Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Derrick Harris.

Although older generations might still view cloud computing as an emerging trend, their children take it for granted, largely forgoing physical devices for cloud services. We might as well come get on board and maybe change the world in the process.

“The best way I can respond to that question [about whether cloud computing is for real] is, ‘Do my children no any different?’” said Salesforce.com Chief Scientist JP Rangaswami during a morning session at our Structure: Europe conference on Wednesday. The answer, by the way, is that they don’t: “My children appear to have no interest in hugging physical things in order to make them feel good.”…

Grazed from BusinessWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Dell Extends Cloud Client Computing Portfolio with New Solutions Validated by Citrix

• Introduces vStart for VDI Citrix XenDesktop® reference architectures to help organizations achieve benefits of desktop virtualization in rapid, highly secure manner
• Enhances DVS Simplified Appliance to address cost and complexity challenges of virtual desktop adoption
• Adds Dell Managed Services to DVS Enterprise enabling IT to outsource the management of virtual desktops and focus on strategic projects
• Brings 3D graphics and multimedia users multiple thin- and zero-clients with Citrix HDX 3D support

Dell today is announcing new additions and enhancements to its end-to-end cloud client computing portfolio. The solutions, which are specific to Citrix-based IT environments and now available in the US and Europe, are easy to select, deploy, and support, and deliver a cost effective and highly secure user experience to any device anywhere…

Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: John Omwamba.

Going by recent surveys in all the five continents, it is telling that bigger things are yet to come in cloud computing. While Europeans are taking an exacting, albeit generic approach to changes visiting upon the scene, the Americans are considering the capital side of the equation. While Asians are gnawing at the meat pie of reducing infrastructural expenditure, Africans are embracing startups and the state machineries are going into the sector with aplomb. The Australasia region, on the other hand, has posted one of the biggest stories in recent cloud times: the preference for supplier-driven working models with servers operating from the home country.

The following is a bipartisan approach to each of the above summaries for every continent. It will highlight the generic and specific cloud computing trends that are already or may one day give way to new business divides…

Grazed from GDP Watch. Author: Roy Barnes.

Larry Ellison, the chief executive of Oracle recently mocked on cloud computing, calling it as “complete gibberish and a fad.” It was in 2008 that his outburst was due to repetitive queries from the analysts. At that time, seasoned industry spectators attributed his annoyance to the hype about cloud computing.

But cloud computing is hot nowadays, and nobody is denying it. And, now Larry has also taken the cloud computing business seriously. Since three decades, the founder is leading the company and now he is intending to make his 120,000-people, $37.1 billion enterprise software a one-stop market for cloud products, offering databases, operating systems, computer programs and computing infrastructure…

Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Barb Darrow.

Cisco and CA are working with Citrix to support its CloudPlatform implementation of CloudStack. The news, out of Citrix Synergy in Barcelona, comes as a raft of OpenStack news hits the wire.

In case you’ve forgotten in the face of so much OpenStack news this week, there’s more than one open-source cloud in town. And, Citrix-backed CloudStack gained some key vendor support with Cisco and CA signing onto the effort this week. The news comes out of Citrix Synergy in Barcelona, halfway around the world from the OpenStack Summit in San Diego…

Grazed from Plant Engineering. Author: Editorial Staff.

A new reliability-centered maintenance tool from IFS is designed to deliver maintenance data through a cloud-based computing platform. IFS announced the launch of the tool at its global conference in Gothenburg, Sweden.

“The IFS RCM Toolkit is based on IFS’s long experience in asset-intensive industries enabling our customers to secure asset safety, cost effectiveness, and uptime,” IFS CTO Dan Matthews said. “The RCM Toolkit is available with the IFS Cloud in line with our strategy to enable customers to extend the capabilities of IFS Applications with applications in the cloud.”…

Grazed from NetworkComputing. Author: Joe Onisick.

Private and public clouds have many elements in common, including high degrees of virtualization and automation and a usage-based service model. But that doesn’t mean an enterprise application will run equally well in either environment. Most legacy applications are better off staying in your data center. At the same time, the public cloud should be the first place you consider deploying new applications. Here’s why.

Traditional enterprise applications are better suited to the private cloud. These applications are typically built in a silo-centric fashion and are dependent on the hardware, particularly homegrown applications. Don’t let virtualization fool you; even if the applications are virtualized, they’re still silo-centric. The only difference is it’s now virtual hardware. You’re still working on the outdated model of one application, one OS…