Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Monish Darda.

In 1997, Prof Ramnath Chellappa at Emory University famously defined Cloud Computing as “"the computing paradigm where the boundaries of computing will be determined by economic rationale rather than technical limits alone”. The world has come full circle 17 years later – the economic rationale is already compelling, and the adoption of cloud computing is a “top down” mandate in almost every enterprise.

Closer to home, the Indian public cloud computing market is one of the fastest growing world-wide. According to Gartner, the Indian market is expected to grow to over half a billion dollars in 2014. Bottom line – the cloud is here to stay! We live in an exciting age – it is not enough to have a cloud computing wave going; there are other disruptions. SMAC – Social Media, Analytics and Cloud have become powerful tools of the modern business…

Grazed from Kropla.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Mobile communications move and change at the speed of light. The way businesses and consumers use mobile technology today is not even remotely the same way they were using it just 10 years ago. In fact, mobile technology is moving so quickly that “mobile” doesn’t mean the same thing it did just a few years ago.

Old vs. New Mobility

When mobile phones and wireless internet first came on the scene, they were used as a way to stay in touch while on the road. But now, thanks to smartphones and mobile cloud computing capabilities, business travel spending is down, and mobile communications is skyrocketing…

Grazed from WSJ.  Author: Editorial Staff.

I’m as big a believer in the transformational power of cloud computing as anyone you’ll meet. Smartphones, which are constantly seeking and retrieving data, don’t make sense without the cloud, and any business that isn’t racing to push its data and software into someone else’s data center is, in my view, setting itself up for disruption by a competitor who is.

But cloud advocates are fond of declaring that 100% of computing will someday reside in the cloud. And many companies are in business to sell you on that notion.  Here’s the reality: Getting data into and out of the cloud is harder than most engineers, or at least their managers, often are willing to admit…

Grazed from InsideBigData.  Author: Daniel Gutierrez.

Actian Corporation has announced a partnership with NetSuite, a leading provider of cloud-based financials/ERP and omnichannel commerce software suites, to offer NetSuite customers the ability to seamlessly connect their business-critical NetSuite ERP data with a variety of other data sources.

The Actian connector, built using NetSuite’s SuiteCloud Computing Platform, can eliminate key challenges from the data integration process, paving the way for NetSuite customers to experience faster implementation times and quicker return on investment…

Grazed from SiliconAngle.  Author: Maria Deutscher.

Like many of its traditional rivals,  Oracle has adopted an  ’if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em’ attitude towards OpenStack in an implicit acknowledgment that the project is disrupting the proprietary systems and software that currently account for the bulk of its revenues.  But the database maker has arrived late to the party, allowing the competition to race ahead and establish a beachhead in what is poised to become a very lucrative market in a few years’ time.

Now, in an attempt to catch up with the rest of the industry, Oracle rolling out its very own version of the free cloud platform that runs on latest releases of its Linux distribution and hypervisor. Unveiled on Tuesday and currently in technical preview, the release comes as a response to the efforts of Red Hat to standardize OpenStack deployments atop RHEL…

Grazed from TechTimes.  Author: Joseph Mayton.

There are few things in the tech world that are the sole responsibility of one company, but Adobe has managed to monopolize cloud-based technology for the general public. When it went down on May 14 in the early evening Eastern Standard Time, it forced many to think twice about using the cloud for their document storage. For more than 24 hours, the Creative Cloud Suite (CCS) was offline, and so were many users.

The result has brought about many complaines that having only one company responsible for such massive amounts of data could be a detriment to productivity for thousands of people. Moreover, having one company dominating the cloud may have wideranging effects affecting mutiple industries…

Grazed from PRWeb.  Author: PR Announcement.

The report High Performance Computing Market Server, Storage, Networking, Software (Middleware, Cluster & Fabric Management, Performance Optimization), Professional Services, Deployment Models, Price Bands – Global Market Forecasts & Analysis (2013 – 2018), segments the global market into various sub segments with in-depth analysis of the ecosystem. It also identifies the drivers and restraints of this market with insights into trends, opportunities, and challenges.

Browse 75 market data tables and 15 figures spread through 175 pages and in-depth TOC on High Performance Computing Market – Global Market Forecasts & Analysis (2013 – 2018)" – http://www.marketsandmarkets.com/Market-Reports/Quantum-High-Performance-Computing-Market-631.html …

Grazed from eWeek.  Author: Todd R. Weiss.

SafeGov.org continues to ask Google questions about its past scanning of Gmail messages that used data mining to serve up ads to Google Apps for Education users.  Opponents of Google’s recent practice of scanning Gmail messages to help target advertisements to Gmail users continue to pressure the search giant on the issue.

The latest salvo comes from Jeff Gould, the president of industry group SafeGov.org, who launched an angry attack on Google in a May 15 blog post after Google described its Gmail-scanning activities in a recent blog post…

Grazed from CloudBestPractices.  Author: Neil McEvoy.

Earlier today I was fortunate to be given the opportunity to chair this webinar from SecureKey, on ‘BYOC’ – Bring Your Own Credentials.  With inputs from PwC and the Government of Canada, SecureKey explained how their Identity platform is enabling citizens to log on to Government e-services, via their online banking username and password.

Identity as a foundation for Digital Government – Globally

My introduction was to highlight that this is a global trend, based on open standards such as SAML and OAuth, where the USA and the UK among others are also pioneering the same principles as Canada…

Grazed from Fool.  Author: 

With tech behemoth Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ  ) announcing its results for the fiscal second quarter on May 21, the company’s greatest problem continues to be its inability to develop a secure, alternate source of revenue that can help offset its dependence on the rapidly shrinking PC industry. While CEO Meg Whitman deserves a pat on the back for finally putting the brakes on the company’s continued revenue slide, HP’s return to profitability still seems like an elusive dream to a majority of investors.

One of the highlights of the company’s performance during the recent first quarter was the poor performance of two of its main operating divisions, enterprise computing and printing, that together account for around 40% of its overall revenue generated…