Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Cisco's new CloudVerse framework

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Cisco gets more serious about the cloud with new CloudVerse framework
VentureBeat
Cisco will approach and integrate its cloud services in more cohesive manner with a new high-level framework called CloudVerse, the company announced today. Cisco already provides many of its customers with cloud services, but as the challenges of...
$20B Cloud Storage Market Heats Up: HP Bundles Box.net for Consumers, Nirvanix ...
Forbes
These two announcements highlight the contrast between two cloud storage startups Box (consumer) and Nirvanix (enterprise) cloud storage — the difference is one is focused on gigabyte-scale deployments for HP laptops (Box.net) and the other is focused ...
Cloud Computing Association Promotes Cloud Industry, Technologies
MarketWatch (press release)
"We are building a community of corporate end-users, application developers, and service providers ofcloud-based solutions and products. The CLOUD is rapidly becoming the fuel that is powering business efficiency and growth, and we are providing our ...
CA Cloud 360 Helps Enterprises Ensure Cloud SLAs with Tools, Expertise
Integration Developers
CA Technologies has launched CA Cloud 360 solution to help enterprises move their apps to the cloud. The latest CA cloud offering combines products from its IT management portfolio with cloud consultant expertise to span the four crucial stages of the ...
Cloud App Testing on a "Testing Cloud"
Dr. Dobb's
By Adrian Bridgwater, December 06, 2011 San Francisco based BlazeMeter has launched launched what it claims is the first cloud service for load and performance testing powerful enough to simulate enterprise grade load testing requirements. ...
HP Continues Cloud Strategy, Buys Hiflex
TheStreet.com
HP is expanding its cloud-based offerings. By adding Hiflex, which specializes in printing management software, and the recent purchase of British software company Autonomy, the company continues to remake itself. "HP wants to break the traditional...
Open Cloud Visionaries: John Engates, CTO of Rackspace
Forbes
The concept of the Open Cloud defined in this CITO Research Problem Statement (The Case for Building an Open Cloud) is an attempt to think through adoption of the cloudin a comprehensive way over the long term. This article is part of a series of ...
Buying into the cloud while supporting the past
ZDNet (blog)
Cloud computing is high fashion, not least because we are so used as individuals now to often free 'on demand' application on our devices. SAP's decision, announced at the weekend, to purchase cloud-based human capital management (HCM) firm ...
Clouds: Advantages, Types & Services Delivered
HedgeCo.net (blog)
The increased use of cloud-based services is undeniable. Analyst firm Forrester forecasts that the global market for cloud computing will grow from $40.7 billion in 2011 to more than $241 billion in 2020. The advantages of using “the cloud” include the ...
Is Cloud the Answer for the European Economy?
Forbes
My last blog, Cloud is The World's Economic Opportunity, profiled the plans of key governments around the world who are investing heavily in cloud computing to enhance economic opportunity and quality of life for their citizens. ...
Monitoring cloud workload activities
SearchCloudComputing.com
Cloud managers work within a distributed WAN computing infrastructure; one of the biggest shifts from the traditional data center is that all data is stored, managed and administered in a privatecloud. Effective cloud-based workload monitoring can ...
INetU Expands its Exclusive Gated Community Cloud into Europe
Sacramento Bee
6, 2011 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Leading managed hosting provider INetU (www.inetu.net) has announced the expansion of its exclusive "Gated Community Cloud™" into Europe out of its Amsterdam data center. While this service had been available to clients ...
Cloud Remains Top IT Priority for 2012, Unisys Poll Shows
Sacramento Bee
6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Fifty (50) percent of respondents to a recent Unisys Corporation (NYSE: UIS) online poll said that cloud computing is their top IT investment priority for 2012. The poll, which drew 300 responses, was conducted on the unisys.com ...
Cloud Connect Webinar: Vistaprint Shares Lessons Learned from Managing a ...
MarketWatch (press release)
In this webinar, Vistaprint, a publicly-traded printing company with locations all over the globe, will explain how it has used a cloud-based technology from Nasuni to develop a single global share that is accessible from every physical presence. ...
