Why is Cloud Hosting Causing a Hype Storm?
There’s a lot of hype happening right now about a technology that has been around since, what 2006? Cloud hosting and cloud computing are becoming big buzzwords again for a few reasons, the first being money and the second being that Amazon is offering packages for resellers and those resellers are signing up affiliates left and right. Has cloud computing really changed over the past five years? Not a whole lot, but it has been developed into a reliable technology that is becoming the standard for big businesses. Even after a massive data center outage back in April, Amazon still demonstrates that cloud hosting is solid, even though they had to learn a hard lesson about EBS re-mirroring. Even in the face of a near disastrous meltdown of the Amazon cloud, the technology has captured the minds of thousands of small business owners wanting to save on their IT service expenditures…
Colt to Launch Cloud Computing Service for European-Based Companies Using VMWare’s vCloud
Colt announced that it is soon going to launch its public cloud services based on VMware’s vCloud, aimed at the company’s customers in mainland Europe.
Developed for Europe at the desire of users who want a non-US-based provider of cloud services (CSPs), this service will also satisfy concerns of customers as to where their data is located…
Enterprise Trading in The Cloud. Finally.
Cloud computing, it seems, is everywhere. It is almost impossible to look at the news today without hearing about the latest cloud-based service model threatening to disrupt the status quo (see: Google’s Chrome OS and Docs, Microsoft Office 365, Amazon EC2 and Salesforce.com, to name just a few). While some industry observers believe the term "cloud computing" has been overhyped, it is clear that businesses today are looking for scalable and reliable hosted solutions that will allow them to deliver — and consume — services more efficiently than they have in the past…
Cloud Computing to Drive I.T. Spending
Data management processes look set for a shake-up as both public organizations and private firms move towards cloud computing.
According to research from the International Data Corporation (IDC), cloud computing is set to be the "key driver" of new IT spending over the next five years…
IDC: Cloud computing ‘key driver’ of storage growth
Grazed from Cloud Pro. Author: James Sterling.
Cloud computing will ensure growth in the storage sector for the next five years, according to new research released today.
Analyst firm IDC claimed increased investment in private cloud infrastructure and the growing volumes needed by public cloud providers would lead to combined storage spending of $22.6 billion by 2015….
EMC Promises Further Innovation for Cloud Environments
EMC executives say that the company—not only with its expanding storage portfolio but also its expertise in virtualization, security capabilities and strong management software—is at the forefront of business’ migration to the cloud-computing model.
When EMC on Oct. 18 announced that third-quarter revenues jumped 18 percent over the same period in 2010, and net income rose 28 percent, officials and analysts pointed to rising demand for the vendor’s cloud and storage technologies as the key drivers…
Cloud Computing: HP, Microsoft Combine for ‘Vblock Killer’ VM System
Grazed from eWeek. Author: Chris Preimesberger.
When three industry giants–Cisco Systems (networking), EMC (storage) and VMware (virtualization) formed the Virtual Computing Environment joint venture called Acadia in November 2009 to build Vblock virtualized data center systems, well-informed industry folks knew it was only a matter of time before another Tier 1 IT company or two stepped up to compete.
That came to pass this week, with longtime partners Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft announcing on Oct. 18 the HP VirtualSystem for Microsoft…
Intelligence community looks to cloud computing
Grazed from Defense Systems. Author: Amber Corrin.
Turning to a cloud solution that seemingly leaves behind the silos of secrecy may not be an obvious choice for intelligence agencies, but as budget cuts affect the Defense Department – including its intelligence components – that’s what’s happening, officials said…
NSA Chief Plays Offense on Cloud, Cybersecurity
Cloud computing will make the intelligence community more secure and efficient, NSA director and U.S. Cyber Command commander Gen. Keith Alexander said Thursday.
In a speech in Baltimore before security professionals and a subsequent interview with InformationWeek and other media, Alexander touted the cloud as a key part of the intelligence community’s IT strategy…
Cloud Computing: Cloud Adoption and Risk Analysis
Cloud computing means moving your company data from your own servers to servers in a remote site that are managed by a cloud vendor. There are big advantages to using the cloud, but survey after survey has shown that the main factor holding back organizations from using the cloud are concerns about the security of their data. But if organizations don’t use the cloud, what are the alternatives, and are those alternatives really any safer than what the cloud can offer?…