Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Teradata Universe EMEA — Greater utilization of processing power has been a key driver and sought-after benefit of corporate private cloud computing implementations – to centralize and share computing resources and increase utilization to 60 percent or higher. Today, only about 25 percent of the available processing power of virtualized servers is being utilized by many companies that adopt virtualization, a Gartner analyst recently told CIO magazine(1). Teradata today announced important new private cloud capabilities to help companies effectively realize much greater utilization.

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Grazed from eWeek.  Author: Darryl K. Taft.

Amazon Web Services kicked off its cloud computing service in 2006 and has since taken a commanding lead in the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) space by adding more and more services and amassing a number of customers. What’s more, AWS has no intention of slowing down as the cloud is poised to take over the world.

At the AWS Summit 2012 NYC here, Adam Selipsky, vice president of sales, marketing and support at AWS, gave a brief history of AWS’ innovations over the last six years, highlighting some of the more recent ones, including the AWS Marketplace, which AWS announced on April 19…

Grazed from Enterprise Irregulars.  Author: Michael Fauscette.

It’s a statement that I hear often lately, as more traditional software vendors start to invest in cloud computing, that they’re "late to the cloud". Of course many of those who are saying it are "pure play" SaaS vendors that are no doubt starting to feel some competitive pressure as more vendors start selling SaaS applications. I also hear it from colleagues and I suppose that it is a true statement of fact but to me there’s a little more to the story than that. I think the bigger question might be whether being late to the cloud is "bad"…

Grazed from Tech Source.  Author: Alex Dimitru.

The rumor mill says that Samsung’s cloud computing service, named S-Cloud, will be unveiled on May 3rd, along with the South Korean company’s new flagship smartphone, Galaxy S3.

A South Korea-based website claims that Samsung is preparing to launch a storage in the cloud service. Is still uncertain how Samsung will call their new service, as both sCloud and S-Cloud are plausible solutions. As you probably guessed, the South Koreans are planing to compete against Apple and their iCloud service.

According to Maeil Business sources, quoted by The Verge, the launch of a storage in the cloud service is part of Samsung consolidation plan, and it will be officially announced on May 3rd…

Grazed from MSPMentor.  Author: Joe Panetierri.

Hewlett-Packard’s top cloud computing executive opened his arms to MSPs (managed services providers) today, predicting that cloud computing will “usher in a complete renaissance in MSP land.” Zorawar ‘Biri’ Singh, senior VP and GM of HP Cloud Services, also said mobile devices on the front-end are driving the massive cloud trends on the back-end.

Singh’s statements were part of a channel-centric interview today at an OpenStack conference in San Francisco.

Singh announced HP’s Converged Cloud and HP Public Cloud strategy earlier this month. Part of that strategy involves OpenStack, a fast-emerging open source cloud computing platform. More than 1,000 people — software developers, vendors and IT consultants — attended this week’s OpenStack conference. HP’s cloud strategy also involves extensive managed services…

Grazed from Wall Street Journal.   Author: Chris Boulton.

The term “supercomputing” suggests computing that comes at a great deal of cost and is reserved for massive companies. But in this age of cloud computing, where vendors host software on their servers and provision it to end user customers, supercomputing need not always come with super costs.

That’s the lesson learned from Cycle Computing, which used a computing cluster comprised of 50,000 computer chips to test drug compounds for less than $5,000 an hour for less than three hours, reports the New York Times’ Steve Lohr…

Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author: Ariel Dan.

Today, with enterprises migrating to the cloud, the security challenge around protecting data is greater than ever before. Keeping data private and secure has always been a business imperative. But for many companies and organizations, it has also become a compliance requirement and a necessity to stay in business. Standards including HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, PCI DSS and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act all require that organizations protect their data at rest and provide defenses against data loss and threats.

Public cloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than as a product, and is usually categorized into three service models: Software as a Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and Platform as a Service (PaaS). When it comes to public cloud security, all leading cloud providers are investing significant efforts and resources in securing and certifying their datacenters. However, as cloud computing matures, enterprises are learning that cloud security cannot be delivered by the cloud provider alone. In fact, cloud providers make sure enterprises know that security is a shared responsibility, and that cloud customers do share responsibility for data security, protection from unauthorized access, and backup of their data…

Grazed from Midsize Insider.  Author: Bob Thomas.

The lack of secure cloud computing has been one of the biggest issues facing companies that want to move their operations into the cloud, but which are concerned about the deployment of sensitive data into the perceived unsecure environment of cloud computing.

Three companies, LynuxWorks, Inc., TransLattice, and Fritz Technologies Corporation, which are already known for providing solutions to data-sensitive customers like the government, have announced their collaboration to produce a secure cloud platform. The S.E.C.U.R.E. (Secure, Enterprise, Cross-Domain, Unified, Resilient Environment) platform is ideal for creating cloud deployments in highly sensitive environments…

Grazed from Daily Finance.  Author: Anders Bylund.

It’s been nearly six years since Amazon.com (NAS: AMZN) had the brilliant idea of monetizing its oodles and oodles of surplus computing power.

The e-tailer built up a truly epic computing infrastructure to support its core operations, but much of that hardware had a lot of downtime. While still requiring electric power, man-hours of server maintenance, and data center cooling, the servers would often sit unused. Why not rent out idle servers by the hour instead?

The idea was an instant hit, and Amazon’s cloud-computing services have come a long way since then. Management routinely holds up the collection of data-mangling products, collectively known as Amazon Web Services or AWS, as an example of a fast-growing Amazon operation. These days, Amazon pumps millions of dollars specifically into building out the AWS infrastructure, which now is separate from Amazon’s general operations…

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

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, decked out in dark Armani duds for the trial of his landmark case against Google and Android, testified Tuesday that he had considered buying RIM or Palm to compete against Apple and its iPhone.

Ultimately he decided that RIM was too expensive and Palm wasn’t competitive enough and a separate "Project Java Phone" that Oracle had started was a "bad idea."

Google’s lawyer claimed that because Oracle failed to develop its own product it’s going after Google and Android to get a piece of the action.

Google CEO Larry Page, widely reported as uncomfortable on the witness stand and unable to make eye contract except with the ceiling, testified that he couldn’t remember much of anything…