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What are the steps to sound cloud computing?

By David

Grazed from TechTarget.  Author: Jack Vaughan.

Recently The Open Group released Cloud Computing for Business, which takes a close view at cloud computing from the business side, but which is not uncongenial to those looking at things from the enterprise architect’s point of view.  It looks to be helpful for any of the many line-of-business (LOB) departments and EAs who are interested in cloud or who have already been given the task to create a cloud computing playbook for their organizations…

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StandingCloud Ropes In $3M in Funding

By David
Grazed from TechRockies.  Author: PR Announcement.

Boulder-based Standing Cloud, the developer of application software for the cloud computing market, announced today that it has raised $3M in a new funding round. The round came from existing investors Foundry Group and Avalon Ventures. Standing Cloud, which is headed by David Jilk, said that the new funding brings its total raised to $8M. As par tof the funding, the company has added Will Herman–a TechStars mentor–to its board. Herman was formerly CEO of Innoveda (acquired by Mentor Graphics), founded Viewlogic Sytsems, and has served at Silerity and Scopus Technology. Standing Cloud said the new funds will go towards continued development and deployment of its products. Standing Cloud provides a pre-configured set of over 100 open-sourec and commercial applications, which can easily be deployed on a variety of cloud computing platforms.

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Cloud Computing: Taming Big Data Main Theme of Cloud Expo 2011

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Grazed from eWeek.  Author: Chris Preimesberger.

The ninth International Cloud Expo conference in Santa Clara, Calif., this week was packed to the brim. Parking places were hard to find, the food went quicker than usual, and the expo floor was almost elbow-to-elbow with new companies introducing themselves and established companies making themselves look new. The entire scope of cloud computing, infrastructure, management, applications, services, networking and consulting was represented. If there was one headline that could be used to describe this event it might be: "Cloud Expo 2011: It’s About Control of All That Big Data." Companies, such as newby Cloud Cruiser, whose specialty is keeping track of all costs and chargebacks connected with cloud systems, and Arista, which simplifies cloud networking, are two good examples. Here is a list of all the good-idea companies at the conference. This eWEEK slide show presents 10 important highlights.
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The Elastic Enterprise Extends IT Operations to the Cloud ….. Today

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Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author: Greg O’Conner.

We were all there at the beginning when, "The Internet changed everything," morphed into the paradigm buster we now call "The Cloud." As an industry, we watched Amazon (AWS) break the $100M revenue mark in 2008; scanned Gartner’s first cloud computing vendor list in 2009; and heard Microsoft declare itself "all in" in 2010…

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Dell Donates Cloud Power For Pediatric Cancer Research

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Grazed from InformationWeek.  Author: Marianne Kolbasuk McGee.

Dell Computer is partnering with several hospitals, the National Cancer Institute, and researchers, in a cloud computing project aimed at helping scientists and clinicians develop more personalized and effective medical treatments for kids with cancers…

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Strategies for pruning data in the cloud

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Grazed from CIO.  Author: David Taber.

Year after year, the cost of disk space has plummeted. Since you can pick up a terabyte for $50, it’s often seemed a false economy to be careful with storage.

But in the clouds, the rules are different. If you’ve got too much low-value data or too many copies of files, it can cost you in two ways. First are the monthly storage charges, and second is the inevitable performance hit when it comes to searches, views, reports, and dashboard updates. In the clouds, it really pays to prune you data set…

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Why the Cloud Will Bring the App Store Revolution to Enterprise IT

By David
Grazed from Wired.  Author: Jon Stokes.

Though I think the term is generally useless as either an analytical tool or category of computing that large entities can and should use in planning strategy, I’m not quite ready to give up on the idea that “the cloud” does have at least some worthwhile content. And after three days at the Cloud Expo, I’d like to suggest a simple signature of cloudiness that seems to fit everything I’ve seen with the sole exception of Oracle’s “cloud” offerings. Here’s my idea: it’s “cloud” at the platform and infrastructure layers if users can provision their own resources via some automated system…

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5 key trends in cloud computing’s future

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Grazed from InformationWeek.  Author: David Linthicum.

I was asked to talk about the future of cloud computing at Cloud Expo, taking place this week in Santa Clara, Calif. For those of you not at the show, I identified five key trends to anticipate…

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Is Geospatial Cloud Computing a Commodity?

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Grazed from Directions Magazine.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Directions Magazine conducted a survey to snapshot the current thinking among several solution providers (Esri, Ubisense,eSpatial, Accela, ERDAS) about geospatial cloud computing. We wanted to know if cloud computing is now considered a commodity and what additional differentiators potential users are looking for before buying solutions…