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• vCloud Suite and NIST | VMware Communities

Hello, I am looking how VMware vCloud Suite fulfills the criteria defined in the NIST definition of cloud compuuting. Measured service: ok here we have the … (more)

• Google App Engine finally supports PHP, the language that runs 75% of the

web VentureBeat Add a Comment. Two days ago, Google announced it would finally support the most popular computing language on the planet, PHP, in its platform-as-a-service offering, Google App Engine. That means that yes, at some point you’ll be able to run your … (more)

• Webinar Learn How Cloud Makes DR Easy Affordable Reliable | VMware …

VMware vCloud Blog. Run Manage and Secure Your IT Infrastructure and Applications … This is a guest post from vCloud Service Provider Bluelock … (more)

• NS: SimplyCast undergoes expansion with new Dartmouth digs

Daily Business Buzz – Nova Scotia The company, which specializes in multi-channel marketing Platform-as-a-Service solutions, will be relocating to a new space on Tacoma Drive in order to accommodate its expansion and the hiring of new staff. Topics : SimplyCast , Dartmouth. [DARTMOUTH … (more)

• Google previews PHP on App Engine

The H The PaaS (Platform as a Service) already supports Python, Java and Go and, like the languages before it, PHP is being introduced first as a limited preview experimental feature. The PHP implementation on App Engine currently runs PHP applications using … (more)

• Software as a Service | Ingeniux Corporation

A product demonstration is the best way to learn more about Ingeniux and to see if our content management solutions are a good fit for your organization. (more)

• Venyu’s Cloud Computing Honored by Network Products Guide

BATON ROUGE, LA–(Marketwired – May 17, 2013) – Powering its market leadership in cloud computing, business continuity, and battle-tested data recovery … (more)

• OpenStack Support — Cloud Management solutions | Scalr

Start leveraging the elasticity, reliability, and flexibility of OpenStack. Scalr is Open Source Cloud Management software for OpenStack and other clouds. (more)

• Ex Amazon Employee: Google Is ‘A Threat ‘To Amazon’s Cloud

Business Insider A former Amazon Web Services engineer recently conducted an Ask-Me-Anything session on Reddit, and one of the more surprising things he said was just how much of a threat Google’s cloud computing service is to Amazon. That’s because Google’s cloud … (more)

• IBM updates COBOL to extend System javascript:void(0)z into the cloud

V3.co.uk The company said that its System/z COBOL software update would look to add Java 7 and XML server capabilities to the platform, allowing the mainframe line to host cloud computing applications and services. The update is part of what IBM sees as an … (more)

• Building Open Interoperable Cloud Infrastructure

SYS-CON Media (press release) At pennies per virtual machine-hour, the economics of cloud computing are both compelling and daunting to replicate. Whether you are building your own cloud infrastructure, building a public cloud or choosing a cloud service, there are key strategy and … (more)

• Zetark deploys IBM PureFlex and SmartCloud Entry

Telecompaper (subscription) … the offering, Zetark has been able to cut the typical customer deployment time from two months to two weeks. IBM also announced it is expanding its support for open standards in the cloud computing market with the latest version of IBM SmartCloud … (more)

• Cloud Systems Management Software Market Analysis & 2016 Forecasts

SBWire (press release) Commenting on the report, an analyst from Data Center team said: ”Enterprises are increasingly adopting cloud computing and cloud-based applications such as public cloud, private cloud, and hybrid cloud models based on their computing needs. Among … (more)

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• Dell ‘refining’ plans for OpenStack-powered public cloud

TechCentral.ie Dell has said for the last year or so that it plans to build a public cloud based on the open source cloud platform OpenStack, a project the company is an official member of. But, recent moves by the company could be part of a broader shakeup of the … (more)

• Software AG launches Software AG Live: agile and integrated for the

digital … ITWeb Software AG launches cloud-based platform as a service suite addressing today’s business needs with unmatched speed, ease-of-use and full support for social and mobile collaboration while fully integrating with existing solutions in hybrid cloud … (more)

• Security a key factor in LogMeIn’s Internet of Things platform

CSO Magazine The company’s new Xively Cloud Services is based around a live, platform as a service (PaaS) offering that offers API-based access to real-time messaging, directory services and data services such as a time-series database and analytics. Designed to … (more)

