November 4, 2011 Off

Success in the Cloud Begins with Integration

By David

Grazed from Forbes.  Author: Bob Moul.
 

Now that cloud computing has turned from an “if” to a “when” proposition, enterprises of all sizes are asking a lot of questions beginning with “how.” How will we make the transition? How much will it cost? How long will it take? And perhaps most importantly, how high a return will we see?…

November 3, 2011 Off

Oracle: Learning to love the cloud

By David
Grazed from Fortune.  Author:  Kevin Kelleher.

First, Oracle ignored the cloud. Then Larry Ellison, its CEO, ridiculed the cloud. And now that Oracle is trying to buy its way into the cloud. The question is: what exactly does the cloud mean to Oracle?

That depends on how you define the cloud. If there is a standard definition, it involves computing that is not so much a product you have to install and maintain but a service you tap into like a utility. Just as you turn on your faucet or your lamp, the cloud lets you watch a movie on Netflix (NFLX) instead of going out and buying a DVD, or share a document in Dropbox instead of emailing a Microsoft Office file back and forth…

November 3, 2011 Off

Oracle’s best-of-breed strategy, as described by president Mark Hurd

By David
Grazed from ComputerWorld.  Author: John Gallant.

It used to be easy journalistic shorthand to write ‘database-giant Oracle Corp.’, but that labeling no longer fits a company that’s now a key player in applications, appliances, servers, development tools, operating systems and, yes, even cloud computing. How do all these components gel into a coherent plan for IT customers? What makes Oracle better than the other big integrated systems players like HP and IBM? In this latest installment of the IDG Enterprise CEO Interview Series, Oracle President Mark Hurd spoke with IDGE Chief Content Officer John Gallant about Oracle’s strategy and why the company is uniquely positioned to help IT leaders deal with the difficult challenges they’re facing today. Hurd also clarified Oracle’s stance on cloud — a position clouded — sorry — by some earlier comments from CEO Larry Ellison — and what makes Oracle’s approach better than ‘very old’ cloud solutions like salesforce.com. He explained more about customer migrations to Oracle’s new Fusion applications and discussed how Oracle plans to win in the evolving server market…

November 3, 2011 Off

IT’s Future Lies With Cloud Computing, Security and Mobile

By David
Grazed from PCWorld.  Author: Fred O’Conner.

Cloud computing, security and the mobile space hold the most growth potential in the coming years, according to IT professionals surveyed by tech staffing firm Modis.

While no single technology dominated that portion of the study, which polled 502 tech workers on issues related to their jobs and the IT industry, those areas took the top three spots. Cloud computing earned 29 percent of the vote, security tallied 21 percent and mobile scored 18 percent…

November 3, 2011 Off

Cloud Computing: BpaaS Interoperability as a Service

By David
Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author: Srinivasan Sundara Rajan.

In my previous article on Need for BpaaS Consortium, I stressed the need for interoperability as a number one concern for the enterprises to adopt SaaS and in particular BpaaS. I pitched for the need for a generic body or a consortium that can act to address the interoperability concerns so that the consortium can do activities such as:

  • Certifying BpaaS providers
  • Set standards for APIs and other business functionalities they expose
  • Set standards for message exchanges between the BpaaS providers…
November 3, 2011 Off

Open Data Center Alliance Membership Forecasts a Tripling of Cloud Computing Deployments

By David
Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) accelerates delivery of industry standard cloud adoption announcing collaborations on potential standards with the Cloud Security Alliance and DMTF as well as release of best practices for cloud application development and resiliency.

–With the addition of Hewlett Packard (HP) and Computer Associates to member ranks, the Alliance now includes representation from over 90% of the virtualization software market, over two-thirds of the server hardware market, and the leading networking, storage and enterprise management vendors.
 

November 3, 2011 Off

How Cloud Computing Can Boost Developing Nations

By David
Grazed from Forbes.  Author:  Eric Savitz.

By now, it’s no secret that cloud computing will change the IT landscape immeasurably in the next 10 years. Much of the discussion to date has been somewhat narrow, focusing on cost-savings to the enterprise and the public versus private cloud debate. When viewed from a global perspective, however, the potential of cloud computing is far beyond server consolidation and virtualization. Cloud computing fundamentally shifts the benefits of the Open Source movement, fueling innovation from new sectors, and impacting our culture at large in ways that parallel how we have seen Twitter and Facebook up-end the status quo.  Now imagine these changes in the context of the billions of citizens joining the digital economy in India, China or the Next-11

November 3, 2011 Off

ATT.com eyes hybrid Oracle cloud computing

By David
Grazed from SearchOracle.  Author: Mark Fontecchio.

AT&T is now accustomed to the bursts of traffic it gets on its site when, say, a new iPhone is announced. Problem is, its Oracle infrastructure isn’t flexible enough to scale up and down to accompany the peaks and valleys. So the company is considering partially moving its Oracle environment to cloud computing…

November 3, 2011 Off

Coraid raises $50 million for cheap scale-out storage push

By David

Grazed from GigaOM.  Author: Barb Darrow.

Scale-out SAN vendor Coraid raised $50 million in venture funding in a Series C round led by Crosslink Capital. Seagate, Kinetic Ventures, and Silverlake AG are also new backers in this round. The seven-year-old company has now garnered a total of $85 million. Early investors were Menlo Ventures, Allegis Capital and Azure Capital Partners…

November 3, 2011 Off

ViaWest Launches KINECTed™ Cloud

By David
Grazed from PR NewsWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

Today, ViaWest announced the launch of its KINECTed™ Cloud service, which, unlike other cloud computing offerings, provides users a choice between two different hypervisors: a VMware-based vCloud® Powered hypervisor and an open source Xen®-based hypervisor. With KINECTed™ Cloud, users can choose the cloud type that best meets their needs and avoid the pitfalls of a "one-size-fits-all" solution…