Accounting Software As Software-As-A-Service In the mid-80s, accounting software became very popular with midmarket companies. Personalized accounting became an indispensable tool for businesses as personal computers became cheaper. Users took advantage of computer technology because financial report preparation was easier with the help of accounting software. Automated accounting also began to attract users who had [...]
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Accounting Software As Software-As-A-Service: Advantages And Disadvantages
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The Top Five Threats To Cloud Computing
CloudTweaks.com - Cloud Computing Community16 May 2012 | 5:55 amThe Top Five Threats To Cloud Computing With hundreds of enterprises migrating to cloud services every day, it looks like the march to cloud everything is inevitable and unstoppable. However, cloud computing is not without its risks, and in this post, I will cover the top five issues that pose a threat to increased cloud [...] -
6 Cloud Computing Events to Visit in 2012
Cloud Business Review16 May 2012 | 1:40 amRepresenting the future of the way that we store and retrieve media, documents, programs and other historically local files, cloud computing is changing the very way in which we use devices such as computers, tablets and smartphones. Whether you’re a professional along for the ride or a consumer looking to better understand what the future of cloud computing has in store for you, any one of these six cloud computing events to visit in 2012 will help to give you … Click here to read more -
eXo Cloud Workspaces Previews Fully Scalable Enterprise Social Intranet
eXo Blog - The Cloud User Experience Platform10 Apr 2012 | 8:04 amOut of the Box Social Intranet Built on Elastic and Multi-tenant eXo Platform For end users: cloud-based service for instant access to social networking tools For IT: integrate with existing infrastructure; scale in the cloud or on-premises Free access to the beta at http://www.cloud-workspaces.com/ SAN FRANCISCO — April 10, 2012 — eXo, the user experience platform-as-a-service (UXPaaS) company, today opened access to the public beta of eXo Cloud Workspaces, a new cloud-based service that integrates social business and enterprise collaboration features in a single on-demand offering. -
Crowd scale, friction and the nature of the firm
ZDNet | Software as Services Blog RSS24 Apr 2012 | 11:29 amMy ears prick up whenever I hear people talking about the works of Ronald Coase in the context of cloud-based business models. Coase inspired the title of my forthcoming book on the topic, Frictionless Enterprise, for reasons I first alluded to in this March 2008 blog post:“According to Coase’s theory of The Nature of the Firm, enterprises form to avoid the transaction costs of buying services or other inputs from other organizations. But that was in 1937. Modern communications, in particular the Web, have reduced the friction costs of doing business with outsiders at the same…
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Daily Mobile Computing Feed – May 15, 2012
15 May 2012 | 8:00 pmCurrent results from Data Survey #1: Data Scientists. Thanks to everyone for helping the world understand Big Data better!Please take the following 2-minute survey to help us understand your hadoop environment better.Daily aggregation of mobile computing news from @cloud_aware, mobileaware.net. Yahoo launches big data analytics tool for online advertisers ITworld.com Both Genome and BigQuery are a response to what analysts say is a growing need for technologies that can help companies manage and analyze the massive volumes of data resulting from trends such as cloud computing, mobile… -
Daily Big Data Feed – May 15, 2012
15 May 2012 | 8:00 pmCurrent results from Data Survey #1: Data Scientists. Thanks to everyone for helping the world understand Big Data better!Please take the following 2-minute survey to help us understand your hadoop environment better.Daily aggregation of big data news from @cloud_aware, dataaware.net. Home Expert Voices Big Data Fail: Five Principles to Save Your BI Butt CIO Insight The vast majority of big data and business analytics projects implemented by normal companies suffer from chronic underuse. Big data. Magical business analytics. Such topics are all the rage these days. I hate to be the one… -
Daily Cloud Feed – May 15, 2012
15 May 2012 | 8:00 pmCurrent results from Data Survey #1: Data Scientists. Thanks to everyone for helping the world understand Big Data better!Please take the following 2-minute survey to help us understand your hadoop environment better.Daily aggregation of cloud news from @cloud_aware, cloudaware.net. Software as a Service EMR Model Garners Greater Appeal – Press … OREM, UT, May 14, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ — As providers continue to seek ways to do more with fewer resources, the limited hardware expenses, ease of … (more) What is Vertical SaaS (Software as a Service)? – Definition… -
Daily Log News Feed – May 15, 2012
15 May 2012 | 8:00 pmCurrent results from Data Survey #1: Data Scientists. Thanks to everyone for helping the world understand Big Data better!Please take the following 2-minute survey to help us understand your hadoop environment better.Daily aggregation of log management and SIEM news from @cloud_aware, cloudaware.net. How smart analytics could thwart terrorist attacks GigaOM The topic came up during a recent call with Splunk’s director of security and compliance solutions, Mark Seward, after the FBI and Department of Homeland Security named Splunk as part of its toolkit for investigating a potential… -
Daily ITIL News Feed – May 15, 2012
15 May 2012 | 8:00 pmCurrent results from Data Survey #1: Data Scientists. Thanks to everyone for helping the world understand Big Data better!Please take the following 2-minute survey to help us understand your hadoop environment better.Daily aggregation of ITIL news from @cloud_aware, cloudaware.net. Government IT: Dept of Commerce, DoD Deploy LiveTime Service … PR Web Government IT meets the future of ITSM as the US Department of Commerce, … The DoC wanted to standardize on a single centralized service management … (more) DYXnet Scales across Greater China with Juniper Networks EIN News…
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Flexiant Releases New Version Targeting The Service Provider Market
16 May 2012 | 1:25 pmFlexiant yesterday announced the release of Flexiant 2.0, the updated and highly polished version of their cloud software. Flexiant is a UK based cloud software provider with their heritage from the hosting market. With this Flexiant is telling the world that they are a serious competitor in the Federated Cloud Ecosystem and they are going in full speed to attract the service providers to their platform. It is too early to say how well they will do in a segment dominated by open source platforms like OpenStack and CloudStack but they are putting out a really strong product in the market. The… -
A OneLogin Update
16 May 2012 | 10:31 amI’ve spent a lot of time over the last few months identifying some underlying themes within the cloud space, and some corresponding big opportunities which dropout of those themes. One bucket of opportunities that I’m excited about is services that straddle a number of different IT resources – this could be heterogeneous infrastructure management, application integration or whatever, but platforms that bring various solutions together are hot. One of these big areas of opportunity is in single sign on. As organizations, and the workers within those organizations move to using a wider… -
With all the discussion about Google Plus being a Ghost Town we are forgetting something
16 May 2012 | 8:58 amGhost town (Photo credit: NixBC) If we keep on comparing everything to Facebook we are forgetting that people are the objects that create the community. Each community from Facebook to G+ to Pinterest to all the others we interact with, we have created those communities. Each one has its place, and each community is like visiting the different communities in the cities we live in. We have our China Towns, our downtown districts, our parks, and neighborhoods and other places we interact with. Facebook feels like a major downtown district, it is Times Square; everyone goes there at least once… -
Jobs-to-be-done’s place in a customer-centric organization
16 May 2012 | 8:08 amOn Twitter, I asked this question: When firms talk about being customer-centric today, what are they actually *doing*? FB page? Reacting to tweets? Sentiment analysis? #scrm — Hutch Carpenter (@bhc3) May 15, 2012 I asked it, as I had a conversation in recent days with a fellow from a large corporate. Customer-centricity was recently adopted as an internal mantra, but the manifestation of that was…wait for it…sentiment analysis. It’s a start, right? But is it really a difference-maker? I’ve written recently about jobs-to-be-done. As in, what customers hire your product to do. Those… -
SAP Integration? Not what I had in mind
15 May 2012 | 4:39 pmI couldn’t attend nor even follow the stream at Sapphirenow, but I picked up a few tweets on Integration. Well actually, Seb pointed one out to me. As much as I detest it, I’ll have to base this post on the limited info I retrieved – although I did browse the usual placeholders for SAP news of course. If you read my latest post on SAP and Integration, you might presume I was a little overexcited about what was going to be announced Well, the excitement wore off. Really off I would have expected for SAP to take Integration seriously. In the light of the new developments, i.e.
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The Cloud is Eating The World
14 May 2012 | 1:42 pmLately I’ve been seeing a quote by Marc Andreessen everywhere. It states that “Software is eating the world” which he declared in an article for The Wall Street Journal last summer. His argument was that “more and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services.” Which I completely agree with. At the [...] [Visit my site for the complete story.] -
Cool Site of the Day: Pinstagram (Pinterest + Instagram)
13 May 2012 | 7:07 pmI admit I’m a huge Instagram fan. In case you’re not familar, the massively popular mobile photo app which was recently purchased by Facebook for more than $1 billion. On any given day you’ll find me taking pictures of random things at random times in any number of random ways. One of my biggest complaints about Instagram [...] [Visit my site for the complete story.] -
The White House is Spending Big Money on Big Data
13 May 2012 | 6:58 amIt’s typical in an election year to see an administration spend money on new initiatives. A new cost cutting initiative unveiled back in March has generally gone un-noticed by the main stream technology media. Called the “Big Data Research and Development Initiative” the program is focused on improving the U.S. Federal governments ability to extract knowledge and [...] [Visit my site for the complete story.] -
Social Media Clout: The Rise of Micro Celebrity Endorsements
11 May 2012 | 2:39 pmI’m currently sitting in the Cathay Pacific First and Class Lounge at the San Francisco International Airport waiting for my flight back to Toronto. No I’m not flying Cathay Pacific, I’m not even flying a partner airline, I’m actually flying Air Canada. I am in the lounge thanks solely to my social media Klout which currently [...] [Visit my site for the complete story.] -
The Future of Facebook: Mining the Human Cloud
11 May 2012 | 12:39 pmWith Facebook’s recent S-1 filing as part of their IPO process we are now starting to get a clearer picture of the historic proportions of the company and where it stands in comparison to others who have come before it. Facebook has emerged as a goliath in a sector that just a few years ago was a [...] [Visit my site for the complete story.]
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SuccessFactors swaps NetSuite for ByDesign
15 May 2012 | 2:00 pmThere was a great piece of theatre on stage at SuiteWorld in San Francisco this morning when NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson revealed that the company had signed an important new customer from the computing world: its archrival SAP. The software behemoth’s newly acquired subsidiary, SuccessFactors, remains a NetSuite customer, Nelson revealed: “They just renewed their license for NetSuite. I’m really pleased to welcome SAP as a customer.” [Disclosure: NetSuite has funded my travel and accommodation to be here].Over in Orlando, SuccessFactors CEO Lars Dalgaard, recently… -
Paving the cowpaths to the denial cloud
14 May 2012 | 8:16 pmThere was some sound sense — some controversy, too — heard from the stage at last week’s annual All About The Cloud conference in San Francisco. I’ll start with Michael Lock, VP Americas at Google Enterprise, whose cloud apps business he hinted is second only in size to Salesforce.com: “We don’t publish figures on this, but Google Enterprise is the second largest cloud-based B2B SaaS company in the world.”He advised attendees at the event — mostly ISVs — to focus not on cloud but on what it enables: “Cloud is so last year,” he… -
Tech-hugging eurocrats imperil innovation puppy
10 May 2012 | 3:06 pmCan technology save Europe? Voters’ rejection of austerity in last week’s elections in France and Greece have spurred new efforts by European policymakers to find ways of fostering economic growth that will pull the continent out of its banking and financial crisis. Cloud computing is one sector that’s under close scrutiny by officials at the European Commission in Brussels and at many national finance and business ministeries as a potential catalyst for growth. A recent study by Boston Consulting Group found that the Internet economy in the G20 nations will grow by an… -
Crowd scale, friction and the nature of the firm
24 Apr 2012 | 11:29 amMy ears prick up whenever I hear people talking about the works of Ronald Coase in the context of cloud-based business models. Coase inspired the title of my forthcoming book on the topic, Frictionless Enterprise, for reasons I first alluded to in this March 2008 blog post:“According to Coase’s theory of The Nature of the Firm, enterprises form to avoid the transaction costs of buying services or other inputs from other organizations. But that was in 1937. Modern communications, in particular the Web, have reduced the friction costs of doing business with outsiders at the same… -
The day software ate Cisco
22 Apr 2012 | 6:44 amIt hasn’t happened yet. It’s another of my predictions. But it suddenly struck me this week, as I read about the latest developments in cloud networking. Five or so years from now, the day will come when Cisco will have shrunken almost to nothing, eaten by software.Marc Andreessen’s phrase, “software is eating the world,” coined for a Wall Street Journal article last August, succinctly captures the single most important trend in our world today — not only in computing but in the entire field of business. It’s the driving force behind the rise of what…
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Il signore dei colori
16 May 2012 | 4:01 amCari Lettori, Roberto La Forgia è in libreria con il suo primo graphic novel Il signore dei colori (Coconino Press - Fandango). MOSSO ve ne offre un'anteprima introdotta da Ferruccio Giromini, Igort, Daniel Pellegrino e Vincino. Scarica gratuitamente il pdf. "Da anni seguo il suo lavoro, con la curiosità che un vero ricercatore merita. Il suo nome, sono pronto a scommetterci il cappello, diventerà uno di quelli che contano nel firmamento internazionale". Igort Roberto La Forgia è stato di recente intervistato qui sul blog Coconino Club. Il suo… -
Nuovi frutti
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Una famiglia in nero
9 Nov 2011 | 8:24 amdi Paolo Interdonato Interno di un castello o, forse, di una villa vittoriana. Nella penombra si riconosce l'intero armamentario della casa spettrale: muri fatiscenti, scale male in arnese, quadri storti, ragnatele, orologi a pendolo, strane figure nascoste dietro il corrimano… Da una porta spalancata, un cono di luce proietta l'ombra di una massa informe e gelatinosa che si avvicina. Alla vista di questo "coso", la classica famiglia americana si schiaccia contro il muro, imprigionata da un terrore a cui è impossibile fuggire. Padre e madre tremano appiattiti contro la parete:… -
In famiglia
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Mosso è sul Corriere
25 Oct 2011 | 11:24 amIl Corriere di Milano del 25 ottobre 2011 Oggi le pagine culturali milanesi del Corriere della Sera si aprono con una sorpresa. Lorenzo Viganò ha riservato quattro belle colonne al quinto numero di MOSSO, quello dedicato a Dino Buzzati (che puoi scaricare da qui). A questo punto voi direte: "Se vi hanno intervistato per l'articolo, vuol dire che già sapevate tutto. Come fa ad essere una sorpresa?". Be', il fatto è che non avevamo idea che Almerina Buzzati, vedova di Dino, avesse apprezzato così tanto il nostro regalo al suo illustre marito. Insomma, non sono cose che capitano tutti i…
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Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog
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The hierarchy of innovation
14 May 2012 | 12:11 pm"If you could choose only one of the following two inventions, indoor plumbing or the Internet, which would you choose?" -Robert J. Gordon Justin Fox is the latest pundit to ring the "innovation ain't what it used to be" bell. "Compared with the staggering changes in everyday life in the first half of the 20th century," he writes, summing up the argument, "the digital age has brought relatively minor alterations to how we live." Fox has a lot of company. He points to sci-fi author Neal Stephenson, who worries that the Internet, far from spurring a great burst of creativity, may have actually… -
Social production guru, heal thyself
11 May 2012 | 11:39 amI was pleased to see that Yochai Benkler launched a blog on Monday - and, since the first (and as yet only) post was a response to my claim of victory in the Carr-Benkler Wager, I think I can even take a bit of credit for inspiring the professor to join the hurly-burly of the blogosphere. Welcome, Yochai! Long may you blog! I fear, however, that no one explained to Yochai the concept of Comments. You see, on Monday I scribbled out a fairly long reply to his post, and submitted it through his comment form. I was hoping, as a long-time social producer myself, to spur a good,… -
FarmVille: a Gothic fantasia
8 May 2012 | 4:13 pm"You built it yourself, with play-labor, but politically it’s a slum." -Bruce Sterling 1 Hardware is a problem. It wears out. It breaks down. It is subject to physical forces. It is subject to entropy. It deteriorates. It decays. It fails. The moment of failure can't be predicted, but what can be predicted is that the moment will come. Assemblies of atoms are doomed. Worse yet, the more components incorporated into a physical system - the more subassemblies that make up the assembly - the more points of failure the apparatus has and the more fragile it becomes. This is an engineering… -
The economics of digital sharecropping
4 May 2012 | 10:11 amWith a reported 900 million active members, Facebook is, by far, the largest digital-sharecropping operation that the internet has yet produced. About one out of every eight people on the planet sharecrops for Facebook today - and their collective labor is expected to put a billion dollars of cash into CEO Mark Zuckerberg's pocket when the company goes public in a few weeks. In a 2006 post, I explained why sharecropping is such a powerful business model for social networks and other online businesses: One of the fundamental economic characteristics of Web 2.0 is the distribution of production… -
Pay up, Yochai Benkler
1 May 2012 | 12:28 pmMy reservoir of patience, deep as it may be, is running dry. Nearly a year has passed since the culmination of the fabled Carr-Benkler Wager, and Yochai Benkler has yet to pay his debt to me. Dude, have you heard of PayPal? I haven't even received a simple acknowledgement of my triumph. What, you ask, is the Carr-Benkler Wager? Well, that's hard to say definitively. But here's how Benkler defined it back in July of 2006, when Web 2.0 was still an innocent babe cooing happily in its mother's arms: We could decide to appoint between one and three people [that never happened] who, on some date…
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Pearson Buys Certiport For $140M To Beef Up Its IT Testing Business Globally
16 May 2012 | 11:32 amPearson, the educational publisher, today made a move to beef up its international professional IT testing business: it announced that it is buying Certiport, a developer, marketer and distributor of certification exams and practice tests for IT and digital literacy skills, for $140 million in cash from the private equity firm Spire Capital Partners. The deal will give Pearson’s VUE unit, where Certiport will sit, much further reach into the retail distribution of testing services in markets outside of the U.S. and UK: Certiport currently sells its certifications and assessments… -
Contactually’s Lightweight CRM Makes Public Debut With Tons Of New Features, $500K In Angel Funding
16 May 2012 | 10:00 amContactually, the lightweight CRM solution for email users which launched into private beta at the beginning of this year, is today announcing its public debut with a number of new features in tow, as well as $500,000 in angel funding from YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim, co-founder of CapLinked Chris Grey, and a re-up from previous investor, 500 Startups. As for the new features, there are quite a few, but the major ones include the launch of “Contactually for Teams,” Microsoft Exchange support, a Gmail plugin, and additional integrations with other services and CRM systems. -
iZettle, The ‘Square Of Europe’, Checks Out Mobile Payments In The UK With 3,000 Free Readers For SMBs
16 May 2012 | 1:59 amWith Square yet to reveal when or where it might offer its mobile payment service in Europe, and PayPal apparently still only talking with would-be partners, the door is wide open for more local players to jump in and pick up some market share. Sweden’s iZettle, which often gets compared to Square, is now doing just that: today it is launching its iOS, dongle-based mobile payment service to the UK, four months after its pan-nordic live launch, and as it is preparing to launch an Android version of its product later this year. iZettle kicking off its service by giving away 3,000 card… -
Twilio Calling: Cloud Telephony Startup Adds An Android SDK, Now Works On 75% Of All Smartphones
15 May 2012 | 11:00 pmCloud-based telephony API startup Twilio has made significant inroads into VoIP and other carrier services like SMS by launching products that work on the web and in iOS apps, supporting 90,000 registered developer accounts in the process. Today it’s widening that net considerably with the launch of a new Android client, the first SDK from the company to work on Google’s platform. And it hints that Windows Phone may be next in line. Considering that Android is currently the most popular smartphone platform globally, this potentially gives Twilio a much bigger opportunity to… -
DoctorsElite Wants To Build A Network To Better Link Up Patients, Specialists And Medical Records
15 May 2012 | 4:15 pmAs a culture, we are getting ever-more accustomed to using social networks as our primary hubs for all information, and that trend is leading to the rise of yet more services constructed like social networks to improve accessibility: one of the latest in that line is DoctorsElite, a new site aimed at linking up patients, general physicians and specialists through a social network framework to make it easier for people to find specialists in certain fields when they need them. Started by a group of physicians working with other medical advisors and technology experts, DoctorsElite is entering…
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All Things Distributed
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Dynamic Content Support in Amazon CloudFront
13 May 2012 | 9:01 amIn the past three and a half years, Amazon CloudFront has changed the content delivery landscape. It has demonstrated that a CDN does not have to be complex to use with expensive contracts, minimum commits, or upfront fees, such that you are forcibly locked into a single vendor for a long time. CloudFront is simple, fast and reliable with the usual pay-as-you-go model. With just one click you can enable content to be distributed to the customer with low latency and high-reliability. Today Amazon CloudFront has taken another major step forward in ease of use. It now supports delivery of entire… -
AWS re: Invent
8 May 2012 | 11:00 pmInvention comes in many forms and at many scales. The most radical and transformative of inventions are often those that empower others to unleash their creativity – to pursue their dreams. We are creating powerful self-service platforms that allow thousands of people to boldly experiment and accomplish things that would otherwise be impossible or impractical. Jeff Bezos 2011 Letter to Shareholders Hundreds of thousands of businesses in over 190 countries are relying on AWS to support some or all of their business and IT needs. From SAP and Oracle production installations to risk management… -
Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers
7 May 2012 | 11:00 pmThe software that powers today’s world of Internet services has become incredibly diverse. Today’s announcement of Amazon RDS for Microsoft SQL Server and .NET support for AWS Elastic Beanstalk marks another important step in our commitment to increase the flexibility for AWS customers to use the choice of operating system, programming language, development tools and database software that meet their application requirements. Using the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio, you can now deploy your .NET applications to AWS Elastic Beanstalk directly from your Visual Studio environment without… -
Do You Want to Help Build the Next AWS Service?
