Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: Seth Bernstein.

Companies are embracing cloud computing solutions because of their flexibility, scalability and cost-effectiveness, and those who have successfully integrated the cloud into their infrastructure have found it quite economic. They can expand and contract, and add and remove services as per requirement, giving them a lot of control over the resources being used and the funds being spent on those resources. This highly controllable environment not only cuts the costs of services, but also saves funds that are spent on the infrastructure of the company.

Replacement of Personal Computers with Personal Clouds

Cloud computing is not only becoming popular in business, but also among individual consumers. With the passage of time, personal computers are being replaced by personal clouds, and more and more companies are offering personal cloud services. People prefer to store their images, videos and documents online, both as a backup and to make them secure. Storing data on personal clouds makes it available anytime, anywhere. You just need a computing device and an Internet connection, and you can access all your photos, videos and documents…

Grazed from NetworkWorld. Author: Brandon Butler.

Cloud computing is a hyped-up term, a recent report from Gartner found. But behind the hype there are significant benefits to some technologies in the cloud industry and some of the terms being floated around in the cloud are bigger buzzwords than others.

"The cloud" is a broad term that encompasses many different technologies, similar to the way the Web or the Internet have many different aspects to it, Gartner says. And many of the individual aspects of the cloud computing industry each have their own degree of hype surrounding them. Gartner attempts to put this all in perspective by using its Hype Cycle formula to evaluate more than three dozen specific technologies within cloud computing…

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.

HotLink hopes to simplify the management of hybrid clouds run on VMware vCenter with the launch of a new vCenter plug-in that natively supports both Amazon EC2 (NASDAQ: AMZN) and CloudStack resources. HotLink Hybrid Express for VMware vCenter is being positioned as a tool to accelerate the deployment of on- and off-premise hybrid cloud infrastructure.

Cloud computing integrators can’t really complain about anything that makes it simpler to deploy infrastructure — as long as it makes good on its promise, that is. HotLink is making big promises with Hybrid Express. According to the vendor, using Hybrid Express can reduce the deployment of hybrid cloud infrastructure from weeks to just a few hours by using existing vCenter management infrastructure…

Grazed from LinuxInsider. Author: Jay Lyman.

VMware continued its embrace of open source software with its recent acquisition of open source and virtual network provider Nicira. The move continued VMware’s aggressive M&A strategy and its effort to transition from proprietary software and virtualization to a broader market and cloud computing, largely through open source software.

With previous open source software acquisitions that have included Rabbit Technologies’ RabbitMQ messaging, Zimbra email and collaboration and SpringSource, VMware seems to have found it paramount to participate and integrate with open source software technology and communities, despite its heritage as a strictly proprietary virtualization vendor…

Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: Sourya Biswas.

For those who follow basketball, Michael Jordan needs no introduction. For the rest, here are the basic facts. Jordan holds the NBA (National Basketball Association) records for highest career regular season scoring average (30.12 points per game) and highest career playoff scoring average (33.45 points per game).

In 1999, he was named the greatest North American athlete of the 20th century by ESPN. His biography on the National NBA website states, “By acclamation, Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time.” Now, what has this got to do with cloud computing?…

Grazed from PRWeb. Author: PR Announcement.

Secure-24 — a leading provider of cloud computing, application outsourcing and enterprise hosting services — announced today that it has been designated by Cisco Systems as a Premier Certified Partner.

Cisco’s certification requires a consistent level of product knowledge and technical expertise, along with use of Cisco’s network solutions. Secure-24 surpassed Cisco’s technical competency requirements in the integration of computing and security technologies…

Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: Rick Blaisdell.

Everyone is talking about the cloud. Business applications are moving to the cloud. The shift from traditional software models to Internet based solutions has steadily gained momentum over the last 10 years. The next decade promises new ways of collaboration, via cloud computing and mobile devices.

Life before cloud computing for traditional business applications was always quite complicated, not to mention expensive. The amount and variety of hardware and software required to run them was daunting. You needed a whole team of experts to install, configure, test, run, secure, and update them.

Cloud computing is becoming ubiquitous in today’s businesses, particularly when taking into account the rising popularity of free SaaS applications like Dropbox and Google Apps, among others. For IT decision makers, dreams of migrating all back-end and mission-critical applications to the cloud is now becoming a reality…