Grazed from Bio-ITWorld.  Author: Kevin Davies.

In many ways, cloud computing has become an ever-present commodity since Bio•IT World published a special issue on the subject (Nov 2009). In September 2011, we held our first standalone conference on the topic. Experts—users and vendors alike—gathered for two days of sharing insights and progress. The takeaway was that more and more users were comfortable with the flexibility, cost, and even security afforded by the cloud. And while Amazon’s omniscient cloud capabilities were a recurring theme, what was even more impressive was the growing ecosystem of commercial and open-source initiatives offering a host of cloud-based services and applications…

Grazed from The Register.  Author: Matt Asay.

Even as the world goes cloud/SaaS, monitoring tools have stayed doggedly old school. With the rise of complex web applications, the cloud, DevOps, agile computing, and continuous integration, application changes are rolled out much more frequently than the one or two times a year of old enterprise software updates, with multiple changes taking place as often as every day…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Arista Networks today announced four new switches to its 7050 Series family and Arista EOS software enhancements that address the most demanding needs in cloud computing environments. The products are an expansion of Arista’s cloud networking portfolio and provide the scalability, resilience and density customers with mission-critical data centers and cloud computing facilities require…

Grazed from IT News.  Author: Brett Winterford.

Computing pioneer Gordon Bell and serial start-up founder Stephen Baxter have invested in Sydney-based cloud computing provider OrionVM.

OrionVM is an infrastructure-as-a-service start-up founded by three university students that makes bold claims around possessing the world’s fastest network storage performance…

Grazed from Computer Technology Review.  Author: Andrew L. Goldstein.

A study reported earlier this year that 37 percent of all organizations worldwide are deploying cloud computing solutions, and predicted that by 2014, businesses in the U.S. will spend more than $13 billion on cloud computing, a 400 percent increase from today. Many companies are considering moving to cloud service providers that offer access to software applications on a SaaS basis, and many software companies are moving to cloud hosted environments as a means to offer their programs. Cloud computing, however, raises new and challenging legal issues for both cloud computing users and vendors…

Grazed from FederalNewsRadio.com.   Author: Editorial Staff.

As more agencies move to the cloud, the list of best — and worst — practices is getting longer and more sophisticated.

Yogesh Khanna, the chief technology officer of CSC’s North American Public Sector, has compiled his list of top 10 lessons learned…

Grazed from Wired.  Author: Matt Rodkey.

Cloud computing is a transformational model for delivering IT Services.  Replacing the rigid boundaries of traditional IT infrastructure with the elasticity of the cloud give businesses the agility to quickly react to rapid changes in demand and better serve their customers.  Cloud computing is fundamentally different from traditional IT infrastructure because of the flexibility.  In some sense, traditional IT infrastructure is fairly static.  Increasing capacity in response to anticipated requirements typically means provisioning new OS instances or allocating hardware resources in a slightly different fashion.  This is entirely feasible, but is a slow process to avoid disruptions…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Salesforce.com, the enterprise cloud computing company ( http://www.salesforce.com/cloudcomputing/ ), today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Model Metrics, a mobile and social cloud consulting services company. With Model Metrics, salesforce.com will add mobile and social expertise, allowing the company to further transform customers and empower its global partner ecosystem. The transaction is expected to close in salesforce.com’s fiscal fourth quarter ending Jan. 31, 2012, subject to customary closing conditions…

Grazed from Dark Reading.  Author: Editorial Staff.

While malware attacks continue to be a significant risk and operational cost driver, today’s IT security teams are more concerned about threats brought on by their organization’s reliance on personal mobile devices, virtualization technologies and cloud computing, according to the State of the Endpoint, a new Ponemon Institute study commissioned by Lumension’, the global leader in endpoint management and security. While IT’s focus on the enablement of business productivity is a mind shift expected by other business leaders, inadequate collaboration and lacking resources for security create a perfect storm for hackers to capitalize on…