18 Apr 2012 | 11:00 amOver the past several years I’ve spent much of my time traveling around the world speaking about distributed systems. From building infinitely scalable data stores, architectures for high performance computing, to the challenges imposed by the CAP theorem, there are wonderful, complex, fascinating problems to be solved in the area of distributed computing. During my travels I’ve met thousands of brilliant engineers who are leveraging the cloud to deliver exciting new products and revolutionize IT as we know it. One thing that’s become obvious to me is that there are innovative,… -
Expanding the Cloud – Introducing AWS Marketplace
18 Apr 2012 | 11:00 amToday Amazon Web Services launched AWS Marketplace, an online store that makes it easy for you to find, buy, and immediately start using software and services that run on the AWS Cloud. You can use AWS Marketplace’s 1-Click deployment to quickly launch pre-configured software on your own Amazon EC2 instances and pay only for what you use, by the hour or month. AWS handles billing and payments, and software charges appear on your AWS bill. Marketplace has software listings from well-known vendors including 10gen, CA, Canonical, Couchbase, Check Point Software, IBM, Microsoft, SAP, Zend, and…
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Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson
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FedRAMP PMO Releases First Set of 3PAOs
14 May 2012 | 4:41 pmLate today the FedRAMP Program Management Office released the first list of certified Third Party Assessment Organizations (3PAOs). These companies are accredited to perform initial and periodic assessment of cloud service provider (CSP) systems per FedRAMP requirements, provide evidence of compliance, and play an on-going role in ensuring CSPs meet requirements. FedRAMP provisional authorizations must include an assessment by an accredited 3PAO to ensure a consistent assessment process. he initial set of 3PAOs announced today are (see http://www.gsa.gov/portal/content/131991):… -
FedRAMP Releases Updated Security Assessment Plan Templates
7 May 2012 | 10:34 pmLast week the GSA FedRAMP Program Office released the latest version of the cloud computing Security Assessment Plan (SAR) template. This document is the most recent step toward the Federal governments goal of establishing FedRAMP initial operating Capability by June 2012. The Federal Risk Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) is a government-wide program that provides a standardized approach to security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring for Cloud Service Providers (CSP). Testing security controls is an integral part of the FedRAMP security authorization… -
NJVC® and Gravitant® Announce New Strategic Alliance: Partnership to Benefit Federal Agencies with Powerful Provision and Management of Cloud Services that Unify Multiple Providers
4 Apr 2012 | 11:15 amVienna, Va., April 4, 2012 — NJVC®, one of the largest information technology solutions providers supporting the U.S. Department of Defense, and Gravitant®, a provider of cloud brokerage and management solutions for IT enterprises, announce a new strategic alliance. Under the terms of the partnership, the two companies will launch a cobranded cloud portal later this spring designed specifically to support the federal government’s planning, provisioning and management of cloud services across multiple providers. “The consulting and business development expertise of NJVC and the… -
NJVC® VP and GM, Cloud Services, Kevin L. Jackson to Speak on Cloud Security at 2012 Emerging Threats and Cyber Defense Symposium
18 Mar 2012 | 1:03 pmVienna, Va., March 15, 2012 — NJVC®, one of the largest information technology solutions (IT) providers supporting the U.S. Department of Defense, is pleased to announce that Kevin L. Jackson, vice president (VP) and general manager (GM), cloud services, will speak at the 2012 Emerging Threats and Cyber Defense Symposium, March 20 -21 at Georgia Tech Research Institute in Atlanta. The conference is hosted by the Defense Industry Cyber Threat Working Group and Federal Bureau of Investigations, Atlanta Division. Jackson’s presentation will center on the issues surrounding the security of… -
NJVC’s Kevin L. Jackson Co-Authors INSA White Paper on Cloud Computing for the Intelligence Community
13 Mar 2012 | 3:07 pmFindings Reflect Insight from More than 50 Cloud Thought Leaders VIENNA, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NJVC, one of the largest information technology solutions (IT) providers supporting the U.S. Department of Defense, announces that a white paper addressing the risks and benefits of cloud computing for the intelligence community (IC)—co-authored by Kevin L. Jackson, NJVC vice president and general manager, cloud services—was released today. The Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) released the white paper in conjunction with Government Executivemagazine at a cloud computing…
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ARCHIMEDIUS
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SDN May Drive a New Data Center Development Cycle
8 May 2012 | 7:31 pmCommoditization of network hardware will increase data center power demands by enabling new levels of elasticity in IT infrastructure. This is a follow-on blog post on HP’s OpenFlow announcement (HP Takes a Shot at the Hardware-Centric Network) as it relates to the impact that OpenFlow and the subsequent commoditization of network hardware could have on overall [...] -
HP Takes a Shot at the Hardware-Centric Network
8 May 2012 | 11:58 amHP is positioning itself to do the same thing to the network (hardware) industry as VMware did to the server (hardware) industry. The idea of an automated network capable of responding to the demands of cloud has taken a step forward with HP’s OpenFlow announcement. Time will tell how serious HP ultimately is about SDN, [...] -
Amazon and the Enterprise IT Monoculture Myth
30 Apr 2012 | 9:06 pmI didn’t know whether I should chuckle cynically or slow clap the recent hubris of an Amazon executive, quoted in InformationWeek, with a tech prediction set to be fulfilled in a mere ten years: Amazon: Era Of Data Centers Ending: The era in which most big companies operate their own data centers is coming to [...] -
Cisco and the Networking Industry: Golden Age or Golden Fleece?
18 Apr 2012 | 4:40 pmA recent and rather ambitious outlook on Cisco at Motley Fool entitled “Cisco and the Golden Age of the Internet “ talks about the rise in internet traffic and the growth potential it holds for companies like Cisco. While the article does mention competitive pressures (from the likes of IBM, HP, DELL and JNPR), it [...] -
Hybrid Cloud Emigration Will Drive Wholesale Data Center Adoption
15 Mar 2012 | 4:31 pmThe IT thought leaders of tomorrow are today building hybrid clouds spanning extremely efficient, vertically scalable data centers with powerful and increasingly software-centric infrastructure. They’re building private clouds as their base and then renting public clouds for the spike. Today they are experiencing the challenges that will be rippling through Fortune 500 companies during the [...]
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Fountainhead
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Cloud: What's a Service? Who Are SPs?
14 May 2012 | 10:10 amMy perspective of Cloud Computing has been rocked a bit.Simplistically, I assumed I knew what IaaS, PaaS and SaaS meant, and I thought I knew who the logical public providers of these services would be.However, there have been a number of interesting new services - and providers - that show signs of breaking the stereotypes.BTW, when I speak of services, I'm specifically meaning Component Services. Think of that as a mapping service; a brokering service; a credit card clearing service; a datamart. And in an increasing number of cases, I am seeing these services being sourced from… -
Will The "Stack Wars" Impact the Hybrid Cloud?
24 Apr 2012 | 12:18 amIt's been a busy few weeks in cloud O/S land, first with the Amazon/Eucalyptus announcement and then with Citrix/CloudStack announcement, then last week's OpenStack show in San Francisco.The market may be starting to shake-out in terms of dominant cloud APIs, major efforts to manage/govern cloud infrastructures, and who will (or will not) influence/direct these efforts. But the end-game is far from clear.From the cloud API perspective, there are a few likely contenders/winners here:The Amazon Web Services (AWS) approach: arguably dominating the market at the moment, explicitly supported by… -
Meeting IRL: Why The Valley's So Cool
6 Mar 2012 | 11:25 pmIRL is a reference you see on twitter - it means "In Real Life."Sometimes we underestimate the value of meeting in real life. It's more convenient to email than to pick up the phone. And more easy to call than to arrange to have lunch. And for those of us addicted to Twitter, we feel as if we have our own community of followers and frequent commentators at our fingertips. The value of meeting in real life struck a chord a few weeks ago while in Santa Clara at the Cloud Connect conference. Many of the speakers, start-up stars, consultants, bloggers and tweeps were all known to each… -
IT-as-a-Service: Resources and Pointers
22 Feb 2012 | 1:30 amIT-as-a-Service. Possibly another buzzword that may reach the peak of hype and then fade away in a millisecond. But even if so, this new concept will persist by some other name.Unlike IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, etc. ITaaS isn't a technology model. It's a new mind-set and approach to delivering enterprise IT services - where IT operates and competes for "business" as-would a service provider.And, like a commercial SP entity, it actually tries to encourage service consumption, rather than discourage it.This is in contrast to the stereotypical IT department that runs a bottleneck help-desk, issues… -
My IT is Ready. My People Are Not.
13 Feb 2012 | 3:40 pmBy now you may know that I buy into the enterprise approach where cloud computing and its operational model are enablers for something bigger: The transformation to IT-as-a-Service. That's when internal IT acts, operates and competes like an internal SP.But I've come to realize that such transformation is more of a skills and operational model shift than a technology shift (although technology is clearly an enabler). As was often mentioned at a recent CIO event I attended, "My technology is ready. My people are not" This topic of talent, training and organization appears to be…
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Facebook’s Next Business Model
16 May 2012 | 9:56 amVC Chris Dixon muses in a recent post that Facebook has yet to uncover a business model that will support its IPO valuation and drive future growth in that valuation. As he puts it: Facebook relies on an old internet business model: display ads. Display ads generally hurt the user experience, and are also not very efficient at producing revenues. Facebook makes about 1/10th of Google’s revenues even though they have 2x the pageviews. Some estimates put Google’s search revenues per pageviews at 100-200x Facebook’s. The good news for Facebook is there is a lot of room to target ads… -
Hewlett Packard and the Many Curious Paradoxes of Micro-Management
8 May 2012 | 5:17 pmI just finished reading Fortune’s massive write up on the ills at Hewlett Packard. What an amazing story, and as I was going through it, I kept seeing the same thing repeated over and over again: Micro-management trumping Leadership and creating a disaster in its wake. Instinctively, we all know Micro-management is something bad, but the first paradox for me is that we need this term. What are the variations of Management that are good? I prefer to contrast the term “Manager” with “Leader”, and ascribe all the bad things about Micro-management to Management… -
Big Data = BI + ADD
25 Apr 2012 | 11:50 pmBig Data is Business Intelligence plus Attention Deficit Disorder? That’s gotta be linkbait of an order I’ve not used since my NoSQL is a Premature Optimization post. What’s up with that? I just got done attending Jeff Kaplan’s excellent Cloud BI Summit at the Computer History Museum. It was a very enjoyable event and it helped me align a lot of disparate threads that had been circulating in my noggin into some coherent insights. It also reminded me what an excellent facilitator of panels Jeff can be. One of those threads is that the problems Big Data is… -
OMG: Skype Click to Call Breaks Excel so it can Only Paste Text?!??
24 Mar 2012 | 2:36 pmThis is an amazing bug that should be getting a lot more press. I discovered it when I found that several Excel worksheets I regularly update were suddenly producing the wrong answers. I went and looked and saw that instead of copying formulas when I cut and pasted, Excel was acting as if it was copying and pasting the text. Essentially the formulas were lost. When you think about all the things spreadsheets are used for, and how many of them are suddenly producing the wrong answers as a result of this problem, it’s scary. Worse, I have no recollection of even being asked… -
Why I’m Dropping InstantSlideup Like a Hot Potato
15 Mar 2012 | 10:28 amThis is one of those minor personal rants that come up from time to time. What good is having a blog if you have to be all serious and to the point all the time? I recently had tried a little piece of software called “InstantSlideup” (not gonna link to them as I don’t want to help their link authority). It’s purpose is to offer a slide up message (can be advertising or anything you like) at the bottom of a web page. It’s unobtrusive in the sense it doesn’t block much of anything, yet it catches the eye a little bit. That’s my preferred method…
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Oracle and Cloud Computing: Database Helps, But Challenges Remain - NetworkComputing.com
16 May 2012 | 1:30 pmOracle and Cloud Computing: Database Helps, But Challenges RemainNetworkComputing.comIn part three of a series on Oracle's position in the cloud computing market, we take a look at how the vendor's database will affect its efforts. Part one, "Oracle Embraces Cloud Computing, the New Consumption Model," examined the evolution of the -
TMC Taking Their Cloud Computing Expertise to SuiteWorld 2012 - PR Web (press release)
16 May 2012 | 12:16 pmV3.co.ukTMC Taking Their Cloud Computing Expertise to SuiteWorld 2012PR Web (press release)SuiteWorld 2011 shattered expectations with more than 2000 attendees from around the globe, but SuiteWorld 2012 is expecting to have over 3000 attendees this year and that shows the incredible momentum behind the cloud computing phenomenon.Building a Better Customer Experience Through the Cloud1to1 Media (blog)SuiteWorld: Netsuite sees UK as number one market for cloud computing growthV3.co.ukBill.com Integrates with NetSuite to Deliver Seamless Cloud-Based Financial SYS-CON Media (press release)all 148… -
Balboa Capital Leading the Way With Fast, Dependable Financing for Cloud ... - MarketWatch (press release)
16 May 2012 | 10:22 amBalboa Capital Leading the Way With Fast, Dependable Financing for Cloud MarketWatch (press release)IRVINE, CA, May 16, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Balboa Capital Corporation, a top equipment leasing company in the United States, is a leader in cloud computing services financing. The company, which has a long and successful track record in Cloud Computing Lunch & LearnIRISHDEV.comall 5 news articles » -
Cloud Computing: Facebook Tickles Its IPO Again - SYS-CON Media (press release)
16 May 2012 | 9:08 amSYS-CON Media (press release)Cloud Computing: Facebook Tickles Its IPO AgainSYS-CON Media (press release)Maureen O'Gara the most read technology reporter for the past 20 years, is the Cloud Computing and Virtualization News Desk editor of SYS-CON Media. She is the publisher of famous "Billygrams" and the editor-in-chief of "Client/Server News" for more Cloud Computing a Game Changer for Your Company? 5 Questions to PonderForbesBiz should tap cloud's multiplier effectZDNet AsiaWill Cloud Computing Be the Game-Changer You Think It Is?The Complete Managed Services… -
Nicira Virtualizes the Network for Offshore Cloud Specialist Calligo - MarketWatch (press release)
16 May 2012 | 8:07 amNicira Virtualizes the Network for Offshore Cloud Specialist CalligoMarketWatch (press release)Calligo is hosting launch events for its new comprehensive set of cloud services on both Islands today, where it will share insight with offshore businesses into the benefits of cloud computing, including the operational resilience, flexibility and and more »
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Cloud Computing Growing on the Businesses Priority Front
16 May 2012 | 1:37 pmA survey of small and mid-size businesses found an interest in harnessing technology to improve business efficiency. Midsize businesses are turning to IT investments to grow their businesses and the larger the organization, the more likely it is to cite technology as having the greatest potential to increase productivity, according to a new survey of midmarket companies by Deloitte. The study shows cloud computing emerging as an investment priority. When asked what types of investments companies were likely to make in technology, 40 of the respondents cited cloud computing. That's close to… -
Cloud Expo New York Speaker Profile: Bart Copeland – ActiveState
16 May 2012 | 1:30 pmWith Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) now under four weeks away, what better time to introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the conference... We have technical and strategy sessions for you dealing with every nook and cranny of Cloud Computing, but what of those who are presenting? Who are they, where do they work, what else have they written and/or said about the Cloud that is transforming the world of Enterprise IT?read more -
Supermicro to Exhibit at Cloud Expo 2012 New York
16 May 2012 | 1:15 pmSYS-CON Events announced today that Super Micro Computer, Inc., a global leader in high-performance, high-efficiency server technology and green computing, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 10th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 11–14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York. Supermicro (NASDAQ: SMCI), the leading innovator in high-performance, high-efficiency server technology, is a premier provider of advanced server Building Block Solutions for Embedded Systems, Enterprise IT, Data Center, HPC, and Cloud Computing worldwide. Supermicro is committed to… -
Mind the Gap - Three Gaps to High Velocity Pipeline and How to Cross Them
16 May 2012 | 12:28 pmWhen I used to go to London often and ride the Underground, the constant refrain seen was "Mind The Gap". Mind the Gap or you could suffer some unmentionable and clearly gruesome fate. As Online software service providers of all flavors try to create high velocity sales and marketing businesses, they would do well to mind these three gaps: The "It's Not Your Time" gap The "It's Not My Job" gap The "Window Shopping" gap 1) The "It's Not Your Time" gap 2) The "It's Not My Job" gap 3) The "Window Shopping" gapread more -
ScaleMP to Exhibit at Cloud Expo 2012 New York
16 May 2012 | 11:00 amSYS-CON Events announced today that ScaleMP, a leading provider of virtualization solutions for high-end computing, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 10th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 11–14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York. ScaleMP is the leader in virtualization for high-end computing, providing maximum performance and lower total cost of ownership (TCO). The innovative Versatile SMP (vSMP) architecture aggregates multiple independent systems into a single virtual system, delivering an industry-standard, high-end symmetric multiprocessing (SMP)…
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StageofLife.com Reports on Teens and Movies - SYS-CON Media (press release)
16 May 2012 | 1:40 pmStageofLife.com Reports on Teens and MoviesSYS-CON Media (press release)Hackers Hackers Everywhere, Is My Public Cloud That Safe? Mission Critical Applications and the Cloud - Myth or Reality? Are Financial Services Organizations Risking Security by Avoiding Cloud Computing? Is Your Business 100% Ready for the New Era of and more » -
Equinix to Serve IRESS - Analyst Blog - NASDAQ
16 May 2012 | 1:12 pmEquinix to Serve IRESS - Analyst BlogNASDAQThe deal will in turn help Equinix to improve its customer base, as the company will have many takers for its cloud computing expertise. The company has delivered good first quarter 2012 results with EPS exceeding our expectation.and more » -
First Likeable Awards Winners Take Home Thumbs Up Trophy - SYS-CON Media (press release)
16 May 2012 | 12:04 pmFirst Likeable Awards Winners Take Home Thumbs Up TrophySYS-CON Media (press release)Hackers Hackers Everywhere, Is My Public Cloud That Safe? Mission Critical Applications and the Cloud - Myth or Reality? Are Financial Services Organizations Risking Security by Avoiding Cloud Computing? Is Your Business 100% Ready for the New Era of and more » -
Does Facebook Advertising Work? - SYS-CON Media (press release)
16 May 2012 | 9:37 amDoes Facebook Advertising Work?SYS-CON Media (press release)Hackers Hackers Everywhere, Is My Public Cloud That Safe? Mission Critical Applications and the Cloud - Myth or Reality? Are Financial Services Organizations Risking Security by Avoiding Cloud Computing? Is Your Business 100% Ready for the New Era of and more » -
Xerox Executive to Speak at Barclay's Conference - SYS-CON Media (press release)
16 May 2012 | 9:36 amXerox Executive to Speak at Barclay's ConferenceSYS-CON Media (press release)Hackers Hackers Everywhere, Is My Public Cloud That Safe? Mission Critical Applications and the Cloud - Myth or Reality? Are Financial Services Organizations Risking Security by Avoiding Cloud Computing? Is Your Business 100% Ready for the New Era of and more »
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When is Big Data Actually Big?
10 May 2012 | 1:29 amThere is a quandary for anyone trying to wrap their head around what “BigData” means. When is big data really big? I had a good conversation with a friend of mine @ckenton today and as we were discussing some impactful things he and his company have done for clients over the last couple of years with careful and meaningful data analytics of what would mostly be considered social media data. I was struck by the fact that there was significant impact using what, by data volume measure, was actually not all that much data; perhaps a few gigabytes in aggregate in each case we… -
People, Process & Technology
31 Jan 2012 | 9:15 pmI am often asked how I do things and why. In most cases it really does come down to thinking about three things and making sure they are properly tended to at all times. Those three things are people, process and technology in that order.With the right people you can do anything you can set your mind to doing within the realms of possibility. With the right process you will be far more effective than the next team and your operations will be able to scale. With the right technology you will be enough out on the edge to get ahead but rock solid and scalable so that you… -
How NOT to Sell NoSQL Database
21 Dec 2011 | 11:01 amThis is the description of my first experience with a newer NoSQL database that we'll just call NoSQL Database #9999 I was told about and asked what I thought about it overall. I hadn't heard of it before but I wanted to see what the deal was since I work with several others. I'm always up to see if something is actually the new hotness. I found marketecture diagrams everywhere. The development cycle is closed and opaque development for server and client. There is a 30 day "free trial" signup wall to maybe get to the download screen. I'm not sure since I didn't… -
Building an Application upon Riak - Part 1
20 Nov 2011 | 7:13 pmFor the past few months some of my colleagues and I have been developing an application with Riak as the primary persistent data store. This has been a very interesting journey from beginning to now. I wanted to take a few minute and write a quick "off the top of my head" post about some of the things we learned along the way. In writing this I realized that our journey breaks down into a handful of categories: Making the Decision Learning Operating Scaling Mistakes We made the decision to use Riak around January of 2011 for our application. We looked at HBase,… -
The SaaS Aggregation Benefit Mirage
6 Oct 2011 | 7:47 pmIn this service oriented on-demand world I’ve been running into something again and again lately that I’ve found interesting and a bit annoying.To start, imagine I’m going to build an application that uses two 3rd party services on-demand. We’ll just call them service A and service B and say each have two features. For this example it does not really matter what the services do.Service A Feature A-1 Feature A-2Service B Feature B-1 Feature B-2So, I create my application and it first uses service A do something and it uses…
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GoGrid Blog
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How To Control your Cloud Infrastructure Using the GoGrid iPhone Application
10 May 2012 | 12:29 pmCloud Computing is fantastic! Where else can you provision infrastructure on the fly, scale it up (add more CPU/RAM/Storage) and out (add more instances of cloud servers) and grow your infrastructure based on your business demands. At GoGrid, we believe in making complex infrastructure easy by providing you with tools to create, manage and scale your GoGrid cloud infrastructure using our web-based portal or programmatic API. But did you know that you can also create and manage your GoGrid cloud infrastructure while you are on the go using your iPhone? Back in 2010, we launched our iPhone… -
Press Release & Case Study: Martini Media Delivers Prized Consumer to Advertisers Using GoGrid’s Big Data Solution
9 May 2012 | 1:09 pmHitting the wires in the cloud this morning was our announcement of Martini Media’s customer success story. When we work with our customers, we discover a lot of innovation at work and throughout the process, we assist in crafting the best cloud solution wherever possible. Martini Media’s unique digital platform that advertisers use to reach affluent consumers is a fantastic example of how Big Data and cloud computing can be used to drive business success. In case you missed the Press Release, it is available here as well as below. But I encourage you, especially if you are… -
Under The Radar 2012 Recap & Analysis – Summing Up Some Secret Startup Sauce (Part 2)
3 May 2012 | 11:00 amI recently attended Under the Radar 2012 as GoGrid was a sponsor of this event. As there were several tracks, Michael Sheehan and I split the tracks and I covered Infrastructure, Database Scalability and Big Data. Michael covered Mobile Access, Infrastructure, Performance Monitoring, PaaS in Part 1. Overall, the presenting companies have some compelling ideas and it gives an indicator as to the new thinking happening in Silicon Valley. The trends that I noticed were: a continued interest in private clouds, the increase in adoption of Openstack and the prevalence integrating Big Data. If you… -
Under the Radar 2012 Recap & Analysis – Summing up Some Secret Startup Sauce (Part 1)
2 May 2012 | 12:35 pmLast week’s Under the Radar 2012 conference (UTR) provided me and other attendees with a glimpse of what’s going to be hot in the coming year from a startup and technology standpoint. Take your pick from the following hot-list of terms: Big Data, analytics, mobile, enterprise, private cloud, security and platforms. They are all intertwined in some way or another. The format of UTR is fun, one of the MC’s described it as the American Idol for Startups. Basically, each startup (which have been in stealth mode and only just coming from behind the curtains) had 6 minutes to do an… -
Wait, What?! University of Florida Kills Computer Science Dept While Increasing Athletic Budgets
24 Apr 2012 | 2:08 pmI couldn’t resist providing some commentary on a Forbes article that came across my desk yesterday titled “University of Florida Eliminates Computer Science Department, Increases Athletic Budgets. Hmm.” Hmmm, indeed! First, let me get right out and say it, it’s important to have athletics in higher education. I was shocked when last year, UC Berkeley (which is right across the San Francisco Bay from the GoGrid HQ), decided to eliminate several sports from their athletics roundup including men’s and women’s gymnastics, baseball and women’s lacrosse, as…
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Data Center Knowledge
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Cologix Buys Minnesota Gateway
16 May 2012 | 12:00 pmColocation and interconnection provider Cologix has continued its expansion with the acquisition of Minnesota’s leading network neutral colocation provider, The Minnesota Gateway, located in the carrier hotel at 511 11th Avenue South in Minneapolis (the 511 Building). The acquisition provides Cologix with a key footprint in Minneapolis, the 16th-largest metro market in the United States. The Minnesota Gateway operates the meet-me-room in the 511 building with 70 networks present. “The Minnesota Gateway is one of the largest and fastest-growing carrier neutral interconnection and… -
Terremark Expands Cloud to Denver
16 May 2012 | 11:00 amTerremark, a Verizon Company, has boosted its cloud infrastructure capacity by deploying a node of its Enterprise Cloud at its data center in Denver. Terremark’s Denver features more than 70,000 square feet of floor space. ”When enterprises and government agencies look at cloud for their IT infrastructure needs, they require high standards for the reliability of the underlying physical infrastructure that houses the cloud platform,” said Ellen Rubin, Terremark’s vice president of Cloud Products. “Terremark’s cloud-enabled data centers provide the diverse connectivity, robust… -
UK Data Bunker Features 12-Ton Blast Door
16 May 2012 | 10:00 amThe UK’s Daisy Group has unveiled its underground data center in Manchester, which recently reopened after a 1 million pound ($1.6 million) renovation. The facility is 25 feet underground within a former Bank of England bullion vault, and features a 12-ton bomb-proof vault door at the entrance to its data center. The facility was built in 1999 and features two-meter thick granite walls and a 60 centimeter bomb blast corridor surrounding the data storage area. “We’ve been hosting data for more than 13 years and have seen the market and the demand for secure storage increase… -
Colo Roundup: Equinix, Phoenix NAP, Colocation America
16 May 2012 | 9:00 amHere’s our review of some of this week’s noteworthy links for the data center industry: Equinix selected by BT. Colocation provider Equinix (EQIX) said this week that BT has selected Equinix data centers for the roll-out of BT Radianz Venue, a cloud-based high-performance suite of services designed to enhance BT’s proximity hosting capabilities and provide optimized latency and interconnectivity between trading venues throughout the world’s top financial markets. The new capabilities from BT will be offered in an additional 10 financial ecosystems across Equinix data centers… -
Equinix Buys Ancotel to Boost Frankfurt Presence
16 May 2012 | 8:52 amEquinix is the new owner of a major data center at Kleyer90 connectivity hub in Frankffurt, pictured above in a cool evening time lapse. Equinix said today that it has agreed to acquire ancotel GmbH. (Photo: ancotel)netw Interconnection specialist Equinix has agreed to buy ancotel GmbH of Frankfurt, Germany in a deal that will further boost the strength of its network in one of the world’s most important meeting points for Internet traffic and financial trading. The acquisition provides Equinix with a data center in Frankfurt with 2,100 square meters of data center capacity. More…
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Nati Shalom's Blog
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Mapping the Cloud/PaaS Stack
3 May 2012 | 3:50 amCloud is evolving at an incredible pace, changing almost every aspect of our industry. It’s only natural then, that with this change also comes a continuous evolution of how we classify and categorize the various components of the cloud stack. In earlier days, it was enough to draw the lines between IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS, and while this categorization is still very handy, we are beginning to see the lines between these categories start to blur. On the one hand, we see more IaaS providers starting to move up the stack, and on the other hand, we are seeing new categories such as DevOps gaining… -
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Big Data In the Cloud Using Cloudify
20 Mar 2012 | 8:12 amEdd Dumbill wrote an interesting article on O’Reilly Radar covering the current solutions for running Big Data in the Cloud Big data and cloud technology go hand-in-hand. Big data needs clusters of servers for processing, which clouds can readily provide. Edd touched briefly on the role of PaaS for delivering Big Data applications in the cloud Beyond IaaS, several cloud services provide application layer support for big data work. Sometimes referred to as managed solutions, or platform as a service (PaaS), these services remove the need to configure or scale things such as databases or… -
Lessons from Zynga & Sony on moving from Amazon AWS
14 Mar 2012 | 11:14 amEarlier this month Zynga announced its move from Amazon AWS to its own private Z-Cloud. Sony also started to move increasing parts of its workload from Amazon to Rackspace OpenStack. There isn't so much in common between these different use cases, except for the fact that they may indicate the beginning of a trend (I’ll get back to that toward the end) where companies start to take more control over their cloud infrastructure. So what really brought Zynga and Sony to make such a move? Zynga moves from Amazon to their own private cloud Zynga ran their gaming services on Amazon for a while. -
Top Myths of Moving Mission-Critical Applications to the Cloud
19 Feb 2012 | 2:49 amTop Myths of Moving Mission-Critical Applications to the Cloud Special Guest PostBy Nati Shalom, at CloudNewsDaily.com Research conducted by HP found that the majority of businesses in the EMEA region are planning to move their mission-critical apps to the cloud. Of the 940 respondents, 80 per cent revealed plans to move mission-critical apps at some point over the next two to five years. This is a fairly dramatic shift in how most companies and enterprises in particular plans to embrace the Cloud. This would be a good time for a reality check, to look at some of the predominant myths…
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Joyeur
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The Next Web Hack Battle….Here’s to the Winners!
