Cloud Computing for SMBs

Cloud Computing Journal The Defense Information Service Agency (DISA), US combat support agency, has opened phase two of its infrastructure-as-a-service cloud to Defense Department customers and users. The so-called Rapid Access Computing Environment (RACE) widgetry will now let them provision operating environments in the highly secured Defense Enterprise Computing Center’s (DECC) production environment. Launched a year ago, RACE initially allowed for the rapid delivery of test and development environments. DISA technical program director Henry Sienkiewicz said, “RACE is a first ... (more)

Citrix Fuels Virtual Desktop Revolution for Millions of XenApp Users

Cloud Computing Journal Citrix Systems, Inc. announced a new 2-for-1 trade-up offer that makes it easy for Citrix XenApp customers to realize all the benefits of desktop virtualization by stepping up to the new XenDesktop 4. The “Trade-up to XenDesktop 4” program allows XenApp customers to trade up their existing XenApp concurrent user licenses for twice the number of XenDesktop 4 user ... (more)

Adobe’s Aiming ColdFusion at Multiple Clouds

Adobe is nosing its flagship ColdFusion rapid web site and Internet application development platform onto multiple clouds. Turns out it's been quietly collaborating with Alagad, a North Carolina web development services provider, on a cloud implementation of ColdFusion 9. Adobe just released ColdFusion 9 on Monday. The cloud version of the stuff is still in private beta. Called ColdFusion... (more)

Cloud Security on Ulitzer - Nothing New But It Changes Everything

Cloud Security on Ulitzer SYS-CON Events announced today that Glenn Brunette, Distinguished Engineer and Chief Security Architect at Sun Microsystems, will be presenting at the upcoming Cloud Computing Conference & Expo (www.cloudcomputingexpo.com) this coming November 2-4, 2009, in Santa Clara, California. His session will be entitled "Cloud Security - It's Nothing New, It Changes Every... (more)