Grazed from Digital Journal.  Author: PR Announcement.

AccessVia announces Web dSignShop SaaS (Software as a Service). AccessVia Web dSignShop delivered in an enterprise cloud computing model delivers retail shelf-edge sign and label printing with faster deployments, lower implementation costs, and reduced maintenance effort…

Grazed from MercuryNews.  Author: Peter Carey.

Spurred by the growing torrent of data from mobile and social computing, the business of building independent server farms, or data centers, has taken off in Silicon Valley.

 

Grazed from Business Excellence.  Author:  Steve Rees.

Cloud computing is a remarkable phenomenon, with analysts at IDC predicting public cloud computing services to be a $73 billion market by 2015. However, many CIOs are still puzzled by the term and may not yet be familiar with how appropriate ‘the cloud’ is for certain business IT functions. Concerns over security, too, remain an issue for some…

Grazed from Industry Week.  Author:  Mark Symonds.

Plex Systems opted to deliver ERP software for manufacturers exclusively through the Software as a Service (SaaS) model in 2001. We weren’t chasing a new buzzword or a trend in the market. Instead, we were simply looking for the best means to support the continually changing needs in our customers’ businesses. The traditional approach of sending out periodic releases had failed. With SaaS we can add features constantly and our customers can implement them when they choose. They are always on the latest version of the software and don’t need to worry about costly and disruptive upgrades. We were ahead of the market.Being a pioneer meant that we had to address all the concerns the market had about relying on the Internet for mission critical systems…

Grazed from MIT Technology Review.  Author:  Michael Fitzgerald.

A new foundation, announced today, will attempt to promote a free, "open source" alternative for cloud computing.

The OpenStack Foundation, announced at the OpenStack conference in Boston, will maintain a suite of free software tools for building and managing a cloud-computing platform. The OpenStack software suite includes software for computation, storage, networking, and system management…

Grazed from InformationWorld.  Author: Elizabeth Montalbano.

Federal officials defended their move to adopt cloud computing, stressing steps federal agencies are taking to ensure the technology does not present greater cybersecurity risks than already exist today, on Capitol Hill Thursday.

"Our problems with security are not unique to cloud-computing systems," David McClure, associate administrator for the General Services Administration’s (GSA’s) Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies, told the House Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection, and Security Technologies in a hearing about the security implications of the federal government’s aggressive move to the cloud…

Grazed from Computer World.  Author:  Joab Jackson.

Although somewhat late to the market for cloud computing infrastructure, OpenStack enjoys an advantage over other cloud stacks in that it has a modular architecture, said one of the first developers of the open-source cloud software.

"This is very important. There is no one way to do OpenStack, and this is very important," said Chris Kemp, who oversaw the development of the OpenStack cloud controller when he was CIO of the NASA Ames Research Center. Kemp spoke Thursday at the OpenStack Conference in Boston…

Grazed from PR NewsWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

At the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2011, Syntergy, Inc., a leading provider of products for enhancing Microsoft SharePoint® Products and Technologies, demonstrated its flagship product, Syntergy Replicator for SharePoint, as a cloud solution. Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, and on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction…