Grazed from ITWorld. Author: Nancy Gohring.

IBM is just starting to see hints of the new breed of apps that will become possible as more businesses start adopting cloud computing. I had a chat last week with Ric Telford, vice president of IBM Cloud Services. I tossed a range of questions at him about the demands IBM is getting from customers. But the conversation seemed to keep coming back to apps.

Telford has a vision of a new breed of apps that are “born-on-the-cloud apps as opposed to born-on-the-enterprise,” he said. “We’re entering the next generation of enterprise apps where it’s basically going to follow the models you see on the consumer side,” he said…

Grazed from ComputerWorld. Author: Nancy Gohring.

Private clouds are all the buzz these days, so you’d be forgiven for thinking that everybody’s doing it. But in fact, fewer companies than you might think have deployed ‘true’ private clouds. Forrester found in a recent survey of 2,330 people that 26% of IT executives say they have a private cloud. But among those who claimed they have a private cloud, only 13% implemented the technologies that Forrester says truly define a private cloud, like self-service and automated provisioning, among other features. Instead, they built private environments that have some but not all the features of a private cloud.

Further, some businesses that are building private clouds would really be better off with a standard virtualized data center or with a public cloud, experts say. Around half the time, businesses build private clouds for the wrong reasons and should be doing something else instead, estimates David Linthicum, a consultant at Cloud Technology Partners…

Grazed from PRNewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

IEEE, the world’s largest professional organization advancing technology for humanity, today announced its second IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing for Emerging Markets (CCEM) in India, taking place in Bangalore 16-18 October, 2013. During the three-day event, which will bring together industry, government, and academic leaders in cloud computing from across the world, Dr. Sam Pitroda, Chairman of the National Innovation Council for India, will unveil a white paper on "Roadmap for Cloud computing innovation in India".

Infosys’Kris Gopalakrishnan will deliver the inaugural address. To learn more about the conference and to register visit http://cloudcomputing.ieee.org/ccem. Other eminent speakers at the conference include – Dr. Anurag Srivastava, Senior VP & CTO, Wipro; Manish Israni, Infrastructure Head, Vodafone India; Shailesh Lakhani, Principal, Sequoia Capital India; Dr. Fausto Bernardini, VP & distinguished engineer, Cloud Managed Services, IBM USA; Dr. C.S.R. Prabhu, Deputy Director General, National Informatics Center India; Dr. Anand Deshpande, Founder Chairman and MD, Persistent Systems; Prof. Sadagopan, Director, IIIT – Bangalore and Perraju Bendapudi, Partner Architect, Microsoft Development Center, Hyderabad among others…

Grazed from eWeek. Author: Daryl K. Taft.

Enterprise cloud computing could see explosive growth over the next two years, according to a recent analyst report. TheInfoPro, a service of 451 Research, released its latest cloud computing study, which projects big growth in the number of enterprise cloud computing projects. Indeed, 60 percent of respondents to a survey conducted by TheInfoPro said they view cloud computing as a natural evolution of IT service delivery and do not allocate separate budgets for cloud computing projects.

Yet, of those that do have separate budgets for cloud computing, 69 percent said they expect their spending to increase in both 2013 and 2014 compared with the prior year. "As organizations are completing their transition to a virtualized data center infrastructure, their focus is switching rapidly to cloud computing projects," said Peter Ffoulkes, TheInfoPro’s research director for cloud computing, in a statement…

Grazed from ITWorld. Author: Joab Jackson.

The competition between Microsoft’s Windows Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) has moved to the caching layer: Both companies updated their caching services this week. Caching services can improve response times for applications by delivering frequently consulted data and functionality from a server’s working memory, or RAM, without calling it up from a slower hard drive.

AWS has expanded its ElastiCache service with a second popular open-source caching engine, Redis. The company has offered Memcached, on object storage cache, for some time. Like Memcached, Redis offers an in-memory key-value store, one good for storing sorted sets and lists. ElastiCache supports Redis’ master/slave replication capabilities, making it useful for offering multi-zone redundancy…

Grazed from Sys Con Media. Author: Richard Minney.

To state the obvious, businesses of all sizes are moving their applications to the cloud or renting software as a service (SaaS) instead of licensing or buying the software outright. The number one reason people cite is cost. Businesses large and small are under the impression they can save a bundle by moving their apps to the cloud. At the same time, companies who handle a move to the cloud badly can suffer a negative backlash from their user community.

When you consider all the cost factors, like your time, energy and risk to your business, will you save money in the long run by going with SaaS? The short answer is no. One thing is clear: businesses will pay less up front for cloud vs. on-premise. Modern SaaS systems are rented on a pay-as-you-go basis, or might have short-term contracts…

Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Steve Ranger.

You could be forgiven for believing that cloud computing floats on nothing (apart, perhaps, from the hot air emited by overexcited vendors), but it actually has a very solid base, otherwise known as infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). IaaS comprises the most fundamental building blocks of any cloud service; the processing, storage and network infrastructure upon which all cloud applications are built.

In a typical IaaS scenario, the service provider delivers the server, storage and networking hardware and its virtualisation and then it’s up the customer to implement the operating systems, middleware and applications they require…

Grazed from CDM Media.  Author: Event Announcement.

The Big Data Summit is an opportunity for C-level executives who are involved in data storage, data management and data analysis to gather and discuss how companies can effectively manage, protect and leverage the growing amounts of data in the enterprise.

With a focus on best practices, the event will allow attendees to explore strategies and technologies surrounding real-time data processing, data protection and privacy, meeting industry regulations and compliance, and data storage.


These points and more are the theme at the 2013 Big Data Summit, to be held in Scottsdale, AZ, on Dec 08 -10, 2013 ...

Grazed from MarketWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Message Bus, pioneer of cloud infrastructure for email, mobile and social messaging, today announced it has been named a 2013 Emerging Cloud Vendor by UBM’s CRN Magazine: http://www.crn.com/slide-shows/cloud/240160022/emerging-vendors-2013-cloud-vendors.htm?pgno=1.

According to CRN, "Cloud computing is arguably the single most important trend to hit the IT industry in years. It’s not only forcing established vendors to change their game plans, but the cloud revolution has created opportunities for a whole new generation of emerging vendors."…

Grazed from TheWhir. Author: Justin Lee.

Automated server migration solution provider RiverMeadow Software announced on Wednesday it has closed a $12 million Series B financing round that included investors Cisco, Violin Memory and others. The move comes a few weeks after RiverMeadow Software released version 2.0 of RiverMeadow Cloud Migration SaaS which delivers a wide range of feature and infrastructure enhancements.

The new funding will help go to support RiverMeadow’s growth as the company drives deployments of the RiverMeadow Cloud Migration SaaS with carriers and service providers around the world. “This is a significant milestone for RiverMeadow which validates the enormous potential we see for our cloud migration solution,” said Mark Shirman, CEO of RiverMeadow. “The RiverMeadow Cloud Migration SaaS has already gained tremendous traction and acceptance with many of the world’s largest cloud infrastructure manufacturers and service providers…