CloudSwitch on Ulitzer

The Verizon acquisition of Cloud Switch is tremendous validation for solution providers in the cloud enablement space and confirmation of the need for cloud onboarding tools to help lower the barrier to entry for businesses looking to adopt cloud services. Migration tools and services are always critical for driving adoption of any new technology, as consumers seek to migrate to the new from their legacy technology.Often times, the more disruptive the technology, the greater the need, and cloud is no exception in this respect. Mid-tier and enterprise businesses especially are looking for ways to streamline the onboarding process and minimize their risk around cloud adoption, as they have significantly more sunk costs than an SMB. By providing automated solutions to enable the migration of these businesses's existing servers, MSPs and cloud providers will increase se... (more)

The Top 150 Players in Cloud Computing

Cloud Expo Early Bird Savings A robust ecosystem of solutions providers is emerging around cloud computing. Here, SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Journal expands its list of most active players in the fast-emerging Cloud Ecosystem, from the 'mere' 100 we identified back in January of this year, to half as many again - testimony, if any further were needed, to the fierce and continuing growth of the "Elastic IT" paradigm throughout the world of enterprise computing. Editorial note: The words in quotation marks used to describe the various services and solutions in this round-up are in e... (more)

The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Verizon Communications, Google, Apple, AT&T and Sprint Nextel

CHICAGO, Jan. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. Stocks recently featured in the blog include Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ), Google inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG), Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL), AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) and Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S). (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20101027/ZIRLOGO) Get the most recent insight from Zacks Equity Research with the free Profit from the Pros newsletter: htt... (more)

This Week in Cloud

Cloud News VMware made several cloud-related announcements this week at VMworld, its annual user conference, including partnerships with global cloud service providers, a Web site that aggregates information on cloud service providers, simplified transfer of virtual machines from one data center to another, a cloud-based site recovery manager tool and software to manage databases in virtual environments. For more information, read this InformationWeek article. This highly amusing video produced by Microsoft portrays VMware’s technology as old-school. This article in The Register ... (more)

Verizon Buys CloudSwitch

Verizon said Thursday that it's bought three-year-old cloud management software start-up CloudSwitch to help its recently acquired Terremark IT services subsidiary move applications or workloads between company data centers and the cloud. CloudSwitch is supposed to do it without changing the application or the infrastructure layer, which is deemed an adoption hurdle. CloudSwitch's software appliance technology ensures that enterprise applications remain tightly integrated with enterprise data center tools and policies, and can be moved easily between different cloud environments ... (more)