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Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: Michael Cooney.

When you go to a Gartner conference one of he main things you’ll notice is the sheer volume of data they can generate on just about any IT topic. Last week’s Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, Fla., was no different. The conference, attended by some 9,000 executives focused on the changes security challenges, mobile computing, big data and cloud will be bringing to IT in the near future.

Trying to get through it all can be daunting so we’ve tried to simplify that process by distilling a variety of Gartner ITxpo presentations and coming up with the most salient information. So here goes. From the Gartner analysts, presentations on:…

Grazed from Business2Community. Author: Michael Brenner.

Jack Clark, a reporter for ZDNet, recently pulled together opinions from industry experts to create a vision of cloud computing in 2020 in an article, entitled “Cloud Computing: 10 Ways It Will Change by 2020.”

So what will cloud computing look like eight or ten years down the road? What will influence the evolutionary path it takes? And how important will it be to an enterprise computing infrastructure? According to the article, Forrester Research states the global cloud computing market will grow from $35 billion in 2011 to $150 billion in 2020 and it will be a key part of IT infrastructures. Driven by data such as that, here is what the experts says is coming in 2020 for cloud computing…

Grazed from Business Standard. Author: Pradeesh Chandran.

The adoption of cloud computing in India is witnessing a strong growth and the rate of adoption has witnessed a growth of around 25% over last year. A study conducted by cloud service provider Vmware and Forrester Consulting also said that the more companies are planning to deploy cloud solutions within he next 18 months.

The study VMware Cloud Index 2012 conducted in 11 Asia Pacific countries said that around 40% of respondents feel that there is internal resistance to change that is hindering the adoption of cloud, suggesting that faster cloud adoption is possible for Indian organizations if these hindrances can be overcome. “The survey demonstrates the potential for cloud computing in the country and reflects a double digit rate of adoption,” said T Srinivasan, Managing Director, VMware (India and SAARC)…

Grazed from Business Review Europe. Author: Matthew Staff.

When cloud computing first emerged as the ‘next big thing’ five years ago, it was written off by some as a passing craze without any real substance. Today, industry analyst Gartner lists it as one of the four main forces transforming the IT landscape. The term ‘cloud’ covers a range of different hosted platforms and services. Its many benefits include an ability to store vast amounts of data and supply the very latest editions of software applications, often with real-time updates, accompanied by lower costs and greater convenience, flexibility and scalability.

Rapidly growing firms, international companies or those with an increasingly mobile workforce are examples of the kind of businesses that stand to gain from centrally hosted information and applications. Customers pay only for what they use, and are free to expand or contract capacity to suit demand. Not surprisingly, many organisations are looking to abandon their traditional, in-house, hardware-based systems to migrate to a cloud set-up…

Grazed from CloudPro. Author: Jane McCallion.

A quarter of CIOs view cloud infrastructure and virtualisation as their current top investment priorities, research suggests. The investigation, carried out by Research in Action on behalf of software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider Compuware, also found that CIOs believe end-to-end performance visibility and robust service level agreements (SLAs) as key to achieving good return on investment from cloud computing.

Over the next five years, full integration of public, hybrid and private cloud will be the single most important priority for CIOs, with 34 per cent of the 200-plus respondents surveyed saying it was their primary focus between now and 2017…

Grazed from WorldCrunch. Author: Daniel Bastien.

The new tablets and smartphones have blurred the boundaries between businesses and their employees, partners and customers. The danger of computer piracy has never been so great. The threat is invisible but incessant, as the recent large-scale attack on British bank HSBC shows. In information technology, we live in a time of fantastic new breakthroughs, but it is also a time of cold sweats for businesses. Their fears are well founded.

During a recent Paris workshop on "Security: Info Systems and the Challenge of Mobility," a young research engineer calmly took control over another person’s iPad from his own laptop via Wi-Fi. To make his demonstration more spectacular, he even made the microphone work remotely. To the mesmerized audience, it looked like a spy movie…

Grazed from Talkin’Cloud. Author: Chris Talbot.

The cloud computing skeptics may still think keeping data locked away within the four walls of a business is the best way to protect data, but as Hurricane Sandy continues up the Eastern Seaboard, the best place to store data may very well be the cloud. In fact, it’s fairly likely — at least if you still want access to it as Sandy starts to take its toll on IT infrastructure.

A team of engineers at Johns Hopkins University led by Seth Guikema is predicting up to 10 million people on the U.S. East Coast could lose power because of Hurricane Sandy. Imagine how many businesses will be affected, suffering downtime. And it’s not just those on the East Coast that have to worry — customers with remote and branch offices to the west that won’t be directly affected could still suffer access outages if proper measures aren’t taken…