Author: David

Grazed from NetworkWorld. Author: Brandon Butler.

"The enthusiasm for getting everything out of your data center and into the public cloud is starting to wane." That’s the assessment from Eric Hanselman (pictured), chief analyst at the 451 Research Group based on his latest study on cloud computing usage trends, which he presented this week at Cloud Connect in Chicago.

The interest among enterprises in public cloud computing platforms has grown steadily over the last couple of years in 451’s survey it commissions every few months. In the latest round though, the interest in public IaaS resources has begun to level off. Instead of growing again, IT directors of Fortune 2000 companies interviewed by 451 are no more likely today to explore IaaS compared to four months prior…

Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Charles Babcock.

Robin Chase, founder of ZipCar, told attendees at Cloud Connect 2013 in Chicago that the human race must reorganize around the means provided by cloud computing and social networking to better utilize resources to solve pressing world problems.

Chase spoke in Tuesday’s opening keynote session to argue that human activity in recent history has consisted of individuals spending part of their week working for a company, then acting as a consumer for the rest of the time. Now those roles are beginning to merge as consumers gain the social networking and feedback mechanisms to react to their consumer experiences. Their reactions in turn influence the course of the companies around them. She refers to her ideas, which focus on individuals acting without waiting for their governments, as "cooperative capitalism" involving businesses that share "excess capacity" in the hands of individuals…

Grazed from InvestingDaily. Author: Chad Fraser.

The move toward cloud computing continues to pick up speed. According to a September report from technology research firm IDC, global spending on public IT cloud services will total $47.4 billion in 2013 and will rise to over $107 billion in 2017. In all, cloud computing’s compound annual growth rate (CAGR) during the period (23.5%) is expected to be five times that of the IT industry as a whole.

IDC sees the U.S. as holding its place as the largest public IT cloud services market, though its share will fall from 56.9% in 2013 to 43.9% in 2017. In emerging markets, however, cloud spending is expected to post a CAGR of 37.3%, nearly twice the rate of developed countries…

Grazed from PropertyCasualty360. Author: Anya Khalamayzer.

Risk managers may have their head in the clouds with concern over the liabilities of cloud computing. However, an uptick in companies moving to cloud data hasn’t correlated to a cybercrime storm, says Bryan Sartin, director of Verizon Enterprise Solutions’ Research, Investigations, Solutions, Knowledge (RISK) Team.

“By and large, major cloud providers have figured out their own native security architecture, so hackers can’t use the same recipe of attacks on different providers,” says Sartin. It is the risk manager’s company that should be concerned about its safety culture, especially those in the financial and insurance industries, which Sartin says are “classic” victims of cyber attacks…

Grazed from ITWorld. Author: Jeremy Kirk.

Google is lending its vast infrastructure to websites that may be targeted by distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks because of their content. The program, called "Project Shield," is invite-only and accepting applications from websites dealing with news, human rights or election-related content.

Those accepted will benefit from Google’s DDoS defenses, which help repel barrages of traffic designed to cause websites to stop responding. DDoS attacks are an effective, low-cost way to disrupt companies and organizations. The attacks are difficult to counter even for well-resourced organizations that can afford separate security services specializing in DDoS mitigation…

Grazed from Midsize Insider. Author: Marissa Tejada.

Cloud computing storage is on the rise, and that’s creating new vendor offerings in the market. A new survey found that the United States is the largest revenue generator in the worldwide cloud-based storage market. The growth of acceptance of the cloud to digitally store information has created better choices for midsize firms aiming to implement the cloud at an affordable price point.

Bright Forecast

Global research firm TechNavio recently released its official forecast of the cloud storage market. The results show that the market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 36 percent until 2016. Out of all the global regions, North America is considered the largest adopter of cloud computing storage technologies. The highest enterprise adopters include the manufacturing sector and the information and communication technologies (ICT) sector. Companies in the fields of retail, health care and entertainment will also be implementing cloud storage at an aggressive pace in the future…

Grazed from ITWorldCanada. Author: Nestor E. Arellano.

Corporate IT administrators may have more to worry about than just the wave of smart watches, Google glasses and other wearable computing devices that could flood the enterprise soon. A recent survey of indicates that more than half of Generation Y workers are prepared to contravene corporate bring your own device and cloud computing policies if it cramps their personal and professional computing and social networking activity.

“It’s not getting any better for IT groups,” said John Maddison, vice-president of marketing for American network security appliance firm Fortinet Technologies Inc. “It’s really alarming to see policy contravention so high and so sharply on the rise, especially when instances of Gen Y users being victims of cybercrime is rising.”…

Grazed from Forbes. Author: Walt Strubbe.

For a sector driven by rapid change, it’s always discouraging to hear IT catch blame for being a corporate bottleneck. Yet it’s a refrain growing all the more common with the widespread adoption of SaaS, IaaS and other cloud-based service offerings that enable IT circumvention.

And it’s one that continues to push IT leaders to redefine their strategies and policies. One way IT can retain the control and compliance it needs and still give end users what they want is to operate “as-a-Service,” a movement the industry is calling IT-as-a-Service, or ITaaS…

Grazed from CloudExpoAsia.  Author: Event Announcement.

Cloud Expo Asia, located in Singapore on the 13th & 14th November 2013, is set to be the leading event in Asia for senior IT decision makers in client side and public sector organisations, as well as the cloud industry.

The event includes a world-class conference programme with over 140 speakersincluding 50 case-studies and an exhibition of 100 leading international suppliers.  Co-located with Cloud Expo Asia is Data Centre World Singapore and the CloudAsia Conference organised by the IDA.

Cloud Expo Asia’s world-class conference programme reaches over 9 dedicated theatres which are defined by both discipline and technology:…

Grazed from Wired. Author: Nikolaus Kimla.

Throughout history, there have always been visions of the future. Jules Verne showed us submarines and flying machines long before they came about. Gene Roddenberry shared his vision of computers that would greatly assist in every aspect of an organization and even fully run some of them – and this has come to pass. Isaac Asimov described robots that would replace laborers and domestic staff. All of these are here or are well on the way.

But with cloud computing and the technological advancements all around us, it doesn’t take a science fiction writer to point out how our corporate world will soon appear. The advent of the cloud is bringing about a new corporate environment in which there is no office. Everyone is working remotely from their own locations and the physical building is a thing of the past. In addition to many other benefits, this scenario spells the end of office politics…