Category: Resources
SaaS Strategy: What upper management Wants To Know
You’ve made countless presentations during your career, but there’s something about this one that has you particularly anxious. The CEO asked you to put together a presentation for the board about the company’s software-as-a-service strategy and “the cloud.” The request nags. Why now? What have they been reading? What do they want to know? And [...]
The Maturing View Of Cloud Computing
Our latest survey on cloud computing deals with return on investment (the full report will be out this summer). In many ways, thinking about ROI of any new technology forces decision makers to cut through both their own hype and the stuff vendors manufacture to take a studied look at benefits and risks. It’s one [...]
MSDN Video: Simulcast Event: Get Cloud Ready with Windows Azure (Part 5 of 7): Building Applications for the Cloud
The cloud is everywhere and here at Microsoft we’re flying high with our cloud computing release, Windows Azure. As most of you saw at the Professional Developers Conference, the reaction to Windows Azure has been nothing short of “wow” – and based on your feedback, we organized this special, all-day Windows Azure Firestarter event to [...]
MSDN Video: Simulcast Event: Get Cloud Ready with Windows Azure (Part 4 of 7): SQL Azure
The cloud is everywhere and here at Microsoft we’re flying high with our cloud computing release, Windows Azure. As most of you saw at the Professional Developers Conference, the reaction to Windows Azure has been nothing short of “wow” – and based on your feedback, we organized this special, all-day Windows Azure Firestarter event to [...]
New Cloud Computing Directory
Our Cloud Computing company Directory is one of the best SEO friendly web directories you can submit your site to. It’s updated regularly and we have detailed information about the different categories of Cloud Computing companies. The Cloud Computing Zone is a leading source of Cloud Computing information and eyeballs on the internet today and if you are [...]
New Cloud Computing Forum
Introducing our new Cloud Computing forum… You can head over there and share your opinions about Cloud Computing companies and Cloud Computing news and information.. Head to the Cloud Computing forums…
Salesforce acquires Jisaw
Cloud-based CRM SalesForce.com has made a $3 billion entry into the crowd-sourced and cloud-based data services industry with an agreement to acquire Jigsaw. What that means is that data in Jigsaw is going to be available to all SalesForce users. “Salesforce.com is excited to bring the data services industry into the era of Cloud 2,” [...]
Google releases cloud coding tool
Google has released a programming tool to help move its Native Client project–and more broadly, its cloud-computing ambitions–from abstract idea to practical reality. The new Native Client software developer kit, though only a developer preview version, is designed to make it easier for programmers to use the Net giant’s browser-boosting Native Client technology. “The Native [...]
Juniper expected to reveal cloud computing plans
Juniper is preparing to announce how it plans to participate in cloud computing, according to a bulletin issued this week by an investment firm. The firm, Avian Securities, expects Juniper to disclose details on integration of its new Trio chipset, Junos operating system, Junos partners and a “multi-chassis switch platform” into the cloud plan. Virtualization [...]
Recovery.gov Moved To Amazon Cloud
The federal government has moved Recovery.gov, the Web site people can use to track spending under last year’s $787 million economic stimulus package, to Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud infrastructure-as-a-service platform, the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board announced Thursday. The move marks a milestone for the Obama administration’s cloud computing initiative. Federal CIO Vivek Kundra said [...]
Verizon offers Cloud security
Verizon Business will offer security as a service from eight of its many worldwide IP network data centers. In making the offering, it’s taking a calculated risk that it can convince business users that security, almost always an on-premises and often a hardware-based service, can be offered safely from software in the cloud. Verizon will [...]
Microsoft harnessing the power of machine learning
Microsoft wants to harness the power of machine learning — the statistically driven computing concepts that animate search engines and recommendation services — and other techniques to reduce power consumption, according to Rick Rashid, the senior vice president overseeing Microsoft Research. Microsoft, of course, is also trying to reduce the power consumed by PCs, servers, [...]
6 Hot new SaaS, Cloud Computing Startups
At the All About The Cloud conference in San Francisco, a handful of new cloud computing and software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies were revealed.. AppFirst New York-based AppFirst offers SaaS-based real-time application monitoring. The software offering lets users see into the “black box” that is their applications, regardless of application language, components, server type (physical or virtual) [...]
Windows Azure MMC 2 available for download
A tool designed to streamline the management of Windows Azure hosted services and storage accounts has been upgraded to version 2. Windows Azure Management Tool (MMC) 2 is currently available for download, having been updated on the MSDN Code Gallery since May 10th. Softpedia readers already received a heads-up in relation to MMC back in [...]
