Grazed from Knowledge@Wharton.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Cloud computing is not only changing how users access software applications, it’s also upending the pricing model for software products. Fading fast are the days when software packages were sold in boxes with a one-time, perpetual software license fee. Instead, consumers and businesses are increasingly turning to subscription models and are buying only those applications they need for particular tasks rather than broad, general-purpose suites…

Grazed from Reuters.  Author: Alistair Barr.

Amazon.com’s investment opportunities are under a cloud — and that’s a good thing.

Five years after launching its so-called cloud computing service, the biggest Internet retailer is reaping the benefits of what has become a unique window into the technology startup world…

Grazed from Government Computing News.  Author: Rutrell Yasin.

NASA is working on a cloud "storefront" that will give the agency’s scientists and engineers access to the computing resources and services they require regardless of their IT environment…

Grazed from InformationWeek.  Author: Laurianne McLaughlin.

A security expert whom I follow on Twitter recently took issue with journalists’ continued insistence on writing headlines about moving to the cloud, racing to the cloud, and traveling to the cloud. He’s absolutely right. You don’t move to the cloud. The cloud is not a place, when we speak of it in computing terms. It is an operational model (with many variations) that you adopt–and then continue to adapt…

Grazed from TMCNet.  Author: Cheryl Kaften.

The future of U.S. computing is under a cloud — and that’s a good thing. A new report predicts that American companies will increase their adoption of cloud computing over the next decade from 10 percent to 70 percent of their information technology spend. The anticipated sky-high leap in cloud usage will be good for the planet, as well as bottom-line profitability, making it a win-win for environmentalists and economists alike…

Grazed from CloudPro.  Author: Jennifer Scott.

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Creating significant news for data storage OEMs, system builders and end-users who are seeking fast, flexible and reliable data access, the SCSI Trade Association (STA) ( http://www.scsita.org/ ) today announced the definition and standardization phase of 12Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) technology is progressing as anticipated. STA, a non-profit industry association established to support and promote SCSI technology, also noted that the development and testing of components such as cables, connectors, protocol analyzers and controllers based on this new generation of SAS for storage solutions has begun in earnest…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Morphlabs, the leader in converged Dynamic Infrastructure Services for the Enterprise, today announced the launch of Dynamic Resource Scaling (DRS), a technology which extends the OpEx advantages of the mCloud Data Center Unit (DCU) for true cloud bursting potential. The DRS solution allows enterprises to scale computes and storage on dedicated hardware on demand — either locally or via an Ethernet carrier exchange…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

PerspecSys Inc., the creator of enterprise data security and management for cloud computing, today introduced PerspecSys PRS Solution(TM) 1.5 at the 9th International Cloud Expo in Santa Clara, California. PerspecSys’ PRS (Privacy, Residency, Security) is the only data security system purpose built for enterprise-wide adoption of cloud computing. Now, for the first time, large organizations can use cloud computing for mission-critical business functions such as corporate finance, human resources and customer relationship management (CRM) without incurring the security risks of placing their sensitive data in a public, private or hybrid cloud environment….