9 May 2012 | 3:58 pmAs part of the opening of our new Amsterdam data center, we sponsored The Next Web 2012, a really killer conference. So we did a bit of the corporate thing, sponsoring the networking lounge. But definitely the highlight of our trip was the Kings of Code Hack Battle. The TNW team ran the event and there were some amazing entrants. For the first through third place teams we offered a total of $9,000 in Joyent Cloud compute credits. And it was worth every penny, as the winners totally blew us away! Here’s the list: 1st Place – Covify. They created an amazing application that allows… -
Hellloooooo, Europe! We’re Live in Amsterdam, People!
19 Apr 2012 | 6:11 pmJust in case you missed our tweets and our press release (who reads them anymore?), here’s the scoop on Joyent Cloud Europe. We just lit up our first data center outside North America and its in Amsterdam! This is a Tier-4 facility with all the goodies you’ve come to expect from Joyent Cloud: all Nehalem / Westmere processors and 15k RPM HDs, all 10/40Gbps mesh network, and all the wonderful SmartOS traits (DTrace, Zones, ARC Cache, ZFS). Best of all, you can provision and manage virtual machines from the same unified customer portal or via our Joyent Cloud API. We moved into… -
DevCon5: Come See Joyent Founder Jason Hoffman Speak
17 Apr 2012 | 12:13 pmFolks, just an FYI: DevCon5 is an HTML5 Developer and Mobile Applications Conference will take place at The Network Meeting Center, April 25-26, 2012 in Santa Clara. This conference is for web developers, designers, architects as well as technology leaders and business strategists who want to learn how to use HTML5 to create dynamic user experiences and new mobile business models. The conference is a three track program comprised of a Gaming/Mobile Track, User Interface Track, and anAnimation Track. Attendees will learn everything from the implementation and execution of HTML5, to… -
dtrace conf: April 3 in Downtown SF. Trace that, people!
2 Apr 2012 | 5:02 pmThe original (and only) dtrace.conf in 2008 was a smash hit – even the analysts were raving! In pace with the Olympiad, it’s time once again to bring the community together for dtrace.conf 2012! This Joyent-sponsored community event will be held in downtown San Francisco (likely SoMA, but exact venue TBD) on Tuesday, April 3rd. Note that there may be a small attendance fee to help defray costs. As with the inaugural dtrace.conf, this will be a technical conference for people who are using DTrace, expanding its boundaries, and contributing to its growth and health. This will be done in… -
Joyent Cloud Meetup: Circonus’s Brian Clapper
15 Mar 2012 | 1:32 amNote: This was a joint meetup with the illumos community, as well so thanks for your support! Here’s video from our last Joyent Cloud Meetup with Circonus CTO Brian Clapper. Brian ran through how they integrated their sophisticated monitoring and alert tool (which covers cloud-centric compute services, marketing metrics, financial metrics and many other areas) with SmartOS and showed us some nice demos. We got a fabulous guest appearance from Voxer CTO and co-founder Matt Ranney (also a Joyent Cloud customer) running through why he uses / loves Circonus. In general, a good crowd focused…
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Thinking Out Cloud
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Cloud Adoption Patterns - Citrix Synergy 2012 Keynote
8 May 2012 | 6:26 pmThis coming Thursday, May 10, I'll be giving one of the keynote speeches at the Citrix Synergy 2012 conference in San Francisco. My talk is in the morning and comes right after a distinguished speaker: Sameer Dholakia, GM of the Cloud Platforms Group at Citrix. You can see the description of the two talks (and the one by Citrix CEO Mark Templeton who speaks on Wednesday) on this Featured Speakers page. The title of my talk is "From the Bottom Up: Patterns of Cloud Adoption". Here's the abstract: The current pattern of cloud adoption in the enterprise may surprise you. Rather than big,… -
In the Game of Clouds, You Win Or You Die: CloudStack
3 Apr 2012 | 9:57 amCitrix is making a big announcement today. It has two parts. First, it's moving its CloudStack framework, which was owned by Citrix and distributed at CloudStack.org through a GPL license, to the Apache Foundation. Second, it is aligning CloudStack with Amazon Web Services' architecture and APIs. This is big news that's sure to ruffle some feathers in the cloud computing space. So the questions I have are: Why are they doing this? What are the implications? Why Is Citrix Moving CloudStack to the Apache Foundation? The move appears straightforward. Citrix acquired CloudStack through its $200… -
More on Bottom-Up Adoption of Cloud Computing and SaaS
2 Mar 2012 | 9:17 amA quick follow up on my previous post on cloud computing adoption patterns. I have been guest blogging on Compuware's CloudSeluth blog and have written a post on this topic titled Cloud and Bottom-Up Adoption. In it I reiterate some of the points I wrote about in the last post and which I presented in my CloudConnect keynote, but I added another angle, comparing the first attempt of creating a true public cloud, the Sun Grid, to the first successful attempt: Amazon Web Services. The main difference between the two? You guessed it. While the former (Sun) targeted the traditional IT customer,… -
Cloud Computing and SaaS Models Are About Bottom-Up Adoption
20 Feb 2012 | 10:57 pmLast week I gave a keynote presentation at the CloudConnect conference in Santa Clara. The title of the presentation was: "Surprise! Your Enterprise is Already Using the Public Cloud." Regular readers of this blog (or those who work with me) know I go on about this a lot: In the enterprise, cloud computing services (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) are being adopted bottom-up. In other words, by the rank & file (developers, IT admins, business folk) and not top-down with a big strategic decision by the CIO. That's what the keynote was about and the title was addressing the CIO, who is the last to know… -
The Importance of Customer Engagement in Cloud and SaaS Models
2 Feb 2012 | 5:36 pmIn July I wrote about the public beta launch of Totango and how it promised to help increase SaaS sales by better understanding customers, and especially their interaction with online channels, including the SaaS service itself. Now, Totango has announced that it has analyzed and optimized the sales engagement or interaction with over one million prospects and customers of SaaS businesses. That’s a big number. When looking at the research published by Totango here are some important takeaways for SaaS sales: Next best action and next best channel for each customer If you can, use a zero…
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Amazon Web Services Blog
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Domain Verification for the Amazon Simple Email Service
15 May 2012 | 6:26 pmThe Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) makes it easy and cost-effective for you to send bulk or transactional email messages. As I described in my introductory post (Introducing the Amazon Simple Email Service), you must verify the email address (or addresses) that you plan to use to send messages. The initial verification process must be repeated for each email address. Today we are introducing a new SES feature. You can now verify an entire domain, and then send email from any address in that domain. In addition to saving you time and effort, this new feature now allows you to use Amazon SES… -
AWS Cloud Storage for the Enterprise
15 May 2012 | 3:01 pmThere are a lot of storage options available to AWS users -- Amazon S3, Elastic Block Storage, and the AWS Storage Gateway, along with ancillary services such as Amazon CloudFront for content distribution, AWS Direct Connect for dedicated network connections, and Amazon Elastic MapReduce for large-scale data processing. Our customers are using these services to implement cloud-based backup, disaster recovery, and archiving for entire enterprises. In order to help you make sense of all of these options and to give you a better sense of how AWS can help you, we have created a day-long event… -
AWS Week in Review - May 7, 2012
14 May 2012 | 10:50 amLet's take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, May 7 We released the EC2 VM Import Connector for VMware vCenter version 1.2.0. Tuesday, May 8 The Relational Database Service now supports SQL Server. You can now run .NET applications on AWS Elastic Beanstalk. Wednesday, May 9 We introduced APIs and IAM support for the AWS Storage Gateway. We announced that re: Invent, the first AWS conference for customers and partners, will take place later this year. We added a third Availability Zone to the US West (Oregon) Region. Citrix announced that a tech… -
Amazon CloudFront - Support for Dynamic Content
14 May 2012 | 2:38 amIntroductionAmazon CloudFront's network of edge locations (currently 30, with more in the works) gives you the ability to distribute static and streaming content to your users at high speed with low latency. Today we are introducing a set of features that, taken together, allow you to use CloudFront to serve dynamic, personalized content more quickly. What is Dynamic Personalized Content?As you know, content on the web is identified by a URL, or Uniform Resource Locator such as http://media.amazonwebservices.com/blog/console_cw_est_charge_service_2.png . A URL like this always identifies… -
AWS 포탈 - 한국어 컨텐츠 추가
11 May 2012 | 12:29 am더 많은 고객들이 손쉽게 AWS 접근할 수 있도록, AWS 포탈에 또 다른 새로운 언어를 추가하였습니다. 우리는 지속적으로 성장하고 있는 한국 기업들과 개발자들을 지원할 수 있다는 것을 확신시켜 드리기 위해 한국어 컨텐츠를 추가하였습니다. 이미 많은 수의 한국 대기업들과 스타트업 업체들, 그리고 연구기관들AWS와 함께 하고 있습니다. 예를 들면: 케이스 스터디 다수를 포함해서, 대부분의 기술 및 마케팅관련 페이지들이 이미 한글화 되어있으며,…
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The 4 Levels of Replication for Disaster Recovery in the Cloud
11 May 2012 | 12:17 pmDisaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS or RaaS) is big on the hype meter right now, and cloud computing providers are clamoring to find solutions to fill the gap. The biggest driver in DR in the Cloud is the utility-like aspect of purchasing infrastructure, because you only pay for what you use. Disaster Recovery lends itself well to the concept of cloud computing, because you want to keep that insurance premium as low as possible. Virtualization has enabled some pretty amazing things in regards to Disaster Recovery as well. Recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO)… -
One Powerful Public Cloud IaaS Company
10 Apr 2012 | 9:54 amBluelock is excited to announce that it was recently named to NetworkWorld's list of "10 most powerful IaaS companies." Writer Christine Burns assembled the list with help from analysts at Cloud Technology Partners, Current Analysis, Enterprise Strategy Group, Gartner, IDC and Neovise. Those analysts named companies they believed have the most influence in the public cloud infrastructure as a service category. Bluelock continues to prove itself in its ability to draw in enterprise customers to the benefits of using public cloud resources. While serving a wide variety of use… -
Find Your Right Approach to Public Cloud Infrastructure as a Service
28 Mar 2012 | 2:35 pmBluelock offers public cloud newsletter featuring Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud IaaS report. Cloud computing is revolutionizing the way enterprises consume information technology. We've already seen the ways cloud services create new efficiencies and transform datacenters into IT game-changers. Improved infrastructure agility, security, and efficiency enable enterprise business strategies. Companies can better compete in evolving markets. But, adopting a cloud model can be confusing for enterprise users. The first thing any organization needs to consider when evaluating… -
CRN Names Bluelock to 2012 100 Coolest Cloud Computing Vendors List
16 Mar 2012 | 8:49 amIt’s been a busy few weeks for the team at Bluelock and a lot of exciting stuff has been happening, one of which was CRN naming Bluelock to its 2012 100 Coolest Cloud Computing Vendors list. The comprehensive list highlights the most innovative cloud computing companies across the five major categories: cloud platforms, cloud infrastructure, cloud storage, cloud security and cloud software. This is the second time in as many years Bluelock has been named to the cloud infrastructure list. Be sure to check out the list in the March 26 issue of CRN Magazine as well. Here’s what they… -
Bluelock Upgrades to VMware vCloud Director 1.5
12 Mar 2012 | 7:00 am2012 has proven to be an exciting year for Bluelock clients! In January, we introduced the cost projection feature within our Bluelock Portfolio cloud support tool. Today, Bluelock continues the tradition of cloud innovation with the upgrade to VMware vCloud Director 1.5. This upgrade delivers increased cloud agility and makes it even easier to adopt a cloud computing model leveraging existing IT investments. Ben Miller, our Product Solution Director, reviews the new features and benefits vCloud Director 1.5 provides to Bluelock clients: Key Features of vCloud Director 1.5 UI Enhancements…
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Data Center Dialog
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Taking some steps out of stealth
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The new iPad unboxed -- and already making an impact
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The new iPad -- with an enterprise twist
14 Mar 2012 | 10:28 amLast week’s “new iPad” announcement elicited the breathless attention of the industry, as expected. One angle that didn’t get too much play by Apple itself, however, was the impact of this new device on the IT departments in large enterprises. But fear not. Others noticed the oversight. For example, salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff complained over Twitter that Apple missed a trick in not -
Catching up with some crazy mobile and tablet adoption stats for the enterprise
13 Feb 2012 | 11:45 pmAs I’ve been settling in to my gig at Framehawk, I’ve been continuing to watch the cloud computing marketing closely (hello to everyone at Cloud Connect in Santa Clara this week). However, I’ve also been expanding that focus to mobility and how that relates to the enterprise market. I’m finding a barrage of new stats about adoption come out almost daily. They are worth noting because this -
Framehawk and UBS: my New Thing gets a name...and a big customer
29 Nov 2011 | 10:02 amFor those who followed my chair-building exploits and my new unnamed stealthy cloud and mobility software start-up, sorry this has taken so long. I’ve been a bit busy. Mainly, it's because there's some pretty interesting stuff we’re working on at my New Thing.We’re still officially in stealth mode, but today UBS Wealth Management Americas announced they are jumping into mobility with both feet.
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Cisco Blog » Data Center and Cloud
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Cisco SAP Competence Center
16 May 2012 | 10:37 amYesterday I met Michael Missbach, Phd., who is the head of the SAP Competence Center based in Germany. Michael who [...] -
Cisco and SAP : State of the collaboration and New Reseller Agreement
16 May 2012 | 8:30 amThe second day at SAPPHIRE 2012 has been as intense as the first day -- After interviewing one of the [...] -
Cisco Survey Tracks Top Cloud Concerns
15 May 2012 | 6:07 pmAs the role of cloud computing grows stronger, IT decision makers in 13 countries shared their plans and concerns in [...] -
Cisco at Sapphire 2012
15 May 2012 | 7:46 amA quick snapshot of @ciscodc at Sapphire -- As expected a lot of activities for this first day in Orlando. On the [...] -
Mini Cooper and Twitter games at SAPPHIRE 2102
14 May 2012 | 5:31 amGoing to Orlando and win a car! Sounds like going to Las Vegas! IPad , Flip Videos and other [...]
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Kaavo
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Cloud Management – Various Solutions and Standards
6 May 2012 | 5:35 pmThe growing use of Infrastructure as a Service to run custom applications, SaaS, and PaaS offerings is increasing the demand of management solutions to leverage the automation offered by IaaS. One of the biggest advantages of IaaS is the ability to automate tasks which were not possible before. E.g. a crashed server can be restored with an API call by launching a new instance. Effective use of the IaaS APIs can dramatically reduce the time and resources it takes to deploy and provide production support for services and applications.Various solutions and standards are… -
Who's Managing Your PaaS Apps?
8 Feb 2012 | 8:34 amSam Charrington recently posted a nice article called The Disintegration of PaaS. In it, he describes how early PaaS providers (PaaS 1.0) locked developers into their stacks and essentially prevented the movement of these apps onto other PaaS platforms. Sam also describes the coming of “PaaS 2.0,” a more open platform that allows different development stack modules for databases, application servers, etc. to be included within your application stack. PaaS 2.0 providers will also cultivate the community of tools that can be used within a deployment stack. The hope is that PaaS… -
Cloud Management – Why we selected an Agentless approach instead of using Agents?
1 Feb 2012 | 8:42 pmAutomating the deployment and runtime management of large application deployments running on multiple cloud resources across various cloud providers is a challenging problem. Managing remote resources is not a new problem the big difference is that in cloud the resources are added and removed dynamically and at a larger scale. Before cloud, people built management systems using two approaches:AgentAgentlessHistorically the major trade-off between the agent and agentless approaches has been control vs. rollout time and maintenance costs. You usually get more control with the… -
Is Oracle serious about Cloud and why is Salesforce relying on Amazon Cloud?
14 Oct 2011 | 1:07 amIt is interesting to follow Oracle’s journey to the Cloud, starting in 2008 with Larry Ellison's rant about “What the hell is Cloud Computing?” to Oracle’s effort to sell servers as “Cloud in a Box” aka Exalogic Elastic Cloud in 2010. Finally with the last week’s Oracle’s Infrastructure as a Service (aka Oracle Public Cloud) announcement it seems like Oracle is finally getting what Cloud Computing is all about and is getting serious about it. Infrastructure as a Service layer is the key innovation on top of the virtualization… -
I Want Cloud Apps, Not Just Cloud Servers! – Part II
15 Aug 2011 | 8:51 amRunning cloud applications is the end-game; acquiring cloud servers is only the beginningIn Part I, I talked about how it is important to think about cloud use from the application’s point of view. We need to digitally centralize our best-practice institutional knowledge so that it can be used to easily replicate application environments from development to test, and then on towards production. Centralizing these steps helps you manage and automate what used to be manual labor. But how do you go from securing VMs within the cloud to actually deploying applications and their…
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Sam Johnston
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Getting started with OpenStack in your lab
5 May 2012 | 10:10 amHaving recently finished building my new home lab I wanted to put the second server to good use by installing OpenStack (the first is running VMware ESXi 5.0 with Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8 Server and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS virtual machines). I figured many of you would benefit from a detailed walkthrough so here it is (without warranty, liability, support, etc).The two black boxes on the left are HP Proliant MicroServer N36L's with modest AMD Athlon(tm) II Neo 1.3GHz dual-core processors and 8GB RAM and the one on the right is an iomega ix4-200d NAS box providing 8TB of networked storage… -
Simplifying cloud: Reliability
8 Mar 2012 | 5:52 amThe original Google server rackReliability in cloud computing is a very simple concept which I've explained in many presentations but never actually documented:Traditional legacy IT systems consist of relatively unreliable software (Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes, Oracle, etc.) running on relatively reliable hardware (Dell, HP, IBM servers, Cisco networking, etc.). Unreliable software is not designed for failure and thus any fluctuations in the underlying hardware platform (including power and cooling) typically result in partial or system-wide outages. In order to deliver reliable service… -
How NOT to respond to vulnerability reports
9 Nov 2011 | 6:57 amReuven Cohen and the guys at Enomaly could write the book on how NOT to respond to vulnerability reports:Don't disavow vulnerabilities in products you've previously taken credit forDon't claim issues are not valid while denying researchers a right of replyDon't claim obvious issues are "unactionably vague" and then ignore them, even after a working exploit is publicly availableDon't claim trivial remote root exploits are "theoretically valid but extremely difficult to exploit"Don't claim it's ok to rely on security by obscurity or race conditionsDon't turn on moderation because a researcher… -
Retro vulnerability of the day: cleartext passwords over the wire
6 Nov 2011 | 8:36 amWhile spending my Sunday looking at what people are doing with various cloud platform services I came across these 4 case studies on the Google App Engine (GAE) pricing page:Ignoring WebFilings (who have an Amazon EC2 backend) and gigya (who have their own platform and only use GAE for their live chat applet), Best Buy caught my eye as I already caught them sending employee credentials in the clear with the Twelpforce GAE app written by Enomaly a few years ago and Giftag was also done in "partnership" with Best Buy (whatever that means): "Enomaly Launches Giftag.com for Best Buy".I also… -
SploitCloud: exploiting cloud brokers for fun and profit
28 Oct 2011 | 1:52 pmMy friends at Enomaly have been beating up on Amazon Web Services (AWS) over the XML signature element wrapping vulnerability currently being overhyped by the press, which is ironic given their security track record and unfortunate given I rather like what Amazon have achieved.Back in March I reported multiple vulnerabilities in SpotCloud (including their having copied Amazon's vulnerable signatures years after they were reported and fixed) and I was told I was unethical and my report that they "may not validate incoming web and/or API requests and if so,…
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In(tegrate) the Clouds
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Informatica World 2012: Return on Big Data
16 May 2012 | 10:34 amI’m spending the week at Informatica’s annual user conference in Vegas. The focus of the event is the new Informatica 9.5 release and the overall theme of Big Data and the Return on Data. The tweet stream is quite active – you can follow the conference at #IW2012. Here’s the opening video from Informatica World. You might also find the Infographic interesting - Big Data, Big Returns. -
Integration Platform as a Service Announced
9 May 2012 | 1:21 amImage via CrunchBase Last week Informatica Cloud Summer 2012 was announced. The company’s award-winning multi-tenant integration service now processes more than 1 billion cloud integration transactions per day and this release introduces a Cloud Connector Toolkit and Cloud Integration Templates that will be be available in a new Developer Edition. Gartner analyst Yefim Natis has this to say about the growing significance of integration platform as a service (iPaaS): “Gartner expects iPaaS adoption to grow significantly during the next five years. Integration Platform as a… -
Cloud Integration for the Social Enterprise
28 Mar 2012 | 11:30 pmYesterday I moderated an Informatica Cloud webinar with CloudTrigger, “a leader in cloud professional services and applications that accelerate customer success by maximizing return on investment.” There were some great points made about the importance of data integration and data quality to cloud application adoption and to becoming what salesforce.com calls the Social Enterprise. Here’s the recording: Related articles Cloud Integration Evolution: From Outside in to Inside Out? (cloudintegration.wordpress.com) ETL in the Cloud with Informatica: Part 1 –… -
A Not So Anti-Social Enterprise IT Message
22 Mar 2012 | 9:01 pmI attended Cloudforce San Francisco last week and was quite impressed with how the Social Enterprise message has been refined and strengthened since Dreamforce. As always at a Salesforce event, top customers were in the spotlight, telling their stories about the business impact of CRM applications and the Force.com cloud platform. What was different at this Cloudforce was the representation from senior levels of IT on the main stage and the focus on the importance of cloud integration to Social Enterprise success. Check a couple of these headlines and quotes: Salesforce.com Makes Friends With… -
Cloud Integration Evolution: From Outside in to Inside Out?
