Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author: PR Announcement.

Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK), a world leader in 3D design, engineering and entertainment software, introduced Autodesk Cloud, a collection of more than a dozen web-based capabilities, products and services that enable customers to extend their desktops with greater mobility, new viewing and sharing capabilities, and more computing power, helping them better design, visualize and simulate their ideas. In addition, Autodesk Subscription customers will now have exclusive access to cloud-based, high-performance rendering and design optimization, and enhanced collaboration capabilities. Autodesk Subscription now provides 3 GB of online storage for each seat of software on Subscription for greater access to design and engineering documents, anywhere, anytime…

Grazed from TechCrunch.  Author:  Sara Perez

Piston Cloud Computing, Inc. is today emerging from stealth and introducing its new enterprise-ready cloud operating system for private clouds called pentOS. The new OS is built on OpenStack, the open source IaaS cloud computing project that now has over 1,450 contributors and 110 participating companies, including NASA, Rackspace, Citrix, Intel, Cisco, Arista Networks, Microsoft and Dell…

Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author:  Ray DePena.

I always enjoy hearing from those of you who have come to the conclusion that Cloud computing will not work, and decided you will not be developing plans to shift your business to the Cloud.

Sometimes the analysis is sound. More often than not, it omits key variables…

Grazed from Virtual Strategy Magazine.  Author: Vishy Narayan.

In their relentless quest for agility and growth to attain that critical competitive advantage, enterprises look to IT for progressively effective answers. Virtualization has provided one such answer for more than two decades. Enabling enterprises to create multiple virtual machines or instances – with each instance a computing resource independent of the underlying physical hardware – virtualization helps save costs, enhance agility and go-to-market speed, create new business streams, and increase revenues. Virtualization began around the hardware platform but now spans software, memory, storage, and data…

Grazed from Network World.  Author: Chris Nerney.

A recent survey indicates that the mid-market is far from sold on cloud computing.

Conducted by SWC Technology Partners, the survey of more than 200 mid-market IT and business executives found that more than half (54.2%) of respondents reported their companies aren’t pursuing a single cloud project…

Grazed from TechTarget.  Author: Adam Riglian.

Enterprises are increasingly using cloud computing applications, but most have yet to develop plans for the new challenges they will face in cloud data quality, consistency and data governance.

According to a recently published report from Ventana Research Inc. in San Ramon, Calif., 43% of enterprises have three or more cloud-based applications deployed, with that number expected to rise to 66% in the next 12 months. However, not everyone is ready…

Grazed from CRN.  Author: Andrew R. Hickey.

Google (NSDQ:GOOG) is arming itself for cloud storage battle against Amazon (NSDQ:AMZN) and Apple (NSDQ:AAPL) iCloud with the upcoming of Google Drive, or GDrive, reports indicate…

Grazed from InfoSecurity.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Research just released by Kaspersky Lab claims to show that around a quarter of companies (23%) see the cloud as a threat to their IT security.

Grazed from Nikkei Times.  Author: PR Announcement.

Fujitsu Ltd. said Monday that it has developed a server for cloud computing systems that is four times as fast as conventional machines.

The new server pools central processing units, hard-disk drives and other hardware components, linking them together via high-speed interconnects. Fujitsu clocked the input/output throughput at roughly 2 gigabits per second, compared with the 0.5 gigabit per second of conventional servers…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author:  PR Announcement.

Datapipe, a leading provider of managed services and infrastructure for IT and cloud computing, announced today the public availability of the industry’s first PCI DSS 2.0 Level 1 Service Provider certified cloud computing platform. The offering couples a custom PCI certified cloud infrastructure with a suite of managed security services to enable PCI compliance…