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SingTel and Optus Selected to Join VMware vCloudTM Datacenter Service Program
Sep 1st
SAN FRANCISCO, CA–(Marketwire – September 1, 2010) – Today at VMworld 2010, Vmware (NYSE: VMW) and SingTel announced that SingTel and its Australian subsidiary, Optus, are the first telecommunications operators in Asia Pacific to be selected to join the VMware vCloud™ Datacenter Service program.
SingTel’s VMware vCloud™ Datacenter Service is designed and certified to be secure, compliant and offer up to 99.999% availability. It is based on VMware infrastructure comprising VMware vSphere™, VMware vCloud™ Director and VMware vShield™. The relationship empowers SingTel and Optus to help customers accelerate their journey to cloud computing more seamlessly, and enjoy the cost and business-transformation benefits of IT as a Service.
Mr. Bill Chang, SingTel’s executive vice president of Business Group, said: “As the leading provider of cloud-based services in Asia Pacific, SingTel is excited to work with VMware to offer world-class cloud computing services. We seek to allow businesses in the region to improve productivity, simplify their operations and significantly reduce their operating costs.
He added: “Through this relationship, SingTel and Optus can enable enterprises to extend their private cloud resources into our trusted, secure hybrid cloud solution. This allows our customers to scale much more effectively for their peak load demands. By providing the benefits of world-class computing resources without the heavy costs and complexities of owning and managing ICT infrastructure, our cloud computing services give our customers a vital competitive edge.”
Andrew Dutton, senior vice president and general manager, VMware Asia Pacific Japan, said: “We are making interoperable, enterprise-class public clouds a reality. VMware is pleased that SingTel is one of the first players globally to come onboard with us and feel confident the public cloud services they launch will offer compelling agility, and economic, security, compliance and quality-of-service benefits that have been significant barriers to broad enterprise adoption of existing public cloud services.”
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Enomaly
Aug 31st
Enomaly is the leader in empowering telecom, IDC and managed hosting operators to deliver the benefits of Cloud Computing to their customers As one of the earliest pioneers of cloud computing, Enomaly has the experience to help you monetize the cloud.
Our Elastic Computing Platform (Enomaly ECP) has often been described as the world’s first true IaaS platform.
Our v1 and v2 product generations were deployed over 15,000 times around the world.
Enomaly ECP 3, our current-generation technology, has benefited from our 6+ years of cloud computing leadership, and today is used by telecom and IDC operators in North America, the UK, Europe, and Asia to deliver cloud computing services to their customers.
Enomaly ECP 3, available in the core Service Provider Edition and the security-enhanced High Assurance Edition, is the only third-generation platform of its kind, and the most massively scalable, highly reliable, lightweight, and feature-packed IaaS platform in the industry.
Enomaly is based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, with additional team members on the West Coast of North America, in Europe, and Asia. Click here to read more about our management team, or to contact us.
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First Mobile Cloud Platform for the Enterprise
Aug 24th
Model Metrics Introduces the First Mobile Cloud Platform for the Enterprise
Next Generation 2GO Cloud Platform Decreases Time to Market for Enterprise-Ready Mobile Applications Leveraging Adobe, Amazon Web Services, Google and Salesforce.com Technologies; Announces Expanded Support for Adobe AIR on Android
CHICAGO, IL–(Marketwire – August 24, 2010) – Model Metrics, the leader in cloud computing services for the enterprise, today introduced the first mobile cloud platform for the enterprise, enabling business users to take critical business functionality with them, wherever they go. Based on the company’s 1,300 plus custom, mobile and mutli-cloud deployments including Crescent Healthcare and Elkay Manufacturing, Model Metrics 2GO Cloud Platform leverages the industry’s leading cloud technologies from Amazon Web Services, Google and salesforce.com to deliver enterprise-class mobile solutions with expanded device support, including Android and any device running Adobe® AIR®, HTML5 or iOS.
Mobilizing the Cloud
Model Metrics 2GO Cloud Platform was developed to address customer demand for enterprise-class mobile cloud solutions that are scalable, highly customizable and easy to implement in order to make cloud computing work for mobile workforces and to support today’s trend of more business interactions taking place on mobile devices. According to Juniper Research, the mobile cloud computing market is expected to reach $9.5 billion by 2014, with the majority of this growth being driven by businesses (ABI Research: ‘Mobile Cloud Computing’ the Next Big Thing, Juniper Research: $9.5 billion by 2014).
