Adaptive Computing, managers of private cloud and technical computing systems, on Wednesday announced that it has been granted its fifteenth cloud computing patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, U.S. Patent No. 8,179,490. This patent is the most recent in a long line of core cloud computing patents issued to David Jackson, Adaptive Computing’s CTO and founder.

The growing Adaptive Computing patent portfolio covers key cloud computing concepts such as elastic computing, cloudbursting, dynamic provisioning, multi-tenancy, compute resource guarantees, usage billing and more. These patented techniques have formed the basis of Adaptive’s products and are now widely used in the industry. Enterprises today are increasingly moving their computing workloads to public and private clouds, taking advantage of cloud computing’s lower costs and higher service levels. Adaptive Computing’s innovations have made these advantages possible.

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Adaptive Computing, managers of private cloud and technical computing systems, on Wednesday announced that it has been granted its fifteenth cloud computing patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, U.S. Patent No. 8,179,490. This patent is the most recent in a long line of core cloud computing patents issued to David Jackson, Adaptive Computing’s CTO and founder.

The growing Adaptive Computing patent portfolio covers key cloud computing concepts such as elastic computing, cloudbursting, dynamic provisioning, multi-tenancy, compute resource guarantees, usage billing and more. These patented techniques have formed the basis of Adaptive’s products and are now widely used in the industry. Enterprises today are increasingly moving their computing workloads to public and private clouds, taking advantage of cloud computing’s lower costs and higher service levels. Adaptive Computing’s innovations have made these advantages possible.

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Mobile. Cloud. Social Media. These have been the juggernauts most commonly referenced in the IT industry over the last few years. But, there is one other term brewing that is receiving almost as much attention: Big Data.

According to Pat Gelsinger, EMC president and chief operating officer, when there is an IT problem a real smart administrator would start probing around the network and try to figure out what’s going on.

“Now I want to be able to do that in an automated fashion. That’s an area for Big Data,” he told Information Week recently in an article entitled “EMC President: Cloud’s interesting but not dramatic”.

A huge amount of information is now being collected in remote and onsite cloud datacentres around the world. There is thus a rising need for new software solutions that tells IT leaders what to do when a problem arises or even …

Axway on Wednesday detailed the steps IT departments must take to ensure seamless cloud adoption. Cloud computing continues to gain acceptance within the enterprise segment and in turn, software vendors are working in order to meet the need. Specifically enterprise IT has addressed the challenges concerning security, integration with internal applications, and performance and reliability relating to the cloud. With the combination of maturing platforms, generational and cultural shifts, and compelling economics, cloud-based solutions become the undeniable choice for nearly all future non-core technology purchases. Once adopted, the cloud is inherently scalable and can be online within hours, designed specifically on the organizational needs.
From research and customer insights, Axway predicts that by 2014 the cloud will be the primary operating model for enterprise IT organizations, bringing unprecedented change to IT and competitive advantage to early adopters, ultimately redefining the role of enterprise IT itself.

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On June 6th, the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, the government’s cloud security assessment plan known as FedRAMP will begin accepting security certification applications from companies that provide software services and data storage through the cloud. On Monday, GSA issued a solicitation for cloud providers, both commercial and government, to apply for FedRAMP certification. FedRAMP is the result of government’s work address security concerns related to the growing practice of cloud computing and establishes a standardized approach to security assessment, authorizations and continuous monitoring for cloud services and products. By creating industry-wide security standards and focusing more on risk management, as opposed to strict compliance with reporting metrics, officials expect to improve data security as well as simplify the processes agencies use to purchase cloud services, according to Katie Lewin, director of the federal cloud computing program at the General Services Administration.

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Open-Xchange, a supplier of business-class email and collaboration software, announced its partnership with The Endurance International Group, a leading provider of domains, hosting and online services. The agreement will bring cloud-based communications and collaboration to more than 2 million Endurance customers.
“We are ardent advocates of open platforms, and were very particular when selecting a new email platform for our clients,” said Hari Ravichandran, founder and CEO of The Endurance International Group. “With the switch to Open-Xchange, we’re giving our users outstanding email service, as well as options for collaboration that are on par with those of large enterprises. The efficiency and communications options Open-Xchange presents will give our customers a distinct competitive advantage.”
With more than 42 million users at the end of last year, Open-Xchange is among the leading messaging and collaboration cloud suites, providing a seamless user experience across platforms and devices, as well as social and business networks.

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Open-Xchange, a supplier of business-class email and collaboration software, announced its partnership with The Endurance International Group, a leading provider of domains, hosting and online services. The agreement will bring cloud-based communications and collaboration to more than 2 million Endurance customers.
“We are ardent advocates of open platforms, and were very particular when selecting a new email platform for our clients,” said Hari Ravichandran, founder and CEO of The Endurance International Group. “With the switch to Open-Xchange, we’re giving our users outstanding email service, as well as options for collaboration that are on par with those of large enterprises. The efficiency and communications options Open-Xchange presents will give our customers a distinct competitive advantage.”
With more than 42 million users at the end of last year, Open-Xchange is among the leading messaging and collaboration cloud suites, providing a seamless user experience across platforms and devices, as well as social and business networks.

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You are interested in cloud computing, but where do you start? How are vendors and companies defining cloud computing? Do you know the differences between public, private, community and hybrid clouds? What do you need to know to figure out which applications make sense in the cloud? And is any of this real today?
In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Bill Zack, Cloud Architect with Slalom Consulting, explores a set of five patterns, based on real-world customer engagements, you can use for moving to the cloud. Avoiding the general product pitches, he will provide the tools and knowledge to help you more clearly understand moving your organization to the cloud.

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Dell Boomi on Tuesday announced an improved cloud integration platform that helps organizations modernize, simplify and manage their changing IT environments. Dell Boomi AtomSphere Summer 12 expands application and data integration capabilities, enhances security and offers Boomi Assure, crowd-sourced regression testing. According to Rick Nucci, General Manager, Dell Boomi, “AtomSphere Summer 12 release addresses the concerns that IT leaders face when it comes to application and data integration.”
Dell Boomi AtomSphere integrates applications and data in customers’ IT environments by acting as the connection between applications, whether they reside in the cloud or on-premise. The latest release of AtomSphere helps deliver predictable service levels for real-time data transfers in the cloud by reserving cloud resources. In addition, it provides a solution to manage their security policies with improved flexibility and governance.

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