Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Barb Darrow.

OwnCloud released its community edition and updated the business version of its service which lets IT store employee files in its cloud of choice. Cloud storage for business is a white hot market at least in terms of vendor activity.

The battle for corporate cloud storage continues. OwnCloud, which positions itself as a business-focused, open-source alternative to Box and other file-sync-store-and-share services, released its community edition Thursday and updated its commercial version with faster sync speeds and more finely tuned file access controls…

Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: Gregory Musungu.

Cloud computing is a promising technology; however, uptake by businesses remains slow in some industries despite the many benefits of cloud computing. Productivity, lower costs, and efficiency are some of the open benefits of the cloud. Even so, some businesses will never come on board. How can cloud computing providers convince businesses to adopt their services?

Close the cloud computing knowledge gap

Apparently, very few people understand what cloud computing is. According to the results of a survey, less than 50 percent of the U.S. population knows what cloud computing it. In the less developed countries, where there are less opportunities for new technology, this figure could be lower. Cloud computing companies need to move faster and spread the information about the benefits of their services. Once the people understand the basics of the cloud, its benefits, platforms and uses, more and more companies and businesses will buy into it…

Grazed from CIO. Author: Bernard Golden.

It’s obvious that cloud computing imposes vast change within IT organizations. I’ve written repeatedly on this topic, addressing issues such as cost allocation, job opportunities, automation requirements, security and the relationship between application and operations groups.

Cloud computing represents the most profound change in computing that the industry has ever seen. The reason is simple. Cloud computing is not just a platform change implementing a better price/performance capability based on Moore’s Law. It represents, instead, a move to an automated computing capability. In this sense, it is akin to what mass production brought to automobile manufacturing, a change so profound that our entire society is completely different than it was before Henry Ford married an assembly line to standardized manufacturing…

Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: Robin Berry.

Following the high-tech bubble burst at the start of this millennium, there have been very few advents in the IT industry that have caused much excitement in industry leaders, thinkers, watchers, and consumers alike. The beginning of 2011 saw a new buzz around the globe—cloud computing.

For the average individual, cloud computing doesn’t have the much marketed appeal that the iPhone has, for example. Cloud computing, in simplest terms, is a method for accessing remotely an operating system, a software application, a data bank etc. The tools you need are not dependent on your hardware, but are running on a complex system of servers and high-powered computing devices that you connect to via Internet…

Grazed from eWeek. Author: Jeffrey Burt.

The chips are aimed at helping businesses ease the bandwidth crunch on networks caused by such trends as BYOD, mobile computing, video and cloud. Tilera and Freescale Semiconductor are both coming out with new processors targeting corporate networks that are increasingly finding themselves under pressure from the explosive growth of mobile devices, network traffic and cloud computing.

Freescale on Oct. 10 unveiled four additions to its QorIQ T1 and T2 families of 64-bit processors, including the T1040, a quad-core chip with an integrated Gigabit Ethernet switch that the company calls a “router on a chip.”…

Grazed from TheHeroldOnline.ca. Author: Brett Bundale.

A Halifax cloud computing startup has raised $1.1 million to advance its file-sharing technology and expand into new markets. TitanFile Inc.’s latest round of fundraising is backed by Innovacorp, the provincial government’s high-tech funding body, the First Angel Network, and a handful of private donors.

The fledgling firm, which specializes in encrypting data to help organizations and individuals share documents securely over the Internet, has diluted its shares by 30 per cent as a result of the financing. Co-founder and chief executive Milan Vrekic, 27, said the cash will help the startup break into the lucrative United States market with its latest technology…

Grazed from ZDNet. Author: James Staten.

Well if you’re going to make a dramatic about face from total dismissal of cloud computing, this is a relatively credible way to do it. Following up on its announcement of a serious cloud future at Oracle Open World 2011, the company delivered new cloud services with some credibility at this last week’s show. It’s a strategy with laser focus on selling to Oracle’s own installed base and all guns aimed at Salesforce.com.

While the promise from last year was a homegrown cloud strategy, most of this year’s execution has been bought. The strategy is essentially to deliver enterprise-class applications and middleware any way you want it – on-premise, hosted and managed or true cloud. A quick look at where they are and how they got here:…

Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Barb Darrow.

OpenNebula, the European-rooted open-source cloud platform is used by more businesses and in more countries than many might expect. At the ripe old age of 7, OpenNebula remains a quiet force compared to say, OpenStack. OpenNebula — the open-source cloud behind the European Space Agency and CERN – may be bigger in private industry business than many may have anticipated.

According to new survey data from C12G Labs, the company behind OpenNebula, 43 percent of 600 users responding are in business accounts compared to 17 percent in research, and less than 10 percent in academia. Maybe this shouldn’t be a shocker given that OpenNebula’s customer page lists such companies as Akamai, Dell, IBM, SAP and Telefonica…

Keynote themes include Big Data and analytics, next-generation data protection, datacenter networking as well as a diverse range of sessions on virtualization and cloud computing. In addition, the conferences will feature a number of leading analyst houses and independent commentators hosting a series of half-day Spotlight sessions addressing the key issues and topics affecting most organizations’ IT strategies and needs.

Grazed from PRNewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Broadview Networks, a leading provider of hosted voice, data and cloud computing solutions, took home two Stevie® Awards from this year’s American Business Awards, announced last night in San Francisco. Broadview’s OfficeSuite® website won a Silver Stevie award in the category of Outstanding Telecommunications Website and its Office Anywhere® application won a Bronze Stevie award in the category of New Cloud Service of the Year.

“The American Business Awards have set the industry standard for years,” said Broadview’s Chief Technology Officer and Chief Information Officer, Ken Shulman. “We are deeply honored to be recognized by the ABA’s panel of experts and we look forward to many more years of providing world-class products and services that push the boundaries of the telecom industry.”…