• Red Hat CEO Whitehurst on innovation OpenStack Hadoop | ZDNet

As computing systems become commoditized, the “profit pools are going to evaporate” for enterprise software vendors, said Whitehurst. (more)

• Brocade intros fabric orchestration for OpenStack

CIOL Brocade also announced a Fibre Channel blueprint for storage networking. With the delivery of a framework for Fibre Channel zone management, Brocade enables customers to adopt OpenStack, while ensuring investments in mission-critical Fibre Channel … (more)

• Cloud Computing: Effectively Changing the Business Operation Model

Forbes Cloud computing technologies are ubiquitous. While not exactly new technologies, the speed with which they’re transforming business models and efficiencies seem to have accelerated over the past few years. The reason for the transformation depends on … (more)

• With Photos, Google Finally Makes Cloud Computing Tangible for Consumers

Gotta Be Mobile One of the problems with talking about the cloud is that it’s this obscure concept that consumers don’t really grasp. At best, many consumers think of the cloud as this mythical storage center in the universe where their files are stored and backed up … (more)

• A successful private cloud migration starts with data and apps

InfoWorld The use of private clouds is becoming old news, as many enterprises are much more comfortable with this approach to cloud computing than they are with moving their data to the public cloud. Indeed, the private cloud is a valuable resource if you pick … (more)

• CSRT reveals cloud strengths, weaknesses

ITWeb He says the tool builds on the Cloud Security Alliance’s (CSA’s) Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM). The CSA is a member-driven organisation that aims at promoting the use of best practices for providing security assurance within cloud computing. He describes … (more)

• Minds | Open Cloud Take Two: The CloudStack Collaboration …

Minds is an open source social network. Search, create, blog and share free video, images, audio and text. All site information is licensed creative commons or … (more)

• KidoZen and Happiest Minds Announce a Partnership to Enable the Next …

Yahoo! New Zealand News Through this partnership, KidoZen and Happiest Minds will collaborate to expand their enterprise mobile services and solution portfolios around KidoZen, the leading enterprise mobile-first platform as a service. KidoZen is ushering in a new era of … (more)

• Mimecast Data Centre Glitch Causes Outages – TechWeekEurope UK

TechWeekEurope UK There were red faces at Mimecast this week, after the software as a service company admitted that a network infrastructure problem had caused email outages. The company specialises in offering cloud-based email management services to businesses, and … (more)

• Aditi Technologies acquires cloud consulting startup Get Cloud Ready

VC Circle Aditi Technologies, a Bangalore-headquartered cloud company which provides Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solutions, has acquired Hyderabad-based cloud consulting startup Get Cloud Ready for an undisclosed amount. With this … The latest one includes … (more)

• How to leverage WAN optimisation for high-performance cloud services

ITProPortal Part of the problem is that the public cloud ‘Infrastructure as a Service’ (IaaS) market is evolving more slowly than other areas such as ‘Software as a Service’ (SaaS). Providers are only beginning to recognise the level to which performance levels … (more)

• Open Source Zend Framework 2.2 Brings PHP to OpenStack Cloud

InternetNews.com (blog) OpenStack has emerged to become a cloud standard platform in recent years with major IT vendors including, IBM, HP, Dell and Cisco all embracing the open source cloud platform. OpenStack itself is written in Python – but now thanks to Zend Framework 2 … (more)

• How Manufacturers Can Benefit From Cloud Computing

Manufacturing Business Technology Manufacturing Business Technology took some time to talk with Sanjay Ravi, managing director of discrete manufacturing at Microsoft Corp. about cloud computing in the manufacturing sector and how companies can benefit from it. Manufacturing Business … (more)

• How a best practices registry could make cloud safer – USA Today

USA TODAY (Editor’s note: Formed in 2008, the Cloud Security Alliance is a not-for-profit coalition of senior executives and cybersecurity experts formed to promote the use of best security practices for cloud computing. CSA members who contributed to this essay … (more)

• Fujitsu introduces high level cloud computing based services

Business Standard Fujitsu’s Tsuneo Kawatsuma made a conceptual presentation to indicate the shift of Cloud computing from private space to public space and the mid- area which facilitates both private and public computing. Following the Tsunami in March 2011, people are … (more)

