As Apple introduces iCloud, what’s on the horizon for consumers?
Almost 10 years after launching the first (now seemingly brick-like) iPod, Apple has unveiled another version of the music player’s most successful descendant, the iPhone 4S. But while the tech press salivates over an even thinner, even speedier device to play Angry Birds on, the more significant news at Tuesday’s press conference was the official launch of Apple’s iCloud service (available Oct. 12)…
Cloud Computing Set to ‘Skyrocket,’ Driven by Economy
Grazed from Forbes. Author: Joe McKendrick.
Cloud computing is becoming more than a tactical measure adopted by managers and professionals seeking quick solutions to business and technical problems. It is increasingly being seen as a strategic initiative. Not only are most executives now planning to adopt some form of cloud computing for their organizations, they also expect these technology services to help position their organizations to succeed in today’s rough-and-tumble economy…
What’s at stake in the cloud?
The new federal strategy for implementing cloud-computing solutions is called “Cloud First”— and with good reason. We now systematically prefer cloud-computing solutions to those based on local servers and laptops. The allure of efficiencies, economies of scale, high-end services and — most importantly — reduced costs are almost irresistible.
But, as American governments at the federal, state and local levels rush headlong toward cloud computing, wouldn’t it be wise to pause and ask, “What’s at stake?”…
Building a Cloud Is Easy, Once You Have the Right Infrastructure
Cloud computing has come on so fast and so strong over the past year that it’s understandable that much of what we "know" about its architecture and capabilities is more myth than fact.
As some proponents would have you believe, CIOs need only sign on the dotted line to gain instant access to unlimited, low-cost resources…
Laying the Right Foundation for the Cloud
A lot of IT organizations are moving in fits and starts toward building their own private clouds largely through ongoing efforts to virtualize their server environments. But as IT organizations continue down that path, many of them are discovering that they’ve put too much emphasis on the server aspects of cloud computing when it turns out that modern storage systems are going to be at the root of any successful cloud computing deployment…
Cloud storage arrays to generate $1.45B in 2015
Worldwide revenue from vendors selling external disk storage subsystems for cloud-based systems will grow from $267.4 million this year to $1.45 billion in 2015, according to Gartner.
In a recently released research report, Gartner said companies selling private and/or public cloud storage have seen annual revenue grow some 56% to date this year compared to 2010…
Hybrid Cloud Computing Strategies: Deploying Enterprise Applications
"We believe that ‘cloud’ as a specialized concept will rapidly give way to cloud as simply a dominant enterprise IT paradigm," noted Lawrence Guillory, CEO of Racemi Inc., in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. "We believe that many enterprises will start by implementing low-risk private clouds," Guillory continued, "and test the public cloud waters with public cloud-specific applications and services."…
Windstream Hosted Solutions Launches Second-Generation Cloud Computing Platform
Windstream Hosted Solutions, one of the nation’s premier providers of enterprise-class managed hosting solutions, today announced the launch of its second-generation cloud platform. Designed to meet the strong, continually growing demand for cloud computing services, the platform incorporates significant technology enhancements to Windstream Hosted Solutions’ existing cloud services offering, including solutions from industry leaders such as VMware, NetApp, EMC and more to provide a comprehensive solution that can serve businesses’ production and disaster recovery requirements…
energyOrbit Offers Cooperatives and G&Ts Cloud Computing Solution for Tracking and Managing Energy Efficiency Programs
energyOrbit, the leading cloud computing ( www.energy-orbit.com ) company in the Demand Side Management sector, today announced the successful implementation and roll out of energyOrbit at Dairyland Power Cooperative, a Midwest generation and transmission cooperative (G&T) providing wholesale power to 25 member cooperatives and 16 municipal utilities in four states…
Virtustream Advisor 2.0 Considers Multiple Hypervisors and Cloud Platforms When Providing Cloud Deployment Recommendations
Virtustream, Inc., a leading Cloud Solution Provider, today introduced Virtustream Advisor 2.0, a resource analytics and analysis engine that collects current, actual performance data on a client’s compute landscape and recommends a company’s ideal cloud computing environment. In addition to performance enhancements that deliver enterprise-class capacity and availability to support Virtustream Advisor 2.0 deployments, Virtustream also announced that its partners — global systems integrators, enterprise ISVs and value-added resellers — can now use Virtustream Advisor 2.0 to evaluate their clients’ needs…