Category: News

Grazed from ReadWrite. Author: Jodi Mardesich.

The great cloud computing war of 2014 is in full pitch. Cloud storage providers continue to jockey for the chance to store all your digital data, they’re giving away more for free and dropping the prices for their paid add-ons. Microsoft wants to remind everybody that it has significant stake in the game. Today, Microsoft announced that it is now offering 15 GB (up from 7 GB) of storage on its personal cloud storage service OneDrive for free.\

If you use Office365, Microsoft ups the ante to one terabyte. Microsoft also decreased paid storage options by up to 80%. “If you use Office, you don’t need to buy storage from anyone else,” said Angus Logan, director of marketing for OneDrive at Microsoft. “We give you more than enough to do what you need to do.”…

Grazed from PRWeb. Author: PR Announcement.

Bright Pattern, the only provider of next generation cloud contact center solutions, has been named a most promising cloud computing company by CIO Review magazine. The company has been recognized for its innovative ServicePattern platform, a unified cloud contact center solution that natively supports voice, web chat, social media and rich contact experience options for mobile customers that enhance customer satisfaction in today’s connected world.

ServicePattern provides customers and partners with the flexibility to deploy how they want, where they want, (SaaS, private cloud, hybrid) and build and differentiate their offering by essentially custom ‘skinning’ the core contact center functionality with add-on applications…

Grazed from TheVaryGuy. Author: Chris Talbot.

OpenStack seems to have found its niche in the cloud computing market. An ever-increasing number of major vendors and cloud providers are turning to OpenStack to build out their own offerings and provide cloud infrastructure for customers. But, according to one analyst, OpenStack has its limitations, and it will stay within the private cloud world.

Battery Ventures technical fellow Adrian Cockcroft’s analysis on OpenStack was recently reported on at GigaOM. And Cockcroft, a former cloud expert who was most recently working at Netflix before moving to Battery Ventures, noted that OpenStack is really catching on in the private cloud. For those who have joined the growing open source cloud movement, this is great, as Cockcroft noted that the brand will dominate in the private cloud world…

Grazed from NetworkComputing. Author: Andrew Froehlich.

I’m about as pro-capitalism as one gets. Nevertheless, I believe there are instances when the US government must step in and impose regulation on industries with near monopolies. Our Internet carriers are one example of a near monopoly. That’s why I’m very much in favor of net neutrality to protect customers from being shaken down by a handful of carriers.

However, the FCC is wavering in its commitment to support a full-blown net neutrality policy by considering a proposal to allow ISPs to sell tiered services to businesses like Google and Netflix for preferential treatment of their Internet content on backhaul links. The plan, though sounding capitalistic in nature, would create artificial barriers to entry and could slow cloud growth…

Grazed from TheVarGuy. Author: Christopher Tozzi.

OpenStack vendor Mirantis is expanding its training and certification programs for open source cloud computing. Building on earlier offerings, the company has launched a new, upper-level certification for professional cloud administrators. The new offering, called MCA200 Professional Certification, is designed for IT professionals seeking validation of their skills in building, configuring and managing an OpenStack cloud environment.

It verifies a set of skills at a level higher than Mirantis’s MCA100 "Associate Level" certification, which the company introduced in 2013, and of which more than 200 organizations were reportedly taking advantage just a few months later. Completing Mirantis’s OpenStack Bootcamp, an in-the-flesh OpenStack training course, is currently a prerequisite for taking the certification test…

Grazed from BusinessCloudNews. Author: David Bannister.

Combining development and operational deployment of software into a more integrated cycle can greatly improve time to market and improve efficiencies, delegates at the annual SifmaTech trading systems conference and exhibition in New York were told. Kristof Kloeckner, general manager of IBM Rational Software told the conference that a new approach to software development, dubbed DevOps, “goes way beyond just using the technology – it’s about reshaping the business so that it almost becomes ‘business as a service’”.

Kloeckner said that the flexibility of cloud computing is enabling the next generation of Service Oriented Architecture to allow the creation of “composable businesses that create an end-to-end services from the assembly of multiple processes”. The approach involves blending the test and deployment phases of software development and applying both Agile and LEAN development techniques to “create a continuous feedback loop that is critical for business success”…

Grazed from Esds. Author: Editorial Staff.

A new technology in terms of hosting is gaining prominence in the market of hosting websites is the Cloud Computing. This type of web hosting is provided by various hosting providers, it is a technology that allows applications and users can control access to their files stored in data center of a hosting provider using any computer that has internet access.

Cloud Computing allows the user to have more control with the efficiency of computer technology, bringing together memory, storage, bandwidth and processing. It is a technology that “emulates” a process of dedicated hosting. Gmail and Yahoo are good examples of cloud computing, since there is no need for software or a server to use them: The only kind of software or hardware that you need is an internet connection…

Grazed from PRWeb. Author: PR Announcement.

The “20 Most Promising Cloud Computing Companies” list recognizes companies that have adopted Cloud computing and are working to make it accessible to all organizations. A distinguished panel of CEOs, CIOs of public companies, analysts and the CIO Review editorial board decides whom to include on the list, which is intended to aid end-users in selecting high-quality service providers from the massive software sector.

“We’re honored to have been selected as one of the 20 Most Promising Cloud Computing Companies,” said John Gilham, CEO and founder of Agile IT. “This reflects the hard work and dedication of each member of our team in striving to deliver the very best solutions and great customer service. As Agile IT continues to grow, our position as best-in-class Microsoft Partner means that we will be able to continue to help our client partners meet their business objectives through a total IT transformation with Cloud Solutions.”

Grazed from ITWorld. Author: Howard Solomon.

Cloud computing will eventually come to dominate IT, so almost every hardware and software manufacturer has to have a cloud strategy of some sort. Oracle Corp.’s moves in this are have been paying off, according to the company’s latest financial report. The company said that in its fiscal Q4 total revenues were up three per cent to $11.3 billion (all figures in U.S dollars).

Of that software-as-a-service (SaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) revenues were the fastest growing part, up 25 per cent to $322 million. For fiscal year 2014, total revenues were up three per cent at $38.3 billion. SaaS and PaaS revenues were up 23 per cent to $1.1 billion while cloud IaaS revenues were $456 million…

Grazed from Register.  Author: Aaron Mine.

Microsoft has a vision for the cloud. Anyone who has watched this session by the legendary Rick Claus from last year’s AUTechEd already has a basic idea of what this entails.  Microsoft’s plan, dubbed the Cloud OS platform, rests on three pillars. These create a unified strategy that is changing the game and positioning the platform as the most complete cloud service available.

Define your terms

Let’s establish right now exactly what I mean when I say cloud. I am the son of a meteorologist so when someone says cloud, the first word that comes to my mind is "agglomeration". The definition of an agglomeration is “a heap or cluster of usually disparate elements”…