Thursday, February 16, 2012

Atos, EMC and VMware to form an open cloud computing strategic alliance

Atos, EMC and VMware to form an open cloud computing strategic alliance
Reuters
Atos to create Canopy, a One-Stop-Shop Company for Advanced Cloud Services; EMC and VMware to Invest Alongside Atos to Unlock the Potential of Cloud Computing for Enterprises and Governments Webcast today at 15.00 (CET) with Thierry Breton Chairman and ...

Zynga Makes Dramatic Shift From Public Cloud
PCWorld
By James Niccolai, IDG News Zynga has moved most of its users away from Amazon Web Services and onto its private cloud in a move to maximize the reliability and performance of its social games network. Nearly 80 percent of Zynga's daily active users ...

'Linux for cloud' floats anti-Amazon cloud taster
Register
By Gavin Clarke • Get more from this author Updated How does a cloud project solve a problem like Amazon? The once genteel etailer of toasters, books and CDs has now become a byword for "cloud". People just can't stop stuffing more of their data into ...

Cloud Connect: Don't Expect Turnkey Cloud Deployment, Analyst Warns
CRN
By Jack McCarthy, CRN Staten spoke Wednesday in a presentation at Cloud Connect in Sunnyvale, Calif. He pointed out that data centers in enterprises use legacy equipment and applications that are often not easily moved to the cloud.

Multitenancy & Cloud Computing Platforms: Four Big Problems
ZDNet (blog)
It feels a little blasphemous to type this while Cloud Connect, the cloud industry's premier conference, takes place just 30 miles away. But sometimes when you see a balloon rising from all of the hot air filling it, you gotta take aim with the BB gun ...

Xactly OEMs Award-Winning Informatica Cloud
MarketWatch (press release)
Xactly will embed Informatica Cloud as a key component of its popular Xactly Express offering. --Cloud-based Xactly Express is the industry's first self-service sales compensation management software, built natively on the salesforce.com Force.com ...

Rackspace Enlists Redapt for Private Cloud Installs
PCWorld
By Nancy Gohring, IDG News Rackspace hopes to make it easier to use its OpenStack privatecloud offering by partnering with Redapt, a company that procures, configures and ships servers to customers. "One challenge we have is how to handle the physical ...

Report: Global SMB Cloud Services Market to Hit $68B by 2014
Small Business Computing
By Pedro Hernandez | Published on: 15-Feb-12 Small- and medium-sized businesses are poised to adopt cloud services in a big way over the next few years. That's according to the SMB CloudInsights report published today during the Parallels Summit in ...

Silverback Announces Acquisitions of Two Leading Cloud Software Companies ...
MarketWatch (press release)
AUSTIN, Texas, Feb 15, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Silverback Enterprise Group, which acquires and builds industry-leading enterprise software companies, announced today the acquisitions of PowerSteering Software, Inc., the leading provider of cloud-based ...

SafeNet Sentinel Cloud Receives 2012 CODiE Award for Best Digital Rights ...
MarketWatch (press release)
BALTIMORE, Feb 15, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- SafeNet, Inc., a global leader in data protection, today announced that Sentinel Cloud was selected as the Best Digital Rights Management Solution in the Software & Industry Information Association's (SIIA) ...

ITinvolve's New Cloud Service Aims to Transform IT Change Management
MarketWatch (press release)
HOUSTON, Feb 15, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- ITinvolve, based in Houston, Texas, announced today the introduction of a new cloud service that enables IT managers and staff to visualize, assess and understand the impact of changes made in complex IT ...

Translation Cloud Releases API for Developers In Its Updated Version 2.5
Sacramento Bee
By Translation Services USA NEW YORK, Feb. 14, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Translation Cloud,http://www.translationcloud.net, the application created by Translation Services USA, is an automated system for real time translations via a crowdsourced ...

UnitedHealth launching Apple-like cloud service for care coordination
FierceHealthPayer
UnitedHealth's Optum unit is launching a new healthcare cloud-computing platform, which stores information and applications on remote servers accessed through a secure Internet connection, to help share medical data among healthcare professionals in ...

