Grazed from PR NewsWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) and the City of Dubuque, Iowa today announced the availability of the Smarter Energy Cloud in Dubuque, Iowa. The cloud, or internet-based computing, will enable citizens to access information about their energy usage and habits and share best practices through an electricity portal/website over a six-month period. The electricity portal is now available to volunteer households in Dubuque…
 

Grazed from CIO.  Author: Bernard Golden.

In discussions about cloud computing and in comments readers leave on my blog posts, I commonly get statements along the lines of "Yeah, this cloud computing stuff sounds great, but at the end of the day, you have to have an IT guy solving problems like they’ve always done." In personal interactions, I often hear this sentiment portrayed as, "Public cloud computing is fine for the SMB and startup market, but enterprises aren’t ready to move to that model." The tone of much of this feedback is that anyone who advocates cloud computing is at best naive or at worst incapable of understanding the real details of IT…
 

Grazed from Network Computing.  Author: Frank Ohlhorst.

Analysts from North Bridge Venture Partners, GigaOM Pro & 451 Group agree – the need for hybrid cloud solutions is growing. The joint "Future of Cloud Computing Survey, 2011" performed by those analysts, reports that 39 percent of cloud users say that the hybrid cloud is currently part of their strategy, with this number expected to grow to 61 percent in the near future. This is the result of both private and public cloud users evolving towards the use of a hybrid strategy…

Grazed from Fox Business.  Author: Lorraine Luk.

Acer Inc. (2353.TW) on Friday opened its first cloud-computing research and operation center in Taipei, as the beleaguered personal computer maker diversifies away from hardware production.

Acer said it will first target corporate customers and hopes to bundle cloud-computing services with the hardware it makes.

Acer is joining its larger rivals such as Hewlett-Packard Co. and Dell Inc. in providing more value-added services to improve profitability amid slowing growth in the PC market.
 

Grazed from Ground Report.  Author: David Stephen.

Services, resources and prospects of Cloud Computing hands a share of future Tech solutions to it. With implementation and growth climbing for governments and businesses, Cloud Computing in its three major services will take off the old and bring on the secured new.

IBM fronts in Cloud Computing solutions globally and are committed to extending its Services, a service that should be considered is additional Random Access Memory (RAM) over the Cloud to computers that request for it….

Grazed from Market Wire.  Author: PR Announcement.

Zenoss Inc.   today announced the appointment of Alan Conley as chief technology officer.   Conley joins Zenoss from Cisco where for many years he led Cisco’s IT operations architecture and was most recently CTO of the Network Management Technology Group where he was responsible for Cisco’s cloud and virtualization management offerings.   Conley, a cloud management visionary, brings to Zenoss over 20 years of hands-on experience running large scale IT operations and building management products that span virtual, physical and cloud-based IT…

 

Grazed from Business Wire.  Author: PR Announcement.

AppFog (formerly PHP Fog), the leading cloud-based PaaS that makes it easy to deploy and scale web based applications, today announced it has been named PHP Community Lead for VMware’s Cloud Foundry, the industry’s first Open PaaS. In this role, AppFog will contribute and maintain PHP support for CloudFoundry.org, and Cloud Foundry will be used within AppFog’s core technology. AppFog today is delivering a fully managed, multi-tenant Cloud Foundry-based platform service running on Amazon Web Services (AWS) with plans to integrate the ecosystem of services available on AWS. Developers can now sign up for the private beta at http://www.appfog.com/…
 

Grazed from Government Technology.  Author: Steve Towns.

Calvin Rhodes, CIO of Georgia, is part of a growing number of state IT chiefs who have spent most of their careers in the private sector. Prior to becoming state CIO in January, Rhodes served as managing partner at Paladin Investments, a private firm he established in 2009. The bulk of his career – 27 years – was spent at Fulton Paper Company, where he served as executive vice president. Rhodes spoke to Government Technology about his move to the public sector and the challenges he’s facing...
 

Grazed from IEWY News.  Author: PR Announcement.

HP today expanded its Converged Storage portfolio with HP Peer Motion, new federated storage software that enables clients to transparently move application workloads between disk systems in virtualized and cloud computing environments…