Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Barb Darrow.

Akamai’s 8-month search for a new CEO didn’t take it too far: It tapped co-founder and chief scientist Tom Leighton to succeed Paul Sagan, who announced his intention to leave last April. Now Sagan will cede the CEO slot on January 1. Eight months after launching an executive search for a successor to Akamai CEO Paul Sagan, the company tapped its c0-founder Tom Leighton for that role.

Leighton, who is also chief scientist for the Cambridge, Mass. content delivery network (CDN) provider, will start his new gig January 1, 2013. Last spring, Sagan announced his plans to step down as CEO at the end of 2013. Both Leighton and Sagan will remain on the board and Sagan will stay on as a senior strategy advisor, the company said…

Relational database vs non-relational database: All you need to know

Grazed from GigaOM.  Author: Stacey Higginbotham.

Google’s webmail service Gmail was down for 18 minutes last week after a “routine update” broke the service for a few minutes. The search giant reported that it conducted a routine update of its load balancing software between 8:45 AM PT and 9:13 AM PT and after the problems were detected managed to quickly roll back the buggy code. But this didn’t stop some people from questioning why Google would roll out a software update at what are peak email-checking hours on the West Coast…

Grazed from TalkinCloud.  Author: Chris Talbot.

Inktank, which specializes in providing enterprise-level support for Ceph Distributed Storage System, announced at Dell World 2012 it has joined Dell‘s (NASDAQ: DELL) Emerging Solutions Ecosystem.

Through the partner ecosystem, Inktank plans to offer Ceph storage software, professional services and support as part of the Dell ecosystem, designed as a partnership program to deliver complementary and interoperable hardware, software and services components via Dell’s OpenStack-powered cloud. Ceph, on the other hand, was designed to be a highly scalable and flexible platform that enables object, block and file storage in a universal storage system, enabling enterprises in the cloud…

Grazed from FutureGov.  Author: Rob Livingstone.

The whole topic of cloud computing has been dominating the IT agenda. Conversations have been very intense in 2012 – we were barraged by new opinions, fuelled by new cloud product offerings and innovative, compelling solutions.  Given the inconsistency in the maturity of understanding across industry as to the intrinsic value of cloud technologies, I expected 2012 to be an interesting year indeed as organisations struggle with balancing the promise of significant benefits with the perceived (or actual) concerns such as risk and security.

In my view, the cloud hype cycle differs from almost all the previous hype cycles as it is turbo-charged by the consumerisation of IT technology, where anyone can access immediately, at minimal to zero cost, powerful IT systems previously only available within organisations…

Grazed from Datamation.  Author: Jeffrey Kaplan.

If you’ve been holding back about moving to the ‘Cloud, it is time to get onboard the Cloud Computing express.  Not only has every major research firm published market forecasts indicating that Cloud services are growing exponentially, but we see multiplying customer success stories that clearly illustrate the immediate and measurable business benefits of moving to the Cloud.

Here are some simple rules you should follow to help you move ahead in the coming year and successfully leverage today’s rapidly evolving Cloud alternatives:…

Grazed from: The Edinburgh Reporter.  Author: Phyllis Stephen.

Cloud computing is a term that we have all been hearing lots about over the last few years. You may already be making good use of its facilities. Or, you may be wondering what it means and whether it could be of interest for you. So, you could be surprised to learn that if you access or are active on YouTube, Gmail, Google Apps, Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn, you are already a cloud user.

To sum it up, Wikipedia defines cloud computing as the use of computing resources (hardware and software) delivered as a service over a network, usually the internet.  Cloud computing has a number of benefits, including its facility for on-line data backup. Its solutions that ‘know’ which files you have created or changed and back them up continuously and automatically can be especially helpful…

Grazed from Computing.co.uk.  Author: Peter Gothard.

The CEO of Linux-based software solutions company LinuxIT, Peter Dawes-Huish, slammed the public sector G-Cloud system this week, likening the current service level to a military mission "with an entry route and no exit route" that is "not just dangerous, but suicide".

"Data lock-in and data opaqueness is as prevalent in cloud offerings as in any other delivery model," Dawes-Huish told the Westminster cloud computing eForum.  "If you move your applications and data to a cloud service in the proprietary model then you’ll be held to ransom, and it doesn’t matter how flexible your opportunity for moving, you’re locked in."…