Porticor claims to hold key to cloud security
ZDNet (blog)
By Paula Rooney | February 15, 2012, 7:17am PST Summary: Israeli startup Porticor claims that its Virtual Private Data (VPD) system addresses encryption and key management for public, private and hybid clouds. One Tel Aviv, Israel startup launched ...

Host Analytics Solidifies Position as Industry's Leading Cloud CPM Solution ...
MarketWatch (press release)
REDWOOD CITY, CA, Feb 15, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Host Analytics, the leader inCloud-based corporate performance management (CPM) apps, today announced record corporate, customer, and partner growth in 2011. Innovation around products and ...

The Inevitably of Private Cloud
NetworkComputing.com
Back in August of 2011 I wrote that the implementation risk of private cloud for enterprises outweighs the benefits. I still think that if an organization rushes into private cloud willy-nilly, this is true. But, fast forward to February 2012, ...

Nimbula Enhances, Adds Features In Cloud OS
NetworkComputing.com
Seeking to bring cloud computing features to the VMware virtualization private cloud space, Nimbula has announced a new version of its Nimbula Director cloud operating system. In addition to supporting the VMware ESXi hypervisor, Version 2.0 is also ...

Disruptive Technology Innovators Embrace NetSuite Cloud to Support Fast ...
Sacramento Bee
15, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- NetSuite Inc. (NYSE: N), the industry's leading provider of cloud-based financials / ERP software suites, today announced the latest disruptive technology innovators to select NetSuite and NetSuite OneWorld to manage their ...

Making the Cloud Conventional
CRM Buyer
By Denis Pombriant Perhaps Oracle's Taleo acquisition says a lot about a conventional software company trying to make the cloud conventional. But at this point the cloud is conventional, it's just not conventional in that way.

SAP Embraces Cloud, Mobile Solutions
Destination CRM
By Leonard Klie NEW YORK (SAP Forum) – SAP today made an aggressive push toward cloud-based and mobile business applications, outlining plans to revamp its entire product line for a new generation of users and build on the HTML5 platform.

Lighthouse Security Group Expands Operations to Support its Proven Cloud ...
MarketWatch (press release)
LINCOLN, RI, Feb 15, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Led by cloud-based identity and access management (IAM) pioneer Eric Maass, Lighthouse Security Group today announced expanded operations to support the launch of the next generation of its Lighthouse ...

Abacast Announces Release of Cloud-Based Clarity(TM) Digital Radio System for ...
MarketWatch (press release)
VANCOUVER, WA, Feb 15, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Abacast, a leading provider of online radio streaming and monetization software and services, announced the availability of thecloud-based Clarity(TM) Digital Radio System, a state-of-the-art ad ...

Insight Enterprises Launches Total Cloud Solution
CRN
By Scott Campbell, CRN Insight Enterprises has launched the InsightCloud Solution Center, its firstcloud-based offering that will include messaging, security, infrastructure, collaboration solutions and management capabilities for messaging workloads, ...

CloudNOW's Top Women in Cloud Awards Recognize Thought Leaders and Tech Pioneers
Sacramento Bee
14, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- CloudNOW, a nonprofit executive consortium of the leading women in cloud computing, announced during Cloud Connect Santa Clara today, the first annual CloudNOW Awards presented to 10 outstanding women in cloud ...

Zynga CTO talks up Z Cloud 2.0, shift away from Amazon — Cloud ...
By Barb Darrow
Game giant Zynga is weaning itself from Amazon's infrastructure as it moves the bulk of its workloads onto its internal Z Cloud infrastructure. Zynga's CTO said the company has optimized ZCloud for its games, so it is more efficient than the ...
GigaOM

What's an "Open Cloud," Anyway? Red Hat Says It's Not VMware ...
By Joe Brockmeier
When open source started gaining in popularity, a lot of vendors started trying to co-opt the open source label without actually being open source. You don't see quite ...
ReadWriteCloud

