Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author:  John Savageau.

With dozens of public cloud service providers on the market, offering a wide variety of services, standards, SLAs, and options, how does an IT manager make an informed decision on which provider to use?  Is it time in business? Location? Cost? Performance?…

Grazed from MIT Technology Review.  Author: Tom Simonite.

Back in 1999, when the first Web boom was in full swing, Marc Benioff, then an executive at Oracle, had a vision for the future of software.

Benioff’s idea was that business programs could be used directly over the Web instead of being installed on users’ machines. He quit his job and founded Salesforce.com, which began offering software for managing sales and customer relationships that was accessed only through a browser. Benioff took the company public in 2004 and saw it added to the S&P 500 in 2008. Today, he is credited as a pioneer of cloud computing and as the man who proved software "as a service" could be a big business…

Grazed from CIO Insight.  Aithor: Samuel Greengard.

It’s not exactly a news bulletin that information technology is evolving faster than CIOs can keep up. Over the last few years, the Internet has matured, infrastructure has advanced and a tangle of new challenges has emerged. Mobile technology — including smartphones and tablets — has changed everything, and the cloud is about to change everything even more. “It’s an exciting period, but one that is fraught with risks,” observes David Nichols, partner for the Ernst & Young CIO Services Practice of North America…

Grazed from HPC Wire.  Author:  PR Announcement.

The Cornell University Center for Advanced Computing (CAC) announced today the launch of Red Cloud, an on-demand research computing service available by subscription.

Two Red Cloud services are available. The basic offering, called “Red Cloud,” is an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) that runs Eucalyptus, the open source cloud computing platform. Subscribers have root access to virtual servers and virtual disks…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author:  PR Announcement.

Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Advanced Data Warehouse (ADW), one of Spain’s principal hosting companies, particularly within the Basque region, has implemented its new cloud computing solution using Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. ADW can now provide its customers with a powerful, stable and scalable Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)…

Grazed from PR NewsWire.  Author:  PR Announcement.

Grid Dynamics, the authority on cloud computing and enterprise systems scalability, announced today a new solution, DevOps Catalyst, an integrated product and services offering designed to address the need of modern enterprises to release code to production in a fast, repeatable and reliable manner…
 

Grazed from IT Wire.  Author: Stephen Withers.

Steve Durbin, vice president sales and marketing for the Information Security Forum thought the issues around cloud security would have been nailed down by now, "but I couldn’t have been more wrong," he told iTWire.

The ease of getting started with cloud services is a nightmare from a security perspective, he suggested. People on the business side of an organisation can simply sign up and put the usually modest charges on their credit cards, bypassing (though probably not maliciously) the normal security procedures…

Grazed from InformationWeek.  Author:  J. Nicholas Hoover.

Cloud computing can help the Central Intelligence Agency do its job better, faster, cheaper, and even more securely, CIA CTO Gus Hunt said in a keynote address Tuesday at InformationWeek Government‘s GovCloud event in Washington, D.C.

"Cloud computing has emerged to enable us to deliver capabilities we weren’t able to deliver before at a scale and price and agility level we were never able to do before," Hunt said. "I have a petascale problem and need a petascale solution."…

Grazed from TechJournal.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Is the cloud living up to CIO & CTO expectations? There has been a lot of speculation about what top computing experts think of the cloud and its advantages.

To clear things up, Logicalis, an international provider of integrated information and communications technology solutions and services, analyzed more than 35,000 online forum and social media posts from CIOs and CTOs over the past 60 days, and found their comments to be overwhelmingly in favor of cloud computing. “Positive” and “very positive” comments outweighed “negative” and “very negative” comments by a dramatic 23:1…