Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Savvis, a CenturyLink company /quotes/zigman/203112/quotes/nls/ctl CTL -2.11% , today announced the launch of Savvis Symphony Database, a cloud-based database platform. Symphony Database, which was unveiled at Oracle Open World 2011 in San Francisco, brings the advantages of cloud computing to Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server environments…

Grazed from FormTek.  Author:  Dick Weisinger.

Last week Friday we looked at two surveys about the scope of cloud acceptance — a survey by CA Associates that found that 93 percent of companies are using the cloud, and another one by SWC Technology Partners that concluded that less than 4 percent of companies are using applications hosted in the cloud.  The conclusion was that there is currently a huge split between what different segments of  companies are doing. segments.  It’s not clear exactly what the parameters are that make up the profile of a cloud-adopter company versus the cloud-abstainer ones, but  both the location and size of company seem to play a significant factor…

Grazed from SiliconRepublic.  Author:  Laura O’Brien.

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…

Grazed from MyBroadBand.  Author: Editorial Staff.

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…

Grazed from TMC Net.  Author: Rajani Baburajan.

8×8 (News – Alert), a provider of cloud communications and computing solutions, has been granted a United States Patent number for its new cloud computing VoIP feature, "Virtual Telephone Extension."

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…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

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…

Grazed from Forbes.  Author: Bob Evans.

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…

Grazed from PR NewsWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

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…

Grazed from Forbes.  Author: Joe McKEndrick.

Grazed from MIT Technical Review.  Author: Simson L. Garfinkel.

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."…