream’s Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) is a robust, enterprise-class, UC solution that integrates voice, multi-media, unified messaging, presence management, mobility and other services onto a single platform in the cloud. Hosted in Windstream Hosted Solutions’ secure, protected and environmentally controlled data centers, this UC solution seamlessly integrates with Windstream’s state-of-the-art, fully redundant private IP network to ensure the highest quality of service, providing optimized performance and scalability to adjust bandwidth speeds, as business needs change. Windstream has forged partnerships with a number of market leaders, including Avaya and Mitel, for even more customizable options…

Grazed from SmartDataCollective. Author: Jared Jaureguy.

There’s little question that cloud computing can provide you with innovative and helpful new applications designed to increase your company’s capabilities and productivity. Many businesses end up using multiple services to reach the potential that the cloud promises. Problems crop up, however, when managing so many different services and applications becomes too complicated. In order to prepare for these multi-cloud challenges, it’s important to lay out a groundwork and vision for what you want the cloud to do for your business.

Easing into the cloud is also highly advised. This can be done by integrating the cloud services you want with those solutions already being used by your data center. Planning out these moves ahead of time will make the transition into a multi-cloud environment that much smoother…

Grazed from MakeUseOf. Author: Rick Delgado.

In the era of mobile technology, the cloud has almost become a necessity. But another option exists that is growing in its own popularity. Virtual private networks (VPNs) represent a different way in which you can access your data in a secure environment. Despite major differences between VPNs and cloud computing, the two are confused with each other far too often.

It’s important to mark the distinct differences between both choices so you can better understand which one is the right one for you. The idea behind a VPN is very simple: it’s a “proxy” network built to serve as a secure access point for a server or website. It connects to public networks (like the Internet) and essentially provides a secure two-way interface between the information being accessed and the user…

Grazed from FierceGovernmentIT. Author: Molly Bernhart Walker.

The Defense Department is pushing ahead with a plan that would permit commercial cloud computing providers operating in DoD facilities to serve non-federal government clients. So far, the department allows at least one commercial cloud provider to operate in Defense-owned and operated facility.

But the latest idea – described as a "commercial cloud distribution center" by DoD Chief Information Officer Terry Halvorsen – would take the operation a step further by allowing the data of clients like financial institutions on commercial clouds at DoD facilities. DoD has received several "very attractive" proposals, said Halvorsen during a March 18 press briefing, and the department will soon "walk through a war game of those proposals."…

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