Grazed from Computing.  Author:  Derek Du Preez.

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

In the inaugural Cisco(R) Global Cloud Index (2010 – 2015) issued today, Cisco /quotes/zigman/20039/quotes/nls/csco CSCO -0.06% estimates global cloud computing traffic will grow 12-fold from 130 exabytes to reach a total of 1.6 zettabytes annually by 2015, a 66 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR). One zettabyte is equal to a sextillion bytes or a trillion gigabytes — 1.6 zettabytes is approximately equivalent to:
 
        —  22 trillion hours of streaming music.
        —  5 trillion hours of business Web conferencing with a webcam.
        —  1.6 trillion hours of online high-definition (HD) video streaming…

Grazed from PR NewsWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

TeamQuest Corporation announced the acquisition of Performance Surveyor from Solution Labs, a Canadian capacity management company.  Performance Surveyor strengthens the unique TeamQuest automated analytics and capacity management offerings that are so critical to the success of physical, virtual and cloud IT environments.

"Virtualization is a main technology underpinning cloud computing — and capacity management is a key pre-requisite to successful virtualization," said TeamQuest Product Manager Scott Adams. "If capacity is not effectively managed in these environments, you’ll have service disruptions, or waste the efficiency and cost savings that prompted these virtualization and cloud computing projects in the first place…

Grazed from The Next Web.  Author: Matthew Panzarino.

Grazed from CIO.  Author: Bernard Goldstein.

A continuing controversy in cloud computing is its putative cost benefits; specifically, whether public cloud computing can provide cost advantages over computing carried out within a company’s own data center.

Certainly, billions of bytes have been expended on this discussion, with steadfast advocates for both positions. I have often heard people confidently state that their internal cloud environment is cheaper than the public alternatives. I have even seen spreadsheets proving that an internal cloud has lower costs than the primary public provider, Amazon.

Briefly summed up, the argument in favor of private clouds goes something like this: If one examines the posted prices of Amazon and projects a given application’s resource demands to those prices, it seems clear that an IT organization could achieve lower costs running its own infrastructure…

Grazed from Channel Pro.  Author: Ian Masters.

Where can the channel capitalise on Recovery-as-a-Service?

Business continuity and disaster recovery will always be necessary investments for companies – data and applications are critical tools that support revenue generation, service to customers and their overall success. However, budgets for investment in technology have been severely hit over the last couple of years. To cope with these challenges, organisations are looking at how cloud computing could be used to meet this need around continuity…

Grazed from Cloud Beat.  Author: Sean Ludwig.

There is so much happening right now in emerging cloud computing — the entire economy is being disrupted by the trend.

With publicly-traded giants like Amazon, Google, VMWare, Microsoft, Cisco and Salesforce lurching around with new and improved services that can help businesses with cost and efficiency gains, sometimes it’s easy to miss the hot players that are up-and-coming…

Grazed from ZD Net.  Author: Alan Priestley.

Rewind a few years and ‘mobility’ was the word that represented the exciting new direction for enterprise computing. The vision was that mobile devices would help enterprises spread their wings, cut their costs and thrust forward into a realm of new opportunity. Today the benefits of enterprise mobility are pretty much unanimously recognised. The real focus now is how to fuse enterprise mobility with the cloud.

To briefly spell out the issues around enterprise mobility and the cloud just think of all the different mobile devices out there and their different capabilities. Some can run web productivity and communications apps with no issues, others can’t. Now consider all the new platforms that are emerging: smartphones that are becoming ever smarter, tablet platforms that are seemingly proliferating by the week, laptops with the computing power of high-end PCs and more…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Synergy Research Group announces the publication of its Cloud Market Share Report, which provides quarterly market shares, sizing, and forecasts for the Public and Private Cloud equipment markets. The foundation of Synergy’s segmentation includes the networking, computing, and storage platforms deployed for Private Cloud, Public Cloud (VPN), and Public Cloud (non-VPN)…

Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author:  Anne Lee.

A simple definition of cloud computing is that it’s a unique storage service that involves storage of data and software. With cloud computing, the person or company who enjoys the service is not fully aware of the location, storage facilities or configuration of the system used to offer the storage services. A good analogy to explain this concept is the regular power grid that supplies power to homes and businesses. The end user who enjoys the services is hardly aware of all the power generation and distribution devices and components used to deliver the service.

Since its introduction, cloud computing has evolved through several stages like virtualization computing to autonomic utility form of cloud computing. It has also evolved from service-oriented architecture…