Cloud Computing

Enrollment Rx, LLC is pleased to announce that Digital Media Arts College (DMAC) has selected Enrollment Rx as the Enrollment Management CRM solution for the school’s Marketing and Admissions Departments. Schiller Park, IL (PRWEB) July 16, 2010 Enrollment Rx, LLC is pleased to announce that Digital Media Arts College (DMAC) has selected Enrollment Rx as the Enrollment Management CRM solution for the school’s Marketing and Admissions Departments. Enrollment Rx augments DMAC’s legacy Student Information System (SIS) with a powerful product that manages the full life-cycle of prospective students, and empowers the school to accurately track, control, and report upon their

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New Facility Delivers Commercial Development and Test and Desktop Cloud for European Clients EHNINGEN, Germany and ARMONK, N.Y., July 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a new IBM Cloud Computing Competence Center in Ehningen, Germany, which will provide a broad range of cloud solutions and services to clients locally and internationally.  Located in Ehningen, Germany, home to IBM’s largest data center in Europe, the new facility will host a range of technology platforms and optimized service delivery processes, enabling its clients to harness the immense potential offered by cloud computing. “The opening of this center places IBM in

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SOURCE: Stoneware, Inc. Jul 15, 2010 10:30 ET STONEWARE, INC. Announces the Release of webNetwork 6.0 INDIANAPOLIS, IN–(Marketwire – July 15, 2010) –  Stoneware, Inc., a leader in private cloud computing, announced the release and immediate availability of webNetwork version 6.0. webNetwork 6.0 provides customers with the ability to create their own private cloud platform and the virtual web desktop to access it. webNetwork 6.0 features include: New virtual web desktop interface webOS-v6 Cutting-edge push technology for deploying events, actions, and applications to webOS users without browser plug-ins Network “Aware” support makes the webNetwork private cloud cognizant of the underlying network infrastructure and

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The cloud computing market is overheated, and many cloud providers are making some very avoidable blunders As the cloud computing market continues to heat up, I’m seeing some very profound mistakes made by both established and emerging cloud computing providers. Watch out for these blunders as you explore possible cloud providers. Cloud computing mistake No. 1: Not focusing on the APIs Whether the vendor is providing applications, infrastructure, or platforms, their clouds need to provide API access. APIs should be required for everything from accessing a credit report, such as for a CRM provider, to provisioning a virtual server, such

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Tools that benchmark performance promise to reveal the strengths and weaknesses of competing cloud providers. New software developed to measure the performance of different cloud computing platforms could make it easier for prospective users to figure out which of these increasingly popular services is right for them. Right now, developers have little means of comparing cloud providers, which lease access to computing power based in vast and distant data centers. Until actually migrating their software to a cloud service, they can’t know exactly how fast that service will perform calculations, retrieve data, or respond to sudden spikes in demand. But

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By BRIDGET CAREY The Miami Herald MIAMI — For the past several years, cloud computing has been all the buzz in tech circles. Now mainstream South Florida companies are catching on, using the cloud to trim technology costs, share files from remote locations and even run their phone systems. “It just makes life easier,” says Bob Berkowitz, president of Multivision Video and Film in South Miami, who uses cloud computing to back-up data, collaborate on projects and manage his accounting. But what, exactly, is “it”? In simple terms, the “cloud” is the Internet. Traditionally, companies have stored and processed data

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SAN ANTONIO, Jul 19, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Rackspace(R) Hosting (RAX 16.64, -0.66, -3.82%) today announced the launch of OpenStack(TM), an open-source cloud platform designed to foster the emergence of technology standards and cloud interoperability. Rackspace, the leading specialist in the hosting and cloud computing industry, is donating the code that powers its Cloud Files and Cloud Servers public-cloud offerings to the OpenStack project. The project will also incorporate technology that powers the NASA Nebula Cloud Platform. Rackspace and NASA plan to actively collaborate on joint technology development and leverage the efforts of open-source software developers worldwide. “Modern scientific computation

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Analyst firm, Gartner, published a set of guidelines intended to ease relationships between cloud vendors and users. As cloud computing becomes more pervasive, the ecosystem (including vendors and analysts) is seeking ways to align expectations among relevant parties. Gartner specified “six rights and one responsibility of service customers that will help providers and consumers establish and maintain successful business relationships:” The right to retain ownership, use and control one’s own data – Service consumers should retain ownership of, and the rights to use, their own data. The right to service-level agreements that address liabilities, remediation and business outcomes – All computing

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