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 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. 18, 2012 12:00 PM EST Reads: 699 |
 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. 18, 2012 11:00 AM EST Reads: 749 |
 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. 18, 2012 11:00 AM EST Reads: 557 |
 The focus of Java EE 7 is on the cloud, and specifically it aims to bring Platform-as-a-Service providers and application developers together so that portable applications can be deployed on any cloud infrastructure and reap all its benefits in terms of scalability, elasticity, multite...Feb. 18, 2012 10:45 AM EST Reads: 2,275 |
 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. 18, 2012 09:00 AM EST Reads: 797 |
 Atlantis Computing, a provider of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) storage and performance optimization solutions, has become the VDI storage optimization technology of choice for a growing number of customers ranging in size from 25 to 100,000 users across vertical markets that in...Feb. 17, 2012 03:09 PM EST Reads: 234 |
 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: 560 |
 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: 732 |
 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: 811 |
 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: 846 |
 Atlantis Computing, the leader in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) storage and performance optimisation solutions and Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704) (TSE: 4704), a global cloud security leader, on Friday announced the release of the first VMware View 5 reference architectures...Feb. 17, 2012 03:00 AM EST Reads: 452 |
 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: 360 |
 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: 2,045 |
 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: 1,852 |
 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: 2,423 |
 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: 763 |
 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: 680 |
 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: 697 |
 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: 751 |
 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: 698 |
 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: 764 |
 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: 768 |
 Very few trends in IT have generated as much buzz as cloud computing. In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Mark Hinkle, Director, Cloud Computing Community at Citrix, will cut through the hype and quickly clarify the ontology for cloud computing. The bulk of the convers...Feb. 14, 2012 10:45 AM EST Reads: 983 |
 Hardware and chemistry improvements will make the $1,000 human genome a reality soon. While the massive amount of genomics data that will be generated represents a huge opportunity to advance personal medicine, it also presents an enormous big data challenge.
In his session at the 10...Feb. 14, 2012 10:00 AM EST Reads: 890 |
 In 2011, Apache Hadoop received tremendous attention for helping organizations cost-effectively capitalize on their big data. Hadoop is now disrupting the business of analyzing data.
In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Eric Baldeschwieler, Co-Founder & CEO of Hortonw...Feb. 14, 2012 08:00 AM EST Reads: 1,363 |
 The proliferation of device connectivity is redefining the functionality requirements and capabilities of many embedded systems as more and more of these devices look to leverage the “Cloud.” While many commercial software and hardware component vendors have begun to realign their valu...Feb. 13, 2012 11:06 AM EST Reads: 747 |
 AMD said late Tuesday that its chief sales officer Emilio Ghilardi had left the company and that CEO and president Rory Read is going to do his job while a replacement is sought.
AMD didn’t say why Ghilardi left but it’s assumed Read wants his own people. Read is relatively new to th...Feb. 13, 2012 08:00 AM EST Reads: 1,051 |
 Intel has finally seen the back of that 2009 antitrust suit that New York State’s attorney general brought against it that was pretty much a case of New York copying over the charges AMD had made in its massive but now long-settled suit.
See, AMD was building a big state-of-art chip ...Feb. 13, 2012 07:30 AM EST Reads: 1,097 |
 What are the legal implications and consequences of cloud computing in the healthcare and high-tech sectors? What are the potential legal protections and solutions from the point of view of providers, suppliers and consumers?
In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Paul ...Feb. 13, 2012 05:15 AM EST Reads: 1,772 |
 On Tuesday, Clustrix announced the availability of the free Clustrix Development Kit, allowing users to try out the NewSQL system that it's backers say scales to an "unlimited number of users, transactions or data."
There's a lot to like about MySQL databases if you're a start-up, unt...Feb. 10, 2012 07:15 AM EST Reads: 943 |
 EMC moved to make Hadoop safe for the Joe Blow big company that wants to figure out what’s in all that unstructured data it’s got.
It’s integrated the Hadoop file system into its Isilon scale-out NAS storage and lets the two of them cuddle up with its Hadoop-digesting Greenplum analy...Feb. 9, 2012 09:00 AM EST Reads: 984 |
 Amazon has reined in the price of its S3 storage a bit as of February 1.
It didn’t give a reason for its largesse other than a vague allusion to economies of scale. Maybe it has something to do with Gartner saying using cloud storage for business intelligence is only cheaper for the ...Feb. 9, 2012 07:45 AM EST Reads: 875 |
 AMD Thursday told financial analysts it’s gonna try not to become road kill by addressing the “trends around consumerization, the cloud and convergence” and switching to a new “ambidextrous” strategy that includes other people’s technologies and IP to deliver differentiated products su...Feb. 9, 2012 06:00 AM EST Reads: 703 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that ScaleOut Software, a leading provider of distributed in-memory data grids and data analysis solutions, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 10th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 11–14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York...Feb. 8, 2012 09:15 AM EST Reads: 1,066 |
 Acer has sued its former CEO Gianfranco Lanci in Milan, charging him with breaching a one-year non-compete by going to work for its Lenovo rival. It is asking for damages.
Lanci left Acer last year at the end of March in a strategy flap over the company’s direction, mobile gismos and...Feb. 8, 2012 08:30 AM EST Reads: 829 |
 Virtualization and private cloud are good for server consolidation, creating flexible environments, and saving IT budget dollars. A recent survey of 1200 companies with 500+ employees showed that 59% had server virtualization in production or pilot. But that doesn’t tell the whole stor...Feb. 8, 2012 06:15 AM EST Reads: 1,590 |
 Regulation of consumer and corporate data is increasing in response to the growing movement into cloud service offerings. Coupled with high-profile intrusions by groups such as Anonymous and Lulzsec, the necessity for a standard way to assess the security of cloud service providers bec...Feb. 8, 2012 06:00 AM EST Reads: 1,761 |
 The Platform as a Service (PaaS) market grew out of the fact that no other cloud solution addressed the ever-increasing complexity of managing and writing modern applications: no frameworks, libraries or APIs alone could tackle the sticky application engineering challenges. Unfortunate...Feb. 7, 2012 08:00 AM EST Reads: 1,569 |
 Big Data has become very popular as what can probably best be described as “loosely structured large scale data”, i.e., data sets of relatively small files.
In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Tom Leyden, Director of Alliances and Marketing at Amplidata, will explain...Feb. 7, 2012 07:15 AM EST Reads: 1,650 |
 Hadoop, MapReduce, Hive, Hbase, Lucene, Solr? The only thing growing faster than enterprise data these days is the landscape of big data tools. These tools, which are designed to help organizations turn big data into opportunities, are gaining deeper insight into massive volumes of inf...Feb. 7, 2012 06:45 AM EST Reads: 1,884 |
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