• Google And SAP: Two Very Different Cloud Strategies

ReadWrite (blog) Amazon, more than any other cloud vendor, has insisted that such “clouds” don’t deserve the name, as they fail to live up to the very premise of cloud computing: truly elastic, on-demand software. But while Amazon normally reserves its ire for private … (more)

• Walmart Acquires Cloud Startups OneOps and Tasty Labs

Talkin’ Cloud The Silicon Valley technology subisidary of Walmart, @WalmartLabs, has acquired two cloud computing startups to further boost its capabilities. OneOps, which developed a PaaS that automates and accelerates the management of product releases, and … (more)

• Apache CloudStack Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

CloudStack is open source cloud computing software for creating managing and deploying infrastructure cloud services It uses existing hypervisors such as … (more)

• IBM PureFlex and SmartCloud Entry Allow Zetark to Help Customers Deploy …

Sacramento Bee Today, IBM also announced that it is expanding its support for open standards in the Cloud computing market with the latest version of IBM SmartCloud Entry. Working with industry open standards groups – including the OpenStack community – IBM is … (more)

• Aditi Technologies Buys Cloud Computing Firm – Get Cloud Ready

DealCurry (blog) This is Aditi’s second major cloud consulting acquisition since Seattle based cloud computing startup Cumulux in 2011. Cumulux was founded in 2008 by former Microsoft employees Paddy Srinivasan and Ranjith Ramakrishnan. It provides cloud computing … (more)

• Why do SME’s Hesitate to Step on the Cloud?

European Public Affairs At present, cloud computing may sound like something from Inception. But it looks like it is going to be the future for computer systems. For those who are not familiar with it, simply put, it is the online storage of data. You have probably already … (more)

• We Live in A SaaS World [Infographic]

Business 2 Community With this software delivery model, software and associated data are centrally hosted on the cloud. How does SaaS differ from other cloud models, including the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) models? With LaaS … (more)

• Nebula Cosmos, OpenStack and Cloud Security [VIDEO]

Datamation Chris Kemp helped to kick off the OpenStack Cloud revolution while he was the CTO of NASA. Now as CEO of OpenStack startup Nebula, Kemp has a product in-market and is aiming to turn his cloud company into a commercial success. In an exclusive video … (more)

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• How to use Hibernate Multi Tenancy in AS7 EE enviroment | JBoss …

How to use Hibernate Multi Tenancy in AS7 EE enviroment … multiTenancy and hibernate.multi_tenant_connection_provider to persistence.xml seems to trigger … (more)

• 10 Best Companies In Cloud Computing – SiliconIndia

Siliconindia.com Bangalore: Cloud computing is a much talked topic in tech, at present. This technology is used by us everyday especially with activities like storing files and maintaining friendships. With powerful apps run by mobile and tablet devices via the cloud … (more)

• CloudStack Bangalore Meetup May 2013 CloudStack India Bangalore …

Apache CloudStackIncubating is open source software designed to deploy and manage large networks of virtual machines as a highly available highly scalable … (more)

• Businesses in the UAE Turn to Cloud Computing Security Solutions as

Cyber … Moneylife The escalating number of attacks on web services in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), which is one of the most spammed countries worldwide, has lent impetus to the cloud computing security market in the country. The growing use of cloud services in the … (more)

• Cloud Computing Could Transform Foreign Aid

Nextgov Officials estimate the government can ultimately shave as much as $5 billion off its $80 billion annual information technology bill by transitioning to cloud computing. (Image via sommthink/Shutterstock.com). ADD A COMMENT. Flickr user: Killrbeez … (more)

• Google offers new App Engine features to chase after Amazon’s cloud …

The Verge Google offers new App Engine features to chase after Amazon’s cloud computing dominance. PHP support and a new storage solution strengthen Google’s hand. By Jeff Blagdon on May 16, 2013 01:20 am @blagdon 16Comments. Don’t miss stories Follow … (more)

• Apache CloudStack Weekly News 13 May 2013 The Apache CloudStack Blog

The Apache CloudStack community is going to have its second conference in late … CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2013 is being held from 23 June to 25 … (more)

• Hudson-based Procentive pioneered software as a service …

Now the company founded by Randy Zimmermann and Jeff Burton has a new 6300-square-foot building in St. Croix Business Park East, bringing it some … (more)

