Grazed from Information Week.  Author: Charles Babcock.

Grazed from Campus Technology.  Author:  Rama Ramaswami and Dian Schaffhauser.

Just as there are all kinds of real clouds–stratus, cirrus, cumulus–there are different types of computing clouds. The three primary cloud types are public, private, and hybrid. The most appropriate cloud for your institution will depend on several factors: What services you want to take to the cloud; your school’s comfort level from a security standpoint; the existing infrastructure you have on campus; and privacy regulations that may dictate how data are secured…

Grazed from The Register.  Author: Chris Mellor.

Three experts look at building cloud-optimised networks from the operational point of view, a fabric-based infrastructure point of view, and a service delivery model point of view.

Each viewpoint is valid, different, and not enough on its own. Taking the three together gives us an idea of the complexity of cloud undertakings. Building and operating cloud-optimised networks is surely not a simple exercise…

Grazed from MIT Technology Review.  Author:  Antonio Regalado.

Cloud computing is one of the hottest buzzwords in technology. It appears 48 million times on the Internet. But amidst all the chatter about cloud computing there is one question that has never been answered: Who said it first?

Some accounts trace the birth of the term to just a few years ago, to 2006, when large companies such as Google and Amazon began using "cloud computing" to describe the new paradigm in which people are increasingly accessing software, computer power, and files over the Web instead of on their desktops…

Grazed from PRWeb.  Author: PR Announcement.

The Information Security experts at BizCloud® compiled a list of tips to help SMBs keep their sensitive data secure and protect their business from financial damage that is caused by accidents or data security breaches. The number of  security breaches dramatically increased in 2011, with cases such as LulzSac, Epsilon and Sony PlayStation. These massive data breaches  have raised awareness among companies about the necessity to employ all preventive measures to protect their business-critical data from malicious attacks…

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)…