Does risk outweigh the benefits from the cloud?
Cloud computing provides organizations with an alternative way of obtaining IT services and offers many benefits including increased flexibility as well as cost reduction. However many organizations are reluctant to adopt the cloud because of concerns over information security and a loss of control over the way IT service is delivered.
These fears have been exacerbated by recent events reported in the press including outages by Amazon and the 3 day loss of Blackberry services from RIM. What approach can an organization take to ensure that the benefits of the cloud outweigh the risks?
To understand the risks involved it is important to understand that the cloud is not a single model. The cloud covers a wide spectrum of services and delivery models ranging from in-house virtual servers to software accessed by multiple organizations over the internet. A clear explanation of this range is described by NIST. This document describes the 5 essential characteristics that define the cloud, the 3 service models and the 4 deployment models. The risks of the cloud depend upon both the service model and the delivery model adopted…
Aditi Tech acquires cloud computing start up Cumulux
Aditi Technologies, a software product and application development services provider, has acquired Seattle-based cloud-computing start-up, Cumulux.
Cumulux, founded in 2008 by former Microsoft employees Paddy Srinivasan and Ranjith Ramakrishnan, provides cloud computing services to customers such as US automaker Ford Motor, power generation equipment maker General Electric and Unicef, the United Nations Children’s Fund. …
Ouatges in Siri and RIM might discourage companies from moving towards cloud computing
The outages recently experienced by Apple’s Siri and RIM’s BlackBerry messaging services are now discouraging other companies in the industry from making the shift to cloud based computing, according to reports from several reliable sources, which suggests that there is still a lot of scope for improvement in online cloud based services. In the report released by the research firm called Saugtuck, BlackBerry and Siri are among the most prominent reasons why cloud computing is still not very acceptable for application in businesses and operations management…
Top Five Services for Moving Music to Cloud
Cloud computing is said to be the newest trend in information technology that most companies such as Apple, Amazon and Google had been incorporating into their services.
Storing and streaming music is one of the many features of the cloud and became the newest online service many had been crazy about. Using your PC, tablet or smartphone, the cloud will allow you to listen to any music that you fathom…
Oracle: Our cloud to be cheap as open source
"Cloud computing is not only the future of computing, it is the present and the entire past of computing… All it is is a computer attached to a network," Ellison said in a speech in 2009. "Our industry is so bizarre. They change a term and think they’ve invented a technology."
But as more businesses have adopted the cloud, Oracle has warmed to the approach. It has developed private cloud hardware systems — Exalogic and Exadata — based on Sun technology, and Ellison launched Oracle Cloud Services at Oracle OpenWorld in October, saying, "We need a cloud."…
Here’s Why Cloud Computing Stocks Dumped
Cloud software momo stock Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) dropped over 10% after investors reviewed quarterly earnings. The news had a negative impact on the high flying cloud computing sector. Here are some key stocks investors sold:
Constant Contact, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTCT): CTCT shares recently traded at $21.45, down $1.43, or 6.25%. They have traded in a 52-week range of $14.46 to $36.33. About the company: Constant Contact, Inc. provides web-based e-mail marketing tools and services to businesses, associations, and organizations to help them connect with their customers and members…
CA Develops New Partner Focus, Initiatives As Cloud Computing Reshapes Its Business
CA Technologies is overhauling its partner program as the company expands into cloud management software and targets prospective midmarket customers it has largely ignored until now.
Problem is, CA historically has had a less-than-stellar reputation as a channel-friendly company. But partners attending the CA World conference in Las Vegas this week seem impressed by what they have seen so far…
Birst Intros Cloud-Based Mobile BI SDK for iPad
Birst figures it’s scored an industry first by making its cloud-based Mobile Business Intelligence (BI) SDK available for the Apple iPad.
The new iOS SDK lets developers embed highly interactive and visual Birst-powered business analytics in their native iPad apps. Taking advantage of the iPad’s gesture-based interface, they can build mobile applications that filter information of interest and drill into details on both charts and report tables.
The widgetry saves developers from having to concentrate on the plumbing, such as the data warehouse, data integration, data quality and core BI engine, and lets them focus on building business intelligence into their applications. By writing to Birst’s Mobile APIs, the company says they can bypass the complicated data integration, quality and consolidation issues that underpin BI implementations…
Malware turns cool cloud idea into money-sucking parasite for consumers
Build a cloud computing service based on hardware belonging to other people, but sell it just like any other commercial cloud service.
Use the same highly distributed approach SETI did in the ’90s and try not to notice the similarity between a legitimate cloud service based on borrowed CPU cycles from privately owned machines, and malware-driven botnets that do the same thing except that they deliver DDOS rather than financial results.
The good and evil in that model changed places a bit, according to Kaspersky Labs, which yesterday identified both the malware and the plan malware writers used to exploit a cool new idea in cloud computing for their own benefit. …
5 Reasons Cloud Computing Is The Future
Much has been made in recent years regarding the growth of cloud computing. Cloud computing is the practice of storing data and files online in lieu of a physical computer or local server. Although ostensibly the term cloud computing sounds like some futuristic concept that is decades away, many individuals utilize cloud services every day, from web-based email, music and video to gaming sites that allow you to play high performance games on low-end machines. However, cloud computing perhaps makes the most sense for businesses, as the service offers increased flexibility and security at a price precipitously lower than the old paradigm of hardware and software upgrades.
Examples of cloud computing programs in business include SaaS, file storage, online backup storage, file syncing, and customer relationship management. In fact, it is now possible for companies to create their own private cloud, which is used to provide specialized services unique to a specific group of employees…