• CloudStack Support — Cloud Management solutions | Scalr

Start leveraging the elasticity, reliability, and flexibility of CloudStack. Scalr is Open Source Cloud Management software for CloudStack and other clouds. (more)

• Microsoft To Get A Major Revenue Growth Boost From Cloud …

Microsoft To Get A Major Revenue Growth Boost From Cloud Computing. May 10 2013, 12:11 by: Gregory Vousvounis | about: MSFT. When people think of … (more)

• iWeb First To Launch Guaranteed Managed Cloud Hosting Service

Broadway World The managed Cloud service is the first OpenStack public cloud deployment in Canada and the first in the industry to provide guaranteed disk speed as a standard, a key element of overall system performance. The other key components of this breakthrough … (more)

• Platform as a Service Fujitsu Global

Fujitsu Platform as a Service. Fujitsu is committed to creating the broadest cloud services portfolio in the industry The acquisition of RunMyProcessRMP … (more)

• Illumina releases genomics cloud computing and storage platform

News-Medical.net Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today announced the full commercial availability of BaseSpace, the Company’s genomics cloud computing and storage platform. BaseSpace Apps is now out of beta status, and includes a full-fledged e-commerce system that … (more)

• SAP Introduces New Solutions To Line-Of-Business Cloud Applications

Biztech2.com by Biztech2.com Staff 16th May, 2013 in Cloud Computing. SAP AG has introduced significant innovations to its portfolio of line-of-business cloud applications. To simplify their technology deployments, best-run companies are shifting from adhoc … (more)

• MW13: What CIOs Really Want

Light Reading (blog) That executive was Peter Agnew, senior manager of Innovation at pan-European service provider Colt Technology Services Group Ltd., talking during his presentation on the development of software-as-a-service (SaaS) portfolios. “When we talk to … (more)

• Wal-Mart Buys Software Firms OneOps and TastyLabs

Arkansas Business Online OneOps, founded by a trio of former eBay engineers, has developed a “Platform-as-a-Service capability” the retailer says will help it “significantly accelerate our PaaS and Private Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (Iaas) strategies.” TastyLabs … (more)

• Adobe forces Photoshop, Illustrator customers to adopt subscription model

FierceEnterpriseCommunications Adobe’s (Nasdaq: ADBE) decision to only offer its Creative Suite products, such as Photoshop and Illustrator, through an ongoing subscription to its Creative Cloud software-as-a-service product has customers rebelling. Adobe announced last week that it … (more)

• Canadian Web Host iWeb Launches Managed OpenStack Cloud

Web Host Industry Review Now iWeb has released its managed cloud offering based on a variety of open source software, including OpenStack, CentOS and Puppet. The guaranteed managed cloud from iWeb, launched on Thursday, is based on the latest OpenStack release, Grizzly. (more)

• A Journey Through Red Dwarf: OpenStack Database-as-a-Service …

I got into cloud computing via MySQL, and got into MySQL via cloud computing. MySQL on Linux was how major corporations and large organizations “got the … (more)

• Google Unleashes Their Public IaaS Cloud, Adds NoSQL Database – InfoQ

InfoQ.com This week’s Google I/O conference also introduced a new fully managed NoSQL database and the addition of PHP to the Google App Engine Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). Much like Microsoft did with their recently announced IaaS product, Google released … (more)

• SaaS is gaining traction – PWC – Balkans.com

Balkans.com Business News Evolutionary changes in cloud, software-as-a-service (SaaS), IT consumerisation and mobile are fundamentally reshaping how software companies do business, the PwC Global 100 Software Leaders market research report found. Key data and feedback … (more)

• CloudBees Buzzes with Growth, Launches European Sales and Marketing …

Fort Mills Times CloudBees, Inc., the Java Platform as a Service (PaaS) innovation leader, today announced a new office in Brussels, Belgium, as well as another record-setting quarter in Q1 2013 of new account acquisition and revenue growth. In 2012, CloudBees … (more)

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• Langfang: China’s cloud computing hub

Financial Times (blog) Range, together with IBM, has started to build Asia’s biggest cloud computing data centre in Langfang since 2011. The centre, scheduled to be completed in 2016, will cover an area of 620,000 square meters (larger than the size of the Pentagon … (more)

