September 23, 2011 Off

Five Ways To Get A Piece Of The Cloud Market

By David
Grazed from CRN.  Author: Jennifer Bosavage.

If you’re an IT solution provider not into cloud computing, you’re letting a substantial chunk of change pass you by. Spending on public cloud computing generates $21.5 billion in revenue according to IDC, and that number will balloon to $72.9 billion by 2015. You’ve got to play to win, as the saying goes. Here are five ways to approach that very lucrative market…

September 23, 2011 Off

Tenant-based Cloud Security: Not a Contradiction

By David
Grazed from Data Center Knowledge.   Author: Rajat Bhargava.

The current running joke in the IT industry is that everything is labeled “cloud.” Whether data center customers are leveraging the cloud or not, arguably every technology provider is claiming to either “consume” or provide services in the cloud…

September 23, 2011 Off

Events: Webinar to offer tips on cloud computing for government IT

By David

Grazed from American City and Country.  Author: PR Announcement.

Facing tighter budgets and increased demands for transparency, worker flexibility and customer service, many states and local agencies are moving government IT functions to the cloud. Exactly how to do that will be the focus of a webinar on Oct. 11, 2011, during the State & Local Government Summit….

Several experts from Microsoft’s State & Local Government team will be presenting a session titled, “Soup to Nuts: Harnessing the Complete Power of the Public Cloud.” During the 45-minute webinar, they will explain how agencies can use the cloud to offer interactive citizen portals, increase collaboration across organizations, reduce government IT costs, and more.

September 22, 2011 Off

Amazon web services puts snag behind it, sees more cloud

By David
Grazed from Reuters.  Author: Siddharth Cavale and Nivedita Bhattacharjee.

Amazon’s cloud computing unit has taken steps to avoid a repeat of the outage of its cloud services platform earlier this year and customer interest has only grown since, a top company executive said.

The outage in April, which knocked out such sites as Reddit and Foursquare, had raised questions about the future and maturity of cloud computing…

September 22, 2011 Off

Cloud Computing: Léo Apotheker ousted from HP

By David
Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author:  Maureen O’Gara.

Léo Apotheker’s brief inglorious reign at HP only has hours left to run insiders say.

He will be ousted in absentia since nobody seems to know – or care – where he is. He will be the third HP CEO in a row to be fired and the shortest lived.

The board’s next available window to announce the coup is after the market closes today unless the crisis slops over into Friday…

September 22, 2011 Off

SDSC Announces HPC Storage Cloud

By David
Grazed from HPCWire.  Author: 

The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, today announced the launch of what is believed to be the largest academic-based cloud storage system in the U.S., specifically designed for researchers, students, academics, and industry users who require stable, secure, and cost-effective storage and sharing of digital information, including extremely large data sets…

September 22, 2011 Off

Nebula Drives Development of Open and Pluggable Web Interface to OpenStack

By David
Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Nebula, developers of an OpenStack-based hardware appliance that will allow all businesses to easily, securely and inexpensively deploy large private cloud computing infrastructures, today announced that the OpenStack Dashboard project it is leading is now a core component project of OpenStack as of today’s "Diablo" release, the fourth major release of the open source cloud platform. OpenStack Dashboard is a web-based user interface that manages OpenStack services…

September 22, 2011 Off

Cloud computing ‘can save millions of tons of CO2’

By David
Grazed from IBTimes Green Economy.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Cloud Computing: The IT Solution for the 21st Century suggested US companies could save 85.7 million metric tons of CO2 annually by moving to the cloud. This is the equivalent of 200 million barrels of oil…

September 22, 2011 Off

The secret to cloud success: Get a grasp on SOA

By David
Grazed from InfoWorld.  Author: David Linthicum.

Those IT organizations that move to cloud computing are moving to SOA (service-oriented architecture), whether they understand it or not. Hear me out: Private and public clouds often rely on APIs for their functionality, which are typically Web services that can be combined and recombined into solutions. The result: SOA, at its essence…

September 22, 2011 Off

Federal Cloud Crucial To Economy, Tech Chiefs Say

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Grazed from Information Week.  Author: Elizabeth Montalbano.

The federal government’s adoption of cloud computing is not merely critical to technology innovation, but also is crucial to ensure that the United States can remain economically competitive across the globe, technology experts said Wednesday.

Testifying before the House Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation, a panel of experts from the public and private sector described a scenario in which U.S. competitiveness hinges on adopting the emerging IP-based technology model for how data and services are shared, allocated, and commoditized across networks…"The cloud is the foundation of the 21st century digital economy," said Dan Reed, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Technology Policy Group, adding that the United States is currently in the global lead for cloud adoption, a race "that’s ours to lose."…