Cloud News, Resources and Information
Despite an enormous amount of coverage on the internet, television and no doubt in the workplace, for some unknown reason ‘cloud computing’ and, by association, ‘cloud telecommunications’, are terms that remain some of the most enigmatic of modern technological parlance…
Question: What do you get when you cross old-fashioned off-site hosting with virtualized servers and cloud computing?
Answer: Hybrid hosting.
Oh, and hybrid hosting can be part of your hybrid cloud. Got that?…
One of the more confounding aspects of cloud computing is that software pricing is frequently out of sync with the way hardware is acquired. IT organizations can easily pay for hardware on an hourly, monthly or yearly basis. Software pricing, on the other hand, has generally remained tied to the number of processors being used on a yearly basis…
AppRiver, a leading provider of email messaging and Web security solutions, today announced that Brian Haynes, director of channel sales for AppRiver, will be a featured speaker at the 2011 Cloud Computing Expo. The conference is taking place November 7-10 in Santa Clara. The full agenda can be found at: http://cloudcomputingexpo.com/event/schedule…
Cloud computing creates tremendous opportunities from the channel, and cloud vendors will rely heavily on the channel as the cloud drives a technological sea change, Google (NSDQ:GOOG) Enterprise Director of Channels and Business Development Stephen Cho said…
Grazed from Data Center Knowledge. Author: Rich Miller.
Can Wales become a destination for modular data centers? Next Generation Data (NGD) has prepared the top floor of its massive facility in Newport, Wales to house containerized data centers.
The 140,000 square foot space includes just four pillars, which NGD executives say has made it ideal for a major modular deployment, perhaps for a U.S. cloud computing provider seeking to add capacity in Europe. The new space spans one of the three floors at the 750,000 square foot NGD facility, with the other two floors housing traditional raised-floor data center space…
Grazed from Network World. Author: Michael Cooney.
The security of cloud computing is often debated but such debates seem to be over for the general tasked with running the United States military’s cyber command, who sees the technology not only as way to rein in IT costs but a way to more easily protect IT assets…
The Internet accounted for 21 percent of gross domestic product growth in the world’s largest economies over the last five years, according to a new McKinsey report…
Emerging technologies such as cloud computing, software as a service (SaaS) and virtualisation are tipped for big things in 2012…
Most big financial services companies have been eager to tout their own private clouds, but only a few have made a large move to public cloud offerings, citing security and compliance concerns. However, Amazon Web Services, the division of Amazon that runs its cloud computing offering, has been making inroads in the highly regulated financial services industry…