• Connectria Beats Goggle And Amazon In Cloud Computing

fox2now.com It’s a high tech firm that manages hosting and cloud computing. ‘It’s a computer resource,’ says Waidmann. ‘It could be the computing, the memory, and the disk storage. We’re just running some sort of software for some computer somewhere else. (more)

• Dimension Data CEO Lays Out $12 Billion Plan – CRN.com

CRN The South African-headquartered systems integrator is in the midst of a cloud-computing service offensive: doubling down on providing its own Dimension Data-branded IT service offerings. Just last week, the SP500 powerhouse acquired Australian … (more)

• Singapore SaaS proposals have overseas appeal

ZDNet SINGAPORE–The Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) has identified seven new software-as-a-service (SaaS) proposals for development, and will be hoping these software will prove to be appealing enough to be exported overseas. (more)

• Software AG releases its first Cloud-based Platform-as-a-Service suite

ARNnet Software AG is augmenting its on-premise portfolio with the introduction of its Cloud-based suite, Software AG Live. Software AG Asia Pacific and Japan senior vice president, Steve Keys, said the vendor has been focused on helping customers harness the … (more)

• Canadian Web Hosting Joins OpenStack Foundation and Sets Date for Launch …

PR Web (press release) Canadian Web Hosting joins the OpenStack Foundation as a corporate sponsor and sets date for new web hosting and cloud hosting services built on OpenStack software. The summer launch will expand Canadian Web Hosting’s existing Canadian Cloud … (more)

• Amazon takes help in luring big companies to cloud

Times of India That market opportunity has helped Amazon’s stock price more than triple in the past five years as investors bet that the retailer’s cloud computing services will become an integral part of the way companies do business over the internet. Enterprises … (more)

• Japan’s Fujitsu to expand cloud computing services

Jakarta Post The introduction of the cloud computing services was intended to enable Fujitsu to catch up with the sharply rising rate of Japan’s domestic sales of $3 billion this year, up from only $500 million in 2010. Fujitsu also plans to set up 40 foreign … (more)

• PaaS – Canopy

Platform as a Service from Canopy delivers availability, scalability and agility on another level compared to a traditional IT infrastructure. This cloud-based … (more)

• Introducing Apache CloudStack: OSCON 2013 – O’Reilly …

Apache CloudStack, a project in Incubation, helps an admin or devops engineer build an IaaS cloud. This talk provides a technical description of the CloudStack … (more)

• OpenStack ComputeNova Roadmap for Havana | Russell Bryant

OpenStack ComputeNova Roadmap for Havana. May 13 2013 russellbryant Leave a comment Go to comments. The Havana design summit was held midApril Since then we … (more)

• Presentation about the Open Stack Book Sprint | BookSprintsnet

Presentation about the Open Stack Book Sprint. Posted on May 12 2013. Panel on the Open Stack Book Sprint held at the 2013 Open Stack Summit … (more)

• Qualcomm CIO: Cloud computing is here to stay and SAP, Oracle should be …

V3.co.uk SAN JOSE: Cloud computing is now such a central part of the IT enterprise landscape that firms cannot ignore its benefits any longer, according to the chief information officer of mobile chip giant Qualcomm. Qualcomm chief information officer Norm … (more)

• Google to teach Andhra students mobile, cloud computing

India Today Google India Private Limited has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Andhra Pradesh government to train engineering students of Jawahar Knowledge Centres (JKC) in latest technologies like mobile and cloud computing. Google will … (more)

• Google platform cloud now takes PHP apps

Register But adoption of platform-as-a-service technology has been muted, with infrastructure-as-a-service typically taking in more developer spend. This, we believe, is because developers would rather write apps within an environment that they have control … (more)

• Software AG launches cloud app development platform with social components

V3.co.uk Software AG has launched Live, a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) suite that will allow application developers to easily create and deploy agile and cloud-based software. The platform’s core component, AgileApps Live, is available now and allows developers … (more)

• Software AG launches Live PaaS suite

Cloud Pro Software AG, the German software company, has launched a new Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering that promises users full support for social and mobile collaboration, as well as integration with existing hybrid cloud deployments. Dubbed Software AG … (more)

• Canadian Web Hosting Joins OpenStack Foundation, Preps Public Cloud Launch

Web Host Industry Review Canadian Web Hosting has joined the OpenStack Foundation in which it will help support the development of open source software OpenStack. Related Topics: canadian web hosting, cloud computing, new products, openstack. Canadian web hosting and … (more)

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• HP Revamps Cloud Management and Automation Software Slate

Datamation When paired with HP Database and Middleware Automation, Cloud Service Automation “offers self-service portals for Database-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service environments that deliver end-to-end IT application services,” according to HP. (more)

• Community vCloud Automation Center | VMware Communities

Re vCAC to vCO to VCMor vCAC to VCM Best practice 3 days ago in vCloud Automation … Machine Prefix Error and Bug on vCAC and vCloud Director 4 days ago in … (more)

• How Open Source Python Drives the OpenStack Cloud [VIDEO]

Datamation There are a lot of different programming languages in use today. When it comes to the cloud, thanks in part to the strong position of OpenStack, the open source Python language has emerged as being one of the most important. OpenStack is written in … (more)

• Cisco Cloud CTO on OpenStack, SDN and the Internet of Things [VIDEO]

EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet In October of 2012, Tucker helped Cisco to launch its own OpenStack cloud platform edition. It’s an effort that six months later is showing tangible traction among Cisco customers. The Comcast OpenStack cloud, which was demoed at the recent OpenStack … (more)

• Cloud computing could offer bright future for retailers

Retail Customer Experience With the growing popularity of mobile, social and e-commerce, traditional brick-and-mortar retailers are turning to the cloud to optimize the in-store experience, according to an article on wired.com. Cloud computing offers retailers a way to upgrade … (more)

• Columbia Sportswear’s move from virtualization to private cloud computing

TechTarget LAS VEGAS — Companies that have only begun to virtualize may not have cloud computing on their priority list, but IT shops that use virtualization as a path to private cloud find it to be an effective way to serve their business needs. Two years ago … (more)

• Cloud service benefits focus of key seminar

Gulf Daily News MANAMA: The business benefits of using cloud computing and associated security concerns and some key risks to look out for in adoption scenarios were discussed at a breakfast seminar hosted by KPMG in Bahrain. The seminar, held at the Sheraton Hotel, … (more)

• Embotics Manages to Meld VMware and Hyper-V Hypervisor Use – ServerWatch

Server Watch At this time V-Commander offers no hybrid cloud management capabilities like those available to vCloud Director users, but it’s likely that something similar involving VMware, Hyper-V and EC2 will be announced in the near future, Litkey hints. Perhaps … (more)

• HP Automates IT Above and Beyond for Data Centers

CIO Today HP’s new software suite has helped McKesson dramatically reduce IT hassles, aiding with everything from routine data center maintenance to delivery of sophisticated business processes. Hewlett Packard today unveiled the next generation of its software … (more)

• Google Dumps Custom Linux In Favor Of Debian For App Engine

CloudTweaks News Support for OpenStack suite as well as XCP (Xen Cloud Platform) which gives users a choice to deploy their own cloud infrastructure. This will definitely be attractive for Google since there’s a momentum being built around OpenStack within the Cloud … (more)

• Webroot Enhances VeliQ’s Mobility Platform as a Service with …

Webroot Enhances VeliQ’s Mobility Platform as a Service with Innovative … ABOUT WEBROOTWebroot is bringing the power of softwareasaserviceSaaS to Internet … (more)

• VMware’s vCloud Hybrid Service: Key Issues For Partners – CRN.com

CRN VMware plans May 21 to announce vCloud Hybrid Service, the long-awaited offering, codenamed Project Zephyr, which CRN reported last August. It’s an infrastructure-as-a-service offering for partners and customers that will provide-SKU-based capacity … (more)

• Cloud computing modernizes education in China | KurzweilAI

Chinese cloud services provider 3Tcloud is deploying the country’s biggest education cloud project to optimize resource allocation and cut maintenance cost , (more)

• HP Automates IT Above and Beyond for Data Centers

Sci-Tech Today And, HP Cloud Service Automation 3.2 promises to simplify management of heterogeneous environments by leveraging HP OO and HP SA while providing support for Amazon EC2 public cloud services, HP Cloud Services, KVM OpenStack and Relevant … (more)

