Grazed from ZDNet. Author: John Fontana.

Identity and Access as a Service is poised for a strong run at enterprises of all size, and those who have done their homework will dodge the hype and know what's right for them and what's not. By the end of 2015, Identity and Access as a Service (IDaaS) will account for 25% of all new identity and access management sales, compared with 5% in 2012, according to recent Gartner research "Are You and the IDaaS Market Ready for Each Other?"

At the end of 2012, the market was $180 million. By the end of this year, that number is expected to jump to $265 million. Small and medium-sized companies are helping drive interest. They are extending their current IAM architectures and providing access to SaaS services or internal Web-apps. Larger companies in general are looking to support both cloud and on-premises applications with IDaaS offerings...

Grazed from VentureBeat. Author: Matt Quin.

We’re well beyond any question about whether cloud computing is the future. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) paved the way for the idea that organizations can operate some of their most important systems in an on-premise or off-premise cloud. Small, medium and even large businesses accept that cloud computing delivers flexibility, cost and scalability that business has never had before. Companies are gravitating to cloud because it brings very short time to value and doesn’t impact the current business model.

Lower cost and less risk are very attractive propositions. How big is this move? Forrester estimates that the average company has 9.3 different SaaS applications in use. Consulting firm Cap Gemini reports that 78% of new applications are deployed into the cloud. And that’s just the applications that are being tracked. In reality, workers today are practicing BYOS (Bring Your Own Service) as they experiment with SaaS in broad ways that IT and even business managers may not know about...

Grazed from ITBusinessEdge. Author: Michael Vizard.

The current fascination with deployment models in the cloud will soon give way to more practical approaches to managing tiers of private and public cloud computing resources. According to Saar Gillai, senior vice president and general manager for converged cloud at Hewlett-Packard, as cloud computing becomes more unified in the months ahead, thanks largely to open standards and APIs, hybrid clouds will simply become the new enterprise IT norm.

Gillai says all this fascination with deployment models is a temporary thing. In fact, Gillai says the deployment model is not the relevant discussion. It’s the ability to support multiple deployment models, ranging from public clouds to private clouds running on premise and every type of cloud in between, adds Gillai, which will ultimately distinguish HP from larger cloud rivals such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft...

Grazed from PRNewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

ScaleMatrix, a front runner in the evolving Cloud Computing and Data Center market, announced today, in parallel to Dell’s Cloud Partner Program announcement, that ScaleMatrix will be one of the three initial North American partners Dell will leverage in the to deliver cloud services.

Of the three providers chosen, ScaleMatrix, will bolster Dell’s Cloud offering with their innovative VMware based TruCore™ Performance Cloud hosting platform, which provides users enhanced control over functionality and performance. Services are delivered from proprietary world-class data centers, and leverage enterprise hardware, storage and cutting-edge security and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) mitigation services...

Grazed from OreganLive. Author: Mike Rogoway.

A new Portland cloud computing startup, Orchestrate.io, has raised $3 million in venture capital to help launch its technology. Orchestrate wants to make it easier to build online applications, and to make those apps run quicker. It has created standardized tools for frequently requested online information -- location, search and recommendation features, for example -- so developers don't have to build their own databases.

It plans to store that information at data centers distributed around the world, starting with outposts in Silicon Valley and in Tokyo, so that the data is readily available to the apps' users. Founder Antony Falco, 44, previously helped start a Massachusetts company called Basho Technologies, which has raised more than $30 million in venture capital and grown to more than 100 employees...

Grazed from MarketWire. Author: PR Announcement.

TIBCO Software Inc. today announced the launch of TIBCO Cloud Bus(TM), its new subscription-based Integration Platform-as-a-Service (iPaaS) offering that leverages the company's extensive integration expertise and presents users with the ability to drastically shorten time to market and lower costs as they migrate applications and workloads to the cloud.

"With Cloud Bus(TM), TIBCO is combining the deployment flexibility of the cloud with enterprise-class integration features in a single subscription service that customers can run anywhere -- on-premise, in the cloud, in bare metal or virtualized environments," said Matt Quinn, CTO for TIBCO Software. "TIBCO Cloud Bus provides ready-made integrations across popular SaaS and critical on-premise applications, while allowing subscribers the ability to identify, configure and extend integration templates for their own business context with ease. Finally, and as you would expect from TIBCO, Cloud Bus includes extensive capabilities for real-time integration, meaning changes are reflected in all connected applications as they happen, without waiting for the next batch update."...

Grazed from PRNewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

AppNeta, the leading provider of SaaS solutions for exceptional performance of business-critical applications, was named the winner of the Best Cloud Management Solution category of the 2013 Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) CODiE Awards. AppNeta's SaaS-delivered performance management solutions continuously monitor and assure the performance and delivery of cloud and web-based applications.

The Best Cloud Management Solution category recognizes the solution that best ensures cloud computing resources are working optimally. This includes performance monitoring, application management, security and compliance, storage and disaster recovery. AppNeta's performance management solutions help customers optimize the performance of their business-critical applications including cloud and web-based services...

Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: Phillip Spies.

The public cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) market is booming and expected to grow by 47 percent, from $6 billion in 2012 to $9 billion in 2013, according to Gartner’s Forecast Overview: Public Cloud Services, Worldwide, 2011-2016, 4Q Update. Additionally, the overall public cloud computing market, including software-as-a-service (SaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS), IaaS and other related services, will grow from $110 to $131 billion over the same period with a CAGR of 41.3 percent through 2016. While this projected growth is significant, cloud computing still represents less than three percent of the $3.7 trillion spent on IT per year. This begs the question, If cloud computing is so hot, why is it still just three percent of the overall IT industry?

It might be helpful to look back to when cloud IaaS was introduced to the market more than eight years ago by Amazon.com. The primary goal was to provide computing capacity at a lower cost than actual physical servers. Since then, many other cloud service providers have jumped on the bandwagon to offer low-cost, best-effort cloud services. Yet, while a market for these services clearly exists, most don’t meet the enterprise requirements for a more reliable and secure computing platform. The problem lies in the fundamental challenge that end users have in using a server-centric cloud approach to solve problems better addressed by networks...

Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Brandon Butler.

Dell has dramatically shifted its cloud computing strategy, canceling plans it once had to launch a public cloud service based on the OpenStack open source platform, and discontinuing a VMware-based public cloud it already has on the market.

Instead, the company will focus on selling OpenStack-powered private clouds that run on Dell hardware and software. Using technology it acquired from cloud-management company Enstratius, Dell says its customers will be able to deploy resources to more than 20 public cloud providers. In announcing this change in strategy, Dell also said it has a new "partner ecosystem," consisting of just three providers now, but with plans to increase that number, which will provide integrations between those partner public cloud services and Dell customers' private clouds...

Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: David Linthicum.

As announced at Google I/O last week in San Francisco, Google Compute Engine is now available to everyone. This means you, not just the customers who pay $400 per month for Google Gold support. This is Google's answer to IaaS compute services -- Amazon Web Services in particular.

As revealed by Google, the features include:

• Subhour billing charges for instances in one-minute increments with a 10-minute minimum, so you don't pay for compute minutes that you don't use.
• Shared-core instances provide smaller instance shapes for low-intensity workloads.
• Advanced routing features to help create gateways and VPN servers that let you build applications that span your local network and Google's cloud...