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Cloud Computing

How Ready is the World for the Cloud?

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How Ready is the World for the Cloud?

Europe slips in the cloud-readiness rankings, according to the 2013 BSA Global Cloud Computing Scorecard, as ongoing debates within the EU over privacy laws prove to be an obstacle for the cloud in the continent and beyond. 

Compared with the 2012 scorecard, Germany is down to 4th place (from the 3rd), France is 6th (from 5th), Italy 10th (from 6th), Spain 11th (from 9th) and Poland 12th (from 11th). Only the UK retains the 7th place. 

“We’re seeing patchy progress in the policy landscape for cloud computing,” BSA says. “Mismatched privacy and security rules are making it hard for data to flow across borders. Too many countries are chopping off pieces of the cloud for themselves. This undercuts economies of scale that can benefit everyone. To have a cohesive global marketplace, we need more bridges and fewer barriers.” Read more...

EMC, VMware Detail Pivotal Plans

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EMC, VMware Detail Pivotal Plans

VMware and EMC promise further revenue growth as they launch Pivotal, the separate entity bringing together cloud and big data resources from the two companies.  

First announced back in December 2012, Pivotal is headed by Ex-VMware CEO Paul Maritz and includes 6 primary components-- VMware's Cloud Foundry application platform, GemFire application ingestion software and Spring platform together with EMC's Greenplum big data platform, Cetas data analytics software and the 250-strong Pivotal Labs development team.  

EMC owns 69% of the venture while Read more...

Microsoft Buys into Cloud Monitoring

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Microsoft acquires an addition to Windows Azure-- Washington-based cloud monitoring startup and Microsoft Accelerator program participant MetricsHub. 

CloudThe companies give no financial details on the acquisition. 

MetricsHub specialises in "Active Cloud Monitoring," (aka automated cloud performance management) a technology Microsoft claims helps customers manage cloud services more efficiently at a lower cost. 

Windows Azure customers can now acquire the MetricsHub offering as a pre-release for no charge. 

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VMware Refreshes VDI Offering

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VMware Refreshes VDI Offering

VMware renames and repackages the virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) known as VMware View into the Horizon Suite-- an integrated VDI solution with technology from VMware and its recent acquisitions. 

Brought together in the Horizon View are Project Octopus, Project AppBlast, Project AppShift, ThinApp, Horizon Application Manager and Horizon Mobile, with a single product VMware says can push enterprise assets (files, desktops, SaaS services) to any device, be it PCs, tablets or smartphones. 

Horizon consists of 3 parts:


NTT Enterprise Cloud now Global

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NTT Enterprise Cloud now Global

NTT Communications announces the global availability of its virtualised Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offering, the NTT Enterprise Cloud, through data centres in the UK, US and Asia Pacific. 

The company will open a futher 3 more data centres in Australia, Malaysia and Thailand in March 2013. 

Launched in June 2012 with data centres in Japan and Hong Kong, the NTT Enterprise Cloud uses the open source Openflow SDN standard within its compute and network resource virtualisation. The technology enables upward- and downward-scalable Bandwidth-on-Demand Read more...

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