Cloud Computing Journal

With any luck I am already AFK for a visit with Don’s mother and his family for Thanksgiving. And I’m really (really, I swear) going to be AFK (away from keyboard) for the entire time. Really. I’m serious this time, stop looking at me like that. Ever heard of “pre-publishing?” ... (more)

Amazon Cloud Journal Note: this post applies to CloudBerry Explorer 1.7PRO and later. In CloudBerry Lab we are always thinking how to bring more value to our users. Since we use Amazon S3 heavily ourselves it is easy sometimes to identify things that will make CloudBerry Explorer... (more)

SOA in the Cloud on Ulitzer Token translation using SAML is now quite an established way to allow applications in one security domain to communicate with applications in another security domain, on behalf of a user whole identity does not have to also flow with the data. For mor... (more)

Cloud Computing on Ulitzer As a preface to the series of articles I will be writing on the Value Proposition and Business Cases for Cloud Computing, I wanted to discuss the layers below and within the cloud. It is important to understand what each of the layers is composed of, wh... (more)

ATLANTA, GA -- (Marketwire) -- 11/25/09 -- The HOA community has something in common with the rest of the business world. It has a need to cut costs and work within a confined budget. Within this economy, many businesses are looking to utilize combined resources in an effort to m... (more)

SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 11/25/09 -- Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD), the IT infrastructure performance company for networks, applications and storage, today announced that it has been named a PilotHouse Award Top Provider by Nemertes Research. The PilotHouse Award... (more)

Static passwords replaced by two-factor authentication for applications in the cloud 25 November 2009: With the growing demand for web-based SaaS applications, UK-based Signify has extended its two-factor authentication (2FA) hosted services to provide secure access to cloud-bas... (more)

AMSTERDAM and MUMBAI, November 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Omnitech InfoSolutions Ltd (BSE Code: 532882), India's leading business availability and business continuity solutions provider is pleased to announce its participation in EuroSTAR 2009, which will be held from November 30, 2009 -... (more)

Carrying over the provisioning and capacity planning techniques used in a traditional data center to cloud computing negates the full power of the Force cloud computing. One of the benefits of cloud computing is supposed to be efficiency, particularly in the utilization of compu... (more)

LONDON, November 25 /PRNewswire/ -- FIBA Europe, the European Basketball Federation, worked with NTT Europe Online to showcase EuroBasket 2009 which reached a record online audience of eight million visitors and distributed over four terabytes of data during the duration of the t... (more)

All this while the IT team is faced with another reality, the main corporate datacenter has 6-18 months left in terms of shelf life. The datacenter's power distribution and patch panel design was not built to handle the massive density and cooling power requirements. The sprawl o... (more)

Cloud Computing on Ulitzer The ENISA (European Network and Information Security Agency) today released the Cloud Computing Risk Assessment document. The document does well by including a focus on SMEs (Small and Medium sized Enterprises) because, as the report says, "Given the redu... (more)

I've been traveling so there is a bit of a back log of news. In case you missed this, The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA), working for the EU Institutions and Member States has released a Cloud Computing Risk Assessment report. ENISA is the EU’s response ... (more)

CARY, NC -- (Marketwire) -- 11/24/09 -- NuMobile, Inc. (OTCBB: NUBL), a fully-reporting over-the-counter bulletin board listed company, today announced the release of an on-demand Webcast to review a third quarter update. The Company filed its 3rd quarter financial report last we... (more)

PALO ALTO, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 11/24/09 -- Dyyno, the breakthrough online video distribution platform, today announced the appointment of Ken Hausman to the position of vice president of corporate development. Hausman has more than 25 years of senior management experience in ne... (more)

SAN RAFAEL, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 11/24/09 -- Customer satisfaction edged up slightly for hotels (+0.1 to 82.8) and airlines (+0.1 to 75.7) but declined for rental car companies (-0.4 to 79.2) in the third quarter of 2009. Pan Pacific Hotels & Resorts, Virgin Atlantic, and Enterp... (more)

Quality Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: QSII) announced today that effective immediately, Patrick Cline, president of its NextGen Healthcare Information Systems subsidiary, has been promoted to president and chief strategy officer of Quality Systems. Steven T. Plochocki, who currently ser... (more)

PALO ALTO, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 11/24/09 -- Dyyno, the Web platform for instant sharing of visual information, today announced it has been named a finalist for the 2009 Emerging Technology Awards from the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal. Dyyno was chosen as a finalist i... (more)

In many cases the industry talks about cloud computing being a new and optimized approach to delivering IT services. From the point of view of application developers, cloud computing offers dynamic platforms that equip them with the capability to deliver their application in an o... (more)

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Nov. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Zscaler, Inc., the market leader in cloud-delivered multi-tenant Security as a Service (SaaS), today announced that it has deployed protections to protect customers against a new zero-day threat that affects Internet Explorer 6 & 7. Z... (more)