Grazed from ComputerWorld.  Author: Bob Violino.

Many companies are just getting started with cloud computing, but others are already well entrenched. Indeed, some organizations in this latter camp have built massive private clouds that support significant portions of their operations.

These giant, multi-petabyte clouds present unique management challenges for CIOs and business leaders, including ensuring adequate security and service levels, and positioning the new cloud offering in such a way that internal customers want to use it. And because so much about cloud services is relatively new, organizations are learning to deal with the hurdles even as they deploy these mega-clouds. The biggest challenge in implementing private clouds is the massive culture and operating model shift from a ‘do-it-for-users’ model to a ‘user self-service’ model."…

Grazed from V3.co.uk.  Author: Dan Worth.

The outage on Microsoft’s Windows Azure cloud computing platform that caused the government’s G-Cloud service to go offline was the result of a calculation error caused by the extra day in February due to the leap year.

Writing on the Azure blog the firm’s corporate vice president for service and cloud, Bill Laing, said while the firm had still to fully determine the cause of the issue, the extra date in the month appeared the most likely cause…

Grazed from CIO.  Author: Bernard Golden.

I had the privilege of chairing the infrastructure track at last week’s Cloud Connect conference. Three of the presentations were particularly interesting, offering a good perspective on just how dramatic an effect cloud computing is having on IT. Summed up, the capability and agility of cloud computing is forcing an extremely rapid evolution.

In a sense, these effects are akin to what would happen to an established living ecosystem were significant change to occur within. One could expect to see existing species be stressed by the development of new characteristics in the ecosystem, forcing them to adapt rapidly to survive. Those that fail to adapt will, inevitably, dwindle into extinction…

Grazed from MaltaToday.  Author: Editorial Staff.

The Award was given by Cloud Computing Magazine, the authoritative source of news and articles for the global technology industry, which is published by TMC.

It is the first time that such an award, which gives recognition to companies that have most effectively leveraged cloud computing to bring new differentiated offerings to market, has been made.  2X Software in particular was identified as having demonstrated innovation, as well as the ability to improve the security of cloud environments, by the Award organisers.

2X Software is a privately-held global leader of desktop and application delivery, remote access and cloud computing solutions and has offices in the USA, Germany, UK, Australia and Japan apart from Malta. 2X is a highly-acclaimed innovator, whose products receive wide-spread recognition, and its customers include world-renowned organization such as Mazda, Harvard University, Fox News and many others…

Grazed from TechWorld.  Author: Derek du Preez.

Grazed from CenterBeam.  Author: Editorial Staff.

The IT industry may need to go on the offensive for better security, RSA executive chairman Art Coviello said on Feb. 28 at the annual RSA Conference. He said since the RSA experienced a breach, it has learned from the incident and made changes to help improve cloud computing and IT security.

“We are sharing and using them to drive strategy and investments and our product roadmap," Coviello told the crowd at the opening speech of the RSA Conference, according to the Register. "We hope the attacks on us will strengthen the urgency and resolve of everyone because we are not alone – we’ve never witnessed so many attacks by hackers.”…

Grazed from SlashGear.  Author: Rue Liu.

 

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Imogo Mobile Technologies Corp. (otcqb:IMTC) (formally monza ventures inc. (otcbb:MZAV) or the "Company") is pleased to announce it is expanding into the high growth area of Cloud Computing Services and Cloud Data Storage. With Cloud Computing being one of the fastest growing sectors in business, the management of Imogo (previously Monza Ventures) is confident this strategy will provide a basis for growth and value for the shareholders…

Grazed from Peninsula Press.  Author: Liu He.

Two European entrepreneurs shared their vision of startup innovation on the opening day of Entrepreneurship Week at Stanford University, Monday.

Eirkur Hrafnsson, chief executive officer and co-founder of GreenQloud headquartered in Iceland, and Jan Rezab, CEO and co-founder of Socialbakers, based in the Czech Republic, spoke about ‘green’ geo-thermal powered cloud computing strategies and social media analytics.

Hrafnsson started by making the connection between cloud computing and green gas emission – basically, running “clouds” on renewable energy…