Grazed from TMCNet.  Author:  Meenakshi Shankar.

Application and network performance management solutions enabler OPNET Technologies (News – Alert) has launched an array of new capabilities for extending application performance management to the cloud.

"The concept generally referred to as cloud computing consists of a number of different approaches to delivering application services to users. These various approaches require different technologies for measuring end user experience. OPNET is taking a multi-pronged approach to end user experience management in order to cover the evolving needs of enterprises that are adopting cloud technology," noted Russ Elsner, OPNET‘s director of Application Performance Management Technology…
 

Grazed from DOD.  Author: PR Announcement.

Defense Department officials are looking to balance efficiency, effectiveness and security while moving away from its decentralized network of computer servers and data centers and into “cloud” computing, DOD’s deputy chief information officer said today…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

DreamFactory Software, the leading publisher for cloud computing platforms, is pleased to announce the release of the Velocity Partner Program, designed to instantly turn partner sites into SaaS destinations…

Grazed from Information Week.  Author:  Thomas Claburn.

In its ongoing quest to convince businesses and individuals to abandon the archaic practice of operating their own servers and shift their IT operations to the cloud, Google has frequently asserted that cloud computing is more cost efficient than servers run on-premises.

Now Google can argue that the cloud is more energy efficient, too. Citing its own research, supported by related findings from the Carbon Disclosure Project and from a consulting professor at Stanford, the company says that Gmail is almost 80 times more energy efficient than in-house email…

Grazed from PCWorld.  Author: Joab Jackson.

Carving out a space in the growing market for cloud computing, Hewlett-Packard has launched a beta IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service) offering, called HP Cloud Services, the company announced Wednesday.

The initial offerings, called HP Cloud Compute and HP Cloud Object Storage, will provide compute and storage resources from HP’s own data centers. HP will use the OpenStack set of open-source cloud software tools to provide the foundation for these services. HP joined the OpenStack project in July…

Grazed from IT Business Edge.  Author: Michael Vizard.

When the subject of cloud computing comes up, the subject of mainframes never seems to come up. And yet, just about everybody who works with a mainframe that examines the concepts behind cloud computing can’t help but note that mainframes already provide those capabilities…

Grazed from IT World.  Author: Kevin Fogarty.

Cloud computing and virtualization are supposed to save a lot of money for large companies, but they could add a big multiplier to the painful little bump of cost many IT shops have to swallow toward the end of the fiscal years. The combination of virtualization, sprawl and lax license counts can hide a lot more waste in license costs than was possible with traditional systems…
 

Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author: Jason Cowie.

For almost a decade now, organizations of all sizes have been leveraging server virtualization, but few have fully gained the flexibility and efficiencies it promised. The emergence of cloud computing and the promise of delivering on-demand resources has introduced new challenges and opportunities. A company’s level of virtualization adoption maturity correlates to its readiness to deliver an on-demand, real-time infrastructure through a private cloud. An effective virtualization and cloud management solution can ease the journey toward that end…

Grazed from FreshBusinessThinking.com.   Author: Max Clarke.

Cloud computing is not only convenient, but could save millions of tonnes of greenhouse emissions.

This is according to a recent report, by the Carbon Disclosure Project and Verdantix, that finds cloud-based technologies are far more efficient than their in-house counterparts…