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Grazed from CloudComputingIntelligence.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Grazed from TechTarget.  Author: David Linthicum.

Grazed from Forbes. Author: Joe McKendrick.

These days, everyone wants a piece of the cloud. Technology mergers and acquisitions are on a tear for a blockbuster year, and cloud computing is responsible for much of this burst of activity.

That’s the word from EY, which finds clouds lurking behind many transactions in its latest review of M&A activity in the second quarter of this year (April to June). In total, $52.4 billion in deals were conducted across the globe, a 57% year-over-year increase. Cloud and smart mobility drove 42 percent of technology deal-making, EY estimates…

Grazed from CIO-Today. Author: Jennifer LeClaire.

VMWare is pressing deeper into cloud Relevant Products/Services technologies with its latest acquisition. The virtualization Relevant Products/Services and cloud infrastructure Relevant Products/Services company just bought a real-time Relevant Products/Services application delivery technology provider called CloudVolumes. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.

CloudVolumes’ technology makes it possible for enterprises to deliver native applications to virtualized environments on demand, which fills a gap in VMware’s portfolio of software solutions. CloudVolumes customers use the solutions for terminal servers, desktops, and servers, eliminating lock-ins of service providers and hypervisors…

Grazed from RicksCloud. Author: Rick Blaisdell.

In this post, I’ll discuss XaaS: what it is and why you might want to consider using it. First, what is XaaS? Is this just more marketing fluff? Why do we need to define yet another model to fully describe cloud services? I contest that XaaS is a legitimate term, and that it is useful to describe a new type of cloud services — those that make use of IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS all neatly delivered in one package.

Such packages are intended to fully displace the delivery of a commodity IT service. My favorite example of XaaS is desktop as a service, or DaaS. In a DaaS product, a service provider might assemble it with the following:

• Servers to run Virtual Desktop Infrastructure from a provider such as Terremark (IaaS)
• An office suite such as Microsoft Office365 (SaaS)
• Patching and maintenance services
• A physical endpoint such as a Chromebook or thin client device…

Grazed from FierceGovernmentIT. Author: Dibya Sarkar.

The National Science Foundation said it’s funding academic research to develop and experiment with innovative cloud computing architectures. NSF announced Aug. 20 two $10 million projects to create cloud testbeds – one called "Chameleon" and the other, "CloudLab," according to a press release.

Cloud computing, which essentially is the use of remote servers to store, manage and process data, has gained enormous popularity in recent years due to the greater capacity, scalability, flexibility and savings it provides. Organizations can tap into new applications and services, enhance collaboration and ensure service reliability, among other benefits…

Grazed from MSPMentor. Author: Editorial Staff.

A common objection encountered by MSPs who deliver IT security services that are hosted "in the cloud" is the perception that somehow these services are more risky than on-premise solutions. For example, in multiple Gartner surveys, security is cited as the No. 1 inhibitor to the adoption of cloud-based computing.

Many IT professionals have a preconceived notion that cloud computing will be less secure than what they can deliver themselves on premises. In a recent PerspecSys survey of 130 IT security professionals, 66 percent said they still view the cloud as more difficult to secure than on-premise options…

Grazed from Baseline. Author: Dennis McCafferty.

The majority of U.S. companies recognize that the cloud will play an essential role in innovation in the very near future. Yet, most enterprises don’t have a clear cloud migration plan in place, according to a recent survey conducted by Oxford Economics for Windstream. The accompanying survey report, titled "The Path to Value in the Cloud," reveals that organizations are falling short when it comes to getting the right performance and ROI metrics in place to measure cloud-enabling success.

There are also concerns about the cloud’s impact on security, costs, platform compatibility and privacy. However, overall sentiments remain upbeat, as the cloud is expected to help increase geographic market expansion, business transformation, collaboration and other strategy drivers…

Grazed from MarketWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Hospitals and healthcare systems in need of a cost-effective, HIPAA-compliant solution for long-term archiving of healthcare data now have an alternative to on-site redundant archiving. ClearDATA Networks, Inc. today announced its new cloud-based Archive as a Service solution. It is the first offering of its kind created specifically to meet requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) for archiving of healthcare data that does not need to be accessed immediately or regularly.

Healthcare organizations and medical research facilities create petabytes of confidential patient information, including patient records, lab results and images, each year. HIPAA can sometimes require a large amount of this information to be stored for up to seven years, even though it is rarely (if ever) accessed. These requirements can severely impact IT budgets as organizations pay an ever-growing price for equipment, power, cooling, floor space, backup and recovery capabilities and personnel to maintain it all. In addition, many medical research facilities still use tape to archive older data despite concerns about its reliability…

Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: Editorial Staff.

It is not easy running a startup, but it’s getting much easier due to the availability and low cost of Cloud computing and its related services. This will inevitably mean more competition, but with the growing interest in Big Data, IoT, Cloud Computing, Wearable Technology and Clean Technology, there will be a tremendous number of options to demonstrate innovation.

The bad news is that most of the startups don’t last past the first few years as seen in the infographic provide by SurePayroll.com. However, the good news is that VC’s are out in full-force spending boatloads on new products and services. This is very good news to startups which are innovative, stick through the tough times and make smart sound business decisions…

To view infographic and read more from the source, please visit http://cloudtweaks.com/2014/08/cloud-infographic-startup-soup-hot-cold/