Riding on a global surge in cloud computing demand, India’s second largest IT exporter Infosys has grown its cloud engagements five times over the past one year, jumping from about 20 last year to over 100 engagements currently…
In working with thousands of clients, IBM has established that businesses and the world at large have become more interconnected and certainly more intelligent. Just to toss out a few factoids – data is growing at 6 trillion bytes per second, IP traffic will accelerate in 3 years to over a trillion gigabytes, and as of 2010, there were an estimated 30B RFID tags across the global ecosystem. Almost 162 million smart phones were sold in 2008, surpassing laptop sales for the first time. Soon there will be one trillion connected devices in the world, constituting an “Internet of things.” This environment provides both the individual and the organization the opportunity to adapt their thinking and actions to address the challenges of the new world…
September 17, 2011
Evolving Data Center Management and Virtualization Technologies Drive Cloud Computing Adoption
Grazed from Computer Technology Review. Author: Martin May.
Cloud computing is one of the fastest growing trends in the Information Technology world. It is a simple concept in which shared resources, including software and applications, are consumed by organizations on-demand from a cloud-based service provider. They are paid for according to consumption in much the same way as water or electricity is bought from a public utility company…
Key pieces of Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) cloud-computing infrastructure have achieved certification with the federal standard for IT security solutions, making the services a more viable option for adoption among federal agencies…
The big cloud presentation at Tuesday’s IDF was a post-lunch session called, “Driving towards cloud 2015: a technology vision to meet the demands of cloud computing tomorrow” by Intel Senior Fellow Stephen S. Pawlowski. Pawlowski’s job at Intel is “pathfinding”—he’s one of the guys who looks at long-term trends and tries to help steer the company in the right direction. As a big-picture guy, Pawlowski’s presentation was necessarily pretty general, since he had a ton of ground to cover in laying out the trends and issues that Intel sees as shaping cloud computing between now and 2015…