Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

ReportsnReports.com adds Telco Cloud 2014-2018 market research report of 54 pages that addresses a major question on whether telcos can compete with the heavyweights or not. This report provides an in-depth exploration of telecom carriers’ positioning and strategies in the enterprise cloud computing market. It identifies the impediments and assets that telcos have in establishing a solid and lasting foothold in the different cloud segments: IaaS, PaaS and SaaS.

The Telco Cloud market report also delivers an analysis of how telcos and the market’s dominant players are positioned in each cloud segment and supplies estimates of telcos’ share of the cloud computing market, along with revenue projections for the next five years…

Grazed from TalkinCloud.  Author: Todd Thibodeaux.

Businesses today are drowning in data, and many don’t have the resources to get their heads above water. As with countless other enterprise technologies, big data adoption and application hinges on having the right people.



Time alone is unlikely to address the gulf between the big data skills employers demand and their staffs’ technical competence. According to CompTIA’s"Second Annual Big Data Insights and Opportunities" report, even half of all businesses that consider themselves ahead of the big data adoption curve struggle with skill shortages. As these gaps widen, firms will struggle with data silos, diminished productivity and stiffer industry competition…

Grazed from Computing.  Author: John Leonard.

Among respondents to Computing’s recent data centre research programme, the hybrid cloud model is generating a lot of interest. Indeed, moving towards a hybrid model was the aim of 41 per cent of them (see figure 1).

Hybrid cloud implies a close interconnectivity between a private cloud (i.e. a collection of physical and virtual systems used exclusively by one company) and the multi-tenant public cloud services exemplified by Google, Amazon and Microsoft Azure. This seamlessly integrated whole allows data, services and workloads to be moved between public and private clouds at will, with the administrator able to monitor and manage the whole system via a single dashboard…

Grazed from CIO.  Author: Richi Jennings.

Smart CIOs are evolving their existing in-house IT—to include “the cloud.” But beware of hidden pitfalls in moving to cloud computing.  So here are a few top, actionable tips. They’ll help you successfully transition to a modern computing model, stay sane in the face of fast-growing data, and avoid IT management chaos…

The Challenges We All Face 
Whatever your industry, CIOs are continually being asked to do more with less—and faster. Cynthia Stoddard, NetApp’s CIO, concludes that this type of innovation requires a business-focused approach:…

Grazed from GCN.  Author: Editorial Staff.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology released the final version of its Cloud Computing Technology Roadmap Volumes I and II, the culmination of a three-year old effort to assess and set objectives for the accelerated adoption of cloud computing in government.

“Cloud computing is still in an early deployment stage, and standards are crucial to increased adoption,” the report adds. “The urgency is driven by rapid deployment of cloud computing in response to financial incentives.”…

Grazed from ComputerWorld.  Author: Juan Carlos Perez.

Google has struck a partnership with PwC in which the global provider of consulting services will recommend to its customers the Apps suite, Android devices and the Google cloud computing platform.

The deal comes at a time when Google is embroiled in tough fights in the enterprise markets for cloud email and collaboration suites, cloud computing services and mobile against rivals like Microsoft, IBM, Amazon and Apple…

Grazed from ZDNet.  Author: Steve Ranger.

In the early days of the cloud computing it was routine for tech executives to admit that they had little idea of, or control over, the use of the technology within their organisations; developers would cheerfully pay for cloud storage or processing power using their credit cards, forcing CIOs to turn detective to work out what was being used, when, and by who.

But it seems that the IT department has now caught up and is reasserting its control over cloud spending, with either excellent or disastrous timing.  Over 80 percent of cloud spend is now managed by the IT department, and 62 percent of that has the direct involvement of the CIO, according to research by Verizon…

Grazed from Virtual Instruments.  Author: PR Announcement.

Infrastructure Performance Management provider Virtual Instruments has updated its VirtualWisdom solution, offering customers new analytics tools.  Now dubbed VirtualWisdom4.1, the update was announced at Powering the Cloud in Frankfurt. It features an applied analytics module which the firm claims to offer ‘enhanced user-interface, reporting, and analytics tools’.

Skip Bacon, CTO at Virtual Instruments, said: "The advanced applied analytics tools are able to execute tasks in just a few seconds, tasks which prior to VirtualWisdom4, would have taken hours or even days…

Grazed from CMSWire. Author: Kimberly Gress.

As technology vendors respond to a changing marketplace by creating Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings, their relationship to their customers must change. Satisfying customers by creating a great product that garners positive reviews, and soliciting customer feedback for future upgrades simply isn’t enough.

When a company hands over control of its mission-critical software environment to a SaaS provider, the SaaS customer support organization essentially functions as an extension of the customer’s IT department. To take this step, a customer must trust that they will receive the constant, professional and hands-on support they need. Generating this trust requires that the Customer Support team be transparent and always available. The following best practices will ensure that the support organization does both:…

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.

The HP Helion portfolio is expanding with the launch of commercially available infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings based on OpenStack and Cloud Foundry, respectively. The official launch of the cloud services follows up on several announcements Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) has been making since it debuted the Helion portfolio in the spring.

Stephen Spector, social strategist for the HP Cloud portfolio, noted in a blog post that the IaaS and PaaS offerings were designed to seamessly work together and provide cloud computing offerings that are both highly available and developer-friendly. "Customers can deploy HP Helion OpenStack to gain the advantages of an open source distributed computing platform that provides predictable scalability, high availability, durability and significantly reduced operational costs…