Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

As the role of cloud computing is growing significantly in its ability to deliver business applications, many IT decision makers are facing challenges with their existing network infrastructure to support the migration of their business applications to the cloud. An international study announced today by Cisco CSCO -1.97% revealed that without the proper cloud migration strategy, more than one third (38 percent) of IT decision makers would rather get a root canal, dig a ditch, or do their own taxes than address network challenges associated with public or private cloud deployments.

These research findings provide insight into the current state of cloud networking and the chasm between IT expectations and network realities. The survey also examines the experiences of IT professionals regarding the level of difficulty and time required to update their networks and migrate their applications to the cloud…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Wyse Technology, the global leader in cloud client computing, today announced ongoing customer momentum of the adoption of Wyse hardware and virtualization software alongside desktop virtualization solutions from Citrix. Wyse is currently exhibiting at Citrix Synergy(TM) 2012, the premier event on cloud computing, virtualization and networking at Booth #206. Citrix Synergy runs from May 9-11, 2012.

"Citrix and Wyse have been working together to deliver the best technology solutions for IT users for many years now," according to Maryam Alexandrian, Senior Vice President Worldwide Sales and Channels at Wyse Technology. "Across industries such as financial services, healthcare, government, education and many more, both companies strive to improve end user and IT experience through the development of innovative new technologies."…

Grazed from PRWeb.  Author: PR Announcement.

VDIworks, a leading provider of management and enablement software for virtualization and cloud computing, announced today that it is making available an open, free infrastructure for Desktops as a Service (DaaS), Desktop Virtualization and Cloud-hosted VDI.

DaaSStack is built on free, open components and includes VDIworks’ just-released, DaaSManager, to provide a complete end-to-end solution that can power the next generation of end user computing.

“We’re essentially announcing two very important things today”, said Amir Husain, President and CEO of VDIworks. “First, we’re committing ourselves to building a powerful, free and open infrastructure for DaaS, based on proven components. We hope this will free customers from vendor lock-in, unbelievably high costs and the challenges associated with proprietary infrastructure. Second, as part of this initiative, we’re launching our new DaaSManager application, and making it available to users for free.”…

Grazed from PRWeb.  Author: PR Announcement.

Whether you call it Cloud Computing, Software as a Service or On-Demand Software, cloud-based applications are becoming more prevalent in today’s business world.

Software as a Service (SaaS) has become a common delivery model for many applications, including accounting, billing, collaboration, customer relationship management, invoicing, human resource management, and content management.

Written by Jeremy Diviney, Co-Founder of Bill4Time, "Top Reasons to Switch to the Cloud", covers topics such as the top six reasons businesses switch to SaaS (based on a recent survey), nine key differences between traditional software and SaaS (including a handy infographic), 15 software issues that SaaS addresses, a list of popular SaaS applications used by many small businesses, and information to help businesses decide if making the switch is right for them…

Grazed from MonteyControl.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Grazed from InfoWorld.  Author: David Linthicum.

I’ve been saying for some time that virtualization and cloud computing are not mandatory partners. Certainly, virtualization is a tool that makes creating and managing cloud computing services easy. However, more and more, as organizations move to cloud computing, they’re asking for the omission of that virtualization layer for better performance and control. Cloud providers are now agreeing to those demands.

As reported last week, the cloud, managed hosting, and colocation service provider Internap is the latest to provide a bare-metal cloud offering. With this technology, customers get automated provisioning of dedicated managed hosting environments, meaning no hypervisor virtualization platform that has performance and functional trade-offs.

Internap is not the first; SoftLayer, Rackspace, Liquid Web, and New Servers (also known as BareMetalCloud.com) also provide access to the bare metal. You can count on more providers to join the fray as cloud computing users continue to demand that their managed hosting environments work like their native environments…

Grazed from Investors Daily.  Author: Reinhardt Krause.

Rackspace (RAX) Hosting dived in late trading after the cloud-computing service firm reported Q1 profit below views and cloud services growth slowed sequentially.

Rackspace earnings rose 70% to 17 cents a share. Revenue grew 31% to $301 million. Analysts expected 18 cents and $300 million.

Shares, up 69% since early October, slid 13% late. They fell 1% to 57.80 in the regular session.

Cloud services revenue rose 74.5% to $64.75 million. That’s down from Q4 2011’s 86% gain.  Rackspace rents out computer resources in remote data centers via the Internet. Revenue for its main business, website hosting, rose 22.7% to $236.6 million…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Delivering the future of business analytics, Pentaho Corporation today announced that its CEO, Quentin Gallivan, will present at the Goldman Sachs Cloud Computing Conference 2012. Gallivan will participate in the panel discussion "Data: The New Competitive Advantage," which will examine current trends in and the future direction of big data analytics.

        What:  "Data: The New Competitive Advantage"  Goldman Sachs Cloud Computing Conference 2012
        Who:   Quentin Gallivan, CEO of Pentaho
        When:  May 8, 2012 at 2:30 p.m. PT
        Where: Rosewood Sand Hill
               2825 Sand Hill Road
               Menlo Park, California

Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author: Udayan Banerjee.

If you look at the hour hand of a clock you will not notice the movement, but you cannot conclude from your observation that hour hand does not move.

Similarly if you daily look at what is happening in cloud computing you will hardly see any movement. However, if you step back and compare the present with the scenario that existed two years back you will get a more realistic picture of the change.

You want to know “what is hot” and “what is not” in cloud computing then you should look at where the startups put their entrepreneurial energy and Under the Radar conference is a good place to find some of the promising startups. This is twice a year event where around 30 startups get six minutes on stage to try to impress a group of skeptical venture capitalists looking for companies with good ideas and at least the potential for good execution…

Grazed from Midsize Insider.  Author: Doug Bonderud.

Green cloud computing seems a natural extension of the technology–what could be more efficient than moving big data centers out of thousands upon thousands of businesses and storing them in a central location? Instead of each midsize or enterprise business sucking up power for their own little island and then dumping their server stacks when they become too old, cloud offerings with provider-managed hardware mean much smaller carbon footprints. Right?

Maybe not, according to recent data gathered by Greenpeace, which takes a hard look at how big players like Microsoft, Google, and Apple are making names for themselves in the cloud; sure, their offerings may seem fluffy and white, but are they trailing dirty oil?…