Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author: Stefan Bernbo.

Cloud computing has opened the doors to a vast array of online services. With the emergence of new cloud technologies, both public and private companies are seeing increases in performance gains, elasticity and convenience. However, maintaining a competitive advantage has become increasingly difficult. Service providers are taking a closer look at their data storage infrastructure for ways to improve performance and cut costs.

If the status quo remains, maintaining low-cost cloud services will become increasingly difficult. Service providers will incur higher costs, while consumers become burdened with storage capacity restrictions. Such obstacles are influencing service providers to find new ways to scale cost-effectively and increase performance in the data center…

Grazed from ZDNet.  Author: Joe McKendrick.

The folks at Dice.com just sent out this memo:  In the month of July, 3,600 jobs were created in data processing, hosting and related events, according to the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics report.  That’s the single best month of job growth in this category since June 1998.

While the BLS numbers don’t dissect the IT jobs in terms of specialty, Dice says its own numbers show growth in the "cloud" category. As the online tech job placement service put it: "Cloud service providers report in this category and their services appear to be increasingly in demand. The number of jobs posted on Dice containing the word ‘cloud’ hit an all-time high in August and account for six percent of all job postings."…

Grazed from FortMillTimes.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Dell Cloud Client Computing today announced the release of version 6 of Dell Wyse WSM desktop and application virtualization software. This new release adds server streaming capability to help organizations harness the benefits of virtualization and cloud computing, while simplifying management and deployment processes and helping to reduce costs. By adding on-demand delivery of server OS images to Dell’s reliable and secure end-user computing portfolio, Dell Wyse WSM 6 offers another powerful computing alternative that helps organizations quickly stand up new servers where and when needed, and gives employees and students secured access to content regardless of location.

Dell Wyse WSM delivers operating systems and applications separately to stateless, diskless clients on demand, providing a manageable, reliable and scalable PC computing experience from the cloud. Unlike traditional VDI, Dell Wyse WSM enables the desktop OS and applications to execute locally on the client, giving that client the same look, performance, feel and function of a traditional desktop PC, but storing all OS, applications, and data in the datacenter…

Grazed from PR.com.  Author: PR Announcement.

OpenNebula Conf organizers have announced the speakers for the first conference dedicated to the popular cloud computing solution. Presenters from companies the likes of China Mobile, Produban (Santander Group), Deutsche E-Post and the European Space Agency (ESA) are among the line up of 26 speakers from around the world.

The program of presentations and workshops for the OpenNebula Conf on 24 – 26 September in Berlin has been finalized.  Covering a breadth of issues related to OpenNebula and private enterprise cloud environments, the three-day conference will offer developers, users and administrators a rare opportunity to learn and share best practices…

Grazed from BillingWorld.  Author: Craig Galbraith.

Nokia Siemens Networks says its comprehensive testing of mobile voice core services running in the "Telco Cloud" shows that its cloud technology is on the brink of commercial deployment.  The testing involved what NSN says is "an exhaustive set of use cases" that covered voice over LTE (VoLTE) and other IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS)-based services in the Telco Cloud.

During 2012, Nokia Siemens Networks demonstrated the reliability of core virtualization in several “proof of concept" projects. These projects provided the technology foundation for core network element software running on top of a virtualized infrastructure. In addition, NSN says the projects helped identify telco-specific requirements for cloud computing…

Grazed from PR.com.  Author: PR Announcement.

Constellation Research, Inc., the research and advisory firm focused how disruptive technologies transform business models, announced today the publication of "Nine Cloud IaaS Trends for 2014 and Beyond” by Constellation Vice President and Principal Analyst, Holger Mueller. This research report presents 9 distinctive trends in the IaaS market and 8 hands-on steps for organizations to evaluate and craft their IaaS/cloud strategy.

This report reveals:
Trend 1 – Downward price pressure continues
Trend 2 – Cloud partnering will go into overdrive
Trend 3 – Acquisitions will become more frequent
and six more trends…

And 8 recommended hands-on steps for enterprises to evaluate and formulate their cloud / IaaS strategy going forward…

Grazed from PRWeb. Author: PR Announcement.

Analysts estimate that more than 2.2 million terabytes (or 2.2 exabytes) of data are created every day, and its all got to be stored somewhere. Clearly, this is a new world for IT, and legacy storage systems just aren’t cutting it; paying for dependable storage is costing many organizations as much as 20 percent of their annual IT budgets and is holding back efforts to extend virtualization and leverage advances in converged infrastructure and cloud computing. To help IT pros explore the ways they can move their storage systems down a converged infrastructure path,Logicalis US, an international IT solutions and managed services provider, has created a free, downloadable white paper, Storage for Converged Infrastructures, available here.

Storage has become such a key component of a converged infrastructure that the choice of storage systems is replacing servers as a driver of platform choices for IT departments, says Logicalis Vice President of HP Solutions Brandon Harris. The decision that organizations make about storage today is the linchpin to what their overall converged infrastructure is going to be tomorrow…

Grazed from NetworkWorld. Author: Linda Musthaler.

In the 2013 version of the annual Gartner Executive Program survey, more than 2,000 CIOs in 41 countries identified their top 10 technology priorities for the year. The survey showed that analytics and business intelligence ranks No.1, with mobile technologies and cloud computing (SaaS, IaaS, PaaS) coming in at Nos. 2 and 3. CIOs are looking to these digital technologies to help their companies achieve business results.

While the focus of these technologies is on how to use them to boost business, the underlying IT concerns are still there. How will we secure our data on mobile devices and in the cloud? How will we know who is using our resources? How can we manage these diverse technologies effectively and efficiently? They are the same questions companies ask themselves over and over again as they grapple with increasingly complex and disparate infrastructures and a multitude of mobile devices accessing applications on-premise and in the cloud…

Grazed from WSJ. Author: Drew Fitzgerald.

Rackspace RAX -0.80% Hosting bet its future on the cloud last year. It has spent most of the past six months losing altitude. The company’s second quarter earnings report next Thursday will show whether the one-time high flyer is turning things around.

It turns out the business of renting computer power over the Internet is more cutthroat than thought, with fast growth tempered by regular price declines. Rackspace’s stock soared 73% last year until its earnings reports showed its original business of running private data centers stalling out. That troubling sign caused shares to tumble this spring even as the broader market rallied. Rackspace is now off 38% this year…

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.

Adobe may have upset a segment of its user base by shifting to a SaaS-only software model, but the company known mostly for what was formerly known as the Creative Suite of products may have gained some brownie points—not only with customers but also with its reseller partners.

A change in licensing will make single Creative Cloud applications (Photoshop CC, Illustrator CC, InDesign CC, etc.) available for a subscription fee, whereas things have been a little more complicated since launch. Adobe now has two team pricing plans for Creative Cloud—the complete package of 14 applications or a single app plan that comes equipped with 20GB of cloud storage and access to the Behance creative community…