20 Mar 2012 | 12:44 amA few years ago Informatica’s Ron Papas wrote a blog post called – Salesforce.com Integration – Inside Out or Outside In. He defined an “outside in” cloud integration solution as, “ ideal for organizations with limited IT resources that will rely on their Salesforce Administrator or a line of business analyst to do that work.” I was recently interviewed by Ron Powell of the ByeNetwork about the evolution of cloud-based data integration and noted that increasingly enterprise IT organizations are seeking to take advantage of this model to…
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Janakiram MSV
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Amazon Enters Microsoft’s Turf of .NET PaaS
9 May 2012 | 9:35 pmThe PaaS competition heats up with Amazon adding ASP.NET support to its AWS Elastic Beanstalk environment and MS SQL Server to the Amazon RDS offerings. This is a significant announcement from Amazon as it draws the battle lines with Microsoft which is aggressively positioning Windows Azure as the .NET Cloud offering to the developer community. Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) was launched in 2009 with the initial support for MySQL. Amazon has been regularly investing in RDS by bringing the high availability features like Multi-AZ deployment and performance enhancements like… -
HP Cloud is All Set to Enter the Public Beta
6 May 2012 | 9:50 pmOpenStack gets one of the most crucial endorsements as HP goes into the public beta on May 10th. I got the private beta access a couple of months ago and I tried a few scenarios. Though it has a long way to go, HP Cloud looks complete in its approach and is ready to take Amazon head on! HP Cloud has three major components in its current form - HP Cloud Compute that provides on demand compute instances as well as custom instances to handle workloads. HP Cloud Compute also enables the addition of new instances through RESTful APIs based on industry standards for quick scale out HP Cloud Object… -
AWS Marketplace – An Oversimplification of the Cloud?
29 Apr 2012 | 9:40 pmRecently Amazon Web Services has launched the AWS Marketplace. It is certainly a welcome move that brings all the available software on Amazon EC2 under one roof. This is especially good for ISVs to get visibility and become more accessible to potential customers. The interface inherits the classic look and feel of Amazon shopping experience and has close resemblance to the Amazon Appstore for Android. The analysts and the media have responded very positively to this move from Amazon. While this is appreciated by the Amazon partner community, there are some facts that the AWS customers should… -
First Year Progress Report of Cloud Foundry – Did it PaaS?
11 Apr 2012 | 1:21 pmIt’s been a year since VMware launched Cloud Foundry. This was an important milestone for VMware in establishing itself as a platform company. VMware has been on an acquisition spree to consolidate its offerings to woo the developers. It started with RabbitMQ, GemStone and finally SpringSource. But announcing Cloud Foundry was a masterstroke from VMware to tackle the competition that exists in the form of Microsoft and Amazon. How did it fare in the first one year of its existence? Read further! VMware put two rock stars, Derek Collison and Mark Lucovsky on the job to create an architecture… -
Manage Multiple Clouds with RightScale
9 Apr 2012 | 10:39 pmI recently got a chance to work on RightScale for a proof-of-concept and I must say that they have an impressive technical architecture that reflects some of design and deployment best practices of the Cloud. I want to provide a business overview of this platform through this article. Compared to traditional IT, Cloud does offer many benefits in the form of self-service, on-demand, elastic, and pay-as-you-go models. For example, going live with a line of business application on physical infrastructure might take anywhere between 6 to 8 weeks and by leveraging the Cloud, this can be reduced to…
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object(ive) undefined!
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JsonValueProviderFactory in MVC 2
21 Apr 2012 | 11:27 amToday we were rebuilding an old project which used MVC 2. There were a bunch of build errors, which I quickly figured was because of the reference to Microsoft.Web.MVC assembly which was a part of the Futures Preview for MVC 2 before MVC 3 came. I removed the reference and secondly, I installed MVC 3 on the machine. After that I removed all references to MVC 2 assemblies and added reference to the System.Web.Mvc dll version present in C:\Program Files(x86)\Microsoft ASP.NET\ASP.NET MVC 3\Assemblies. With that, some of the errors went off. But upon further building the project, I ran… -
Single Page Application and why is it becoming more and more popular
19 Apr 2012 | 1:44 pmOne of the key trends becoming more and more popular is the Single Page Application Framework and building applications that behave as native applications running on the machine. SPA’s have been tried and tested for a while now and with libraries like Knockout.js, Backbone.js becoming more and more capable, it becomes feasible to create SPA’s. What is an SPA? I can describe in length but falling in line with DRY principle, here is the Wiki Link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-page_application But in short, it is a framework that builds highly responsive web applications that don’t… -
Building a Northwind Single Page Application using ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta - Part 2
25 Feb 2012 | 7:23 amThis post is in continuation with my earlier post, so you may want to read that first before continuing. Once I removed all the TasksController files and the TodoItem, I chose the Models folder, right click and “Add New Item” and searched for “ADO.NET Entity Model” and added it to the folder. It allowed me to connect to the Northwind database through “Generate from database” and I selected just three tables “Products”, “Categories” and “Suppliers” table for simplicity. At the end of the wizard, we get a EDMX design file with the 3 tables. On this screen I right… -
Building a Northwind Single Page Application using ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta - Part 1
25 Feb 2012 | 7:21 amSingle Page Application Frameworks are gaining popularity in the ever evolving web community with lot of libraries such as JavaScriptMVC, Backbonejs and many other libraries. ASP.NET MVC 4 introduces experimental support for building single page application (SPA) through a template. Much of the plumbing work of wiring up the client side scripts, javascript modelviews and the controllers is automated, making it a quick start to develop SPAs relatively easier. Lets examine a scenario where we are building a Northwind Store using SPA. I installed the ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta for Visual Studio… -
Diving Deep: ASP.NET Membership and the new Universal Providers
16 Jan 2012 | 4:53 am</object> <script type="text/javascript"> document.write("<script type='text/javascript' src='" + (window.location.protocol) + "//c.microsoft.com/ms.js'" + "><\/script>");</script> </div></body>
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Perspectives on Cloud Computing from Learning Tree International
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Billing Alerts Help Prevent Surprise Bills
15 May 2012 | 7:03 amRecently I was travelling from my home town Leicester to London by train for a meeting with a consulting client. I arrived at the train station at 6am for a 6.30am train, purchased a ticket and then heard an announcement that the train drivers were on strike and a very limited service was running. A little frustrated I went to the train companies Web site to see if any schedule of this limited service was available only to be greeted by the screen below. My immediate thought was that this could easily have been averted with the use of the auto scaling of cloud computing which works perfectly… -
Amazon AWS Releases Beanstalk for .NET
11 May 2012 | 9:07 amI have written about Amazon’s Elastic Beanstalk for Java and more recently for PHP. This Platform as a Service (PaaS) is incredibly good and eliminates the need for much of the traditional administration required when running Web applications. For Java and PHP developers, as well as Ruby, Python and other languages, there is a wide choice of PaaS available from different vendors, which means that there is no fear of vendor lock-in when selecting a PaaS. For .NET developers, the choice of PaaS has been limited to Microsoft Azure, or as of this week, Cloud Services. This is not a reason… -
Amazon Extends Services for Microsoft Technologies
10 May 2012 | 3:54 pmAs someone who works primarily with Microsoft technologies I was delighted to see the Amazon announcement yesterday that they are going to offer two additional options for developers. First, Amazon RDS is now going to include SQL Server in addition to MySQL and Oracle databases. SQL Server is available in a variety of versions on RDS and, like Oracle, can have license fees included in the hourly instance charge or can utilize a “bring your own license” model for existing Microsoft Volume Licensing customers that have SQL Server covered by Microsoft Software Assurance contracts. In… -
Committing to the Cloud
8 May 2012 | 8:44 pmWhen I teach Learning Tree’s Introduction to Cloud Computing course I often get questions about how components from different public cloud vendors can be used together in an integrated application. The answer, of course, is: “it all depends on the application.” Here I would like to give a more comprehensive response than that. This will be the first of a series of blog posts that will explore that question in some detail. I will go through the process of building a real-world application using services from Microsoft, Amazon and Google. Further, I will do all development and… -
Selecting a Private Cloud Vendor
2 May 2012 | 9:10 amWhen considering adopting Cloud Computing, I hear many organisations express a strong preference for private clouds. Sometimes this is a rational view based on strict business rules for example to meet regulatory and audit requirements. Often, the preference is an emotional judgement based on the fact that a public cloud appears to be ‘less secure’. What is clear is that private clouds have a significant role to play for a large number of organisations both now and in the near future. Any organisation wishing to implement a private cloud has a large choice of both commercial and…
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Cloud Business Review
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6 Cloud Computing Events to Visit in 2012
16 May 2012 | 1:40 amRepresenting the future of the way that we store and retrieve media, documents, programs and other historically local files, cloud computing is changing the very way in which we use devices such as computers, tablets and smartphones. Whether you’re a professional along for the ride or a consumer looking to better understand what the future of cloud computing has in store for you, any one of these six cloud computing events to visit in 2012 will help to give you … Click here to read more -
What Does It Mean to Have a Cloud Based Phone Service?
15 May 2012 | 2:00 amCloud based phone services still use the same VoIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) method of making telephone calls as other VoIP providers such as Comcast and Vonage. The biggest difference is that with cloud based phone services, businesses do not need any type of hardware such a modems, PBX boxes, adapters, etc. The service provider hosts all the additional network hardware that the business needs to make phone calls over the Internet. Advantages The obvious major advantage of cloud based … Click here to read more -
Dispelling the Vapor around Cloud Security: The last barrier to cloud adoption
14 May 2012 | 2:15 amFor many CIO’s today, the perceived barriers to Cloud computing remain security, regulation and compliance. Organizations seek reassurance on several points: accessing the Cloud will not compromise their security; their sensitive data and intellectual property will be protected; they can retrieve their data if they want to change Cloud provider, or their provider winds up operations; and they can maintain their customer service standards and competitive performance. CIO’s 2011 Global Cloud Computing Adoption survey reveals that 56% of the IT … Click here to read more -
Ecommerce: Cloud Computing and the Small Ecommerce Business
10 May 2012 | 9:38 pmMore and more people are shopping online. Almost daily it seems, the media publishes new, exciting information regarding the ever-booming ecommerce industry. People are buying goods from their PCs, their tablets and their smart phones, around the clock. Boxing Day 2011, for example, broke records for the amount of online shopping that took place. To respond to this increasing demand, smaller ecommerce businesses need to adopt a robust system that can cope with peaks and troughs without costing the earth. The solution? Cloud … Click here to read more -
Robust Online Project Management Software: Celoxis Review
10 May 2012 | 2:00 amWhen we talk about cloud computing for business, one of the first and foremost cloud software pops from our head is online project management and collaboration tool. How so? It’s simple: Such software allows us to work on a project from start to finish while managing what’s necessary to run it, namely human resources, time and money. One of such software is Celoxis. An overview on Celoxis In a nutshell, Celoxis is a powerful web-based project portfolio management allowing … Click here to read more
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CloudTimes
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Big Data Apps Will be Next Driving Factor for SaaS
16 May 2012 | 12:45 pmMany vendors talk about SaaS (Software as a Service) as the paradigm of software application. SaaS model has passed the stage of adapting applications to customer relationship management (CRM) and management of human capital (HCM), Business Intelligence and platform and middleware solutions. While all of these areas continue to show high growth potential in the corporate segment, SaaS is gaining strength in areas such as Web-conference, team work and management of IT services and particularly in Big Data Applications. An editorial by Raj De Datta, CEO and co-founder of BloomReach, published… -
Amazon: 7 Essential Cloud Technology Transformations
15 May 2012 | 8:52 amIn the recent concluded Amazon Web Services Summit in New York, Dr Werner Vogels, CTO, Amazon provided some insight highlighting how cloud computing particularly public cloud computing will transforms future business market. Vogels claims seven essential technology transformations will create strong foundations for enterprises to adopt cloud computing. Vogels ideas were well supported by representatives of companies using Amazon cloud services. Distributed Architecture Simpler with Cloud Building distributed architecture with traditional infrastructure is a cumbersome process. Maintaining a… -
GoDaddy Introduces Cloud Servers, Competes with AWS and Rackspace
14 May 2012 | 7:08 pmGoDaddy recently announced its newest offering, Cloud Servers, and competes for the first time with companies like Amazon Web Services and Rackspace. (See an exclusive interview with GoDaddy CEO Warren Adelman below.) Apart from a very competitive price point, GoDaddy’s Cloud Solution is designed to give its customers a fast plug & play installation, combines convenient control panels, a strong infrastructure and frequently used features, like firewalls and load balancers. As the Internet expands and websites become more resource-intensive, many businesses are moving from… -
5 Issues Cloud Computing Can’t Solve
14 May 2012 | 9:55 amCloud computing, even while still in its beginnings has already proven its value. It is already setting up a pattern that demonstrates how it can reshape business processes. It is this breakthrough that lead many to believe cloud computing is a messiah but like any other technology, it cannot fix everything. In fact, it cannot fix many of the critical issues that are essential for business success. Inefficient Website and Application Design. Some web owners or business owners believe that moving to the cloud will also fix every wrong design element in their website or system. While it is true… -
Five Busted Myths of Cloud Security
13 May 2012 | 1:50 pmBy Dave Meizlik, VP of Marketing and Business Development, Dome9 Security “Cloud” is one of the most over used and least understood words in technology these days, so it’s little surprise that there’s so much confusion about its security. Popular ideas, right or wrong, can gain traction and become accepted truths, so to provide a little clarity we set out to test some of these theories, just like the popular show “Myth Busters,” here in the San Francisco Bay Area. The following are five myths of cloud security we busted, extrapolated from the study by the Ponemon Institute on…
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Elastic Security
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Launch of HP Cloud with OpenStack
10 May 2012 | 2:20 pmWe’ve been busy lately with the second version of Elastic Detector, that supports Amazon EC2, Terremark’s vCloud Express and Eucalyptus. Today we’re thrilled to announce support of another leading cloud infrastructure: HP Cloud. Please find the complete announcement here. We are strong believers in OpenStack and we have participated to the private beta of HP [...] -
AWS South America support in CloudyScripts
15 Dec 2011 | 10:24 amYesterday, Amazon announced that they have deployed a new region in South America (to Sao Paulo, Brazil) on its blog (the full article could be found here) Even if Amazon documentation did not contain all the required information (such as the Amazon Kernel Image IDs), we were able to retrieve them, thus allowing to fully [...] -
Elastic Security: Vulnerability Assessment
22 Nov 2011 | 10:32 amElastic Detector, our FREE Vulnerability Assessment tool for Amazon EC2, has been recently updated with NEW features. Of course, the NEW Amazon US-West (Oregon) has been added at the meantime (see the AWS blogpost for more information). Sometimes, security is considered boring (as shown in one of our previous posts on Open Ports Check), I [...] -
Amazon US West Oregon Region Support in CloudyScripts
17 Nov 2011 | 11:08 amA few days ago Amazon announced that a new AWS Region in Oregon is supported (see AWS blogpost for more information). Amazon’s documentation for PVGRUB AKI IDs (which can be found here) was not updated at the same time, that’s why fully supporting the NEW US-West Oregon region in CloudyScripts took some additional days (especially [...] -
CloudyScripts for vCloud
19 Sep 2011 | 2:22 pmStarting from now, CloudyScripts – our popular open-source library (more than 10000 downloads up to now) that aims at relieving administrators from finicky scripting details to secure and manage cloud infrastructures - now supports the vCloud API in addition to Amazon EC2. vCloud is the cloud stack provided by VMWare and already adopted by around 30 hosting [...]
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The Riverbed Blog
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Eating our own Dogfood
14 May 2012 | 10:47 amAt Riverbed, we believe we're leading the move to Cloud. Over the last 3 years we've launched the Riverbed Cloud Portal, the Cloud Steelhead, Whitewater Cloud Storage Gateway, and the Steelhead Cloud Accelerator. These products help our customers reduce costs, and improve focus, by taking advantage of the economies-of-scale and specialization available in the Cloud. But does Riverbed itself use the Cloud? We sure do! Early on we identified the need for our own production and test systems. We needed dedicated test Portals to deploy, license, and manage Cloud Steelheads. Other tests… -
Interop 2012 - Riverbed customer DJO Global discusses Steelheads
11 May 2012 | 1:51 amMark Kelly from DJO Global discusses using Riverbed Steelheads to consolidate their IT Infrastructure without having to increase network bandwidth. -
Riverbed @ Interop
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Viva Las Vegas: Riverbed at the General Dynamics C4 Systems (GDC4S) Conference
10 May 2012 | 8:00 amJoin Riverbed at the General Dynamics C4 Systems (GDC4S) Conference, which will take place May 23-24 at The Paris in Las Vegas, Nevada. Visit the Riverbed booth (booth #14) to learn about our performance solutions, which help overcome limitations inherent in C4ISR networking. Nick Yuran, business development manager at Riverbed, will present on the requirements and deployment models for tactical WAN optimization models, including virtualized environments and integration into cloud architecture. Nick will focus on WAN optimization mobility solutions, and optimization of storage networking… -
Interop 2012 - Gigamon partnership
9 May 2012 | 5:15 pmJim Berkman from Gigamon discusses Gigamon and how his company's products integrate with Riverbed's Cascade product family.
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Business Cloud News
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Guest Post: Moving business processes into the cloud
16 May 2012 | 5:45 am16th May 2012With the rise of the public cloud and m-commerce, one key challenge every business will have to address is how to handle the proliferation of channels and deliver instantaneous services, without over-complicating the purchasing process. CloudSense’s MD, Richard Britton explains more. -
Compuware brings enterprise APM to cloud and big data Apps
15 May 2012 | 8:49 am15th May 2012 Compuware, the technology performance company, today announced the industry’s first deep transaction management solution for dynamic cloud and big data applications. The Compuware APM Spring 2012 Platform Release introduces new innovation, dynaTrace Enterprise, that simplify performance optimisation, operation and management of modern, dynamic applications. -
Amazon launches content support in CloudFront
14 May 2012 | 7:37 am14th May 2012 Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched support for dynamic content in CloudFront, the company’s content acceleration service. The technology giants are keen to increase the presence of the new capability, highlighting it as a cost-effective alternative to traditional CDNs for AWS customers looking to improve the performance, reliability and global reach of their websites. -
Brighton & Sussex NHS Trust deploys Microsoft private cloud
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CloudStore - the pathway to improving SME participation
9 May 2012 | 7:48 am9th May 2012 Alan Mac Neela, the UK Government Director for Dell, discusses how to improve SME engagement in the delivery of the Government’s ICT strategy, and how consortia can support this as well as enhancing partnerships between large vendors and SMEs.
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freemycloud.com.au
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Review of MYOB Live Accounts vs Quickbooks Accounting Software
28 Apr 2012 | 3:19 amReview of Cloud Accounting Software: Quickbooks On-line vs MYOB Live Accounts With the help of the Internet you can be anywhere in the world and remain connected. It also allows you to work at any timezone without losing an ounce of productivity. You can even assign a virtual bookkeeper or an online accounting company to do the work for you. You can see this workplace revolution in the cloud based accounting software. Two of the most used accounting software in the market today come from Quickbooks and MYOB. These two programs dominate the market share and they are now branching out to cloud… -
Saasu Vs Xero. Comparison of Cloud Accounting Software
17 Apr 2012 | 10:11 pmSaasu Vs Xero. A comparison. Every company needs to have a clear view of their financial health to fully understand where their businesses are and where it needs to go. This is especially true for small businesses that rely on cloud computing to compete against companies with deeper pockets and more resources. That is why it is important to have a reliable accounting cloud software to help you keep track of your daily invoices, payroll and other important financial numbers. At the forefront of cloud based accounting software are two relatively new players. Saasu and Xero are relatively new in… -
Benefits of Virtual Offices and Serviced Offices
22 Mar 2012 | 9:23 pmBenefits of Virtual Offices and Service Offices for Australian business. One of the many innovations in the business world today is the establishment of virtual offices, also known as serviced offices. These enterprises function as an office, minus the cost and maintenance of a real office. Technology has made all things possible. This is especially beneficial to small businesses that are on a limited budget as well as to larger businesses with satellite offices all over Australia. This is not yet a commonplace in Australia – but the businesses which have implemented it are… -
Outsourcing Customer Service to the Philippines for Australian Business
18 Mar 2012 | 9:54 pmOutsource Your Customer Service to the Philippines. In today’s rapidly changing business landscape, small and medium companies are looking for an edge. With the recession still putting more firms closer to being deep in red ink instead of black, firms are looking for ways to remain profitable while cutting costs. One of the ways that they are exploring is outsourcing and specifically outsourcing to the Philippines. The Philippines is a favoured location of firms looking to outsource their services mainly due to it’s role as the only service based economy in Asia. -
How Real Estate Agents can use Virtual Assistants and Outsourcing.
25 Sep 2011 | 12:04 amProperty Professionals and Real Estate Agents are using outsourcing to reduce costs and improve efficiencies. What could you use a virtual assistant for in your day? Below are a few simple ways real estate agents and property professionals may benefit from outsourcing a virtual assistant. The main reason Australian property professionals are outsourcing their none-core activities to virtual assistants in places such as the Philippines is the cost of labour. Employing a virtual assistant remotely from the Philippines can save you up to 70% on staffing costs. How? No holiday pay, sick leave,…
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BitNami Blog
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Amazon Linux Support Added in BitNami Cloud Hosting
15 May 2012 | 5:08 amWe are happy to announce we just released support for Amazon Linux on BitNami Cloud Hosting! Amazon Linux is a distribution of Linux optimized for the Amazon Cloud that is binary compatible with RHEL and CentOS. As with the RHEL support in BitNami Cloud Hosting, we use the native Amazon Linux Stack for deploying the BitNami applications. This means that they are installed on top of the MySQL, Apache, and other components that come bundled with the operating system, allowing you to make use of the OS tools to keep your server up to date. The Amazon Linux AMI is a supported and maintained Linux… -
BitNami Brings Your Favorite Apps to HP Cloud Services
10 May 2012 | 2:08 pmToday, HP's new public cloud offering, HP Cloud Services, was released into public beta. We are very happy to announce that we have made two of the BitNami "bundle" Stacks available on HP Cloud Services: DevPack and WebPack. BitNami DevPack provides an instant deployment environment for some of the most popular web development runtimes and servers, including PHP, Django, Ruby on Rails, Tomcat, MySQL, PostgreSQL and dozens of others. Everything you need to get started developing and hosting your own applications on HP Cloud Services. BitNami WebPack includes ready to run versions of… -
RubyStack now with RVM and DevKit support
8 May 2012 | 5:19 amWe are happy to announce that we added support for RVM in BitNami RubyStack for OS X and Linux. RubyStack is a popular all-in-one package for everything that you need to get started with Ruby development in general and Rails in particular. It includes Apache, MySQL, SQLite, ImageMagick, Passenger, etc. RubyStack is free and can be downloaded as native installers, VMWare images or launched as Amazon Machine Images. This new release of RubyStack includes RVM, a command-line tool which allows you to easily install, manage, and work with multiple Ruby environments from interpreters to sets… -
JRuby 1.6.7.2
4 May 2012 | 7:59 amWe have released an updated BitNami JRuby Stack. According to the official JRuby site all users are encouraged to upgrade to this new JRuby version: "This is a special release of JRuby which only updates our shipped copy of RubyGems to version 1.8.24. This version of RubyGems is the first version to verify that a RubyGems server certficate is valid. This helps to prevent a “man in the middle” style of attack when someone controls a portion of the network between you and the RubyGems server. All users are encouraged to upgrade to JRuby 1.6.7.2." Apart from JRuby, this stack also includes… -
BitNami Magento Stack Updated
3 May 2012 | 10:57 amWe have just released an updated BitNami Magento Stack that includes Magento Community 1.7.0. This new version help merchants provide a more personalized shopping experience for their customers with the following improvements: Improved customer segmentation and ordering capabilities. Added auto generation of coupon codes Added EU VAT ID validation service integration Implemented DHL for Europe Added the Cash On Delivery and Bank Transfer payment methods Check the full list of enhancements here.