• Applying cloud stack features to a private cloud

TechTarget As cloud software features mature, enterprise buyers are voicing more annoyance with the fact that some new features, such as OpenStack’s Grizzly release, hold considerable promise but are rarely associated with the enterprise buyer. It’s time to look … (more)

• Cloud Computing And The Integration Quagmire

Forbes While cloud computing’s popularity as a powerful and transformational business tool is soaring, some companies have been frustrated with cloud apps procured from multiple vendors requiring extensive integration that has dragged out time to value … (more)

• Amazon’s Glen Robinson on AWS, Cloud computing, the role of solution …

ITProPortal With cloud computing businesses are no longer constrained by infrastructure or capital outlay required to get a project off the ground, which can stifle innovation. With the cloud there are no up-front costs, companies can fail fast and, as they pay … (more)

• Cloud Computing Firm 8k Miles Acquires FuGen Solutions

DealCurry 8KMiles Software Services, a leading global cloud computing company has acquired FuGen Solutions for $7.5 Mn, BSE states. The acquisition will enable the company to expand and build on its cloud and big data security services and solutions to serve and … (more)

• Engine Yard plugs PHP into its platform-as-a-service

Register It sees Engine Yard fully integrate the language with its main platform-as-a-service, having operated PHP in a standalone cloud via its acquisition of Orchestra in 2011. “With PHP on Engine Yard Cloud, users get a proven, robust platform on which they … (more)

• WalmartLabs acquires software startups OneOps, Tasty Labs

ZDNet Jeremy King, chief technology officer at WalmartLabs, cited in a blog post that OneOps comes with a Platform-as-a-Service capability, which he added will enable the company to “significantly accelerate our PaaS and Private Cloud Infrastructure-as-a … (more)

• @WalmartLabs Acquires Cloud Computing Startup OneOps & Delicious …

TechCrunch Walmart, via its Silicon Valley innovation lab @WalmartLabs, today announced the acquisition of two startups: cloud computing newcomer OneOps and the software development shop Tasty Labs, from Delicious founder Joshua Schachter. Tasty Labs offered … (more)

• Oracle to open cloud data centre dedicated to G-Cloud

Computing Computer giant Oracle is setting up a data centre “in the Thames Valley” in order to retain and capture government cloud computing business. The data centre is Oracle’s second in the UK after Linlithgow in Scotland, which it picked up when it acquired … (more)

• Webroot Enhances VeliQ’s Mobility Platform As A Service With

VeliQ delivers the only enterprise mobility Platform as a ServicemPaaSTM solution … Webroot is bringing the power of softwareasaserviceSaaS to Internet … (more)

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• Apache CloudStack | The Power Behind Your Cloud

Apache CloudStack v41.0 Domain Admin API Reference … since, version of CloudStack the api was introduced in. params*, the list params the api accepts … (more)

• Unitrends Multi-Tenancy? – Spiceworks

I am looking for a solution to replace our remote backup appliance by Trustyd ( formerly 3X). Right now I use the Trustyd appliance t… | 1 reply | Unitrends. (more)

• 2013 ERP Market Share Update: SAP Solidifies Market Leadership

Forbes During 2012 the worldwide Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) market experienced sluggish growth of just 2.2%, yet Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), financial management and Human Capital Management (HCM) applications showed potential for breakout … (more)

• Chunghwa, IBM launch Smart PaaS

Telecompaper (subscription) Taiwanese communications carrier Chunghwa Telecom and IBM have collaborated to introduce Smart PaaS (platform as a service). The service targets small to medium sized independent software vendors and allows them to develop and market SaaS … (more)

• VisionWare Named as Supplier on Ground-Breaking G-Cloud Framework

Watch List News (press release) Separated into lots, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS) and Specialist Cloud Services allows these services to be delivered to various government bodies through the ground-breaking CloudStore. (more)

• Hudson & Yorke launches fixed-cost cloud advisory services via CloudStore

Consultant News The firm’s advisory offerings are focused around value assessment, defining business cases and sourcing methods for cloud, platform-as-a-service and software-as-a-service strategies. Hudson & Yorke’s fixed-price delivery model is a more cost-effective … (more)

• 5 pioneering paths for software development’s new frontier

InfoWorld If that infrastructure is deployed as SaaS (software as a service), it requires development practices that are orders of magnitude more rigorous and complex than those used for deploying stand-alone apps. Intuit, the creators of QuickBooks and … (more)

