May 21, 2013, 7:21 pm GMT  

39 item(s) containing the term "services"

Understand Multi-tenant, Cloud-based Recovery-as-a-Service in 60 Seconds or Less

— If you’re just beginning to learn about cloud-based RaaS, you likely have a lot of questions. You could spend days, weeks or even longer researching the technological advances behind each solution, the services included and the capabilities available for your workloads. 

But, you have to start somewhere, a...
May 21 03:52:42 pm GMT / BlueLock»

AWS GovCloud Meets FedRAMP Standard

— Amazon Web Services said Tuesday that its GovCloud (US) in all US AWS regions has gotten an Agency Authority to Operate (ATO) from the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) requirements at the moderate-impact level. FedRAMP is a US govern...
May 21 03:32:00 pm GMT / Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal»

Cyber Network Gears Up for Growth in the Cloud with IBM PureSystems

— IBM today announced that Cyber Network, a Swiss managed services provider, MSP, based in Geneva, has chosen IBM Flex Systems and storage to upgrade its IT infrastructure and grow its cloud business. The integrated design and management capabilities in Flex Systems will help Cyber Network to spend less time on IT...
May 21 12:20:56 pm GMT / IBM Press Releases - Storage - United States»

Amazon Web Services gets FedRAMP certification for US government cloud use

— Amazon Web Services has finally received certification under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, which the company said will lower the cost of implementing its cloud services among government organizations and agencies in the U.S.
May 21 11:55:00 am GMT / Computerworld Cloud Computing News»

Cloud Is All About Security

— “Open source has always provided a number of benefits, including easing adoption costs, propagating a better understanding of the technology, and allowing for faster evolution and commercialization of products and services based on it,” noted Terry Woloszyn, Founder & CEO, Leeward Security Ltd., in this exclusive Q...
May 21 10:30:00 am GMT / Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal»

Orange’s Flexible Computing IaaS platform spreads to North America and Asia

— The multinational-targeting cloud platform is currently based on in-house technology, but France Telecom's business services arm is considering options such as OpenStack for the future.
May 21 07:15:52 am GMT / GigaOM iaas»

The Answer to Data Scientist Scarcity Lies in Automation

— If zettabytes of data exist, why is less than 1% of the world’s data being analyzed today? Seasoned entrepreneur and startup CEO Radhika Subramanian believes that the inability to analyze and gain value from Big Data is that organizations are taking a services-centered approach. As the title of the session implies, S...
May 20 12:15:00 pm GMT / Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal»

Apptio Closes $45 Million E Round

— Apptio, which knows how to gauge the total cost of IT services, has gotten a mighty $45 million E round that it means to invest in its platform and its international expansion, immediately in Western Europe. Counting the new money the company has now seen $136 million in funding since late 2007. The latest round was ...
May 19 11:00:00 am GMT / Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal»

Part 2 | Understand the Impact of IT on Business

— Part 2 of a two part blog series looking at the journey enterprise IT departments take as they increasingly seek to understand the relationships and impact of IT infrastructure performance on application performance and business services. Through observation, Fred notices that even though his alarms, based on dynami...
May 18 03:00:00 pm GMT / Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal»

Backupify Is Phasing Out Free Consumer Products; Drops Support For Facebook Personal Profiles, Blogger, Picassa And Flickr

— Earlier this week we reported on how Backupify was closing down TweetBackup, a free service to back up your Twitter account that it acquired in 2010; now we have confirmed that, as we'd heard, this is part of a bigger plan at the company to phase out consumer services altogether, as Backupify focuses its efforts on pai...
May 17 05:06:27 pm GMT / TechCrunchIT»

Calculating the True Value of Industry Specific Clouds

— Industry-specific clouds are those PaaS, IaaS, and SaaS services that are tailored for a specific vertical, such as transportation, retail, finance, and healthcare. IDC sees a $65 billion market in these industry solutions for 2013, rising to $100 billion in 2016. The value of industry-specific clouds is that business...
May 17 01:15:00 pm GMT / Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal»

Google To Sell Compute Engine By the Minute

— Google’s Compute Engine, its interpretation of Amazon Web Services’ EC2, is here, 11 months after it was announced and a little late to the party with Amazon. It’s now available for anybody who’s interested, not just the chosen few. To differentiate itself from AWS, Google’s widgetry will be sold by the min...
May 17 10:30:00 am GMT / Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal»

