Grazed from New York Times.  Author:  Randall Stross.

TO satisfy our ever-growing need for computing power, many technology companies have moved their work to data centers with tens of thousands of power-gobbling servers. Concentrated in one place, the servers produce enormous heat. The additional power needed for cooling them — up to half of the power used to run them — is the steep environmental price we have paid to move data to the so-called cloud.

Researchers, however, have come up with an intriguing option for that wasted heat: putting it to good use in people’s homes…

Grazed from Benzinga.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "3rd Annual Cloud Computing Summit 2011 – Accelerating your cloud strategy" conference to their offering. 2nd December, Taj Krishna Hotel, Hyderabad.

Cloud Technology is changing at breakneck speed. According to IDC, within just a few years, cloud computing has reshaped the IT marketplace and the way that organizations acquire and use IT products and services, disrupting their strategies and forcing them to re-evaluate all of their alternatives to the status quo. Now the use of cloud computing is accepted as mainstream, this disruption is creating new opportunities for suppliers and catalyzing major changes in traditional IT offerings…

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.