Cloud News, Resources and Information
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…
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 GIS User. Author: Editorial Staff.
Skygone Inc will exhibit at the CA World 2011 conference to be held November 13-16, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Skygone has achieved Certified Cloud Operator (CCO) and Certified Cloud Architect (CCA) accreditation on the CA AppLogic� turnkey cloud computing platform, making them qualified to provide enterprise-class cloud computing solutions…
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…
Business leaders are changing their long-term goals for desktop virtualisation as a result of the rise to prominence of cloud computing technology…
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 CIO Insight. Author: Alexander Pasik.
According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), cloud computing is a model for enabling on-demand access to a pool of computing resources that can be provisioned and released with minimal effort…
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…
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…
Now that you’ve grown accustomed to hearing about software-as-a-service (SaaS), get ready to hear more about platform-as-a-service (PaaS). Also expect to hear more about private cloud options from major cloud and virtualization providers…