Grazed from BusinessWire. Author: PR Announcement.

With a string of new customers and alliances with strategic partners for its cloud-based medical image archive platform, Dell has been recognized as one of the largest healthcare cloud computing providers in the industry.

In September, Frost & Sullivan recognized Dell Healthcare and Life Sciences with its 2012 North American Company of the Year Award, based on the firm’s analysis of the enterprise imaging informatics market. "In addition to operating the industry’s largest public cloud for medical imaging, Dell is also ideally positioned for the implementation of private clouds within multisite hospital and imaging center networks," said Nadim Daher, principal analyst at Frost & Sullivan…

Grazed from ComputerWorldUK. Author: Forrester.

James Staten and I wrote this vision of the future of cloud computing. The full report is available to Forrester clients at this link. The research is part of Forrester’s playbook to advise CIOs on productive use of cloud computing and is relevant to application development and delivery leaders as well.

This research charts the shifts taking place in the market as indicated by the most advanced cloud developers and consumers. In the future, look for the popular software-as-a-service (SaaS) and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) models to become much more flexible by allowing greater customisation and integration…

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Joe Panetierri.

What’s next for the HP Public Cloud? Senior VP Zorawar ‘Biri’ Singh will deliver the answers during HP Discover 2012 (Dec. 4-6, Franfurt, Germany). Sure, CEO Meg Whitman will assure customers and partners that HP is on the mend following a brutal write-down tied to the 2011 Autonomy acquisition. But for established and emerging cloud partners, Singh’s words will matter most.

As senior VP and general manager, HP Cloud Services, Singh has been working to effectively position his company against entrenched rivals (Amazon Web Services, Rackspace Cloud, etc.) and old foes that are moving into cloud computing (Dell, IBM, Oracle). He explained the strategy — including channel partner considerations — to Talkin’ Cloud during the OpenStack conference in April 2012…

Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: Abdul Salam.

Cloud computing is now in heavy use in the industry and even the consumer market is starting to consider the benefits of cloud computing. Even though it is using the same technology that we have since more than 10 years ago, the cloud computing paradigm made all of the difference by simply changing the implementation of networking technology. But what exactly drives the development of cloud technology, what motivates its constant update, and what prevents people from adopting it?

Well, the biggest driver of cloud computing has always been economics. Because of changing market trends, heavy competition, and a failing world economy, IT organizations, companies, and other businesses need to be able to adapt to the rapid changes in order to stay afloat and make profit. Cloud computing brings with it immediate advantages because of cost savings.

The following are cost saving benefits are immediately felt by a business the moment they implement cloud computing technologies…

Email Overload from the Exchange Admin’s Point of View

Grazed from Wired. Author: Nick Kephart.

From technology startups to multinationals, cloud computing has arrived, and the change is evident. According to Gartner, nearly 20% of companies are using cloud computing for most of their production applications.Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is already a $6 billion market and it’s growing nearly 50% per year. The popularity of IaaS means that more applications and services are being delivered via the cloud by an ever­expanding group of business units, teams, developers, and systems administrators.

IaaS consumers are now looking to cloud management platforms to help manage their growing portfolio of cloud applications. A cloud management platform enables organizations to deploy, manage, monitor, and control applications across public and private clouds ­ ensuring that companies can achieve both agility and cost savings. Here are six key capabilities you should look for in a cloud management platform:…

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Jeff Cogswell.

When working with a cloud installation, costs can easily skyrocket — whether you build a private cloud or adopt public cloud computing services. Though enterprises factor in initial purchasing costs, they often overlook costs associated with building and managing clouds, as well as ongoing maintenance they require from IT teams.

There are ways to keep the costs of cloud computing down, but with proprietary software, in-house development and open source options, the right choice is not always clear. Though there is no one-size-fits-all answer for controlling cloud costs, with the right information, an enterprise can choose an option that works…

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.

A new email reporting service from Message Bus enables companies to keep better tabs on how corporate email is being abused for illicit or unauthorized purposes. Message Bus’ Discover is a free reporting service designed to give more visibility into email senders so companies can see if their email systems are being abused or misused. Additionally, Message Bus also launched Global Delivery Network, a software service aimed at enterprises, email service providers and application developers that need to send millions to billions of emails, mobile and social messages per month.

Combined, Message Bus hopes to help businesses get a handle on dealing with unauthorized email senders. While Discover provides the visibility into who is sending email on behalf of the company, the Global Delivery Network was designed to lock out unauthorized email senders even as it lets legitimate senders send email across multiple channels…

Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Derrick Harris.

Netflix has forged a cottage industry building tools to fill gaps in Amazon’s cloud infrastructure or otherwise add value to it. Now the company is open sourcing its Hystrix libraries, which manage interactions between the myriad distributed services that power its applications.

Netflix, it seems, is to cloud computing what Google and Facebook are to distributed systems, generally. Today, Netflix has open sourced its latest technology for keeping its cloud-hosted applications running — a set of libraries, called Hystrix, that is designed to manage interactions between the myriad services that comprise the company’s distributed architecture. If you’re building service-oriented architectures in the Amazon Web Services cloud, it might be worth a look…