Category: News

Grazed from BusinessWire. Author: PR Announcement.

CSC, a global leader in next-generation IT services and solutions, today announced a new opportunity for clients to accelerate their adoption of cloud solutions with the SAP HANA® platform. Working with SAP (NYSE: SAP) and in collaboration with CSC’s global consulting practice and applications modernization partnership with HCL Technologies, a leading global IT services provider, CSC will develop a broad set of innovative end-to-end cloud solutions.

These solutions are designed to help companies quickly and easily move to the cloud to gain new insights, engage customers and partners in new ways, and help unleash new operating models that can drive profitability and advantage. The initial market focus will be on banking, engineering, construction and operations, and public sector social services solutions, with other industries expected to follow…

Grazed from SysConMedia. Author: Gilad Parann-Nissany.

Suppose you want to hire someone to do a job for you, but you suspect she might leak sensitive details of your business to your enemies. The immediate solution: don’t hire her. But real life is often not so clear cut. Your prospective employee may be very good at a particular job, and you don’t want to lose her skills; while the risk that she turns bad may be low and you need the job done.

This general real life problem has had many solutions over the centuries. People have written contracts with confidentiality clauses, threatened court action, come up with rules for the workplace, tried to instill pride in their workforce, and sometimes they’ve even begged for good behavior…

Grazed from PRWeb.  Author: PR Announcement.

BizCloud® Inc., a leading edge provider of cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solutions, today announced a new IT Intervention program targeted to existing enterprise clients and prospects of CSC BizCloud and its reseller partners. The newly launched program is designed to help organizations mitigate risks associated with purchasing cloud infrastructure from vendors selling infringing products, namely CSC BizCloud. Sale of BizCloud-branded cloud products and services by CSC and its partner companies is an infringement of the BizCloud trademark rights, and BizCloud believes that a majority of their clients have unknowingly purchased infringing products.

BizCloud IT Intervention program aims to help CSC’s clients convert an uncertain future by offering them the opportunity to rehabilitate their entire IT infrastructure with next-generation BizCloud IaaS offerings available at unrivalled prices. BizCloud IT Intervention program offerings include BizCloud-in-a-Vault, a private, single tenant cloud solution architected on NEC’s Nblock technologies and delivered in partnership with Cyber Innovation Labs, and OrionVM’s high-performing, enterprise-grade wholesale cloud IaaS products and services. By collaborating with these innovative cloud computing companies, BizCloud is able to deliver IaaS offerings that are second to none in terms of performance and cost…

Grazed from CloudTweaks.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Big Data is BIG business and will continue to be one of the more predominant areas of focus in the coming years from small startups to large scale corporations. We’ve already covered on CloudTweaks how Big Data can be utilized in a number of interesting ways from preventing world hunger to helping teams win a championship.

Many tech startups are jumping onboard with interesting services and we can expect many more innovative uses and thought provoking services to entice the market very very soon. Investments are up, and trends continue to point in the right direction…

"We’re witnessing unprecedented demand for OpenStack by organizations large and small as more and more enterprises embrace private clouds and adopt OpenStack as their preferred platform," said Adrian Ionel, CEO of Mirantis. "With Mirantis OpenStack 5.0, we are offering customers a future-proof solution for OpenStack, along with key new features that help make OpenStack robust enough to support mission-critical workloads."

Metacloud, Inc., a leader in deploying and operating OpenStack as a Service for some of the world’s largest companies, is pleased to announce a deal with SK Telecom subsidiary SK Planet. Established in October 2011, SK Planet is leading the revolution of online and mobile service platforms with its digital content, integrated commerce, and advertising and marketing businesses. Since its merger with SK Marketing & Company in February 2013, the new SK Planet has become a truly integrated service platform that encompasses both online and offline marketing channels.

SK Planet is not new to server virtualization. For years they have leveraged commercial software to get greater utilization from their hardware and increase efficiency within their organization. But as the business grew, the SK tech team began searching for a solution that would take them beyond simple virtualization. Something that would give them the agility and scalability of the public cloud, while reducing TCO.

Responding to the needs of its customers and the overwhelming interest in Logstash – the leading open-source alternative to Splunk, Stratalux has released a hosted version of Logstash to the public.

Centralized logging solutions like Stratalux’s Hosted Logstash help companies solve operational problems faster by collecting, tracking and analyzing logs from applications, systems and AWS without the cost and time required to manage similar solutions like Splunk or running Logstash internally.

Stratalux’s Hosted Logstash is a fully-managed, open-source IT log management solution for companies who need the ability to customize a solution, but don’t want the IT overhead or enterprise software price. Stratalux Hosted Logstash provides the scalability and availability of managed AWS and includes 24/7 support to ensure the service is always running. In addition, customers get the added assurance of a team of Logstash open-source log management experts that can address any required customization. And unlike other solutions, Stratalux’s Hosted Logstash no lock-in promise means that clients have the power and flexibility to migrate and assume management responsibility anytime they like.

Grazed from TheStreet. Author: Eric Johnson.

Government agencies that supervise China’s digital economy want Chinese companies to control more of the domestic and world cloud computing markets. Beijing policymakers are encouraging state-run companies such as China Mobile (CHL_) and Hong Kong-listed ZTE to expand their existing cloud services. And they’re accepting applications for government funding from any domestic company with a major cloud project that meets certain criteria.

The government hasn’t said how much it plans to spend on the project, which was rolled out late last month jointly by the National Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and Ministry of Finance. NDRC said the government now ranks cloud computing as a nationally strategic industry. Companies in other strategic sectors, such as military hardware manufacturers, are eligible for market protection…

Grazed from Investors. Author: Patrick Seitz.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has earned high marks for his first four months at the helm of the software giant. His performance garnered the company’s stock an upgrade Thursday from research firm FBR Capital Markets. FBR analyst Daniel Ives raised his rating on Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) stock to outperform from market perform and hiked his price target to 49 from 43. Microsoft stock was up 1.5% near 41 in afternoon trading on the stock market today.

"We have a high degree of confidence in Satya Nadella’s plan for Microsoft’s future," Ives wrote. "With Nadella at the helm, Microsoft is off to a golden start with his improved transparency and strategic focus on the mobile/cloud space," Ives wrote. Based on the company’s March quarter results and FBR checks with customers, Microsoft is experiencing accelerated traction in cloud computing with its core cloud Office product (Office 365) showing good subscriber momentum, he said…

Grazed from SysConMedia. Author: Ignacio LLorente.

OpenNebula features unique functionality for virtualization of the datacenter. Among them, it is worth highlighting its support to build cloud bursting architectures where private cloud resources can be easily supplemented with resources from a remote public cloud to meet fluctuating demands. The reason behind this uniqueness is the transparency to use and maintain the cloud bursting functionality for both end users and cloud administrators.

The latest version of OpenNebula, Carina, offers a simple but comprehensive framework that enables resource allocation to different groups of users in federated data centers and hybrid cloud deployments. OpenNebula offers a single management point for both local private and remote public cloud resources, with an end user self-service portal (Cloud View) that enables the consumption of hybrid virtual machine templates…