Grazed from Virtualization Review. Author: Doug Barney.

The cloud is getting more and more worthy of your applications every day. But that doesn’t mean it’s perfect and that doesn’t mean you should necessarily trust it. I guess the question is, which network is less perfect, the cloud provider’s or yours?

These are issues Margaret Dawson tackled in Cloud Computing: Panacea or Power Monger on Enterprise Systems Journal. Dawson is a vice president with cloud provider Symform.

You should already understand your network’s weaknesses. Now let’s look at your provider’s presumed shortcomings…

Grazed from The New York Times. Author: Quentin Hardy.

Despite headwinds in its core business, Dell is trying hard to move into the new world of corporate computing.

On Tuesday, the company said that Marius Haas, a well-regarded executive with a noted history at Hewlett-Packard, would take over Dell’s Enterprise Solutions business, which sells the servers, network, and storage equipment for big corporate data centers and cloud computing systems.

It is a future that can’t come fast enough: Mr. Haas’s position was announced along with Dell’s second-fiscal-quarter earnings. Dell had net income of $732 million, or 42 cents a share, on revenue of $14.5 billion…

The BIM9 lab consisted of four of their private BIM cloud servers driving 21 rented MacBook Pros. Each BIM9 private BIM cloud server hosted five virtual machines with each virtual machine running its own session of Revit. The MacBooks were connected to these virtual machines with a standard RDP client. The result was a student experience of running Revit on high-powered workstations even though they were actually sitting at old, underpowered MAC laptops.

BIM9 has been developing and deploying private BIM clouds for clients throughout North America and Hawaii for a little over a year. “Although we had previously created private BIM clouds for classrooms this was the first time we did it for a conference lab,” said Lonnie Cumpton Business Development Manager and Co-founder of BIM9.

Grazed from Channelnomics. Author: Chris Gonsalves.

If it’s Tuesday, it must be time for another cloud computing survey telling us how cloud adoption rates continue to skyrocket.

Yes, businesses of all sizes and types covet the cloud for its ability to slash IT costs, introduce speedy services and make systems scalable and flexible. If researchers thought to ask, there would likely be data showing that the cloud can reduce wrinkles, trim ugly fat and raise the IQ level of the average CIO.

How hard could this really be? Cloud computing practically sells itself, right? Turns out, it’s tougher than it looks. For a technology that’s been dubbed the most important and disruptive of its generation, the cloud comes with more disclaimers than a frequent flyer program, and more caveats than the Irish Sweepstakes. Even the most optimistic surveys end with a “but” or “however” that takes some of the starch out of the whole happy affair. If cloud computing were a car, it would be a Toyota Celica with a rocket engine, handlebars, bicycle brakes – but no seat belts. Sure, it’s fast, but … Yeah, it’s cheap, but … Try selling that to one of your loyal customers…

Grazed from Government Health IT. Author: Kim Lee.

The “cloud” (in computing) is not a new concept. If you use web-based e-mail, then you probably are tapping into the “cloud,” because the remotely hosted application and information are pushed to you “on demand” based upon your needs. For a more expansive definition of cloud computing, please see the National Institute of Standards’ definition (NIST Special Publication No. 800-145).

Healthcare providers are also turning to the cloud to remotely host their applications and data. Their reasons for doing this are generally to save money and/or to help ensure data is secure and available…

Grazed from PRWeb. Author: PR Announcement.

Connections for Business is inviting the public to a workshop to learn all about Cloud Computing entitled: "What is Cloud Computing? How did we get here? What does it mean to me?" John Garber will discuss the topic and answer questions from participants. Located in Hollywood Florida and happening from 8:30am – 10:00am, participants can have breakfast, network and get some valuable information on a subject that many still don’t seem to know much about.

“The Cloud” no longer has to be a mystery; Connections for Business can explain how users can use as much or as little of a service as wanted or needed at any given time and about the difference between a public cloud or a private cloud. One main concern for businesses is security. Find out how secure your data can be in cloud computing and why this is vital for any organization…

Pertino, a virtual networking solution for the cloud era, is moving a step closer to emerging from stealth with the appointments of Todd Krautkremer as vice president of marketing and Tony Wilder as vice president of operations.

"We believe the wide-area networking (WAN) is the next infrastructure to be revolutionized by the cloud and network virtualization," said Craig Elliott, CEO of Pertino. "The way organizations commute, compute and collaborate is being transformed by the cloud and mobility, yet WANs have remained essentially unchanged for the last decade. It’s time to reimagine and reinvent business networking and we have assembled a team of proven technology leaders and innovators with experience spanning cloud, networking, mobile and security to do just that."

Grazed from PRNewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Splunk Inc., the leading provider of software for real-time operational intelligence, and CloudShare, the leading provider of pre-production cloud for dev and test, demos and POCs, will take the stage together at next week’s VMworld® 2012 to discuss how the Splunk App for VMware is helping CloudShare gain deep insight into its infrastructure performance, customer trends, and business metrics.

The session titled, "How a Cloud Computing Provider Reached the Holy Grail of Visibility" will take place Wednesday, Aug. 29 from 4 – 5 p.m. (PT) at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Leena Joshi, director of solutions marketing at Splunk, and Elad Gotfrid, director of IT at CloudShare, will share best practices on managing and monitoring CloudShare’s dynamic SaaS environment with Splunk and the Splunk App for VMware…

Grazed from DataCenter Knowledge. Author: Rich Miller.

Joyent is ready to expand its cloud platform, and is tapping the Platform Equinix network of data centers to do it. Joyent said today that it has deployed servers in Equinix data centers in northern Amsterdam and northern Virginia, and plans to add equipment at an Equinix site in Asia later this year.

Joyent has focused on superior application speed as a key selling point and a differentiator with other cloud computing services. Deploying equipment at Equinix allows Joyent to directly connect to a dynamic ecosystem of customers, business partners and networks. By deploying its platform in close proximity to customers, Joyent said it will virtually eliminate latency for customers with high-performance mobile and web applications…