Cloud Computing Expert Becomes Defense Information Systems Agency’s CIO
A Defense Information Systems Agency’s cloud computing expert, Henry Sienkiewicz, is the agency’s new chief information officer. Sienkiewicz had been serving as the technical program director for the DISA’s Computing Services Directorate and replaces Roberta Stempfley, who left the agency last month to become director of the National Cybersecurity Division at the Department of Homeland [...]
Cloud Computing Expert Becomes Defense Information Systems Agency's CIO
A Defense Information Systems Agency’s cloud computing expert, Henry Sienkiewicz, is the agency’s new chief information officer. Sienkiewicz had been serving as the technical program director for the DISA’s Computing Services Directorate and replaces Roberta Stempfley, who left the agency last month to become director of the National Cybersecurity Division at the Department of Homeland [...]
Heroku raises $10 million in second round
Heroku, a company that helps developers deploy Web applications build using the Ruby on Rails format, has raised $10 million in its second round of institutional funding. The San Francisco startup compares itself to the cloud platforms of the tech giants, like Windows Azure from Microsoft and Google App Engine. It aims to remove the [...]
MSDN Video: Simulcast Event: Get Cloud Ready with Windows Azure (Part 3 of 7): Windows Azure Storage
The cloud is everywhere and here at Microsoft we’re flying high with our cloud computing release, Windows Azure. As most of you saw at the Professional Developers Conference, the reaction to Windows Azure has been nothing short of “wow” – and based on your feedback, we organized and recorded this special, all-day Windows Azure Firestarter [...]
How much data will end up in the cloud?
IDC have an interesting new report called the “2010 Digital Universe Study“. The mission of the paper is: This White Paper, sponsored by EMC, is IDC’s forecast of the digital universe – all the 1s and 0s created, captured, and replicated – and the implications for those who take the photos, share the music, and generate [...]
MSDN Video: Simulcast Event: Get Cloud Ready with Windows Azure (Part 2 of 7): Platform Overview for Developers
The cloud is everywhere and here at Microsoft we’re flying high with our cloud computing release, Windows Azure. As most of you saw at the Professional Developers Conference, the reaction to Windows Azure has been nothing short of “wow” – and based on your feedback, we organized and recorded this special, all-day Windows Azure Firestarter [...]
For Cloud Computing, IT practitioners may need to think like lawyers
Great article from Infolawgroup.com talking about how things have changed and how the lines between strartegic legal thinking and strategic IT planning seem to be gettting closer and closer… Some Excerpts.. So, what does “legal defensibility” mean in the security context? While some security professionals have begun to address the concept from the security side, my [...]
Video: Secure network communications within Windows Azure
Charlie Kaufman (from Microsoft), gives us details on how the network communications work and are secure within Windows Azure. Topics: » Why don’t we use IPSec between Compute node and store? » Breakdown of virtualization security in Azure » How do we protect against malicious users doing things like Denial of Service (DoS) attacks? » [...]
MSDN Video: Get Cloud Ready with Windows Azure (Part 1 of 7)
As most of you saw at the Professional Developers Conference, the reaction to Windows Azure has been nothing short of “wow”
Siki Giunta Joins CSC as Vice President of Cloud Computing and Software Services
CSC (CSC 50.27, -0.69, -1.35%) has named Siki Giunta vice president of cloud computing and software services
Cloud Computing versus Grid Computing
Grid computing (or the use of a computational grid) is the application of several computers to a single problem at the same time — usually to a scientific or technical problem that requires a great number of computer processing cycles or access to large amounts of data.
IBM Partners with Netsuite
Cloud-based business software provider NetSuite has announced a partnership with IBM (News – Alert) for connecting and integrating their respective cloud solutions. According to company sources IBM’s recent acquisition of Cast Iron Systems is behind the partnership between NetSuite (News – Alert) and IBM. Cast Iron Systems allows customers to connect on-premise applications and business [...]
Capellas picked to run the Virtual Computing Environment coalition
Michael Capellas, former CEO of Compaq, MCI, and First Data, has a new job as the front man for the Virtual Computing Environment coalition.
Cloud Computing Articles
We’ve gone out to the web to find links related to Cloud Computing. Each of the links we have found leads to an article about trends and news about Cloud Computing. www.amobi.com Cloud 9 for enterprise or a clouded vision? IBM Thunders into Cloud Computing IBM User Group Survey Says Virtualization, Cloud Computing on the [...]
Cloud Computing Companies
We have reviewed some of the largest most popular Cloud Computing companies.. Amazon AMD Cisco Dell Ebay EMC HP IBM Intel Juniper Mosso Oracle VMware Other Cloud Computing Companies 3PAR 3Tera – Offering what it calls “Cloud Computing Without Compromise,” 3Tera enables the provision and deployment of “scalable clustered applications in minutes from anywhere in [...]
