MeriTalk, the government information technology (IT) network, today announced the results of the “Federal Cloud Weather Report” report. The report provides a status on Federal cloud computing migration, explores agencies’ cloud challenges, and delivers insight on the road ahead. Underwritten by VMware, the leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, the report shows that Feds are…
AlwaysOn partnered with Morgan Stanley, KPMG, Hewlett-Packard, Blackstone Group, Bridge Bank, Fenwick & West, Silicon Valley Bank, along with industry experts, to identify the top 100 private on-demand and SaaS companies – plus 16 to watch – that are pioneers in cloud computing and SaaS. Companies were selected based on a set of five criteria:…
Cloud Connect kicked off this morning with special keynote guests and more than 3,000 registered attendees. The keynotes are streaming live on Cloud Connect’s online tv : http://tv.cloudconnectevent.com/. The Cloud Connect conference is designed to inform cloud customers and operators about the latest cloud computing innovations and to showcase the latest cloud technologies and platforms…
Zenith Infotech introduced today MirrorCloud, a new lightweight backup and disaster recovery software application for the mid size business market. Using a data cloning process, MirrorCloud takes zero-copy data snapshots of any physical and virtual Windows server or desktop, dramatically increasing Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs). Within minutes MirrorCloud can reproduce a virtual image of any…
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 the…
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. These…
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 system and by automating…
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 emphasis of the conference on cloud computing security indicates the importance…
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 the…
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 cloud to invest…