Category: News

Grazed from Atos.  Author: PR Announcement.

Atos, an international information technology services company, and Bull (Paris:BULL), the trusted partner for enterprise data, together announced today the intended public offer in cash by Atos for all the issued and outstanding shares in the capital of Bull.

Atos offer is set at EUR4.90 per Bull’s share in cash, representing a 22% premium over the Bull’s closing price (EUR4.01) on Friday May 23(rd) , 2014, the last trading day before this announcement, and a 30% premium with respect to the 3 month volume weighted average share price (EUR3.77).The offer will also target the outstanding Bull’s OCEANEs at EUR5.55 per OCEANEs…

Grazed from CSO.  Author: John Gonsalez.

The need for a rock-solid, mobility-enabled network that reaches users no matter where they are is an investment priority for organisations, but what should enterprises be doing to prepare for the new era of total mobility?

First let us consider the situation. With the proliferation of mobile users and their devices, within a campus or across continents, the challenges of operating and managing a network have changed fundamentally. IT has moved quickly from a world of fixed computing to a new world of mobility where everything — people, devices, machines, and applications — is in constant motion…

Grazed from FutureGov.  Author: Editorial Staff.

From being a buzzword, cloud computing has transitioned to become a critical and strategic component for businesses across sectors. The next step for IT decision makers is to sort through the proliferation of information to make the right choices focusing on a holistic view of all aspects within the organisation – beyond IT — that are impacted by the initiative, including people, process, and technology. Effectively defining and building a complete cloud implementation (whether private, public, or hybrid) can lead to a total business transformation marked by expedited product delivery and reduced IT costs.

Making the Right Move to the Cloud

Just like IT in general, cloud implementations are increasingly moving towards a more hybrid infrastructure. Furthermore, spanning heterogeneous infrastructures, supporting multi-vendor environments, and bridging existing business workflows to this hybrid cloud world requires open approaches such as open source—just as leading public clouds have done. But within this broad open and hybrid framework, there’s also a need to take into account the specific needs of each individual business…

Grazed from WatersTechnology.  Author: Max Bowie.

Over 200 years ago, British chemist and amateur meteorologist Luke Howard laid the foundations for the classification of clouds used today, which, in their various forms, can resemble anything from gauzy material shrouding the sky, to flying saucers, wispy vapor trails to bulbous upside-down mushrooms. With such different perceptions of the same phenomenon, should we be surprised that cloud computing is also viewed so differently by different parts of the industry?

At last week’s North American Financial Information Summit, we heard vastly differing opinions on the potential opportunities and drawbacks of cloud computing. And interestingly, whereas regulators are often criticized for being behind the curve, when it comes to cloud, regulators are already taking advantage of cloud in ways that trading firms are still debating about…

Grazed from TechGig.  Author: Editorial Staff.

RackSpace has recently confirmed that they have retained Morgan Stanley in order to begin entertaining acquisition or partnership requests. As Cloud’s Big Three began their race to the bottom in regards to pricing, it left many industry analysts wondering what would happen to RackSpace once the dust settled.

RackSpace has become an important player in the cloud market. Although the company is a publically traded stock, it seems as if RackSpace just doesn’t have the brand name recognition or the capital to keep up with movers and shakers in the cloud industry. RackSpace has invested $1 billion in infrastructure since 2005. Recently, it was reported that RackSpace had been bleeding clients due to the slashing of cloud prices from vendors such as AWS, Google and Microsoft. While RackSpace’s commitment to cloud and their total investment within the industry is nothing to scoff at, it seems as if the large technology players are exponentially outspending RackSpace…

Grazed from TechCrunch.  Author: Pete Sonsini.

After more than a decade of hype and billions of dollars of value creation, it would be reasonable to expect investors to start losing interest in cloud-related startups. In the venture business, me-too investors reap ever-diminishing returns compared to early entrants in a new sector. And while the sweeping transformation that began with the migration of non-critical applications from the data center to the cloud has proven massive indeed, it’s certainly no longer early days.

Indeed, even the second wave of cloud opportunity — essentially reinventing the infrastructure underlying cloud applications to meet the growing demands for performance and scalability in an increasingly mobile, app-centric world — has begun to level off in terms of new opportunity. The enabling technologies that were hand-sewn by cloud pioneers like Google or Facebook are becoming more and more commercially available; one by one, obstacles are being eliminated and problems are being solved, primarily by startups…

Grazed from TechCocktail.  Author: Michael Templeman.

Cloud computing is currently one of technology’s hottest topics. The sector is growing rapidly and some are warning that it could be the next big tech bubble. It is clear to most Chief Technology Officers of major corporations, though, that it is a technology with a rich history that is sure to continue going in the right direction.

A Brief History of Cloud Computing

The true beginning of cloud computing was actually back in the 1950’s, when large-scale mainframes were able to be purchased by schools and corporations. The mainframes were installed in large rooms that were essentially server rooms, while access to the mainframes could be achieved through “dumb terminals.” These terminals were stations that only worked to create access to the mainframes; they would have multiple users on each station…

Grazed from BusByway.  Author: PR Announce,ment.

BIME Analytics, the pioneer in true cloud business intelligence (BI), today announced that Gartner, Inc. named BIME Analytics as one of five ‘Cool Vendors’ in the Gartner Cool Vendors in PaaS report by Yefim V. Natis, Joao Tapadinhas and others, published April 28, 2014.

Each year, Gartner identifies new Cool Vendors in key technology areas and publishes a series of research reports highlighting the products and services that have the potential to exploit digitalization and radically alter competitive dynamics across many industries…

Grazed from InfoQ.  Author: Abel Avram.

According to Gartner’s Yefim V. Natis, VP & Fellow, a new enterprise architectural style is rising these days: Software-Defined Architecture (SDA).  During the Gartner webinar entitled Software-Defined Architecture: Application Design for Digital Business (account required), Natis took a look at the challenges that modern IT presents to software architects and some of the design principles that help architects create better applications that last longer.

Among other things discussed during this webinar, Natis introduced this idea of SDA as a natural development in software architecture following previous styles starting with the monolithic one of the 70s as depicted in the next graphic taken from the webinar’s slides (PDF):…

Grazed from RealWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

Skyscape Cloud Services Limited, the easy to adopt, easy to use and easy to leave cloud services company, today announced that its full range of assured cloud services will be available on the latest iteration of the G-Cloud Framework – G-Cloud 5.

"As a long-standing supporter of the G-Cloud Framework – which has succeeded in transforming the procurement of IT services for public sector buyers and has created a more level playing field for providers – we welcome the latest iteration and are pleased to confirm that our full range of cloud services, which have recently achieved re-accreditation by CESG PGA to Impact Level 3 (IL3), will be available via G-Cloud 5," said Phil Dawson, CEO of Skyscape Cloud Services. "In line with our ongoing commitment of continually enhancing our services and ensuring the best value for money for our public sector customers, we are delivering further price reductions, free PSN data transfer and have made a significant investment in our Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering."…