Grazed from TheGlobalDispatch. Author: Editorial Staff.

Have you been thinking about moving your business’s computing needs to the cloud? With an increased range of applications and capabilities, cloud computing helps make the latest technology affordable, even for smaller businesses. Rather than buying servers or hiring a dedicated IT team, you can simply pay by the month for cloud computing services or architecture. But before you make the move, it’s a good idea to take a look at the pros and cons of the telco cloud.

Pros of Cloud Computing

Cost is one of the primary reasons why businesses are moving to cloud services offered by carriers like Nokia Networks at the moment. The cost is scalable, meaning that it can be adjusted to meet your needs as your business grows. In most cases, cloud computing is billed monthly, rather than the lump sum that you would need to pay for servers…

Grazed from LearnBonds. Author: Victor Alagbe.

Microsoft Corporation is no longer a relic of an era long gone as the takes giant strides to challenge Apple and Google Inc. One of those strides is the rapid growth being recorded in its cloud computing space– Microsoft Azure. In a recent interview, Mark Russinovich, Microsoft’s CTO of Azure cloud talks about Azure, Amazon AWS, and Google Cloud, which is a distant third.

Azure is Microsoft’s cloud business that provides practically endless computing power to clients who may not want to set up their own servers. The cloud war has been mainly between Amazon and Microsoft despite all the noise that Google makes about its Google Cloud Platform Network…

Grazed from FT.com. Author: Richard Waters.

For Silicon Valley, more transparency may not be such a bad thing after all. That has been one of the main conclusions from Google’s characteristically odd decision this week to jettison a perfectly good corporate name in favour of its bland new moniker: Alphabet. Wall Street was delighted with the promise of greater disclosure about the performance of different parts of Google’s business.

After years of nagging, the company will finally provide at least some insight into the financial impact of its many and varied diversifications. But Google is far from alone. Selectively deciding when and how much to disclose has become an art form for some of the biggest tech companies, as they move into new markets and try to deal with the disruption sweeping their own industry…

Grazed from SysCon Media. Author: Michael Krems.

Azure is Microsoft’s cloud computing platform, a growing collection of integrated services – analytics, computing, database, mobile, networking, storage, and web. In the 12 months since Build 2014, Microsoft has delivered over 500 new Azure services and features, and greatly expanded the footprint and capabilities of what Azure delivers. Here’s a snapshot of Azure Allure, articulated by Microsoft exec Scott Guthrie, Executive Vice President of Cloud and Enterprise, at the Microsoft Build 2015 conference in San Francisco:

• 19 unique Azure regions up and running worldwide, with over 90,000 new Azure customer subscriptions per month
• 1.4 million SQL databases being used by applications hosted inside Asure
• About 160,000 SQL databases created or dropped each day in Azure
• Over 50 trillion objects stored in Azure Storage
• 425 million users in the Azure Active Directory system
• 3 million developers registered with Visual Studio Online services…

Grazed from PublicTechnology. Author: Simon Hansford.

These days, cloud is one of the most over used terms in the computing industry. Many products and services that have existed for years have been renamed or refreshed to incorporate the word cloud to benefit from the cache, or the increased stock market value, that the term brings.

Most IT professionals will recognise the National Institute of Standards Technology (NIST) Definition of cloud computing with three services models (Platform-as-a-Service, Infrastructure-as-a-Service and Software-as-a-Service), four deployment models and five essential characteristics…

Grazed from Information-Age. Author: Ben Rossi.

There are a great variety of startups that are benefitting from the scalability of cloud computing and growing their business and customer offerings as a result. Below are five tips for startups either in the early stages or considering cloud technology for the first time, based on the experiences at Purplebricks.com since launching in April 2014. Kavanagh’s verdict? While it poses certain challenges at first, it is well worth the investment in the long run.

1. Message queuing – essential but fiddly

A message typically represents a task created by someone (the “producer”) that has to be processed by someone else (the “consumer”). Each message has a body and some attributes – the main architectural benefit is loose coupling. A message queueing service aims to remove the traditional overhead associated with operating in-house messaging infrastructures…

Grazed from IT-Online. Author: Editorial Staff.

The Alibaba Group is to make an additional investment of $1-billion into Aliyun, its cloud computing unit. The capital will be used to expand Aliyun’s international presence and support infrastructures, in addition to R&D in cloud computing, big data, and the building of a business ecosystem. This move has once again confirmed Alibaba’s determination to expand and develop its cloud computing operations globally.

Aliyun’s global operations have just begun. In this year, Aliyun announced plans to set up data centres in Western US and the Middle East and, later on, the Eastern US, Europe, Singapore and Japan. These plans are designed to serve both the internationalisation of Chinese companies on the one hand, and local customers in those markets on the other…

Read more from the source @ http://it-online.co.za/2015/08/13/chinese-cloud-providers-in-global-expansion/

Grazed from SmartDataCollective. Author: Richard Thelwell.

The term “cloud computing” may be commonly uttered in businesses all over the world, but its complex history is less well known. Our interactive timeline explores the history of Cloud Computing (and its future!) Considering the technology has only achieved mainstream adoption in the last decade or so, it may come as some surprise to discover that the origins of the cloud are relatively long-standing.

Far from being a newly discovered technological gimmick, cloud computing can trace its roots back to the 1940s and 50s, developing alongside the personal computer and the World Wide Web. If you have ever accessed a file or application that was not stored locally on your smartphone, tablet or PC then you’ve benefited from the cloud…

Grazed from ComputerWeekly.  Author: Adran Bridgwater.

Pulsant (pron: pull-sunt) is a company already known to us on the Computer Weekly Developer Network blog.  The firm specialises in managed cloud hosting, colocation and application hosting services.  The firm’s raison d’être (or ‘core competency’, if you prefer) is adding value to cloud services — as such, Pulsant promises it will quite literally hand hold customers migrating to cloud computing deployments.

So what does this entail?

Grazed from ITProPortal.  Author: Barclay  Ballard.