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With great cloud comes great responsibility

By David
Grazed from Voice And Data.  Author: Vince Lee.

There’s a good reason why everyone is talking about cloud computing. With infrastructure-as-a-service, for example, whatever computing power and storage capacity you might need is immediately available on tap. Combine this with virtualisation technology and organisations gain unprecedented flexibility to deploy virtual servers whenever and wherever they are needed…

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Vision Solutions Appoints Bob Johnson to Executive Vice President as Part of Sales and Marketing Expansion

By David
Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Vision Solutions, Inc., the world’s leading provider of information availability software and services for Windows, Linux, IBM Power Systems and Cloud Computing market today announced that Bob Johnson is now the new executive vice president of sales and marketing for the company, leading its communications and business development strategies as it moves aggressively into new technology markets…

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Survey shows shift to cloud-based services, despite concerns

By David

Grazed from Network World.  Author:  Ellen Messmer.

A survey of 5,300 IT and security managers in 38 countries about cloud computing offers a vivid snapshot of expectations, anxieties and sometimes shattered hopes.

According to the Symantec "State of the Cloud" survey, 19% of the respondents said they had moved at least some applications to public software as a service, while 17% said they had adopted a private cloud arrangement. When it comes to public infrastructure as a service, 17% were using that, while 11% said they were using a hybrid arrangement linking private and public cloud services…

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Quipu Cloud Computing Provider Selected for Private Equity Event

By David
Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Quipu Applications, Inc., a cloud computing company revolutionizing the way entrepreneurs and VCs communicate and collaborate, today announced that the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) BioVentures has selected its cloud-based BusinessPlan(TM) and incQubator(TM) business tools. incQubator will standardize presentations from 20 start-ups allowing 120 seed and venture capitalists attending the university’s Private Equity Roundtable event to easily identify the most promising organizations. The Private Equity Roundtable will be held on October 6th and 7th at the Little Rock Regional Chamber in Little Rock, Arkansas. The event is the fifth annual gathering of VCs reviewing start-up companies licensed by UAMS and will be streamed live on http://arcapital.com . One of the 11 companies previously funded, Myeloma Health, LLC, a cancer reference laboratory operating out of UAMS BioVentures incubator, is currently analyzing and reporting data on clinical samples from cancer centers in the U.S. and Europe…

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Cloud industry a ‘mess’ of suppliers and standards, experts warn

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Grazed from ITWorld.  Author: Antony Savvas.

The complexity of the cloud computing arena is a major stumbling block to adoption, according to delegates at this week’s NetEvents business IT symposium in Rome.

Ovum analyst Peter Hall presented the analyst house’s growth forecast for the cloud market and outlined a global $66 billion market for cloud services by 2016. He said the market was worth $14 billion in 2010 and that there would be a compound annual growth rate of 29%. Ovum’s figures cover software-as-a-service, infrastructure-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service…

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World mourns the death of Steve Jobs

By David
Grazed from Reuters.  Author:  Jennifer Saba

Outpourings of public grief and appreciation swept the globe on Thursday after the death of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.

Jobs, who touched the daily lives of countless millions of people through the Macintosh computer, iPod, iPhone and iPad, died on Wednesday at age 56 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. He stepped down as Apple chief executive in August…

October 6, 2011 Off

How Enterprises Can Maximize the Cloud

By David
Grazed from Data Center Knowledge.  Author: Michael Jackson.

Increasingly, cloud computing has become an IT priority for virtually every organization in business today. According to a June 2010 Pew Research Center survey, a decisive majority of technology professionals predict that, by 2020, most people will access software applications online and work through remotely-accessed server networks. SaaS (Software as a Service) cloud applications such as Salesforce.com and NetSuite are standard, acceptable alternatives to traditional client server enterprise applications. A new competitor to Amazon’s EC2 service surfaces almost every day, and virtually every technology company is incorporating the word “cloud” somewhere in their description…

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Facebook Shares Its Cloud Designs

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Grazed from MIT Technology Review.  Author: Tom Simonite.

If you invented something cheaper, more efficient, and more powerful than what came before, you might want to keep the recipe a closely guarded secret. Yet Facebook took the opposite approach after opening a 147,000-square-foot computing center in rural Oregon this April. It published blueprints for everything from the power supplies of its computers to the super-efficient cooling system of the building. Other companies are now cherry-picking ideas from those designs to cut the costs of building similar facilities for cloud computing…

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Congress to examine Obama’s “Cloud First Policy” for computers

By David
Grazed from GantDaily.com.   Author: Tom Ramstack.

The Obama administration says switching some federal computer networks to cloud computing will save taxpayers money but members of Congress are worrying about the security risks.

Cloud computing refers to computer networks that are hosted by outside vendors and are accessible over the Internet…