August 6, 2011 Off

What is the ‘cloud’? Take a video tour of Microsoft data centers

By David
Grazed from Yahoo News.  Author: PR Announcement.

Just what is this “cloud” everyone has all of a sudden started talking about? “Cloud” this, “cloud” that; “cloud computing,” “cloud services.” Companies are hosting music “in the cloud.” People can save documents “to the cloud.”…

August 6, 2011 Off

MicroTech Secures $10 Billion Federal Contract for STARS II

By David
Grazed from Financial Tech Spotlight.  Author: Rajani Baburajan.

MicroTech, a technology and systems integrator, announced that it has won a $10 billion Government-Wide Acquisition Contract (GWAC) from the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA (NewsAlert)) for the 8(a) Streamlined Technology Acquisition Resources for Services II (STARS II)…

August 6, 2011 Off

Senior VP of Yankee Group Emerging Markets joins list of speakers at the Cloud Computing World Forum Latin America

By David
Grazed from Online PR News.  Author: PR Announcement.

Mr Swain is Senior Vice President in Yankee Group’s Network Research group, and leads the Emerging Markets team which contributes research and consulting deliverables related to both fixed and wireless telecommunications markets. Based in Bogota, Columbia, he maintains continuous contact with various global players to produce his analysis, demand modelling, forecasting and market reports…
August 5, 2011 Off

Cloud Visionary, Todd Papaionnou, Joins Battery Ventures

By David
Grazed from GigaOM.  Author: PR Announcement.

Former Chief Cloud Architect at Yahoo!, Todd Papaioannou, Joins Battery Ventures Team to Pursue Initiatives in Big Data and Cloud Infrastructure.

Battery Ventures, a multi-stage investment firm focused on technology and innovation worldwide, today announced that Todd Papaioannou has joined as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR) in the firm’s Menlo Park office. In this role, Papaioannou will work alongside Battery’s Enterprise IT investment team to help identify and create new opportunities in Cloud Computing, Big Data, analytics and the Enterprise software environment…

August 5, 2011 Off

The Universal Question: Public vs. Private Cloud Hosting?

By David
Grazed from TMCNet.  Author: Erin Harrison.

It seems to be a universal question when the topic of cloud computing arises: whether to take the  private cloud road versus public (and in certain situations, vice versa).

There is no doubt that making a business case for cloud computing is becoming increasingly popular.

But deciding what will be the best cloud solution for your business requires analysis regarding the level of control, security customization and support your organization needs, according to Internap (News Alert), a provider of IT infrastructure and cloud services…

August 5, 2011 Off

Microsoft commits to help plug gaps in cloud computing in PH

By David
Grazed from SunStar.  Author: PR Announcement.

MICROSOFT Philippines will help promote cloud computing services as an effective solution in organizing government and commercial infrastructures.

In a press statement, it said it made the pledge during the recently concluded policy workshop “Leveraging the Cloud to Promote Sustainable Development.”…

August 5, 2011 Off

IIIS: Cloud brings stability to Suncorp IT

By David

Grazed from ComputerWorld.  Author: Hamish Barwick.

A more stable IT environment, increased virtualisation and less human error are just some of the benefits Brisbane-based Suncorp Bank have achieved since commencing a major Cloud computing project in 2007.

Speaking at the Implementing Information Infrastructure Symposium (IIIS) in Sydney this week — co-hosted by Computerworld Australia and SNIA ANZ — senior technology architect, Ross Windsor, said that the decision to move to the Cloud was originally based on the need to migrate a number of data centres to create a smaller data centre footprint…

August 5, 2011 Off

Cloud Standards Get Customer Push

By David
Grazed from eWeek.  Author: Cameron Sturdevant.

The newly formed Open Data Center Alliance is using an array of usage models to weld cloud-using customers into a force that prevents vendor lock. At the same time, the group is promoting secure movement of virtual workloads from one provider to another. The organization is made up of more than 200 members including JPMorgan Chase, Lockheed Martin and Marriott.

While there are other nascent cloud-user organizations forming, namely CSCC (Cloud Standards Customer Council), ODCA (Open Data Center Alliance) in June issued eight usage models that organizations can use today when specifying baseline requirements for cloud projects.

The formation of both customer groups comes at a seminal moment for data center design. Virtualization is driving compute, storage, networking, application and desktop IT managers to drastically increase the efficient use of costly resources. And the option to outsource some or all virtual workloads is a bell that cannot be un-rung…

August 5, 2011 Off

Your own cloud – silver lining included

By David
Grazed from Boston Globe.  Author: Hiawatha Bray.

There’s a lot to like about cloud computing, but why use the other fellow’s cloud? Many of us save our most precious photos, videos, documents, and music on servers owned by Google or Amazon or Microsoft. But now it’s cheap and easy to create clouds of our own, with simple, but powerful servers that will fit on a bookshelf in the basement and transmit our files to any Internet-connected device on earth…