When does a technology actually become mainstream, an established part of our daily lives? Is it when it becomes part of the popular vocabulary, or when there’s an addition to the Oxford English Dictionary confirming its existence? Is it when companies make money selling that technology, or when people make money buying and selling shares of these companies? All of these go a long way in making cloud computing an integral part of our lives; however, I believe it’s now when there’s a university course actually teaching the technology that it’s actually gone mainstream…

Xsigo Systems, Inc. today announced the Xsigo Server Fabric, the industry’s first fully virtualized infrastructure for cloud-optimized data centers. The Xsigo Server Fabric enables one-click network connections from virtual machines to any data center resource — including servers, networks, storage, and other virtual machines — to accelerate the management of virtualized data centers. Xsigo’s Server Fabric technology eliminates the last remaining hardware constraints on the agility and scalability of the cloud. As a result, new services can be brought to market 10 times faster, delivered at guaranteed levels of performance, and seamlessly scaled to a thousand physical hosts, all at a 50 percent lower cost of operation…

This afternoon, the street is buzzing over the Google Inc.(NASDAQ:GOOG) buyout of Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc.(NYSE:MMI). Most investors on Wall Street were betting that InterDigital Inc.(NASDAQ:IDCC) was the leading candidate for a Google takeover. It just proves that any company with good intellectual properties and important patents could be a takeover target. While investors are focusing on the mobile handset makers today it is the cloud computing stocks that should be watched as takeover candidates.

Amazon.com formally added three new capabilities to its cloud computing portfolio with the introduction of Direct Connect and the updates to the Virtual Private Cloud and Identity and Access Management services. These offerings are targeted at organizations looking to construct hybrid or private clouds on the Amazon Web Services platform…

In spite of the hype that a Cloud system or application will never fail, we are still seeing cases of cloud system failures. The recent ones being Lightining strikes in Dublin taking the Amazon, Microsoft Clouds down for a while. While this may cause some Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt on Cloud, the underlying fact remains that transforming an application to Cloud means not just setting a switch for the enterprises, but there needs to be lot more planning and the best practices that are proven in the traditional data center are still valid. The following are some of the best practices in prevent the Cloud outages. These are beyond the basic disaster recovery provisions given by the most cloud providers…

Motorola will supercharge Android, says Google. It is about 17,000 patents that will protect Android from frivolous lawsuits. However, we aren’t so sure, since Motorola has also the potential to turn Google into the first fully integrated empire for the cloud computing age…

Global IT solutions specialist Logicalis is the latest company to adopt a modular data center model, deploying its enterprise cloud computing platform in an i/o Any where module at the i/o Phoenix data center, the company said today. UK-based  Logicalis provides IT outsourcing solutions from HP, IBM, Microsoft and Cisco, and said it chose the modular approach for its deployment speed and ease of expansion…

Most of the experts agree: cloud computing will, in fact, transform the way appliances are developed, deployed and maintained.

While the hype rages around cloud computing, most cloud implementations go the way of the private cloud and avoid the public clouds for now.  Private clouds are exactly what they sound like.  Your own instance of SaaS, PaaS, or IaaS that exists in your own data center, all tucked away, protected and cozy.  You own the hardware, you can hug your server…