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."…

Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author: Roger Strukhoff.

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…