Category: News

Grazed from CloudComputingIntelligence.  Author: Ian Finlay.

The business challenges of shadow IT have emerged from the darkness and are now firmly in the spotlight. With PwC estimating that shadow IT accounts for between 15 and 30% of IT spending outside of the IT enterprise budget, it not only presents a real blind spot for enterprises, but has a significant impact upon both the security and integrity of company information, and customer confidence.

IT departments no longer have control over all IT solutions implemented within the organisation. With many trying to lock down their infrastructures to prevent shadow IT the balance has been tipped too far. By bringing it out of the shadows and into plain sight, enterprise IT Directors will be able to regain control and ensure their entire infrastructure – wherever it is – is transparent and compliant…

Grazed from TopTechNews.  Author: Editorial Staff.

It’s official.  The Cloud Foundry Foundation has launched as an independent, nonprofit foundation to manage the global open standards for platform-as-a-service (PaaS) technology. The foundation will be managed as a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project and will be governed by a team of open source experts from founding Platinum Members EMC, HP, IBM,Intel, Pivotal, SAP, and VMware.

Cloud Foundry is currently the leading PaaS platform and has seen a 36 percent increase in community contributions over the past year, with more than 1,700 "pull requests" for contributions to the open development project. The Pivotal Cloud Foundry, IBM Bluemix, HP Helion, and Canopy Cloud Fabric are among the most notable deployments, thus far…

Read more from the source @ http://www.toptechnews.com/article/index.php?story_id=021000CJALVX

Grazed from ChicagoInno.  Author: Editorial Staff.

With private cloud hosting companies, enterprises receive the same agility and control that they would with a public cloud provider (like DigitalOcean or AWS), but with fixed economics and superior hands-on service. Because of this, ‘Hosted Private Cloud Solutions’ has been SingleHop’s fastest-growing and most popular product category in 2014.

To meet this demand, SingleHop – a Chicago-based provider of cloud computing and IT infrastructure – launched a brand new, state-of-the art $30 million data center today that features key capabilities designed specifically for hosting private clouds…

Grazed from TechCrunch.  Author: Frederic Lardinois.

Microsoft today announced that its Azure Government cloud computing service for federal, state, local and tribal U.S. governments is now generally available after more than a year of being in preview. This means the service is now open to all U.S. government customers. There are no more preview programs and the service is also now open for all workloads.

By default, Azure Government ensures that all data stays within the U.S. and within data centers and networks that are physically isolated from the rest of Microsoft’s cloud computing solution. It’s in compliance with FedRAMP, a mandatory government-wide program that prescribes a standardized way to carry out security assessments for cloud services…

Grazed from Bloomberg.  Author: Caroline Hyde and Marie Mawad.

Google Inc. predicts the best days are still ahead for cloud computing.  The pace at which customers are moving their data to the cloud is picking up, and the price of such services will drop at a slower pace in 2015 compared to this year, said Barak Regev, Google’s cloud chief for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

“The adoption curve is extremely accelerating and we’re seeing it coming from a variety of companies,” Regev said today at the Bloomberg Enterprise Technology Summit in London. Cloud is “bigger than any market out there if you think about the potential for adoption — even bigger than the advertising market.”…

Grazed from ITWeb.  Author:  Editorial Staff.

France-based computing solutions provider ViFiB has deployed a new resource allocation algorithm that reportedly reduces energy usage of cloud computing by 30%.  According to the company, thanks to this new algorithm, ViFiB net power usage effectiveness (PUE) reached a new low of 20%.

PUE is a measure of how efficiently a computer data centre uses energy; specifically, how much energy is used by the computing equipment, in contrast to cooling and other equipment. The PUE metric is widely believed to be the most popular method of calculating energy efficiency…

Grazed from GigaOM.  Author: Derrick Harris.

Altiscale, the Hadoop-as-a-service startup started by ex-Yahoo CTO Raymie Stata, has raised a $3o million series B round of venture capital led by Northgate, as well as previous investors Sequoia Capital and General Catalyst Partners. The company has raised a total of $42 million since it was founded in 2012.

Stata said the company, which essentially sells full-on managed Apache Hadoop (as well as Storm, Spark and other ecosystem technologies), now has a couple dozen customers running production Hadoop clusters that average about 100 terabytes. Altiscale’s platform became generally available in January 2014…

Grazed from Wired.  Author: Angel Luis Diaz.

The amount of change in the IT industry over the last few years has been incredible. A challenge for some, an opportunity for others, a whirlwind for many. One theme runs through all of the most impactful trends causing change: open technologies. 

The evolution of open cloud computing, or Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), has brought forth a wide range of new options to IT infrastructure deployment. The provisioning of compute, storage and related network technologies that used to take multiple weeks or more can now be accomplished in hours or even minutes — depending upon the level of sophistication of the request. Learn more about the market-leading IaaS ecosystem here...

Grazed from InfoWorld.  Author: David Linthicum.

By now we’ve all seen that Western Digital commercial for the "personal cloud," in the form of My Cloud. Western Digital is the latest company to push the concept, with compelling TV commercials, such as the one below.

The premise is not new. Other storage companies have brought similar products to market that let you set up your own storage cloud at home with access to files using your home network or over the Internet, even when you’re away. The feature is often part of higher-priced routers, too…

Grazed from Midsize Insider.  Author: Marissa Tejada.

Mobile cloud computing is reaching more people than ever. New research shows that more people are using mobile devices and that this growth is directly affecting the mobile app market as well as the need for top cloud computing solutions.

Growth Predicted

The mobile cloud market currently stands at $9.43 billion globally and is set for impressive growth. A Research and Markets report featured in Cloud Times predicts that the mobile cloud market will reach nearly $47 billion by 2019, which is a compound annual growth rate of 38 percent within the next five years. Meanwhile, mobile software and applications are set to gain market share thanks to cloud computing making new and innovative solutions possible…