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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…

Grazed from HostReview. Author: Tim Maliyil.

Small business owners and startup founders generally pride themselves on being up-to-date on the latest tech trends. However, many are still unwilling to embrace cloud technology for basic business functions such as email and file storage. They often write cloud computing off as too complicated or not secure, but that simply isn’t the case. I’d like to debunk a few of the myths surrounding cloud-based computing so more businesses feel comfortable leveraging the power of the cloud.

What Is the Cloud?

First, let’s talk about what cloud computing is. Storing things in “the cloud” is a nebulous concept, but really, cloud-based operations encompass any computing application that is completely Internet-based. If you’ve ever used Gmail, for instance, you’ve taken advantage of the cloud…

Grazed from BusinessCloud. Author: Editorial Staff.

Microsoft is “in the midst of a comprehensive engineering effort” to strengthen encryption across its portfolio of cloud services, and increase transparency for customers and governments by allowing more access to the code at the foundation of its services, the company said. According to Matt Thomlinson, vice president of trustworthy computing security at Microsoft the company has successfully taken large strides towards making its services more secure.

Microsoft has added Transport Layer Security (TLS) encryption to inbound and outbound emails sent through Outlook.com, and Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS) encryption support for sending and receiving mail between email providers, and for the company’s cloud storage service OneDrive…

Grazed from CloudWedge. Author: Editorial Staff.

Cloud analysts are buzzing about the possibility of Oracle buying up smaller ventures in efforts to extend its own cloud computing endeavours. Reports indicate that Oracle intends to sell $10 billion in bonds which will raise cash for what many analysts are dubbing a cloud startup shopping spree. The database giant has not been shy about acquiring smaller outfits. It seems as if this strategy seems to benefit Oracle’s cloud ambitions.

As the world of cloud services begin to mature, Oracle must fill up its portfolio with cloud companies that give Oracle a presence in emerging cloud verticals. How does Oracle plan on utilizing this 10 billion dollar infusion? That’s still up for debate but when you look at what Oracle currently has in its cloud portfolio; it is easy to see what Oracle is missing…

Grazed from DZone. Author: Benjamin Ball.

It was recently mentioned this week on OpenStack’s blog that OpenStack, the free and much-loved open source cloud computing platform, will turn 4 years old on July 19th, and they’re declaring it a cause for celebration. OpenStack celebrates its 4th birthday July 19, and we’re celebrating with the entire OpenStack community during July! User maturity, software maturity and a focus on cloud software operations are rapidly emerging for OpenStack and none of it would be possible without the quickly growing OpenStack community. There are now more than 70 global user groups and 17,000 community members across 139 countries, spanning more than 370 organizations. This calls for a big toast to the OpenStack community members and our users.

At DZone, we’ve always been big supporters of OpenStack and that companies that bring it to its full potential–so we’re going to be talking about OpenStack quite a bit up until their big day. And we hope that DZone readers will be talking about the cloud platform as well. To sort of kick things off in our look at OpenStack, I’ve collected the top four articles about OpenStack published on DZone in the last four years–during the OpenStack lifespan. This is just the tip of the iceberg!…

Grazed from Information-Age. Author: Chloe Green.

Cloud computing has achieved mainstream deployment in the UK according to the latest research from the Cloud Industry Forum (CIF), with some 78% of organisations formally adopting at least one cloud-based service. The research, conducted in June 2014, polling 250 senior IT and business decision-makers, indicated a nine-point increase or 15% growth over the last research project conducted in September 2013.

This suggests an annualised growth rate of nearer 20% by the end of September 2014. Since the first research was conducted in 2010, UK Cloud adoption has grown by 61.5%. Large private enterprises are showing the highest rates of adoption at just over 80% whilst the sub 200 employee organisations are standing at around 75% and the public sector is still lagging at around 68%…

Grazed from 10Zig. Author: Editorial Staff.

While they are often used as interchangeable concepts by non-IT staff, the concepts of cloud computing are related but quite different. They share the common characteristic of making computing more affordable and flexible. However, these two elements of modern IT infrastructure serve different purposes.

The Internet by Another Name

In the simplest definition of the term, the cloud is nothing more than the Internet, dealing with resources allocated to computing functions. However, use of the concept generally refers to the broader definition, which includes cloud-configured data centers and the related networking infrastructure. As the IT world has moved to use of cloud computing, huge data centers have come into use, dedicated to providing massive capabilities in the areas:…