Category: New Products
Storage Guardian Now Offering Metered Cloud Services
Storage Guardian Cloud Computing is now offering a new metered service wherein customers will only have to pay for the cloud computing services they use, much like they would do for something like Pay-as-you-go telephone services. This new product that the company has launched in the market will allow businesses to gain access to enterprise-grade [...]
Salesforce buys Radian6 for $340 million
Salesforce.com has announced its fourth acquisition in as many months, with the purchase of Canadian startup Radian6 for $340 million in cash and stock. The deal, according to Wednesday’s announcement, will be concluded by July 31 2011 with the payment of about $276 million in cash and $50 million in stock for the company. The [...]
Cloud Computing model cannibalizes traditional vendor revenue streams
The marketplace has witnessed a burgeoning demand for cloud computing as companies seek out computer infrastructure, software and storage to be provided as a utility service. With the market for cloud computing services growing rapidly, vendors face the challenge of reworking their revenue models so as not to lose profits to the new paradigm. However [...]
Close to forty percent of small businesses planning cloud computing – Microsoft.
According to Microsoft, 39 percent of small businesses intend to buy one or more cloud computing services over the next three years. This is a conclusion from Microsoft’s third annual worldwide study into how small and medium businesses plan to use cloud-based resources in the next three years. The study indicates that SME’s will [...]
Sktyap To Offer Hybrid Computing Services To Customers
Skytap, a cloud computing firm based out of Seattle, Washington has recently developed a program that will allow their customers more flexibility and autonomy in using the company’s infrastructure. Called the Skytap Hybrid Cloud, this revolutionary product allows users to interface their own data with Skytap’s data management infrastructure. In addition, users also have the [...]
Vargatron Hits A Home Run Into The Clouds With their New Baseball App
A developer called Vargatron has come up with an ingenious cloud based application for the iPad. Named Pennant, this program is set to become the ultimate ‘bible’ for any baseball fan worth his salt. Pennant is enormous – allowing you to look up, compare and review the records, statistics, and performances of all professional baseball [...]
Press Release – 4PSA Introduces Cloud Licensing for Software
Orlando Fl – February 23, 2011 – 4PSA, a leading innovative Cloud Computing software technology company, well-known for its award-winning VoipNow® Unified Communications solution, has announced today the availability of Cloud Licensing, a licensing methodology that brings cloud computing flexibility and scalability to software licensing. The new licensing methodology follows the investments made by the [...]
Cloud Computing Attempts To Reshape Communications By 2020
If John Donovan, the current Chief Technology Officer of AT&T is right, then we will all be able to throw away our mobile devices in just 10 years time. According to Donovan, future technology will allow us to store on cloud platforms our personal information, contact numbers, email addresses and many other kinds of data [...]
Cloud Printers A Security Risk?
The modern printer is one of the most versatile bits of office equipment around. New printer models can scan, copy, and print your documents in a flash. Some advanced printers can even be hooked up to the Internet and through cloud technologies such as Google Cloud Print and Hp ePrint, you can use them remotely [...]
VMware Streamlines Electronic Medical Record Delivery Through Spectrum Health’s Cloud Computing Environment
PALO ALTO, CA–(Marketwire – February 22, 2011) – VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced that Spectrum Health has chosen VMware ThinApp™ to provide fast and efficient access to point-of-care applications, electronic medical records (EMR) and patient data from their cloud computing environment. Spectrum Health, a premier national [...]
VMware Streamlines Electronic Medical Record Delivery Through Spectrum Health's Cloud Computing Environment
PALO ALTO, CA–(Marketwire – February 22, 2011) – VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced that Spectrum Health has chosen VMware ThinApp™ to provide fast and efficient access to point-of-care applications, electronic medical records (EMR) and patient data from their cloud computing environment. Spectrum Health, a premier national [...]
Healthcare coming to The Cloud
The cloud is destined to play a much larger role in healthcare than it has so far. That will be especially true as more providers adopt e-health records and other digitized clinical systems. It will also be pushed along by storage-hungry systems like 3-D medical imaging and health information exchanges looking to provide more efficient [...]
Cisco, VMware and EMC coalition redesign their channel blueprint
The Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) company has returned to drawing board to design a reseller friendly go-to-market strategy that also involves distributors. The coalition was formed by Cisco, EMC and VMware in the summer of 2009 to punt private cloud building blocks dubbed Vblock and was later joined by Acadia, the venture between EMC and [...]
Bold Claims From Google But Are They Real Foresight Or Just Empty Threats?
Recently, Google Apps, the web-based operating system product from Google, ran a four page ad in the Economist magazine, in an effort to stir up more interest from users and businesses all over. Since its inception in 2007, the company boasts a subscription base of more than 3,000,000 users that continues to grow by 3,000 [...]
Say Goodbye To Hardware – The Future Lies In The Skies
It’s certainly a bold prediction by Alex Wawro of PC World, but one that’s certainly possible. By 2020, not only will it be possible for you to build an IT network without any need for on-site hardware, but it’s probably going to be the most popular way of managing your data. The likely office setup [...]
