Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 19, 2012

Daily aggregation of cloud news from @cloud_aware, cloudaware.net.

  • WordPress Multitenancy – A Solution for Scalability & Maintainability

    • WordPress Multitenancy covers creating a multitenancy architecture for WordPress. Aimed at improving scalability and maintainability. (more)

  • Trouble Ahead For Cloud Computing Stocks

    • CloudTimes ticker symbol stocks cloud 300×300 Trouble Ahead For Cloud Computing Stocks Groupon, Facebook, and Zynga are currently having difficulties since their initial public offerings. Their losses can go as much as 70%. Currently, public cloud computing … (more)

  • Cloud computing changes all rules in banking

    • Korea Times How will cloud computing shake up the banking industry? The pre-crisis, high-leverage banking approach is no longer fit for purpose in the post-crisis world. For example, to successfully manage current market challenges (e.g., with liquidity … (more)

  • Recommendations to business leaders on future of cloud computing

    • Korea Times The most disruptive impact of cloud computing will be how it redefines the relationship between consumers and their providers of banking products and services. Cloud computing will make these services more convenient, more accessible, easier to use … (more)

  • How to plan for the end of life (EOL) of your IT kit

    • Voice and Data You might need a way to migrate an old, yet essential application to a more cost-effective platform, or to modernise so it can feed data to a tablet app. And while it’s relatively easy to get into the cloud, have you thought about how you’d get out … (more)

  • OpenStack Preview Released

    • ADT Magazine An early supporter of the two-year-old OpenStack project, Red Hat has kept a low public profile on its commitment to the effort. In its announcement Monday, the company pointed out it was the #3 contributor to the current Essex release of OpenStack. (more)

  • Host Ventura Launches Recovery-as-a-Service (RaaS) Based on VirtualSharp …

    • Broadcast Newsroom MCLEAN, VA — (Marketwire) — 08/13/12 — VirtualSharp Software, the leading provider of next generation automated Disaster Recovery solutions for private and public clouds, today announced that Host Ventura, a leading European specialist in Dedicated … (more)

  • NorthgateArinso – An evolving HR solution

    • ZDNet Summary: Software markets are very fluid. A vendor that had a … and software company. The BPaaS name, not necessarily the concept, may take some getting used to as every vendor seems to be creating some special “as-a-service” Marketing concept. (more)

  • Faster cloud storage for WA users

    • The West Australian WA businesses using cloud computing for data storage will enjoy faster speeds thanks to a multimillion-dollar upgrade of local facilities. The expansion of Fujitsu’s WA data centre in Malaga means local firms will be spared the latency problems … (more)