Grazed from IT World.  Author: Brett Winterford.

Brisbane-based analyst group Longhaus has revealed that chief information officers and other key IT decision makers are becoming increasingly wary of adopting cloud computing.

The 2011 study of 100 Australian CIOs and enterprise IT buyers, prepared for the third consecutive year, found CIOs 20 percent less likely to invest in cloud services today than the same time last year…

Grazed from MIS Asia.  Author:  Anuradha Shukla.

China is set to pour US$154 billion to develop cloud computing hubs, according to Asia’s first "Cloud Readiness Index," prepared and published by the Asia Cloud Computing Association.

Although restrictive data protection laws are preventing the building of a global Cloud Computing industry in China, this investment will help the nation improve its index rating in the near future…

Grazed from VentureBeat.  Author:  Dean Takahaski.

A lot of companies are trying to use a combination of cloud computing and virtualization to bring down the cost of corporate computers. But Zirtu believes it has the right solution.

The Torrance, Calif.-based company says it can simplify computer management, slash costs, and make users happy without forcing them to adopt brain-dead thin clients…

Grazed from CRN.  Author:  Andrew R. Hickey.

Google (NSDQ:GOOG) will get the opportunity to prove that its cloud computing offerings are at least as secure as those of its chief rival Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT) and that those products are suitable for federal cloud deployments, a new wrinkle in an ongoing legal battle over the cloud computing contract for the U.S. Department of the Interior…

Grazed from MarketWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

Dr. William L. Bain, founder and CEO of ScaleOut Software, Inc. (ScaleOut), a leading provider of distributed data grids and data analysis solutions, will discuss cloud-based data management at the New York Technology Council (NYTECH) on Tuesday, September 13 at 6:00 p.m. EST. The morning after, on September 14 at 7:30 EST, he will present on how financial institutions can leverage in-memory computing for fast data analysis at the Wall Street Technology Association’s (WSTA)...

Grazed from Federal Computer Week.  Author:  Rutrell Yasin.

How can agency managers set realistic expectations within their organizations before moving to cloud-based services?

“My suggestion is plan, plan, plan for the cloud,” Wolf Tombe, chief technology officer within the Customs and Border Protection’s Office of Information Technology, told attendees at a cloud computing conference…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

The Open Group today announced the immediate availability of its new book, Cloud Computing for Business, which takes an in-depth look at Cloud Computing and how enterprises can derive the greatest business benefit from its potential. The publication is part of the ongoing work of The Open Group Cloud Computing Work Group, which exists to create, among buyers and suppliers, a common understanding of how enterprises of all sizes and scales of operation can use Cloud Computing technology in a safe and secure way in their architectures to realize its significant cost, scalability and agility benefits…

Grazed from IT Jungle.  Author:  Timothy Prickett Morgan.

Here’s the kind of deal you never see on a mainframe or a Power Systems-IBM i platform: free server capacity. And it is certainly not the kind of deal you see twice in the same year. But IBM is trotting out another deal to give customers a free spin on its SmartCloud infrastructure clouds, which support Windows and Linux workloads on X64-based iron…

Grazed from PRWeb.  Author: PR Announcement.

Cartika recently launched its Canadian Cloud from within their NOC in Toronto, Canada. In addition to being able to deliver a 100% Canadian based Cloud solution, the Cartika Canadian Cloud boasts a revolutionary storage solution built on Open Standards and Open Source ZFS Storage Platforms…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.  

Cloudcor(R) today announced Microsoft as headline Diamond Sponsor of UP 2011 – a hybrid format cloud computing conference taking place December 5 – 9, 2011, at the Computer History Museum, Mountain View, Calif., and broadcast online…