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Cloud Computing: Taking the Message of Restore to the Cloud

«We launched a product called ShadowProtect. It takes backup snapshots every 15 minutes and giving the customer those recovery points for customers to decide when and where they want to do that restore,» explained Matt Urmston, Product Manager at StorageCraft, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 10th International Cloud Expo, held June 11-14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City.
Cloud Expo 2012 Silicon Valley, November 5–8, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading Cloud industry players in the world.

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Box Gets a $125 Million Round

Box, the cloud storage and file-sharing start-up, has gotten a massive $125 million E round. That makes roughly $284 million since Box started in 2005.
Most of the new money – $100 million, in fact – is coming from General Atlantic, which is also contributing one of the operating partners, former GE CIO Gary Reiner, to the Box board. Reiner is also on HP’s board.
It’s believed Box was valued at $1.2 billion as the Wall Street Journal suggested last week. It’s expected to go public next year, but could delay to burnish its P&L.
Current Box investors Bessemer Venture Partners, DFJ Growth, New Enterprise Associates, SAP Ventures and Scale Venture Partners, as well as new investor Social+Capital Partnership also kicked in. All Things Digital thinks there are also two undisclosed institutional investors.

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SYS-CON.tv Interview: The Decentralized Cloud

“We are at Cloud Expo to talk about how people can use the cloud for data backup, for better data protection in a little bit of a different way,” noted Margaret Dawson, VP of Product Management & Marketing at Symform, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 10th International Cloud Expo, held June 11–14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City.
Cloud Expo 2012 Silicon Valley, November 5–8, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading Cloud industry players in the world.

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Savvis to Buy Ciber Global ITO Business

Savvis and Ciber have entered into an agreement under which Savvis will purchase certain assets of Ciber’s global IT Outsourcing (ITO) business for $7 million in cash at the time of closing, plus additional future consideration in the form of a cash earn-out payment based on results through December 2013.
According to Jim Ousley, CEO of Savvis and president of CenturyLink’s Enterprise Markets Group, «The acquisition of Ciber’s global ITO business will complement Savvis’ existing ITO assets by expanding the organization’s capabilities for application management services and help desk support.»

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SaaSID partners with EMC Greenplum

Cloud application auditing and security company, SaaSID, has announced its partnership with big data and business analytics company, EMC Greenplum.

EMC is a global leader in cloud computing, enabling the world’s largest organisations to store, manage, protect and analyse their information: transforming their operations. In July 2010, EMC acquired Greenplum, a vendor of database technology that is optimised for large scale data warehousing and business analytics.
SaaSID’s software provides organisations with a simple way of provisioning, controlling and reporting on cloud-based application use, to extend corporate information security, identity management and governance to the browser. All user interaction with applications managed by SaaSID is provided in a detailed audit trail, to help organisations to maintain regulatory compliance when they adopt cloud-based applications.

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Big Data Generalized Linear Models with Revolution R Enterprise

R’s glm function for generalized linear modeling is very powerful and flexible: it supports all of the standard model types (binomial/logistic, Gamma, Poisson, etc.) and in fact you can fit any distribution in the exponential family (with the family argument). But if you want to use it on a data set with millions or rows, and especially with more than a couple of dozen variables (or even just a few categorical variables with many levels), this is a big computational task that quickly grows in time as the data gets larger, or even exhaust the available memory. The rxGlm function…

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Cloud Encryption – Identifying the Right Cloud Database Encryption Strategy

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) database deployment is one of the most common cloud implementations we encounter, yet cloud encryption for databases remains a complex challenge. We often get questions around cloud database encryption methods (row/column level, vs. full disk, vs. application level encryption), and I would like to spend some time reviewing pros and […]

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