Cloud Computing, a platform for fast and reliable IT operations

NetApp and Microsoft re-stated its commitment to deliver products and technical integration of technology solutions presents 'cloud computing' or cloud computing, virtualization, and storage management and data offerings. "With this collaboration solutions, customer claims management can improve data center efficiency, reduce costs and improve business agility. NetApp and Microsoft alliance has helped thousands of enterprise customers around the world to be more efficient in running their businesses, "said NetApp President and CEO Tom Georgens, through its official statement said Sunday. "We had the opportunity to succeed this partnership and assist customers in designing and implementing a dynamic data center so that it can actually ... Read Full Story

Pegasystems has announced that they have released new offerings on their Cloud based SmartPaaS platform – Instance Manager™ and Instant Edition™. The according to the write up in their press release : SmartPaaS Instance Manager automates the entire life cycle of requesting, approving, creating and tracking development and test environments for Pegasystems’ SmartBPM solutions. Customers, partners and BPM Centers of Excellence (COE’s) can use this application to provision — in about 30 minutes — secure, high performance environments on Amazon Web Services. It also includes a sophisticated management console and reporting capability. SmartPaaS Instant Edition offers a secure, high performance cloud environment to simplify ... Read Full Story

Having gone through a couple of decades worth of technology conferences, a familiar cycle occurs. For the first couple years, technology-related conferences are attended by engineers and operations people. Only after the technology has passed a couple of feasibility gates and begun to hit the business cycle do sales and marketing people take over. Cloud is now officially past the engineering phase, well into the sales phase – and the business community is scrambling to understand the implications of a virtualized world. At the Cloud Computing Conference and Expo in Santa Clara, California, the opening keynote session venue was completely filled, with the organizer ... Read Full Story

The Cloud Computing Conference and Expo in Santa Clara has come to an end, leaving a fair share of opinion, skepticism, and robust discussion for the period of incubation leading up to the next conference. Many companies have adopted “ Cloud-something or other ” as their new name, and are aggressively bringing their products to market. We observed exhibitors displaying cloud network management software, cloud email and SMS messaging, cloud security – basically cloud everything. According to the conference organizer (SYS-CON’s Jeremy Geelan), the conference exceeded all their expectations. Those expectations were to enlighten attendees on the state of cloud computing, train those who ... Read Full Story

The SMS message was desperate. AJ sent the plea “If I have to see one more picture of a cloud in a PPT I might lose it…” After two days of presentations at the Cloud Computing Conference and Expo, where companies tried to bring the audience up to an Intro to Clouds 101 level, some attendees were grasping for new ideas, new information, new reasons why companies should release their IT models currently based on strict FUD-Factor (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt) compliance, to the new generation of cloud computing. The “same slides, different day” approach was starting leave some attendees a bit glazed, until ... Read Full Story