One of the most successful business people of our time, Apple’s late co-founder Steve Jobs, was one of the first to recognise the benefits of the "cloud", which put simply is a term used to describe a model of computing which enables on-demand network access to a shared pool of resource. When Jobs rejoined Apple in 1996, one of his first acts was to move all of the company’s data – including fiercely protected information about the business’s future plans – to Apple’s servers, rather than entrusting that valuable information to individual computers…
October 17, 2011
Cloud Computing – A Bright Light for Business
Grazed from The Guardian. Author: Charles Arthur.
October 14, 2011
IBM Launches Social Collaboration Cloud for Government
Grazed from eWeel. Author: Darryl K. Taft.
IBM has announced new services converging social networking and cloud computing for the federal government.
At a recent FedTalks event in Washington, D.C., IBM introduced its new offering known as SmartCloud for Social Collaboration for Government. Initially previewed in July, this new offering is a cloud-based service that combines social collaboration tools and email to maximize productivity and interaction among workers and across agencies, and with citizens. IBM officials said the new solution is ideal for private cloud environments. It is hosted in the IBM Federal Data Center and is compliant with Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) guidelines, IBM said…
October 14, 2011
IBM Fluffs Its Cloud
Grazed from Sys Con Media. Author: Maureen O’Gara.
IBM wants 200 million users on its cloud widgetry by the end of next year. It has to get to them before Oracle, HP or Dell do. It projects $7 billion in revenue from cloud computing hardware, software and services by 2015.
To advance its ambition it’s unveiled a new "simplified" enterprise-grade public cloud PaaS it calls SmartCloud Application Services (SCAS) that will ride on its SmartCloud Enterprise and Enterprise+ IaaS, which won’t be deployed globally until the end of next year. Initially it’ll be US-only…
October 14, 2011
Cloud spending helps techs as PC sales stagger
Grazed from Reuters. Author: Bill Rigby and Noel Randewich.
Big U.S. Internet computing companies should outshine their plainer PC cousins when earnings season kicks off next week, as corporations and fast-growing Web players dramatically accelerate their pace of hardware spending.
Corporations are increasingly turning to new technology to make themselves more productive in a downtrodden global economy. Meanwhile, a social networking and e-commerce boom is spurring massive outlays on the giant server factories that power Internet computing…
October 14, 2011
Contact centres adapting to cloud and social media technology
Grazed from Computer World. Author: Karl flinders.
Technologies such as cloud computing and social media are transforming how contact centres do their business by enabling cost savings and improved service levels.
Nearly half of the 103 IT directors and contact centre managers interviewed at the Contact Centre Expo event by Siemens Enterprise Communications, said they are integration social media into the business while 71% were using or planning to use the cloud…
October 14, 2011
VMWare’s Maritz Shares Cloud Automation Vision
Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Charles Babcock.
VMware CEO Paul Maritz, the gravelly-voiced South African native who has successfully led VMware to a new plateau, said the cloud era will prove equal in importance to the change represented by the advent of client/server computing. "The cloud era is the next really major iteration of consumer computing and enterprise scale computing," he said in talk on the second day of Dell World in Austin, Texas. (See our related coverage of Michael Dell’s play to woo HP customers.) Maritz compared client server’s break from a direct tie to the mainframe to the cloud’s breakaway from tethered systems altogether…
October 14, 2011
Cloudification: Bringing cloud computing to the masses
Grazed from Computer World. Author: Jean-Marc Seguin.
Cloud computing – everyone’s talking about it, a good number of organizations want to adopt it, but how do you get there? We are on the cusp of "cloudification" — cloud computing for the masses — but to get to that state there are many things to consider, such as people, processes and technology, before cloud computing becomes as mainstream as virtualization technology…
October 14, 2011
Evermore to Separate into Two Companies, Change Name to Cloud Carib Ltd.
Grazed from PR NewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.
Following a period of sustained growth that has seen us move from strength to strength in the IT sector, Evermore New Media has announced an important development in the evolution of the company. Due to exponential growth in the demand for cloud computing services in the region, Evermore’s IT services will now be headquartered in Nassau, Bahamas, and operate under the name Cloud Carib Ltd.
This rationalization of Evermore’s business will enable Evermore to go on providing high quality digital solutions such as web design and development, while also offering dedicated IT solutions and cloud computing services under the Cloud Carib Ltd. brand name, with both organizations offering mutual support and sharing resources…
October 14, 2011
Why cloud computing is expanding the powers of Big Data analysis
Grazed from Wired. Author: Dan Smith.
According to Werner Vogels, Amazon.com’s chief technology officer, data analysis — specifically "Big Data" analysis — is the backbone of modern business. Without it, your survival chances are limited and, with the growth of cloud computing it’s becoming easier than ever for startups and SMEs.
"There’s a shift going on," Vogels says. "Five or ten years ago, when thinking about data analysis, you would think about the biggest companies in the world. Today, there’s not a new business not thinking about data analysis."…
October 14, 2011
Achieving scale through Cloud Computing
Grazed from Express Computer. Author: Pupul Dutta.
Vserv.mobi, a leading mobile Ad network company that helps brands like Yahoo and Nike improve their visibility on mobile platforms, faced numerous challenges when it decided to scale up its network. The biggest problem was that of scraping up the capital that it needed in order to invest in software and in setting up a distributed architecture.
In an attempt to deal with its problems, the company launched a beta version of its software from a single server hosted out of India in June 2010. In August, it migrated to Amazon Web Services (AWS)…