Grazed from Forbes.  Author: Joe McKendrick.

How much does cloud computing really cost?  Anyone know yet?  Last week, I mentioned some estimates which suggest that companies can save up to 30% in IT costs over a three-year period employing cloud resources versus on-premises equipment.  A relatively small operation with two application servers and two database servers could expect to pay about $106,000 over a three-year period, versus $149,000 for internal IT…

Grazed from Business 2 Community.  Author: Preetam Kaushik.

IT outsourcing has been a boon for companies going through tremendous amounts of economic pressure over the last few years. In addition to benefiting from outsourcing, enterprises these days, can further alleviate the costs of business technology needs, by tapping into Cloud Computing. Surprisingly, Cloud Computing, which has only found a wider market and application in recent years, traces its roots as far back as the 60s, when computer scientist John McCarthy began working on its earliest form, known as Utility Computing. Mr.McCarthy has peered into an IT crystal ball, and had predicted rather accurately that computer resources would be abundant and competitively priced in the future…

Grazed from Computer World.  Author: Bernard Golden.

I was looking through the program for an upcoming cloud computing conference and noted a number of sessions devoted to negotiating contracts and service level agreements (SLAs) with cloud providers. Reading the session descriptions, one cannot help but draw the conclusion that carefully crafting an SLA is fundamental to successfully using cloud computing…

Grazed from Xconomy.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Perminova, a San Diego startup developing Web-based software for use in cardiology centers, says today it has raised $7 million in a combination of equity and credit financing. The company says it is pioneering healthcare’s move from outdated client-server technology to secure cloud-based computing…

Grazed from EurekAlert.  Author: PR Announcement.

Galaxy — an open-source, web-based platform for data-intensive biomedical and genetic research — is now available as a "cloud computing" resource. A team of researchers including Anton Nekrutenko, an associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at Penn State University; Kateryna Makova, an associate professor of biology at Penn State; and James Taylor from Emory University, developed the new technology, which will help scientists and biomedical researchers to harness such tools as DNA-sequencing and analysis software, as well as storage capacity for large quantities of scientific data. Details of the development will be published as a letter in the journal Nature Biotechnology. Earlier papers by Nekrutenko and co-authors describing the technology and its uses are published in the journals Genome Research and Genome Biology…

Grazed from 4-Traders.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Today at Cisco Live! Mexico, Alestra, a Mexican IT and telecom company, announced it will offer cloud services to Mexican customers based on  VBlockTM Infrastructure Platforms, which integrate best-of-breed technology from Cisco, EMC and VMware into a highly automated and standardized IT infrastructure…

Grazed from Small Business Trends.  Author: Susan Payton.

If anything’s beating out the skyrocketing growth of the mobile app market, I’d put my money on cloud services. These days, you can do everything in the cloud except your dry cleaning (or can you?).  Here’s a look at some of the industries and companies that are moving into the cloud computing services arena for small businesses…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

CloudSigma, the international, pure-play cloud server and virtual data center provider, today launched the industry’s first solid-state drive (SSD) storage solution for a public cloud IaaS environment at the 2011 Cloud Computing Expo. The new solution is designed to help eliminate the growing storage bottlenecks and variable performance in the cloud brought on by traditional magnetic-based storage solutions’ inability to keep pace with the requirements of a multi-tenant environment. With CloudSigma’s SSD storage product, companies can achieve higher performance than dedicated or private cloud arrangements, even in a public cloud, multi-tenant environment. Being able to handle the explosion of input/output (I/O) operations caused by the increasing adoption of server virtualization was identified by CloudSigma at an early stage as a key success factor for its cloud…

Grazed from SC Magazine.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Best Cloud Computing Security

These technologies are deployed to protect data and/or applications deployed in a cloud environment. They may also protect the cloud computing infrastructure itself. Cloud computing security concerns are numer­ous for both providers and their customers, and include security and privacy worries, compliance issues and legal/contractual problems. Solutions or services in this category can provide for the protection of data or applications in the cloud, protection for traffic flowing between companies and their cloud service providers, policy management and encryption capabilities, privi­leged user access and controls or more…