Grazed from CRN.  Author:  Andrew R. Hickey.

Cloud computing is scary. It changes channel business and forces solution providers to adopt new methods and models.

But the fear that the channel will be disintermediated by the cloud and that there are no opportunities for partners in a cloud computing world are straight up false, according to a panel of four cloud industry experts during the COMDEXvirtual session "Cashing In On The Cloud."…

Grazed from FINalternatives.  Author:  Mary Beth Hamilton.

Cloud computing is gaining popularity within the alternative investment space as firms look to capitalize on the efficiencies, resiliency and cost advantages cloud-based services can deliver. From application hosting to delivering a firm’s complete information technology infrastructure via the cloud, this technology delivery model is here to stay…

Grazed from GeekWire.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Here’s a surprising name on the new list of the world’s fastest supercomputers: Amazon Web Services…

Grazed from CloudTweaks.  Author: Jeff Norman.

This article’s title may arguably mislead you. Cloud connoisseurs will express familiarity with one app featured here. And even your grandmother has heard of yet another. But no matter where you are in your grasp of cloud computing, you should find something new here to inspire you – maybe even warm your heart…

Grazed from ECommerce Times.  Author: John C. Higgins.

The U.S. government’s plan to shift major chunks of existing and future information technology programs to cloud-based systems has proven to be easy to say but harder to do. Technical, cultural and financial issues are frequently raised by agency managers as barriers to adopting cloud technology…

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…