Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: Editorial Staff.

For those who have yet to get on-board. Cloud adoption will be big part of many businesses agenda as we move into 2014. Provided is an excellent infographic provided by the team at Skyhigh which illustrates the high a number of cloud services available in the marketplace.

To view infographic and read more from the source, visit http://cloudtweaks.com/2014/03/cloud-adoption-risk/

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Grazed from TheSecurityAdvocate. Author: Gilad Parann-Nissany.

In 2008, the size of the cloud computing industry was $46 Billion. That is more than the GDP of Costa Rica! Think it’s a lot? Ready to jump on the cloud security bandwagon? That was 2008! In 2014, the size of the cloud computing industry has more than tripled to $150 Billion – almost the GDP of New Zealand. NOW are you ready?

Besides the fact that everyone else is doing it, migrating to the cloud just makes good business sense. Whether you select a private cloud, a public cloud, or some hybrid of the two, cloud computing is just more powerful than traditional datacenters. There are several reasons for this. First, the reduced capital costs of IT infrastructure – no need for hardware, software, and manpower (and training) to manage them. Also, there is the improved accessibility, effectiveness, flexibility and scalability of the cloud…

Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Eileen Yu.

Huawei Technologies is looking to clock US$10 billion revenue from its enterprise business and has high hopes cloud will help lead the way. The Chinese networking equipment vendor said its enterprise unit was targeting to hit US$10 billion by 2017 by securing contracts in cloud hosting and networks, reported Bloomberg.

This business division chalked up US$2.5 billion in revenue last year, climbing 32 percent, and would register a higher growth rate in 2014, said William Xu, who leads the business unit, at this week’s CeBIT show in Hanover, Germany. Shenzhen-based Huawei faces stiff competition from U.S. networking giant and current market leader, Cisco Systems, but the Chinese vendor is seeing bigger growth in the U.S. market…

Grazed from MidSize Insider. Author: Doug Bonderud.

The rise of public cloud services has led to a widening market. While it is still dominated by several major vendors, even startup firms and tech giants late to the party can gain traction with midsize businesses that wish to leverage scalable computing resources. Increased competition and improved infrastructure, however, have spawned a secondary trend: Multicloud public deployments. IT professionals are no longer content to stand under a single data umbrella; they are opting instead for part-and-parcel clouds that meet specific needs on demand.

No Longer an Exception?

A March 6 InfoWorld article talks about the multicloud trend, which is driven in large part by the demands of consumers for interoperable cloud computing technologies, no matter their underlying infrastructure. The piece points to specific examples of companies using several clouds to achieve performance objectives; applications and back-end management are handled by different cloud services…

Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: Glenn Blake.

VMware has launched a Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS), VMware Horizon, hosted on VMware’s public cloud server. For rates as low at $35 a month, businesses can use this DaaS to load and operate Microsoft operating systems, such as Windows XP, Windows 7 and Windows 8 on desktop and laptop computers or mobile devices.

Businesses can manage and monitors all of their employees running an operating system through VMware Horizon. IT departments can create their own virtual desktops with gold pattern images provided by VMware. They can also ensure secure connectivity by integrating virtual desktops into their Active Directory environment. Amazon Web Services also has plans to launch a DaaS with prices at $35 a month, but so far it is only available as a limited preview…

Read more from the source @ http://cloudtweaks.com/2014/03/vmware-launches-public-desktop-service/

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Grazed from eBook3000.com. Author: Editorial Staff.

OpenStack is an open source cloud operating stack that was born from Rackspace and NASA and became a global success, developed by scores of people around the globe and backed by some of the leading players in the cloud space today.

To download ebook, visit http://onmirror.com/prbowbptl9ib/1782167587_OpenStack.pdf.html

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Grazed from SiliconAngle. Author: Jack Woods.

As software-defined data centers emerge in the IT industry, CIOs have a number of critical decisions and considerations on their plate. For companies considering whether or not to use cloud computing, traditional data centers, or a combination of the two for data storage, three primary factors commonly play into their decision: business needs, overall system costs, and data security.

Since the cloud is an external form of storage, CIOs typically view it as a less appealing host location than a traditional data center. Entrusting data with a third-party provider that has many different locations can be a daunting thought. We’ve put together a video gallery from around the web to shed some light on cloud security’s current role, as well as what it may mean in the future, within the data center realm…

Read more from the source and watch videos @ http://siliconangle.com/blog/2014/03/10/8-informative-cloud-security-issues-and-insights-videos-tc0114/

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Grazed from Crowdsourcing.org. Author: Martin Ingram.

With the continued push into an entirely digitized era, companies are embracing cloud computing to enhance their business operations. Yet, most executives are still grappling with the question around how to virtualize their business processes and respective people, while generating innovation.

For the last decade, the idea of cloud computing has been a part of business conversations, with debate over whether the unknown applications were effective; in fact, at first, cloud computing was not proven successful and many people discounted its potential. In the last few years cloud computing has become mainstream, forcing executives to look back and question their everyday business processes…

Grazed from MarketWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Computex Technology Solutions, a nationwide IT services company, today announced it has completed the acquisition of Houston-based ENETsolutions, one of the top U.S. managed services providers (MSPs) and Cisco Gold networking partners. The acquisition strengthens Computex Technology Solutions’ advanced technology offerings around cloud services and unified communications.

Specifically, it boosts the company’s networking infrastructure solutions with the addition of a team of experts manning a 24×7 multi-million dollar data center, integration facility and network operations center (NOC) for cloud and hosting services and remote network monitoring and management. The acquisition also uniquely positions Computex Technology Solutions as a premier IT services provider with the expertise to design, deploy and manage an entire end-to-end enterprise IT environment with a mix of on-premise, off-premise and hosted solutions and a wide range of cloud computing consulting and professional services…

Grazed from TheConversation. AuthorL Jake Goldenfein.

The growth of cloud computing has revolutionised the way that information is produced, stored, processed and consumed, with privacy laws sometimes failing to keep up. From March 12, 2014, changes to Australia’s Privacy Act will impose new obligations on companies that collect and process personal information, including those that operate in the cloud.

Cloud computing involves using technical infrastructure, controlled by another party, to store information or data. As well as data storage, some cloud services include features that trade on the personal information they generate. For example, online services like Facebook, Gmail, and other Google offerings remain “free”, but users must provide personal information to obtain access…