The 2GO Cloud Platform:
- Designed for field representatives and other mobile workers who need a mobile and/or offline solution delivered quickly to simplify everyday tasks and enable productivity while on the go. Users experience seamless performance whether on or offline and see an immediate impact to their productivity with streamlined clickstreams and usability.
- Decreases time to market for customized mobile cloud solutions with pre-built functionality that meets 80% of business needs out of the box, and is significantly more cost-effective than solutions developed from scratch.
- Provides enterprises with multiple device options including Android tablets and smart phones, iPhones and iPads, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile and traditional tablet PCs enabled by Adobe Flash® Builder™ for Force.com, HTML5 and Salesforce Mobile.
New to Model Metrics 2GO Cloud Platform
- New modular architecture that enables enterprises to pick and choose functionality from a series of pre-built, mobile-enabled components to rapidly build and deploy mobile applications that meet their specific business needs.
- Additional device support includes a tested, pre-release version for Android devices utilizing Adobe AIR, with a general availability release expected at the end of 2010. Android device functionality includes advanced business functions such as bar code scanning integrated with Salesforce CRM out of the box.
- In addition to life sciences, pre-packaged solutions now available for consumer goods and retail leveraging multiple 2GO Cloud Platform modules to improve field sales and service execution and enabling clienteling. Includes order entry and bar code scanning, advanced signature capture and call routing.
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Cloud storage lives up to the hype
Aug 23rd
Very Interesting Report By Tom Henderson and Brendan Allen, at Network World
In our continuing series of groundbreaking tests of cloud computing services, we take a look at what enterprises can expect if they decide to entrust data to a cloud storage provider. We found that cloud storage lives up to its advance billing in two key areas: cloud storage can be fast and the pay-as-you-go model can be a real cost saver. We also found that security could be an issue for enterprise shops, and the formulas for trying to predict overall costs can be complex.
The services that we tested were Amazon S3, Rackspace’s CloudFiles, Egnyte’s On Demand File Server, Nasuni Cloud Storage, and Nirvanix‘s Storage Delivery Network. Amazon, Rackspace and Nirvanix represent the containerized/object-oriented model. Egnyte embodies the file/folder metaphor, while Nasuni offers a different twist – it’s a front-end that simplifies cloud storage for enterprise customers and connects to other cloud storage vendors on the back end.
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Top 10 Cloud Computing Most Promising Adoption Factors
Aug 20th
Top 10 Cloud Computing Most Promising Adoption Factors
Cloud computing has already fascinated many critics and observers by its progress and fast domination of the IT and Business world. It is on the verge of becoming world premier technology in providing computing services to the organization no matter how small small or big regardless of regional and economical status. It is a bit strange that even those close to this technology that many including CIOs and other concerned professionals still don’t know much about cloud computing.
The Cash Cloud
Cloud computing is estimated to save 20-30 percent of the expenses as compared to the client-server model. This huge saving will attract businesses towards cloud computing. This combination means both will affect and depend on each other.
The Most Important Thing Happening Around
Cloud computing is not only better computing but it is also very agile technology which meets the requirements of fast changing business trends. Cloud computing is introducing the new ways of business, and business changes the shape of cloud according to its own needs.
Shift to Cloud Computing is Inevitable
It is estimated that by 2012 only about 20 percent of businesses will be without cloud computing. The concept of business firms’ privately owned IT infrastructure will disappear by then.
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The Top 10 Cloud Computing Trends
Aug 19th
Cloud computing is the technology of today and tomorrow.
People, companies, businesses, and organizations are fast shifting to cloud computing from client-server model. It is very hard to guess what cloud 
computing will exactly look like in the future or how it will bring changes in IT. However, we can see some trends, IT and business world are setting in cloud computing.
Following are the top 10 trends observed in cloud-computing;
Building Private Clouds
Larger organizations and enterprises are building their own private computing cloud. IBM’s “Blue Cloud” is such an example. Microsoft introduced its private cloud just last month. Private clouds are huge datacenters possessing information and data of all types. They remove the security concerns about cloud computing.
Shift in IT skills of the Professionals
With the paradigm shift from client server model to the cloud computing model, IT workers will need new sets of skills. They won’t have to operate and maintain IT infrastructure, but now they will have to know how to extract and use the best information from computing clouds.
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The Security Benefits of Cloud Computing
Aug 15th
The Security Benefits of Cloud Computing. Yes, believe it or not there are some!
