Author: David

Grazed from MarketWatch. Author: PR Announcement.

Oracle Corp. surprised investors with a new business category in its quarterly results Thursday, “cloud software subscriptions,” in an amusing turnaround for its chief executive, Larry Ellison.

Ellison has often poked fun, especially at the company’s user conference, at the term “cloud computing.” In an interview at the AllThingsD event last May, Kara Swisher asked why he resisted the term. “I objected to people saying, “Oh my God, we just invented cloud computing,” Ellison commented, adding that moving the complexity of the desktop to Internet servers had been recast as cloud computing. He did acknowledge that he thought the term was a “charismatic brand.” See: Oracle’s Larry Ellison at D10 and the dogfight in the cloud…

Grazed from Wired. Author: Yankee Group.

Cloud computing can play an important role in lowering costs for telecom operators and make them more nimble and agile. But the jury is still out whether telcos can compete in the cloud services market. Yet, with traditional revenue streams like voice, messaging and data increasingly being threatened by regulation, competition and over-the-top (OTT) players, gaining share in the fast growing cloud services market will be necessary to maintain relevance and ensure revenue growth.

In the consumer cloud space, popular services like webmail, storage, synchronisation, music and social networking are being delivered by OTT players such as Microsoft, Google, Apple, Dropbox, Spotify and Facebook…

Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Barb Darrow.

It makes sense for the CMO to help pick which technology marketing uses — but marketing is just one of many departments of a company. In this age of BYOD, all that autonomy will lead to more “rogue” IT. That’s not always a good thing.

Every time I hear that more IT spending will flow through the marketing department than through CIOs in the future, I get visions of expensive PowerPoint-toting suits designating their server of choice. It’s an odd picture…

Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: Gregory Musungu.

Telecommuting is the new way of working. The days when people had to be physically present at work are far behind. Working from home is a more cost effective, efficient, and easy option. That is why many companies have adopted it fully or partially. Cloud computing helps telecommuting to be effective because there are so many applications hosted online you can use to work efficiently from home.

Managing projects

The life of a telecommuter can be hectic. You probably have different current project, briefs, timelines, and so much more. This means that if you don’t have an effective project management system, disorganization and mismanagement will be the result. Different project management systems are available via cloud computing. These allow you to manage your projects, keep track of correspondence, assign to-do lists, and so forth, to ensure that your projects run smoothly…

Grazed from MaximumPC. Author: Paul Lilly.

It wasn’t too terribly long ago that "cloud computing" was a loosey-goosey marketing term being thrown around by anyone and everyone in the software space. And now? There’s been a marked shift towards cloud-based services, which is a market that research firm Gartner predicts will grow 19.6 percent to $109 billion by the end of 2012.

"The cloud services market is clearly a high-growth sector within the overall IT marketplace," said Ed Anderson, research director at Gartner. "The key to taking advantage of this growth will be understanding the nuances of the opportunity within service segments and geographic regions, and then prioritizing investments in line with the opportunities."…

Grazed from Hartford Business. Author: Editorial Staff.

Stamford cloud-software developer Kaavo says it won a patent on technology that is the centerpiece of a product introduced three years ago.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office this week issued to Kaavo patent No. 8271974, titled "Cloud computing lifecycle management for N-tier applications.” There are 45 claims in the patent, the company said. Cloud computing is the delivery of software or hardware resources via a network, typically the Internet…

Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: John Omwamba.

The kind of network model that one employs to compile, distribute and exchange data determines the security of its passage through the Internet. This brings the question of whether the flat model can serve as the best security option for cloud computing. This model, first of all, helps to create a more direct relationship between the data provider and the recipient compared to tiered structures. Tiered structures are networks that have not only the access and the core but other integrated endpoints within the distribution path. The flat system only has the access and end points. It virtually eliminates the necessity of intermediaries, which leads to fast and more reliable information retrieval.

The basic question is: is it still the way to go when thinking about cloud security?…

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Beth Pariseau.

When it comes to managing on-premise systems, virtualization and cloud computing shops want quick answers to complex queries — without dealing with the underlying infrastructure. Some of those shops have taken a leap of faith and adopted emerging products that offer such big data analytics features, delivered via Software as a Service (SaaS).

"They can simplify views of very complex information into a webpage that anyone can look at," said Nathan Smith, senior engineer at Centered Networks, a San Francisco-based Desktop as a Service provider…

Grazed from PRNewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Proximex™, a global leader in physical security information management (PSIM), announced today that its Physical Security Information Management (PSIM) solution has been implemented on the Windows Azure cloud computing platform. The Proximex Surveillint™ Cloud Edition implementation serves as a signal of marketplace acceptance of the Windows Azure cloud-based solution delivery model from Microsoft Corp. for mission-critical enterprise applications.

Surveillint by Proximex connects and correlates information from disparate systems into one centralized view to help mitigate risk, ensure compliance and lower total cost of ownership. Cloud enabled deployment options for Surveillint offer a number of potential advantages to PSIM users, including:

• Capital savings, by eliminating the requirement for customers to procure, deploy and maintain system hardware to support their infrastructure software environments
• Flexibility, by providing customers with the ability to quickly expand capacity to support changing operational needs on demand
• For management, the ability to better understand and plan for the operational requirements and costs associated with PSIM deployment and operation…

Grazed from PCPro. Author: Editorial Staff.

Dropbox, Google Drive, SkyDrive and Box.Net are the four biggest names in cloud storage, but how do they work out for business use? Dropbox is arguably the archetypal cloud storage service, and one of the first services to demonstrate the potential of cloud computing to the mainstream user. Despite concerns about security, it has become a popular tool in enterprise.

End users who used it and loved it within their personal computing bought it to work, and now many companies – officially or unofficially – use it as a quick and dirty system for sharing files between multiple users, perhaps across multiple companies and locations. What’s more, with its easy sync capabilities it’s a fine means of keeping key files up to date and accessible across desktop and laptop PCs and mobile devices…