Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Microsoft Makes Cloud Management Move On VMware

Microsoft Makes Cloud Management Move On VMware
InformationWeek
New System Center suite, due in first half of 2012, centrally manages Windows Server in the data center plus future workloads in private clouds and Windows Azure public cloud. Can features, licensing tweaks lure VMware users? ...

Bloomberg Vault Adds Cloud Archiving for IBM Message Software
Bloomberg
Bloomberg Vault simplifies cloud-based message archiving by taking advantage of native features unique to the IBM Lotus Domino server in order to improve security and reliability, while loweringcloud integration costs. A demo of Bloomberg Vault is ...

Symantec Acquires LiveOffice for Cloud-Based Archiving
eWeek
Its archiving systems can be deployed for either cloud or on-site e-mail systems and will integrate with Symantec's existing cloud services. Data protection and cloud services provider Symantec, filling out its cloud and collaboration software ...

When your data's in the cloud, is it still your data?
Computerworld
By Thomas J. Trappler Computerworld - When your data resides on a cloud provider's infrastructure, your ownership rights could be compromised. For example, what's to prevent the cloud provider from deciding to access your data and use it for its own ...

Ascent Data Adds New Clients to Ascent2Cloud, as Cloud Hosting Services ...
Sacramento Bee
17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Ascent Data, Pittsburgh's trusted provider of Cloud Computing, Colocation, Disaster Recovery Solutions and Data Encryption is pleased to announce new additions to its hosted Cloud solution, Ascent2Cloud. ...

Cloud Technology Partners (cloudTP) Concludes First Year of Business on ...
MarketWatch (press release)
17, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Cloud Technology Partners(TM) Inc. (cloudTP(TM)), the leader in transformational cloud computing solutions, today announced that it has closed out 2011 having achieved a number of significant milestones, ...

RedPrairie Commerce Cloud Takes Flight at NRF 2012
MarketWatch (press release)
ATLANTA, Jan 17, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- RedPrairie Corporation, a global supply chain and retail technology provider, today introduced RedPrairie Commerce Cloud at the National Retail Federation's 101st Annual Retail Convention and Expo. ...

MuleSoft Launches Cloud and REST Integration Apps for Zuora
MarketWatch (press release)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Jan 17, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- MuleSoft, provider of the #1 integration platform for the cloud and enterprise, today announced three new cloud integration applications (iApps) for Zuora, the global leader in subscription ...

Cloud gaming service Gaikai coming to Facebook
Gamasutra
by Mike Rose [Social/Online, Business] Cloud gaming company Gaikai confirmed today at the Cloud Gaming Europe conference that its online game-streaming service is coming to Facebook. The move puts streaming video games on a social network that has over ...

Gamasutra

ScaleXtreme makes cloud hopping easier
Register
ScaleXtreme is a cloud-based service for managing physical servers as well as virtual ones that run either in your own data center or in public clouds such as Amazon's EC2 and Rackspace Hosting'sCloud. The company was cofounded by Nand Mulchandani, ...

Cisco, EMC, SAP Back Cloud Portability Standards Initiative
eWeek
The OASIS Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications (TOSCA) Technical Committee will advance an interoperability standard that is designed to make it easier to deploycloud applications without vendor lock-in, while maintaining ...

Service-oriented cloud computing infrastructure guidelines released
SearchDataManagement.com
By Adam Riglian, News Writer A set of standards for cloud computing infrastructure was released on Tuesday by the Open Group, a vendor- and technology-neutral consortium that creates standards and certification programs. ...

'Cloud Accounting in 2012 and Beyond' for Businesses Evaluating New Financial ...
MarketWatch (press release)
17, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Massey Consulting ( www.masseyconsulting.net ), specializing in Intacct financial accounting implementation, sales and support, is hosting a free encore presentation of "Cloud Accounting in 2012 and Beyond" on ...

Skytap Cloud Recognized as 2011 Products of the Year Winner
MarketWatch (press release)
SEATTLE, WA, Jan 17, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Skytap Inc., the leading provider of self-service cloud automation solutions, today announced that the Skytap Cloud was named a 2011 Products of the Year winner by TechTarget's ...

Why a Hybrid Approach to Cloud Computing Works Best for Now
Forbes
Cloud turns backup and recovery on its head, making it possible to provision back-up sites as needed, for pennies. Ironically, however, this goes against the gut instincts of many IT executives, who spend a lot of time worrying about data security and ...

Forbes

Clamor for Cloud Apps Increases Corporate Data Breach Risk
PCWorld
By George V. Hulme, CSO That's the takeaway of a recent analysis of network and application traffic of more than 1600 organizations conducted by security vendor Palo Alto Networks. This so-called consumerization of IT -- where employees want to use the ...

Capgemini's CTO on how cloud computing exposes the duality between IT and ...
ZDNet (blog)
Capgemini is about to publish a white paper on cloud computing. It draws distinctions between whatcloud means to IT, and what it means to business — while examining the complex dual relationship between the two. As a lead-in to his Open Group ...