Cloud Services Enterprise Generalist Strategies Emerge
By Eric Knipp
Eric Knipp Sr Research Analyst 2 years at Gartner 15 years IT industry. Eric Knipp is a senior research analyst in Gartner Research, where he focuses on Web and cloud application development methodologies and trends. Mr. Knipp is based ...
Eric Knipp

Zynga Ramps Up Private Cloud Infrastructure zCloud; Now Stores ...
By Leena Rao
As mentioned in yesterday's earnings call, Zynga revealed that the company's zCloud, its privatecloud infrastructure has been scaling significantly in the past year. At the start of 2011, only 20% of Zynga's daily active users (DAU) were in the ...
TechCrunch

If Google Delivers a Cloud Storage Service, Here's the Real Motive
By Sam Dean
As we reported last week, although Google has yet to confirm the rumors, the company is said by many sources to be on the verge of introducing a cloud storage service. The service would compete with Dropbox, which many users love, and ...
OStatic blogs

Commit to the Cloud - Digital Landfill
By John Mancini
Imperative Number 5 of 6 Facing Information Professionals Commit to the cloud: Break down monolithic "enterprise" solutions into more “app like” solutions that can be deployed quickly independent of platform and in the cloud. The spread of ...
Digital Landfill

EMC Reveals One-Stop Cloud Shop with Atos | SiliconANGLE
By Maria Deutscher
A fresh release revealed that the company and its virtualization subsidiary are key partners in a joint venture with Atos: Canopy, a one-stop-shop cloud firm that will bundle up business apps with the private cloud, public cloud and a host of ...
SiliconANGLE

Educating SMBs About the Cloud | MSPmentor
By StorageCraft Guest Blog
Whether you call it cloud computing, cloud services or the cloud, MSPs need to educate SMB (small and midsize businesses) about the cloud, advices StorageCraft.
MSPmentor

Q&A: Porticor CEO Gilad Parann-Nissany Discusses Cloud Security ...
By Justin Lee
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — As security within the cloud continues to be one of the top concerns for many companies and end users, cloud-based data security provider Porticor has officially launched its Porticor Virtual Private Data ...
theWHIR.com - Web Hosting Industry...
The government is making steady progress in executing the reforms outlined in its 25-Point Plan, delivering many ahead of schedule. At the core of this is the shift to cloud-oriented shared services, which hold great promise for government.
SIIA Digital Discourse

Fancy Your Own Amazon Web Services-like Cloud? | CloudTweaks ...
By Muz
Fancy your own Amazon Web Services-like Cloud? Cloudscaling's OpenStack Private Cloud platform provides an answer Designed for very large-scale deployment.
CloudTweaks.com - Cloud Computing...

Cisco Blog » Blog Archive » Cloud Management with Cisco ...
This week is a busy one for the Intelligent Automation cloud team, with both VMware Partner Exchange in Las Vegas and Cloud Connect in Santa Clara. Cloud.
blogs.cisco.com/datacenter/intelligentautomation/

Infinite storage in the cloud | KurzweilAI
Bitcasa has created a new cloud service that promises infinite storage in the cloud for Windows and Mac. Once you install Bitcasa it prompts.
www.kurzweilai.net/infinite-storage-in-the-cloud

Keys to integrated cloud application management
Monitoring cloud application performance doesn't require multiple management consoles. Integratedcloud application management is possible in a few steps.
searchcloudcomputing.techtarget.com/.../Keys-to-integrated-cl...

Appcelerator Cloud Services | Appcelerator
Instant Connected App Features for 5 or 5 Million Users Appcelerator Cloud Services (ACS) provide a wide array of automatically scaled network features.
www.appcelerator.com/products/appcelerator-cloud-services/

AnyCloud - CloudBees: Cloud Platform as a Service for Java Web ...
Deploys to any cloud with a click. Keeps the "S" (Service) in PaaS - no software for you to install and maintain. Any provider, anywhere -- YOUR choice. Primarily ...
www.cloudbees.com/anycloud.cb



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