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 Though expected as part of the enterprise transformation, we are seeing a much faster adoption of Business Process as a Service aka industry SaaS model into large and medium-sized enterprises.
We are seeing that most enterprises looking for cloud-based solutions for the new business p...Jun. 19, 2012 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 878 |
 Cloud computing offers almost limitless possibilities for innovation and growth. It also provides fodder for endless debates about the pros and cons of hosted and on-premise software deployments.
In one corner, you have the advocates of hosting software in the public cloud who argue ...Jun. 19, 2012 02:16 PM EDT Reads: 486 |
 If the mystery bidder for Quest Software is Dell as Reuters claims then Dell is going to have to fight for the prize if it really wants it because Insight Venture Partners has topped the $25.50-a-share cash bid Quest got last week, according to what a source told Bloomberg.
The myste...Jun. 19, 2012 12:58 PM EDT Reads: 527 |
 Technologists will no doubt be working to refine the process of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) for many millennia to come. Application ‘rudiments’ from physical code through to more ‘elemental’ features including performance, robustness and interoperability will be forever fine...Jun. 19, 2012 12:39 PM EDT Reads: 467 |
 “The productization of Big Data will be an interesting trend to track, and I think we'll start to see some significant investment in this area over the coming months,” noted Scott Sneddon, Vyatta’s Director of Cloud Solutions, in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jere...Jun. 19, 2012 12:09 PM EDT Reads: 647 |
 Panzura and its global cloud storage solutions have gotten a $15 million C round led by Opus Capital.
Existing investors Matrix Ventures, Khosla Ventures and Chevron Technology Ventures, the investment arm of the world’s third-largest oil conglomerate, also kicked in. Opus general pa...Jun. 19, 2012 11:38 AM EDT Reads: 570 |
 Travel insurance provider Seven Corners went beyond the typical efficiency and cost conservation benefits of cloud to build innovative business services that generate whole new revenue streams.
I often hear that culture will trump strategy. It sounds as if in your organization -- mayb...Jun. 19, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 570 |
 Hadoop remains a difficult platform for most enterprises to master. For now skills are still hard to come by – both for data architect or engineer, and especially for data scientists. It still takes too much skill, tape, and baling wire to get a Hadoop cluster together. Not every enter...Jun. 19, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 639 |
 Eucalyptus Systems, which is supposed to have the most widely deployed on-premise cloud computing platform, will be pushing out the 3.1 rev of its widgetry next week.
The company will open source all of the system’s accumulated features up to this point, including the high availabili...Jun. 19, 2012 10:55 AM EDT Reads: 530 |
 Quest Software said last Thursday that it got an acquisition offer worth about $2.15 billion from an unidentified “strategic bidder.”
Reuters claims the unidentified mystery bidder is Dell after talks to buy Quest broke down earlier.
The $25.50-a-share cash offer bests the $23 a sha...Jun. 19, 2012 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 920 |
 It must be getting competitive out there. Amazon Web Services has cut its support prices, expanded free support and added new support features like chat and proactive alerts.
Now all customers will automatically get free support and enterprise support will be based on usage rather th...Jun. 19, 2012 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 916 |
 AMD, which has been suggestively flitting about ARM for months without committing, finally has – but not in the conventional way.
It’s going to license ARM’s one-core Cortex-A5 smartphone processor and develop an x86 security processor using the A5’s TrustZone technology, which cordo...Jun. 19, 2012 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 723 |
 “Cloud computing represents a paradigm shift for IT, transforming computing power into a utility,” observed James Weir, CTO and Co-Founder of UShareSoft, in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “While cloud adoption remains in the early stages,” Weir conti...Jun. 19, 2012 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,633 |
 At the request of both companies and the urging of the judge, HP and Oracle took two days off last week from bludgeoning each of other in court. Observers assumed they were trying to quietly resolve their differences over Oracle refusing to write any more new software for HP’s business...Jun. 19, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 905 |
 NASA has retreated from OpenStack, the open source infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud computing platform it helped RackSpace launch by contributing its Nebula (Nova) compute controller.
Apparently NASA doesn’t want to play developer anymore. Instead, it’s on an “IT reform” tear...Jun. 19, 2012 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,045 |
 “Security standards for moving data into and out of the cloud and for hosting it within the cloud will dramatically help accelerate adoption of the cloud as a secure computing platform,” observed Dr. William L. Bain, founder and CEO of ScaleOut Software, in this exclusive Q&A; with Clou...Jun. 19, 2012 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,409 |
 “Big Data eliminates the data silos that formerly existed, improving the depth and quality of analysis that can take place,” observed Scott Kinka, Chief Technology Officer at Evolve IP, in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “Without these barriers, Kinka...Jun. 19, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,298 |
 In view of the the quick-moving push to modernize many national security and emergency preparedness (NS/EP) capabilities to be cloud based capabilities, the White House tasked the President's National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC) to produce a report aimed at a...Jun. 19, 2012 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 753 |
 “Big Data analytics will shape the form of nearly every process going forward in time, from the color of the latest fashions, what the candidates say in one town versus another to the chemical composition of the latest super drug,” noted Steve Knodl, Director of Product Management at N...Jun. 19, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,920 |
 Xeround, the Cloud Database company, today announced that their cloud database for MySQL applications is now available on Joyent Cloud, the public cloud designed for real-time, high-performance applications. Joyent Cloud provides public and private cloud computing software and services...Jun. 19, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 466 |
 Tulsa, OK, June 19, 2012 --(PR.com)-- CS3 Technology, a professional knowledge firm specializing in the sales, installation, and support of ERP and HRMS solutions, is pleased to announce their partnership with Intacct, a leading provider of cloud financial management and accounting so...Jun. 19, 2012 03:00 AM EDT Reads: 264 |
 I've recently written a bit about the job opportunities with PaaS taking over the software development world. One of the great promises of PaaS is the same as one of cloud's big benefits – the illusion of infinite scalability and elasticity.
