The joint project will use the Integrated Cloud Delivery Platform to target telcos, large and midrange-sized independent applications providers and storage providers — among others. – Networker Cisco Systems and data management provider BMC Software, using their 2009 Unified Computing System partnership
as home base, Dec. 6 announced a second strategic alliance to develop a
new, generically named cloud system for large-scale, multitenant
infrastructures.
The joint deve…
As more and more business flows into SAAS and cloud computing investments, technology job seekers may want a better understanding of where to focus their learning, certifications and skills. The following is a look at software-as-a-service skills from the perspective of a CEO who has built SAAS-based cloud infrastructure from the ground up. eWEEK recently interviewed Apprenda CEO Sinclair Shuller. –
The
hype is over: Adoption of cloud applications and software as a service (SAAS)
is for real, and this means jobs for now and the future. Despite the need for
stronger security and the preference for private clouds in the enterprise, the
cost-reduction benefits make these technologies very at…
Cloud apps, or applications, are services that are hosted on the internet and can be used with the help of a web browser.
Google Earth Engine will provide satellite images to help scientists see how forests are changing over time. The idea is to stunt deforestation in developing countries. – Google Dec. 2 rolled out a new cloud-based computing platform that puts past
and present satellite imagery online to gauge changes in Earth’s environment.
Introduced at the International Climate Change Conference in Cancun,
Mexico, Google
Earth Engine is intended to help scientists detect how fo…
The beta release of the Windows client for Canonical’s Ubuntu One service is off to a solid start, but work remains if it’s to overtake Dropbox. – In October, when Canonical released Ubuntu 10.10, some of the product’s most
talked-about new features involved the expansion of the personal cloud service,
Ubuntu One, beyond the popular Linux-based OS to other platforms, such as
Apple’s iOS, Google’s Android and Microsoft’s Windows.
At the…
The Cloud is a virtual environment that facilitates users in easily accessing and using services hosted over the internet.
Google is basking in the glow of its General Services Administration contract win versus Microsoft and IBM. Google will serve e-mail and other Google Apps to 17,000 workers. – On Dec. 1, the U.S. General Services Administration said it picked Google Apps to replace IBM Lotus Notes as the provider of e-mail and collaboration software for its 17,000 full-time employees and contractors.
The GSA said it will pay $6.7 million to IT service provider Unisys Corp, which has part…
Microsoft lashed back at news that rival Google will provide Gmail and Google Apps to General Services Administration employees. – Microsoft is reacting strongly to news that rival Google had
locked down a contract to provide Gmail and Google Apps to the General Services
Administration.
Both Microsoft and Google offer cloud-based productivity and
communications software, and compete fiercely for large public- and
privat…
Microsoft lashed back at news that rival Google will provide Gmail and Google Apps to General Services Administration employees. – Microsoft is reacting strongly to news that rival Google had locked down a contract to provide Gmail and Google Apps to the General Services Administration.
Both Microsoft and Google offer cloud-based productivity and communications software and compete fiercely for large public- and private-sec…
Cisco plans to acquire privately-held LineSider to boost its cloud capabilities by adding cloud automation and network management for multi-tenant networks. – Cisco will acquire network management software company
LineSider, strengthening its cloud capabilities, the company said on Dec. 1.
LineSiders technology will strengthen Ciscos cloud
computing services by integrating cloud infrastructure with customers existing
IT systems, Cisco said. IT adminis…
Enterprises will test 4G throughout 2011, but WiFi and 802.11n will be of paramount importance as more wireless-only devices invade the corporate network. – eWEEK is betting big on the cloud in 2011, approaching the cloud as a unifying tenet of a large share of our coverage over the course of the year. But bridging users to the cloud–and the copious bounty of applications and services delivered therein–requires connectivity, particularly for the legion …
The new package automates the process of moving, protecting and recovering data involved in virtually any type of disaster, Compellent Vice President Bruce Kornfeld said. – Automated storage provider Compellent Technologies and virtualization
kingpin VMware on Nov. 30 announced an extension of their partnership that
creates a new disaster
recovery option for cloud systems using Compellent’s storage capabilities
with vCenter Site Recovery Manager.
The new package a…
A year after launching a private cloud solution, Logicworks is rolling out a public cloud initiative that officials say offers more performance and security than efforts from the likes of Amazon. – Logicworks is looking to create a public cloud offering that will entice
businesses to move key applications to the cloud.
In
most public cloud environments, enterprises are content to run
test-and-development workloads or non-crucial applications in the environment,
according to Kenneth Ziegle…
VA’s own David Linthicum, well-known cloud blogger for InfoWorld and CTO and founder of Blue Mountain Labs opted to take a deeper dive into architecture vs. general business benefit etc. of cloud computing and hybrid clouds.
As a medical software company, people often ask on our EMR Experts website about the benefits and potential drawbacks of the web-based EMR system. Web based systems are also commonly called as Cloud Computing. Simply put, cloud computing is Internet-based computing, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices on demand.
As demand for cloud-based storage soars, storage providers are boosting limits to attract and retain users. – More online storage companies are increasing storage limits for free
accounts in order to attract new users and to keep existing ones from switching
elsewhere.
The latest storage service to boost storage limits for free accounts from 2GB
to 5G is Pro Softnet, with its IDrive Online Backup produc…
IBM and a European consortium will test TClouds on a Portuguese smart energy grid and in an Italian home health-care system to increase resiliency and lower cost. – A European consortium that includes IBM, security provider Sirrix, a Portuguese energy provider, and European academic and corporate research organizations have unveiled a virtual infrastructure project called Trustworthy Clouds, or TClouds.
The group aims to make a cloud that’s secure and private …
GridGain 3.0 delivers a cloud application platform that integrates computational and data grids. – Open-source cloud application platform developer GridGain Systems announced the general availability of GridGain 3.0, the companys next version of its cloud application platform for the Java ecosystem. GridGain 3.0 is software middleware designed for scalable business applications that run on manage…
Microsoft Office faces a new competitor with Google Cloud Connect, which seeks to draw Office users into using Google collaboration software. – Google has released Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office, which allows
users to save their Office documents in Google Docs. Offered as a Web-based
alternative, the free software plug-in represents yet another Google foray into
cloud productivity. The question is, how much of a threat does it…
IBM and Aetna have built a health information exchange in Puerto Rico with help from Medens’ EHR cloud computing platform. – IBM and ActiveHealth, a unit of Aetna,
along with Medens, a cloud computing and health care IT company based in Puerto
Rico, have launched a cloud health care network for some 11,000 physicians
working in the commonwealth.
Medens will provide what it says is the first medical cloud computing
ne…
