June 25, 2012 Off

Consumer’s Content Storage In Cloud To Grow To 36% In 2016

By David

Grazed from BizTech2. Author: Editorial Staff.

The desire to share content and to access it on multiple devices will motivate consumers to start storing a third of their digital content in the cloud by 2016, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner said that just 7 percent of consumer content was stored in the cloud in 2011, but this will grow to 36 percent in 2016.

"Historically, consumers have generally stored content on their PCs, but as we enter the post-PC era, consumers are using multiple connected devices, the majority of which are equipped with cameras. This is leading to a massive increase in new user-generated content that requires storage," said Shalini Verma, Principal Research Analyst, Gartner. "With the emergence of the personal cloud, this fast-growing consumer digital content will quickly get disaggregated from connected devices."…

June 25, 2012 Off

Prepare yourself for more Dropbox-like security disasters

By David
Grazed from CSO.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Dropbox’s security failure, which left all 25 million customers’ files exposed for four hours this week, is exactly the sort of cloud security scare story that we’ll be seeing a lot more often.

Business is now sold on the benefits of cloud computing. Cloud migration seems to be an assumed part of most organisations’ IT strategies. Why wouldn’t it be, given the convenience and cost savings?

But cloud computing is an incredibly competitive arena. Some companies are bound to cut corners. Some won’t even know they should’ve built the corners in to begin with. And as Dean Kingsley, who heads Deloitte’s technology risk practice in Sydney, said last year, we’ve seen too much cloud-washing, which he defined as "people over-selling and over-hyping the benefits of the cloud, or misusing the word ‘cloud’ to describe anything in IT so you can sell it."…

June 25, 2012 Off

Cloud computing raises security issues

By David
Grazed from LiveMint.  Author: Robert Lever.

Washington: The Internet “cloud” has become the hottest topic in computing, but the trend has created a new range of security issues that need to be addressed.

The cloud is associated with things like personal emails and music which can be accessed on computers and a range of mobile devices.

But the US military and government agencies from the CIA to the Federal Aviation Administration also use cloud systems to allow data to be accessed anywhere in the world and save money—and, ostensibly, to enhance security…

June 24, 2012 Off

Cloud computing embodies the essence of India

By David
Grazed from Hindi Business Line.  Author: Neeraj Athalye.

Technology adoption is not an absolute. It takes on a different shape, size and scope in different geographical and industrial segments. There are a few things that differentiate Indian adoption of technology from the rest of the world and the most prominent of all characteristics is “Best Affordable Innovation”. In a country where diversity is ingrained in all aspects of economy, this is one characteristic that stands out. Cloud computing is one of such technologies that fit into the pulse of the Indian culture.

In India, cricket is more popular than golf, the consumption of tea is higher than that of wine, the number of 2-wheelers surpasses the number of 4-wheelers on most roads and the list can go on. The bottom-line here is that value for money is a key driver in this country. However, value for money is not equal to cheap…

June 24, 2012 Off

Virtustream Peddles Clouds for All Occasions

By David
Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author: Maureen O’Gara.

Virtustream wants to move mission-critical legacy apps to the cloud where they’ll be 60% cheaper to run on-demand especially since they won’t have to be rewritten.

So it’s put out xStream 2.0, an update, which is supposed to move both web-scale applications and legacy applications to a public, private or enterprise-class hybrid cloud take your pick. Stuff, it says, you can’t do on Amazon.

It’s for the enterprise and solution providers…

June 24, 2012 Off

IT security problems shift as data moves to ‘cloud’

By David
Grazed from PhysOrg.  Author: Rob Lever.

The Internet "cloud" has become the hottest topic in computing, but the trend has created a new range of security issues that need to be addressed.

The cloud is associated with things like personal emails and music which can be accessed on computers and a range of mobile devices.  But the US military and government agencies from the CIA to the also use to allow data to be accessed anywhere in the world and save money — and, ostensibly, to enhance security.

Microsoft, , and others are major players in the cloud, which seeks to transfer some of the issues to more sophisticated data centers. Firms like Oracle, SAP and Salesforce.com offer cloud services for business…

June 23, 2012 Off

Progress Software: the “invisible” cloud is the “performant” cloud

By David
Grazed from Computer Weekly.  Author: Adrian Bridgwater.

Boston-headquartered Progress Software has been going through various reincarnations of itself since the 1980s during which time it has variously been known as a business application infrastructure software company, a data integration specialist and (if the company’s marketing machine pulls it off) a competent player in the new arena of cloud computing.

As hugely sceptical of cloudwashing and the current trend to position "just about anything"-as-a-Service down some level of Internet pipe connectivity as we should rightly remain, the company’s senior architect for SaaS and cloud computing strategy Mike Omerod has recently spoken of the need to diffuse talk of different cloud architectures and focus on what data really needs in order to be "computed" properly…

June 23, 2012 Off

Cloud – The Next Generation of Shared Services

By David
Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author: Ajay Budhraja.

There has been a push for Shared services adoption across organizations for a while. since such services reduce duplication and can result in cost savings. However there have been challenges to proposing and implementing shared services. Cloud is enhancing the pace to shared services migration and it naturally facilitates the use of shared services since a cloud service can be more easily leveraged by multiple consumers.

Cloud is the true manifestation of a service delivery mechanism and has significantly sped up the transition to consolidation and shared services. Cloud can be termed as the next generation of shared services since it adds the dynamic computing, elasticity, self-service, measured aspects in addition to other aspects for rapid provisioning and on demand access. Cloud solution may offer lower lifecycle costs based on usage and the monitoring aspects can lay out a holistic view of usage, cost assessments and chargeback information. All this information can enhance the ability of the organization to plan and react to changes based on performance and capacity metrics…

June 23, 2012 Off

Cloud Computing: Vordel Dreams Up the – Drum Roll, Please – API Server

By David
Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author: Maureen O’Gara.

Dublin-based Vordel has spun up a newfangled API Server offering the enterprise a single platform to deploy APIs to cloud services and mobile users.

The widgetry builds on its application gateway technologies.

The company sees it as a simpler, more agile way to deploy apps and a quicker way to drive revenue.

The APIs Vordel has in mind are the lightweight REST and JSON APIs used to enable mobile, web and cloud applications; SOAP APIs for SOA; and file-based interfaces for B2B integration.

Architecturally the API Server could replace or stand in front of an application server. It can be deployed in traditional data centers or in an elastic cloud environment, including public, private and hybrid clouds…

June 23, 2012 Off

Cloud hosting company iomart Group wins Outstanding Performance in Business Growth award

By David
Grazed from RealWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

iomart Group plc (AIM:IOM), is proud to announce that it won the award for Outstanding Performance in Business Growth at the Digital Technology Awards.

The judges praised iomart Group’s financial performance, profitability and ability to deliver on its business strategy, describing it as "one of the leading cloud computing and managed hosting companies in the UK."

iomart Group plc CEO Angus MacSween said: "We are delighted to have won this award. Our strategy has been to position the iomart Group and its range of hosting brands to capitalise on the continuing growth in the market for cloud services. This market is still large, fragmented and growing and we see real opportunities to benefit from this over the next few years."…