Grazed from PRNewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Internap Network Services Corporation (NASDAQ: INAP), a provider of high-performance hosting services, today announced the results of a Cloud Spectator report, "Performance Analysis: Benchmarks of Bare-Metal & Virtual Clouds," which found that Internap’s bare-metal cloud, AgileSERVER, offers as much as an order of magnitude better performance, consistency and value when compared to similar virtual cloud configurations for Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Rackspace OpenCloud. Cloud Spectator is an independent analyst group focused on Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) performance and pricing.

Virtual cloud infrastructure solutions have gained significant interest and adoption. However, as organizations increasingly run more complex, computationally-intensive "fast data" applications in the cloud, performance issues can arise due to processing overhead created by the hypervisor layer and numerous tenants and tasks competing for shared resources…

Grazed from Forbes. Author: Ben Kepes.

Let’s get one thing straight – cloud computing is a fundamental change in the way technology is delivered. It packages together some basic technology innovations (primarily virtualization) and delivers them in new ways. The two best (and simplest) ways to think of cloud computing is to use a couple of acronyms from two friends of mine. The first comes from Dave Nielsen, creator of CloudCamp and posits that to be considered cloud, a service must be OSSM, standing for: On-demand,Self-service, Scalable and Measurable (more here).

The second comes from Joe Weinman, creator of the cloudonomics theory and author of the book of the same name. Weinman posits that cloud should be: Cloud – Common, Location independant, Online, Utility and onDemand. You’ll notice that in both those acronyms, the technology part of cloud is only one part…

Grazed from ITWeb. Author: Joanne Carew.

Cloud computing has the potential to make architects’ jobs quicker and easier, by promoting collaboration and mobility. This is according to Lynn Allen, an Autodesk technical evangelist, who was speaking at the Autodesk University Extension event in Johannesburg this week.

Allen highlighted three main reasons why architects should embrace cloud technology, the first being the mobile aspect of cloud. She noted that it is not unfathomable that architects will be using some type of mobile device as their workstations in the future. The fact that buying trends are shifting from desktops and laptops to tablets and smartphones further illustrates this shift, she noted. "Mobility and cloud computing allow for storage anywhere, which makes accessing a drawing on site, and storing large files, simpler," said Allen…

Grazed from CMO. Author: Editorial Staff.

Global IT industry body, CompTIA, says that cloud computing has moved to a new level of adoption with many organisations employing multiple cloud models in different combinations to optimise benefits and efficiencies.

CompTIA has just released its fourth annual ‘Trends in Cloud Computing’ study saying: “As cloud computing becomes a default part of the IT landscape, more companies are relying on cloud computing for business processes such as storage (59 percent), business continuity and disaster recovery (48 percent) and security (44 percent).”…

Grazed from TechRepublic. Author: Thoran Rodrigues.

There is no doubt that cloud computing is one of the greatest advances in IT on recent years. Regardless of the fears and uncertainty that many companies experience before moving to the cloud, the benefits that are realized once the move is made are simply too large to ignore. Cloud computing has enabled companies of all sizes and in all markets to speed up implementation times, to become more agile, and to optimize their infrastructure costs.

While many cloud proponents (myself included) will often argue that a lot of the concerns that surround the cloud stem from nothing more than lack of knowledge and an improper understanding of the underlying technological issues, some concerns are not only valid, but should actually be taken into careful consideration when contemplating a move to the cloud…

Grazed from Business2Community. Author: Rens van der Windt.

Many businesses share and store sensitive data in the cloud. As more and more of our private data is stored in a way which makes it accessible anywhere, and an increasing number of businesses start storing their valuable documents on cloud based services, a question arises: is your data safe in the cloud?

Cloud storage is a very convenient tool to help us solve the continuous need for large and more easily accessible storage space to hold all of our digital property, but is our personal data safe out there on the internet? Three cloud technology experts give their opinion…

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Codero Hosting (www.codero.com), a leading provider of dedicated, managed, cloud and hybrid hosting services, released its On-Demand Hybrid Cloud Hosting offering today – the industry’s only true hybrid solution. Codero combined its best-of-breed cloud and dedicated hosting technologies to provide customers with the flexibility and strength of a public cloud with the robustness and security of traditional IT infrastructure. With this more flexible computing model, businesses can simultaneously run applications on traditional and cloud infrastructure, depending on the unique needs of each individual application.

"The delivery of IT has completely shifted. While public cloud hosting was the hype a few years ago, it is now clear that a more adaptable computing model is needed in order for businesses to run their applications in the best ways possible," said Emil Sayegh, CEO and president of Codero Hosting. "Our On-Demand Hybrid Cloud Hosting was developed based on the reality of how businesses deploy and run applications today. It gives customers the power to use the IT resources best suited for their individual needs, getting the best of all worlds through one trusted partner with unparalleled hosting expertise – a true on-demand IT infrastructure model."

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Today, we are pleased to announce the beta availability of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.3, a comprehensive datacenter virtualization solution for servers and desktops,supporting Red Hat’s vision of empowering organizations on their journey from traditional datacenter virtualization to cloud computing. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, along with Red Hat CloudForms and Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform are the pillars of Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure, an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offering we introduced in June 2013.

Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure enables organizations to commoditize and lower virtualization costs, reduce silos, and standardize on the common underlying services and management technologies for traditional workloads while providing an on-ramp to high-level cloud functionality based on OpenStack…

Grazed from WHIR. Author: Dave Hamilton.

Oracle has bought cloud-based Configure, Price and Quote solution provider BigMachines, which will make Software as a Service CPQ tools available to its enterprise customers. BigMachines is Oracle’s latest in a string of SaaS developers including Eloqua, RightNow and Taleo.

BigMachines’ CPQ Cloud essentially automates and streamlines the sales order process for product complexity or pricing complexity. Price quotes and order fulfillment information can also be integrated with CRM software to give account managers crucial information and back-end business suites the information they need to fulfill orders. BigMachines co-founder Godard Abel said in a phone interview, “Oracle is now catching up in SaaS and in the cloud by buying companies.”…