Cloud computing - a world-changing power

Cloud computing: a world-changing power
The Guardian
Cloud computing is reshaping the computing and Internet landscape. With breakthroughs made in relevant service and business models, cloud computingwill inevitably expand its role as a backbone for IT services. As a revolutionary concept, ...

The Guardian

Hayek Was Right: Why Cloud Computing Proves the Power of Markets
The Atlantic
It seems quaint in a world of cloud computing, but in the early 1990s it was only visionaries who believed software companies could operate their own data centers, and simply allow customers to access the software remotely via the Internet, ...

Cloud computing: intelligence, resources and models
The Guardian
Cloud computing changes this completely. Using the cloud delivery model, businesses can access information services without bothering with the deployment and maintenance of IT infrastructure. They can have information services customized for them, ...

The Guardian

The World Moves To Cloud. Is it time for a Cloud-based Mobile Management?
Forbes
Employees are accustomed to personal clouds that provide easy access to information over multiple devices and IT has embraced cloud services to gain cheaper storage and processing power. But the trend of cloud computing is expanded beyond basic ...

Cloud Computing: Nvidia Claims Cloud GPU
SYS-CON Media (press release)
By Maureen O'Gara Nvidia Tuesday unveiled a VGX platform - reportedly the result of five years of effort - that it called the world's first virtualized GPU meant to accelerate graphics from cloud computing centers. IT departments are supposed to use it ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)

HP Cloud Service Automation: Intelligent Automation for Building, Managing ...
ITworld.com
Many lines of business are now procuring cloud services on their own because cloud computing professes to do what IT has long promised: deliver more for less and act as a business enabler. This method of acquiring services often leads to shadow ...

Adopting mobile cloud services for SMB users
The Guardian
CSPs that have focused primarily on Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) aspects ofCloud Services are now beginning to look for better ways to make use of their existing network infrastructure and data centers. CSPs are refocusing from infrastructure ...

The Guardian

Business model innovations in cloud computing
The Guardian
This new business model can be categorized as Hardware as a Service (HaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS), and cloud computing. Apple is now one of the world's most well-known companies, and its iPod, iPhone, and Apple TV have become household names.

The Guardian

Google, Microsoft said to be creating new cloud services
CNET
... cloud, which could mean trouble for Amazon. by Dara Kerr May 17, 2012 5:30 PM PDT Follow @darakerr Google and Microsoft are reportedly neck and neck to get an Infrastructure as a Service cloud computing offering off the ground in the near future.

The Week in Chips: Kepler, Trinity, and Ivy Bridge
PC Magazine
"With cloud gaming today, convenience typically trumps quality for the masses. TV companies, cable companies, they'll all be able to get a piece of the gaming action [with Nvidia's cloud computing initiative]. Cloud gaming companies could not only make ...

IBM to the World: On Cloud, You Got Nothing On Us
Wired News
When it comes to cloud computing IBM is making a big statement this week that the status quo remains. “Whatever you want,” seems to also apply to cloud computing. The statement I believe is: “We are in the cloud, and we are a force to be reckoned with, ...

Cloud Storage, Online Backup: Intronis Raises $3.85 Million
MSPmentor
Intronis, which promotes cloud storage and online backup to managed services providers (MSPs), has raised $3.85 million to fuel company expansion, CEO Kent Plunkett (pictured) has confirmed to MSPmentor. The investors include… …existing investors and ...

Five Myths of Cloud Computing
ITworld.com
In recent years, cloud computing has been as visible as any topic in IT. Its front-page news status has been accelerated by Amazon, Salesforce.com, Yahoo, and Microsoft®, among other firms, aggressively vying for leadership in providing cloud ...

Why Cloud Storage Needs to Be Reinvented?
CloudTimes
By Guest Author On May 18, 2012 · Leave a Comment When people talk about cloud storage, they usually refer to storage that is accessible from outside the cloud, to stores files, pictures, and backups. Sometimes referred as object storage, ...

Unicom offers cloud services to enterprise
China Daily
The company is the first Chinese telecom carrier to start commercial operations of cloud-computing technology. It is joining a global trend, as more telecom operators want to overcome their flat growth in the traditional network business and are ...

Cloud storage security less robust than you think
FierceCIO
Cloud storage providers are spinning a rosy picture to entice businesses to move their data into the cloud, opines Lisa Vaas of eWeek. Cloud storage security isn't as solid as vendors want businesses to believe, however, says Vaas, who pointed to ...