Enomaly offers a new cloud computing service – But The Sceptics Are Already Out In Force
A new development in the cloud computing world caught my attention the other day. According to a new story published on the Technologyreview.com site, Canadian-based cloud platform provider Enomaly has come up with a new service where companies can lease off their unused capacity to customers. The service, named SpotCloud, is an innovative idea and [...]
Asus Planning Mystery Cloud Computing Enabled Personal Devices For Late 2011
One of the more tantalizing prospects that I have read about recently looks set to come out of Taiwan. According to an interesting piece by Elizabeth Woyke, Asus is attempting to transform the computer world with a brand-new product that will make it much more competitive in the marketplace. Asus stole a thunder on its [...]
CSC To Offer New ‘Cloud-In-A-Box’
SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones)–Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC) wants to grow its small cloud-computing business by building cloud systems at its customers’ offices. On Feb. 2, the Falls Church, Va.-based IT consultancy plans to unveil BizCloud, cloud-computing hardware and software it will assemble in about 10 weeks at a client’s facility. Like data-center-based cloud services, BizCloud [...]
CSC To Offer New 'Cloud-In-A-Box'
SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones)–Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC) wants to grow its small cloud-computing business by building cloud systems at its customers’ offices. On Feb. 2, the Falls Church, Va.-based IT consultancy plans to unveil BizCloud, cloud-computing hardware and software it will assemble in about 10 weeks at a client’s facility. Like data-center-based cloud services, BizCloud [...]
Former Salesforce.com Execs Form Cloud Startup, Okta
Former execs from Salesforce.com have launched a startup in the enterprise cloud computing business, with initial clients Pandora and Enterasys. Based out of San Francisco, Okta provides an enterprise solution intended to make it easy for companies to manage cloud computing apps and users; particularly useful as a company grows in headcount and adopts more [...]
Hewlett-Packard Co. launches portfolio of private cloud services
Hewlett-Packard Co. this week stepped up its cloud computing effort by launching a portfolio of private cloud services, hardware and software and indicated plans to jump into public cloud hosting. The company has lacked a strong cloud computing focus but now intends to move forward more aggressively, HP officials said. HP will do so by offering various [...]
Cloud Computing: Start-up Promises Free Elastic Cloud Security
A year-old Silicon Valley SaaS start-up called CloudPassages broke cover Wednesday claiming that it can do what other security companies have failed to do and that’s protect elastic cloud servers. It’ll get off the ground by offering its base technology for free. The company’s purpose-built widgetry is supposed to work with anybody’s cloud – public [...]
Amazon Launches Bulk cloud computing E-Mail Service
Amazon Web Services Jan. 25 launched a bulk e-mail service for businesses and developers, providing a messaging option for the cloud computing provider’s arsenal of Web-based services. AWS intends Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) as an alternative to the thorny work of building a custom messaging platform or licensing an e-mail service from a [...]
Amazon releases Elastic Beanstalk
Beanstalk,” a new free service to make it easier for application developers to use the company’s suite of cloud-based computing services. “Developers simply upload their application, and Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the deployment details of capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling, and application health monitoring,” the company said this morning in announcing the service. “At the [...]
Microsoft Supporting Cloud Open Source Code For Hyper-V
The software giant says its customers don’t necessarily want a single hypervisor cloud, so it’s supporting OpenStack. Cloud computing has progressed on multiple fronts over the past week, and one of the most interesting advances is the fact that Microsoft has decided to support the open source project Open Stack. OpenStack, you may remember, was [...]
Amazon Web Services Takes Advantage of GPUs in the Cloud
Amazon Web Services (AWS) now allows users of its cloud computing platform to take advantage of the extra power graphics processing units (GPUs) can give. The company hopes the move will attract high-performance computing applications to its service. AWS has added a new Cluster GPU instance to the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) platform, which provides [...]
Microsoft adds data crunching features to Azure
Big data is the growing field of crunching giant batches of data, such as gene sequencing, interpreting seismic data, streaming 3-D video and financial modeling. People who are trying to build software that makes sense of this data are meeting at the Supercomputing 2010 conference in New Orleans this week. The problem with big data, [...]
Holy Cow! Autonomy private cloud hits 17 petabytes
Autonomy is a software and infrastructure company that was a wide range of offerings including running a private cloud for storing information and other uses for its customers. The company has announced that its private cloud computing platform has hit an impressive milestone. The private cloud now manages more than 17 petabytes of information. That [...]
SAP Moves Emissions Reporting to the Cloud
SAP has begun the first of what is anticipated to become an ever-growing migration of reporting mechanisms to a cloud platform. With its newly launched version 5.0 of SAP Carbon Impact OnDemand, which reports carbon emissions, the software company is positioning the product at a lower cost and at various scales. SAP is using Amazon’s [...]
CA Unveils Turnkey Cloud Computing Solution, Launches MSP Program
CA has announced a turnkey cloud computing platform for companies looking to deploy a cloud environment quickly and easily. In addition, the company is launching a managed services program around the technology, enabling MSPs to add cloud infrastructure services to their stable of offerings for their enterprise customers. CA 3Tera AppLogic is an end-to-end solution [...]
