Grazed from The Globe and Mail.   Author: Harvey Schachter.

Cloud computing is wispy and mysterious, one of the latest hot ideas for business about which many top executives are dubious. In Harvard Business Review, Andrew McAfee, principal research scientist at MIT’s Center for Digital Business, shares these points for senior execs to consider when weighing whether to move more information technology online to servers hosted by other organizations:…

Grazed from ECommerce Times.  Author: Dick Benton.

The industry roils with definitions and explanations of cloud. These definitions come from product vendors cloud-washing their products, cloud providers positioning their cloud infrastructure, IT teams attempting to cloud-paint their efforts in virtualization, and even from consultants writing articles like this…

Grazed from HostReview.  Author: William Smith.

Cloud computing services include Infrastructure as a Service or IaaS, Platform as a Service or PaaS, and Software as a Service or SaaS. Resource cloud or Infrastructure as a Service or IaaS delivers managed and scalable resources as services. Infrastructure as a Service or IaaS offers enhanced virtualization capabilities. Service cloud or Software as a Service or SaaS or application cloud delivers applications using a cloud infrastructure or platform. Software as a Service or SaaS does not provide cloud features themselves. Platform as a Service or PaaS delivers computational resources through a platform upon which various types of applications and services can be developed and then hosted…

Grazed from Zacks.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Oracle Corp. (ORCL – Analyst Report) recently launched Solaris 11, which is claimed to be the first operating system completely dedicated to cloud computing. The updated version of Solaris has been specifically designed to address the security, performance and scalability needs of all types of cloud, vis-à-vis private, public or hybrid…

Grazed from CodeStone.  Author: Lara Ward.

Business leaders are changing their long-term goals for desktop virtualisation as a result of the rise to prominence of cloud computing technology…

Grazed from EnergyPulse.  Author: Ashish Gupta and Sarada Prasanna Dash.

Abstract: Cloud computing has brought in radical change in the way IT infrastructure (compute, storage and network) can be provisioned on demand from a shared pool and charged on pay per use model. This results in myriad business benefits including cost reduction, faster time-to-market and increased business agility. All these make Cloud computing quite attractive to several business verticals that are constantly looking out for means of improving business efficiency by increasing computing capabilities at a much lower cost. In this paper we explore how cloud computing can be used in utility sector specially in realizing a few promises of smart grids by availing storage and processing in the cloud…

Grazed from CloudTweaks.  Author: Chuck Weaver.

Cloud computing has several deployment models that are adopted according to need and requirement. Each configuration is implemented according to specific circumstances and necessities. In the following paragraphs, these techniques will be discussed one by one while outlaying their general purpose and structure…

Grazed from CIO.  Author: Patricia Brown.

In many ways the concept of federated cloud is ironic. Cloud computing rapidly gained traction because of its ability to manage the complexity of multiple legacy environments while consolidating infrastructure. But as organizations move forward with various cloud initiatives, many CIOs are now wrestling a sprawl of clouds that seems to be spinning out of control…