RightNow Lays Down “Cloud Challenge”
Author: John Duckgeischel
on March 9, 2010 - 6:50 AM
RightNow, known for its Web customer experience management software,
believes that the cloud provides a new opportunity for cloud software vendors
to provide fair pricing that reflects a new level of economies of scale. RightNow CEO Greg Gianforte stated The “Cloud Challenge” is directed at other
major players in this space including
Oracle, SAP, Salesforce.com, and other vendors. "We are challenging the industry to
finally deliver on the full promise of the cloud. I challenge our peers to step
up and engage with clients like true cloud vendors, not on-premise vendors in
cloud clothing," stated RightNow's chief marketing officer, Jason
Mittelstaedt.
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NetApp Introduces New Cloud Management Tools
Author: John Duckgeischel
on March 8, 2010 - 8:26 AM
After a major
cloud computing partnership with Microsoft with in December, NetApp has now
announced a comprehensive set of management tools to enable service providers
to build private and public clouds for both storage and virtualization
customers. The latest products from
NetApp not only enhance functionality in providing services and apps for enterprise
clients, it bolsters functionality and security for IT service provider cloud deployments
for their customers. "NetApp has a
proven track record of successfully teaming with leading service providers to
power their cloud service offerings," Patrick Rogers, NetApp's (NASDAQ:
NTAP) vice president of solutions and alliances, wrote in a statement.
"Our strategy in this space is to enable the success of our solution
partners, not compete with them, and through them provide a broad and open set
of industry cloud services for enterprise IT customers."
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RSA Conference: Cloud Security Alliance and HP Identify Top Cloud Computing Security Threats
Author: John Duckgeischel
on March 1, 2010 - 12:56 AM
HP and the
Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) have identified the top cloud computing security
threats in a new document which features research on the subject. The CSA has provided a warning to
organizations to be aware of technology that accumulates sensitive personal
information such as credit card numbers, social security numbers and employee
information. Prevention is less
expensive that cleaning up after a data loss or regulatory compliance violation,
which require notification and system modification. Chris Whitener, HP's chief security
strategist, noted that although cloud computing can reduce capital
expenditures, managing risks is often overlooked. "The No. 1 thing you shouldn't do is
approach this with complete ignorance," Whitener stated. "And
unfortunately, this is something that a lot of people do. Understand and limit
your risk profile. If you approach this with complete abandon, you're asking
for it."
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CA Bosters Cloud Portolio With 3Tera Buy
Author: John Duckgeischel
on February 25, 2010 - 10:31 AM
CA Inc. is
moving forward with its latest cloud computing acquisition by buying
3Tera. The acquisition bolsters CA’s
abilities to offer private and public cloud solutions by adding 3 Tera’s
AppLogic to the CA portfolio. It is CA
Inc.’s third such cloud related acquisition, as it bought Oblicore recently in
2010 and Cassatt in the summer of 2009.
Jay Fry, vice president of business unit strategy for CA explained what
attracted CA to make the acquisition.
"The most interesting thing about 3Tera is their ability to give
both service providers and enterprises a way to take existing applications and
bring them to private and public cloud environments via an elegant interface.
The process used to be done very manually, but AppLogic automates it and
smooths that transition," Fry said.
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