Concern moves its humanitarian workers to the cloud
Concern Worldwide has signed a cloud computing deal with EMC that will allow its humanitarian staff and volunteers to access data remotely across the world.
Concern will use a private cloud model to migrate servers from the organisation’s operations centre in Dublin to a virtual environment. The operations centres is a hub for more than 2,000 Concern workers worldwide…
Cisco’s Considerations for Cloud Computing
It is imperative that organisations understand the base requirements behind cloud-based services before taking the leap towards the next evolution of the online environment.
The existence and effect of cloud computing on both the enterprise-based and private online environments has been more profoundly felt in 2011 than ever before…
Cloud Communications Company 8×8 Wins New Patent for Cloud Computing Solution
8×8 (News 
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The patent number 8,027,332 relates to call routing to user communication devices. The technology uses a call-routing switch arrangement that uses data in a programmable database to associate or match incoming calls with destination user-communication devices for users employing two or more user identifiers…
Opscode Releases New Chef Software to Rapidly Deploy and Automate OpenStack Clouds
Opscode, Inc., the leader in cloud infrastructure automation, today announced at the OpenStack(TM) Design Summit in Boston the release of new Opscode Chef(TM) Cookbooks for rapidly deploying and automating core components of the newly released version of OpenStack, codenamed ‘Diablo.’
OpenStack is a global collaboration of developers and cloud computing technologists producing an open source cloud computing platform for both public and private clouds. The latest version of OpenStack provides significant enhancements, standards, and common ground for cloud providers and customers…
Cloud Computing’s Greatest Danger–and Richest Opportunity
For several years now, the technology industry has been engaged in the noble pursuit of delivering more power and speed and elegance into the hands of users, and the results are clear in every facet of our lives—from political revolutions fanned by social media, to vast improvements in mobile commerce, to the emergence of a truly interconnected lifestyle.
Without question, cloud computing has been a huge contributor to this movement as corporate computing—both applications and devices—was exposed as woefully unable to deliver the type of rich and expansive online experiences to which we had all become accustomed in our personal lives thanks to cloud-based applications…
Release of the Third Generation of the OpenNebula Cloud Manager
OpenNebula 3.0 features the latest innovations in cloud computing for the deployment of cutting-edge enterprise-ready on-premise IaaS clouds.
The OpenNebula Project is proud to announce the third major release of its widely deployed OpenNebula Toolkit, a fully open-source enterprise-grade cloud computing tool for the complete and comprehensive management of clouds and virtualized data centers. OpenNebula 3.0 delivers availability, reliability, scalability, security and efficiency with a focus on allowing data centers to provide cloud services by leveraging their existing IT assets, instead of building a new system from the ground up, thus protecting existing investments and avoiding vendor lock-in…
Cloud Computing’s Hidden ‘Green’ Benefits
Cloud computing energy consumption is a source of much debate. On one side, some see a massive new form of industrialization gobbling up resources; with large cloud and social networking sites consuming megawatts of power to feed insatiable computing needs.
Greenpeace called attention to the growing, power-hungry data center footprint, citing estimates that cloud computer sites could consume up to 622.6 billion kWh (kilowatts per hour) of power. Jonathan Koomey, Ph.D., consulting professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University, estimates that the cloud is already responsible for 1-2% of the world’s electricity use…
The Cloud Imperative
Before Facebook and Google—even before the Internet—scientists at MIT had a radical vision they called the computer utility.
"Computing may someday be organized as a public utility just as the telephone system is a public utility," Professor John McCarthy said at MIT’s centennial celebration in 1961. "Each subscriber needs to pay only for the capacity he actually uses, but he has access to all programming languages characteristic of a very large system … Certain subscribers might offer service to other subscribers … The computer utility could become the basis of a new and important industry."…
Top Cloud Computing Enablers Gaining Mind Share in 3Q 2011
Are you wondering who is gaining mind share in the 3rd quarter of 2011? Well wonder no more. Lets take a look at the Top Cloud Enablers Gaining Mind Share, and The Leaderboard (Up and Coming Cloud Innovators, Movers and Shakers). As you know, Cloud computing has gone mainstream, and large enterprise information technology companies must continue their rapid restructuring to an on-demand model enhancing their portfolios largely through acquisitions. So lets see how they’re doing…
Blah Blah Blah Cloud
There are many reasons to move toward cloud computing in one of its forms. In fact, with so many current forms, it’s difficult not to move toward cloud computing in some manner.
It’s easy enough to become cynical about, and even resistant to, all cloud computing pitches and conversations, now that all vendors are defining the cloud on their own terms…