Building metrics to decide how and whether moving to IDaaS means considering what variables and strategy have to be taken into account when organizations subscribe identity as a service contracts. Before moving any IdM to the Cloud, organization should balance costs and risks. Accordingly, metrics adopted should be enough flexible to be applied from both a company that is developing an IdM system and a company that already has a IAM in operation but is considering to move the ID to the Cloud. The metric introduced below is included into a coming IDaaS Best Practices helping companies to understand, evaluate and then decide if and how moving ID to the Cloud.

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Building metrics to decide how and whether moving to IDaaS means considering what variables and strategy have to be taken into account when organizations subscribe identity as a service contracts. Before moving any IdM to the Cloud, organization should balance costs and risks. Accordingly, metrics adopted should be enough flexible to be applied from both a company that is developing an IdM system and a company that already has a IAM in operation but is considering to move the ID to the Cloud. The metric introduced below is included into a coming IDaaS Best Practices helping companies to understand, evaluate and then decide if and how moving ID to the Cloud.

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Zimory, a Berlin cloud management start-up, has secured $20 million in funding led by its newest investor Deutsche Boerse. Existing investors Creathor Venture, High-Tech Gruenderfonds (HTGF), IBB Beteiligungsgesellschaft (IBB), KFW and T-Venture also kicked in.
Zimory, which has previously seen $5.5 million in venture funding, means to use the new money to expand internationally and develop its vendor-neutral management platform for the cloud services marketplace further.
The recently announced cloud services marketplace, Deutsche Boerse Cloud Exchange, is the world’s first vendor-independent exchange for cloud computing capacities. It will enable IT resources to be traded like securities and energy, electronically, in seconds.

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Cloud computing stocks continue to show wide variation in performance throughout the first half of this year.

Ten of the twenty companies in the Cloud Computing Stock Index delivered returns to shareholders with NetSuite leading with a 37.30% share gain, delivering $13,730 on $10,000 invested on January 2, 2013.

To more fully define the stock performance of these companies, I’ve added Earnings Per Share (EPS), Price/Earnings Ratio, Year-To-Date (YTD) Total Gains or Loss, Annualized Gain or Loss, and Total Dollar Value of $10,000 invested on January 2, 2013.  You can download the latest version of the Cloud Computing Stock Index here.  The filter applied to these companies is that 50% or more of their revenues are generated from cloud-based applications, infrastructure and services.  Additional details of the index are provided at the end of this post.

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«This new round of funding confirms the company’s business model and growth potential,» said Philippe Thériault, newly appointed Chief Commercial Officer for North America at Paris-based open source cloud computing company eNovance, as it was announced today that eNovance had finalized a funding deal worth more than $7 million.

eNovance’s unique expertise places us squarely among the few credible players on the market and in a highly advantageous position on the North American market,» explained Thériault.

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No sooner had Michael Dell and Silver Lake gotten the go-ahead for their takeover scheme from Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) Monday than Glass Lewis and Egan-Jones, the two other important if not quite as influential proxy advisors, fell into line behind ISS and advised Dell shareholders to take the money and run.

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Application delivery controllers (ADCs) are now essential for business-critical applications, managing fast-changing transaction loads, and enhancing performance, resilience and security. However, many online applications change frequently to reflect customer requirements, and the increasing speed of change in application deployment means that traditional ADC architectures can hold back the pace of change.

So, enterprises rolling out private clouds still face several technology and operations limitations today as a result of their static legacy application delivery infrastructures. These are a bottleneck in virtualised data centres and cloud environments, hampering IT’s ability to orchestrate and manage their application delivery services.

Moving to an on-demand platform for application delivery “ADC-as-a-service” can transform an Enterprise or Cloud Operator by providing the tools and technology to deploy and manage a dynamic and elastic application delivery infrastructure.

From a management standpoint, ADC-as-a-service delivers better ROI by aligning the application delivery costs with the a more usage-based …

NJVC® was selected by Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC) to provide the platform as a service (PaaS) element of a cloud-computing-based humanitarian assistance and disaster response data exchange demonstration.

A combined technology solution, known as GeoCloud, will provide trusted connectivity between multiple independent vendor cloud services through the use of this open platform. GeoCloud also will create a virtual organization of response teams so members can easily access critical geospatial data in support of their intertwined missions on a pick-and-choose basis and consume that data on demand. NJVC will leverage the CloudcuityTM AppDeployer application PaaS to integrate various apps to support the needs of a diverse population of international disaster first responders (e.g., law enforcement, fire response, disaster medical response) into a common complex humanitarian disaster (CHD) management operating environment. In this implementation, the AppDeployer PaaS extends and complements the Google Maps Engine development PaaS platform.

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NJVC® was selected by Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC) to provide the platform as a service (PaaS) element of a cloud-computing-based humanitarian assistance and disaster response data exchange demonstration.

A combined technology solution, known as GeoCloud, will provide trusted connectivity between multiple independent vendor cloud services through the use of this open platform. GeoCloud also will create a virtual organization of response teams so members can easily access critical geospatial data in support of their intertwined missions on a pick-and-choose basis and consume that data on demand. NJVC will leverage the CloudcuityTM AppDeployer application PaaS to integrate various apps to support the needs of a diverse population of international disaster first responders (e.g., law enforcement, fire response, disaster medical response) into a common complex humanitarian disaster (CHD) management operating environment. In this implementation, the AppDeployer PaaS extends and complements the Google Maps Engine development PaaS platform.

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