Buckle up for a new wave of cloud protectionism
GigaOm
17, 2012, 6:40am PT 4 Comments Add France to the list of European countries pushing a nationalistic cloud computing agenda, one that could have huge repercussions for US-based cloud powers and the nature of cloud computing in general. ...

GigaOm

CSC and Softheon Announce Collaboration to Deliver Cloud-Based Business ...
MarketWatch (press release)
CSC will implement and provide the Softheon framework of business administration modules in acloud environment allowing health insurance plans to extend the capabilities of their current system in a usage-based, software as a service (SaaS) model. ...

Clamor for cloud apps increases corporate data breach risk
CSO
Vendor analysis of network and application traffic shows poorly managed remote access tools and traffic flowing outside port 80 are rampant. By George V. Hulme Employees bringing in their own devices and choosing their own application services is ...

Apprenda Snags Microsoft Cloud Leader Rakesh Malhotra for VP of Products
MarketWatch (press release)
"Rakesh has a successful track record of defining and building software and services for cloud and virtualization, and his passion for PaaS solutions ensures the success he will have at Apprenda as well," said Sinclair Schuller, CEO of Apprenda. ...

Don't be late to the cloud conversation | Smarter Computing Blog
By BrandonHurter
Over the next few weeks we will take a look at cloud computing as the technology model that is transforming IT and is a characteristic of a Smarter Computing approach to your data center. Cloudcomputing is a reaction to the increasing ...
Smarter Computing Blog

System Center 2012 – A True Private Cloud Builder - Microsoft ...
By Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform Team
Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform offerings include private cloud and virtualization technologies, as well as Windows Server operating system, System Center IT management, and Forefront security products.
Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform Blog

Symantec Acquisition of LiveOffice Gives Business a Cloud Booster ...
By Kit Dotson
Monday, anti-virus software vendor Symantec announced their acquisition of LiveOffice, cloudarchiving and storage vendor. While being best known for their anti-virus and spam protection software, Symantec has also had a long history of ...
SiliconANGLE

System Center 2012 is a true “private cloud" builder. Get started on ...
By Erika Cravens
Today in an online broadcast from Microsoft's headquarters, Server and Tools president Satya Nadella laid out how Microsoft's private cloud solution will help businesses move faster, save money and better compete in 2012. In alignment with ...
Born to Learn

Microsoft Private Cloud News - Server and Tools Business News ...
By stbblogger
Today, during an online webcast, “Transforming IT with Microsoft Private Cloud”, Satya Nadella, Microsoft Server & Tools Business president and Brad Anderson, corporate vice president of the Management and Security Division, discussed ...
Server and Tools Business News...

Cloud Roundup for January 17, 2012 - ReadWriteCloud
By Joe Brockmeier
The OpenStack community is getting ready for a bug-squashing day, BitNami has Windows AMIs that qualify for Amazon's free usage tier and Christopher Miles has an interesting post ...
ReadWriteCloud

Microsoft SC 2012 to Support Multi-Hypervisor Private Cloud for a ...
By Scott M. Fulton, III
In a move to stay competitive in a cloud landscape that looked to be blowing it away, Microsoft this morning is making important strategic shifts that could advance ...
ReadWriteWeb

Cross platform cloud solutions | Thoughts on Cloud
By David Kwock
One challenge in many cloud environments is having the correct platforms available to build solutions. Many times, cloud providers provide a subset either of infrastructure as a service (IaaS) or platform as a service (PaaS) solutions that might ...
Thoughts on Cloud

Microsoft Private Cloud Computing Book | The Digital Nervous System
By damian.flynn
Today – during the announcement of System Center 2012 RC availability) – seems the perfect occasion to announce our book called Microsoft Private Cloud Computing. Mid-2011 four MVP's decided to make a joint effort at writing a practical ...
The Digital Nervous System

Businesses Steering Towards Managed Cloud | GMO Cloud America
By miccilopez
The cloud is now considered to be in its pre-teen stage. As new challenges arise, more businesses are looking into ways on how to effectively use the cloud, more specifically, managed cloud services.
GMO Cloud America

Flexibility in the Cloud | Cloud Computing Journal
"Cloud connected storage services is what we offer to small and medium businesses and the remote and branch offices of enterprises, and that means disaster ...
cloudcomputing.sys-con.com/node/2117466

Developers will flock to public cloud in 2012 | Ubuntu Cloud Portal
The public cloud is looking pretty good as a development platform this year and gaining clouddevelopment skills is a top priority for many developers, according ...
cloud.ubuntu.com/.../developers-will-flock-to-public-cloud-in...

Eight New Year's Resolutions for the Cloud - Direct2Dell ...
Note from Lionel: Below is the first of three cloud computing-related guest posts from Rhonda Abrams. Rhonda is president of The Planning Shop who also ...
en.community.dell.com/.../eight-new-year-s-resolutions-for-th...

To Cloud or Not to Cloud Cloud Computing Cost Savings Made ...
To Cloud or Not to Cloud Cloud Computing Cost Savings Made Simple.
cloudstrategies.net/.../to-cloud-or-not-to-cloud-cloud-computi...



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