• Talent manager builds on Windows Azure

Delimiter news Talent management firm PageUp People has picked Microsoft’s Windows Azure public cloud computing platform to host its CareerPath application, according to a statement issued by Redmond late last week. PageUp People is an international talent … (more)

• Gartner Says Project and Portfolio Management Software Market Grew 11 …

Computerworld India Vendor movement has been characterized by partnering and acquisition, some new sales emphasis beyond North America, and improved packaging and delivery options (most notably, software as a service [SaaS]), as well as by new product releases. (more)

• HP Updates Cloud Management Software

Data Center Knowledge HP Operations Orchestration (OO) 10 has out-of-the-box support for over 5,000 IT operations, including new support for Amazon S3 storage, HP ArcSight, HP Fortify, OpenStack and SAP applications. The HP Server Automation (SA) 10 server lifecycle … (more)

• HP Q&A: Converged Cloud is company’s chief initiative

InfoWorld The company announced its strategy to seamlessly extend existing enterprise resources through a hybrid cloud approach using OpenStack just a year ago. [ Stay on top of the cloud with InfoWorld’s “Cloud Computing Deep Dive” special report. Download it … (more)

• IT’s Attitude Problem

InformationWeek Cloud computing has widened the already pronounced rift between business executives and stereotypical IT throwbacks who think data is safer on internal Windows 2008 servers that get patched every quarter, whether or not they need it. There are a few … (more)

• Germany Slow to Embrace Cloud Computing

Internet Evolution According to the Global Cloud Computing Scorecard compiled by the BSA Group, last year, Germany lagged behind in terms of cloud readiness. Ranked third in 2012, Germany now has to content itself with fourth place after the United States topped Germany … (more)

• Lancope Joins Cloud Security Alliance To Help Protect Next-Generation …

Sacramento Bee The alliance, led by a broad coalition of industry practitioners, corporations, associations and other key stakeholders, also provides education on the use of cloud computing as a means of securing other infrastructure. “As a company that provides in … (more)

• Fusion to Present at B. Riley & Co. Investor Conference on May 20th –

Stockhouse Stockhouse NEW YORK, NY — (Marketwired) — 05/13/13 — Fusion Telecommunications International, Inc. (OTCQB: FSNN) a provider of cloud communications, cloud computing and managed cloud solutions, today announced it will be presenting at the 14th Annual B. (more)

• Enhanced VM Protection From Kaspersky

The Data Center Journal The new solution is also integrated with VMware’s vCloud Networking andSecurity. Network intrusions are now detected in a better manner thanks to the real time threat information delivered by Kaspersky Security Network. The product is also capable of … (more)

• An introduction and overview to Software as a Service – SlideShare

This Software as a Service (SaaS) presentation by InTechnology’s Stefan Haase, looks at InTechnology’s best-in-class SaaS solutions and how these highly … (more)

• Cloud computing is silver lining for entrepreneurs | ArabNews

Cloud computing refers to the process of getting software, storage, computing power and other services via the Internet from remote data centers rather than the … (more)

• Hundreds of Big Data and Cloud Computing Experts to Gather in San

Francisco … Sacramento Bee In support of its mission, the Alliance has delivered the first customer requirements for cloud computing and big data documented in Open Data Center Usage Models which identify member prioritized requirements to resolve the most pressing challenges … (more)

• New Cloud Computing Accelerator Programme Announced

Dublin City University Over the next year, a new National Cloud Computing Accelerator Programme will provide guidance and training to over 2,000 organisations on how to assess which cloud services will help fast-track their business, with 200 to receive hands-on cloud … (more)

• GigaSpaces Launches Cloudify Player Service on HP Public Cloud

Fort Mills Times The new service currently supports OpenStack-based clouds and is available as a free online service from HP Cloud Services and GigaSpaces’ Cloudify. The source code for the service is also available as an open source project on Github. The Player was … (more)

• Cloud computing is silver lining for Russian firms – SpaceDaily

Space Daily Russian police marched into a small company’s office in Moscow and told everyone to sit down and wait to be interviewed. They left hours later with all the computers. “You can imagine how much of a problem it was. We had no backups,” said the owner of … (more)