Grazed from ZDNet.  Author: Colin Smith.

Earlier this month I attended a Red Hat sponsored Cloud Camp. (Full disclosure: They gave me a hat–guess what colour it is?) One of the most interesting discussions for me centered on Red Hat’s recently announced Cloud Engine.

I found the Deltacloud API concept quite compelling. Without getting into technical details of an as yet unreleased product, let me quickly outline the parts that I found most exciting by describing a possible future scenario of how the Cloud Engine would work using the Deltacloud functionality:

Grazed from Network Computing.  Author: Steve Wexler.

In the rush to adopt public and hybrid cloud computing services organizations appear to be ignoring the emerging risks to information governance – policy compliance and enforcement – according to a new report from EMC’s Leadership Council for Information Advantage, a blue-chip panel of IT execs. Using IDC data, EMC says 75 percent of IT organizations are running or plan to deploy applications in a private cloud environment, but only 34 percent have a governance policy for cloud-based information. Over half — 57 percent — believe their organizations need to do more, and almost a third report they are not confident in their preparedness.

Grazed from Wall Street & Technology.  Author: Larry Tabb.

I wrote a few months ago in Wall Street & Technology about the dissolution of the corporate data center brought about by the undermining of data center economics resulting from colocation and proximity hosting. As one major tenant leaves the data center, the "rent" lost from that tenant is shifted to the remaining tenants, increasing their costs and reducing their profitability. Higher allocations force more tenants to leave, until processing costs force everyone out of the data center. It’s the "last guy at the bar picks up the tab" phenomenon. I believed this erosion would take place over the next 10 years or so.

Grazed from IT Business Edge.  Author: Michael Vizard.

There’s a temptation when it comes to security in the cloud to limit the conversation to firewalls and the security paraphernalia that gets deployed at the edge of the network. But in reality, the conversation about security in the cloud needs to go much deeper than that.

Grazed from GigaOM.  Author: Jody Ranck.

Grazed from Destination CRM.  Author: Juan Martinez.

Grazed from Experian QAS.  Author: Neil Hill.

Entrepreneurs who are getting a business off the ground could benefit from using cloud computing solutions.

This is the advice of Geekzone blogger Nate Dunn, who said a move to the cloud is a "great idea", especially when a company is just beginning to get going.

"Start up costs can be hefty and by using the cloud more, you can concentrate on your core business," he stated.

Mr Dunn explained cloud computing allows users to purchase the capacity they require at a specific moment, with the flexibility to upgrade this if it is deemed necessary.

Grazed from GigaOM.  Author: Ryan Kim.

Grazed from Network Computing.  Author: Robert Mullins.

Dell has announced two new partnership deals that it says will improve its competitiveness in cloud computing. The company has partnered with Joyent, a cloud computing software and service provider, and Aster Data, a data management and analytics firm, to deliver their technology through Dell’s Data Center Solutions (DCS) business.

The DCS effort is intended to help customers to built data centers optimized from the beginning for cloud computing, be they a private, public or hybrid model, said Roy Guillen, general manager of DCS, at a news conference Nov. 19 in San Francisco.

Grazed from IT Business Edge.  Author: Arthur Cole.

The cloud may be the newest technology on the enterprise block, but in many ways it is following the same deployment pattern of previous hardware and software developments.

One habit that never seems to change is the need to get up and running with the latest offering and save pesky details like monitoring and management for later. Unfortunately, some top-tier firms that are already pushing workloads onto the cloud are finding that later is already here.