Grazed from CMSWire.  Author:  Melissa Gray.

On Earth Day 2012, it’s good to take a step back and see how far we’ve come since the first Earth Day in 1970, which should give us the confidence we need to take on the big challenges ahead of us.

Data is Exploding

The cost of computing has declined enormously. In 1970, you could buy 10 calculations per second for US$ 1000. In 2010, you could buy 10 billion calculations per second for the same US$ 1000. In 1970, there were approximately 31,744 terabytes (TB) of data on computerized records — remember, today you can buy a 4 TB external hard drive. In 2010, that number was 1.4 billion TB. In 2015, it’s predicted that mobile devices alone will generate 6.3 exabytes of data — that’s 6.6 million TB. The total amount of data will grow 50 times in the next 8 years…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Telx, a leading provider of global interconnectivity, cloud computing enablement services and data center solutions, today announced the launch of the Telx Connect Marketplace, a unique service that facilitates commerce between Telx clients and helps foster the development of new business relationships across a variety of industry sectors. This online marketplace makes connecting buyer and seller easier. Clients can now develop new partnership opportunities as well as explore Telx’s vast ecosystem of global network and cloud providers as well as other financial services, media, and enterprise companies.

The Marketplace utilizes an innovative social networking interface allowing participants to build searchable profiles to market services or discover products and request quotes from potential business partners as well as content or cloud providers. Marketplace creates an easy to use, interactive virtual market that speeds up the connection between various parties. With matchmaking alerts, clients can see who is researching their products and initiate outreach based on that information. In addition, advanced search filters provide a quick and easy way for marketplace participants to discover services based on similar communities and geographic location…

Grazed from PRWeb.  Author: PR Announcement.

Accellos, Inc., a leading provider of supply chain execution software solutions, has launched a new Cloud managed service for its AccellosOne Enterprise 3PL product.

The new managed service will be offered to both existing and new customers running Accellos’ proven 3PL management software. The service includes the provisioning of the computing infrastructure required to run the software, system and database and administration services and technical support on the software. The service is sold as a subscription.

Key benefits of the Cloud managed service for AccellosOne Enterprise 3PL include: …

Grazed from HostReview.  Author: Christa Joe.

Organizations of the new world focus mainly on centralized resource utilizations, so that a minimum investment in the resources can facilitate the company in the long run and it can get 100% out of the resources. To actually implement this idea in practice, the technology called, Cloud Computing, was introduced, which matches all the basic recommendations of optimum resource utilization…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

ScienceLogic Inc., a provider of IT operations and cloud management software, has secured $15 million in Series B funding led by Intel Capital and appointed John Becker as CEO to fuel the next stage in the company’s growth. Previous CEO and company co-founder David Link will remain as chairman of the board. With the most comprehensive and flexible IT management software platform on the market, ScienceLogic is used by service providers, corporations and government entities to improve IT operations efficiency and add new services across data center and cloud computing infrastructures.

Intel Capital is joined by previous investor New Enterprise Associates (NEA). ScienceLogic will use the capital to fund global sales expansion, marketing and development of its technology. The investment from Intel Capital and NEA brings ScienceLogic’s total financing to $30 million…

Grazed from Silicon Republic.  Author: John Kennedy.

Smaller companies in the Irish economy are attributing job creation directly to the adoption of cloud computing and 35pc of firms have implemented cloud, according to the inaugural Microsoft/Amarach cloud index as part of the brouhaha surrounding Cloud Week.

The survey of 151 organisations, including large, mid and small-sized firms, found that just less than two-fifths – 37pc – had implemented cloud computing.

This rises to more than half (53pc) of the large organisations in Ireland that employ more than 250 people.

The majority of public and private-sector organisations, however, have yet to deploy cloud technology…

Grazed from Business Wire.  Author: PR Announcement.

High-tech companies are struggling to transform their traditional business models of shipping hardware products or packaged software to more complex business models of providing new services based on cloud computing, new Accenture (NYSE: ACN) research has found.

The research, summarized in a new report released today, Where the Cloud Meets Reality: Scaling to Succeed in New Business Models, included interviews with more than 40 senior executives from 30 companies that operate, or are building, Software-as-a-Service, Platform-as-a-Service or Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud-based businesses. The goal was to develop deeper insights to help companies create approaches to successfully scale and operationalize these new cloud-based business models…

Grazed from NetworkWorld.  Author: Brandon Butler.

One of the premier technology shows of the year once again hits Las Vegas from May 6-10 and many of the themes IT leaders grapple with on a daily basis will be the hot topics at this year’s forums and panel discussions. The show focuses on nine subject areas this year including: cloud computing, networking, wireless and mobility, virtualization, data center, storage, collaboration, information security and risk management, and IT management. Mobility is a dominant discussion point at this year’s show though with 14 sessions on the topic.

Organizers of the show are expecting similar numbers to last year’s 13,000 attendees and 350 exhibitors at Interop this year says Interop General Manager Jennifer Jessup. Jessup, who is managing the show for the first time this year, says her goal is to connect attendees with some of the leading thinkers in technology today and provide a forum for IT professionals to engage with other users about ongoing issues in the tech world…