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Zoho Blogs
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Group Calendar Support & Other Neat Updates in Zoho Calendar
16 May 2012 | 10:30 amThere is no refuting the fact that be it work, family or friends, in order to get things done, it is necessary to be on the same page as a group or with your group. At times, it is crucial for each person in a group to be aware of everyone’s calendar of activities. This is tough considering other complications like employees in the same company sitting at different time zones, teams changing frequently and what not. Well, in relation to these thoughts, we are glad to share with you the latest update to Zoho Calendar.… -
Introducing Zoho Sites, Free Website Builder for your Business
15 May 2012 | 11:05 amWe are excited to announce a new addition to our broad application portfolio; Zoho Sites. This new application is a website builder aimed at simplifying website creation, including mobile websites. Users can create websites easily just by dragging and dropping elements, without having to write even a single line of code. There are hundreds of Website builders available in the market already. Then, why are we launching Zoho Sites now? At Zoho, we want to offer a broad set of business tools, so that you can run your entire business on Zoho.… -
Customer Spotlight: Nubifer’s search for an accounting software ended with Zoho Books
11 May 2012 | 8:26 amWith companies relying more and more on newer technology to remain competitive, it becomes crucial for the decision makers to be aware and unbiased towards better solutions. Reduced IT costs, faster implementation and better collaboration is making the technology heads see cloud computing in a different light. Nubifer Inc has taken it upon themselves to help companies welcome cloud computing with open arms. Their talented consultants, along with their slew of products and services like SaaS (Software as a Service), CRM (Customer Relationship Management) , HRIS (Human Resource Information… -
Just In: Engage and Support your Customers in Twitter and Facebook with Zoho
10 May 2012 | 11:15 amWe are excited to share with you the newest update to Zoho Support. We have just enabled social media integration with Facebook and Twitter so you can engage and support customers through those channels, seamlessly integrating Tweets and Facebook posts into your existing operation to increase your social reputation while improving your overall customer experience. Today’s connected customers expect a high level of support – and customers are increasingly taking to social media to get their problems fixed. You need to make sure you’re listening and have the right tools to… -
Doing a task more than twice? Then, Automate it.
9 May 2012 | 10:11 am“Anything that you do more than twice has to be automated.” -Adam Stone, CEO, D-Tools Our daily work pattern will have certain activities that we repeat on and off. And when I say ‘on and off’, it means several times that span the entire workday. Take this typical cold calling scenario, for example: You, as a sales rep, have a list of leads that you call on a daily basis. Now, every time a lead accepts your proposal, you send a ‘Thank you’ email to the person.…
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Networking Exchange Blog » Cloud Computing
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Cloud Can
11 May 2012 | 4:44 amIn my new role at AT&T I am helping to provide industry specific thought leadership and marketing support to the Software Industry and Entertainment & Media Industry. It has been a great experience learning how critical these companies are to the global economy. While they may not have an impact on oil prices or global currency, what they do day in and day out is keep us informed, creative and productive. These firms continue to drive content through applications that enable today’s rich end user experience at the desktop, tablet, TV or mobile phone interface. So I thought,… -
7 Cloud Differentiators
8 May 2012 | 9:30 amThe cloud (and I mean the “public cloud”) is quite different from previous high tech industry trends for two fundamental reasons: Cloud affects the broadest range of customers ever, appealing to businesses, developers, and consumers all over the world; Cloud services are perhaps the most customer-driven solutions in the history of any industry. Here’s a summary of cloud differentiators: 1. Cloud scale and scope promise lower costs and greater agility Apps delivered via the cloud (SaaS) cross many lines of business and include Collaboration, CRM, SFA, HCM, and Expense Management. -
Clouds Come in All Different Sizes
4 May 2012 | 9:00 am“We don’t have an IT department to manage it.” “We can’t afford it.” “The cloud is for large enterprises.” I’ve heard small business owners cite all of these reasons and more for their reluctance to adopt cloud computing. And then I’ve challenged them on each and every point. You truly don’t need much in the way of resources – IT, capital or employees – to get a cloud strategy up and running. The cloud, especially when married to its soul mate (mobility), is a powerful resource from which even the smallest firms can benefit. In fact, Forrester Research, Inc. -
Hackathon, Team Work and Innovation
27 Apr 2012 | 9:52 amThe AT&T Developer Program’s Hackathon events are very popular among the app developers. I was able to attend the one in Seattle on April 13th and 14th, and was struck by the teamwork at the event. In the book “Managing for the Future”, Anoona et al presents a new organization model for better performance. The new model has the following characteristics; Networked: Teamwork Flat: Fewer layers, decentralized decision making Flexible: Problem solving with fewer formal procedures Diverse: Demographics, backgrounds, career paths Incentive: Team based At the Hackathon, each of these… -
Business’ Big Bet on Education
25 Apr 2012 | 10:12 amTimes have changed for sure relative to education. When I think back to my days in high school and college in the eighties, there were the basics — teachers, classrooms, black/white boards and text books. Oh, and of course, I cannot forget to mention the good old type writer!! This came in handy when pressed to deliver a research paper or two. That was then and this is now. Now is a time when students can utilize digital content, the web, mobile devices, the Intranet and more to take on the daily challenges of school work. Students are no longer tied to the classroom and a…
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meshIP Blog
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Cloud Adoption Increases Security for SMBs
14 May 2012 | 2:11 pmThis is a post from the meshIP Blog -Small and medium businesses have a lot to gain through adopting cloud computing, a recent research from comScore – sponsored by Microsoft – shows. Not only would these companies benefit from important time and money savings when adopting the cloud, … Continue reading →- We offer Cloud Computing services - Brian Related posts: IT spending by SMBs up 15% in first quarter Social Media, Desktop Virtualization Key for SMBs in 2011 What SMBs Need To Know About SaaS -
The State Of Cloud Networking
10 May 2012 | 3:04 pmThis is a post from the meshIP Blog -As the role of cloud computing is growing significantly in its ability to deliver business applications, many IT decision makers are facing challenges with their existing network infrastructure to support the migration of their business applications to the cloud. An … Continue reading →- We offer Cloud Computing services - Brian Related posts: 2010 Saw the Dawn of Nation-State Cyber Wars: Citrix CTO Preparing Your Network For The Cloud Dallas One of The Top 5 ‘Cloud Computing Friendly’ Cities -
IT spending by SMBs up 15% in first quarter
8 May 2012 | 12:43 pmThis is a post from the meshIP Blog -Biggest spending is going towards tablets, cloud and virtualization, according to a new study. Small and medium-sized businesses are spending more money on IT, including adopting tablets, cloud services and virtualization to a greater extent, according to Spiceworks’ State of … Continue reading →- We offer Cloud Computing services - Brian Related posts: UC Spending Bubble Belies Uncertainty Quarter of Enterprises Preparing For a Course of Tablets Social Media, Desktop Virtualization Key for SMBs in 2011 -
BYOD Tools
3 May 2012 | 7:33 amThis is a post from the meshIP Blog -In a bid to make virtualisation and cloud computing more palatable to enterprises which have a high concentration of mobile users, or are implementing a Bring your Own Device (BYOD) strategy, VMware has launched a fistful of new products and … Continue reading →- We offer Cloud Computing services - Brian Related posts: Want To Use VDI Over a Slow WAN? These Three Tools Can Help Dallas Team Releases Tools for Secure Cloud Computing Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) -
SIP – The Linchpin Of Next-Gen Communications
26 Apr 2012 | 11:16 amThis is a post from the meshIP Blog -Building an effective communication strategy through the use of appropriate technology is a key to any successful enterprise, especially in today’s times. Communication technology has undergone a sea-change from just voice-based communication through telephone to the use of collaborative tools … Continue reading →- We offer Cloud Computing services - Brian Related posts: Business Communications Willl Be The Next Cloud Wave VoIP Auto Attendant Streamlines Your Small Biz Communications Benefits of SIP-enabled VoIP
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IT channel & Managed Services blog for IT Resellers and Managed Service Providers
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Google Apps – Threat or Opportunity for MSPs?
16 May 2012 | 7:34 amGoogle Apps. is the brand for Google’s various products, targeting businesses in the SMB and enterprise space, as well as education. It centers around Google’s flagship email platform, but also includes calendars, documents, sites, collaboration with Microsoft Office, and a marketplace where customers can obtain applications that will integrate with their business Gmail in categories including finance, customer management, project management, and more. Traditionally, people... Read more » -
5 Reasons Why IT Solution Providers Will Crush Telecom VARs
14 May 2012 | 7:23 amThere once was a symbiotic relationship between Telecom VARs and IT Solution Providers. For years this symbiotic relationship has been slowly eroding and turning into an all-out war, each differing entity actively trying to steal clients away from the other, while attempting to offer their competition’s services to their own client base. This battle has produced winners and losers on both sides, but for the... Read more » -
Symantec Delivers Endpoint Protection Plug-in for Kaseya®
9 May 2012 | 8:46 amSymantec, global leader in the provision of security, storage and systems management solutions, has announced the Symantec Endpoint Protection Management Plug-in 1.5 for Kaseya® software. As the first discrete third-party security plug-in product for Kaseya, the new plug-in is available immediately at no cost to Symantec registered partners. The new Symantec plug-in for Kaseya enables MSPs to keep endpoints updated, be proactive in fixing issues... Read more » -
GMS Live Expert Acquires Dove Help Desk
9 May 2012 | 8:42 amGlobal Mentoring Solutions (GMS) Live Expert, an outsourced Help Desk and NOC for Managed Service Providers (MSPs), has announced the acquisition of Dove Help Desk, an outsourced live help desk working solely with MSPs across the United States. With 24/7 end user phone, chat and email support capabilities, GMS Live Expert aims to complement a company’s support services. Live Expert supports its MSP partner’s branding... Read more » -
Monitoring Meets the Cloud at Site24x7.com
8 May 2012 | 8:38 amThere’s a new external monitoring service from Zoho called Site 24×7, and it’s a service you really want to check out. Zoho brings website monitoring and more to the cloud, with a number of capabilities that admins have wanted for years but been hard-pressed to find. It starts with a free trial. Site24x7 lets you test drive the full package for fifteen days, after which,... Read more »
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News
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Draw Nothing - Episode #90 of CloudFocus Weekly
12 May 2012 | 12:17 pmDirect Download (Time: 38:04 - 21 MB) CloudFocus RSS Feed Subscribe via iTunes CloudFocus App Pick of the Week iHeart Radio for iOS by iHeart Radio from Justin Weight Watchers Bar Code scanner by Weight Watchers from Jason Follow Us twitter.com/ArkusInc facebook.com/ArkusInc -
Summer 12 Hard Core
10 May 2012 | 12:27 pmLast week @JustEdelstein took on the rapid reaction to the Salesforce.com Summer 12 release notes, this week I will take a bite out of the core and play some fan service to the core features. Reparenting Child Records We could call this one the “adoption” as the long awaited feature hits us in Summer 12. As all Salesforce.com Administrators know, before now if you had child record in a master-detail relationship, that record could not be moved over to another parent, it has to be deleted and recreated. With Summer 12 a new “Allow Reparenting” checkbox on a master-detail relationship… -
Summer 12 Jam - Episode #89 of CloudFocus Weekly
4 May 2012 | 3:32 pmDirect Download (Time: 40:38 - 20 MB) CloudFocus RSS Feed Subscribe via iTunes CloudFocus App Pick of the Week Couch to 5K by C25K from Justin LinkedIn for iOS by LinkedIn from Jason Follow Us twitter.com/ArkusInc facebook.com/ArkusInc -
Salesforce Summer 12 Release Notes Rapid Reaction
3 May 2012 | 7:25 amThe Salesforce Summer 12 release seems to be the release where we will start to see some of the features that we saw demonstrated for us on the Dreamforce 2011 stage during the keynote. It seems like so long ago that we first saw features like Salesforce Touch and Chatter Messenger on stage to oohs and ahs. With Summer 12 we get to enjoy some of these features for the first time in our very own Salesforce orgs. This release also seems like it is going to be the start of removing support for Internet Explorer 7. Let’s take a look at some of my favorite features coming in the Summer 12… -
Salesforce Hears a Many Who?
29 Apr 2012 | 6:12 amWho says Salesforce forgot the core? In the Spring ‘12 Pilot, Salesforce released shared activities for tasks with a plan for a full release in Summer ‘12. This has been a big ask in the Salesforce community for years and it is great to see it is finally here. We were privileged enough to be part of the pilot and have been using it for about a month. Here is a quick and dirty review. What is it Have you ever created a task or logged a call and wanted to associate it to more than one contact? Of course you have but unfortunately Salesforce only allowed you to associate one contact to a…
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The CA Cloud Storm Chasers
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Cloud Ecosystem Members Create a Win-Win-Win for Disaster Prevention
16 May 2012 | 7:38 amRedundancy is one of those necessary evils. It's necessary in the modern world for not-so-uncommon scenarios of unplanned, and often unavoidable circumstances. For example, I've been waiting for my new DSLR camera from Nikon for two years and counting. But there were tragic natural and unnatural disasters in Japan (tsunami and nuclear meltdown). Among countless bigger issues, it halted... -
Investing in Private Cloud, Top Gun, and the New CA Process Automation 4.0 Release
15 May 2012 | 9:48 amWhat do the movie Top Gun, surveys about why companies are investing in private clouds, and the new CA Process Automation 4.0 release all have in common? All three insist on the need for speed! If you have ever seen Top Gun, you will probably remember the scene where Tom Cruise's character Maverick says to his navigator, Goose, "I feel the need..." and then in unison... -
Harnessing the Power of Cloud
9 May 2012 | 4:20 pmStratITsphere simplifies cloud adoption for customers using its MSP platform. The old saying, "Too much of a good thing" comes into play when dealing with cloud computing. The flexibility the technology affords can quickly overwhelm IT organizations accustomed to physical data centers and traditional enterprise software delivery models. Think about it: resources previously kept gated... -
Are you thinking about Workload Automation strategically?
4 May 2012 | 4:21 pmIs it just me? Or has there been a lot of buzz in the workload space lately? Well, let's look at what's been happening with customers. Keeping the usual marketing data aside, I've been focusing on the ultimate indication of an emerging trend -- customer demand. We experienced increased demand in the past year with over 60 new customers signing up and more than 200 adding... -
Challenges of Cloud Automation and Adoption
3 May 2012 | 8:09 amOne of the challenges with the private cloud and cloud automation is a definition and understanding of ‘what is' a private cloud and the scope of a cloud automation solution. This creates the ‘cloud hype' challenge, where everyone claims their solution is a cloud solution, creating business indecisiveness and delaying budget dollars for cloud implementations. Cloud automation is a...
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I Am OnDemand
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Who is watching your cloud services for anything...
12 May 2012 | 10:16 amWho is watching your cloud services for anything “out-of-the-norm”? Newvem can assist and can bring together best practices through shared lessons learned. An interview by Patrick Pushor, CloudChronicle about Newvem on April 8th, 2012 Check out Newvem Cloud Community -
My View on CloudConnect 2012
22 Feb 2012 | 10:37 amLast week I attended one of the most popular cloud technology conferences in the world – CloudConnect. The CloudConnect conference started about four years ago. Attending the event gave me a clear understanding of the market maturity and evolution rhythm. Check out the following sections for the main points on what I heard and learned: > > > > > Cloud Performance The underlying infrastructure performance, round trip time, bandwidth, caching and rendering are to be counted as the major features of an online service performance. In an interesting presentation by… -
Cloud Management: What is "Cloud Management" and what areas does it cover?
13 Jan 2012 | 3:23 amCloud Management: What is “Cloud Management” and what areas does it cover? 6 answers on QuoraWhat is “Cloud Management” and what areas does it cover? -
Let's Welcome 2012
1 Jan 2012 | 8:31 amThe cloud debate vanished. I will rememeber 2011 as the cloud POC year. We all “ran” this proof of concept and most of us agree that cloud computing just makes sense. While cloud adoption is the first priority for all IT organizations, the service vendors will need to prove infrastructure improvement and strength. 2012 will be the year where cloud issues will be solved. Cloud technologies’ infrastructures will become better and the whole cloud environment will become more robust. Check the presentation below. It includes some screen-shots of the most famous outages… -
2011 Cloudiness
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KnowledgeTree blogs
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Welcome Google Drive! Let's get to business.
24 Apr 2012 | 10:42 pmWelcome Google Drive! A long time in coming, Google finally launched their file sync and backup application yesterday: Today, we’re introducing Google Drive—a place where you can create, share, collaborate, and keep all of your stuff. Whether you’re working with a friend on a joint research project, planning a wedding with your fiancé or tracking a budget with roommates, you can do it in Drive. You can upload and access all of your files, including videos, photos, Google Docs, PDFs and beyond. It’s a pretty nifty tool, and while Google appears to be pitching Drive to consumers, and… -
Out of this World Document Management
19 Apr 2012 | 8:31 amGetting work done gets complicated when working across teams. The right people must have the right information and documents. They need the most current document versions to make smart contributions. And they need an efficient way to provide feedback to you and your team. That’s more of a challenge when your teams are global in nature, as it is even more difficult to communicate and collaborate. One company, Inmarsat, has been a leader in the mobile satellite services industry for more than 32 years. They rely on document management solutions from KnowledgeTree to help create, discover, and… -
Document Management Needs Teamwork
16 Apr 2012 | 12:25 pmDocument management is a social activity. Each day you work with teams to create, discover, and manage business documents. And when you have a global team, or work with many departments, you need to collaborate efficiently. What happens if you don’t? You end up with proposals without critical team member input. You duplicate effort by re-creating documents that already existed. And you have distributed documents that haven’t been approved by the right people. In this series of blog posts we’ll see how KnowledgeTree helps teams work together for document management. Sharing Documents… -
Enterprise File Sharing: Sharing? Yes. Enterprise? Not so much.
9 Apr 2012 | 3:12 pmThe enterprise file sharing market is crowded. Every day another new entrant wants to help companies share content. Sharing helps teams, but when it comes to the enterprise it just isn’t enough. You need to get business done. Enterprise business units create complex budgets that go through numerous review cycles. They have global locations that need to find new and relevant content that make sales proposals better. And they have complex contracts that need to be vetted and approved by the right team members. So, enterprises need enterprise-class tools for managing documents. Tools that… -
Document Management with SugarCRM
30 Mar 2012 | 11:49 amYesterday we had a great webinar in partnership with SugarCRM. The session was recorded, so you can watch it at your leisure here. In the webinar we looked at how document management helps SugarCRM users to get more productive. Why Document Management and SugarCRM? Why document management via a CRM system? Customer facing teams like sales, support, and consulting deal with huge volumes of documents. They’re building proposals, statements of work, contracts, and other materials. And that means that they need to work together across teams to build great customer facing documents. The webinar…
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insideHPC
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Swimming in Sensors, Drowning in Data
16 May 2012 | 11:42 amDan Olds from Gabriel Consulting Group shares his amazement from a GTC 2012 talk by MotionDSP. Cleaning up and enhancing video is a tall order, compute-wise… But I just saw a demo of that in a GTC12 session run by MotionDSP. Their specialty is processing video streams from mobile platforms (think drones and airplanes) on the fly. We’re talking full motion, 30 frames per second video streams that are enhanced, cleaned up, and highly analyzable in real time. The amount of processing they’re doing is incredible. Lighting is enhanced, edges are enhanced, jitter is taken out, and the… -
BOXX Demos Deskside Supers using Nvidia Maximus Platform
16 May 2012 | 11:30 amThis week BOXX Technologies is demonstrating their 3DBOXX workstation computers featuring NVIDIAMaximus technology at GTC 2012. Maximus technology enables engineers to complete simulation or rendering plus visualization simultaneously on the same workstation. In the past, content creation that employed both visual design and physical simulation often resulted in these tasks occurring on different systems or at different times,” said Shoaib Mohammad, BOXX VP of Marketing and Business Development. “Our integration of NVIDIA Maximus technology enables users of Autodesk, NVIDIA iray,… -
How Computer Games Help HPC
16 May 2012 | 10:13 amIn this special guest feature, Tom Wilkie from Scientific Computing World clears his head from all the technical information gathered at yesterday’s GTC2012 keynote. The latest processor from Nvidia will lead to ‘the democratisation of computing happening in front of us,’ according to Jen-Hsun Huang, president and chief executive of the company. He unveiled the new chip, known as ‘Kepler’, to an audience of nearly 3,000 scientists and engineers at Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, California, on 15 May. It was, he said, more than three times… -
Video: The Future is Parallel, and the Future of Parallel is Declarative
16 May 2012 | 6:02 amwww.youtube.com/watch?v=hlyQjK1qjw8 In this video, Simon Peyton Jones from Microsoft Research presents: The Future is Parallel, and the Future of Parallel is Declarative. If you want to program a parallel computer, it obviously makes sense to start with a computational paradigm in which parallelism is the default (ie functional programming), rather than one in which computation is based on sequential flow of control (the imperative paradigm). And yet… functional programmers have been singing this tune since the 1980s, but do not yet rule the world. In this talk I’ll say why I… -
Video: PGI’s Michael Wolfe on OpenACC & Dynamic Parallelsim in Nvidia Kepler GPUs
15 May 2012 | 5:05 pmwww.youtube.com/watch?v=p0uw0dqXbIo In this video, Michael Wolfe from The Portland Group describes the advantages of OpenACC and new Nvidia Kepler GPU features including Dynamic Parallelism and Hyper-Q. Related posts:PGI’s Michael Wolfe on Heterogeneous ProgrammingMichael Wolfe on Optimizing Data Movement in the PGI Accelerator Programming ModelVideo: Cuda Reaches 5th Birthday, OpenACC Ramps Up
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UCILIA®: Cloud Telephony Blog
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Google patents its augmented reality Project Glass
16 May 2012 | 8:44 amSearch giant Google has patented the technology behind its augmented-reality glasses, known as Project Glass.Three patents for a "wearable display device" with characteristics of the much-talked about futuristic glasses were submitted last autumn. The patents reference such functions as displaying data in front of the wearer's eyes and playing audio. -
Postal Service offers discount for smartphone codes
15 May 2012 | 6:30 amThe Postal Service will offer a temporary postage discount for mailings that include smartphone barcodes as it seeks to stem volume losses by encouraging advertisers to send more mail.The mail agency will offer a 2 percent postage discount during July and August for letters and cards that use the two-dimensional barcodes, known as QR codes, according to a statement on Monday. -
Amazon adds billing alerts to cloud services menu
14 May 2012 | 9:15 amA raft of startups have built their businesses around tracking pay-as-you-go cloud costs for customers. Amazon, king of the cloud, has been paying attention.The company just added alerting capabilities that will flag unexpectedly heavy usage of Amazon Web Services. For customers that enable them, that could mean avoiding unpleasant surprises when the bill comes due. -
Text4Baby mobile service gives new moms health updates
11 May 2012 | 9:14 amWhat every mother wants for Mother’s Day: healthy children. A free mobile service called Text4Baby sends breaking health information to new and expecting mothers.Participants in the program receive between one and three text messages each week informing them of health alerts or offering advice for breastfeeding, labor or other prenatal issues. The alerts also provide reminders for thing such as taking prenatal vitamins and scheduling check-ups. -
EU cuts the cost of Europe calls
10 May 2012 | 9:31 amRegulations to make using a mobile phone abroad significantly cheaper have been passed by the European Parliament.The plans, which were voted in by a huge majority, include imposing a price cap on operators. From July, using mobile data in Europe will not cost more than 70 cents (56p) per megabyte - far less than current rates.
