Archive for New Products
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Encryption comes to the cloud…
Trend Micro is blazing a new trail with a service called SecureCloud intended to give enterprises a way to encrypt data in cloud-computing environments. SecureCloud allows you to maintain control over the encryption key used to secure data stored in the Amazon EC2, Eucalyptus or VMware vCloud...
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Microsoft delivers on-premises private-cloud building functionality
When it comes to building private clouds, Microsoft is planning to offer customers two ways to go: One using its Windows Azure cloud operating system on forthcoming pre-configured Windows Azure Appliances; and one assembled of various on-premises components atop Windows Server. On August 15, Micr...
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Google cloud computing apps get certification for US government use
Google wants the federal government to use its e-mail. The company earned federal certification last week for its cloud-based e-mail, calendar and other collaboration applications after the General Services Administration determined they met moderate-level federal security requirements. It's t...
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Rackspace Announces new Open Source Cloud Platform
Rackspace is sponsoring an open source cloud computing project, OpenStack, and contributing its own code to it in order to generate more uniform cloud environments in which customers can move around at will. The move will likely generate new competitors for the Rackspace Cloud. One small provider...
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Google testing cloud printing internally
Google is testing its Google Cloud Print service internally and hopes to make it available in the coming months after testing it with printer makers, the company said June 7. HP announced its support for Google Cloud Print at an event in New York City, where the printer maker unveiled a suite of clo...
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Microsoft: Enterprise customer growth accelerates private cloud strategy
From Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft is making a number of announcements around tools and database tweaks for its Azure cloud platform at this week’s TechEd conference. But I’m more interested in some of the more subtle clues I’ve been picking up about the Softies’ future cloud strategies and...
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Microsoft Cloud Computing Center opens in Taiwan
Microsoft opened a joint cloud computing center with Taiwan's economics ministry on Thursday at the Computex electronics show, and announced a plan to work with two local companies on new designs for servers meant specifically for cloud computing, the growing trend towards decentralized, virtualized...
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cloud computing firms in M&A spotlight
Cloud computing, or software as a service, allows businesses to cut back on hardware and space by having their software hosted in remote datacenters they access over the Web. Deep-pocketed technology firms like IBM (IBM.N) or Oracle Corp (ORCL.O) might be looking to snag deals in this area to com...
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Microsoft reveals CDN pricing for Azure
In November 2009, Microsoft announced its intentions to add a content-delivery network (CDN) capability to its Windows Azure cloud offering. At the end of May, the company announced pricing plans for this functionality. The Azure CDN extends the storage piece of the Windows Azure cloud operating ...
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Five cloud computing startups to watch out for
The May BizSpark event in Paris, Microsoft and technology venture capitalists had the chance to assess the upcoming wares from Europe’s brightest young hopefuls in the software development world. With cloud computing dominating the IT news headlines, surveys and analysts’ attentions, the bulk...
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Microsoft betting that India will lead the world in Cloud Computing
NEW DELHI: Microsoft Corp sees India as the global hub for cloud computing, the concept of renting computing power that has taken the technology world by storm and in the words of the NYT, what Silicon Valley cannot seem to get its head out of. “India will not only see a surge in cloud computin...
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BMC Software releases Cloud-Building Tool Kit
Data center management software provider BMC Software, an original partner of Cisco Systems in the Unified Computing System initiative launched in 2009, has come out with its own cloud computing management package for large enterprises. BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management, introduced on May 25, is des...
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Software as a Service in Nigeria?
Cool article from the Nigerian Inquirer about software as a service from yours truly: This is the first of a multi-part series of tech articles I am writing for the Nigerian Inquirer. I would like to discuss some technology solutions that I believe would be appropriate and timely for Nigeria t...
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Novell add the cloud to Novell ID manager 4
Organizations increasingly need to see who has access to which systems -- whether they're running in their own data center, at a partner site, or in the cloud. To that end, Novell has unveiled its Identity Manager 4 software, adding integration with Microsoft SharePoint and multiple cloud applica...
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Makes perfect sense – WordPress and Windows Azure integration
A free and open source plugin developed by Microsoft is the latest example of PHP and Windows Azure interoperability to come from the company, after various other offerings, including a PHP software development kit for the Cloud platform. By leveraging the plugin, customers running WordPress will...
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Cloud computing for your health
Web-based Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are stepping onto the main stage as the most likely way smaller and solo physician practices will be able to adopt EHRs in a “meaningful” way, in time for the 2011 ARRA/HITECH incentive moneys. Web-based software has also been referred to as cloud-ba...
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SAP plus Cisco plus VMware plus EMC equals cloud computing
At the ongoing SAP Sapphire NOW conference taking place in both Orlando, Florida and Frankfurt, Germany, SAP announced that it has partnered with Cisco, EMC and VMware to help promote the use of cloud computing in the business community. Through the development of advanced SaaS business applicati...
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Do small businesses really need the cloud?
Interesting... The smaller a business, the less likely it is to make use of cloud computing services, according to a new report. The poll by developer GFI Software found that while 86 per cent of businesses employing between 100 and 249 people use IT services hosted offsite or managed by a thi...
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DataArt releases PhotoCloud
DataArt, a high-end software development company with headquarters in New York and R&D centers in Eastern Europe, today announced it has successfully developed a new software application built on Windows Azure™, Microsoft’s cloud services operating system. The application, PhotoCloud, enh...
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SAP’s new Cloud Strategy
From ZDnet: SAP on Tuesday will demonstrate the latest portion of its on-demand strategy: A focus on “orchestration” and additional capabilities added as a service to its core systems such as Business Suite. Think of it as “on-premise on demand.” In addition, SAP plans to launch “sta...
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CA Changes its Name, Debuts new Cloud Management Suite
CA Technologies has combined a number of recently acquired cloud computing tools into an integrated suite in a bid to become a major player in the market for cloud computing management software. The company unveiled the CA Cloud-Connected Management Suite Monday at the company’s CA World confer...
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BMC Software Will Add More cloud offerings
From PCworld: BMC Software is planning to offer more versions of its software in the SaaS (software as a service) model in the next 12 months, as it is seeing growing customer demand for these services, an executive of the company said on Friday. In January, BMC said that its Remedy IT Service...
