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By Adrian Sanders
20th century customer service consisted of packed call centers, phones ringing off the hook, and large, convoluted databases of information to manage a never-ending stream of support requests. Cloud computing, and the introduction of powerful, business-specific software solutions, has ...
May. 17, 2012 05:30 AM EDT  Reads: 334
By Bob Gourley
Today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: U.S. Army Cyber Command operational attorney Robert Clark said that the legal frameworks are not keeping pace with cyber operations and said that claims of “cyber war” do not qualify as war defined by international l...
May. 16, 2012 11:42 AM EDT  Reads: 347
By Paul Miller
The global CloudCamp movement continues to grow, with events over the next few weeks in Denmark, Germany, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, and across the United States. And now, I’m very pleased to announce that the English city of Leeds is joining the party. CloudCamp events have been tak...
May. 16, 2012 08:10 AM EDT  Reads: 286
By Cloud Ventures
When it comes to building new cloud services, there is a large opportunity for new services built around Big Data. So when you look at consulting firms that provide application development and integration services, are there opportunities for them to leverage Big Data in their servi...
May. 16, 2012 08:00 AM EDT  Reads: 883
By Peter Silva
I welcome our partners and customers to Shanghai for the F5 Agility Summit with a special thanks to our sponsors: VMware, BlueCat Networks, BroadHop, Cenzic, Oracle, ServiceSource, Splunk and WhiteHat Security.
May. 16, 2012 03:31 AM EDT  Reads: 187
By PR.com Newswire
Chicago, IL, May 15, 2012 --(PR.com)-- An increasingly popular buzzword among business owners in Chicago, cloud computing is essentially describing a service, not a product. Similar to other professional service vendors, cloud computing companies are trusted partners who can be relied...
May. 15, 2012 02:22 PM EDT  Reads: 107
By RealWire News Distribution
The Bunker, provider of Ultra Secure Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Colocation, and Outsourced IT services from within Europe's most secure data centres, is pleased to announce the appointment of Philip Bindley to the role of Chief Technology Officer (CTO). He will be responsible fo...
May. 15, 2012 10:35 AM EDT  Reads: 403
By RealWire News Distribution
London - May 15th 2012 - Skyscape Cloud Services Limited, the easy to adopt, easy to use and easy to leave Assured Cloud Services Company, today announced that it has achieved certification to ISO27001:2005, the global Information Security Management System standard.With information se...
May. 15, 2012 04:36 AM EDT  Reads: 371
By Cloud Ventures
Canada boasts yet another start-up with the potential to be a heavyweight player in the global Cloud Computing industry. Cloud Dynamics is a uniquely powerful formula for this market, given two particular key founding strengths: An executive team with comprehensive, real-world experien...
May. 14, 2012 07:43 PM EDT  Reads: 222
By David Deans
As the role of cloud computing is growing around the globe, many CIOs and other senior IT decision makers are facing challenges with their existing network infrastructure -- to support the migration of their business applications to the cloud. A new international study by Cisco Systems...
May. 14, 2012 09:30 AM EDT  Reads: 1,184
By Unitiv Blog
Major changes have taken place in the network in the past 15 years. The type of data that users are passing across the pipes is significantly different in size and composition. And, the coming “data explosion” promises to put even the most robust networks to the test. When you add in ...
May. 14, 2012 09:15 AM EDT  Reads: 885
By Unitiv Blog
One of the biggest challenges facing data centers today is determining what services they’re going to offer the organization tomorrow. More and more, business units are looking to cloud computing solutions as one of many options. It’s tempting for a given business unit to s...
May. 14, 2012 09:06 AM EDT  Reads: 130
By Lori MacVittie
Like cloud two or three years ago, SDN and OpenFlow is dominating the discussions. During a show that’s (in theory at least) dedicated to networking, this should be no surprise. Is it making networking sexy again? Yes, insomuch as we’re at least talking about networking again, which i...
May. 14, 2012 07:07 AM EDT  Reads: 713
By Bob Gourley
On 11 June 2012 the Cyber Physical Systems Virtual Organization will be holding a symposium on Moving Target Research. In this context, think of Moving Target as meaning the creation of a dynamic attack surface to adversaries done in a way that dramatically increases the work factor re...
