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Grazed from BusinessIntelligence.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Companies today are facing a torrent of digital opportunities – a CIO’s dream come true if properly tamed.  A 2014 Gartner survey reveals that cybersecurity –once the number one concern for enterprise cloud adoption – is becoming a lower strategic priority among CIOs. This is a shocking fact, considering that just two years ago most IT departments approached cloud computing with a huge degree of apprehension.

According to James Staten at Forrester, 2013 was the year enterprises got real about cloud computing. 2014 will be the year the cloud is integrated into existing IT portfolios.  This shift in priorities is fueled by some major changes that have been transforming the cloud industry over time…

Grazed from Nimbic.  Author: PR Announcement.

Mentor Graphics Corp. (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced that it has acquired Nimbic, Inc., a leading provider of Maxwell-accurate, 3D full-wave electromagnetic (EM) simulation solutions. Nimbic’s high-performance high-end simulation capability and ability to accurately calculate complex electromagnetic fields will expand and strengthen Mentor’s chip-package-board simulation portfolio.

“Nimbic’s world-class 3D electromagnetic simulation solutions for signal integrity, power integrity, and EMI (electromagnetic interference) analysis are used by numerous leaders in the electronics industry to address their enterprise-wide challenges for chip-package-board design,” said Raul Camposano, CEO, Nimbic, Inc…

Grazed from TechTarget.  Author: Beth Pariseau.

Lance Crosby is the CEO and founder of SoftLayer, a company IBM purchased in 2013 to boost its cloud computing credibility among enterprise customers. Modern Infrastructure caught up with him this spring to suss out SoftLayer’s progress at IBM.

Modern Infrastructure: What’s IBM’s cloud pitch to enterprises?

Crosby: Everything we do can be either single-tenant or multi-tenant, and we give complete control and transparency, which is unlike all the other clouds. Our background is in enterprise and government hosting. The look and feel of SoftLayer is a lot more familiar to enterprise customers than other clouds, which is why IBM was drawn to SoftLayer at the time of the acquisition…

Grazed from RJSSoftware. Author: Editorial Staff.

Most professionals can hardly turn a corner these days without hearing about the Cloud. From Gmail to Dropbox we use cloud services in our everyday lives, allowing us to access content on-the-go from just about anywhere at any time. The big benefits of cloud-based applications and software include no hardware or licensing costs, no software installs or upgrades to deal with plus predictable monthly fees.

Sounds like a good deal, so why isn’t everyone jumping on-board? Most companies are working in some sort of hybrid-state with a combination of on-premises software and cloud software; that’s because there are pros and cons to both solutions. In Part I of this series we outline the difference between on-premises software and cloud software…

Grazed from DataCenterKnowledge. Author: Bill Kleyman.

It’s a lot easier to move your infrastructure into the cloud than have to migrate everything back into a private data center. The idea is to make sure you deploy the right workloads and have the correct deployment methodology throughout the entire process. When cloud computing started getting popular, organizations began pushing more of their environments into a public or hybrid cloud model.

Although this was absolutely a great move by many of these businesses, some began to feel the pains of putting the wrong application or database into a public cloud. User, data, and workload proximity are critical, as is deploying the right workload against the proper type of cloud model…

Grazed from ThoughtsOnCloud. Author: Gary Zeien.

How can using and working with “the cloud” be like Las Vegas? You’re probably thinking I’ve lost my mind, but bear with me! At a recent conference, while I was looking out of my hotel room window, I began to see some similarities between Vegas and what is happening in business and IT as we all move to the cloud.

1. Things seem to appear out of the desert.

If you have been to Las Vegas over the last decade or so, you have seen large transformations in how the city runs. Now, I’ve had the “opportunity” to be in Vegas many times over the last few years, and there is always something new. For most people that “consume the services” of Vegas, these things just seem to appear…

Grazed from SciQuest. Author: Lindsay Sloan.

"It’s become the phrase du jour," says Ben Pring, former Vice President of Research at Gartner, of the term cloud computing. “The problem is tvhat everyone seems to have a different definition.” So let’s start out with the simple question: What is cloud computing? According to Oxford Dictionaries, it’s the practice of using a network of remote servers hosted on the Internet to store, manage, and process data, rather than a local server or a personal computer. Now, instead of using a personal computer to run an application, individuals can do this from anywhere in the world.

With easy access to information, automatic software integration and fast deployment, cloud computing is here to stay and it’s growing. Companies like SciQuest, who provide products which are completely cloud-based, can provide significant advantages to their customers compared to on-premise solutions that other business automation software providers offer. As more and more organizations adapt to this technology – and get used to the cost and efficiency benefits – new trends have emerged and here are the ones we think are most noteworthy:..

Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: Editorial Staff.

The phrase, “it doesn’t take an Einstein” is an all-purpose IT department put-down that translates roughly as “it’s so obvious, you don’t need to be a genius to see the right decision to make.” Applied to selecting a cloud computing vendor, this principle would result in the clear understanding that people want reliable performance at a fair market price, with no hidden charges.einstein

Cloud performance has a direct impact on what you spend on compute resources, how you decide the right host for your workload, and how you choose to scale when the need arises. If a service provider offers “fastest performance” at a good price, that’s the right choice, isn’t it? You want the best performance for the money, right? It doesn’t take an Einstein to see that. Except, sometimes it does…

Grazed from SAP. Author: Michael Mischker.

When we polled business leaders at a recent SAP Business Innovation conference in Latin America on what they want and what they expect from cloud computing, the results (see infographic) were fascinating. The standout fact? Almost every single one of them believes cloud computing will have a major impact on their organizations. And they’re right.

Business issues are driven by consumer needs as well as available technology. The opportunity is for companies to shed their old skins and empower themselves by adding new services, ones that are then adopted naturally by customers to get a better, more agile and more flexible service…

Grazed from PRWeb. Author: PR Announcement.

Pandoo TEK Inc. is out to change the way people everywhere interact with their computing devices–while bringing equal access to technology for everyone. The Vancouver-based technology company introduced its flagship project, PANDOO, the world’s first way to turn any web browser into a powerful personal computer, on the crowdfunding platform Indiegogo (http://igg.me/at/pandoo-os). A portion of funds raised on Indiegogo will be split with the charity Computer Aid International to support Pandoo TEK’s mission of promoting economic development through technology.

Pandoo TEK co-founder and President Michael Patellis said, "The days of being limited by your computing devices are ending. As more services migrate to the cloud, people will find it no longer matters whether they have the latest, most expensive machine. With PANDOO, we’re making the most of this transformation by building a powerful, personalized operating system on the cloud."…