Grazed from ADI News.  Author: Mark Whysall.

There’s a lot of hype happening right now about a technology that has been around since, what 2006? Cloud hosting and cloud computing are becoming big buzzwords again for a few reasons, the first being money and the second being that Amazon is offering packages for resellers and those resellers are signing up affiliates left and right. Has cloud computing really changed over the past five years? Not a whole lot, but it has been developed into a reliable technology that is becoming the standard for big businesses. Even after a massive data center outage back in April, Amazon still demonstrates that cloud hosting is solid, even though they had to learn a hard lesson about EBS re-mirroring. Even in the face of a near disastrous meltdown of the Amazon cloud, the technology has captured the minds of thousands of small business owners wanting to save on their IT service expenditures…

Grazed from IT Pro Portal.  Author: Erica Thinesen.

Colt announced that it is soon going to launch its public cloud services based on VMware’s vCloud, aimed at the company’s customers in mainland Europe.

Developed for Europe at the desire of users who want a non-US-based provider of cloud services (CSPs), this service will also satisfy concerns of customers as to where their data is located…

Grazed from Wall Street & Technology.  Author: Harrell Smith.

Cloud computing, it seems, is everywhere. It is almost impossible to look at the news today without hearing about the latest cloud-based service model threatening to disrupt the status quo (see: Google’s Chrome OS and Docs, Microsoft Office 365, Amazon EC2 and Salesforce.com, to name just a few). While some industry observers believe the term "cloud computing" has been overhyped, it is clear that businesses today are looking for scalable and reliable hosted solutions that will allow them to deliver — and consume — services more efficiently than they have in the past…

 

Grazed from Experian QAS.  Author: Paul Newton.

Data management processes look set for a shake-up as both public organizations and private firms move towards cloud computing.

According to research from the International Data Corporation (IDC), cloud computing is set to be the "key driver" of new IT spending over the next five years…

Grazed from eWeek.  Author:  Jeffrey Burt.

EMC executives say that the company—not only with its expanding storage portfolio but also its expertise in virtualization, security capabilities and strong management software—is at the forefront of business’ migration to the cloud-computing model.

When EMC on Oct. 18 announced that third-quarter revenues jumped 18 percent over the same period in 2010, and net income rose 28 percent, officials and analysts pointed to rising demand for the vendor’s cloud and storage technologies as the key drivers…

Grazed from InformationWeek.  Author:  J. Nicholas Hoover.

Cloud computing will make the intelligence community more secure and efficient, NSA director and U.S. Cyber Command commander Gen. Keith Alexander said Thursday.

In a speech in Baltimore before security professionals and a subsequent interview with InformationWeek and other media, Alexander touted the cloud as a key part of the intelligence community’s IT strategy…