Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Joe McKendrick.

If the analysts at the IEEE Computer Society are correct, the coming year will see significant drops in the cost of cloud services, as well as better, faster performance. Thanks to increasing adoption of container technology, as well as network function virtualization, cloud computing will take some great strides.

Container technology and NFV are among the top nine tech trends identified by IEEE. The container phenomenon is of particular interest for companies moving applications to the cloud, the society’s analysts observe. "Containers represent a smarter and more economical way to make this move," they state. "Containers allow companies to develop and deliver applications faster, and more efficiently."…

Grazed from InfoStor. Author: Drew Robb.

When it comes to a cloud storage comparison, there are so many vendors to choose from that it can be hard to decide which option to choose. For those attempting to do so, here are some tips from experts in this field of cloud evaluation and deployment.

Head to the Cloud

Most analysts agree that a headlong rush to the public cloud is not a good idea for every organization and every workload. But it works well for many storage use cases. So regardless of the various cautions, Andy Walls, IBM Fellow, CTO and Chief Architect at IBM, believes more companies will look to the cloud for their storage needs…

Grazed from PSMag. Author: Jim Russell.

If Seattle is the next golden era Detroit, then how is cloud computing the next Model T? As an automobile, the Model T didn’t cater to the rich. Isochronic maps ignore class. The time to move from one part of the world to another depends on more than technological innovations in modes of travel. Even today, the ease of one’s journey to work depends on household wealth. Henry Ford leveled that playing field. How does the cloud level the playing field?

In and of itself, the cloud doesn’t level the playing field. In and of itself, the horseless carriage didn’t level the playing field. Ford took a rich plaything, a novelty, and made it accessible to anyone. Rich or poor, no one was stuck on a railroad track. Harbors or river towns mattered less. Likewise, the cloud expands the geographic possibilities…

Grazed from GovernmentComputing. Author: Editorial Staff.

It has been an exciting year in the world of IT with key technology trends set to impact the public sector from national to local governments, including the UK healthcare industry into 2016. This last year saw the adoption of virtualisation changing perceptions of the cloud and a number of extremely high-profile breaches changed the conversation around how security and IoT are "game changers" across both the public and private sector.

In 2106, we believe IoT will offer cost-savings as well as new solutions in healthcare and also expect the public sector will reap the benefits of cloud computing. As systems become digitised, it’s important security remains front-of-mind, and encryption is used for a healthy future…

Grazed from Forbes. Author: Kalev Leetrau.

Science Magazine’s first issue of 2016 includes a discussion chronicling how the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is re-exploring how it manages funding for the many biomedical database products it supports. In particular, the NIH National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) is expected to close out its funding of the Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) database, one of the oldest genomic databases that has run continuously for 50 years. What does this mean for the future of scientific big data hosting?

Today the NIH spends more than $110 million a year on its largest 50 databases, excluding those hosted by the National Library of Medicine (NLM). OMIM, supported by NHGRI, costs $2.1 million a year and draws more than 300,000 unique users a month and 23 million page views a year, while the Gene Ontology Consortium draws 36,000 users a month at a cost of $3.7 million a year…

Cloud computing has totally transformed the way organizations operate and professionals access technology resources. In less than a decade, the move to the cloud has revolutionized the entire IT sector. Companies are now moving away from hardware and licensed software purchases towards software-, platform- and infrastructure-as-a-service (SaaS, PaaS and IaaS).

Before getting into the growth prospects, it might be helpful to understand what exactly cloud computing represents…

Grazed from Barron’s.  Author: Tiernan Ray.

Grazed from SysCon. Author: Pavan Kumar.

The future of data centers looks very exciting. Data Centers are turning out to be increasingly important in today’s connected world as we can store and process a lot of consumer and commercial data. Data centers seem to be either becoming huge or very small. In general, marketing cloud storage and cloud computing services are likely to increase the profit margins and favor the large players. There is an increasing need for superior Data center competence as we are more dependent on cloud-based applications and huge Data center services.

The companies will view data as a resource to be extracted for insight, innovation and opportunities are extracted from the future Data centers. The future Data centers can be used as infrastructure as a service (IaaS) with pay-per-use model. It will help companies to meet the business requirements and to control the cost, scalability and service level objectives…