Focusing on integration to build green data centre in the cloud-computing era
The Guardian
High-speed Internet, Web 2.0, and information explosion have facilitated the beginning of the cloud-computing era. As all kinds of cloud devices and cloud services emerge, the cloud-computing data centre has become the foundation for promoting ICT ...

The Guardian

Cloud Computing: Threatened, BMC Adopts Poison Pill
SYS-CON Media (press release)
By Maureen O'Gara BMC Software Monday adopted a defensive poison pill to ward off Elliott Associates and its sister firm Elliott International, which have acquired 5.5% of its stock and want BMC to form a special committee to chase a sale of the...
SYS-CON Media (press release)

IBM enhances cloud capabilities with advanced SmartCloud services, new ...
CTR
As businesses embrace the transformative power of cloud computing to gain a significant advantage, IBM Corp. announced this week advancements to its SmartCloud Services and announced new customers and partners that demonstrate IBM SmartCloud is a ...

Design Guidelines for Cloud Computing
SYS-CON Media (press release)
So it is very clear that a distributed system will fail at a certain time, even though cloud computing providers tell us that it is very unlikely. We had some outages [1][2] in the last year of some of the major platforms, and there might be even more ...

iomart Group plc named as one of world's top 20 cloud services providers
SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog)
The second annual Talkin' Cloud 100 report (formerly the Talkin' Cloud 50) was reconfigured this year to focus purely on the cloud computing market. Its analysis is based on a number of metrics including total revenues, growth, profitability and ...

The Great El Reg Private Cloud survey: Results are in!
Register
We were surprised at the strength of positive feedback from the 570 readers who participated in our recent Reg reader survey on private cloud. It was quite a contrast to surveys on hosted cloud services, or even cloud computing in general.

Google & Microsoft Target Amazon With Cloud Services
ITProPortal
Some big news in the cloud world today, as it seems that both Google and Microsoft, no less, have got their sights on Amazon's cloudy domain. Specifically, a source close to Google told Gigaom that the firm was building its own rival to Amazon's EC2 ...

Report: Google & Microsoft Ready Cloud Services for Developers
TheHostingNews.com (press release)
(The Hosting News) – Competing cloud services could be on the way from two top industry leaders. On Thursday, a report from tech site GigaOM signaled that both Microsoft and Google were readying cloud services similar to Amazon's Elastic Compute, ...

TheHostingNews.com (press release)

Cloud services bandwagon
ITP.net
With approximately US$2 billion worth of cloud computing services set to be sold in 2012, there is every indication that it is the bandwagon the region's channel community should be jumping on. However, resellers must identify which parts of the cloud ...

ITP.net

The Web is the Cloud's API
Wired News
Many cloud services are now switch-hitters. When a person using a browser asks them to do something, they respond with HTML for humans to read and interact with. When a computer asks — and by computer I mean a smartphone, a desktop PC, ...

Wired News

Google Apps: Has Adoption Slowed?
InformationWeek
Google renewed its pitch to embrace cloud IT at its Atmosphere roadshow. But its count of companies going Google Apps doesn't add up. By Thomas Claburn InformationWeek Google'scloud services roadshow, known by the appropriately airy moniker ...

Cloud vs. In-house IT for SMBs
The Guardian
Many already rely on cloud computing for initial and ongoing growth needs. Eventually, start-ups will develop into the next Googles and Facebooks, driving cloud computing growth along with their own. Early technology adopters are increasingly ...

The Guardian

Finding the right cloud solutions for your organization
InfoWorld
This is one of the driving forces behind the rise in cloud computing. Cloud computing can provide new levels of collaboration, agility, speed, and cost savings for enterprises of any size and type. HP is driving the evolution of what we call the ...

Taiwan market: Google launches cloud computing services for ...
Google on May 17 formally launched its cloud computing services specifically for use by enterprises in the Taiwan market, with Master Concept Technology, Kingwaytek Technology and GeoForce Technology assigned as marketing agents, according to Google Taiwan. ... The services launched include Enterprise Search, Google App, App Engine, Cloud Storage, BigQuery, CloudSQL, Google Maps API, and Google Earth Builder. Tweet. Categories: IT + CE Server, IPC, cloud ...
DIGITIMES: IT news from Asia

Nvidia Claims Cloud GPU | Cloud Computing Journal
Nvidia Tuesday unveiled a VGX platform - reportedly the result of five years of effort - that it called the world's first virtualized GPU meant to accelerate graphics from cloud computing centers. ....you are a large enterprise, a growing business, a government organization, or a service provider,Cloud Expo New York is THE place you need to be June 11-14...so you can better understand both the provision and use of the cloud services that increasingly transforming IT and business alike.
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news: Cloud Computing & Virtualization - Technology Options
By kaal
Cloud computing is changing the IT world in a way which is unprecedented in last decade. The economy of scale and predicable performance is pushing cloud computing across the enterprises. A significant part of the cloud-computing ...
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Informatica 9.5 Supports New Generation of Big Data and Cloud ...
By Mark Smith
The company's data integration technologies will support the new generation of computing that includes big data, cloud computing, mobile and social media. These computing environments, which our firm has defined as key business ...

