Grazed from ChannelInsider.  Author:  Nathan Eddy.

IronKey, a provider of secure data and online access platforms, announced a partnership with data storage and protection specialist Imation dedicated to helping businesses store, protect and connect to cloud-based data and services. The partnership would allow IronKey to focus its efforts on helping enterprises secure access to cloud-based Internet services, the companies said in a joint statement…

Grazed from CRN.  Author:  Kevin McLaughlin.

Chris Hoff, chief security architect for Juniper Networks (NSDQ:JNPR), sees parallels between historical innovation in the sanitation industry and the current state of affairs with security in the cloud.

In a presentation Monday at the United Security Summit in San Francisco, entitled "Commode Computing: Relevant Advances In Toiletry & I.T. – From Squat Pots to Cloud Bots – Waste Management Through Security Automation," Hoff discussed how operational issues are impeding automation and flexibility of cloud security and putting a crimp on innovation in this space…

Grazed from Reuters.  Author: Tarmo Virki.

The technology from the world’s No. 2 mobile gear maker after Ericsson shares network resources across mobile and broadband networks, similar to cloud computing.

"For operators it offers a better use of capital. You invest in total network load, not in peak levels," Phil Twist, head of marketing at NSN’s Network Systems unit, said in an interview.

Telecom operators around the world are struggling with a shortage of network capacity as the use of video on smartphones and tablets proliferates. The shortages usually occur during rush hours at specific locations…

Grazed from Zacks.  Author:  Editorial Staff.

EMC Corp. (EMC – Analyst Report) recently announced that it has opened a new datacenter in Durham, North Carolina. The 450,000 square foot Center of Excellence (COE) is EMC’s seventh datacenter and the first one in the US. The other six COE’s are located in India, China, Egypt, Israel, Ireland and Russia.

The new COE will extend EMC’s private cloud and will support more than 50,000 users across 400 corporate offices in more than 80 countries. In addition to the data center, the COE includes 130,000 square feet of space for research and development labs. COEs perform essential services for EMC business units, including engineering and research and development, customer service, translation services, IT and technical support, and customer executive briefings. ..

Grazed from Government Computer News.  Author: Rutrell Yasin.

The Open Group has released a book on how organizations can use cloud computing to gain business benefit.

The aim of "Cloud Computing for Business" is to give businesses and government organizations the information needed to gain maximize benefit from the cloud, said Chris Harding, director of interoperability for the Open Group, a consortium of companies working to develop neutral standards for IT…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Though the inner workings of the global communications network are so complex that they remain opaque even to those who operate it, the redundancy and fail-over capabilities of the system have made it so reliable that the internet-based cloud has become a trusted place to store and transmit critical data. The rapid spread of cloud computing has enabled enterprises to outsource many information technology capabilities, including and especially data centers, leading to savings on manpower, money, and energy. According to a recent report from Pike Research, the energy-efficiency benefits of cloud computing are substantial, and growth in the market will have important implications for both energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The cleantech market intelligence firm forecasts that the continued adoption of cloud computing will lead to a reduction of data center energy consumption of 31% from 2010 to 2020…

Grazed from The Australian.  Author: Stuart Kennedy.

Once a cloud market denier, Microsoft has clouded right over in recent years, beginning with a pitch that pushed the hybrid model, which played to its vast on-premise software base.

But last week, CEO Steve Ballmer went all in on cloud, telling a developers’ conference in Los Angeles that Microsoft was "re-imagining" every part of its software empire to run on and through the cloud and that the upcoming Windows 8 was being recast as a cloud OS…
 

Grazed from GigaOM.  Author:  Barb Darrow.

RightScale, which gives companies a good look into the innards of their cloud computing workloads, just surpassed the 3-million-server mark.

RightScale’s cloud management platform launched in 2007. It took more than two years (27 months) to get to the million-server milestone, one more year to reach two million, and then half that time to breach three million milestone, said Michael Crandell, CEO of the Santa Barbara, Calif.-based company…

Grazed from Information Week.  Author: Charles Babcock.

Financial services are about to be permanently changed by cloud computing. Instead of everyone going to Wall Street for financial services, the cloud will extend Wall Street services to them, whether they’re in Manhattan or Missoula…

Grazed from Small Business Computing.  Author: Jill Billhorn.

Cloud computing technology offers both time- and money-saving benefits, which makes it a great fit for small business. As cloud computing benefits become more tangible, more small businesses are moving to the cloud. Still, as with any technology, you don’t want to jump in without proper preparation. …