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Managed Data Center News
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Benefits of Outsourcing HIPAA Hosting
16 May 2012 | 8:17 amOur HIPAA hosting and HIPAA compliant data center white paper provides a description of a HIPAA compliant data center IT architecture, contractual requirements, benefits and risks of data center outsourcing, and vendor selection criteria. Here’s an excerpt from section 4.1. on the benefits of outsourcing HIPAA hosting: Save on Costs Why would a covered entity with sensitive data outsource their hosting solution to a third-party? A HIPAA compliant hosting provider that has already passed an independent HIPAA audit can save time and money by eliminating the need to audit your… -
Keep ePHI on Secure Networks, Not Mobile Devices, Recommends OCR
15 May 2012 | 9:36 am2012 Healthcare Data Breach Update Of the 425 reported breach events to the OCR (Office of Civil Rights), two-thirds of all large breach cases involved loss or theft of information and more than half of these large breaches involved electronic devices. While a BAA (business associate agreement) can help a healthcare organization maintain control and insight into privacy and security practices involved with handling their ePHI (electronic protected health information), risks of storing and transporting ePHI are also of concern, as exemplified by the reported 5 million individuals affected by a… -
Liveblogging from Online Tech’s Spring into IT Seminar!
11 May 2012 | 7:29 amI’m liveblogging from Online Tech’s Ann Arbor data center – our Spring into IT seminar is underway! The first presentation of the day is You Are Vulnerable: How Not to be a Data Breach Statistic by Adam Goslin of High-Bit Security, at 8:30 A.M. There’s still time to join us for other sessions this morning until 1 P.M. For the full schedule with times, speakers and location, check out Spring into IT. Stay tuned for live coverage of the presentations! 8:30 A.M. – You Are Vulnerable: How Not to be a Data Breach Statistic Speaker: Adam Goslin There’s been an… -
Healthcare Organizations: Seeking a Cloud Provider? BAAs Required
10 May 2012 | 8:15 amIf you use a cloud service, it should be your business associate. If they refuse to sign a business associate agreement, don’t use the cloud service. - David S. Holtzman of the Health Information Privacy Division of OCR during a speech at the Health Care Compliance Association’s 16th Annual Compliance Institute. The OCR, Office of Civil Rights, is the federal enforcer of HIPAA/HITECH. This definitive statement straight from the governing body puts to rest the question about whether or not cloud providers should be considered business associates for covered entities in the… -
Mobile Security: Trying to Keep Up
8 May 2012 | 3:50 pmMobile Security There’s no question that our society is embracing the technology that is in front of us. You can go back almost 25 years and in 5 year gaps, see the massive innovation and technological impact that our society is seeing on an everyday basis. In the US today, more than 50% of cell phone purchases are now smartphones, up from 21% two years ago. With this massive increase in mobile computing, security has become the focal point. However, it has seemed that security is always on the tail end of the explosion in the mobile computing sphere. This past January, a story broke out…
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Online Database Application Platform Blog
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WOLF Weekly Cloud Sum-up, May 11, 2012
11 May 2012 | 1:54 amThe cloud-computing industry is fast maturing and growing. There is news every day of radical advances in IT delivery through the cloud. Every industry goes through phases and growth pains until they reach maturation. Here are six phases currently in progress in the maturity of the cloud-computing industry. There are 6 Signs of a maturing Cloud Computing industry to look out for: The Appearance of Niches Transformation of Traditional Models The Death of Traditional Models Commoditization Begins Players Multiply Like Rabbits The Bottom Falls Out Source:… -
WOLF Weekly Cloud Sum-up, May 04, 2012
4 May 2012 | 8:44 amA big selling point for cloud computing is what's become known as cloud bursting. What this means is the ability to move spikes in demand for computing resources into the cloud, rather than having to build infrastructure to cope with peak loads. You only pay for what you need, in other words. It's a bit like having an alternative supplier for commuter trains in the rush hour although -- if the analogy will stretch this far -- having to go to an alternative station to catch one. This of course lies at the heart of the promise of cloud computing: enabling the agile enterprise, bringing… -
WOLF Weekly Cloud Sum-up, Apr 27, 2012
27 Apr 2012 | 7:19 amGreenpeace activists are nothing if not determined. If the cause calls for it, they'll break out the rappelling gear and get down to action—as they did last Thursday at Amazon's headquarters in South Lake Union, hoisting an 800-square-foot cloud-shaped banner to protest the dirty energy that Greenpeace says Amazon and Microsoft use to power their cloud-computing services. The banner read: "Amazon, Microsoft: How Clean Is Your Cloud?" Cloud computing means using a network of remote servers hosted on the Internet to store, manage, and process data. Every time you upload a picture, song,… -
WOLF Weekly Cloud Sum-up, Apr 20, 2012
20 Apr 2012 | 5:39 amWith many businesses venturing into the relatively young world of cloud computing, the question has arisen: “Could cloud computing be a viable way to save significant money on energy costs?” The answer to this question, as addressed by CDW’s fourth annual Energy Efficient IT Report, seems to be a tentative yet hopeful, “Well, it certainly could be.” The report, which drew from the results of a 760-person survey, in various positions in non-profit, corporate, school, and government sectors, relayed that 62 percent of those asked thought that cloud computing was indeed an… -
WOLF Weekly Cloud Sum-up, Apr 13, 2012
13 Apr 2012 | 6:55 amIn November of 2011, Andrew McAfee published an article in the Harvard Business Review: What Every CEO Needs to Know about the Cloud. McAfee is Principal Research Scientist and Associate Director of the MIT Center for Digital Business. He writes that cloud computing is “. . . a sea change – a deep and permanent shift in how computing power is generated and consumed. It’s as inevitable and irreversible as the shift from steam to electric power in manufacturing, which was gaining momentum in America about a century ago.” But, after discussing a number of its benefits to…
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CIO's Guide to Cloud Computing and On-Demand | Appirio
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Cloud Security and Availability: Better or Worse?
14 May 2012 | 1:20 pmBalakrishna Narasimhan (@bnara75) A few days ago, Cisco released the results of a survey with 1,300 IT decision-makers and influencers from across the world. In summary, Cisco found that cloud adoption is being driven from executive levels but IT decision-makers continue to be held back by concerns around visibility, security, availability and performance. This picture stands in stark contrast to what we observe among our customers and prospects who are focused on driving business results using cloud solutions. The explanation lies in the difference between how people perceive cloud… -
Maintaining Your IT Fitness Level
11 May 2012 | 5:21 pmGlenn Weinstein CIO, Appirio @glennweinstein What’s the best single measure of IT success - increased productivity, or reduced spend? Two colleagues staked out opposite positions on this blog recently. As CIO at Appirio, naturally, my instinct is to cop out and say “both are important.” But let me be more specific. Let’s think of IT as an athlete on our corporate team. We want lean, well-conditioned athletes at all positions. Getting a team ready to play means getting everyone in shape. The first step might be to set a goal weight. This goal will be different depending on the type of… -
What is the #1 Metric for IT Success: Business Impact, Cost Savings or Something Else?
8 May 2012 | 10:30 amBy Nara Balakrishna(@bnara75) and Steve Pruden (@stpruden) Michael Krigsman’s recent post estimating the worldwide cost of IT failure at $3T sparked an internal debate about technology investments and how to measure IT success. In the traditional view of IT as a cost center, success is measured in primarily in terms of IT cost as a percent of revenue. IT leaders are applauded when they can deliver projects under budget, on time, and keep the overall cost low as a percent of revenue. But, is this actually good for the business? The cost-center view of IT has been challenged recently by the… -
The CIO of the Future: Conductor not Controller
5 Apr 2012 | 8:00 amBalakrishna Narasimhan (@bnara75) and Naoki Tsukamoto (@nikes63) How will the cloud change the future of the CIO? At Appirio, we have the privilege of working with innovative CIOs who are shaping their own companies as well as the industry as a whole. Experiences with these early “cloud first” CIOs provides us insight into how the role of the CIO will evolve in the future. The pace of change in the IT industry is as rapid as ever and has only accelerated over the past few years. We’re now in the midst of a significant transformation of enterprise technology driven by cloud… -
The Vision of Next Generation IT: Learning from Facebook
23 Mar 2012 | 10:00 amSara Campbell It’s a well-known story and global obsession--the startup founded in a Harvard University dorm room that quickly grew to become the world’s largest social networking site. The popularity, growth and momentum of Facebook’s business are unparalleled and so are the IT practices that enable more than 850 million active users to harness the power and unprecedented collaboration of Facebook. Having worked with Facebook since early 2010, Appirio has had the pleasure of partnering with Facebook to reimagine what is possible with technology. Recently, we had the opportunity to sit…
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blog.opennebula.org
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Why Use OpenNebula on Your Existing VMware Infrastructure?
14 May 2012 | 3:44 amVMware hypervisors of the ESX family (3.x, 4.x and 5.0) are fully, out-of-the box supported by the latest versions of OpenNebula(3.0+). If you have a server farm based on any of the ESX versions, then you can make use of OpenNebula to better manage your physical (and virtual) resources in order to build a private cloud and provide virtualized environments. OpenNebula is the most powerful open-source alternative to VMware datacenter and cloud suite, delivering enterprise-class functionality, stability and scalability with broader platform support and integration capabilities. So, what can you… -
Appliances Available for Download… While We Wait for the ONE Marketplace
11 May 2012 | 9:14 amThe OpenNebula project is in the process of creating a new Marketplace component. Users will be able to use this Marketplace to download Virtual Machine Images that will boot directly with OpenNebula. In the meantime we have uploaded a few images available for download to give users an idea of what’s about to come: http://appliances.c12g.com Enjoy! -
OpenNebula Attending OSBC 2012 in San Francisco
10 May 2012 | 6:56 amMembers of the OpenNebula team will participate in the Open Source Business Conference 2012 to be held in San Francisco the 21 and 22 of May, 2012. During the week, they will also participate in several meetings in the Bay Area and give some invited talks at various organizations, like NASA Ames. Do not hesitate to contact us if you are interested in having a meeting there! -
Screencast – Bootstrapping OpenNebula 3.4 and Creating a VM from Scratch
10 May 2012 | 3:43 amWe have published a new screencast featuring OpenNebula 3.4. The screencast starts with a pristine installation of OpenNebula 3.4 and creates a new VM from scratch by implementing the following steps using OpenNebula’s Sunstone: Bootstrapping the Virtual Infrastructure Creating a host Creating a datastore Creating a network and a user Creating a Virtual Machine from scratch Registering a CD Registering an empty image Creating an installation template Installing Deploying the VM Test-driving the VM The most relevant pages of the documentation one should refer to after watching the… -
C12G Labs Announces the Release of OpenNebula Pro 3.4
9 May 2012 | 9:40 amC12G Labs has just announced an update release of OpenNebulaPro, the enterprise edition of OpenNebula. OpenNebula 3.4, released one month ago, features enhancements in several cloud subsystems, like support for multiple datastores, resource pools, elastic IPs in the Amazon API, improved web GUIs, and better support for hybrid clouds with Amazon EC2. Some of these improvements were contributed by several members of the OpenNebula community, such as Research in Motion, Logica, Terradue 2.0, CloudWeavers, Clemson University, and Vilnius University. OpenNebulaPro is used by corporations,…
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3 May 2012 | 9:05 am
3 May 2012 | 9:05 amFor our Orlando office in Florida we have the following job openings. If you are interested in working at our Dutch office, please visit the Dutch version of our website. -
Is somebody illegally tapping our power?
20 Apr 2012 | 5:00 amRecently, we found out that our current supplier Eneco offers an online customer portal which shows us statistics about our energy and gas consumption. Besides that it allows us to be better aware of how much energy we use, it is kind of cool to be able to see graphs about your energy consumption. As we were browsing through our weekly energy consumption, we were quite shocked when we noticed that, according to the graphs, last week we consumed 95% more energy compared to the weeks before. Obviously, we started to wonder what could be the reason for this sudden increase. But there wasn’t… -
How to secure WordPress thoroughly
28 Mar 2012 | 10:00 amUntil recently websites were maintained by webmasters, out of sheer necessity. Managing the content and keeping the website up to date was a full time job. Nowadays, the content management system behind the average website is so user-friendly, anyone can manage a website. This ease of use however brings with it a lot of problems. Problems for both the responsible IT department and provider hosting the website. Many companies are using the popular WordPress content management system. This open source package is actively developed and maintained. That is one of the reasons why it is very… -
Recap of 2011
22 Mar 2012 | 3:00 amA few months into 2012 now, we take a moment to look back at 2011 to see what we’ve achieved and what lies ahead of us. Until now, 2010 was the best year in our 13 years of existence, with the highest revenue ever. With careful planning and a solid strategy we have been profitable in every year, 2010 being the most exceptional. The success was partly due to a couple of one time occurrences we did back then (18% of that fiscal years’ revenue, which normally would be 5% or less). For 2011 we have achieved a 2 digit percentage increase of revenue growth again. With only 3% of the gross… -
Dutch Emissions Authority chooses Jitscale
21 Feb 2012 | 2:32 amJitscale has won over another Dutch government institution: the Dutch Emissions Authority (NEa), an emission reduction banking agency of the Ministry of Environment & Infrastructure. The NEa has opted for the benefits of a cloud based infrastructure to set up a new system for the automation of internal NEa processes. Jitscale has the expertise required for the set-up and in particular the daily technical management of this business-critical IT platform. The Emissions Authority wants to ensure that the new system runs in conformity with European rules for data storage. This means that the…
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CloudTweaks.com - Cloud Computing Community
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Accounting Software As Software-As-A-Service: Advantages And Disadvantages
16 May 2012 | 9:14 amAccounting Software As Software-As-A-Service In the mid-80s, accounting software became very popular with midmarket companies. Personalized accounting became an indispensable tool for businesses as personal computers became cheaper. Users took advantage of computer technology because financial report preparation was easier with the help of accounting software. Automated accounting also began to attract users who had [...] -
The Top Five Threats To Cloud Computing
16 May 2012 | 5:55 amThe Top Five Threats To Cloud Computing With hundreds of enterprises migrating to cloud services every day, it looks like the march to cloud everything is inevitable and unstoppable. However, cloud computing is not without its risks, and in this post, I will cover the top five issues that pose a threat to increased cloud [...] -
Taiwan’s Cloud Trinity – Medicine, Tourism And Culture Innovation
16 May 2012 | 5:09 amTaiwan’s Cloud Trinity – Medicine, Tourism and Culture Innovation Over the last year, Taiwan has become synonymous with cloud computing development. From government support (See: Cloud Computing: Taiwan’s Next Trillion Dollar Industry) to international acclaim (See: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon in the Taiwanese Clouds), everyone seems to repose faith in the Taiwanese cloud. Now, the [...] -
The Delphix Agile Data Management Platform – New Database Virtualization Solution
15 May 2012 | 10:41 amThe Delphix Agile Data Management Platform Nearly every business process in the modern enterprise is powered by database driven applications. As result, maximizing the agility and availability of application environments while minimizing associated costs has become a top priority for CIOs across the globe. A few weeks ago I wrote a blog article about The [...] -
Be A Cloud Executive Officer
15 May 2012 | 10:10 amBe a Cloud Executive Officer Chief executive officers of the 2010s ignore the cloud at their peril. As we at CloudTweaks know better than most, cloud computing has become an indelible centerpiece of the national conversation on all things technology. Few developments since the arrival of the Internet have ignited such discourse or stood to [...]
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Techno-Pulse
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Cloud Multi-tenancy – An Introduction for Beginners
7 May 2012 | 6:33 amThe term Multi-tenancy has gotten significant attention after the rise of cloud computing in the global market. Most of the time, the term is misused when describing cloud computing. I imagine it is as confusing as the term cloud computing was a year back! A few of us may relate multi-tenancy with a database or application architecture, while others think it has something to do with virtualization. Both views are correct, depending on the context. Currently I am leading a team of developers about to start working on an educational institute management application for a group of institutes. -
“Build Innovative Voice Apps/Services on KooKoo, Cloud PaaS” - Ozonetel Founder-CEO Mr. Chintalapati
20 Jan 2012 | 1:58 amMr. Murthy Chintalapati is the Founder and CEO of Hyderabad based Ozonetel Systems - a pioneer of Cloud Telephony technology in India. Murthy Chintalapati, a serial technology entrepreneur is recognized by many Silicon Valley technopreneurs as someone who identifies industry pain points and builds successful business ventures that address the market need. Murthy started his first venture Intoto, in 1997 in SanJose, California. With talk of double-dip recession looming ahead for major global economies, how relevant is the talk of Cloud Computing implementation in India specifically for… -
Cloud Cartoons, Humor - The State of Cloud Computing in 2011
17 Jan 2012 | 2:54 amA picture is worth a thousand words – cartoons worth even more :-) Here’s my first attempt at creating Cloud Computing Cartoons - the year that went by...The common man was still searching – may be confused due to information overload.Top Global IT players were racing ahead with their Cloud Services. There was an exception too – cloud strategy went in wrong direction. The competition claimed: The cloud is not a box.Training Institutes jumped to cash in on the cloud buzz – promising almost anything to anyone. Cloud Data Privacy and Security issues. Govt. around the… -
Cloud Based SaaS Help Desk – Freshdesk Founder and CEO Girish Speaks
6 Jan 2012 | 11:13 amMr. Girish Mathrubootham is the Founder and CEO of Freshdesk, a Cloud based SaaS Help Desk company based in Chennai, India. Prior to Freshdesk, Girish was Vice-President of Product Management at ZOHO Corporation. Very passionate about customer service, usability and making products that give the biggest bang for the buck, Girish has easily been the Product Manager with the happiest set of customers. With talk of double-dip recession looming ahead for major global economies, how relevant is the talk of Cloud Computing implementation in India specifically for SMBs/SMEs? If you look at the US… -
The State of Cloud Computing – A Message to the Government of India
3 Nov 2011 | 5:48 amDespite a forward looking IT policy, unlike the US (and to some extent the UK and Australia), India is still in a wait-and-see mode when it comes to cloud computing based IT strategies. The National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) represents the government of India striving to reach the common man through Information Technology (IT). Under NeGP, the State Data Center (SDC) envisions a countrywide infrastructure reaching every state. But when and how will this vision be implemented? Of late, we have heard of a few tactical moves from the government, for instance: Government of India to provide…
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Journey to the Cloud
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Office 2010 Has More Than You Think
15 May 2012 | 8:04 amMicrosoft’s Office 2010 has been out for a couple of years now, but how many people actually know about it and its full capabilities? It’s like those people who are just discovering Ben and Jerry’s Chubby Hubby. I mean peanut butter inside of a pretzel inside of a pint of ice cream, is that even possible? I guess so because we landed on the moon. Well Microsoft Office 2010 has been around for some time as well and I bet a lot of people are still using older versions of Office mainly because, hey it works. Sometimes Microsoft’s biggest competitor is itself, but in this case Office 2010… -
Changing World of End User Devices
9 May 2012 | 7:27 amLet me start out by saying that I am not an Apple fan boy. I am not a Microsoft zealot or a Linux aficionado. I use them all daily; it is all about usability to me. I wanted to talk about the shift I have seen in technology that we use in business every day. This transformation has been just as large and disruptive as virtualization. 10 years ago, the end user hardware and software was set and had very little diversity or customization. It was Win/Tel (Windows running on Intel processors) all the way with Microsoft Office. There was very little or no working from home, and you had to be in… -
Automation and Orchestration: Why What You Think You’re Doing is Less Than Half of What You’re Really Doing
7 May 2012 | 10:30 amOne of the main requirements of the cloud is that most—if not all—of the commodity IT activities in your data center need to be automated (i.e. translated into a workflow) and then those singular workflows strung together (i.e. orchestrated) into a value chain of events that delivers a business benefit. An example of the orchestration of a series of commodity IT activities is the commissioning of a new composite application (an affinitive collection of assets—virtual machines—that represent web, application and database servers as well as the OSes and software stacks and other… -
Guest Post: Cloud Management
2 May 2012 | 9:55 amBy Rick Blaisdell; CTO ConnectEDU Cloud computing has definitely revolutionised the IT industry and transformed the way in which IT Services are delivered. But finding the best way for an organization to perform common management tasks using remote services on the Internet is not that easy. Cloud management incorporates the task of providing, managing, and monitoring applications into cloud infrastructures that do not require end-user knowledge of the physical location or of the system that delivers the services. Monitoring cloud computing applications and activity into requires cloud… -
Virtual Appliances and the Networking Team
27 Apr 2012 | 10:15 amOver the last few years there has been a lot of progress made towards virtualizing a decent amount of the traditional, network-centric appliances that used to be just hardware based. Why are some companies still resistant to this software-based approach? Is it because that’s the way it has always been, or is it inherent to the networking geeks who may be less virtualization-savvy than some of their cohorts in the other technology silos? It reminds me of the days when VoIP was first being introduced and the subsequent lack of acceptance that some of the old-school, traditional telephony…
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Transforming IT Operations
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Zenny’s Cloud Links #56 – Citrix Synergy, Open Source Clouds, Big Data
11 May 2012 | 10:13 amEvery Friday we like to highlight some of our favorite posts on IT Operations, Cloud Computing, DevOps, Virtualization and anything else that grabbed our attention over the week. Here are some great articles from the week of May 7th that are worth taking a look at. Enjoy and have a fantastic weekend! Study: Cloud Computing Cuts $5.5 Billion Annually from Federal Budget by Patrick Burke The federal government saved nearly $5.5 billion a year by moving to cloud services. But it might have saved up to $12 billion if cloud strategies were more aggressive, a survey of federal IT… -
Lessons from Citrix Synergy: OpenStack vs. CloudStack
11 May 2012 | 10:08 amThis past week, I had the privilege of attending Citrix Synergy 2012 in San Francisco, California. My intent was to explore Citrix’s strategy of mobile and cloud-based solutions while presenting the case for cloud monitoring at CloudStack’s Build a Cloud Day. This was my first Synergy, and while I had relatively low expectations, I was excited by Citrix’s vision, solutions, and roadmap. Synergy cleared-up one of my biggest questions for CloudStack; what is the commercial strategy? Mark Templeton, Citrix CEO, wasted no time in Wednesday’s keynote to announce Citrix CloudPlatform… -
Clear Skys with Open Clouds: Enhancing Monitoring for Citrix CloudStack
9 May 2012 | 3:36 pmZenoss is at Citrix Synergy this week in San Francisco. In conjunction with our presence at the event and session during the Build a Cloud Workshop, we’re happy to announce an update to our CloudStack monitoring ZenPack. Available immediately on GitHub as part of our Open Source ZenPack portfolio, these enhancements will extend monitoring and correlation capabilities to VMs running on CloudStack for a more unified view of the CloudStack infrastructure. More specifically, the new CloudStack ZenPack now monitors a broader range of VM’s, including router VMs, secondary… -
The Inevitable IT Operations Data Warehouse
7 May 2012 | 11:08 amHaving recently perused a few trade shows and viewed lots of industry resources, there’s a lot of discussion around analytics. Looking at some IT Operations system demos, there are quite a few slick interfaces with some eye-popping reports. Really, it would seem from viewing these that an IT Ops professional could produce advanced reports for just about anything they’d need. Yet many of these systems store all of this data, and do all of the transformations and queries, without a separate data warehouse? So, why would anyone require a data warehouse, for IT Operations? IT Operations has… -
Zenny’s Cloud Links #55 – DevOps Culture, IaaS, OpenShift, SugarCRM
4 May 2012 | 1:35 pmEvery Friday we like to highlight some of our favorite posts on IT Operations, Cloud Computing, DevOps, Virtualization and anything else that grabbed our attention over the week. Here are some great articles from the week of April 30th that are worth taking a look at. Enjoy and have a fantastic weekend! Cloud & the evolution of the enterprise architect by James Urquhart Enterprise architects have been a staple of corporate IT departments for well over a decade now, starting in earnest with the advent of service-oriented architecture and corporate data modeling. The need for enterprise…
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Qcadoo tech blog
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Tip: Effectively stubbing with Mockito
24 Apr 2012 | 7:38 amIf you have to stub mock method which should just return passed argument you probably stubbing interaction for each of them: BDDMockito.given(mock.someMethod(argMock)).willReturn(argMock); BDDMockito.given(mock.someMethod(anotherArgMock)).willReturn(anotherArgMock); ... BDDMockito.given(mock.someMethod(yetAnotherArg)).willReturn(yetAnotherArg); What to do if you have a lot of objects to be passed into someMethod(..) and you do not want to stub every possible invocations? The answer is the Answer, Mockito’s Answer! Answers specifies an action that is executed and a return value that is… -
Many-to-many relationships in qcadoo Framework
29 Feb 2012 | 3:03 amWe present a new type of field which provides a simpler way to create “many to many” relationships. qcadoo Framework takes fully care of managing join entities, so you can focus on the goal, not the implementation. First look at the conventional way to understand why we introduced this new feature: Conventional old way: Until recently to obtain bidirectional „many to many” relationship you had to: Create an additional, “join entity” model in XML, with two fields of type belongsTo – pointers to each of the 2 entities that we want to bind. In both of them we… -
3 open source conferences in one month
3 Jan 2012 | 6:49 amAs always we ware near you as we attended three open source conferences at the end of the year 2011: Open Radar, P.I.W.O and the second conference of the FWiOO foundations spinacz.edu.pl project. First at the beginning of the month we ware in Szczecin on the Open Radar conference organised by ITC Promorze Zachodznie and Szluug.org. I (Adam Walczak) gave two lectures there: one about my book on organisational structures and business models found in open source projects and the second one about the qcadoo project. Both ware in english and are available on our youtube channel. -
Our seminar from Linux Autumn 2011
20 Oct 2011 | 7:54 amSeminars from Linux Autumn 2001 hit the net last week. We participated in this event along with other members of the polish open source community. The prime start of the conference was Wietse Venema the author of Postfix. We talked with people from the Allegro Group and Samsung on how they use and develop open software. There ware also many individuals active in the polish community like: Marek Strassenburg-Kleciak – OpenStreatMap activist Kamil Porembiński – OSWorld.pl owner Robert Partyk – Creative Commons book publisher Qcadoo Limited sponsored 40 copies of my book on… -
Notes from the first Polish free and open software foundation conference
10 Oct 2011 | 8:36 amTwo weeks ago (27.09.2011) you could find us on the first conference organized by the Polish free and open software conference foundation FWiOO. The topic of this conference was: The role of innovative open source projects in the Polish economy There are many photos and videos from it which you might find quite interesting. Two of the most interesting lectures ware given by our Polish Vice Prime Minister Waldemar Pawlak and the CEO of the Free Software Foundation Europe, Karsten Gerloff Of course people from qcadoo could not miss such an event as we are one of the biggest open source business…
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Virtualization.net
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Dell’s New 12th Gen PowerEdge Servers Extend Performance and Efficiency
15 May 2012 | 2:58 pmDell announced additions to the PowerEdge portfolio with new blade, rack and tower servers designed to deliver value and performance in demanding enterprise and mainstream environments. The new blade... -
Lenovo Offers New ThinkServers for Cloud and Virtualization Deployments
15 May 2012 | 11:43 amLenovo announced two new additions to the ThinkServer family—the ThinkServer RD530 and RD630 rack servers. Designed to easily integrate into existing IT infrastructures that handle complex workloads,... -
Global Virtualization Security Management Solutions Market 2011-2015 Report
15 May 2012 | 10:54 amResearch and Markets has announced the addition of the "Global Virtualization Security Management Solutions Market 2011-2015" report to their offering. TechNavio's analysts forecast the Global... -
ScaleXtreme CloudStack Integration Verified as Citrix Ready
15 May 2012 | 10:18 amScaleXtreme, the leading provider of cloud and server management products, today announced that its Xpress, Xpert and Xtreme products are verified as Citrix Ready® for use with CloudStack. Any cloud... -
Citrix Unveils Mobile Enterprise Strategy at Citrix Synergy
15 May 2012 | 9:49 amCitrix Synergy™, the conference where mobile workstyles and cloud services meet, Citrix unveiled the next phase of its strategy to enable the mobile enterprise. With the advent of the Cloud Era, an...