IBM Cited as a Leader in Business Consulting Services Worldwide

— IBM today announced that IT analyst firm International Data Corporation named IBM Global Business Services as a leader in the IDC Marketscape: Worldwide Business Consulting Services 2013 Vendor Analysis. E-mail this page Save to del.icio.us ...
May 17 01:05:31 am GMT / IBM Press Releases - Services and solutions - United States»

Getting a Grasp on Services Management

— HP Software today announced four products that aim to tackle the thorny reality that traditional apps deployment is broken, and that the new requirements make automation and comprehensive management an inescapable necessity. HP is also banking on the role it can play as a neutral party to better orchestrate the apps li...
May 16 04:45:00 pm GMT / Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal»

Google Fiber Matters: 10 Reasons Why

— Google Fiber is slowly but surely expanding around the United States. And in the process, it's making companies and consumers think twice about their current services.
May 16 03:25:00 am GMT / IT Infrastructure - RSS Feed»

L’Oréal USA Gains Purchasing Power with IBM Services and Cloud Analytics

— IBM announced today a major three-year agreement with L’Oréal USA for expert procurement services using an advanced cloud analytics solution that will transform the way L’Oréal USA buys from its network of North American suppliers. The new services will enable the company to bring beauty products to consum...
May 15 12:01:58 pm GMT / IBM Press Releases - Services and solutions - United States»

Zapier Launches API-Monitoring Service To Catch Issues And Outages

— Zapier, a service that automates tasks between online services, has launched a tool that monitors 200 APIs, sometimes catching an outage before the provider does. The new tool monitors the uptime and downtime of every API on Zapier. It is designed to monitor the realtime status of popular web APIs and their impact ...
May 13 06:12:58 pm GMT / TechCrunchIT»

Dell and OnApp cooperate on pretested cloud packages

— OnApp and Dell have teamed up to create pretested cloud packages for service providers and make it easier for them to roll out services, which could result in more competition in the cloud space.
May 09 01:52:00 pm GMT / Computerworld Dell News»

Can Microsoft succeed as a DaaS provider with Mohoro?

— The recent rumors of Microsoft working on a hosted virtual desktop (DaaS) solution to add to their cloud services offering may actually end up being one of the most viable options for organizations who already rely heavily on Microsoft infrastructure to run their business. Having all of your core services being deliv...
May 09 12:40:02 pm GMT / The Virtualization Practice»

Microsoft’s Christian Belady Speaking at Uptime Symposium on the Cloud’s Impact on Data Centers

— Microsoft’s General Manager of Data Center Services Christian Belady will present on Wednesday, May 15 at the Uptime Symposium in Santa Clara, Calif., discussing the company’s cloud infrastructure strategy and how the latest technology trends are influencing to changes in our data centers.
May 01 04:05:00 pm GMT / ms datacenters»

Data Analytics in the Cloud – Microsoft Azure SQL Reporting

— First, let me say I have been looking forward to using this service for some time. As a long time user of SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) I was eager to use this technology in some of my cloud computing projects. I was disappointed a few months ago, however, when I started down the path […]
Apr 30 08:15:25 pm GMT / Cloud Computing»

State of Oklahoma Partners with IBM to Cut Costs, Improve Quality of Service to Citizens

— IBM announced today that it is helping the state of Oklahoma save $15 million over the next five years and ultimately improve services to state residents. E-mail this page Save to del.icio.us Digg this ...
Apr 09 01:02:44 am GMT / IBM Press Releases - Services and solutions - United States»

Dell at Microsoft Management Summit 2013

— We look forward to the Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) in Las Vegas each year. This event gives us the opportunity to share our services and solutions with the best and brightest IT technologists… and to learn from their experiences. At MMS, we gather the ideas and requirements that fuel future solutions and e...
Apr 04 03:00:00 pm GMT / Inside Enterprise IT»

Cisco buys another foreign company as Chambers lives up to his promise

— Cisco announced the planned acquisition of British firm Ubiquisys on Wednesday, continuing two trends: A focus on foreign companies as a statement against U.S. repatriation taxes and expansion of services for telecommunications companies.
Apr 03 10:05:14 pm GMT / Cisco»

How Microsoft Operates One of the World’s Largest Cloud Infrastructures

— Microsoft has delivered online services since 1994 with the launch of MSN. Today, our engineering and operations teams build, manage and secure a$15 billion cloud-scale infrastructure that powers over 200 services for consumers and businesses 24x7x365 via globally distributed data centers, networks, and security mecha...
Apr 03 04:35:00 pm GMT / ms datacenters»

After the Fact: Distributed Denial of Service

— It is easy to slow down Internet servers by harnessing thousands of computers to simultaneously send streams of data to a single address, but careful monitoring by Web services can protect against such attacks.
Apr 02 12:00:37 am GMT / NYT > Business Computing»

NJVC Cloudcuity Management Portal to Provide Secure Cloud Brokerage Services to NCOIC for NGA

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Mar 28 06:00:00 pm GMT / Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson»

In the Storage Array or in VMFS?

