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Grazed from CNNMoney. Author: PR Announcement.

Fusion, a leading cloud services provider, announced today that it has completed a series of technology, network and infrastructure upgrades and expansion projects. The key improvements, planned and executed through the end of last year, reflect the Company’s 2014 focus on building the systems, staff and resources required to scale in anticipation of the Company’s organic growth and acquisition strategy for 2015 and beyond.

In support of its extensive network and infrastructure expansion roadmap, and to ensure that Fusion is securely poised to assert a leadership position as a single source for the Cloud, Fusion has hired a new Chief Technology Officer to lead the Company’s technology and development effort. Tom Durkin, an industry leader in developing and implementing proven cloud technologies, has joined Fusion to advance its cloud strategies…

Grazed from GulfNews. Author: Editorial Staff.

Oracle, like other technology peers, is betting big on cloud computing as it transits from a hardware supplier and developer to a complete cloud solutions provider. Even though cloud offerings posted a robust growth of 140 per cent in the second quarter, Oracle’s dominance in the database market is not exactly leading to its dominance in the cloud space as it still accounts for around five per cent of overall revenues.

“Our strategy in cloud is working and we are going to invest more. We had a tremendous growth in cloud offerings in the Middle East. We have added 300 new and expansion software as a service [SaaS] cloud customers in the first quarter and second quarter,” said Oracle CEO Mark Hurd, who was in Dubai on Tuesday…

Grazed from HostReview. Author: Editorial Staff.

MilesWeb proudly announced the launch of cloud hosting services powered by OnApp for supporting diverse IT projects and for maximizing the potential of cloud computing. This is a major milestone for MilesWeb after the launch of virtual data center platform. The cloud hosting servers offered by MilesWeb are fully equipped for meeting the requirements of large and extensive software developments and business production requirements.

MilesWeb has employed leading and unbeatable cloud server technology available in the market for providing the customers with a profound cloud solution. All the cloud servers are crafted to ensure supreme performance with minimum cost of computing along with the resilience for accommodating the growing technology needs…

Grazed from ITBusinessEdge. Author: Arthur Cole.

Following up on my previous post regarding hyperscale infrastructure, I feel I should point out that once the decision to go hyperscale has been made, it will most likely take place in a Greenfield hardware environment. Unless you are already working with a state-of-the-art data facility, any attempt to convert complex, multiformat legacy environments will almost certainly lead to a morass of integration issues.

The key benefit to hyperscale is that it is both large and flexible, allowing data executives to craft multiple disparate data architectures completely in software. This is why current hyperscale plants at Google and Facebook rely on bulk commodity hardware. But as I mentioned last fall, the average enterprise does not have the clout to purchase tens of thousands of stripped down servers and switches at a time, and besides, all those components still need to be deployed, provisioned and integrated into the cluster, which takes time, effort and of course, money…

Grazed from Smart Company. Author: Editorial Staff.

Often ‘The Cloud’ is spoken about with little context on what it offers that established systems don’t. It is easy to dismiss cloud or online services as nothing more than just buzz. After all, if it isn’t broke, why fix it? The reality is that computer systems are changing, along with the way we engage with them. Today’s workers are mobile and regularly work outside of traditional business hours. Cloud computing makes it easy for us to adapt to our new behaviours and enable us to be more efficient than we ever could with traditional software packages.

The freedom to let you work wherever, whenever

Our jobs and the way we engage with the workplace have drastically changed over the past decade. Today, many of us are using smartphones and tablets to handle day-to-day work tasks away from our office desks. With so many people working from multiple locations at different times, it is integral that users are able to access the software they need to get the job done…

However, there is far more to the story that many marketed financial indicators might suggest. Register for this Webinar and you will be exposed to the fundamental financial facts that surround flash storage and learn how modern storage systems help IT focus more on the business than ever before.

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Grazed from SysConMedia. Author: Pat Rominski.

CommVault has launched Simpana for Endpoint Data Protection, a new solution set designed to help protect and enable the mobile workforce by efficiently backing-up laptops, desktops and mobile devices and providing secure access and self-service capabilities.  With today’s mobile workforce increasing their reliance on information saved on local endpoints and outside IT’s traditional domain, the need to protect sensitive data residing on desktops, laptops, and mobile devices has become more critical than ever before.

As global data breaches reach an average cost of $3.5 million in US dollars according to a study by the Ponemon Institute due to lost or unrecoverable data on employee devices, including desktops, laptops, and mobile devices, organizations are beginning to embrace centrally managed platforms that can be used to simultaneously address data protection, collaboration, regulatory, and eDiscovery requirements in a secure manner…

Grazed from WSJ. Author: Shira Ovide.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella spent his first year on the job making the company less dependent on Windows. This week, when Mr. Nadella is scheduled to show off the next version of Microsoft’s most famous product, will reaffirm the operating system’s key role in his company’s fate.

At a day-long press session Wednesday, Mr. Nadella and other Microsoft officials are expected to give the most detailed glimpse so far of Windows 10, slated to launch later this year. Microsoft also will explain how Windows will work more seamlessly with upgrades to the popular Office productivity software bundle and the Xbox videogame system, and it may offer views of a voice-activated digital assistant and a new mobile Web browser…

Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Dan Kusnetzsky.

The folks from DivvyCloud, Brian Johnson, CEO, and Peter Scott, CSO/CMO, came by to introduce the company and talk a bit about what they’re doing for their clients. After learning about the good, the bad and the ugly of using cloud computing as a platform while at Electronic Arts it became clear to them that managing in-house and off-premise platforms was a complex process. So, they decided to get together a team to make cloud use and administration easy.

DivvyCloud Management Platform

The company’s primary offering is a Cloud Management Platform (CMP) designed to gather cloud infrastructure and the needed cloud application lifecycle management data together and make it easy for developers to use DivvyCloud’s dashboard or write their own applications or use their on business intelligence tools for each cloud service they’ve chosen to use…

Grazed from CloudTech. Author: James Bourne.

The majority of Microsoft’s service errors in the first quarter of 2014 were advisory, while there were significantly more service interruptions in the following three quarters, according to analysis carried out by CloudEndure. The figures, taken from Azure’s Service Health Dashboard across last year, saw three full service interruptions in Q1, a whopping 28 in Q2, 16 in Q3 and zero in the final quarter.

The highest number of errors came in Q1 (259), yet also produced the lowest number of partial service interruptions (88), compared to 134, 129 and 127 for the other three quarters. The analysis came about after Azure suffered two debilitating outages last year; one in August, and one in November, which was caused by storage blob front ends going into an infinite loop – a process which went undetected during testing…

Read more from the source @ http://www.cloudcomputing-news.net/news/2015/jan/19/disaster-recovery-experts-dig-down-azure-cloud-outages-over-past-12-months/