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 As a result, it said, of “customer feedback and evolving usage patterns,” Microsoft cut the price of its cloud-ified SQL Azure database 48%–75% for databases larger than 1GB and introduced a new entry-level 100MB model.
It blogged that it’s noticed that many projects start small but ...Feb. 17, 2012 02:06 PM EST Reads: 638 |
 Wide and cheap availability of cloud-based media services is upon us. With the transformations these services are already bringing to the consumption of music, video and interactive media, change has likewise come to professional workflows. Documents in 2012 are read, written, collabor...Feb. 17, 2012 02:00 PM EST Reads: 470 |
 With Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) just four months away, what better time to start introducing you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the conference...
We have technical and st...Feb. 17, 2012 11:45 AM EST Reads: 511 |
 Fresh off a happy quarter, Rackspace said Thursday that it’s bought SharePoint911, one of those you-never-heard-of-them outfits that does SharePoint consulting, training and JumpStart services so it can deliver newfangled SharePoint services along with its existing SharePoint hosting. ...Feb. 17, 2012 11:16 AM EST Reads: 542 |
 Cloud is a shift from the focus on underlying technology implementation to leveraging existing implementations and further building upon them. Cloud orchestration or a network of clouds is the wave of the future where these clouds can operate with elasticity, scalability, and efficienc...Feb. 17, 2012 10:58 AM EST Reads: 449 |
 Citrix has opened up a beta of its CloudStack 3, the first release of the open source cloud platform under the Citrix brand.
Citrix acquired the Java-based cloud management last year when it bought Cloud.com. A full production version of the branded stuff is supposed to be available ...Feb. 17, 2012 10:18 AM EST Reads: 617 |
 EMC and VMware are going into the cloud business with Atos, the big, publicly owned, Paris-based global IT services firm, intending to take an equity position in Canopy, an end-to-end cloud company Atos is setting up using EMC and VMware technology.
The companies said Wednesday when ...Feb. 17, 2012 09:37 AM EST Reads: 671 |
 A Tel Aviv start-up called Porticor that’s just hit the radar says it’s got a way to secure the cloud, any cloud. Fancy that, a trustworthy cloud.
And Porticor delivers its data encryption solution to IaaS and PaaS users through the cloud in minutes. Fancy that.
It’s supposed to so...Feb. 17, 2012 08:56 AM EST Reads: 612 |
 "The volume of data we're generating now from machines pales in comparison to the volume of data we'll soon generate from our own bodies," says data security expert Dave Asprey. Writing in a Trend Micro blog, Asprey - who is one of the leaders in the emerging Quantified Self movement -...Feb. 17, 2012 08:00 AM EST Reads: 1,984 |
 Rackspace Hosting, the service leader in cloud computing, on Thursday announced its acquisition of SharePoint911, an industry leader in SharePoint consulting, training, and "JumpStart" services within SharePoint. The unification of both companies provides capabilities to deliver unpara...Feb. 17, 2012 08:00 AM EST Reads: 780 |
 Skill at computing comes naturally to those who are adept at abstraction. The best developers can instantly change focus—one moment they are orchestrating high level connections between abstract entities; the next they are sweating through the side effects of each … Feb. 17, 2012 07:30 AM EST Reads: 559 |
 Apache Deltacloud, the Red Hat-contributed ReSTful API that abstracts differences between clouds so services on any cloud can be managed – provided of course there’s a driver – has graduated from the Apache Foundation’s incubator and is now a full-fledged Top-Level Project (TLP).
The...Feb. 17, 2012 07:15 AM EST Reads: 631 |
 Swisscom, the Swiss telecom, is going into the cloud business.
Its subsidiary Swisscom IT Services AG has signed up with Red Hat as a Certified Cloud Provider and launched a public cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud targeting enterprise-class customers primarily in the Sw...Feb. 17, 2012 07:15 AM EST Reads: 788 |
 I've been working on Enterprise Cloud Strategy and in the course of this work identified some interesting and non-obvious opportunities in the Cloud.
One solution I’ve examined is the well-crafted solution that is enStratus. enStratus has built a SaaS Cloud Management / Governance p...Feb. 17, 2012 07:00 AM EST Reads: 3,673 |
 CONGRATULATIONS to National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) CIO Jill T. Singer for being selected as one of the 10 winners of the first annual CloudNOW awards presented in Santa Clara, California earlier this week.Feb. 17, 2012 07:00 AM EST Reads: 507 |
 In a surprise move on Tuesday, January 10, Oracle wheeled out its Big Data Appliance.
That’s the one it said in October would be ready sometime in the first half. Only nobody believed it meant early in the first half. Heck, it’s not even clear anybody thought Oracle could make the fi...Feb. 16, 2012 01:30 PM EST Reads: 2,097 |
 CloudLinux, Inc., on Thursday released CafeFS 3, a virtualized file system for shared hosters that cages each customer within its own virtualized file system.
CageFS becomes part of CloudLinux OS at no additional charge. CloudLinux OS, the only commercially-supported Linux OS made sp...Feb. 16, 2012 08:12 AM EST Reads: 339 |
 Wyse Technology, the global leader in cloud client computing, on Thursday announced it's working with Microsoft to market school IT labs and one-to-one computing solutions that allow a cost effective delivery of innovative IT enabled education. These solutions are available through Wys...Feb. 16, 2012 08:00 AM EST Reads: 509 |
 With Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) now under four months away, what better time to start introducing you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the conference...
