Cisco announces new security solutions aimed at strengthening data centers against threats generated by consolidation and virtualization. The new Cisco security solutions help to strengthen the protection of data centers and mobile workforce. The new offering includes a highly scalable software firewalls for Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA), a virtualized ASA firewall for multiuser environments…
Microsoft announced the worldwide availability of its Windows Server 2012 platform and comes full foot in the world of cloud computing. The new version is designed to redefine the server software and take it to the cloud computing model and incorporates technologies like storage management, networking, advanced virtualization functionality, process automation and management of identities,…
The concept of cloud refers to the paperless computer hardware resources (cloud computing) and software (Software as a Service). This model tends technology strategically to win business. But it could reshape the IT landscape especially professional to lead to a new paradigm – thanks to the emergence of Amazon Web Services (AWS). As a result,…
Rackspace has launched a new cloud tool designed for businesses to verify the proper operation of the technology infrastructure from anywhere. Rackspace Cloud Monitoring has just seen the light to help any company in the process of monitoring the health of their infrastructure in the cloud. The technology comes from the acquisition of Cloudkick in…
The term cloud computing immediately evokes services that high profile companies like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Rackspace or Salesforce.com offer to their customers. This is what we call the public cloud, allowing you to rent computing capacity and storage, and an ever-expanding range of services and business applications. Prices are attractive and services are available…
After a trial period of four months, Rackspace has just introduced its Open Cloud platform based on OpenStack, which could be defined something like a cloud version of Linux, a project that Rackspace has worked for the past two years. The project OpenStack was launched about two years ago to develop an open architecture for…
Cloud computing and cloud services are growing exponentially in different countries and no longer consider as a trend but a necessity. Research firm Gartner recently published a report that said more than one third of all digital data will be stored in the cloud by 2016. The U.S. is the fourth most friendly in the…
Global spending on IT products and services will grow 3% in 2012 to 3.6 trillion dollars, according to figures presented by research firm Gartner. The forecast is higher than the 2.5% growth projected to Gartner released earlier this year. Global spending on IT services will grow 2.3% to $864 billion in 2012, while hardware spending…
Cloud computing services are on the rise in the health care industry. However, its adoption is slowed by security, privacy, and regulatory concerns. But according to MarketsandMarkets, a research firm, cloud computing is expected to be worth $5.4 Billion in the health care market by 2017. Last year, it was estimated that at least 4%…
Public cloud computing is one of the biggest factors that speed up the pace of changes that occur in enterprise software these days. Newcomers in the market are constantly launching innovations that can disrupt and attack the most price-sensitive sectors in the market. Most of these newcomers, like Salesforce.com, are scooping up customers at the…