Grazed from Small Business Trends.  Author: Susan Payton.

If anything’s beating out the skyrocketing growth of the mobile app market, I’d put my money on cloud services. These days, you can do everything in the cloud except your dry cleaning (or can you?).  Here’s a look at some of the industries and companies that are moving into the cloud computing services arena for small businesses…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

CloudSigma, the international, pure-play cloud server and virtual data center provider, today launched the industry’s first solid-state drive (SSD) storage solution for a public cloud IaaS environment at the 2011 Cloud Computing Expo. The new solution is designed to help eliminate the growing storage bottlenecks and variable performance in the cloud brought on by traditional magnetic-based storage solutions’ inability to keep pace with the requirements of a multi-tenant environment. With CloudSigma’s SSD storage product, companies can achieve higher performance than dedicated or private cloud arrangements, even in a public cloud, multi-tenant environment. Being able to handle the explosion of input/output (I/O) operations caused by the increasing adoption of server virtualization was identified by CloudSigma at an early stage as a key success factor for its cloud…

Grazed from SC Magazine.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Best Cloud Computing Security

These technologies are deployed to protect data and/or applications deployed in a cloud environment. They may also protect the cloud computing infrastructure itself. Cloud computing security concerns are numer­ous for both providers and their customers, and include security and privacy worries, compliance issues and legal/contractual problems. Solutions or services in this category can provide for the protection of data or applications in the cloud, protection for traffic flowing between companies and their cloud service providers, policy management and encryption capabilities, privi­leged user access and controls or more…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

CompTIA, the leading provider of vendor-neutral skills certifications for the global information technology (IT) workforce, and ITpreneurs, the leading provider of competence development solutions for IT best practices, announced today they are collaborating on a new cloud computing skills credential…

Grazed from Reuters.  Author: Siddharth Cavale.

Web hosting company Rackspace Hosting Inc (RAX.N) reported double digit third-quarter revenue growth for the fifth consecutive time as enterprise customers boosted demand for its cheaper cloud services in an uncertain global economy…

Grazed from ITNews.  Author:  Brett Winterford.

Telstra has launched a cloud computing portal to open up the purchase and provisioning of virtual servers to the small and medium business market.

The telco, which has been trialling cloud computing services with early adopter customers under the ‘Network Computing Services’ brand for over 12 months, has launched a self-provisioning engine for virtual servers at http://cloud.telstra.com…

Grazed from CRN.  Author: Andrew R. Hickey.

The cloud has blurred the lines between IT and business and it has also spawned a host of different definitions highlighting exactly what is the cloud and who sells into it.