Category: News

Grazed from EntperpriseTech.  Author: George Leopold.

Brace yourself for the Zettabyte Era.  That forecast comes from networking equipment giant Cisco Systems, which has released its latest Visual Networking Index that foresees global Internet Protocol traffic growing three-fold through 2018 to a hard-to-get-your-brain-around 1.6 zettabytes, or more than one and a half trillion gigabytes, per year.  (The concept of zettabytes is so new that automated spell checkers still don’t recognize the word.)

Driving IP traffic over the next five years will be high-definition streaming video and the emerging network of intelligent devices popularly known as the Internet of Things. Traffic demand will be augmented by faster broadband speeds…

Grazed from Virtual Bridges.  Author: PR Announcement.

Virtual Bridges, Inc. today announced that VERDE has received a 2014 Cloud Computing Desktop-as-a-Service Award from Cloud Computing magazine, a TMC sponsored cloud communications technology website. Winners will be featured in the third-quarter edition of Cloud Computing magazine.

VERDE is a highly flexible, enterprise-ready desktop management solution that delivers desktop-as-a service for enterprises and service providers alike. Key features include fast provisioning and deployment, support for Windows and Linux, optimized storage with cache I/O technology, stateless clustering for high availability and fast and flexible scaling, roles-based access controls, multi-tenancy and broad coverage of client devices…

Grazed from MSPMentor.  Author: Michael Brown.

Amidst the cloud computing revolution, peer-to-peer file sharing is beginning to gain momentum as well.  TechCrunch has recently cast the spotlight on a small company, Infinit, who is involved in this new trend.

“We see that a lot of our users share huge files,” said co-founder and COO Baptiste Fradin in the above article, “And a lot of people managed to digitize processes that were still physical. For example, in video post-production, you had to hire a delivery person to ship a hard drive — now you can use Infinit.”

While this may be a good fit for personal use, is it a good fit for a business and MSPs?

It is Fast and Easy

With peer-to-peer file sharing, sending files to someone else can be very simple.  Users are able to send a file directly to someone else, through the sharing application or by creating a direct link to download the file…

Grazed from MarketWire. Author: PR Announcement.

CliQr Technologies, the leader in hybrid cloud application migration and lifecycle management, today announced that CliQr’s CloudCenter(TM) solution has won the prestigious Grand Prix Best of Show Award in the Cloud Platform category at Interop Tokyo, 2014. CliQr’s co-founder and CEO Gaurav Manglik joined CliQr’s partner, Net One Systems, to showcase the CloudCenter platform at the event.

"We are both honored and excited to receive this prestigious award. We believe this recognition further validates the significance of our CloudCenter technology for the entire cloud industry," said Manglik. "As enterprises increasingly embrace cloud adoption, whether it is to a public, private or hybrid environment, they are demanding the flexibility to move and manage their applications easily and with far more flexibility than we see today. CloudCenter’s unique application-based technology combined with a suite of cloud-focused lifecycle management features such as price-performance benchmarking, multi-user governance along with full version control and release management makes it the answer enterprises are looking for to move to the cloud."…

Grazed from Mirantis. Author: PR Announcement.

Mirantis, the number one pure-play OpenStack company, today announced the general availability of Mirantis OpenStack Express, an on-demand private Cloud-as-a-Service for enterprises. The new web service enables companies to stand up private clouds and make them available to developers and end users in minutes.

“Mirantis OpenStack Express is extremely easy to use, straightforward to setup and the support team at Mirantis has been fantastic,” says Binh Phan, Senior Security Architect at McAfee. “This is a dramatically better way to build and run your private OpenStack cloud.”…

Grazed from Government Technology. Author: Penelope Lemov.

Some 50 years ago, states and localities missed the boat on keeping their sales taxes current. As the economy shifted from manufacturing to services, most governments failed to slap sales taxes on them. Now there’s a new wrinkle confronting states and localities: The migration of commerce — the sale of goods and services — to the cloud.

The shift poses a number of challenges for tax departments. Namely, if software is provided virtually and hosted by a worldwide network, has real property changed hands and can states tax it? With software sales on the cloud expected to generate $17 billion in revenue worldwide this year, states and localities are in a hurry to sort out these kinds of questions…

Grazed from PRNewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

TeraDiscoveries, Inc., a bio-therapeutics company focused on cloud-based drug design and development, announced today that effective immediately, it has changed its corporate name to Cloud Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Cloud Pharmaceuticals designs new drugs and drug candidates and accelerates the development process by implementing new, innovative cloud computing technology in place of traditional methods. The company manages the development of multiple drug candidates through an extensive network of partners.

"The worldwide pharmaceutical industry is in need of new drugs that target smaller market segments. They need to be developed faster, have novel IP, and offer greater drug safety, efficacy, and affordability," says Ed Addison, company president and CEO. "Our approach uses cloud technology and high-performance computing to efficiently calculate which of all possible molecules are the best drug candidates. This reduces cost, decreases development time, and creates novel molecules with therapeutic value. Our new name more aptly reflects our approach and value proposition."…

Grazed from The VarGuy. Author: elliot Markowitz.

Technology worlds are colliding, causing the Perfect Storm for organizations that aren’t prepared and creating tremendous opportunities for solution providers that are. Data is being generated at a breakneck pace and organizations are in dire need of storage, access and security solutions. Much of this data-generation is coming from the communications and easy sharing of information on mobile devices.

That is only going to increase moving forward and, as a result, businesses are turning to cloud computing to meet their needs. This intersection of mobile device usage, management and integration with the adoption of cloud computing is putting solution providers in the catbird seat. In fact, many managed service providers already have begun transitioning their business models for this new opportunity by reinventing themselves, focusing on the user experience rather than server monitoring, and have learned how to upsell services in the era of cloud and mobility…

Grazed from NetworkWorld. Author: Joab Jackson.

This week, at its annual Discover user conference, Hewlett-Packard put cloud computing and big data on the top of the agenda, capitalizing on the heavy work it has been doing with these technologies. Recently, the company unified its cloud services under the Helion brand name, using the open-source OpenStack as a foundation.

The company continues to work on its software stack for big-data processing, called HAVEn (Hadoop, Autonomy, Vertica, enterprise security, apps). The company also plans to launch an online magazine, called Matter, designed to help top executives understand how best to drive business value through technology…

Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: Jon Roskill.

It may just sound like semantics, but there is a real difference between something that was “built for” versus “adapted to.” Would you rather buy a house that was “designed for” energy efficiency or one that was “adapted to” be energy efficient?technology “Built for” describes a software product that engineers designed from the ground up to utilize and incorporate the features of cloud computing technology.

“Adapted to” implies a software product wasn’t specifically designed with cloud computing in mind, but rather a company made its older, legacy solution “compatible “ with the cloud. This is an important distinction for several reasons. The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s definition of cloud computing identifies “five essential characteristics“:…