Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: Danielle Arad.

The next big thing in the evolution of internet is the industry of Cloud Computing. With technological advancements making a leap in every quarter of the year, new methodologies are being devised to meet out the requirements of millions of users worldwide. The field of Cloud Computing has greatly eased the cognitive dissonance caused by multiple user experiences, thereby acting as a bridge to create the same UX across all platforms, namely – tablets, PCs, smartphones, and even televisions.

Though the Cloud is a fairly recently coined term, the actual concept of Cloud Computing dates way back when mainframes were used to access information in colleges and corporations with the help of a terminal computer. The great saying of the famous scientist John McCarthy, “Computation may someday be organized as a public utility,” back in 1960, has become a reality now. Clearly, the ever-expanding field of the Internet has played a pivotal role in taking the Cloud to the next level. By doing so, apart from enhancing the UX, the collaboration between Cloud and the Internet greatly helps businesses cut short their IT expenses by outsourcing their maintenance and operations to that of the Cloud provider…

Grazed from PRNewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

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Grazed from CloudTech. Author: Aiden Grayson.

For everything cloud computing offers – speed, convenience, simplicity, offsite backups – its “public” nature remains a touchy subject for enterprise. This simple fact explains why many organisations have been slow to embrace the cloud. In business, data security is everything. And for decision makers at big firms, trusting all mission-critical data into the care of a third-party IT vendor sounds just a bit too risky. But with the arrival of the private cloud, organizations can enjoy the conveniences of cloud computing without a lot of the tradeoffs. Here’s why they might want to give it a shot:

1. Data security and compliance

“A virtual infrastructure that offers on-the-go, anytime data access may sound great, but how can we be sure our data is safe?” This was – and still is – the big question for enterprise when confronted with cloud computing. The public cloud, they reason, is simply more vulnerable to misuse than data hosted in-house. On the other hand, a private, managed virtual network that delivers data and services is a different thing altogether. And it’s a thing more organisations are warming up to…

Grazed from TheEngineer. Author: Editorial Staff.

The platform allows robots connected to the internet to directly access the computational, storage, and communications infrastructure of modern data centres for robotics tasks and robot learning. The new RoboEarth Cloud Engine extends earlier work on allowing robots to share knowledge with other robots via a WWW-style database, thereby speeding up robot learning and adaptation in complex tasks.

The developed Platform as a Service (PaaS) for robots allows to perform complex functions like mapping, navigation, or processing of human voice commands in the cloud, at a fraction of the time required by robots’ on-board computers. By making enterprise-scale computing infrastructure available to any robot with a wireless connection, the researchers believe that the new computing platform will help pave the way towards lighter, cheaper, more intelligent robots…

Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: Eric Knorr.

When IBM announced last week that all of its cloud offerings would be built around OpenStack, the open source cloud operating system, it was a triumph for the OpenStack Foundation and its large community of supporters. "We dreamed that one day IBM might get involved and do for OpenStack what they’ve done for Linux and other open source communities in the past," Mark Collier, COO of the OpenStack Foundation, told me. "They’re actually committed fully to OpenStack for being the basis for every single cloud solution they have going forward," both private and public.

The announcement signaled that IBM would take the helm as the corporate steward of OpenStack, surpassing in importance even Rackspace — which along with NASA gave birth to OpenStack three years ago. IBM is devoting the necessary money and resources and boasts an impressive track record cultivating open source communities: It built Eclipse from the ground up and was highly instrumental in the success of Linux and Apache…

Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: DD Mishra.

Cloud is on the verge of becoming a mega trend and it is necessary we debate this topic to a great depth and discuss it openly to remove any confusion and look at cloud from a different window of opportunity. I have tried to capture here some of the myths which exist around cloud for a healthy debate in my endeavor to demystify. I am sure there are better opinions and views which are available than what is being presented here and it will be a pleasure to debate them on this forum.

1. Cloud brings significant cost savings
This is debatable and this may not always be true. There could be situations where a cloud could be more expensive. We often overlook several associated costs to compute the cloud expense. More often this myth is created as rhetoric by product vendors to make a business case for cloud computing. If you are going for an OPEX model with public cloud, your accounting becomes simple but this also comes with an overhead of additional charges. The logic is same as buying a car and renting a car where renting over a long period is more expensive…

It is hard to say which of the two buzzwords tops IT news today: Big Data or Cloud. It’s much easier to see how these two can play nicely together.

Big data symbolizes the explosion of computer generated data, which is said to double every year and outgrowing the capacity of IT data centers. In trying to cope with ever-increasing data volumes and make sense of the data, companies find themselves in desperate need of high scale data aggregation, processing and analysis tools.

I won’t dare give another definition to such a multi-faceted thing as Cloud. Instead, let me summarize a few of its inherent capabilities, representing different levels of the cloud stack:

Grazed from CloudTech.  Author: Dome9.

If you’ve been around the block a few times, you’re probably wondering why the title of this post isn’t, 50 Reasons VPNs Suck in the Cloud.   VPNs have long been the bane of both administrators and users (and lets not forget, support). They’re clunky, complex, and costly, and the same is true when they’re deployed to secure cloud access.   Today, VPNs are increasingly used to connect to cloud computing resources.

Either by routing traffic back through the corporate network or direct to the cloud provider, VPNs offer authentication and transport-layer encryption to keep the bad guys out and sensitive information secure. But at what cost?   Both VPN configurations (corporate and provider) are complex to set up, require client agents with loads of support, and can be expensive to maintain. Arguably, there’s room for – and exists – a better approach to securing access to cloud servers.   We’ll get to what that is in a coming post, but for now we thought we’d share a few reasons why VPNs suck in the cloud, in reverse order (for effect)…

Grazed from CloudTweaks.  Author: Chris Kenealy.

In the course of my illustrious writing career, I have come across new and entertaining topics that I would have otherwise never cared to learn. For example did you know computers were called electronic brains in the 1950s? Of course knowing what we know now about the electronic brains’ memory capacities of the 1950s, it makes me wonder if all the asbestos lined schools and DDT neighborhood spray play dates were a reason for such a slow start in advancements of this electronic brain? Yet, the slang of the 1950s for computers is not what this article is about.

No, instead, I decided since I am going to be writing more about the cloud network I should read up on as much as I can. Yet, after starting my research I realized that I know remarkably little about this computing concept. So I figured we should have a little one on one time because I now feel it is my job to enlighten as many as I can on this foreign concept with a few facts that surprised me, but may help us understand the true vision of the cloud…