We have technical a...Feb. 16, 2012 07:30 AM EST Reads: 925 |
 Nimble, the social CRM platform has announced the launch of Nimble 2.0, billed as the “most social” CRM platform on the market today. Nimble was designed entirely with social CRM in mind and is the first social business platform that empowers companies with the ability to get closer to...Feb. 16, 2012 07:00 AM EST Reads: 645 |
 "Having been in the IT field for many years, I believe the cloud computing chapter in the industry is an exciting one and I am proud to be a part of it," said National Reconaissance Office (NRO) Chief Information Officer Jill T. Singer Tuesday, as it was announced that she was one of 1...Feb. 16, 2012 06:30 AM EST Reads: 597 |
 2011 was a year of rapid adoption for public and private cloud services. Instant and on-demand server provisioning was the driving force behind the massive growth. On top, cloud server templates and script automation simplified application installation for simple and pre-defined applic...Feb. 16, 2012 06:30 AM EST Reads: 2,039 |
 As more enterprises are adopting clouds, the nature of cloud computing is changing. Previously, clouds were used to test applications or for non-mission critical applications. Today, enterprises are using clouds for cost-saving advantages and launching more mission critical application...Feb. 16, 2012 05:45 AM EST Reads: 1,844 |
 Building a cloud computing environment with on-demand access to compute, network, and storage resources requires an elastic infrastructure at multiple levels. Virtualization combined with x86 servers has transformed the way we scale out compute resources. Unfortunately, legacy Fibre Ch...Feb. 16, 2012 05:30 AM EST Reads: 2,414 |
 With Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) just four months away, what better time to start introducing you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the conference...
We have technical and st...Feb. 16, 2012 05:30 AM EST Reads: 908 |
 With Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) now under four months away, what better time to start introducing you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the conference...
We have technical a...Feb. 15, 2012 03:15 PM EST Reads: 663 |
 With Big Data Expo 2012 New York (co-located with 10th Cloud Expo) just four months away, what better time to start introducing you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the conference...
Feb. 15, 2012 11:30 AM EST Reads: 988 |
 Can you bring services from the cloud to your customers faster and have them adopt it with ease of use or bring the power of bundled services to the fingertips of your clients without creating new rigid ‘apps stove pipes'? Do you want to prevent your business running away to public and...Feb. 15, 2012 10:45 AM EST Reads: 735 |
 Many organizations have embraced, or are considering, the benefits of cloud computing – speed, flexibility, increased expertise, shared workload, reduced costs, etc. The benefits are many – but so are the risks. What are the threats to cloud security? Which parties assume responsibilit...Feb. 15, 2012 10:00 AM EST Reads: 632 |
 With Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) just four months away, what better time to start introducing you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the conference...
We have technical and st...Feb. 15, 2012 09:15 AM EST Reads: 452 |
 HP on Monday took direct aim at the ever-increasing costs of data centers and managing an explosion of data by announcing a new generation of automated and efficient hardware. The new generation of ProLiant servers includes better internal management, powerful automation features, and ...Feb. 15, 2012 08:15 AM EST Reads: 674 |
 HP Monday claimed to have the most self-sufficient line of servers, the x86-based HP ProLiant Generation 8, the first fruits of a two-year Project Voyager meant to eliminate error-prone, downtime-creating manual tasks and cut data center costs.
HP says it’s spent $300 million on Gen8...Feb. 15, 2012 08:15 AM EST Reads: 721 |
 SoftLayer Technologies on Tuesday announced the immediate worldwide availability of SoftLayer Object Storage, a redundant and highly scalable cloud storage service that allows users to easily store, search and retrieve data across the Internet, with optional CDN connectivity, or across...Feb. 15, 2012 08:00 AM EST Reads: 677 |
 Porticor, a cloud data security company delivering a cloud-based data encryption solution that infuses trust into the cloud by ensuring customer keys are never exposed, on Wednesday formally launched to make available a solution combining data encryption with patented key management to...Feb. 15, 2012 07:43 AM EST Reads: 554 |
 In August 2011, SHI Enterprise Solutions (ESS) division launched the SHI Cloud, offering reliable and cost-effective industrial-grade cloud computing platforms. That same division achieved an 82 percent increase in revenue over 2010.Feb. 15, 2012 07:00 AM EST Reads: 662 |
 OCZ Technology Group, a provider of high-performance solid-state drives (SSDs) for computing devices and systems, on Tuesday announced the Z-Drive R4 CloudServ PCI Express (PCIe) flash storage solution, designed to accelerate cloud computing applications and reduce operating expenses i...Feb. 15, 2012 06:00 AM EST Reads: 720 |
 Barracuda Networks Inc., a provider of security, networking and data protection solutions, on Wednesday announced the integration of the Barracuda NG Firewall and Barracuda Web Security Flex. This integrated offering marks the first solution to combine powerful cloud-based Web filterin...Feb. 15, 2012 01:09 AM EST Reads: 583 |
 OpTier, a provider of business transaction-driven application performance management (APM), on Wednesday announced OpTier Always-on APM version 4.5 with significant enhancements that enable today's always-on business.
Always-on APM 4.5 is the first release that reflects the company's...Feb. 15, 2012 01:09 AM EST Reads: 446 |
 Storage at scale pioneer Scality's success in 2011 secured its position as a trailblazer for truly scalable, high performing, yet cost effective object based storage. 2011 was a landmark year for the San Francisco-based storage start-up that has invigorated the cloud storage space with...Feb. 15, 2012 01:08 AM EST Reads: 462 |
 Why are APIs so important in clouds? Do APIs have to be open? How fast or slow will standardization in the cloud be? Why is ensuring high availability for the cloud service critical?
In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Mårten Mickos, CEO of Eucalyptus Systems, will an...Feb. 14, 2012 11:00 AM EST Reads: 747 |
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