NJVC® Introduces Cloudcuity™ AppDeployer to Create and Sell Software Apps

NJVC®, an information technology (IT) solutions provider headquartered in Northern Virginia, introduces CloudcuityTM AppDeployer, a new and innovative platform a s a service that allows developers to quickly create and publish software-as-a-service applications for sale in the cloud. Cloudcuity AppDeployer is part of the NJVC Cloudcuity portfolio of cloud offerings.

«Cloudcuity AppDeployer is a game changer for the software development industry,» said Kevin L. Jackson, vice president and general manager, NJVC Cloudcuity. «Cloudcuity AppDeployer offers an alternative to writing business applications from scratch the old slow and costly way. With Cloudcuity AppDeployer, developers and independent software vendors can start building applications for free, and potentially take enterprise-class software systems to market in weeks instead of years.»

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NJVC® Introduces Cloudcuity™ AppDeployer to Create and Sell Software Apps

NJVC®, an information technology (IT) solutions provider headquartered in Northern Virginia, introduces CloudcuityTM AppDeployer, a new and innovative platform a s a service that allows developers to quickly create and publish software-as-a-service applications for sale in the cloud. Cloudcuity AppDeployer is part of the NJVC Cloudcuity portfolio of cloud offerings.

«Cloudcuity AppDeployer is a game changer for the software development industry,» said Kevin L. Jackson, vice president and general manager, NJVC Cloudcuity. «Cloudcuity AppDeployer offers an alternative to writing business applications from scratch the old slow and costly way. With Cloudcuity AppDeployer, developers and independent software vendors can start building applications for free, and potentially take enterprise-class software systems to market in weeks instead of years.»

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How can cloud hosting affect banking?

Accenture, the IT consultancy reported this year that “cloud computing will increasingly provide banks with new lower cost operating models thanks to virtualisation, greater automation, and the ability to push more activities offshore.”

What does this mean?

In years to come, we should start seeing banks handing a lot of their online infrastructure over to managed hosting companies.

The multiple benefits of managed hosting have already started becoming apparent and many banks are taking strategic measures to incorporate more and more cloud software into their already existing legacy systems. They have started moving non-critical business components over the cloud, such as HR and procurement.

This is reducing internal IT complexity as well as costs.

Still some way to go

Many countries are wary of cloud hosting and question its security. As such, there are still many regulations as to the storage of critical data, in particular the manipulation of confidential …

Trilogy Enterprises Acquiring Four Progress Software Businesses to Form New Company

The software investment arm of Trilogy Enterprises, one of the largest privately held enterprise software companies in the world, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire four Progress Software businesses – Sonic, Savvion, Actional and DXSI. Trilogy will combine the businesses to form the core of a new “best of breed” intelligent business process, application, and data management company. The new company will be called Aurea Software and will be headed by enterprise software industry veteran Scott Brighton. Brighton currently serves as President of Trilogy Enterprises.

“The promise of intelligent business process, application, and data management – and the ability to provide real-time insights on complex business processes across the cloud, mobile, and social – is the most exciting idea to emerge in the business process management space since its inception,” said Scott Brighton, Aurea CEO. “With Aurea, our goal will be to take these market leading, enterprise-class products and place a renewed focus on creating the next generation iBPMS – with a specific emphasis on enabling critical, high-value business processes in key vertical markets.”

Aurea will adopt the Trilogy model of high customer touch. “Our strategy will center around an extraordinary level of customer focus through a program we call 100% Customer Success. Aurea’s customers should expect a marked increase in the level of investment in and attention paid to them. I plan to meet personally with each and every customer over the first six months of the company’s formation,” said Brighton.

“We will inherit a strong and talented team from Progress that will form the core of Aurea, and we will focus on adding critical resources that will drive customer impact across Account Management, Development, Support, and Professional Services,” added Brighton.


Cloud Corner Series- Is Automation & Orchestration Like Taking a Shower?

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I sat down yesterday to talk about automating and orchestrating business processes and how it is critical in a cloud environment. I hope you enjoy it- even if the info stinks, at least you have 5 minutes of eye candy watching yours truly!

If you’re looking for more information on cloud management GreenPages has two, free events coming up (one in Boston & one in NYC). Click for more information and to register- space is limited and filling up quickly so check it out!

Jerry Yang’s Reportedly Backing Metacloud

Ever get the feeling that soon there’ll be so many clouds we’ll never see the sun again? Well, here’s another one.
It’s called Metacloud.
After quietly starting early last year it’s just hit the radar, turning up with an undisclosed investment from Storm Ventures and – according to Wired –former Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang’s AME Cloud Ventures.
That makes some sense since Metacloud is headed by Steve Curry, who spent a dozen years at Yahoo managing its global storage operations, responsible for hundreds of petabytes of content and user data.
The other folks involved are émigrés from Ticketmaster, the third largest e-commerce system in the world, including Metacloud CTO Sean Lynch who was head of technical operations there.

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Enterprise Cloud Adoption Framework

«We’re actually very bullish about PaaS as the architecture for a lot of next generation apps,» noted Brett Adam, Chief Technology Officer at rPath, in this exclusive Q&A. «But,» he continued, «we see true PaaS as it’s been popularized in the market – you may think of it as «Silicon Valley PaaS» – is too constraining for the types of applications that enterprises depend upon today.»
Q: Tell me about the Enterprise Cloud Adoption Framework. What inspired it?
Brett Adam: We’re seeing enterprise IT and traditional service providers under extraordinary pressure to transform to cloud-based delivery and business models, but there are few reliable resources to guide what is a fairly massive architectural transformation. Despite substantial opinions about how to adopt cloud, the issue of standardization wasn’t getting the attention it deserved. We believe standardization is absolutely crucial. Uniquely, this framework looks at the cloud transformation through the lens of standardization as the driver and enabler for achieving on-demand, elastic IT.

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Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Anatomy of an Internet Scale Application

Planning scalable environments isn’t terribly difficult, but it does require a change of perspective.
In his session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Phil Jackson, Development Community Advocate for SoftLayer, will broaden your views to think on an Internet Scale by dissecting a video publishing application built with The SoftLayer Platform, Message Queuing, Object Storage, and Drupal. By examining a scalable modular application build that can handle unpredictable traffic, you’ll be able to grow your development arsenal and pick up a few strategies to apply to your own projects.

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Security and Control in the Cloud

Cloud computing is so alluring. The public cloud economizes infrastructure resources and creates a scalable, on-demand source for compute capacity. Additionally, the cloud can be a strategic asset for enterprises that know how to migrate, integrate and govern deployments securely.
Apple co-founder, Steve Wozniak recently said, «A lot of people feel ‘Oh, everything is really on my computer,’ but I say the more we transfer everything onto the web, onto the cloud, the less we’re going to have control over it.»
In fact, over 70% of IT professionals worry about security according to an IDG Enterprise Cloud Computing Study.
Boiled down, security, access and connectivity are really issues of control.
As any prudent cloud user, the application has its own unique security features, such as disk encryption and port filtering. But do these layers of security features overlap or conflict? What happens to ownership after migration? Do solutions really have to be architected before and after deployment?

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Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Building an Open Hybrid Cloud with Red Hat

Cloud computing is one of the most strategic initiatives that enterprises will adopt over the next several years. Only an open hybrid cloud can help you unlock the full benefits of cloud economics and gain agility across your entire infrastructure – physical, virtual and public cloud resources included.
In his session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, David Kang, Cloud Practice Manager, Global Strategy and Solutions, at Red Hat, will explain how open standards, open APIs and open source software are changing the structure of an enterprise cloud.

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