Grazed from IT Wire.  Author: Stan Beer.

Some may argue that the recent outage of the Microsoft Office 365 online service on Wednesday across major centres in the US was a major embarrassment for the software behemoth. But was it really or was it a vindication of the company’s legacy in-house software model?

Let’s face it, software as a service (SaaS) aka cloud computing should be anathema to a company that dominates the global market in productivity software sales. For more than two decades Microsoft has been making tens of billions selling software that companies and consumers are forced to buy and load on their local hard disks.

All of a sudden along comes a thing called the Internet. Until relatively recently – say 10 years ago – no problem. Neither the bandwidth nor the applications were there…

Grazed from Business News Daily.  Author: Mike Wall.

Cloud computing will bring about an IT revolution akin to the industrial shift ushered in by the centralized electrical grid, experts say.

Before the grid was set up in the 19th century, American businesses typically generated their own electricity. Similarly, many companies today manage and maintain their own data centers to collect, store, analyze and share information…

Grazed from Virtual Strategy Magazine.  Author: Phil Lieberman.

Survey after survey has revealed that security is the top concern voiced by prospective customers about cloud computing and its outsourced, on-demand business model. Worries over data privacy may prove to be service providers’ greatest roadblock to new business. In addition, the risks of a data breach seem certain to grow as a service provider’s infrastructure expands and its IT staff becomes more numerous and decentralized…

Grazed from PhysOrg.com.  Author: Nancy Owano.

Microsoft might be planning a future where Windows open to something far bigger, the next time you push your power button on. A patent filed by Microsoft points to its plan for an operating system environment beyond Windows 8 that depends on cloud computing, not locally installed software. The patent suggests your computer will be booted through remote storage in a cloud computing construct, where software services control your digital work...

Grazed from MarketWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

nScaled, provider of hybrid cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) for the enterprise, today announced key deployments among its customers in the legal services sector, with customers including: Davis & Gilbert, Davis Wright Tremaine, Fitzpatrick Cella, Harper & Scinto, and Zuber & Taillieu. nScaled is also introducing new storage options for the risk averse legal industry, enabling organizations to address the specific backup, disaster recovery and compliance needs of the legal industry, while also making the implementation process easy and affordable…

Grazed from Cloud Pro.  Author: Jennifer Scott.

Grazed from PR NewsWire.  Author:  PR Announcement.

Cloud Cruiser, the leader in cloud cost management solutions and a member of the OpenStack™ community, today announced the general availability (GA) of the Cloud Cruiser cloud cost management solution for OpenStack. It features ongoing workflow tools that provide management and accounting capabilities for optimizing capex and opex costs in heterogeneous cloud computing environments…