Ex-Apple boss talks cloud in build-up to CCWF - Cloud Computing ...
By Mark
Ex-Apple CEO and Cloud Computing World Forum keynote speaker John Sculley talks Cloud Computing, in the build-up to the show on June 12th.
Cloud Computing World Forum Blog

Four weeks to go until doors open at the 4th Annual Cloud Computing
By David Marshall
It's now just four weeks until the doors at Earls Court open for the 4th annual Cloud Computing World Forum on the 12th and 13th June. With over 100 exhibitors, 150 leading speakers and 4000 attendees expected at the two day event, time is ...
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SOA paves the way for cloud » Ovum
By Saurabh Sharma
Many enterprises embrace cloud computing without giving a thought to the challenges associated with the use of IT resources in disparate environments. For them, cloud computing is all about accessing IT resources in a ... SOA helps in integration of disparate applications and services, and provides the necessary security and governance paradigm for the efficient, repeatable, and secure usage of cloud services. B2B integrations have become more complex as business partners use ...
Ovum

Level 3 concurs: Comcast appears to be prioritizing traffic — Cloud ...
By Stacey Higginbotham
Scoop: Google, Microsoft both targeting Amazon with new clouds · Next · Why 900M isn't the only number that matters to Facebook. loading external resource {"source":"http:\/\/pro.gigaom.com\/wijax\/0095df6686f694259b16bab6ad401d10" ...
GigaOM

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: David Guthrie, CTO of PGi ...
By candicearnold
SM: I heard you say a few things that I'd like probe into. Transcription, automatic transcription, is that a requirement that your customers are asking for? DG: No, it's not a requirement. Henry Ford said that what he would have given his ...
Sramana Mitra

Zenny's Weekly Cloud Links #57 | Zenoss Blog by @tbalinas
By Travis Balinas
Every Friday we like to highlight some of our favorite posts on IT Operations, Cloud Computing, DevOps, Virtualization and anything else that grabbed our attention over the week. Here are some great articles from the week of May 7th that are ...
Transforming IT Operations

Securing Your Data In The Cloud: an insider's perspective
By Kate Olver
As the increasing use of cloud computing and other technologies is changing the world of data management, keeping your data private and secure is an ongoing concern for everyone. Memset, a cloud computing Infrastructure as a ... At a minimum they should be using RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) systems, but most cloud storage providers will store multiple copies of your data across many independent machines. Memset's cloud storagesolution stores all data in ...
Cloud Centrics Technology Blog

Project Stratus May Signal Future Dell Cloud Ambitions | Blogs ...
By webadmin@itbusinessedge.com
The days of Wyse Technology as an independent company are coming to a close as Dell formally prepares to acquire the company, and one of the more interesting cloud computinginitiatives that Wyse has put in play has come to light.
Mike Vizard

Cloud Computing: Threatened, BMC Adopts ... - Nearshore Journal
By admin
Our editorial team concentrates on sharing timely news and information accessed from across the web, companies, economic development agencies and our global intelligent network of contacts. » Cloud Computing: Threatened, BMC Adopts ...
Nearshore Journal

Midsize Insider: Open Source Cloud Computing: Could It Be Part of ...
Apache. Ubuntu. WordPress. Name your favorite open source platform or application and it probably conjures up an image of agility, robustness, and most of all, ...
www.midsizeinsider.com/.../open-source-cloud-computing-co...

Cloud Computing Solutions from NVIDIA | NVIDIA
Cloud computing and gaming solutions from NVIDIA. NVIDIA VGX enables VDI desktop virtualization while Grid Technology lets users stream games from the ...
www.nvidia.com/object/cloud-computing.html

Cloud Computing Solutions – The Financials and Economics to ...
In this video blog, our CTO, Mark Teter, discusses the latest financial considerations that need to ...
blog.virtual.com/.../cloud-computing-solutions-the-financials-...

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