Grazed from eWeek.  Author: Nathan Eddy.

Just 38 percent of all organizations indicate cloud services use today, according to a survey of 651 organizations across nine countries from IT research firm Gartner. However, 80 percent of organizations said that they intend to use cloud services in some form within 12 months, including 55 percent of the organizations not doing so today.

The results revealed that although the use of cloud services is growing faster than the overall enterprise IT market, it is still a small part of overall IT spending. The objective of the survey was to better understand how organizations are shifting from the use of traditional technology products to new technology delivered as cloud services and to understand end-user organizations’ use of external service providers for IT services, Gartner explained…

Grazed from Servora.  Author: Editorial Staff.

In order to save on the cost of IT maintenance and installation, many companies have chosen to use cloud computing. Cloud computing has allowed companies to experience the benefits of Software-as-a-Service, strengthening their businesses and make them more efficient all around without the capital expense. But how do you know if you should engage in a private or public cloud?

In order to understand the question being asked, let us first define cloud computing. Cloud computing is essentially SaaS by internet with faster setup and scalability. Once the cloud is set up, these programs, applications and processes are accessed via the internet. The cloud is maintained by the cloud vendor and is paid per use by the company…

Grazed from FierceEnterpriseCommunications: Author: David Weldon.

With virtually every type of computing service going to the cloud, it is only logical that supercomputing should as well.  The concept was recently explored in an article entitled "Meeting Demand" in Scientific Computing World, and it makes great sense for two important reasons: cost and accessibility.

There is no secret to the fact that there is a supercomputer arms race going on. Every month we read about the latest and greatest supercomputer going online somewhere around the world, and where the new machine falls on the Top500 list (the list of the world’s top supercomputers, which is updated twice annually)…

Grazed from Sci-Tech Today.  Author: Seth Fitzgerald.

Even though Windows 8.1 has yet to be released, rumors regarding Microsoft’s coming Windows 9 and 10 are already emerging. A Russian forum user named WZOR provided speculative reports as to what Windows 9 and 10 will be like, as well as how they will differ from the current version of Windows.

Virtually everything that WZOR talked about cannot be proven, but according to numerous articles regarding the information, WZOR has been behind countless other Microsoft leaks. With an impressive track record, it makes sense that many journalists are paying attention to what WZOR has to say about the coming Windows operating systems…

Grazed from ComputerWorld UK.  Author: Matthew Finnegan.

The number of High Court legal disputes over the theft of data from businesses has reached a record high, according to a report, with the popularity of cloud storage services making it easier for confidential data to be taken.  The number of legal disputes taken to the High Court grew by 58 percent last year, according to commercial law firm EMW, with 167 cases during 2012, up from 106 in 2011 and 45 in 2010.

The majority of these cases are said to have been businesses launching civil claims against former employees, aiming to prevent them from using confidential data taken from company databases.  Mark Finn, principal at EMW, believes that part of the reason for the increase in businesses taking action against employees is that it is has become even easier for staff to move information outside the business, thanks to the popularity of cloud storage systems such as DropBox…

Grazed from BizTech2.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Adobe announced a new version of Adobe Creative Cloud that enables creative teams to purchase membership of a single desktop application like Photoshop CC, Illustrator CC, InDesign CC or any other of the entire collection of CC desktop applications. With this new move, Adobe now offers two team plans for Creative Cloud: the complete option that delivers 14 Adobe desktop applications and sophisticated, cross-device collaboration and publishing capabilities; or the new single app plan that includes access to one desktop application along with 20GB of storage and the ability to showcase work on Behance, the world’s leading creative community.

Grazed from Wall Street Cheat Sheet.  Author: Victor Mora.

With shares of Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) trading around $49, is CRM an OUTPERFORM, WAIT AND SEE or STAY AWAY? Let’s analyze the stock with the relevant sections of our CHEAT SHEET investing framework:

T = Trends for a Stock’s Movement

Salesforce is a provider of enterprise cloud computing and social enterprise solutions. The company provides a customer and collaboration relationship management applications through the Internet or cloud. Salesforce delivers its service through Internet browsers and mobile devices and markets its social enterprise applications and platforms to businesses on a subscription basis. Cloud computing — the use of Internet-based computing, storage, and connectivity technology to deliver a variety of different services — has generated a lot of buzz in recent years…

Grazed from ARN.  Author: Nermin Bajric.

Unified identity services provider, Centrify, has boosted its product suite by signing its first specialist Cloud computing partner, Paradyne.  The partnership, which will be formally launched at Microsoft’s TechEd conference later this week, will see Paradyne’s Cloud expertise applied to Centrify’s portfolio.

Earlier this year, Centrify extend its product set from the datacentre to the Cloud through Centrify for Mobile 2013 and Centrify for SaaS 2013.  The integrated capabilities are designed to deliver secure, enterprise-class mobility with integrated application single sign-on (SSO) for security and productivity…

Grazed from PRWeb.   Author: PR Announcement.

Awesome Cloud Services, the company that delivers hosted IT infrastructure solutions enabling channel partners to offer cloud services to their clients, created an infographic illustrating the future growth of cloud computing. The infographic also showcases the opportunity for technology providers to generate new revenue by providing cloud services to their clients as part of the Awesome Cloud Services partnership program.

The infographic is interesting in that it not only outlines the growth rate of cloud services by segment but also predicts growth. For example, by 2014, 60% of server workload will be virtualized meaning more businesses will be utilizing cloud services. Of all the cloud computing revenues, about 50% comes from the US and currently, 40% of the customer relationship management (CRM) systems sold globally are cloud-based…

Grazed from GigaOM.  Author: Derrick Harris.

No offense to the others — they’ve been great — but this week’s Structure Show podcast might be favorite one yet. Barb Darrow and I spoke with computer wunderkind Chris Kemp, who’s currently co-founder and CEO of cloud computing startup Nebula, about his time as CIO and CTO at NASA, and the crazy things he saw and did there. Oh, and he has some thoughts on OpenStack — which his team at NASA helped create — as well.  Here are some highlights. But if you’re into cloud computing or even space exploration, you really should listen to the whole thing. Seriously.

On the complexity of walking into NASA, as a twenty-something, having worked primarily with normal IT systems: “Literally every technology that has ever been sold has been bought by NASA, and NASA has invented a lot of technology that has never been sold. So it’s really difficult to communicate just how diverse and federated and interesting the infrastructure is at NASA.”…