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Grazed from Fool. Author: Mukesh Baghel.

Cloud computing has opened up big opportunities for several players, and Workday’s first-quarter results indicate that it is making the most of it. Driven by strong demand for applications such as Workday Recruiting and Workday Financial Management, the company’s revenue has increased at a fast pace. Workday’s Human Capital Management (HCM) solutions have been selected by companies such as Hewlett-Packard, and this can act as a catalyst going forward.

Workday is aggressively investing in its products to land more clients in the face of competition from established players like Oracle. Even though the company posted a 74% year-over-year jump in revenue in the first quarter, its net loss widened due to investments in product development, marketing, and sales. However, the company’s outlook for the second quarter was better than expected, indicating the strong adoption of its solutions…

Grazed from TheRegister. Author: Jack Clark.

Amazon looks set to open a data center in Germany, allowing European developers to access Bezos & Co’s rentable computer tech with lower latencies. Evidence first gathered by a manager at a Berlin-based startup and subsequently verified by El Reg indicates that Amazon’s next cloud computing data center may be in Frankfurt, Germany. The cloud giant’s other European facility is in Ireland.

The new center will give customers in central and Eastern Europe a more responsive lower-latency option when renting AWS resources, and could assuage some concerns among German companies about who exactly can tap up their data. Germany has some of the strictest information privacy legislation in Europe and its citizens, partly due to the troubled history of the country, have a healthy skepticism for anything that looks remotely like mass data gathering. And, following the revelations by NSA leaker Edward Snowden, these concerns have only grown…

Grazed from Linux.com. Author: Libby Clark.

Cisco earlier this year unveiled its plans to build smarter routers and switches to help manage the massive flows of data expected between Internet-connected devices and the data center. This re-architecting of the Internet to bring computing capabilities to the edge of the network is what the company calls “fog computing” and it could help alleviate the data center strain that Gartner analysts predict will come from 26 billion installed units in the Internet of Things by 2020.

“Tens of billions of ever-smarter edge devices create data (we call it big data now) that it is impossible to move fast enough through the network,” said Michael Enescu, CTO of Open Source Initiatives at Cisco. “We have to deal with this, otherwise it will present huge scale and security issues in the core.”…

Grazed from FierceEnterpriseCommunications. Author: Scott M. Fulton.

No revolution happens fast enough for the spectators. At the dawn of a technology revolution, its practitioners trumpet its existence by telling you that [insert catalyst here] is changing your world in a very short span of time. Stage two of the PR campaign shifts into shame mode by telling you how long it’s been since the revolution began–months and months now–and why haven’t you and your business gotten on board already? You can tell when a revolution is settling down into a normal evolutionary pattern when the survivors begin crawling out of the trenches to tell you the whole revolution thing was a sham to begin with.

The Move to the Cloud, announced The New York Times (by way of Boston.com, which you can read without running into the NYT’s firewall), has struck some ruts in the road and stalled. Here’s the story so far, in summary: 1) The Open Data Center Alliance published a survey (.PDF) of some 118 of its own members, where only eight percent of those members (maybe nine organizations total) said more than 50 percent of their infrastructure is in public clouds…

Grazed from ChicagoTribune. Author: James Janega.

From his seat near the intersection of big data and the Internet of Things, TempoIQ CEO Andrew Cronk sees a landscape beyond ubiquitous sensors and data collection. He and his co-founders are gambling their company on the notion that they can bring insight to all that data from sensors on factory tools, airplanes, smart grids and fitness devices.

Their field of expertise is developing rapidly around the issue of what to do with the oceans of data surging forth from smart devices. Cronk’s company recently changed its name from TempoDB — a service envisioned as a database collecting all of a company’s time-stamped data packets in one place — to TempoIQ, which will provide insights on that data…

Grazed from MarketWire. Author: PR Annoucement.

