Grazed from AccountingToday. Author: Jim Ericson.

On the eve of an election in a year full of rancor over whether taxation belongs at the federal, state or local level, corporate IT buyers are already getting a taste of how regional levies could affect their current costs and future strategies. The new wrinkle amid growing demand for departmental and line of business technology comes in state taxation of cloud computing, services that move the delivery and maintenance of business tools into the hands of third-party providers.

“There is a lack of uniformity nationwide addressing the taxation of traditional versus cloud services and it’s causing lots of headaches,” says Carolynn Iafrate Kranz, a partner, Kranz & Associates, PLLC, a boutique law firm specializing in state and local tax consulting…

Grazed from CloudTimes. Author: Xath Cruz.

Cloud computing is said to be a game changing technologies in the recent history of computing. Unfortunately, due to its young age, cloud companies don’t have yet any process that allows for a set procedure on how to investigate or go about cloud issues. Due to this absence, they have no means of ensuring the robustness and suitability of cloud services when it comes to supporting investigations of criminal activity.

Introduction

Cloud computing technology has shown massive game-changing potential akin to the ones exhibited by other significant computing technologies such as mainframes, PCs, minicomputers, and even smartphones. It has the ability to radically alter the way information technology services are created, accessed, and manage…

Combining the Cloud Computing World Forum Asia and the Telecom Cloud Summit APAC, this year’s event provides dual conference streams on both the 13th and 14th November, tackling the two major components of the cloud computing industry – the Enterprise and Telco markets.

Why SaaS Makes Sense for IT Projects

Grazed from AOL. Author: Wyatt Kash.

Federal information technology professionals are confronted with a management landscape that is perhaps as complex as any have seen in a generation. That’s due in part to the convergence of three transformational technologies – cloud computing, mobile devices and big data analytics. The benefits of each technology are generally expected to outweigh many of the associated challenges of implementing them…

But according to a new government-wide study, those decisions must also be balanced against escalating cybersecurity threats, as well as a combination of new budget constraints and shifting administration priorities, making the task of managing and integrating new technologies extremely difficult…

Grazed from The Journal. Author: Margo Pierce.

Government data centers are on the verge of major changes, with consolidation and cloud computing significant components of the transformation, according to industry analyst IDC (International Data Corporation). Shrinking budgets and pressure by government entities such as the Federal CIO Council are some of the factors included in a recent report by IDC titled “Technology Selection: The Government Datacenter of the Future,” (Document #GI237095).

To help government data centers consider their next steps, the Government Insights division, which “assists government policy, program, and IT leaders, as well as the suppliers who serve them, in making more effective technology decisions,” prepared the report. In addition to a review of current infrastructure, the report looks at various trends in the field and the implications each might have for the long-term needs, functionality, and design for IT infrastructure…

Grazed from Windows IT Pro. Author: B. K. Winstead.

What’s holding back cloud computing? If you’re a fan of The Simpsons, as I am, your first thought might be that it’s all down to the Stonecutters secret society, which seems to control just about everything. After all, few people doubt that the concept of cloud computing makes sense and can provide business benefits in terms of increased agility, scalability, and cost savings. What reason could explain the slow uptake of the cloud other than a vast conspiracy?

Perhaps I overstate. In reality, businesses and IT pros have legitimate concerns about transitioning to the cloud, and although these concerns have a number of specifics, I’d say they can all be boiled down to one basic underlying reason: lack of trust. Can the cloud provider’s security match on-premises security? Is data in the cloud safe and protected and accessible in the event of litigation and e-discovery requests? Can the company meet its regulatory compliance goals with a cloud service? What’s does the business do if they can’t reach the service, whether from a failure within the service or some other Internet or communications outage?…

Grazed from Business Wire. Author: PR Announcement.

As big data, high-performance computing (HPC) and cloud-computing applications push the demand for real-time access of data into the zettabytes, Intel Corporation announced today its next-generation data center solid-state drive (SSD), the Intel® Solid-State Drive DC S3700 Series, designed to remove storage bottlenecks and maximize multi-core CPU performance. The Intel SSD DC S3700 Series delivers fast, consistent performance and low latencies along with strong data protection and high endurance to help IT personnel support today’s most demanding data center applications.

Intel SSD DC S37000 Series — The Intel SSD DC S3700 Series delivers fast, consistent performance and low latencies along with strong data protection and high endurance to help IT personnel support today’s most demanding data center applications including big data, high-performance computing (HPC) and cloud applications…