Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author: Glenn Rossman.

Racemi, provider of technology that accelerates migrations to cloud computing, on Wednesday announced it has joined the Cloud Tools Network with Rackspace Hosting, a specialist in the hosting and cloud computing industry.

Through this joint collaboration, Rackspace Cloud customers can seamlessly migrate existing applications using Racemi Cloud Path, which migrates applications in their current tested and proven configuration without requiring server rebuilds or additional technology stacks…

Grazed from InfoWorld.  Author: David Linthicum.

Two seemingly unrelated events in the cloud computing space should make you think about taking a different approach to your sourcing strategy for the cloud. The first event: Cloud outages, such as the recent Microsoft Azure failure, have shown us that no single cloud is infallible. The second event: Google, Amazon.com, and Microsoft have all dropped their cloud services’ prices.

The second event means you can deal with the first event better. In your own data center, you’d have your servers fail over to others if needed. And any large organization will have a failover strategy to other data centers or external providers for business-critical information and processes so that an outage doesn’t stop the business…

Grazed from V3.co.uk.  Author: Daniel Robinson.

Dell is looking to position itself as a one-stop provider for cloud computing with the launch of a reference platform based on OpenStack and Ubuntu, running on Dell hardware and backed by its service and support know-how.

The Dell OpenStack-Powered Cloud Solution is aimed at both enterprise customers and service providers, and is intended to deliver an open-source alternative to proprietary cloud computing stacks for organisations building private cloud infrastructure, and enable them to get up and running relatively quickly, Dell said…

Grazed from Forbes.  Author: Irv Rothman.

Cloud computing may be the most disruptive technology for businesses since the Internet. Cloud doesn’t just optimize IT departments, it has the power to change how a business operates. The transformative power of cloud computing, however, is not easy to understand nor is it an overnight journey either.

A successful journey to the cloud requires intense planning and alignment across all parts of the business; essentially a roadmap that helps navigate the financial and technology decisions that need to be made over the years ahead. The payoff will be worth it, but to get there, organizations need an internal champion…

Grazed from B/OSS.  Author: Peter Caron.

We all know that green IT can only be built with cloud technology. It is common sense. Fewer physical servers means less energy, means green. Right? Not exactly. But a common assumption, even in the green IT community, is that cloud computing is the only way to achieve green IT. This is, at least on the surface, true, but the reverse is not: Cloud computing is not always green. Let me explain.

The green of IT regularly garners headlines. Some examples from the past year are Facebook’s Open Compute Project Initiative, Google’s Solar initiatives and Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System (“largest solar energy project in the world"), with more that $168 million invested. Other examples are Yahoo’s Chicken Coop Data Center Design: a 155,000-square-foot data center, which can accommodate 50,000 servers, is cooled almost 100 percent by outside air (in contrast to the large power-hungry chillers in most data centers) and uses 40 percent less energy than typical data centers…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

EMC Corporation today announced an expanded portfolio of cloud services to help customers accelerate the adoption, consumption, optimization, and management of cloud technologies. The new services help customers accelerate their IT transformation initiatives, enabling IT to more quickly deliver ITaaS to their clients, thereby helping customers to fully realize the benefits of efficiency and agility gained through all phases of their cloud computing. The new EMC services announced today address the transformation of people, process and technology and range from strategy and business case development, to design and deployment, to support, optimization, and education…

Grazed from CNBC.  Author: Bob Pisani.

The hot IPO this week is — what else — another cloud computing-type company, ExactTarget, looking to price 8.5 million shares from $15-$17 tonight (Wednesday), for trading tomorrow.

It will certainly price above that, and open in the $20s, if recent history with cloud computing companies hold.

I’ve used "cloud computing" as a generic term, but companies like ExactTarget are really about interactive marketing, specifically cross-channel interactive marketing…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Cloud computing end-users and technology thought-leaders will be gathering at the Downtown Miami Hilton, April 16-17 at the Cloud Computing Association’s (CCA) two-track conference focusing on Cloud Computing in Healthcare ( http://cloudcomputingassn.org/hCLOUD ) and Cloud Computing in the Public Sector ( http://cloudcomputingassn.org/publicCLOUD ).

According to a recent Wall Street Journal review of Abundance: The Future is Better than You Think — a new book by Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler — "if every image made and every word written from the earliest stirring of civilization to 2003 were converted to digital information, the total would come to five exabytes… or one billion gigabytes."…

Grazed from PRWeb.  Author: Robert J. Scott.

“Cloud computing is exploding. Its advantage are many. There’s another aspect to the cloud, and it is the numerous legal issues cloud computing presents to businesses,” said Robert J. Scott, Managing Partner of Scott & Scott, LLP, an intellectual property and technology law firm.

On the surface, cloud agreements are similar to traditional technology licensing and services agreements; however, cloud computing engagements expose both the client and the service provider to risks not present in more traditional technology transactions. At the top of the list of unique cloud risks are the legislative topics-du-jour: privacy and security regulatory compliance…