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CloudTweaks.com - Cloud Computing Community
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Accounting Software As Software-As-A-Service: Advantages And Disadvantages
16 May 2012 | 9:14 amAccounting Software As Software-As-A-Service In the mid-80s, accounting software became very popular with midmarket companies. Personalized accounting became an indispensable tool for businesses as personal computers became cheaper. Users took advantage of computer technology because financial report preparation was easier with the help of accounting software. Automated accounting also began to attract users who had [...] -
The Top Five Threats To Cloud Computing
16 May 2012 | 5:55 amThe Top Five Threats To Cloud Computing With hundreds of enterprises migrating to cloud services every day, it looks like the march to cloud everything is inevitable and unstoppable. However, cloud computing is not without its risks, and in this post, I will cover the top five issues that pose a threat to increased cloud [...] -
Taiwan’s Cloud Trinity – Medicine, Tourism And Culture Innovation
16 May 2012 | 5:09 amTaiwan’s Cloud Trinity – Medicine, Tourism and Culture Innovation Over the last year, Taiwan has become synonymous with cloud computing development. From government support (See: Cloud Computing: Taiwan’s Next Trillion Dollar Industry) to international acclaim (See: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon in the Taiwanese Clouds), everyone seems to repose faith in the Taiwanese cloud. Now, the [...] -
The Delphix Agile Data Management Platform – New Database Virtualization Solution
15 May 2012 | 10:41 amThe Delphix Agile Data Management Platform Nearly every business process in the modern enterprise is powered by database driven applications. As result, maximizing the agility and availability of application environments while minimizing associated costs has become a top priority for CIOs across the globe. A few weeks ago I wrote a blog article about The [...] -
Be A Cloud Executive Officer
15 May 2012 | 10:10 amBe a Cloud Executive Officer Chief executive officers of the 2010s ignore the cloud at their peril. As we at CloudTweaks know better than most, cloud computing has become an indelible centerpiece of the national conversation on all things technology. Few developments since the arrival of the Internet have ignited such discourse or stood to [...]
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Data Centers Blog by ESDS
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IT Needs To Change Security Policies
8 May 2012 | 1:03 amIT managers and information security will be unable to directly control or adequately protect company data in the coming years. The confluence of cloud computing solutions, mobile technologies and the consumerization of IT is driving major changes in how corporate data is accessed, used and shared. Instead of trying to fight with this movement and change data management, companies should seek an adjustment to the new scenario in a safe and practical advice to executives. We need to rethink how to protect the company. We have to stop saying ‘no‘ and try to form a partnership with… -
How Much Bandwidth Does My Website Use ?
23 Apr 2012 | 2:25 amIn 2012 the bandwidth used worldwide is worth growing, because users who access the Web are growing in number and data center service providers, as well as ISPs providing connections to homes and businesses are faced with an ever increasing demand for bandwidth output from their servers. The bandwidth, which we will cover in this article as a monthly traffic, is surely one of the parameters of interest when one talks of a webhosting solution. Whether it’s a shared hosting solution or a dedicated server, your ISP gives value to bandwidth, which indicates the speed at which our website… -
Cloud Computing Is Just A Suggestive Term?
16 Apr 2012 | 6:48 amThe information technology sector has undergone numerous changes over the past 15 years. Computational systems that occupied large rooms within companies today have laptops and we can do almost anything with a good mobile phone. Even the fax machine, which emerged in the meantime, it is barely remembered by those attending the university. Everything moved very quickly and for the better. Nowadays, everyone is more poetic, or perhaps smarter. So much so that the term “green IT” took time, though actually it suggests, to some extent, the benefits of responsible and rational use of… -
The Advantages Of A Public Cloud Computing
12 Apr 2012 | 5:36 amI’ve been following cloud computing for some time and every day I see that it is accelerating the ripening process and trying to understand its concept and technologies. Today it is clear that, in its various forms, cloud computing has the potential to significantly change the way IT operates, and manages and allocates its budget, and pays for its use by users. Of course it is a change that does not happen abruptly, but gradually. Public clouds, for example, while still generating fears of security and privacy, which are in my opinion, largely unfounded, no doubt put pressure on the… -
Exploring The OpenDNS
7 Apr 2012 | 2:58 amThe OpenDNS service is a public DNS, one of the best known, offering a great performance, and is open to all – hence the “Open” is there in the name. We often hear that the DNS system is the largest database in the world. In some ways, it really is, but there is a fundamental difference between the DNS system and a traditional database (MySQL as a server used by a dedicated server, for example), which is that the DNS is a distributed database . With OpenDNS, you simply rely on a fast alternative, safe, and free of redundant DNS servers. The service has a huge cache, operates…
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Pixar Studio Stories – The Movie Vanishes
15 May 2012 | 10:38 pmYou think that a company like Pixar would have their backup and recovery systems checked and double checked considering how much time and energy goes into making one of their great movies. Turns out that even Pixar has had problems with backups and recovery. Read about this recently on The Verge and wanted to share it here as well in case you have not seen this video yet. This is a great reminder to check that your backups are working correctly and that you can recover your data. Not to mention how important it is to have an offsite backup. Back in 1999 when Toy Story 2 was made this was a… -
Backblaze Offer Code May 2012
4 May 2012 | 12:49 amI have talked about the Backblaze locate my computer feature before but this month Backblaze is highlighting the feature and offering a sweet 10% offer code to go along with it. Backblaze is not the only service that has helped to recover stolen computers, there have been stories from Mozy in the past. Recently MyPCBackup also started offering a similar feature, although it did not work for me when I tried it. Backblaze has had a pretty good success at having their feature work. Before they actually launched the feature the Backblaze service made some headlines by helping Mark Bao recover his… -
A Week with Google Drive
1 May 2012 | 12:19 pmGoogle Drive has been out officially for a week now and I thought I would share a video I took of me installing it on my test Windows XP machine and a few of my opinions on the service so far. First the video. Nothing to difficult here to install it. Simply go to drive.google.com and if you are logged into Google you should be able to download it and install it. If not you will have to login. Pretty straight forward. Check out the video and you can see how easy it is to use it. Some of my opinions on Google Drive since using it for a week. First, you need to remember that Google Drive is… -
Google Drive is Here!
24 Apr 2012 | 12:17 pmWell it is official Google Drive has launched. You can read more about it on the official Google blog or if you just want to get started check out drive.google.com. I am still getting started testing the service but a few things I can tell you already. Google Apps users are out of luck at the start. I tried logging in with the Google App account that I use here and was told Google Drive is not available for it yet. Not surprised, Google often makes Apps users wait. Storage pricing has now been confirmed and it is an increase from what Google Storage used to be. You can get a 25GB account for… -
Google Drive Video on YouTube!
24 Apr 2012 | 11:32 amThere is now a Google Drive video available on Youtube. I have embedded it below for you to check out. Not many details in the video but we should know more soon. Exploring Google Drive Similar Posts: A Week with Google Drive Google Drive is Here! Google Drive Near Launch!? Google Drive 5GB Free? Memopal Promotional Code © Online Backup Deals - visit Online Backup Deals for more infomation on online backup.
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Cloud Commons: This Week in Cloud
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This Week in Cloud, May 10, 2012: Facebook Open Compute momentum, Can Google Apps unseat MSFT Office? Challenges of cloud automation. And more…
10 May 2012 | 6:58 amWatch CloudViews Unplugged Watch the latest edition of CloudViews Unplugged – a monthly video blog analyzing the top cloud news stories. Cloud News Can Google Apps unseat Microsoft Office and Exchange? This CIO article shares insight from the CIO of New England Biolabs, which recently conducted proof-of-concept testing with Google Apps for Business. While New England Biolabs decided to stick with its Outlook/Exchange Server set-up and plans to transition to a hybrid solution that adds the cloud-based Microsoft Office 365, the article also highlights why organizations should consider Google… -
This Week in Cloud, May 3, 2012: Government saves $5.5b from cloud, Cloud storage wars, VMWare code leak. And more…
3 May 2012 | 8:18 amWatch CloudViews Unplugged Watch the latest edition of CloudViews Unplugged – a monthly video blog analyzing the top cloud news stories. Cloud News A recent study revealed that the government is saving around $5.5 billion a year since the shift to cloud, according to this CRN article. The study was created from interviews with 108 federal IT managers and CIOs and was published by MeriTalk Cloud Computing Exchange. The study also found that if they had been more aggressive in cloud adoption, the government could have saved $12 billion. The cloud storage wars are heating up with Google’s… -
This Week in Cloud, April 25, 2012: VMware advisory services, Google Drive vs. Box, VCs spend $6.9 billion on cloud startups, Do you know where your cloud data is? And more…
26 Apr 2012 | 6:17 amWatch CloudViews Unplugged Watch the latest edition of CloudViews Unplugged – a monthly video blog analyzing the top cloud news stories. Cloud News VMware introduced Accelerate Advisory Services, a set of IT benchmarking services focused on helping CIOs get more out of the investments they are making in virtualization and cloud computing. VMware recently acquired assets from Info Tech Health Check, an analytics vendor with IT performance metrics that span 20 industries and 4 geographical regions. Read more in this CRN article. This Wired article reviews Google’s recently launched Google… -
This Week in Cloud, April 19, 2012: Rackspace OpenStack cloud, How green is your cloud provider? Microsoft’s largest cloud deal, Private cloud ROI. And more…
19 Apr 2012 | 5:52 amWatch CloudViews Unplugged Watch the latest edition of CloudViews Unplugged – a monthly video blog analyzing the top cloud news stories. Cloud News Rackspace will offer a production version of their OpenStack open-source cloud platform beginning on May 1st, according to this GigaOM blog. Rackspace and NASA launched the OpenStack cloud project in 2010 and since then, HP, Cisco, Dell, IBM, Red Hat and others have contributed to the project. Is the cloud really green? A recent report by Greenpeace suggests that it depends on who your cloud provider is and the way in which they are consuming… -
This Week in Cloud, April 12, 2012: HP Converged Cloud, Citrix parts with OpenStack, 3 q’s AWS should answer, What SaaS vendors can learn from Siri. And more…
12 Apr 2012 | 5:46 amDownload our iPhone app New: Download the This Week in Cloud iPhone app. Now it’s even easier to get your weekly cloud news and perspectives. Cloud News HP announced its HP Converged Cloud based on a ‘hardened’ version of OpenStack software, targeting hybrid enterprise deployments and pushing for a common architecture across private and public clouds as well as traditional data centers. To learn more about the components of the offering, which include public cloud services, a service virtualization offering and Cloud Maps, which will provide templates of pre-configured cloud services,…
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Mobile technology can revolutionise a business
16 May 2012 | 10:24 amMobile technology can revolutionise a businessALMO Your Homes Newcastle is a great example of how IT can revitalise a business service. Their investment in smartphones and tablets has helped bring their tenant concierge service into the 21st century. Geoff Ellingham is head of IT for Your Homes Newcastle told The Guardian that new hardware helps make their staff more efficient. They worked with software provider NDL to overhaul their system by where previously residents reported problems directly to them via an on-site office and they carried out other duties such as block inspections. -
IT overhaul helps repairs firm manage bookings
15 May 2012 | 2:23 amIT overhaul helps repairs firm manage bookingsA repairs service firm has upgraded its technology as part of an ongoing development programme. One Vision director Paul Broadbent told The Guardian that staff recommendations contributed towards their IT overhaul. “We've since introduced telephone call backs and flexible appointments, and created an "optimiser" tool, which automatically schedules work by trade skills and postcode to reduce fuel costs, carbon footprint and travel time for our staff,” he said. “Despite rising fuel costs, we have managed to remain… -
Direct Line opts for SaaS based HR system
14 May 2012 | 9:55 amDirect Line opts for SaaS based HR systemRBS-owned insurance group Direct Line, has revealed that it has signed up to a new cloud computing-based human resources Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) option. The insurer, which owns brands such as Churchill and Green Flag, is being divested from RBS as part of RBS’s £45 billion bailout agreement. In advance of this divestment, Direct Line has been keen to establish its own standalone HR system and has opted for a cloud-based solution. The group has a workforce of around 16,000 and is the UK’s largest insurer in terms of the number of… -
US research could provide insight into UK service desk software trends
11 May 2012 | 10:20 amUS research could provide insight into UK service desk software trendsA survey from Nucleus Research in the US has found that workforce management software providers are changing their focus and the same could be said for their UK counterparts. The 2012 Technology Value Matrix for Workforce Management survey found that many of the providers in the US are moving their focus away from more traditional services such as payroll solutions, and towards services that help to improve the productivity of mobile workforces. These kind of services can be used by any firm that manages a workforce of… -
Planned maintenance partnership struck
10 May 2012 | 9:57 amPlanned maintenance partnership struckWillmott Dixon Partnerships has signed a contract with Acis Group to deliver planned maintenance repairs to 5,500 homes in South Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire. The work is being carried out under a limited liability Partnership between Willmott Dixon and affordable housing firm Acis. The jobs set to be completed by Willmott will include routine gas safety inspections and other planned works and repairs. The contract will last for a further five years and is worth £25 million. Valeria Waby, the chief executive of Acis, said that the…
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Finbarr McCarthy
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Framing & Composition Tips For Video Creators
12 May 2012 | 1:09 pmOriginally published by Finbarr McCarthyHere is a short video I recorded with some framing and composition tips for video creators. I hope you enjoy it. Original Video Video Transcript Coming up next we are going to look at four framing and composition tips you can use to make your videos much more visually interesting. The four tips are; The [...] -
How to make videos on YouTube
21 Mar 2012 | 12:50 pmOriginally published by Finbarr McCarthyI have been convinced about the importance of online video for quiet some time now. I am not sure exactly why, but I have always found excuses as to why I shouldn’t get directly involved myself – and meanwhile I have been convincing everyone I can to jump on board the “Online Video Bandwagon”. What [...] -
Even Clouds With Silver Linings Can Burst
19 Oct 2011 | 5:24 amOriginally published by Finbarr McCarthyOver the past few years cloud computing has gone from an obscure topic to the hottest property in the tech sector. Being a devoted cloud advocate this news pleases me in many ways, however, underneath that silver lining there may be trouble looming. Company valuations in the sector have sky- rocketed to a stupendous level. [...] -
Amazon Web Services – Double Failure
8 Aug 2011 | 10:59 amOriginally published by Finbarr McCarthyAs many of you who use Amazon Web Services will know there was a major failure in the EU west region yesterday (Sunday 7th August). The failure was initially categorised on the Amazon Status Website as a “Connectivity issue”. Hour by hour the status was updated to include a power outage, then a generator fault [...] -
Tech Company Lawsuits – Who Sues Who
5 Aug 2011 | 8:21 amOriginally published by Finbarr McCarthyA number of people have asked me questions recently about who is suing who in the tech world. I was going to write a post about the subject – but then I came across this great diagram from Bonkers World which explains it all perfectly clearly.
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Cloud Services Analytics
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Best Online Storage Services For Small Businesses. Part 3. Permissions and Security
8 May 2012 | 9:56 amOnline storage services vary widely in the file permissions details. For example, Dropbox lets you set permissions on an entire folder, not for individual files. Furthermore, Dropbox’s permissions give all users editing rights; other services let you only view access to documents or folders; some services offer even finer control than that. Many of the services let you share a file or folder with anyone for whom you provide an e-mail address, even if he doesn’t have this service account; in some cases, that outsider can also share the file or folder with others. Some of them also allow… -
Best Online Storage Services For Small Businesses. Part 2. Syncing and Sharing services
23 Apr 2012 | 10:22 amAll services from my previous post (Dropbox; Box.net; SugarSync; Syncplicity) vary in what content they allow to share, and how they do it. All services except Dropbox allow you to share any folder you choose. Dropbox for simplicity, allowing you to share just a single folder named Dropbox (including that folder’s nested contents); there are workarounds to that, including manually creating symbolic links or using a third-party utility. From the four services I looked at, only Syncplicity limits the number of computers that can sync to a given set of files or folders: you can sync only two… -
Best Online Storage Services For Small Businesses. Part 1
11 Apr 2012 | 7:02 amTo find out which online storage services might be best for group use, I focus my attention on a few services that represented the wider field. Firstly: I looked for services that synchronize files on multiple users’ machines to the cloud. They had to have Mac- and Windows-compatible client software that automatically uploads and downloads changed files to all associated computers. Secondly, nowadays they had to have mobile client software for smartphones. Technically storage services had to provide some kind of controls over which folders or files were shared with which users. They needed… -
Requirements to the Online Storage Services
16 Mar 2012 | 5:44 amAll online storage services provide approximately the same basic functionality of Internet data storage. The difference is appeared when it comes to features and available storage space. Before choosing a service, it is crucial to evaluate your storage needs and the quality of the service. The following are the criteria I used to assess the top online storage services in my survey. Ease of Use Average consumers are looking for online storage services that are powerful yet simple enough for understanding and using. A clean, intuitive user interface should provide easy navigation, fast… -
Cloud Storage Basics
9 Mar 2012 | 10:05 amThere are a lot of different cloud storage systems. Some have a very specific focus, for example, storing Web e-mail messages or digital pictures. Other systems are able to store all digital data formats. Some cloud storage systems are small operations, while others are so large that the physical equipment can fill up an entire warehouse. The facilities that house cloud storage systems are called data centers. Data center generally includes redundant or backup power supplies, redundant data communications connections, environmental controls (e.g., air conditioning, fire suppression) and…
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cloudcomputing-news.net: Latest from the homepage
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You Say You Want a Revolution: Are we in one?
16 May 2012 | 3:00 amRemember the heady dot.com days circa 1999? We thought we were reinventing business, forming a New Economy, revolutionizing the essential nature of commerce. In our dreams! By late 2001 the bubble had burst, and what we thought was a new paradigm for business—the World Wide Web—turned out to be little more than a new marketing channel. Don’t get me wrong—I’m not trying to disparage the power and importance of the Web. After all, the Web, and the Internet in general, have deeply affected so many aspects of business today. It’s hard to remember the time when… -
The cloud security question: Benefit or barrier?
15 May 2012 | 7:07 amDespite perceptions to the contrary, small to medium sized businesses (SMBs) are benefiting from increased IT data security as a result of a move to cloud computing, according to new research from comscore and Microsoft. The results of the research, carried out among SMBs in Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Singapore and the US, oppose the perception of security as the Achilles heel of the cloud argument. The study shows that 35% of U.S. companies surveyed had experienced noticeably higher levels of security since moving to the cloud. In addition, 32% said they spent less time worrying about the… -
Cloud Backup Or Sync?