Configure a PaaS platform with a cloud i...Jun. 18, 2012 06:58 PM EDT Reads: 541 |
 Between cloud computing, big data and consumer IT, executives feeling capable of making more of their own technology decisions. And with the ongoing business pressures for speed, agility and innovation, executives are eager to rethink and reinvent the IT department, according to a colu...Jun. 18, 2012 03:08 PM EDT Reads: 533 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that Layer 7 Technologies, a leading provider of Application Gateways for SOA integration, cloud connectivity and API management, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 11th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 5–8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Conv...Jun. 18, 2012 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,483 |
 “It's the same old tune, fiddle and guitar, where do we take it from here.” – Waylon Jennings (RIP).
Waylon was talking about change in this song, which was entitled “Are You Sure Hank Done it This Way?” His view was that one could build on a great legacy – in this case, country mu...Jun. 18, 2012 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 804 |
 As rumored last week, Salesforce.com Monday said it’s going to buy Buddy Media for roughly $689 million in cash and stock.
Buddy Media lets marketers manage their presence on social sites like Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Twitter and YouTube. They can publish content, place social adv...Jun. 18, 2012 06:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,625 |
 “While there is still a lot of interest in Big Data Analytics, we see an increasing focus on Big Unstructured Data,” observed Tom Leyden, Director of Alliances and Marketing at Amplidata, in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. And, Leyden continued, “Obje...Jun. 18, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,386 |
 Cloud computing has crossed a Rubicon of sorts, and is now being embraced by a majority of enterprise IT shops – at least according to attendees and vendors at last week's Cloud Expo in New York.
I remember interviewing Hal Stern (late of Sun and Oracle) a couple of years ago at th...Jun. 18, 2012 05:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,112 |
 SGI has partnered with Kalev H. Leetaru of the University of Illinois to create the first-ever historical mapping and exploration of the full text contents of the English-language edition of Wikipedia, in time and space.
The results include visualizations of modern history captured ...Jun. 18, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 424 |
 GoGrid, a cloud infrastructure company, on Thursday announced that Brilig relies on hybrid infrastructure in the cloud from GoGrid for its Big Data architecture. A cooperative data marketplace for online display advertising, Brilig offers ad space in more than 7,500 consumer segments. ...Jun. 16, 2012 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,111 |
 A recent post on the HTTP 2.0 War beginning garnered a very relevant question regarding WebSockets and where it fits in (what might shape up to be) an epic battle.
The answer to the question, “Why not consider WebSockets here?” could be easily answered with two words: HTTP headers. It...Jun. 16, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,211 |
 Porticor, a cloud data security company delivering a cloud-based data encryption solution that infuses trust into the cloud and keeps cloud data confidential by ensuring customer keys are kept private, today announced that it has joined the VMware Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) prog...Jun. 16, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,004 |
 Any software licensing scheme that counts the number of processors, servers, or virtual instances is fundamentally Cloud-unfriendly. In the pre-Cloud days, servers were expensive and difficult to install and configure, so we operated in the context of scarcity: add a server, pay a lot ...Jun. 16, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,086 |
 The US Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) held a Geoint Community Week June 4-8 2012 which included a technology day. The afternoon of 07 June was dedicated to fast-paced “ignite” style presentations from some of the key community thought leaders on geospatial data. At the end ...Jun. 15, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,676 |
 Dallas-based cloud infrastructure company SoftLayer announceds it Private Clouds solution at Cloud Expo at the Javits Center in New York this week. The idea is to bring the scalability of off-site (public) deployments to on-site (private) initiative for enterprise IT customers who like...Jun. 15, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 803 |
 SoftLayer, a provider of global, Internet-scale cloud infrastructure, has unveiled its new SoftLayer Private Clouds solution that provisions and configures full private cloud deployments on demand. These scalable, secure and high-performance deployments leverage the company’s automated...Jun. 15, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 903 |
 What do salesforce.com and Mashery have in common? They are multi-tenant software as a service leaders - both built with billions of APIs - for the Cloud, by the Cloud.
The implications this year: API Strategy in 2012 cuts across mobile, social, and cloud. Winning with API's tran...Jun. 15, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,143 |
PEER 1 Hosting’s HPC Self Serve Cloud delivers a flexible and cost-effective high performance computing environment by fusing virtual and physical servers with a private net. The result is a seamless, self-serve solution that is fast, secure and available on-demand.
“In today’s comp... Jun. 14, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 948 |
 In an effort to overcome investor hostility Dell is going to do something it’s never done before – despite the fact it had no R&D; to speak of – and that’s pay a quarterly dividend beginning in its third quarter which ends in November.
It’ll pay 32 cents a year, a return of roughly ...Jun. 14, 2012 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 709 |
 Dell is throwing more chum in the water expecting customers will snap up its cloud.
Back late last year it put VMware’s vCloud Datacenter Services on its cloud and offered American users a 60-day introductory trial to try out a hybrid or simply Dell’s public cloud for $999. Apparen...Jun. 14, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 974 |
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