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Grazed from PRWeb. Author: PR Announcement.

Solace Systems announced today two new message routers and a major new version of its operating system, SolOS 7.0, that together meet the diverse data movement demands of today’s enterprise applications and emerging big data systems, cloud computing architectures and internet of things initiatives.

Each of these systems needs an efficient way to move large amounts of information over different kinds of networks with unique requirements in terms of latency, throughput, guaranteed delivery, fault tolerance and more. Solace’s hardware-based platform lets companies replace a wide range of discrete data movement technologies (such as messaging middleware, open source, web streaming, transaction management, WAN optimization, etc.) with a powerful application-aware network. Application aware-networks make it easier and less expensive to move data between applications while offering greater capacity, performance and robustness than other solutions…

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Cavium, Inc., a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, cloud, wired and wireless networking, today announced that Cavium’s ThunderX, family of workload optimized processors will support next generation of Xen virtualization. In addition, Cavium has joined the Xen Project as an Advisory Board member. The Xen Project technology is a Collaborative Project hosted by The Linux Foundation.

The ThunderX family of processors from Cavium delivers integrated virtualization support for both compute and I/O centric workloads. The Xen optimization for the ARMv8 architecture has proven to be the high performance hypervisor technology that can deliver the full set of virtualization features with optimal performance required by scalable cloud deployments and applications. The support for what we believe will be the largest multi-core ARMv8 implementation and multi-socket cache coherency in Thunder takes the Xen virtualization capability to a whole new level of performance and features…

Grazed from MoneyControl. Author: Editorial Staff.

As the use of big data, cloud computing and virtualization grows, so is the allocation of budgets to data centers among corporates. Almost half of the respondents in a 2014 Digital Realty survey of data center trends in the Asia-Pacific published in May said they expect their budgets to increase by 5-10 percent over the next 12 months.

"The increase in data center budgets is directly related to the growth in data that organizations are generating as well as the adoption of the analysis of big data and that’s really shifted the way companies are looking at data centers," said William Stein, the interim CEO and CFO of Digital Realty, a global provider of data center and co-location solutions…

Grazed from WSJ. Author: Spencer Ante.

International Business Machines Corp. IBM appears to have sidestepped any government penalty over its accounting treatment for cloud computing. The computer maker said the Securities and Exchange Commission’s division of enforcement has concluded its investigation into how IBM reports cloud-computing revenue, according to a company filing with the SEC.

Based on the information to date, the division doesn’t intend to recommend any enforcement action by the SEC against IBM, the filing says. A SEC spokeswoman declined to comment. Last July, IBM disclosed that the SEC was investigating the way it reported its sales in its cloud-computing business, according to a filing detailing its second-quarter results…

Grazed from PCMag. Author: Michael J. Miller.

Cloud Computing took center stage at last week’s Code Conference as the heads of many such companies talked about how their products were evolving in a cloud-first world. In particular, the heads of Salesforce, Workday, Dropbox, Uber, Twitter, and Wal-Mart talked about how their businesses are changing in a world increasingly driven by cloud services.

One of the most interesting sessions involved Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and Workday CEO Aneel Bhusri, who discussed the shift to cloud computing. Bhusri talked about how big shifts in computing only happen every 10 to 15 years, with the previous move being the change from mainframes to client-server computing. We are now three to four years into a 15-year cycle during which everyone will eventually move to the cloud, he said…

Grazed from NextGov. Author: Editorial Staff.

HP Enterprise Services announced a new secure private cloud solution designed specifically to ease and accelerate government agencies’ migrations to the cloud. HP’s latest roll-out, Helion Managed Private Cloud for Public Sector, offers agencies a managed, dedicated private cloud that allows federal, state and local governments to implement shared service models across their many departments.

Additionally, the managed private cloud allows agencies or departments to act as IT brokers through the use of a Web-based portal where resources like computing can be monitored and charged back through. Helion was designed with the “unique security requirements” of the government in mind, including the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, known as FedRAMP, at the moderate impact level; Federal Information Security Management Act, or FISMA high; the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA, privacy rules; and the Defense Information System Agency Enterprise Cloud Service Broker impact Level-5, according to Jeff Bergeron, Chief Technology Officer for HP U.S. Public Sector…

Grazed from Midsize Insider. Author: Shawn Drew.

There is little doubt that the cloud is on the rise, but in order to best take advantage of it over the long term, IT professionals require a bit more specificity when it comes to where the cloud will be within the next few years. Some new cloud computing predictions that focus on where the technology will be in the near future can help IT managers and executives properly prepare for this technology revolution.

Cloud Computing Predictions

At this point, it seems that just about every IT department has at least looked into the cloud. Many have already decided to shift some aspects of the data center there, but others may be taking a more methodical approach, waiting for some certainty before committing assets to adoption. While this is usually a smart path, delaying cloud adoption could be a big mistake given where the technology is headed, as summarized in a collection of cloud computing predictions in a recent MSPmentor article…

Grazed from Forbes. Author: Ewan Spence.

With the introduction of Continuity for OSX Yosemite and iOS 8, not only has Tim Cook given Apple users a coherent platform from mobile phone and tablet to laptop and desktop, he has given Apple an opportunity to be number one in the battle for cloud storage and cloud computing services.

The top level statistics for OSX are impressive. The install base for Mac grew by 12% (compared to a 5% decrease for the PC market), and 40 million copies of OSX Mavericks have been installed. That?s more than 50% of the potential audience, and drew a humorous comparison to Windows 8’s 14% adoption…

Grazed from LiveMint. Author: Editorial Staff.

Apple Inc. introduced new health and connected home features for the software powering the iPhone and iPad, laying the groundwork for a busy second half of the year as the company seeks to rev up its growth. Apple released new mobile software, called iOS8, at its annual developer conference in San Francisco.

The software includes HealthKit, which lets people monitor their health and acts as a data hub for fitness apps, and HomeKit, which includes home automation elements so people can control locks, garage doors and lights from their devices. Apple company also showed products for storing and sending files—iCloud Drive and Maildrop—and an updated version of its Mac OS dubbed Yosemite…

Grazed from TheVarGuy. Author: Michael Cusanelli.

Cloud service provider Evolve IP is the latest company to achieve VMware (VMW) vCloud Powered validation, giving the company the full support of VMware’s popular virtualization and cloud computing technology. The designation officially gives Evolve IP’s cloud services the backing of VMware and its virtualization and cloud computing technology.

As a current member of the VMware Service Provider Program (VSPP), Evolve IP provides vCloud Powered service to its customers across a common platform that supports VMware’s existing applications set as well as application mobility from the company. With the inclusion of vSphere and vCloud Director, Evolve IP said it will be able to provide its customers with more options to virtualize their infrastructures…