With the new offerings, HP is positioning itself in the cloud-computing business for the midrange and SMBs as the purveyor of so-called "Instant-On" enterprise computing. – Hewlett-Packard
has launched a plethora of cloud-based IT packages during the last three
years. These include such diverse offerings as cloud-based management for smartphones, a hosted
business-application service (Cloud Assure), and cloud-based mobile-printing services, among
others.
On Jan….
eXo provides Java developers working with Amazon Web Services Elastic Beanstalk with a new Integrated Development Environment (IDE). – To help with the tooling process, eXo, a maker of Java user
experience and portal technologies, has announced the eXo Cloud IDE for
Elastic Beanstalk, the new platform as a service from Amazon Web
Services.
The recently announced AWS Elastic Beanstalk
enables Java developers to easily deploy an…
Amazon Web Services launched Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) to provide businesses with large-scale bulk e-mail messaging in the cloud. – Amazon Web
Services Jan. 25 launched a bulk e-mail service for businesses and developers,
providing a messaging option for the cloud-computing provider’s arsenal of
Web-based services.
AWS intends
Amazon SES (Amazon Simple Email Service) as an alternative to the thorny work
of building a custo…
Software testing services are much sought after in the western world. Combined with cloud computing solutions, they offer a potent cost reduction strategy for software development for most enterprises.
Google is opening beta testing for Google Cloud Print via Android smartphones and Apple’s iPhone. However, users need a Windows PC to try this out. – Google Jan. 24 said it is bringing its Google Cloud Print
beta to allow Android and iPhone smartphone users to print Google Docs documents and
Gmail messages.
Google Cloud Print is the company’s solution
to allow any application to print to any printer from any computing device without
installi…
In light of recent data breaches, including a December 2010 incident which affected 2.2 million Honda customers, IT managers need to limit what data is actually shared with cloud service providers. – Corporations partnering with cloud service providers need to
think carefully about what data is being shared to adequately protect consumer
privacy, according to security experts.
As companies outsource various business functions, which can
range from e-mail marketing to e-discovery and e-mail a…
In a new partnership with Chinese Range Technology Development and the Hebei provincial bureau of industry, IBM will build the largest, most advanced cloud-enabled data storage center in China. – In March 2010, IBM announced that it
would begin investing big time in selling and building cloud computing systems
in China.
On Jan. 24, the huge American IT company made good on at least part of the
promise by announcing that it will partner with Chinese Range Technology
Development and the…
Microsoft made yet another foray into the cloud with its Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online, and displayed some of its collaborative work with Hewlett-Packard, during this week. – Microsofts
week centered on the cloud, with the worldwide launch of the Microsoft Dynamics
CRM Online platform the companys hope for blunting similar competition from
Oracle and Salesforce.com.
A Jan. 17
statement by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer emphasized the cloud platforms
“familiar user exp…
The new 2.4 release of Nasuni Filer includes a native data migration service that can move large data sets to the cloud while preserving a customer’s existing ACLs and permissions. – Cloud systems gateway provider Nasuni on Jan. 20 announced a new migration
service for its Nasuni Filer, which is designed to move existing file server
data more efficiently to selected cloud storage providers.
Nasuni Filer is a virtual NAS file server/front end that runs on VMware and
uses pu…
The Bohu Trojan has been seen attempting to block cloud-based technologies in anti-virus products. – Enterprises are not the only ones interested in cloud security products.
Malware authors have their eyes on them too – something exemplified
by the Bohu Trojan, which blocks connections from Windows machines to
cloud anti-virus technologies to disable users defenses.
The malware was first spott…
The company says SmartDataCenter is currently utilized by many customers on Joyent’s public cloud, JoyentCloud.com, and in Dell Data Center Solutions. – Cloud system software maker Joyent Jan. 19 introduced a new version of what
it calls its cloud operating system, SmartDataCenter 6, an integrated suite of
software and services for enterprises and service providers to launch and
maintain public, private and hybrid clouds.
The company said Smar…
GoGrid expands its portfolio of infrastructure-as-a-service offerings with the latest Hosted Private Cloud, which lets customers run applications in a public cloud environment that uses hardware dedicated to their use. – GoGrid introduced an enterprise-grade hosted private cloud platform
on Jan. 19, delivering to customers both the benefits of cloud computing and dedicated
server hosting.
The GoGrid Hosted Private Cloud features the same
capabilities as GoGrids public cloud offering, the company said. The hosted…
U.S.-based businesses ranked 10th overall for backup and disaster recovery (DR) preparedness, according to a survey. – A survey of more than 3,000 small to medium-size businesses (SMB)
conducted by the Ponemon Institute revealed that while attitudes
towards backup and recovery differ widely around the world, businesses
everywhere want a single backup and recovery solution for physical,
virtual and cloud environm…
Internap has started beta testing its public cloud storage service, Internap ZIPCloud Storage, which is the first major cloud deployment using the OpenStack open source cloud computing platform. – Internap XIPCloud Storage, which just went into a limited
beta test release, is the first major application using the OpenStack open
source cloud computing platform, Scott Hrastar, senior vice president of
technology at Internap, told eWEEK.
The fact that OpenStack Object Storage was an underly…
The launch of Office 365, Microsofts productivity suite for the cloud may not be a good news for Google, which has been trying to attract business customers with its own cloud- based offering. Microsoft office productivity applications have been the standard in the business community for many decades.
A recap of security news for the past week touches security researchers, vendors and attackers alike. – Security vendors, researchers and the Web’s bad actors all made the news
this past week.
The week closed with news that David Kernell, the man convicted of breaking
into Sarah Palin’s
e-mail account during the 2008 U.S. presidential election, had been sent to
prison instead of a halfway house …
The management software now has the ability to automate and thus more efficiently bring "rogue" virtual machines under control. – Virtualization management software maker Embotics Jan. 12 announced that it
has added new features to its V-Commander product suite, which is now designed
specifically for managing private cloud infrastructures alongside VMware
vSphere.
Thus, Embotics’ management software now has the ability t…
Small business owners are increasingly turning to cloud-based solutions, a survey finds. – With cloud adoption accelerating rapidly, research performed by
MarketBridge, a provider of technology-enabled marketing and sales
managed services and solutions, showed that marketing and sales are
leading business applications while security is becoming a cloud asset.
The company released the …
The reported Facebook Phone could be the INQ Cloud Touch device referenced in a Bluetooth certification specification. But it’s probably just another smartphone with social widgets. – One of the most intriguing rumors to surface concerning
Facebook in 2010 was the supposition that the social network would launch a
phone tailored for its users.
Facebook was allegedly teaming with INQ Mobile to build
a branded smartphone with deep integration into the handset’s contacts list.
…
The U.S. Department of the Treasury is moving Treasury.gov, SIGTARP.gov, MyMoney.gov, TIGTA.gov and IRSOversightBoard.treasury.gov to Amazon EC2 as part of the federal government’s shift toward cloud services. – The Department of Treasury has moved its main Website and four other agency
sites to Amazon Web Services, said Smartronix, the systems provider that
handled the migration, on Jan. 10.
The revamped Treasury.gov Website, SIGTARP.gov, MyMoney.gov, TIGTA.gov and
IRSOversightBoard.treasury.gov are al…
