Daily Cloud Feed – Sep 26, 2012

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

  • DR as a Service from Sanovi

    • Express Computer In a bid to further strengthen its foothold in the Disaster Recovery solutions space, DR Management (DRM) Software provider, Sanovi Technologies, has introduced an offering, specifically designed for the banks. Considering that BFSI is the second … (more)

  • RE: CLoudStack and OpenFiler2.99 – ASF Mail Archives

    • They can be converted to VHD files though, which is what CloudStack does when you take a snapshot of a volume. CloudStack converts the LVM to a VHD file … (more)

  • MultiTenancy capabilities possible

    • Multi tenancy support. I would like to discuss this matter again in 2012 As ITprovider when dealing with small or middlesize companies in Europe every … (more)

  • Cloud Computing: Connections Matter Free Webinar Sept. 27

    • Equities.com The first webinar, Cloud Computing: Connections Matter, focuses on how enterprises and large organizations can secure their connections to the Cloud and other locations. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080626/LATH527LOGO). “One of the … (more)

  • Access to cloud services goes up for government agencies

    • Sydney Morning Herald In its “Cloud Computing Strategic Direction Paper” released in April, 2011, AGIMO said it would investigate a ”storefront”, or a centralised catalogue for agencies to choose from pending the outcome of a parallel data centre strategy. AGIMO first … (more)

  • Lifting the fog on cloud adoption

    • Sydney Morning Herald The term cloud computing describes third-party computing resources that can be scaled up and down as needs change. While widely used in consumer products – such as Gmail, Hotmail and Dropbox – some corporations are still hesitant to adopt it, even … (more)

  • Mirantis Forms OpenStack Contributions Team

    • Data Center Knowledge OpenStack software is a massively scalable cloud operating system for public or private clouds, produced by an open source community. The Mirantis team will include a pool of five engineers exclusively dedicated to working on strategic and significant … (more)

  • [Research] Data on Nonprofit Cloud Computing: Anywhere, Anytime …

    • Note from Beth: Back in 2003 when most people in the nonprofit sector were asking, What the heck is a blog?, Marnie Webb, Co-CEO of TechSoup Global was. (more)

  • The Coming of Third-Generation Cloud Computing

    • While cloud computing has much to offer in terms of simplifying IT administration, there is still a long way to go before reaching nirvana. (more)

  • Once a basher, now a believer, Oracle chief Larry Ellison has come full

    • circle … PC Advisor Last week he even spilled the beans on news his company will make at its OpenWorld show next week, expanding the Oracle cloud from a software as a service (SaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) play into the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) market. (more)

  • David or Goliath: Small Businesses Face a Challenge in Choosing an HRIS

    • Workforce Management By acquiring these software-as-a-service, or SaaS, providers and
    integrating them into their broader offering as individual modules, the software giants are making sophisticated business software more accessible. Modular SaaS-based tools cost less to … (more)

  • Now I’m a believer: Oracle CEO Larry Ellison’s cloud computing u-turn

    • ComputerworldUK As recently as 2009 Oracle CEO Larry Ellison was one of the industry’s biggest cloud-bashers, questioning what the cloud really was, accusing venture investors of latching on to the latest fad and dismissing the cloud the hot fashionable buzzword of … (more)

  • Mythics Consulting Joins HP on U.S. Army Contract for Enterprise Cloud …

    • Sacramento Bee APC2 is a $249M indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract (IDIQ) available to all U.S. federal agencies and military services for the acquisition of enterprise private cloud computing services. The new initiative will allow the military to … (more)

  • 5 (more) key cloud security issues

    • CSO As we’re adopting cloud computing, we’re more aware of the security concerns it raises than we were of issues created by other large-scale technologies we adopted in the past. This is a wonderful thing! But security nirvana has yet not been achieved. (more)

  • Fighting FUD: cloud players try to make sense of European data protection

    • laws GigaOM Optimists hope that the EU’s expected cloud computing recommendations will resolve concerns around diverse data protection laws that slow cloud adoption. Realists hope for the best, but prepare for less. The reality is Europe remains a collection of … (more)

