Grazed from FormTek.  Author:  Dick Weisinger.

Cloud computing means moving your company data from your own servers to servers in a remote site that are managed by a cloud vendor.  There are big advantages to using the cloud, but survey after survey has shown that the main factor  holding back organizations from using the cloud are concerns about the security of their data.  But if organizations don’t use the cloud, what are the alternatives, and are those alternatives really any safer than what the cloud can offer?…

Grazed from Information Week.  Author: Charles Babcock.

IBM, HP, and other established vendors entering cloud computing are often already outsourcing partners to the firms that are now frequently looking for an infrastructure service provider. But that doesn’t mean they have an inside track on the business. They do not…

Grazed from TMCNet.  Author:  PR Announcement.

TMC, a global, integrated media company helping clients in print, in person and online, announced today a new title being added to their roster of trade-specific publications, TMC’s (News – Alert) Cloud Computing Magazine, premiering in January 2012.

Cloud Computing is the IT industry’s definitive source for all things cloud – from public, community, hybrid and private cloud to security and business continuity, and everything in between. The term cloud computing goes beyond VoIP, software-as-a-service (SaaS (News – Alert)) or Unified Communications – it’s an entirely new way to build, deploy and scale enterprise computing and communications systems…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Venyu, a leading provider of offsite business continuity, cloud backup and datacenter solutions, today announced that its VenyuCloud public cloud service has achieved VMware vCloud Powered status, illustrating to customers that the company’s cloud services are underpinned by VMware’s leading virtualization and cloud computing technology, namely VMware vSphere(R) and VMware vCloud(TM) Director. A member of the VMware Service Provider Program (VSPP), Venyu provides its VMware vCloud Powered service as a set of cloud computing services across a common platform, supporting the largest set of existing applications and offering distinctive application mobility uniquely available from VMware…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Virtustream, Inc., a leading cloud solutions provider, today announced that it will open an office in San Francisco. The new space is in response to increased interest in the company and its offerings from potential customers and partners, an indication of Virtustream’s success selling enterprise cloud computing solutions that combine superior private cloud performance guarantees with the economics and elasticity of a public cloud…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Cloud computing will be a key driver of net new IT spending over the next five years as public cloud service providers and the adopters of private cloud environments invest in the supporting infrastructure. According to a new forecast from International Data Corporation (IDC), overall spending by public cloud service providers on storage hardware, software, and professional services will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 23.6% from 2010 to 2015, while enterprise spending on storage for the private cloud will experience a CAGR of 28.9%. By 2015, combined spending for public and private cloud storage will be $22.6 billion worldwide…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author:  PR Announcement.

Wyse Technology, the global leader in cloud client computing, along with Accelera Solutions, Inc., an IT solutions provider specializing in virtualization solutions, today announced that it has been awarded the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Server Hosted Virtual Desktops and Applications (SHVDA) indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract. The contract, which has a potential five-year performance period with a total estimated value of $25 million at $5 million per year, began this year…

Grazed from Government Technology.  Author:  Sarah Rich.

Two emerging technology trends in the public sector — social networking and cloud computing — have now been combined in IBM’s recently released SmartCloud Social Collaboration for Government, a private cloud computing service for government agencies.

The service, officially introduced last week, is Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) compliant and designed to keep data in a private or community cloud, meaning that no one outside the government agency using the service would have access to the data, said Chip Emmet, manager of social collaboration for IBM government and public sector…

Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author:  Laurie McVittie.

IT professionals, in general, appear to consider themselves well along the path toward IT as a Service with a significant plurality of them engaged in implementing many of the building blocks necessary to support the effort. IaaS, PaaS, and hybrid cloud computing models are essential for IT to realize an environment in which (manageable) IT as a Service can become reality…

Grazed from InfoWorld.  Author: Paul Krill.

Security, cited as an issue with cloud computing when the concept began to take hold several years ago, remains a pivotal concern for developers, an IBM official stressed on Wednesday afternoon…