May. 14, 2012 07:00 AM EDT  Reads: 465
By Lori MacVittie
#F5TCP #interop You are now. Introducing the F5 Technical Certification Program. Can you explain the role of the Cache-Control HTTP header? How about the operational flow of data during an SMTP authentication exchange? Are you well-versed in the anatomy of an SSL handshake and the ...
May. 14, 2012 05:45 AM EDT  Reads: 779
By Adrian Sanders
Everyone knows that marketing matters. What they don’t know is that given the right tools, marketing isn’t expensive, time consuming, or difficult. That’s great news for small business owners strapped on cash and time. Here’s our list of 5 easy to use, well tested, and free online tool...
May. 11, 2012 11:06 AM EDT  Reads: 832
By RealWire News Distribution
FlexNet Manager Suite for Enterprise is recognised for software licence optimisation capabilitiesMaidenhead, UK - May 11, 2012 - Flexera Software, the leading provider of Application Usage Management solutions for application producers and enterprises, announced today that its market-l...
May. 11, 2012 08:00 AM EDT  Reads: 630
By David Deans
Government agencies are reportedly one of the primary benefactors of managed cloud services. According to the results from a recent market study by IDC, IT decision-makers across the Asia-Pacific region (excluding Japan) found that 59 percent of public sector respondents are confident ...
May. 11, 2012 06:30 AM EDT  Reads: 967
By Business Wire
Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:AMZN), on Friday announced the expansion of SAP certified solutions on AWS including SAP Business All-in-One solutions for both Linux and Windows, and expanded certification for SAP Rapid Deployment solutions and SAP Business...
May. 11, 2012 03:01 AM EDT  Reads: 847
By PR.com Newswire
London, United Kingdom, May 11, 2012 --(PR.com)-- SMEStorage today announced that the SMEStorage hybrid Cloud File Server is now available to be used with HP Cloud Services (http://hpcloud.com). SMEStorage has delivered its Cloud File Server product to be used by customers who have pr...
May. 11, 2012 03:00 AM EDT  Reads: 624
By CloudCommons 2012
Can Google Apps unseat Microsoft Office and Exchange? This CIO article shares insight from the CIO of New England Biolabs, which recently conducted proof-of-concept testing with Google Apps for Business. While New England Biolabs decided to stick with its Outlook/Exchange Server set-up...
May. 10, 2012 07:58 AM EDT  Reads: 946
By RealWire News Distribution
NHS demand for secure cloud services met by Service Provider ahead of competitionLondon, UK 10 May 2012: Proact, Europe's leading storage integrator and cloud services enabler, is today announcing its IGSoC (Information Governance Statement of Compliance) certification, allowing Proact...
May. 10, 2012 06:16 AM EDT  Reads: 285
By Udayan Banerjee
No individual can really track and understand the impact of change in all the emerging technologies like Cloud Computing, Mobile Computing, Social Media, Agile Methodology and Big Data … You can realistically aim to have an in depth understanding of only a small subset. By in depth und...
May. 10, 2012 05:45 AM EDT  Reads: 1,021
By Cloud Ventures
Our primary activity here is matching vendors and other innovations to the best practice standards defined for Cloud Computing by organizations like NIST. For example one of the key areas that NIST highlights is offline replication. In short when you find yourself in a location with no...
May. 9, 2012 08:46 AM EDT  Reads: 489
By Lori MacVittie
#cloud Whether it’s Hanlon or Occam or MacVittie, the razor often cuts both ways. I am certainly not one to ignore the issue of complexity in architecture nor do I dismiss lightly the risk introduced by cloud computing through increased complexity. But I am one who will point out abs...
May. 9, 2012 07:10 AM EDT  Reads: 173
By Ignacio M. Llorente
It has been more than two years since the European Commission published in January 2010 its pioneering report about the Future of Cloud Computing. A group of experts was established with the aim to evaluate the state-of-the-art and develop future research directions in cloud computing....
May. 9, 2012 07:00 AM EDT  Reads: 1,159
By Reuven Cohen
While some are happy to debate definitions of cloud computing, I prefer to focus on the characteristics that make successful companies, successful. Lately there seems to have been a shift from the anything for anyone cloud to the industry or vertically focused cloud. Adding to this...
May. 9, 2012 03:00 AM EDT  Reads: 1,148
By RealWire News Distribution
Epicor to Sharpen Its Next-Generation Epicor ICE Business Architecture with Windows Azure and SQL AzureEpicor Software Corporation, a global leader in business software solutions for manufacturing, distribution, retail and services organizations, today announced a strategic alliance wi...