— VMware provides a rich menu of storage services, which can be used to enhance commodity storage systems. However, VMware can provide more services for the application if they can offload the cycles that are used for storage services to intelligent storage systems. VMware realizes this and provides VAAI to offload servi...
Mar 26 11:13:49 pm GMT / Hu Yoshida»

Mobile carriers, vendors eager to virtualize networks

— There has to be a sea change in how mobile operators build their networks and implement new services, and virtualization will make it possible, carriers and equipment vendors say.
Feb 28 07:09:00 pm GMT / Computerworld Cisco News»

It's 2013! Things Break, Services Falter. Move Forward.

— It's a New Year, I have the cloud, but I still have many of the same old Single Points of Failure. It's known that a single point of failure (SPOF) is a risk. It's an Achilees heel so to speak. That goes for people, companies, planets, AMI's, AZ's, Regions, Countries, or beers in the fridge. Wha...
Jan 02 09:31:17 pm GMT / ProductionScale RSS Feed»

SMARTer 2020 Study Offers Further Support for Global Carbon Reductions Potential of the IT Industry

— Our colleagues on Microsoft’s environmental sustainability highlighted a study recently that helps put our roles in Global Foundation Services into perspective. The new SMARTer 2020 study concluded the potential of the IT industry to reduce annual emissions by 9.1 GtCO2e by 2020, which is a staggering seven times gr...
Dec 14 04:00:00 pm GMT / ms datacenters»

On Puppy Farm Vendors, Petco and The Remarkable Analog To Security Consultancies/Integrators…

— Imagine you are part of a company in the “Pet Industry.”  Let’s say dogs, specifically. Imagine further that regardless of whether you work on the end that feeds the dog, provides services focused on grooming the dog, sells accessories for the dog, actually breeds and raises the dog or deals with cle...
Dec 05 11:31:09 pm GMT / Rational Survivability»

The Tyranny Of Taming (Network) Traffic: Steering, Service Insertion and Chaining…

— You know what’s hard? Describing the difficulties to anyone who doesn’t work inside of an actual “networking” company why the notions of traffic steering, services insertion and chaining across multiple physical boxes and/or combinations of physical and virtual service instantiations is freaking...
Nov 30 05:35:40 am GMT / Rational Survivability»

HP offers new low-cost SaaS service desk

— HP, which has a long history in providing service management tools in the enterprise as on-premise systems, managed services and SaaS offerings, is releasing on Monday an entirely new SaaS product for the service desk, called HP Service Anywhere
Oct 22 05:15:00 pm GMT / Computerworld HP News»

Kodak to Stop Selling Inkjet Printers

— The company, which is in bankruptcy, said it would focus on selling services to businesses.
Oct 01 06:07:23 pm GMT / NYT > Business Computing»

Do Cloudfoundry and OpenShift have a Future?

— I am wondering if Cloudfoundry and OpenShift will become success stories (like Amazon Web Services). The idea of an open source application serving platform sounds intriguing, however, the community pages are somewhat deserted and documentation is poor… After downloading the Cloudfoundry source code, it looks mor...
Aug 03 06:36:39 pm GMT / Cloudy Times»

Savvis sharpens its edge in a competitive market with HP

— Savvis selects HP quad-core, quad processor servers to reduce customer costs for managed hosting services by up to 50 percent
Nov 18 10:29:11 pm GMT / HP Server News & Podcasts»

Do Not Tighten Bolts

— I have a pretty incredible job. My current role has me leading Microsoft’s efforts at designing, constructing, and operating its world-wide Data Center infrastructure in support of our cloud services initiatives, or more correctly “Software + Services”. There aren’t many people around tasked with this kind of c...
Jul 16 11:51:00 am GMT / ms datacenters»

Napa Valley Film Festival & AWS

— Amazon Web Services is sponsoring the new Animated Short Films category at this year's Napa Valley Film Festival. This new category will encourage animated short film submissions and the use of technology to bring a story to life. We hope...
Jan 01 07:00:00 am GMT / Amazon Web Services Blog»