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Cloud News CloudStore, the G-Cloud application procurement site, was launched
by the UK government this week to give small businesses in the UK the ability
to compete with larger IT companies for contracts with the public sector,
according to this ZDNet article. The CloudStore launched with 257 companies
that are offering services geared toward public-sector organizations. The
Apache Software Foundation has approved Red Hat's Deltacloud as a top-level
project, according to this ComputerWorld article. Deltacloud can be used to
interact with multiple cloud service providers through a set of APIs
(application programming interfaces). A new report from the Business Software
Alliance (BSA) declares that a majority of the countries ... (more)
Yes, this is a repost, but it’s just so good we couldn’t help
ourselves…
The Support, It Is a-Changin’
In the good ‘ole days when software still need installing and executives
regularly printed their emails, software “support” was a strange thing.
Sure, Microsoft had helplines you could call, and Quicken came with a manual,
but it wasn’t “support” per se: more like a robotic attempt to appease
the odd granny or two. Software personified the impersonal.
These days that’s all changing. As cloud computing and SaaS go mainstream,
software vendors are increasingly connected with consu... (more)
This morning I interviewed Antenna Software's Chief Marketing and Strategy
Officer, Jim Somer's about their new solution AMPchroma. AMPchroma (AMP
stands for Antenna Mobile Platform) is a cloud-based mobile management
solution that is intended to address the full mobile lifecycle, in other
words, allowing companies to design, build, deploy and manage a wide range of
mobile asset, (including native and hybrid web-apps, mobile websites, and
corporate app stores) from a single web-based console.
That is a huge challenge. I give credit to Antenna for their ambitions.
AMPchroma is ... (more)
Abstract: This is Part II in a blog series by 6fusion Co-founder and CEO John
Cowan on the emerging trend of Cloud Brokerage and the impact it will have on
the technology industry and markets. Be sure to check out Part I of the
series here.
Part II – The Cloud Vendor and the Agnostic Intermediary
I gave a presentation a few months back in which I opened with the following
statement: The future of cloud computing has little to do with technology.
Sounds crazy, right? But before you send me to the virtual nuthouse, let me
explain.
What I think is unclear in the emerging Cloud Br... (more)
Cloud computing has a problem. Well, it's not so much a problem; it's more of
a question of perception.
Potential cloud converts appear to be put off by concerns over security
inside multi-tenant clouds, compliance concerns on where cloud data
physically resides and all manner of misgivings relating to how easy
applications will be to administer and manage once they have been hosted in a
serviced-based environment.
In something of an attempt to allay some of the fears that do exist, several
members of the OpenStack community have announced their collaboration to
build TryStack,... (more)
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