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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…

October 6, 2011 Off

World mourns the death of Steve Jobs

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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

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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

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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…

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Microsoft: how cloud computing can make buildings more efficient

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Grazed from TechFlash.  Author:  Greg Lamm.

Cloud computing, analytics software and other IT technologies can help dramatically lower the energy costs in buildings, which account for about 40 percent of the world’s carbon emissions.

That’s the conclusion of a Microsoft pilot program looking at ways to us technology to dramatically cut building energy costs for far less than it would cost to retrofit buildings…

October 6, 2011 Off

The Small Business Forecast for Cloud Computing

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Grazed from Small Business Computing.  Author:  Laurie McCabe.

What’s changed about cloud computing since 2009, when I wrote What is Cloud Computing, and Why Should You Care? In terms of the basic definition and benefits of cloud computing, not much. But in terms of market trends and adoption, the landscape has changed considerably.

Status Quo: Cloud Computing Basics

Here’s the definition that I provided in 2009: Cloud computing is a computing model in which you access software, server, storage, development and other computing resources over the Internet, in a self-service manner…

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Salesforce.com CEO says Oracle’s ‘Proprietary’ Systems Miss Cloud Computing Mark

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Grazed from CRN.  Author:  Steven Burke.

Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff Wednesday attacked Oracle (NSDQ:ORCL) for what he called its "proprietary mainframes" and "closed systems" that ignore the cloud computing and social network revolutions that are reshaping the technology landscape.

Benioff’s comments came after he accused Oracle of canceling his keynote session at 10:30 a.m. PST at the Novellus Theatre at the massive Oracle OpenWorld conference because his cloud message was not in line with what he called Oracle’s proprietary and closed systems theme…