Hybrid Cloud Custom Solutions is the channel partner program that underpins our Sales Consulting Service for Cloud Providers. This combines the sales best practices of Solution Selling with an integrated portfolio of leading Cloud capabilities and professional services, and is underpinned by the same body of knowledge used for our Cloud RFP service for end-user buyers.
Archivo mensual: Agosto 2012
Cloud Computing: Rackspace Moves into Apps; 100% SLAs Pledged
After years of supplying infrastructure one way or another, Rackspace is going to go after the nub of all computing: the application.
The move will give it a new way to sell.
It’s starting by extending critical services to Adobe CQ web content management customers on the so-called “open cloud” using a new version of the key software that works on hybrid and dedicated clouds.
It’s no idle pick. Rackspace’s largest order ever was recently for CQ, the foundation of Adobe’s Web Experience Management (WEM) solution, according to VP of Global Enterprise Solutions Robert Fuller, the head of the responsible unit Rackspace set up at the beginning of the year. Fuller says there’s more customer demand behind that plum contract and Adobe is a “willing partner.”
ERP 2.0 Is Here to Conquer SMBs
BizSlate.com just launched the beta of its innovative Software-as-a-Service supply chain solution that empowers small and mid-sized companies to compete on the global stage. BizSlate ERP comes with a host of features that cut order processing time by up to 90 percent and let wholesale and distribution companies monitor and quickly diagnose operational issues at a fraction of the cost of conventional enterprise-resource-planning solutions. We had some questions for CEO Marc Kalman.
Small businesses are hungry for someone to solve their biggest supply chain problems. We feel BizSlate offers something special. Something that no other ERP for small distribution businesses offers. Other ERPs are either too complex and cost prohibitive, or if affordable they offer businesses little or no ROI. It is not surprising that 50% of small distribution businesses continue using QuickBooks and spreadsheets even though they have clearly outgrown it and need something more. Working with our customer steering committee, we’ve smashed the mold of old school traditional ERPs, and incorporate fresh ideas that coincide with the way small distribution companies operate their businesses. We give them power…we give them efficiency…we give them intelligence…and we do this with a very easy to use, intuitive interface. Word spreads fast when you finally solve the problems small businesses have been coping with for years.
Service Orchestration Gets a New Platform
The ServiceMesh platform allows organizations to accelerate the adoption of cloud services across the enterprise and move business applications into the cloud with governance and control.
The platform provides Global 2000 enterprises with a consolidated platform for the consistent management, governance, orchestration and delivery of cloud applications, platforms and services. The control over application services — without squelching the innovation of self-provisioned benefits — has become acute for many organizations. Managing services by each cloud, SaaS provider or on-premises platform is complex, expensive and unwieldy.
Zenith Infotech to Exhibit at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley
SYS-CON Events announced today that Zenith Infotech, an international company that specializes in delivering innovative business continuity and cloud computing solutions for IT service providers, will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 11th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 5–8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Zenith Infotech is a leading provider of business continuity, telepresence and cloud computing solutions. Zenith Infotech partners with over 6,000 IT service providers worldwide to help them grow their business using award-winning solutions without increasing their overhead.
Public Cloud or Private Cloud, That Is the Question? Or Is It?
When you get down to brass tacks, the cloud is simply a server somewhere outside the four walls of your enterprise. Whether you share (multi-tenanted) space on the server or have one all to yourself, the same question revolving security still pertain. Is it safe? The answer lies on how well you have prepared and monitor your processes despite where your data sits.
You realize the overarching benefits of the cloud, but you are a bit wary regarding the security of any data stored and transacted in these virtualized environments. But the cost-saving benefits and user preference and resource delegation of the cloud are such that not integrating some processes, applications and data is counterproductive to your overall IT strategy. So you decide that a private cloud is a more secure route that its public counterpart. But are you really any more secure?
The quick answer is no. But not for the reason you might think. A private cloud is infrastructure operated solely for a single organization. The only difference is that your data is segregated from any other organization. And if that brings you any semblance of peace, then it’s a good investment. It all depends on your business need. It offers greater control, but means you shoulder all the overhead, updating, risk management and related costs. And if you factor in the compliance requirements for financial or healthcare related companies, it might be the better option.
Five Tips for Securing Student Data in the Cloud
There are a few absolutes when it comes to school. First, lunches will always be terrible. Second, your locker will be too small to fit your oversized textbooks. Finally, there’s a high likelihood that some of your student data will be stored in the cloud.
This student data includes demographic information, test results, transcripts, email exchanges, grades, attendance history, contact information and more. It’s a sensitive mix of detail that, if exposed, could prove damaging to the affected students and the educational institution. According to privacyrights.org, more than 1.8 million student records have been breached in the last 18 months. In one frightening incident earlier this year at the University of Tampa, a breach exposed the social security numbers, photo IDs and dates of birth of thousands of students and faculty members.
How the Internet Works (Infographic)
Where Cloud Computing Takes Us
Hybrid computing typically is combining private and public clouds. We feel that many of our customers still have a traditional environment, and that traditional environment will not go away anytime soon. However, they’re actually looking at combining that traditional environment, the data that’s in that traditional environment and some of the functionality that’s out there, with the public cloud and the private cloud.
The whole concept of hybrid delivery is tying that together. It goes beyond hybrid computing or hybrid cloud. It adds the whole dimension of the traditional environment. And, to our mind, the traditional environment isn’t going to go away anytime soon.
Kodak Google v Apple Patent Auction on Hold
Poor benighted Kodak. It thinks its 1,100 patent, which it has to sell to pay off its creditors, are worth somewhere between $2.2 billion and $2.6 billion but was reportedly able to attract initial auction bids of only $500 million from bidders like the rival consortia led by Apple and Google.
It’s altogether a far cry from Nortel’s $4.5 billion experience last year.
The consortia reportedly involve Google-RPX-Samsung-LG-HTC on the one hand and Apple-Microsoft-Intellectual Ventures on the other.