Cloud computing offers many advantages and some disadvantages while offering its servers to be used by customers. Security is both an advantage and disadvantage of the cloud-based environment. Because of the immense size, skilled and dedicated professionals of the cloud providers offer improved security, privacy and confidentiality of your data. 
Security Because of Large Scale
Large scale implementation of anything is much cheaper than that of small scales. Cloud computing servers provide their services to a large number of businesses and companies. It is easier and more economical for them to make sure that their system is 100% secure from hackers, accidents, and bugs. They can easily afford all types of defensive measures like filtering, patch management, and cryptography techniques. And lets not forget that it truly is in their best interest to protect your data and maintain you as a long term customer.
Security as Market Demand
Today everyone is searching for foolproof security measure to insure of the safety of important data. Security has ultimately become one of the core factors determining which cloud provider to choose. This has persuaded cloud computing vendors to put special emphasis on security from the very beginning of this technology.
More Chances of Standardization and Collaboration
As you may already know, the majority of the servers will be owned and kept by service providers rather than by individual companies. With this there are more chances for standardization and collaboration for improving security services. This leads to more uniform, open and readily available security services market.
Improved Scaling of Resources
Cloud computing service providers can easily relocate resources and data for filtering, traffic controlling, verification, encryption and other security measures. This ability provides more resilience against security threats.
Advantage of Concentrated Resources
The concentration of resources is potentially dangerous for security, however at the same time, this can be used for improving security by other methods. It allows service providers cheaper physical access and security control. The saved resources in terms of money, time and location can be reallocated to improve security.
Evidence-gathering and Investigation
Cloud computing services offer quick evidence gathering for forensic and investigation purpose. In traditional systems this is attained by turning your server offline, but cloud based servers don’t need to be turned down. The customers can now store logs more cost-effectively, allowing comprehensive logging and increasing performance.
By CloudTweaks
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Cloud Industry Forum moves closer to a UK code of practice for cloud computing
Aug 6th
The Cloud Industry Forum (CIF) has completed a public consultation on a draft UK code of practice for providers of cloud-based services published in April.
The code of practice is aimed at setting up a clear, professional and trustworthy approach to the delivery of cloud services.
More than 200 organisations have reviewed the draft code, which the CIF plans to use as a framework to standardise and certify cloud service providers.
The code has been part of the CIF’s mission since its inception in 2009 for promoting trust, security and transparency within the cloud computing services industry.
Feedback from the consultation process showed 89% of respondents thought the code of practice would be of benefit to the producers and consumers of cloud-based services.
The consultation will be followed by the development of a more detailed code of practice and a pilot implementation, in preparation for an official launch before the end of the year.
The ability to demonstrate robust security and privacy of data was rated as the top requirement for the long-term success of cloud computing by 20.5% of respondents.
A further 17.9% said demonstrable financial benefits for users were needed, while 15.5% said clear accountability of service providers for breaches to service level agreements was critical.
Some 60% said having a dedicated body driving best commercial practice for the industry was of benefit to providers and consumers of cloud services.
Andy Burton, chairman of CIF and chief executive of Fasthosts, said public consultation was crucial in developing a detailed code of practice.
The consultation process has encompassed detailed questioning on a range of issues relating to governance, transparency, capability and accountability, he said.
“We firmly believe that the market needs a credible and certifiable code of practice that provides transparency of cloud services such that consumers can have clarity and confidence in their choice of provider,” he said.
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Model Metrics Introduces Cloud Analytics
Aug 4th
New Service Gives Businesses an Entirely New Level of Visibility Into Their Cloud Computing Data for Better Decision-Making
CHICAGO, IL–(Marketwire – August 4, 2010) – Model Metrics, the leader in cloud computing services for the enterprise, today introduced Model Metrics Cloud Analytics, providing an entirely new way for businesses to leverage their data in the clouds. The new service offering extends the reporting and analytics capabilities in Salesforce and integrates the data in real time to other relevant data sources to enable businesses to access and act on information in powerful new ways.
Reporting and Analytics in the Cloud
Most enterprises find themselves with vast amounts of data, but very little in the way of easily accessible, actionable information. As they move their business operations to the cloud, there is a growing need for advanced reporting and analytics designed specifically for cloud computing data. They also need to be able to integrate this data with data generated from traditional IT systems such as industry specific information like TRx and NRx data in the Life Sciences industry, for example.
