Grazed from MarketWire. Author: PR Announcement.

ProfitBricks, the infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) company that completely reengineered the delivery of cloud computing, today announced its Referral Program, designed to positively impact the benefits for referral partnerships. The program is currently unmatched, offering as much as 25 percent of a customer’s net revenue as compensation. ProfitBricks is also opening up its early-stage reseller program by inviting select Value Added Resellers (VARs) to work with the cloud computing provider.

The ProfitBricks Referral Program is aimed at developers, IT consultants, system integrators, independent software vendors and even well-connected technology influencers looking for recurring revenue streams from a next-generation cloud provider…

Grazed from DataCenterDynamics. Author: Laura Luo.

The Wuyuan Cloud Computing Data Center Project has been launched, marking China’s first county-level cloud computing data center landing in Wuyuan, Jiangxi Province. With a total investment of 500m CNY, the data center will be constructed by Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT), a branch of the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) in South China.

It is planned to break ground this January and be completed in June next year. The data center will have a computing speed of 300 trillion times/second, with its storage capacity reaching PB level upon completion. It is said that it will become the largest headquarter data center and supercomputer data center of the Chinese Academy of Science in East China, providing supercomputing and storage services for many industries including banking and education and provincial governments of Jiangxi, Hubei and Anhui…

Grazed from PingZine. Author: Editorial Staff.

As Cloud computing continues to take the business world by storm, new research has found that the public’s understanding of ‘the Cloud’ is still poor, some five years after the term became widely used in the IT industry. A new survey from Webfusion – one of the UK’s biggest hosting groups, polled more than 1,000 of the general public to gauge their understanding of what the Cloud meant in the context of computing. The research found that almost two in five (38 per cent) said that they had little or no understanding of the term, while only a third (34 per cent) said they were confident that they knew what it meant.

Although the poll found that ‘cloudy’ applications such as file hosting services similar to Dropbox, email services like Hotmail or Gmail, or online music hosting such as iTunes were each seen as cloud services by around 30 per cent of the population, a similar proportion did not recognize these to be Cloud. A much smaller proportion (15.7 per cent) said that scalable hosting across multiple servers counted as a cloud service…

Grazed from Forbes. Author: Joe McKendrick.

Cloud computing may be highly virtualized and digitized, but its is still based on a relationship between two parties consisting of human beings. And since it is still the new kid on the block, both providers and users still trying to get their footing — and best advantage — in this new evolving type of relationship.

A few months back, researchers affiliated with the QMUL Cloud Legal Project at the University of London spoke to cloud providers and consumers, identifying the major points of discussion — or disagreement — that have been coming up in their negotiations for cloud engagements. The researchers, W. Kuan Hon, Christopher Millard and Ian Walden, documented their findings in a recent issue Stanford Technology Law Review. They found that some things are negotiable in a cloud computing engagement, other things are not. Here are the top nine points of contention that have been arising:…

Grazed from CIO. Author: Bernard Golden.

The Gartner Magic Quadrant is, perhaps, the most renowned artifact in the technology analyst industry. It is controversial, to be sure, with many criticizing it as superficial, too high-level and even reflective more of vendor business relationships with Gartner than true technical and market superiority.

I’m not necessarily convinced of those negative aspects of the Magic Quadrant. Issues notwithstanding, it’s obvious from everyone’s behavior that being in or out of the MQ is extremely important to vendors. They track who’s in (and out), trumpet inclusion when it occurs and assess their strategy and technology plans in light of potential MQ inclusion. Certainly, vendors who achieve the coveted Magic Quadrant inclusion—even if privately they denigrate its importance—shout about it from the rooftops…

Grazed from The Orlando Advocate. Author: Editorial Staff.

The sky is the limit for cloud computing as it continues to drive job growth – garnering interest from Main Street, Wall Street, corporations and governments. A 2012 Microsoft-commissioned report by the International Data Corporation (IDC) indicated that spending on cloud services will generate nearly 14 million jobs worldwide by 2015. In the past decade, cloud computing pioneers such as Amazon, Salesforce, Google and Apple-have developed comprehensive cloud services, platforms and applications. Now, traditional businesses of all kinds – even those that don’t operate in the technology space – are incorporating cloud services more frequently, laying the groundwork for cloud-related career paths that are rich with opportunity and growth.

In fact, a related study from the Sand Hill Group suggests that cloud computing – driven by the 21st century surge in mobile computing, social networking and big data – may generate more job growth in the coming years than the Internet itself did during the 1990s…

Grazed from TheBull.   Author: Bob Kohut.

Cloud computing was declared the ‘next big thing’ almost a decade ago – and the following revenue chart from IT market research firm the Yankee Group suggests the pundits were on the money.

A “cloud” relies on an outside source to undertake computing tasks.  A good example is Google Maps and Google Earth; these software applications located on Google servers and accessed via the internet, replace the need to buy individual mapping software for personal computers. Dropbox – a file sharing application that lets you store and update files from multiple devices – is Cloud computing at its simplest…

Grazed from Business Insurance.  Author: Bill Kenealy.

Technology trends such as cloud computing and “appification” are changing the frequency and speed of developing software and, in turn, the way technology providers deliver those features to insurers and risk managers.  Kathy Burns, Chicago-based CEO of Aon eSolutions, which provides cloud-based and on-premises software to risk managers, said her firm’s embrace of the cloud has accelerated the process of innovation. Instead of needing to push updates to separate clients that may be running separate versions of the on-premises software, cloud-based applications allow automatic changes, Ms. Burns said.

“We provide cloud-based solutions to risk managers and it enables us to do more for them more quickly,” she said. “If we create a great report or piece of analytics or a new module for a client, I can then make it accessible to our broader client base.”…

Grazed from Melodika.net.  Author: Duaine Charles.

Are you running a small business unit and looking for a change in productivity? Have an idea of trying out the new method of Cloud Computing in your organisation? Then, it will be right to have a discussion about the benefits of this way of computing your IT needs. Any company should implement various technologies to improvise their returns and take a development way in the processing. The good investments on effective methods can always bring in marvellous changes in the revenue graph of a company.

This system of using computer software and hardware in the growth of the small business units is becoming quite a popular way towards the growth and success. The key benefits of implementing the Cloud Computing services in small scale business units are discussed below.  Cloud computing is a service where the software is developed to take the company towards the streamline of success. This service includes software and hardware with low charges to bring in huge profits. The way it is used is very important as it reduces the cost on software applications and infrastructure expenses in the system…