14 May 2012 | 10:00 amWhether your data is stored in the cloud, on your desktop or on your server, you should be backing it up at least daily. There are a myriad of backup options available on the desktop, from Windows NT Backup to Symantec and other more advanced options. Some are mirror image backups, some are file by file. As well as backing up we should also be testing our restore processes to make sure our backup files are not corrupt and that we know how to restore if and when that disaster does strike! These days, thanks to the cloud, backing up has become more simplified and in some cases, more secure and… -
HP brings out public beta cloud on pay-as-you-go
14 May 2012 | 8:13 amHewlett Packard has released its first public beta cloud services with over 40 companies publicly supporting the move. The company announced that its three services – HP Cloud Compute, HP Cloud Object Storage and HP Cloud Content Delivery Network – were to be made available through a pay-as-you-go system after the free beta ended last week. HP stated that their goal was to “enable developers, independent software vendors and enterprises of all sizes to build the next generation of web applications.” Among those rousingly proclaiming their support were storage companies… -
Unicorns more likely than cloud migration, says survey
11 May 2012 | 10:12 amMany IT decision makers feel they are more likely to have a close encounter with a flying saucer than see the completion of their company’s cloud migration in the next six months. This was one of a number of alarming findings contained within Cisco’s 2012 Global Cloud Networking survey this week. The company polled 1300 IT decision makers in 13 countries spanning five continents, and revealed a lack of universal confidence in the cloud among IT professionals unless a proper cloud migration strategy is adopted. The survey included a series of irreverent comparisons designed to put…
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ActiveBlog: Insights on Open Source and Dynamic Languages
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Iron Foundry and Stackato for .NET apps
15 May 2012 | 7:22 pmWe get asked occasionally about Stackato support for .NET. It's clearly an important enterprise application platform today, but there are some technical challenges to supporting it on a Linux-based PaaS system. Stackato, like the Cloud Foundry code base it's built upon, has a modular design that can be extended to provide application hosting on any operating system - including Windows. Tier 3's Iron Foundry project does just that by providing a Windows-based DEA (Droplet Execution Agent) that works with Stackato. Stackato & Iron Foundry Micro VM combo The Iron Foundry and Stackato… -
Deploying Java to Stackato with Buildpacks
11 May 2012 | 12:59 amWe have just added the well known pet-clinic Java application to the Stackato App Store, and it works well! One thing about Java applications is that you need to generate byte code to execute it, and every Java developer knows that you should never commit your byte code to source control because of the size (for pet-clinic, 500KB of sources become 40MB of compiled jars/wars). For this reason, with Stackato demo applications we generally recommend that Java developers do the extra step of compiling the bytecode before deployment. With the preliminary support of Heroku Buildpacks in Stackato… -
ActiveState Partners with HP: Stackato 1.2 to run on HP Cloud Services
10 May 2012 | 8:04 amRelease of new, more powerful Stackato Private PaaS Solution Coincides with HP Cloud Services Public Beta I’m pleased to announce that ActiveState and HP Cloud Services have formed an extended partnership, ensuring support for Stackato 1.2 running on HP Cloud Services. Stackato is the application platform for creating a private Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and its industry-leading cloud application security, data privacy, and control are now available on the HP Cloud Services infrastructure. This announcement coincides with the upcoming HP Cloud Services move to public… -
The New Stackato App Store
9 May 2012 | 12:40 pmPlatform-as-a-Service is the future for deploying and managing Internet applications. It promises to provide an environment that abstracts the hard stuff (operating system, web server, programming language environment, databases, etc) and leaves you with the joy of just saying "Run this app, please". With ActiveState's Stackato, not only can you do that, but you own the entire PaaS system, and you run it wherever you wish. How easy is it to install a complete Stackato PaaS? Very. It's just a download and a few clicks. How about deploying popular applications like Drupal or Bugzilla to your… -
Deploy & Scale Drupal on Any Cloud with Stackato
2 May 2012 | 12:47 pmDeploy Drupal where you want Stackato lets you run Drupal, the popular content management system, on public clouds such as AWS and Rackspace, or on private clouds powered by VMWare, CloudStack or OpenStack. With Stackato, you choose the cloud hosting provider that best fits your organization’s requirements. With one ‘stackato push’ command or one click in the Management console, you can make Drupal available on any Stackato PaaS deployment. Here at ActiveState, we’ve been huge fans of Drupal for years. Both the ActiveState corporate and community sites are powered…
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VMware Advances Cloud Automation with vFabric 5.1
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HP's OpenStack-Powered Cloud Enters Public Beta
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Google v. Oracle Courts Cloud Controversy
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Educating the Cloud: How ETS is Moving Up
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Dell Cloud Computing: Ricky Santos Interview
30 Apr 2012 | 1:57 pmThe head of Dell Cloud Services provides advice about deploying assets to the cloud.
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Cloud Computing News: ElasticHosts blog
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ElasticHosts Expands Cloud Hosting Portfolio with Cloud Sites and Managed Cloud Servers
3 May 2012 | 5:56 amLondon, UK — May 3rd, 2012: ElasticHosts, the cloud hosting provider, today announced the launch of two offerings which will provide customers with a broader range of cloud services. The two additions to the portfolio, Cloud Sites and Managed Cloud Servers, mean the company will be able to meet the needs of all organisations; from micro businesses with no technical expertise right the way through to larger enterprises that want additional services such as cloud migration, server management, managed back-up and disaster recovery for their cloud based infrastructure. ElasticHosts’… -
ElasticHosts Adds Microsoft SQL Server 2012 and Windows Server 8 Preview to Cloud Server Offerings
19 Apr 2012 | 8:21 amLatest Microsoft Technologies available for customers London, UK. April 19th, 2012: ElasticHosts, the cloud server provider, has today announced that it has made the latest Microsoft technologies available to customers, adding to the existing wide range of cloud server configurations. ElasticHosts is well known for providing easy-to-use on demand, scalable cloud servers with independent scaling of CPU, RAM and disk rather than fixed instance types. This means that customers can pay only for what they need, when they need it; scaling up or down as demands fluctuate. The first new… -
Critical Windows RDP vulnerability announced.
13 Mar 2012 | 4:26 pmMicrosoft has recently announced a vulnerability in Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) that affects all versions of Windows from XP through the latest pre-release of Windows 8, including all Windows Server products. This bug allows a remote hacker to execute code on a system, essentially running any software they wish, without any intervention on the part of the user. Obviously, this is a critical vulnerability and should be addressed as soon as possible by all customers who are affected. Anyone who uses RDP to connect to their Windows machines is vulnerable to this attack unless they take… -
ElasticHosts Launches across North America with scalable, easy-to-use Cloud Servers
16 Jan 2012 | 2:13 amLA and Toronto data center openings add to existing locations to provide continent wide IaaS Los Angeles, US — January 16th, 2012: ElasticHosts, the cloud server provider, has today announced its launch into North America. The company will open two new data center locations in Los Angeles, USA and Toronto, Canada, adding to its existing locations in London, UK and San Antonio, Texas. With a central, east and west coast presence sitting alongside London, ElasticHosts will now be able to provide its elastic, easy-to-use, pay-as-you-go cloud hosting to customers across… -
Cloud server newsletter - January 2012
13 Jan 2012 | 9:14 amHappy New Year and welcome to the first ElasticHosts Cloud Server Newsletter of 2012! We are very excited about the developments that we have planned for this year but first we need to let you know what we’ve been up to since the last newsletter back in the Summer: 16GB Servers, automatic repeat billing, firewalls Critical alerts by SMS and copied to extra email addresses Powered by ElasticHosts: Link to us Tutorials, global support and status page New Toronto and Los Angeles data centres Control panel revamp White-label program coming soon…
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NVIDIA's Kepler GPU for Virtualized and Cloud Environments
16 May 2012 | 5:55 amNVIDIA unveiled the NVIDIA VGX platform, which enables IT departments to deliver a virtualized desktop with the graphics and GPU computing performance of a PC or workstation to employees using any connected device. read more -
IBM Launches New x86 Server Solutions Optimized for Smarter Computing
16 May 2012 | 4:52 amDesigned to support the requirements of fast-growing businesses, the new products give data center managers the speed, performance and flexibility they need to implement and manage new and existing workloads. read more -
SGI Launches New Xeon Based SGI Hadoop Starter Kits
16 May 2012 | 2:59 amWith a strong relationship and over ten years of technology collaboration resulting in numerous innovative high performance computing advancements, SGI is incorporating the newest Intel Xeon processor E5-4600 into SGI's future shared memory platforms with many new, unique capabilities. read more -
HP Rolls Out Next Generation ProLiant Gen8 Servers
15 May 2012 | 11:03 amHP also announced new financial, support and partner programs, including the HP ProActive Insight Architecture Alliance, which brings together some of the world's leading technology companies to eliminate manual maintenance tasks and significantly improve data center efficiency. read more -
Why Europeans Need the Digital Single Market
15 May 2012 | 7:02 amIn the space of two decades, information and communication technology (ICT) has revolutionised the way we connect with family and friends, the way we work, and the way we inform, educate and entertain ourselves. It has upended and reshaped major industries, from media and entertainment to ᴀnancial services, from software to pharmaceuticals. read more
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Free Private Data from Silos for Internal Use with Microsoft CodeName “Data Hub”
15 May 2012 | 11:16 amMany organizations accumulate massive quantities of valuable commercial data but don’t have technology in place to make it easily available to data analysts or actionable by business decision-makers. Microsoft’s Windows Azure Marketplace DataMarket provides the infrastructure to syndicate more than 135 free and pay-per-use datasets to the public. The new Codename “DataHub” preview extends the DataMarket’s cloud-based architecture and its Web front-end to provide a self-service interface for private data sources and enable federating DataMarket subscriptions without adding data… -
A brief guide to upcoming cloud conferences
10 May 2012 | 12:16 pmSummertime is around the corner, and while you may be dreaming of sea and sun, how about settling for a day out of the office? I’ve ordered these loosly by country/continent and then by date. This list is no means exhaustive, but hopefully it will lead you to spend some time getting out there, networking and learning some new skills. As I, Cloudia, am currently hovering over the UK, showering it with water, let’s start there. UK Euro Cloud (Locking on Cloud Growth) Date: May 23 Location: London Notable Speakers: Alistair Mitchell, Tien Tzuo, Tim Barker More Info:… -
Installing Third Party Software on Windows Azure – What are the options?
9 May 2012 | 5:34 amI have seen this question asked many times now: “How do I install third party software on Windows Azure?” This is a reasonably important question to address as Windows Azure applications often need to use third party software components. In some cases, using a software component can be as simple as adding a reference to it. You can also set the Copy Local property to True to bring the component along with your service package to the cloud. However, in some cases a proper installation is required. This is because the installation does other things than just copying the component to the… -
What do you mean the cloud isn’t free?
4 May 2012 | 5:51 amCloud computing has now entered into most executives’ common vernacular. Certain ideas and themes come through and a common misconception is that the cloud is cheap, right? In some circumstances, it is even free (check out Amazon Web Services ‘Free Web Tier’) so one would be a fool not to consider this as a viable deployment option. However, the reality can be a lot different and some people’s perceptions of the cost of cloud computing needs to be re-adjusted to the reality of running live, production customer-paying websites, applications, and services complete with… -
How to set up a database-driven Azure site
26 Apr 2012 | 12:49 pmThis article is really a review of the alternative ways to get started with setting up a database-driven Azure site. I’ll start by using SQL Azure Management Portal and SQL Server Management Studio. Then, I’ll use Visual Studio to create a SQL Azure database (Web edition, 1 GB). I’m going to add a single Customer table and I’m going to see if I can deploy a LightSwitch application using that database. SQL Azure is NOT SQL Server Yes, SQL Azure is NOT SQL Server. I’ve wanted to say that for weeks – now I’ve said it. I keep hearing from so many sources that SQL Azure is SQL Server…
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The Cloud Strategy Blog
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Oh No … Another ERP in the Cloud? The Hitchiker’s Guide to Building an ERP in the SaaS Model
4 May 2012 | 8:34 amI know, it’s a pretty harsh title, but I experience this week after week: ERP vendors launching their cloud-hosted copy of their ERP software and not understanding why they don’t sell. I wrote this post to stop them repeating this mistake and to share the lessons I’ve seen at least 10 times in the last three months. To set the scene, this post is about the two ends of the ERP Customer spectrum – Mr “do-it-my-way” and Mr “just-do-it” (apologies from lady readers – I couldn’t find my LEGO women figures). So, the two ends are: If you’ve got the point, you can stop… -
6 questions to make a startup idea great – A recipe for startups and venture capitalists
21 Apr 2012 | 6:30 pmHave you ever been stuck in a mud with your car? I had the fortune to experience this recently – the secret to get out of the mud is to have someone controlling the car and one or more people pushing and pulling the car’s body to shift the car back-and-forth, left-and-right and give the spinning tires a chance to grab a surface that’s stable enough to climb upon. Otherwise, the car sinks itself deeper and deeper as the tires are spinning – and pretty soon, you’ll hear the chassis touch the ground. The process I’m sharing in this article – to make an “OK” startup business… -
Microsoft’s Huge Investment to Support You Launch Your SaaS Business
19 Apr 2012 | 8:58 pmIn this post, I’d like to highlight one of the potential opportunities that you can avail if you use, or plan to evaluate the Windows Azure platform to deliver your new SaaS offering. Whether you run a development shop, you are an Entrepreneur, a startup or just a smart guy with a bright idea, there’s something for you in here – so keep reading. Some background to help you put the information below into perspective: this post is about Microsoft’s Azure “Incubation” group and our services that you can avail. “Incubation” in Microsoft terms means a huge investment to help the… -
Cloud Humour
9 Apr 2012 | 2:32 pmThanks to David Fletcher, now we’ve got Cloud humour … Two sample masterpieces: You can find more at http://www.cloudtweaks.com/tag/cloud-humor David Szabo, Cloud Strategy Advisor, Firestarter and Rulebreaker at Microsoft. Startup-addict, SaaS & Cloud consultant, blogger at http://cloudstrategyblog.com and LEGO serious play facilitator. Follow me on Twitter Filed under: Enterprise Cloud, Kindle, Off-topic Tagged: Cloud humour -
3 Different Approaches to Benchmark Your Cloud Adaption Against Other Companies – A Study on Cloud Maturity Models for Enterprises
6 Apr 2012 | 10:15 amI normally blog for startups, SMBs and enterpreneurs who build tomorrow’s SaaS services – this one is an exception – one of those flashbacks from the past … Maturity models are used to benchmark yourself against other companies in your industry, measure progress on your initiatives and helps to create a strategy roadmap or prioritize creation and migration of capabilities and investments over time for cloud adoption. This article is a brief overview of some of the Cloud Maturity Models available for enterprise companies today. It is not at all, a comprehensive study…
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CloudSleuth Blog
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Selecting a Cloud Provider - Part 2
2 May 2012 | 10:00 amIn my first post in this two-part series I discussed the considerations of choosing a IaaS, PaaS or SaaS provider. In this post I am looking at additional criteria to look at in the case of an IaaS provider (although much applies to the other two as well).PerformanceAs I wrote in The Cost of Poor Cloud Performance, latency of a cloud provider can have a huge impact on the business. High-speed delivery of applications in the cloud is a multifaceted challenge that requires a holistic approach and an end-to-end view of the application request-response path.Performance issues include the… -
Cloud Provider Page Delivery Time Ranking – March
30 Apr 2012 | 9:29 amHere we go again with our monthly results gathered via the Global Provider View (GPV), ranking the average page delivery times seen from various backbone locations around the world. Congrats to Opsource on taking over the top spot!We added 13 new services in March: Cartika (US South - Texas), Cloud Central (Australia), Cloud4Web (Canada), CloudWeb (US East - Virginia), Firehost (US South - Texas), Hostway Cloud (US East - Florida), Lunacloud (EU - France), Lunacloud (EU - Portugal), Opsource (Australia), Opsource (EU - Netherlands), TCL InstaCompute (Asia - India), TCL InstaCompute (Asia -… -
Friction in the On-Demand Self-Service Cloud
23 Apr 2012 | 8:30 amFollowing our mission of building a partner-driven cloud community, the CloudSleuth team embarked on a program to leverage the Global Provider View application (GPV) to garner the interest of potential partners. Our goal was to help balance our global distribution of partners and to increase vendor selection options for you, our site visitors. Our plan was to quickly set up monitoring of page delivery performance for 20 potential new partners for a period of 3 months. Then, we would show the providers the benefits of participating in both the GPV and the larger CloudSleuth community,… -
Why I Visit CloudSleuth Everyday
18 Apr 2012 | 8:18 amIt seems one of the biggest questions I always get asked is 'Why would someone visit the CloudSleuth website often?', this seems to be one of those engineering questions that pop up at the water cooler. I would give the standard pat answers, you can garner information from the vendors, you can see how they are generally performing around the world, you can blog, you can ... well, the point is, I feel like a politician answering questions during the silly season.Then, this morning, I realized, I get on the CloudSleuth site everyday. It is part of my morning ritual, just like reading a… -
Selecting a Cloud Provider - Part 1
17 Apr 2012 | 7:46 amAs the number and variety of cloud providers increases, selecting one is becoming more challenging. First, there is a question of what type of cloud provider should a company use for each of its apps: IaaS, PaaS, or perhaps there is a SaaS application that already does what we are attempting to build. Then, there’s the issue of which specific provider to choose within the category we select. These issues are the topic of this post, a first in a two-part series.Second, if we decide that an IaaS is the best solution for our needs, how does one evaluate and compare these cloud providers? This…
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The State of Security
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Tripwire Gives Back
16 May 2012 | 10:15 amIn addition to developing great products, Tripwire also spends a great deal of time giving back to the community. Tripwire has always been a supporter of local philanthropic efforts by allowing every Tripwire employee one day every single month to give back to the community. But today, Tripwire is announcing its first ever fund for [...] -
Conficker Me
15 May 2012 | 11:40 pmAn article caught my eye last week that I couldn’t ignore. It was by turns interesting, infuriating and illuminating, with a simple and matter-of-fact headline: “Thanks to weak passwords, Conficker worm still rampant.” It was from SC Magazine and it made me gack just a little. Flashback to 2008. In November of that year Conficker [...] -
Communicating the value of Information Security – Part 2
15 May 2012 | 10:00 amLast week, I shared the first part of my learning about best practices for connecting InfoSec activities to the business. In part 2, I talk about the value of knowing your business. -
Are your security people lying about the impacts? Probably, but not on purpose.
14 May 2012 | 11:30 amSecurity is a complex, often nuanced, topic. Today there’s a lot of subjectivity in 100% security oriented discussions. Business people like non-squidgy objective numbers. To make security investment decisions, security people have to sell their area to the business; which means speaking their language. As a consequence, security people are often trying to make objective [...] -
Communicating the value of Information Security – Part 1
8 May 2012 | 10:00 amEarlier this year, I began writing about my project relating to "connecting security to the business." Essentially, I want to find repeatable methods to help information security people communicate the business value of their activities to non-technical audiences. Starting today I'll be sharing some of the things I'm learning on this journey.
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eXo Blog - The Cloud User Experience Platform
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Debug in the Cloud: Java Debugger for eXo Cloud IDE
24 Apr 2012 | 4:22 amToday, we are proud to announce the first version of the Java debugger for eXo Cloud IDE. You can now run and debug Java apps right from your browser. Set breakpoints and inspect requests and variables just as if you were in Eclipse! Check out this 2 minutes video showing the feature in action or try it yourself on http://cloud-ide.com. Note that the debugger is currently in beta state and will see significant updates in the next few weeks. Stay tuned! Share this blog post with : More » -
eXo Cloud Workspaces Previews Fully Scalable Enterprise Social Intranet
10 Apr 2012 | 8:04 amOut of the Box Social Intranet Built on Elastic and Multi-tenant eXo Platform For end users: cloud-based service for instant access to social networking tools For IT: integrate with existing infrastructure; scale in the cloud or on-premises Free access to the beta at http://www.cloud-workspaces.com/ SAN FRANCISCO — April 10, 2012 — eXo, the user experience platform-as-a-service (UXPaaS) company, today opened access to the public beta of eXo Cloud Workspaces, a new cloud-based service that integrates social business and enterprise collaboration features in a single on-demand offering. -
Rejoignez eXo aux salons “Intranets et collaboratifs” et “Documation” à Paris
27 Feb 2012 | 4:27 ameXo Platform 3.5 est enfin disponible ! Aujourd’hui eXo est heureux d’aller à la rencontre de ses partenaires, clients et supporters pour leur présenter la première plateforme complète d’expérience utilisateur pour Java, prête à être déployée sur le Cloud. Nous serons tout d’abord présents les 13, 14 et 15 Mars 2012 au Salon Solutions Intranet et Collaboratif à Paris, Porte de Versailles, Stand C60. Lors de cet évènement vous pourrez assister à l’intervention de notre équipe technique représentée par Stévan Lemeur, Product Manager des solutions… -
eXo Platform 3.5 Now Available: First Cloud-Ready Enterprise Portal and User Experience Platform-as-a-Service (UXPaaS)
31 Jan 2012 | 8:01 amUsers connect, collaborate, and improve productivity — in the cloud, on mobile devices, or on the ground Multi-tenancy support for deployment in public and private clouds Secure access to personal dashboards, documents and activity streams via native mobile apps Social network features and integration with existing infrastructure Mashup and gadget development for third-party app integration in built-in web IDE San Francisco, CA – January 31, 2012 – eXo, the user experience platform-as-a-service (UXPaaS) company, today announced general availability of eXo Platform 3.5. This new… -
Petit Déjeuner Capgemini à Lille
9 Jan 2012 | 6:22 pmTugdual Grall, Directeur Technique d’eXo, sera présent à Lille pour un petit-déjeuner organisé par notre partenaire Capgemini. L’evénement aura lieu le jeudi 26 janvier à 8h00, Maison Petrowski, 9 rue à Fiens, Lille (à proximité de la Gare Lille Flandres). Tugdual présentera eXo Platform (la plateforme d’expérience utilisateur), nouvelle génération de solution Intranet/Extranet totalement intégrée, sociale et conçue pour le cloud. Agenda : Introduction UXP (User Experience Platform) : le socle des Intranets/Extranets nouvelle génération Les nouveaux…
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Fix Notebook Problem
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Sony Vaio Notebook Slow Problem
30 Apr 2012 | 10:09 pmProblem :This problem make Sony Vaio Notebook run very slow, its will take like 6minutes to login until background screen. there is view solution of this notebook problem.People said this appear for this following Sony Vaio Notebook Series :Sony Vaio VPCF11Z1E, SONY Vaio VPCCA35FG, SONY Vaio VPCSA35GG, Sony vaio PGC-LM2ESolution :1. Merys This maybe a optical drive problem so you need to replace optical drive.2. IslandsboyYou need to replace hard disk drive, or try to reinstall os first. because could be your hard drive is extremely fragmented, 3. LaedywenI sent it to Sony and they replaced… -
Toshiba Notebook Problem Black Screen
28 Apr 2012 | 10:48 pm1. Solution Toshiba Notebook Problem By AB It seems I have the same problem. Mine is a 2 years old Toshiba A215-S4747. The problem started as a lose connection in the monitor. The screen would get really shaky As you move the lid back and forth. As soon as I find the proper possession it would work fine. One day during a start up the screen never came back on but you could hardly see the desk top icons especially if you would shine some kind of light on it. Later I hooked up the lap top to an external monitor and learned the computer was working fine sending the info to the external monitor. -
4 Simple Steps to Process Update BIOS Notebook
26 Apr 2012 | 2:50 amHere is a Simple Steps to Process Update BIOS Laptop / Computer. 1. Check the BIOS version of your Laptop Today The first step must be done before the BIOS update process is to check the BIOS version of your current laptop. You can enter the command "msinfo32" without the quotes in the search bar in Windows 7/Vista or the RUN menu in Windows XP. 2. Check the latest BIOS version on the vendor Motherboard Motherboard vendors are usually always provide BIOS updates for its next step is to check the latest version of the BIOS on the motherboard vendor you use. 3. Do not forget to read the Read Me… -
Review LENOVO IdeaPad B470 250 Problem
25 Apr 2012 | 6:23 pmProblem : Internal Realtek Card Reader LENOVO IdeaPad B470 250 Solution : Unplugged the card and cleaned the registery out (deleted references). Unzipped the file and after a reboot done the install from the zip file. Specification : PlatformNotebook PC Processor TypeIntel Core i3 Processor Processor Onboard Intel® Core™ i3-2350M Processor (2.30GHz, 3MB Cache) ChipsetIntel® HM65 Memori Standar2 GB DDR3 PC-10600 Max. Memory8 GB (2 DIMMs) Video TypeIntel® HD Graphics 3000 Display Size14" WXGA LED Display Max. Resolution1366… -
4 Acer Black Screen Solution
25 Apr 2012 | 6:14 amProblem : Black screen issue occurs on some brands pruduk acer. Such as : Acer Aspire 5920, Acer aspire 5920g, Acer 4010t, Acer TravelMate Acer 2423WXCI,Acer Aspire 7551, Acer Aspire T690, Acer Aspire 7535. Usually black screen problems appear because you open notebook components because you want to clean the inside of the notebook or want to replace one component. But in some cases, this black screen problem appears for no reason when you turn on your acer notebook. Some people said they get this problem after installing windows update. Here are some solutions for Acer…
