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…

Grazed from Business Cloud9.  Author: Stuart Lauchlan.

Venture funding for entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley remains buoyant and plentiful – once you get beyond a certain point and if you have the right idea in the Cloud.

The past few weeks have seen two US Cloud Computing start-ups – Marketo and Zuora – raising further rounds of funding that will be used in part to fuel their expansion into Europe. (Both announced their new funding while their CEOs were on visits to London.) Marketo, which set up its European HQ support centre in Dublin this year, has secured $50m in new venture financing, led by Battery Ventures…

Grazed from ComputerWorld.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Grazed from CSO.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Legal complexities make it difficult to use public cloud computing, according to Raimund Genes, Trend Micro’s chief technology officer. Unless you’re a criminal, that is.

"Public cloud for me is not really a security challenge. It is a change in the way we operate with data. It doesn’t decrease security. It increases complexity, and that’s a problem," he told the company’s Canberra Cloud Security Conference yesterday.

"The cloud, from a legal point of view, will keep our internal lawyers and everybody else busy for the next fifty, one hundred years," he said.

Grazed from ITPro Portal.  Author.: Erica Thinesen.

Apple is reportedly on the look out for senior executives to run its cloud computing division as it tries to reinvent the way people store their data using its iCloud service.

Citing people familiar with the matter, The Wall Street Journal revealed that Apple is planning to hire senior level executives with strong backgrounds in web based software…