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Grazed from Stuff.co.nz. Author: Editorial Staff

Your business may use various IT infrastructures to store, access and manage data and IT resources – perhaps a primary common server in combination with some web-based services and cloud-based storage. You may not be aware, however, that a new generation of cloud-based platforms can integrate these services.

According to the IBM Centre for Applied Insights, it’s estimated that around 61 per cent of businesses will be using a ‘hybrid cloud’ environment to facilitate their data needs by the end of 2014. Essentially, a hybrid cloud combines internal and external cloud solutions with your traditional environment, giving your business the flexibility to move quickly, while also making full use of the IT resources you already have…

Grazed from FinancialBuzz. Author: Editorial Staff.

Amazon is gearing up to take on business technology solution providers like Oracle (NYSE: ORCL). At its recent conference, it announced a database designed to take Oracle head on. The move is a step towards offering more sophisticated solutions, not just basic computing. This would include software to manage user behavior and compliance solutions for clients in regulatory driven sectors.

Lofty goals

Amazon is already a dominant player in the global cloud infrastructure space. According to a report by Synergy Research Group, Amazon currently holds a significant 27 percent market share. However, recent pricing wars and fierce competition have put pressure on Amazon’s revenues. With growth stalling in recent quarters, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for opportunities. Specifically, how to deliver database and software-like solutions via the internet. The idea is to get clients to trade in their servers, software and networking equipment for a cleaner cloud based solution…

Grazed from BusinessCloudNews. Author: Editorial Staff.

Research published this week by outsourcing and system integration specialist Infosys suggests four in five large enterprises plan to move mission-critical applications and workloads into the cloud over the next two years. Vishnu Bhat, the company’s senior vice president & global head, cloud & infrastructure services told BCN enterprises need to develop a consolidated approach to cloud service procurement and management if they are to overcome key inhibitors to adoption.

The research published this week suggests cloud has reached a tipping point in the enterprise. A survey of over 300 internationally-based senior IT decision makers administered by Forrester and Infosys suggests 81 per cent of large organisations plan to move mission critical apps over to the cloud in the next two years…

Read more from the source @ http://www.businesscloudnews.com/2014/11/17/enterprises-need-consolidated-approach-to-cloud/

Grazed from MarketWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Taking its leadership in cloud-based High-Performance Computing (HPC) applications even higher, Nimbix today introduced the extension of JARVICE to support hybrid cloud implementations. The new solution extends on-demand big data and HPC applications to hybrid cloud deployments, allowing organizations to comply with data security and location requirements

JARVICE is a supercomputing architecture adcommodity web services platform not adept to running true HPC workloads. The architecture’s new hybrid cloud extension is specifically designed for organizations that need more control over their physical big data and HPC application platforms, without compromising performance or ease-of-use. Unlike other cloud infrastructure solutions, JARVICE is purpose-built for high-performance computing applications…

Grazed from GlobalNewsWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

Applied Micro Circuits Corporation, today announced collaboration with Red Hat® andCirrascale® to deliver a high performance computing (HPC) cluster based on the world’s first ARM® 64-bit X-Gene^TM Server on a Chip^TM to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory®. This cluster will be tested and evaluated as a platform for HPC and Big Data technologies.

The X-Gene-based cluster delivered to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory comes in Cirrascale RM1905D chassis and is based on a software platform developed as a part of the Red Hat ARM Partner Early Access Program…

Grazed from Inquirer. Author: Carly Page.

That’s the opinion of 83 percent of our readers, who voiced their distrust in cloud services during last week’s INQUIRER debate. During the debate, Dr Lee Gillan, senior lecturer at the Department of Computing at the University of Surrey, argued for the statement that ‘the cloud is fundamentally secure’, while technology commentator Chris Merriman argued against it.

At the debate’s close on Friday, it appears that the majority of INQUIRER readers agreed with Chris. A landslide 83 percent voted that the cloud is not fundamentally secure and were keen to say why. One reader said: "I’m sorry but there’s no way on earth the cloud is more secure than traditional IT systems…

Grazed from EETimes.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Fujitsu has unleashed its "Human-Centric IoT" platform geared to ease the creation with customers of valuable and innovative businesses which, based on an understanding of customers and consumer needs, make use of all kinds of digital information. Aimed at fostering new business and social innovation, the company came up with the Human-Centric IoT by building a global ecosystem with business partners.

The IoT platform, which enables access to an easy-to-use cloud-based application development environment, is a comprehensive systems environment which, for IoT models whose feasibility has been validated, can bring together a variety of products from Fujitsu, including sensors and devices, networks, middleware and applications. The company also stated that the use of these resources makes it easy and inexpensive for customers to quickly create innovative business models…

Grazed from SysConMedia.  Author: Jason Bloomberg.

Amazon Web Services (AWS), the Amazon.com cloud computing juggernaut, wrapped up its annual reInvent conference in Las Vegas last week. Host to many thousands of AWS devotees, hundreds of exhibiting partners, and dozens of press and analysts – but not myself. You see, I wasn’t invited.

Not for want of trying, mind you. It didn’t matter that I had attended last year as an analyst, or that I write about them regularly, or even that my opinion of them has generally been quite favorable. You’d think that with my new role as contributor to Forbes on the topic of digital transformation, I’d be a shoe-in for one of the coveted press/analyst passes. Didn’t happen…

Grazed from GigaOM.  Author: Barb Darrow.

Last week there was so much going on at AWS Re:invent, I missed a lot – even some eyebrow-raising stuff. Like for instance, that OpenStack-oriented Rackspace will now support and sell Microsoft Azure services. Second, Microsoft-oriented Apprenda private PaaS will now run on Amazon Web Services.

First Rackspace. It joined the Microsoft Cloud OS Network meaning it will run Windows Server, Hyper-V, System Center and Azure Pack in its U.S. data centers. That means it will provide service and support to its customers for all that infrastructure as well as Microsoft applications like Exchange, SharePoint and Lync running on that stack…

Grazed from NSEWT.com.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Google has helped launch an ambitious project combining cloud computing, big data and satellite networks to monitor global fishing activity with an eye to curb overfishing. Global Fishing Watch, formed with environmental groups Skytruth and Oceana, is described as the first global view of commercial fishing based on satellite data analysis.

It’s intended to "give citizens a simple, online platform to visualize, track and share information about fishing activity worldwide," according to a release from Oceana. A prototype of the system was shown off Friday at the 2014 International Union for Conservation of Nature World Parks Congress in Sydney, Australia, where Google is hosting a mapping workshop. A public release version of the project is still in development…