Cloud Storage Moving from Luxury to Necessity
IT Business Edge (blog)
By date: Five trends indicate there's no need to protest moving mission-critical data into the cloud. In enterprise center circles, the line between luxury and necessity is usually very fine. It also has a habit of coming on very quickly — barely ...
If you think you'll save money with cloud computing, think again
Nextgov
By Joseph Marks 12/06/2011 More than half of organizational users saved little or no money after transitioning to cloud computing, according to a new study, and only 14 percent actually downsized their information technology departments after moving to ...
Massive Cloud Computing Company Takeouts, Government Regulation of Social ...
MarketWatch (press release)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Dec 06, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- 2011 has been an incredible year for the IT industry with highlights including mainstream adoption of cloud computing, unprecedented social media participation and Big Data growth. ...
Cloud service contracts: A bit of a grey area
Financial Times
By Jessica Twentyman The promise of spending less is one of the main attractions that draws companies to cloud computing. Along with improved performance and more flexibility on capacity, the prospect of using hosted systems on a pay-as-you-go basis, ...
SunGard Promises 99.9% Uptime For SAP Cloud Apps
InformationWeek
Enterprise-level services in the cloud include multiple layers of security, secured line communications, and guaranteed service levels for production environments. By Charles Babcock InformationWeek As cloud services mature, they are likely to come ...
Cloud Computing Grows, Interest in Data Centers Remains: Survey
Channel Insider
Very few companies (6 percent) currently outsource their entire data center computing to the cloud, the survey found. Despite increases in cloud computing, 50 percent of companies are investing and planning over the long term to build or expand data ...
HP Bundles Box.com Cloud Storage Software with PCs
NewsFactor Network
In what marks more evidence that collaboration and cloud technologies continue gaining momentum in the modern enterprise, Hewlett-Packard has struck a deal with Box to deliver what it is calling an integrated collaboration experience. ...
GIS Cloud Featured at Eye on Earth Summit
Sacramento Bee
6, 2011 -- /PRNewswire/ -- At the Eye on Earth Summit Esri will describe how cloud GIS is positioned to create an international geospatial platform for sharing environmental data and designing solutions. Also former US president Bill Clinton, ...
enStratus Hires Cloud Computing Veteran, James Urquhart, as Vice President of ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
In this new role, Urquhart will be responsible for defining the product strategy and overseeing product management to ensure enStratus solutions meet the needs of the enterprise cloud management market. enStratus announced today the appointment of ...
Tier 3 Enhances Enterprise-Grade Cloud Platform With New Relic Application ...
MarketWatch (press release)
SEATTLE, WA and SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Dec 06, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- New Relic Inc., the SaaS web application performance management (APM) provider, and Tier 3, the enterprise cloud platform provider, announced today that Tier 3 has enhanced its ...
Telecom Italia Sees Lack of Tech Savvy Hurting Cloud Growth
BusinessWeek
6 (Bloomberg) -- Telecom Italia SpA's home country risks falling behind in the $68.3 billion market for computer- cloud services that allow clients to cut costs because of Italy's information technology “illiteracy.” “It usually takes more time for a ...
Vyatta Improves Amazon Cloud Networking for Z Gallerie
Sacramento Bee
6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Vyatta, the leader in software-based networking for physical, virtual and cloud infrastructures, today announced that Vyatta Network OS has been selected by Z Gallerie, a leading home decor and furniture retailer, ...
Google Chromebooks Finally Reach Cloud Channel
CRN
By Andrew R Hickey, CRN Google has officially launched a pilot channel program around its Google Chromebooks cloud-based notebooks, CRN has learned. Launched earlier this year at the Google I/O conference, Google Chromebooks are small, ...
CloudVerse: Cisco Gathers Its Cloud Platforms Into One Platform ...
By Scott M. Fulton, III
Cisco's history at building brands around consumer-grade devices and services has been not only less than stellar, but a bit below mediocre. It failed to make the most ...
