Cloud Computing Association Promotes Cloud Industry, Technologies
A new business-to-business membership organization — the Cloud Computing Association (CCA) — has been formed to promote the adoption and use of cloud-based technologies by large-cap and small- and middle-market enterprises (SMEs) across all industry sectors. The CCA’s website is at: http://www.cloudcomputingassn.org .
"We are building a community of corporate end-users, application developers, and service providers of cloud-based solutions and products. The CLOUD is rapidly becoming the fuel that is powering business efficiency and growth, and we are providing our individual and corporate members with opportunities to exchange information and promote knowledge of how cloud-based technologies can streamline business processes, help businesses to expand more quickly into new markets, and save costs," said Don Buford, Executive Director of the CCA…
Amazon Cloud Drive, Apple iCloud among top storage services
Cloud computing is gaining in large popularity. It seems to be the next major evolution in mobile and computer technology. Recently we have heard of many cloud services for example Apple iCloud and Amazon Cloud Drive along with fresh products from the companies like Apple iPhone 4S and Amazon Kindle Fire.
We have many more similar cloud services that will help us upload contents to cloud servers from our handheld devices like smartphones, tablets and PMPs. Actually, most of cloud services for personal computers today have versions for various handheld devices thanks to the spread of high-speed internet to the portable gadgets. Here we list five best cloud services that are up for mobile devices…
Wyse Extends Award-Winning Mobile Cloud App to Amazon’s New Kindle Fire
Wyse Technology, the global leader in cloud client computing, is announcing today that its popular mobile virtualization and personal cloud software app, PocketCloud, is now available on the newly released Amazon Kindle Fire. The productivity app, which is available in the Amazon Appstore, transforms the lightweight Kindle Fire tablet into a full computing machine, capable of accessing and working within any file or application on a user’s remote PC, Mac or virtual desktop environment.
As the app that is pioneering personal cloud computing through remote desktop access, Wyse PocketCloud utilizes the existing storage on customers’ Macs, PCs or virtual desktops rather than storing files on third-party servers. This provides users with a less expensive and more secure peer-to-peer experience. The highly efficient Wyse PocketCloud interface goes beyond simply accessing files; it gives users the power to search, move, and edit files securely on their desktop or laptop computer as if it were right in front of them. These functions can be used with media and any application installed on the user’s computer such as Microsoft Office and Apple iWork…
AMD launches Opteron processors for virtualisation and cloud computing
Chip vendor, AMD, has released its Opteron 6200 and 4200 series catered to enterprise virtualisation and cloud computing.
Previously code-named Interlagos and Valencia respectively, the processors, according to AMD, can give businesses up to 84 per cent higher performance.
The figure was in reference to AMD Opteron 6276 generating 84 per cent more floating-point operations (FLOPs) than the Intel X5670 processor…
Cloud computing history lesson
Cloud computing is here to stay and if anything 2012 could the year the trend makes the jump to the mainstream.
What that means is adoption is no longer the issue with almost everybody in agreement with regards to the benefits of the cloud and the focus now shifting to the new wave of applications and their implementation.
As Charis Palmer points out in her piece, the early adopters are already reaping the benefits of the shift to the cloud and looking forward to what’s next on the horizon…
ScaleMatrix Launches “Cloud in a Box” at CA World 2011
In a press release issued Thursday, December 1, cloud computing technology provider ScaleMatrix announced that it had used the CA World 2011 event as the launch platform for its “Cloud in a Box” mobile compute platform.
According to ScaleMatrix, more than 6,000 partners attended the CA Technologies event in Las Vegas in November, many of them demonstrating technologies, frequently with an emphasis on the CA private cloud platform AppLogic (originally developed by the company 3Tera, which was acquired by CA).
As a bronze-level sponsor of the event, and a “key” infrastructure partner for CA, ScaleMatrix used the event as an opportunity to launch the product, which offers a combination of servers, software, networking hardware and environmental equipment, built into a proprietary high-density server rack, in order to simplify the deployment and creation of private cloud infrastructure…
The Great Cloud Bottleneck: How Capacity Issues Can Kill Your Cloud Project
Grazed from RedmondMag.com. Author: Doug Barney.
Ever fall half asleep waiting for a Web site to refresh or a Web app to respond, or freak out when your cloud mail is down? If so, you understand a fundamental problem with the cloud: Its speed utterly depends on our network connections, be it a WAN access point, the Internet or a private line.
So we’re not all confused with varying definitions, let’s agree on what a WAN is. According to Cisco Subnet, an independent community for Cisco users, "The WAN is a place in the network that aggregates various types, speeds and links running a disparate set of protocols together crossing metropolitan, state and even country boundaries. The largest example of a WAN is the Internet itself, which can be regarded as the public WAN. The primary purpose of a WAN is to connect users and applications connected to various LANs."
WANs and the Internet were getting clogged long before the cloud. Multimedia, Web and video conferencing, surfing, VoIP and unified communications already stress those networks that haven’t been thoroughly boosted.
Seismic Shift in Demands for Cloud Computing
A seismic shift is occurring in cloud computing demands as businesses around the globe want to connect employees through a myriad of computing devices. This seismic shift turns worldly wisdom on its head according to research conducted by TNS and funded by CSC.
In a survey of more than 3,500 IT decision makers in eight countries, thirty-three percent of survey respondents said that accessibility to information through multiple devices was the most important reason for their decision to convert to cloud computing. The other key motivating factors were accelerating the speed of business at twenty-one percent and cutting costs at seventeen percent…
Survey: Cloud isn’t a cost panacea, but few expect it to be
Cloud computing is not the money saver it’s sometimes made out to be. But don’t fret — it’s still a very valuable delivery model for IT resources, according to a new survey by systems integrator Computer Science Corporation.
While cost savings, where present, were small among the survey’s 3,645 respondents — under $20,000 in 35 percent of cases — the cloud brings a wealth of benefits around mobility, efficiency and, believe it or not, jobs. Mobility, the ability to access applications and data from a variety of end-user devices, was actually the No.1 reason respondents gave for adopting cloud computing. The survey results aren’t entirely surprising when one considers ideal cloud use cases, especially with regard to infrastructure-as-a-service clouds…
Despite Increases in Cloud Computing, Companies Have Long-Term Plans to Invest in Data Centers
A new survey conducted by CoreNet Global and Newmark Knight Frank shows that despite increases in cloud computing, 50 percent of companies are investing and planning over the long term to build or expand data centers that they manage as a corporate entity.
The survey pointed out that companies are most concerned with risk management and business continuity when deciding where to locate their data centers. One result is a preference for most companies to maintain management of data center operations internally, and not to outsource the function…