Veracode, the application security company, today announced that it has been positioned in the "Leaders" quadrant of Gartner, Inc.’s 2014’s "Application Security Testing Magic Quadrant". The quadrant is based on an assessment of a company’s ability to execute and completeness of vision, and the 2014 Magic Quadrant marks the third consecutive report in which Veracode is recognized as a "Leader."

Veracode’s cloud-based service safeguards web, mobile and third-party applications for hundreds of organizations worldwide, including three of the top four banks in the Fortune 100 and more than 25 of the world’s top 100 brands. The company is widely viewed as having unique expertise in the domain of application security as well as a pioneer in binary static analysis and assessing the security of the software supply chain…

Grazed from SocalTech. Author: Benjamin F. Kuo.

While Internet and startup companies have widely adopted the cloud for both their computing and storage needs, enterprise companies are only now starting to widely adopt cloud services. However, there’s a number of startups–including Irvine’s Zadara Storage (www.zadara.com)–which are making easier and easier for enterprises and other businesses to adopt the cloud. We caught up with Nelson Nahum, a longtime storage industry veteran and CEO of the company, to learn where Zadara fits and how it’s helping to move enterprise customers to the cloud.

Explain what Zadara’s products are about?

Nelson Nahum: What we do, is enterprise storage as a service. Basically, what that means is we create software that runs on servers, which forms a cloud storage service. The unique capability of that cloud, is of course, to be a cloud storage solution. You can create a SAN or NAS array on the fly, and have the same capabilities of a traditional SAN or NAS array with dedicated drives and a dual controller, but with cloud economics…

Grazed from DataCenterKnowledge. Author: John Purcell.

IT departments that are waiting to make necessary changes in device and application management are sitting on a ticking time bomb. As an industry, we learned a while ago about what it means to have employees bring their own devices into the office, and many IT professionals played catch up to accommodate the various support – and more important, security – requirements that presented themselves as a result. BYOD is here to stay, and the Bring Your Own Applications (BYOA) trend has quickly joined the fray. While not new, there are many IT departments that have yet to address how they will manage these apps.

The time is now

The shift from enterprise-grade software to simply, “there’s an app for that,” began a while ago. This is driving the rise of BYOA in the workplace. The security that IT used to rely on is crumbling. The IT department has a big stake in the solution, whether or not leadership and employees acknowledge it…

Read more from the source @ http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2014/07/07/time-take-control-byoa/

Grazed from Cloud Computing Technologies. Author: Editorial Staff.

The Transformational Capability of Cloud Computing provides business leaders with new revenue streams, faster time to market, and innovative approaches to resolve business problems. Cloud Computing removes the traditional boundaries of Information Technology and is the perfect platform for revolutionary business approaches to new create and deliver value to stakeholders.

To harness the transformational capabilities of cloud computing, companies develop new business models that take advantage of cloud computing and the Internet. An effective cloud based business model requires a customer group with a need to be served, a viable service offering at an acceptable price, and service delivery mechanism. Cloud computing technologies may facilitate any portion or all aspects of the cloud based business model. The transformation capability of cloud computing can be unlimited when a new business approach to a problem leverages the on-demand, scalable, rapid-to-market, broad reaching, flexible, and functional characteristics of digital delivery…

Grazed from Business-Standard. Author: Itika Sharma Punit.

Even as many still regard it as a ‘new technology’, experts and senior industry leaders are of the view that Cloud is increasingly becoming a game-changer for Indian information technology (IT) services companies. According to leaders in the sector, as much as 20-25 per cent of the large outsourcing deals now include ‘flavours of cloud’.

Clients across industries have started to see benefits from adoption of Cloud and are more ready now than before to invest heavily into this technology. Thus, IT services providers with higher Cloud capabilities stand to benefit higher going forward, experts said. Cloud computing, in simple terms, refers to storing and accessing data and programs over virtual infrastructure through a network (which is typically the internet), instead of physical infrastructure such as servers and hard drives…