Riverbed Tightens Up Its Alliance with VMware

Riverbed Technology, the application performance outfit, has some new solutions developed in collaboration with its buddy VMware that are supposed to provide a reliable and consistent desktop virtualization end-user experience in organizations that deploy VMware’s Horizon View 5.2.
The experience is supposed to be seamless regardless of where the data is.
The partnership between Riverbed and VMware has resulted in the support of several Riverbed performance solutions in Horizon View deployments, including certifying Riverbed’s Granite widgetry for acceleration, control and management in virtualized desktop initiatives.

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Personal Cloud Usage Influences Company Adoption: CDW

As you go, so goes your company. At least in terms of which cloud apps you use that find their way into the workplace.
Showing that work imitates life, a CDW report surveyed 1,242 IT professionals and found that a major driver of corporate cloud adoption is users’ experiences of consumer services.
Nearly three quarters of respondents (73%) claimed that, in their company, employees’ use of personal cloud apps has “significantly influenced” the decision to move wholesale to the cloud. Similarly, just over three in five (61%) cloud-using organizations agreed that employee personal devices have culminated in a faster move to the cloud, according to an article on CloudComputingNews.net.
It’s also the case with IT professionals – two-thirds agreed that their personal use of cloud has influenced the company in terms of adoption.
Another aspect of the CDW research was a detailed look at the infrastructure being moved over to cloud on a company-by-company basis. Storage software was the most frequently cited service moved to the cloud by SMBs (40% small businesses, 35% medium businesses), while conferencing and collaboration tools were the most popular for large organizations (40%).

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Keynote Videos and Session Presentations from Parallels Summit 2013 Now Available

If you missed Parallels Summit 2013, or if you want to relive the great ideas, the keynote videos and breakout sessions presentations are posted and available for downloading and viewing. Some of the compelling topics from this year’s event include:

  • ·         Next generation solutions for the next generation cloud, Keynote presentation, Birger Steen, CEO, Parallels
  • ·         Top trends you must consider to compete in the cloud, Parallels SMB Insights 2013
  • ·         Introducing Parallels Cloud Server and its advantages
  • ·         Enabling bundles of cloud services with APS 2.0

And, you will find much more rich content from Parallels Summit 2013, all right here.

MFX to Exhibit at Cloud Expo New York

SYS-CON Events announced today that MFX, a leading provider of IT Infrastructure solutions and business application solutions, will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
Founded in 2001 as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited, a multi-billion dollar financial services holding company, MFX delivers cost effective infrastructure solutions matching your needs and the dynamic and growing data demands in industry today. MFX offerings meet these demands through a variety of infrastructure solution options priced to match the variability of your business. MFX Infrastructure Solutions are secure, dependable and proven, and are supported by an experienced staff of specialists who deliver our solutions with unparalleled service quality. Speed, Innovation and Technology are what we provide.

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Top Considerations for Your Hybrid Cloud Environment

Over the past five or so years, the phrase “cloud computing” has been tossed around frequently, in various contexts and quite often, meaning different things to different people. If you’re like most enterprises, you’ve already explored what cloud computing means for your organization. Businesses everywhere would love to develop or run applications in a cloud environment that accommodates workload bursts or app testing situations without having to purchase additional server equipment for what could essentially be a very short-lived need. In 2012, cloud computing truly became mainstream – and if you aren’t implementing the cloud in your infrastructure yet, you’re most likely planning for it in 2013.
Alternatively, you might be rethinking your cloud approach. Many organizations have implemented a cloud infrastructure that is impulsive and arbitrary, causing more problems than it solves and costing an IT organization time, money and resources. The development of cloud in the enterprise has proven to have a learning curve – one that will now lead to more and more organizations working to seamlessly combine in-house private clouds with the benefits of public and commercially packaged private cloud services in a hybrid mix.

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Cloud Expo New York: Managing Legal Risks in Cloud Computing

Saas, IaaS, PaaS. Cloud computing is growing at a breathtaking speed and is the fastest-growing means by which technology companies offer their products today. Regardless of the industry, cloud computing is revolutionizing the way companies manage their applications and data processing, while simultaneously being one of the least understood. However, before companies go flying in the clouds, they need to be aware of the significant legal risks and implications associated with cloud computing.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Dan Pepper, managing member of Pepper Law Group, examines how cloud computing can be adopted and the dangers avoided on a practical level.

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Axis Communications to Exhibit at Cloud Expo New York

SYS-CON Events announced today that Axis Communications, the world leader in network video, will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
As the market leader in network video, Axis is leading the way to a smarter, safer, more secure world – driving the shift from analog to digital video surveillance. Offering network video solutions for professional installations, Axis’ products and solutions are based on an innovative, open technology platform.

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Public Cloud’s Got a Silver Lining: Gartner

The worldwide public cloud market is projected to grow 18.5% this year to $131 billion, up from $111 billion last year, according to Gartner.
That number includes a 47.3% jump in Infrastructure-as-a-Service to $9 billion. IaaS was up 42.4% to $6.1 billion last year.
Gartner expects $677 billion to be spent on cloud services between 2013 and 2016 and estimates that $310 billion of that will go for cloud-based advertising. Cloud advertising was 48% of the total market last year.
Gartner found that business process services was the second-largest segment last year, accounting for 28% of the cloud market, followed by Software-as-a-Service at 14.7%, cloud system infrastructure at 5.5%, cloud management and security services at 2.8% and Platform-as-a-Service at 1%.

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The Open Source Cloud

“Open source cloud is enabling a vast developer community that is today building applications to solve the points of integration in this growing area,” stated Bennett Bauer, Director of Cloud Marketing at DreamHost, in the exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “Pure, built-in-the-cloud applications that resolve the social, mobile, analytics lifecycle through the cloud,” Bauer continued, “and applications that are not hamstrung by trying to integrate traditional corporate data and custom functionality are proliferating.”
Cloud Computing Journal: The move to cloud isn’t about saving money, it is about saving time. – Agree or disagree?
Bennett Bauer: It’s about both, even in these early days. Shifting workloads gradually over to the cloud, starting from the easiest to the hardest to move, can start the money and time savings immediately. For a few years now we’ve seen development projects, analytics, basic SaaS applications, and ready storage in the cloud served up as needed. The value proposition is already proven: let’s not hold expensive assets that take way too long to provision when you only need them for peak project work, analysis, and maybe seasonal spikes. Throw on top of this the increasing number of software applications written to be cloud friendly, shared among a great many users, available instantly, and eliminating the need to hold expensive licenses, and the value grows exponentially. In summary, we see prices dropping rapidly, and we likewise see ease of use and application scenarios improving. It is the latter, if anything, that will increase the time savings factor and drive adoption.

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