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GoDaddy Introduces Cloud Servers, Competes with AWS and Rackspace
May 14, 2012GoDaddy recently announced its newest offering, Cloud Servers, and competes for the first time with companies like Amazon Web Services and Rackspace. (See an exclusive interview with GoDaddy CEO Wa...
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5 Issues Cloud Computing Can’t Solve
May 14, 2012Cloud computing, even while still in its beginnings has already proven its value. It is already setting up a pattern that demonstrates how it can reshape business processes. It is this breakthrough...
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Test Driving the Cloud
May 11, 2012by Chris Uttenweiler, System Architect, DLT Solutions Contrary to a sea of white papers and hours of slick video clips, the point when your back is against the wall is NOT the time to start look...
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For the past two years, the tech industry trends have revolved around cloud computing and smartphones. As Venture Capital firms rapidly invest in cloud computing and smartphone companies, it is important to look at how these two technologies interrelate.
Today the majority of mobile applications do most of the data storage and processing on [...]
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The Cloudforce event which starts this week on March 3 in New York, is expected to receive more than 4,000 attendees.
Cloudforce, salesforce.com’s second biggest event after Dreamforce, is a free one day event with 18 role-based breakout sessions for sales, customer service, developers, and IT.
Salesforce.com’s CEO Marc Benioff will deliver [...]
Infrastructure as a service provides cost savings, scale, and flexibility to a business IT department. Companies with complex applications are perfect candidates to an infrastructure transition from on-premise to IaaS.
Many Cloud hosting service providers offer varying services of IaaS. Replacing a business on-premise IT infrastructure by a Cloud IaaS IT infrastructure requires in-depth [...]
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Google released today an expanded version of Google Cloud Connect that improves the way Microsoft users use Google apps. It enables users of Microsoft office to transfer and share documents to the cloud. Google Cloud Connect Office is an MS Office integration tool that plugs into 2003/2007/2010 MS Word, MS Excel, and MS PPT, [...]
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Today Parallels, the worldwide leader in virtualization and automation software, announced the introduction of a new cloud infrastructure, and hosted PBX solutions, as well as support for Microsoft Office 365 Syndication and Hyper-V cloud. In addition, Parallels is investing in APS-enabled solutions to speed up ISV’s ability to profit from the Cloud.
According to Birger [...]
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Vidyo launched today an Internet-based videoconferencing architecture that can scale to tens of thousands of users on a variety of mobile devices, such as smartphones, tablets, or laptops.
The Cloud Edition of Vidyo offers an easily deployed, low maintenance infrastructure comprised of a network of VidyoRouter appliances to further enhance the Vidyo conference [...]
Microsoft is promoting a free trial of the Windows Azure platform, valid till June 30, 2011.
This promotion includes:
- 750 hours of Windows Azure Extra Small Compute instance use,
– 25 hours of Small Compute instance,
– 500MB of storage,
– 10,000 storage transactions per month,
– 100,000 [...]
Dell has rolled out at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 2011 conference in Orlando, new subscription-based private cloud services for healthcare providers. These cloud services will provide a more streamlined access to patients’ archived information for easier sharing and management of the information between physicians, hospitals and other point of care.
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What are the technical underlying distinctions between grid and cloud computing?
Grid computing has been around for a long time and is sometimes confused with cloud computing because both types of computing work outside the firewall to the local network. They both use other machines either by volunteer network or by renting those from companies [...]
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Yahoo is scheduled to make changes to its internal cloud-serving platform and release it as an open source. Yahoo Cloud, is a cloud computing infrastructure that offers Yahoo developers on-demand computing capabilities, and is used by most Yahoo services and applications.
The changes made to the internal cloud will make the operation of Yahoo [...]
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Hewlett-Packard and virtualization specialist VMware Inc. announced this week their intent to collaborate on developing and marketing security technology for the cloud. The companies said they aim to advance customer protection by integrating HP’s TippingPoint intrusion prevention system with VMware’s vShield and vCloud Director products to deliver a unified cloud security [...]
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At the RSA conference this week, the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) held a half-day summit which served as the venue for the global introduction of several research projects, including research on governance, cloud security reference architectures and cloud-specific computer security incident response teams. The [...]
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U.S. President Obama’s proposed 2012 Federal budget included proposals to improve the inefficiencies in government data centers. The Obama administration asserted that cloud computing and data center consolidation will play a significant role in lowering IT costs. The administration plans to reduce the number of data centers by 40 [...]
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It is important for businesses to find the right architecture to suit their data storage needs. The benefit of public cloud storage is that data storage is managed and controlled off-premise by a cloud service provider, without the need to install hardware within the organization. Nevertheless, major concerns revolve around transporting data or business [...]
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At the RSA conference 2011 opening Keynote on February 15th, Art Coviello, Executive Vice President of EMC and Executive Chairman of RSA, presented the essential strategy on how to get organizations to trust the cloud for deploying mission-critical applications. He stressed that the cloud can meet all business processes security and compliance requirements, even [...]
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Forrester analysts issued a new report on Monday titled “2011 Top 10 IaaS Cloud Predictions For I&O Leaders” where they make 10 predictions about IaaS that infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals need to take into account to build a successful strategy. The report advises companies to focus on the type of private [...]
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The Emerging Role of Social Employee Apps
IT departments are struggling to adapt to new economic realities and a rapidly changing technology environment that includes fundamental shifts in mobile, social, and cloud computing technologies. As a result, a new applications layer – the social employee application layer – based on modern social networking websites is being developed. This layer of less-expensive collaborative applications creates agility around core operational systems, allowing a much higher number of business users to access and collaborate around central operations, especially on mobile devices. As a result of IT departments struggling to adapt to new economic realities and a rapidly changing technology environment, a new applications layer is being developed - the social employee application layer. Find out more now!
