Grazed from BusinessCloud9.  Author: Claire Galbois-Alcaix

You may know your nimbostratus (take an umbrella) from your cirrocumulus (you probably won’t need one) but what about the difference between Cloud backup and Cloud archiving?  Or Cloud services and Cloud applications?

Grazed from ZD Net.  Author:  Rachel King.

Hewlett-Packard is the latest Silicon Valley heavyweight to join in on the OpenStack open-source cloud platform.

HP already has plenty of its own cloud solutions for IT departments, ranging in scale as well as private and public. Nevertheless, because OpenStack is a collaborative effort and free for all under the Apache 2.0 license, lots of other tech companies have found some benefit in supporting the project.

Grazed from Dark Reading.  Author: Robert Lemos.

Grazed from CRN.  Author: Andrew R. Hickey.

The evolution of cloud computing has raised a host of questions on the survivability of traditional VARs and systems integrators (SIs) in a cloud world, but a key executive with one major networking and data center vendor said that the cloud era represents key opportunities for solution providers to build business and grow.

Grazed from IT Business Edge.  Author: Arthur Cole.

The primary reason that cloud computing, and cloud storage in particular, is drawing such high interest these days is the enterprise’s need to handle increasing amounts of unstructured data.

Grazed from CRN.  Author: Andrew R. Hickey.

Federal cloud computing initiatives are gathering momentum, as about two-thirds of federal agencies have identified applications to move to the cloud and half of those have started the migration process, a recent survey revealed.

Grazed from The Montreal Gazzette.  Author: Andrea Courey.

Like gravity, cloud computing is invisibly shaping our changing world. Mobile, affordable technology with third party data storage, delivered to you, via the internet in real time. Where is all this data? Somewhere in the clouds?

Actually it’s somewhere in a data storage facility that a company like Facebook or Google has built. Real steel and concrete buildings that need to power up, cool down, back up and quickly deliver the mountains of data we all generate.

Grazed from The Register.  Author:  Rik Myslewski.

After floating it around the market for only three months, Novell has decided to evaporate its Vibe Cloud web-based "social collaboration platform for the enterprise".

The decision to decommission the Vibe Cloud service as of September 30 was announced by Novell’s new president and GM Bob Flynn in a Thursday post on the company blog, optimistically entitled "Defining the Next Chapter of Novell: Focus and Commitment".