Grazed from Business Insider.  Author:  Matt Rosoff.

The world of enterprise computing is in the middle of a once-in-a-lifetime shakeup.

It will change how companies buy and use technology. It will revolutionize the way we work. And it could shift tens of billions of dollars away from big established players like Microsoft and Oracle — or at the very least, require them to make huge sweeping changes or risk becoming irrelevant.

SAI: Enterprise is here to help you make sense of this shift…

Grazed from ADI News.  Author: Mark Whysall.

Infinet Cloud Solutions, developers and specialist providers of cloud-based enterprise solutions recently launched the Infinet Cloud Payroll SuiteApp. The managing director of the firm, Fraser Selfe, made the announcement. The service was made available to businesses in New Zealand and Australia to those searching for streamlining their payroll services. Based on the development platform provided by NetSuite’s SuiteCloud, this payroll SuiteApp does not need any external integration for providing a seamless and complete payroll solution. The outcome is a simple but a very highly featured and efficient payroll system that that carries NetsSuite’s core functionality at heart…

Grazed from CloudBusiness News.  Author: Editorial Staff.

China’s biggest search engine provider, Baidu, will receive more than 100 million yuan as part of the Chinese government’s efforts to boost the development of cloud computing services in the country. Baidu is one of 15 private sector companies benefiting from a new government pot of around 660 million yuan (£66m) to be distributed by the country’s top economic planner early in the new year.

The funds, the first batch of their kind distributed by a public sector department in China, will be designated to 15 cloud computing programs scattered across the country’s five cloud-computing pilot cities of Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hangzhou and Wuxi…

Grazed from VentureBeat.  Author: Jennifer Van Grove.

Proving that cloud computing is more than a here-today-gone-tomorrow fad, Foxconn, the Taiwanese electronics manufacturer best known stateside as the makers of key parts for Apple’s iPhone and iPad, will spend $63.3 million over the next five years to construct two cloud computing buildings.

Foxconn will start building its cloud complex on a 4.57 acre lot at Kaohsiung Software Park in southern Taiwan beginning December 1, according to a Digitimes report that cites sources familiar with the company’s plans…

Grazed from Tech-Faq.  Author:  Daniel Memetic.

The struggle of Chromebooks to succeed in the market, which prompted Google and partners to slash their prices, indicates that not many are willing to go as far as to entrust all of their computing to the cloud and Software as a Service. Tablets on the other hand, especially the iPad, are doing pretty well.

Chromebooks are basically low powered netbooks which run only the Chrome web browser, and are meant to provide fast access to web based applications. It is an experiment born out of the fact that the browser tends to be the most used application on a common computer, and that many of the common tasks can now be accomplished with web based apps running in the web browser…

Grazed from Web Host Review.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Cloud computing provider Agilisys announced on Thursday that it has won a three-year contract to provide process technology company PDX with managed infrastructure-as-a-service. The contract is valued at approximately $1.5 million.

This announcement comes about a month after Agilisys launched Agilisys Cloud Services, its managed IaaS that provides a suite of cloud services in its UK data centers. It also appointed David Cotterell to lead the new division…

Grazed from Economic Times.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Security software provider Trend Micro today said the adoption of cloud computing services in India would largely depend on factors such as data safety.

"A major concern today about cloud services is the security of the data hosted on someone else’s data centre in some part of the world, all the more when they are using the public cloud model," Trend Micro Country Manager (India and SAARC) Amit Nath told reporters here…

Grazed from the Ottawa Business Journal.  Author: Greg Markey. 

With competition intensifying in the emerging cloud computing sector, companies are increasingly pooling resources to lower their costs, says one local industry observer.

Grazed from The Register.  Author: Matt Asay.

Hybrid clouds are all the rage in cloud computing today, with Gartner naming them "a major focus for 2012", even as hybrid clouds constitute fully 20 per cent of enterprise clouds today. But are they really anything more than a new face on private clouds? Marten Mickos, chief executive of private cloud company, Eucalyptus Systems, doesn’t think so.

As Mickos pointed out to me over email, private clouds don’t actually make sense unless they have a hybrid ability. Yes, he went on to say, there are and will always be some specific private clouds that are private and only private. But they are few and far between…

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In growing the government’s cloud computing outreach, the National Institute of Standards and Technology is trying to help businesses and agencies alike make their way into the technology, according to a post on Federal News Radio’s website.

Dawn Leaf, the NIST’s cloud computing executive program manger, said the agency’s new goal is to figure out how private sector efforts to help standardize the cloud can be converged with the federal effort. Leaf told the news source that the institute will look to revise the plans for cloud guidance over the next two months…