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Grazed from MidSize Insider. Author: Doug Bonderud.

It’s easy to talk about cloud computing, but often more difficult to realize this technology’s long-term benefits. Despite aggressive marketing by both tech giants and start-up companies, a recent market study found that small and midsize enterprises (SMEs) are by and large letting the cloud pass them by, even though it is finally starting to offer concrete return on investment (ROI). So what’s keeping companies away?

Lack of Knowledge

That’s the main reason midsize business IT have for avoiding the cloud, according to a recent survey by MYOB, as reported by the Herald Sun. The survey, which asked over 1000 midsize companies about their cloud use, discovered that 79 percent didn’t use cloud technology at all, with 27 percent citing lack of knowledge as the main reason…

Grazed from Business2Community. Author: Jen Cohen.

A cloud computing strategy can absolutely save any company money, regardless of company size. In fact, one of the beautiful things about cloud computing is that it provides flexibility for small businesses and allows access to capabilities that were once only accessible for a large company with a large budget. For large businesses, it provides scalability and accessibility in many locations.

If you’re considering a cloud computing strategy and/or providing insights on the benefits of how it can save your company money, here are a few ideas to help support the money-saving concept…

Grazed from DataCenterKnowledge. Author: Rich Miller.

After you’ve bult one of the world’s largest web hosting companies, what do you do for an encore? If you’re Achim Weiss and Andreas Gauger, you set your sights on the cloud computing market.

Weiss and Gauger were pioneers in the European hosting sector, and helped build Germany’s 1&1 Internet into a web hosting juggernaut. With their new company, ProfitBricks, the duo are hoping to win over software developers and latency-sensitive businesses with a high-performance infrastructure as a service (IaaS) offering…

Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Raejeanne Skillern.

At an Intel Developer Forum session, Intel executive Diane Bryant outlined Intel’s three-part cloud strategy: Listen to the needs of end users, deliver optimized products and technologies based on those needs, and enable a broad range of deployable solutions that address customer requirements.

The Intel Developer Forum always provides many opportunities to get the inside story on Intel strategy and the technologies and solutions that stem from it. That was the case when Diane Bryant, VP and general manager of the Datacenter and Connected Systems Group (DCSG) for Intel Corporation, talked about cloud computing at an IDF session…

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Fernanda Aspe.

IT experts and cloud consumers understand the need for cloud standards, but standardization seems like an elusive possibility when the objectives of those standards remain undefined. Typically, standards are created to drive a market; end users or consumers usually have little say in the process of standardization.

"We end up with standards created to service technology providers, not the consumers," said David S. Linthicum, CTO and founder of cloud computing experts company, Blue Mountain Labs…

Grazed from Mobile Magazine. Author: Andrew Grush.

When you think of desktop computing, Motorola is probably one of the last brands that come to mind. Motorola is one of the kings of the Android smartphone and tablet world, right? While that’s true, it’s not stopping Google and Motorola from bringing out a new Android-powered desktop solution.

The new CloudBB is specifically targeted at the Chinese market and is described as a “home entertainment terminal”. As you can probably guess, this is a cloud computing device design to replace a PC…

Grazed from CloudTimes. Author: Saroj Kar.

The concept of cloud refers to the paperless computer hardware resources (cloud computing) and software (Software as a Service). This model tends technology strategically to win business. But it could reshape the IT landscape especially professional to lead to a new paradigm – thanks to the emergence of Amazon Web Services (AWS).

As a result, the market for computing resources may be profoundly changed. Why? Because companies no longer need to invest in loss of hardware and software overused. They can now hire Amazon Web Services tailored to their needs. For the two major advantages of this model are its flexibility and measurability…

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Roger Jennings.

Microsoft added another arrow to its cloud computing quiver last month with the announcement of the technical preview of Windows Azure Services for Windows Server. The move enables cloud hosting service providers to offer customers subscriptions to multi-tenant Windows Azure VMs and high-density websites with SQL Server or MySQL databases from a private cloud. Whether enterprise IT can pass down this or similar self-service provisioning features to end users is the question.

The Windows Azure Services for Windows Server (WAS4WS) technical preview (TP) for Hosting Service Providers (HSP) provides only Windows Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) core services for a private cloud — stateful virtual machines (VMs) and websites with persistent storage and optional SQL Server or MySQL back ends…

Grazed from American Banker. Author: Editorial Staff.

Federal agencies are starting to catch up to the risks posed by cloud computing. This is sure to stimulate compliance IT projects at financial institutions. A premium will be placed on data that’s in flight, or traveling the vulnerable path between banks and third parties.

CipherCloud , whose clients include two of the five largest U.S. banks, late this week debuted a new product called CipherCloud Connect AnyApp. The product is designed to encrypt data in transit, in use or at rest for public and private cloud applications — including infrastructure-as-as-service (IaaS), software-as-a-service (SaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS). IaaS refers to the outsourcing of equipment used to support operations, such as storage and servers. PaaS refers to the leasing of operating systems, storage and network capacity over the internet. SaaS is a software distribution method in which hosted applications are delivered to firms over the web. Each of these methods involves some form of data transfer to a host, which places it under FFIEC’s guidance…

Grazed from Business2Community. Author: Adam Greene.

In the world of enterprise IT, cloud computing is on everybody’s mind. Remote data hosting is helping many organizations streamline daily processes and lesson the burden of IT infrastructure maintenance. The cloud makes our information less expensive, more secure (usually), and more accessible. We hold these truths to be self-evident.

But can cloud computing solve all of our enterprise challenges? The answer, of course, is no. While the arrival of the cloud will help organizations remain competitive over the long term, there are several business challenges that, as much as we’d like to solve them, the cloud is unable to ameliorate on its own. Here are five of them:…