Gov’t agencies should look to cloud, data analytics, agile development
Cloud computing, data analytics and agile development will be the trends to watch in 2012 according to Ovum.
In a new report (2012 Trends to Watch: Government Technology), the independent technology analyst firm claims that next year will be the year that governments turn to cloud computing, data analytics and agile development to respond to times of austerity…
SAP Drives Openness and Choice for Virtualization and Cloud Computing
As cloud computing and virtualization rapidly evolve, SAP AG is working in a preferred three-way strategic collaboration with partners EMC and VMware to develop tools and services that make it easier for customers to adopt cloud and run SAP systems in next-generation cloud infrastructures with increasing levels of automation. The company is deepening its partnerships with EMC and VMware to deliver even more business agility and scale efficiencies by taking advantage of two key transformational technologies: cloud computing and in-memory technology. The announcement was made at SAPPHIRE® NOW + SAP® TechEd, being held as a co-located event in Madrid from November 8-10…
7 Poor Excuses for Not Measuring Cloud Computing Costs
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…
Economic Uncertainty is the Perfect Time To Switch To Cloud Computing
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…
Fedora 16 Provides Improved Virtualization, Cloud Computing Support
Grazed from TechWeb. Author: Leila Meyer.
Fedora, the free, open-source Linux operating system distribution from the Fedora Project, has been updated to version 16. Fedora is sponsored by Red Hat.
Fedora 16 offers a range of enhancements to its virtualization and cloud computing capabilities, along with numerous package upgrades and usability improvements…
Cloud Computing and the Truth About SLAs
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…
Perminova Raises $7M to Expand Development of Health IT as a Service
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…
Galaxy DNA-analysis software is now available ‘in the cloud’
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…
Alestra Launches “Enterprise C-Computing,” a Cloud Computing Service in Mexico Based on VBlock Infrastructure Platform from VCE
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…
Why Small Businesses Love Cloud Services
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…