  • Clarifying Cloud

    • CRN (blog) Today, the IT solution provider is focused on Technology Services, unified communication and collaboration, cloud computing, product solutions, network systems integration, cyber security, mobility and social media solutions. The $343 million company … (more)

  • Infrastructure-as-Code with OpenStack

    • Data Center Knowledge OpenStack produces two stable releases a year, with intermediate releases every six weeks. If you follow the traditional enterprise infrastructure refresh cycle that spans a few years, OpenStack is not for you. By the time you are ready to update … (more)

  • Canonical exec: We’re not worried about VMware joining OpenStack

    • DABCC.com While the recent addition of VMware to the OpenStack Foundation as a gold member troubled some in the community – including a new member of the board of directors – Canonical cloud vice president Kyle MacDonald says that his company was an … (more)

  • Digging into VMware networking: vSphere, VXLAN and vCloud Director

    • TechTarget Editor’s Note: In the first part of this article about VMware winning the SearchNetworking.com Network Innovation Award, we discussed the company’s added vSphere and vCloud Director networking features. Here, in part two of the Q&A with VMware’s … (more)

  • BMC Communities: MultiTenancy Services and Companies

    • Hi,. We have ITSM configurated in multitenancy. But we want create ‘standard’ services that it can be used in all the companies. We do not want join service and … (more)

  • NetSuite Brings SuiteCommerce To The UK

    • The Herald | HeraldOnline.com Key to the NetSuite Commerce as a Service initiative is NetSuite SuiteCommerce, a new commerce-aware platform that enables businesses to manage interactions with other businesses and directly with consumers on a single cloud platform across multiple … (more)

  • Etherpad Now Baked Into Social Project Management App Wrike

    • TechCrunch Social project management software-as-a-service Wrike released a big update today, including in-line integration of the open source text editor Etherpad. The idea is that instead of attaching documents to a task, the task becomes the document, enabling … (more)

  • Avnet Technology Solutions Introduces HP Converged Cloud Packaged …

    • DailyFinance HP CSA consists of the software components that allow the development of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) or Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) private clouds that are fully monitored and utilize heterogeneous hardware. HP CSA … (more)

  • Cloud Computing Technology – Investment Strategy: IBM, Microsoft, Intel …

    • Seeking Alpha The services model – The three fundamental cloud computing services models are infrastructure as a service or IaaS, platform as a service or PaaS, and software as a service or SaaS. Choose any or all of these models depending on your needs. (more)

  • Why identity-as-a-Service is the next killer app for the cloud

    • Cloud Pro Designed to deliver “Facebook-like identity for the enterprise” this element of the cloud model describes the ability to engineer software that will control a single trusted identity for users to operate and exist with insideaset of cloud services … (more)

  • Cloud Computing and Kyotoism: An Update

    • Global Warming (blog) Wouldn’t you know it, the day after I review Mark Mills’s analyses (in 1999 and 2011) of the digital economy as a key driver of demand growth for coal-fired electric power, I receive an EnergyFactsWeekly in my email box featuring new analysis by Mills … (more)

  • The power of IT (it’s not all in energy consumption)

    • GigaOM Joe Weinman is a senior vice president at Telx, the author of Cloudonomics: The Business Value of Cloud Computing, and a regular guest contributor to GigaOM. You can find him on Twitter @joeweinman and he’ll also be speaking at our upcoming … (more)

  • Top five ways cloud computing impacts mobile application development teams

    • TheServerSide.com There’s no arguing the fact that development cycles in the mobile application development world are incredibly short. So it’s no surprise to discover that development teams who are intent on getting their mobile applications to market quickly are … (more)

  • Cloud naivety and electric car dreams

    • ZDNet Some people have a very unrealistic view of where and how the power for these vehicles is going to be generated, and in much the same way there seems to be a widespread lack of understanding about where cloud computing ‘comes from’. I’ve spent more … (more)