May. 8, 2012 12:58 PM EDT  Reads: 656
By Unitiv Blog
For the past several years, companies have been making use of cloud computing solutions. Cloud solutions offer agility and scalability that are often hard to duplicate in-house, and they offer a way for companies to meet specific business functions without large capital investments. Cl...
May. 8, 2012 07:00 AM EDT  Reads: 1,052
By Matt McLarty
It’s April in Vancouver, which got me thinking about clouds.  Although the IT buzz in 2012 has been dominated by mobile and big data, Cloud computing is still a hot topic, especially since it is an enabler for both. In the public Cloud space, Google just launched Drive.
May. 7, 2012 08:00 AM EDT  Reads: 1,175
By Avi Rosenthal
I recently read a TechCrunch article titled: The Rise of Big Data Apps and the Fall of SaaS written by Raj De Datta. I do agree with the prefix. As far as the suffix is concerned, I can only explain why Raj De Datta's opinion is wrong. I usually tend not to agree with statements ...
May. 7, 2012 06:45 AM EDT  Reads: 759
By RealWire News Distribution
EuroCloud Day event features Huddle, Zuora, KashFlow, Outsourcery, Index, Equinix in London plus pan-Europe keynotes from EU's Neelie Kroes, SAP and othersLondon, May 4, 2012 - Cloud industry network EuroCloud UK (http://eurocloud.org.uk/) is aiming to highlight cloud computing's contr...
May. 4, 2012 09:14 AM EDT  Reads: 558
By PR.com Newswire
New York, NY, May 04, 2012 --(PR.com)-- The numbers revealed in Symantec’s newest Internet Security Threat Report tell a story that should make every organization relying on Electronically Stored Information (ESI), in any form, turn a fresh spotlight on securing their cyber asse...
May. 4, 2012 08:00 AM EDT  Reads: 484
By CloudCommons 2012
A recent study revealed that the government is saving around $5.5 billion a year since the shift to cloud, according to this CRN article. The study was created from interviews with 108 federal IT managers and CIOs and was published by MeriTalk Cloud Computing Exchange. The study also f...
May. 4, 2012 03:00 AM EDT  Reads: 1,221
By Tim Crawford
Moving workloads into Cloud Computing environments is on everyone’s task list. As one evaluates the choices between public and private cloud, the sizing of an environment quickly comes into view. How large or small should an environment be? Once you get started, how does one “rightsize...
May. 3, 2012 02:51 PM EDT  Reads: 346
By Jnan Dash
I just spent 3 days in Bangalore for a board meeting. Staying in south Bangalore around JP Nagar and Jayanagar area feels like the old Bangalore of yesteryears – greenery all around, spring flowers, no high rise apartment buildings, and … Continue reading →
May. 3, 2012 05:45 AM EDT  Reads: 1,105
By RealWire News Distribution
London, UK - May 3rd 2012 - NAS Optimization provider Avere Systems' FXT Series Edge filers have been shortlisted for Datacentre Storage Hardware Product of the Year in the UK's Datacentre Solutions Awards. The recognition from the judging panel, which includes SNS Europe editor Phil A...
May. 3, 2012 05:12 AM EDT  Reads: 260
By PR.com Newswire
San Antonio, TX, May 02, 2012 --(PR.com)-- ZT Systems, a gold sponsor of the Open Compute Summit and leading provider of complete server and rack-level hardware solutions optimized for hyperscale data centers, today announced an initiative to develop vanity-free, cost-effective server...
May. 2, 2012 11:01 AM EDT  Reads: 491
By RealWire News Distribution
Enterprises Benefit From Faster Window 7 Migrations and Lower Costs VDI DeploymentsLondon, May 2, 2012 - AppSense, the leader in people-centric computing, today announced a major update to the AppSense User Virtualisation Platform focusing on simplified set-up and administration, exten...
May. 2, 2012 09:00 AM EDT  Reads: 262
By Lori MacVittie
The introduction of virtualization and cloud computing to data centers has been heralded as “transformational” and “disruptive” and “game changing.” From an operational IT perspective, that’s absolutely true. But like transformational innovation in other industries, such disruption is...
May. 2, 2012 08:00 AM EDT  Reads: 1,174