Grazed from Network World. Author: Jim Morin.

Back in 1998 when Google Search started to replace AltaVista, could you imagine the company would be laying fiber in Kansas City in 2012 to offer a 100 times faster Internet service? Or that the New York Stock Exchange would evolve from a trading floor in its 1903 building on Broad Street, to offering virtual and physical colocated computing infrastructure services in its New Jersey data center?

The explosion of these new cloud services is being delivered through a mix of providers — let’s call them "New Service Providers" — emerging from the ranks of established telecommunications companies, data center infrastructure providers and unexpected players like Google, Amazon and the NYSE. Business giants HP, Oracle and IBM are also making moves to migrate into cloud services by building on the full suite of technologies they have amassed over the decades…

Grazed from CPA Practice Advisor. Author: Editorial Staff.

Concur (Nasdaq: CNQR), which develops travel and expense management (T&E) solutions, has released it’s new T&E cloud solution, which integrates with NetSuite (NYSE: N). The system was built using NetSuite’s SuiteCloud Computing Platform.

The system was first announced as an upcoming product at NetSuite’s SuiteWorld event in May 2012 in San Francisco. Now availiable, this solution helps NetSuite customers reap the unique benefits of a specialized end-to-end travel and expense management solution delivered via Concur’s T&E Cloud, by providing an easy to use UI for expense reports, import of credit card statements, enforcement of expense policies, corporate credit card support, mobile solutions and links between travel and expense management…

Grazed from PRNewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Zenith Infotech’s new series of fall events, "Accelerate: Take the Fast Track to the Cloud!"combines the latest in education and new product information. Zenith has developed an amazing presentation incorporating the most salient points from CompTIA’s Cloud Quick Start Session as well as material on its new cloud computing solution, TigerCloud. Managers and owners of information technology solution providers are invited to attend.

Attendees will receive the CompTIA Quick Start Guide to Cloud Computing, a practical guide for solution providers on building a successful cloud computing business plan. This material offers background on cloud computing, along with actionable steps for successful implementation. Attendees will also learn about TigerCloud, a revolutionary new cloud solution that makes the power of the cloud accessible to small and medium-sized businesses…

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Lynda Stadtmueller.

Like the early days of the California Gold Rush, the promise of easy riches has spurred providers from all over the IT industry to cash in on cloud computing trends and launch cloud services. It is evident, however, that cloud adoption and usage remains lower than many providers anticipated in their business plans.

Only 15% of U.S. businesses currently use cloud infrastructure services, and even then, they only use them intermittently, according to Frost & Sullivan’s 2012 survey of IT decision-makers…

Grazed from DataCenterKnowledge. Author: Bill Kleyman.

With advancements in Wide Area Networking (WAN), data center facilities and the overall technology landscape, organizations have been able to do much more over the Internet than ever before. Although cloud computing is a relatively new buzz term, the concept around the technology has been around for a while.

Even before the “cloud,” users were utilizing Internet and WAN services to house data and deliver it to any device in the world – given a connection of course. Now, this technology has leapt forward even more, promising to deliver newer platforms and more diverse solutions. The idea behind cloud computing is to efficiently utilize shared resources and maximize computing density. With better underlying hardware, developers have been able to become creative with some of the platforms that cloud computing can actually deliver…

Grazed from Cens.com. Author: Quincy Lang.

To further develop business in cloud computing, Asustek Computer Inc. (Asus brand) recently announced a partnership with Taiwan’s telecom carrier FarEastone Telecommunications Co., Ltd. (FarEastone) to promote the “Super Cloud" storage services for enterprise subscribers, with Asus aiming for 10 million cloud storage users this year.

The Super Cloud enterprise cloud storage service meets demand from large, medium and small public and private enterprises…

Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: Paul Krill.

It seems like nary a day goes by lately where we don’t hear of some adversity affecting Java, the venerated enterprise software platform that has been around since 1995. Just recently:

• Java has been beset by security issues, prompting calls for users to dump Java.
• Java owner Oracle has proposed a two-year delay in introducing critical technologies to the platform (aka Project Jigsaw), including the addition of modularity to standard Java and of cloud computing capabilities to enterprise Java…

Grazed from HelpNetSecurity. Author: Editorial Staff.

Ongoing hype around private cloud computing is creating misperceptions about private cloud, according to Gartner, Inc. To help reduce the hype and identify the real value of private cloud computing for IT leaders, Gartner explains five common misconceptions about private cloud.

"The growth of private cloud computing is being driven by the rapid penetration of virtualization and virtualization management, the growth of cloud computing offerings and pressure to deliver IT faster and cheaper," said Tom Bittman, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner. "However, in the rush to respond to these pressures, IT organizations need to be careful to avoid the hype, and, instead, should focus on a private cloud computing effort that makes the most business sense."…

Grazed from BizTech2. Author: Editorial Staff.

Riverbed Technology, the performance company, has introduced a new Whitewater cloud storage gateway model appliance to handle larger backup data workloads and an operating system for all Whitewater appliance models. The new Whitewater model 3010 appliance offers four times the local storage capacity of previous models to address larger scale enterprise requirements. Additionally, Riverbed is introducing Whitewater Operating System (WWOS) version 2.0, which was built for enterprise-grade performance, high scalability and simplified administration. Whitewater appliances running WWOS 2.0 will enable enterprises to better leverage cloud storage to meet their critical backup requirements, modernise their data management strategies and overcome the challenges created by the staggering pace of data growth.

While companies have relied on tape-based backups for decades, the growth of data is putting enterprises at risk because the process of recovering data from tapes often exceeds service level agreements (SLAs) demanded by the business. Some enterprises have responded by moving to replicated disk-based backup strategies, but relentless data growth has made these configurations cost-prohibitive for many IT departments…

Grazed from RedOrbit. Author: Enid Burns.

Worldwide spending on cloud services is set to take off. According to a report, “Worldwide and Regional Public IT Cloud Services 2012-2016 Forecast” released by IDC this week, cloud services will see as much as 41% growth over the next four years.

Spending on IT cloud services worldwide will exceed 40 billion this year and will edge toward $100 billion by 2016. The report states that between 2012 and 2016, public IT cloud services will observe a compound annual growth rate of 26.4%. That’s five times the IT industry overall…