ReadWriteCloud
The Rise Of Cloud Computing | Young Upstarts
By Contributor
by Yi Ning Lim, marketing specialist at GMO GlobalSign Cloud computing has become a buzzword in the recent years, with numerous companies providing the technology to enable organizations to access applications over a network to ...
Young Upstarts
Cloud News: Amazon, Dell, Nirvanix, Caringo, CTERA » Data ...
By John Rath
Dell announced development of a cloud-based master data management (MDM) solution, which will offer improved capabilities to simplify data management within cloud and software-as-a-service (SaaS) application integration for medium ...
Data Center Knowledge
The Cloud is Here (and Not Going Anywhere) | CloudTweaks.com ...
By Rick
The Cloud is Here (and Not Going Anywhere) Lately, there have appeared many articles on the Internet about how the cloud is now approaching maturity, and.
CloudTweaks.com - Cloud Computing...
Considerations for Choosing a Cloud Provider | Mission Critical: Cloud
By Marifran Manzo-Ritchie
For many organizations, cloud computing is cost-effective for at least some applications. Determining which applications are appropriate for the cloud takes.
Blog Center
Cloud Wars: Cisco Strikes Back | SiliconANGLE
By Val Galin
As we focus on this market transition with the convergence of server, processing capabilities, networking and storage into the cloud, the UCS in the data center grew year-over-year at 122% in terms of orders and 116% in terms of revenues, ...
SiliconANGLE
GigaSpaces: Cloud Trends – Today & Tomorrow : VMblog.com ...
By David Marshall
As 2011 winds down, it is a good time to look to trends shaping our industry - how they impacted technology this year and look toward trends for 2012. A good place to start may be with my 2011 predictions and see if my previous (and initial) ...
VMblog.com - Virtualization Technolog...
Caringo, CTERA Team to Offer Service Providers Cloud Storage ...
Caringo, CTERA Team to Offer Service Providers Cloud Storage Tools | The Web Host Industry Review - Web Hosting News.
theWHIR.com - Daily Web Hosting News
1 Raindrop: Understanding Cloud Security Standards Part 2
By Gunnar Peterson
Over on the Intel Cloud Access 360 blog I have series on Understanding Cloud Security standards. In part one, I looked at Cloud Security Anti-Patterns. The four Anti-Patterns that occur regularly with enterprises moving to Cloud include: ...
1 Raindrop
What I learned at 2011 IBM Cloud Computing Technical Symposium ...
By Alfredo Olivieri
The event opened with a keynote session from Bowman Hall (Director of Cloud Computing Client Engagements IBM Software Group) and Christian Klezl (Vice President and Cloud Leader of IBM Northeast Europe). In their speeches, Christian ...
Thoughts on Cloud
Archiving, Business Continuity and DR Should be Part of Every ...
By Jerome M. Wendt
"The Cloud" is used in many contexts today though organizations most often associate it with "backup, business continuity, disaster recovery and archiving," in that order. This puts the onus on organizations to select a solution that does more ...
DCIG
Migrating Apps to the Cloud with Citrix – Intel Conversations in the ...
By Connected Social Media Syndication
Migrating Apps to the Cloud with Citrix - Intel Conversations in the Cloud - Episode 33.
Connected Social Media
Cisco Lays Out Agressive Strategy to Capture More Cloud Business ...
By Arik Hesseldahl
Networking giant Cisco Systems has been talking for awhile now about its intentions to become a big supplier of cloud infrastructure. Today it got specific, with a portfolio of products it collectively calls CloudVerse.
AllThingsD
Cloud Infographic: Cloud Computing Adoption in Canada | The ...
Canada leads the world in internet usage and online social networking, yet Canadians are being cautious about cloud computing trends. Find out why.
www.thecloudinfographic.com/.../canadian-businesses-in-the-c...
Cloudsizer, a New Way to Track Cloud Costs - ReadWriteCloud
The latest entry into calculating cloud computing costs of the public providers is from Cloudsizer, with more than a dozen different cloud providers covered.
www.readwriteweb.com/.../cloudsizer-a-new-way-to-track.php
 

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