Grazed from AllThingsDigital. Author: Arik Hesseldahl.

A lot is expected of corporate networks these days. Companies are trying to add new services and support new devices. There’s always more data that has to keep flowing, more stuff being connected to it. And the network is expected to perform, no matter what. Now there are about five billion devices connected to the Internet and billions of individual users, all expecting their networks to perform.

The folks at Juniper Networks started to wonder if the world of networking has reached some kind of fundamental inflection point. They got together with the people at Forrester Research and surveyed 150 senior IT executives to try to get a better handle on how big trends facing the enterprise, like cloud computing and big data, are affecting enterprise networks…

Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Barb Darrow.

If there isn’t an OpenStack cloud you fancy, wait a second, there’s more — a lot more — in the pipeline. Cloudscaling, Metacloud and Dreamhost will all preview their take on the open-source cloud this week at the OpenStack Summit in San Diego.

Don’t fret if the OpenStack clouds now available from Hewlett-Packard, Rackspace, Internap and a handful of private-cloud-centric startups don’t suit your need. There will be more options to choose from very shortly. This week at the OpenStack Summit in San Diego, new flavors of the open-source cloud will be unveiled by Cloudscaling, Dreamhost and Metacloud, among others. Here’s a roundup of some of the noteworthy news:…

Grazed from Business Cloud9. Author: Mervyn Kelly.

Big Data is gradually becoming the next big trend in the ICT world. While it is still only nascent and many of its technical specifications are yet to emerge, one can already imagine the numerous ways in which the huge sets of largely unstructured data that exist today and will be created in the future can be used to our advantage.

In fact, the application of Big Data technologies is likely to become pertinent in every aspect of our daily lives; retail, healthcare, transport – all of these will benefit from the ability to better understand all the myriad transactions and interactions consumers have with technology throughout the day…

Grazed from CloudComputing News. Author: James Bourne.

A new report has suggested that cloud computing is generally a better option than on-premise when looking to save energy, but it isn’t a one-size-fits-all solution. The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), alongside WSP Environment and Energy looked at how on-premise computing compared to the cloud in terms of energy efficiency – in particular power usage effectiveness (PUE) of the server room or data centre; how much of the server’s hardware is utilised; and carbon emissions.

Overall it was revealed that while running an app in the cloud is generally more energy efficient than running it in your server room, variables such as PUE and hardware utilisation are vital to cloud’s carbon footprint…

Grazed from ComputerWorld. Author: Jim Duffy.

Midokura, a Japanese startup focused on network virtualization, this week said it is entering the U.S. market with a distributed software defined network product designed for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).

The companys MidoNet software virtualizes the network for multi-tenant public and private cloud computing, and supports the industry-defined OpenStack platform for cloud computing virtualization, automation and orchestration. MidoNet is a de-centralized software overlay where network intelligence resides in the edge rather than in a centralized controller, which is the common architecture for SDNs…

Grazed from Financial Express. Author: Sudhir Chowdhary.

It generates about $1 billion annual revenue from Web-based software solutions and boasts of 25 million users of its cloud products. It now wants to become a one-stop shop, offering operating systems, databases, computer programs as well as computing infrastructure over the Web. Emerging markets are integral to its growth strategy and the Silicon Valley tech major is moving aggressively in India in terms of investments and positioning its products and solutions for customers here

Not long ago, the founder and chief executive of Oracle, Larry Ellison, had famously mocked cloud computing, terming it as “complete gibberish and a fad.” His outburst came in 2008 to be precise, in response to repeated queries from trade analysts. Seasoned industry watchers attributed the tech billionaire’s annoyance to the hype and hullabaloo around cloud computing than the concept itself. That was then…