Grazed from Business Cloud9. Author: Stuart Lachlan.

CIOs have an opportunity to put innovation back in their job description and contribute more effectively to business strategy through the effective use of Cloud Computing.
For decades, CIOs and senior IT Decision Makers have struggled with the all too common perception of the IT department as a costly overhead rather than a significant contributor to corporate innovation and bottom-line success.

But the emergence of Cloud Computing and the subsequent lessening of the demands of legacy ICT architectures and operations presents today’s CIO with a chance to become innovators once more, says Doug Clark, Cloud Leader, IBM UK and Ireland…

Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: John Omwamba.

As cloud computing is currently enjoying a wave of global discourse by the business community, it is projected that more and more businesses are adopting cloud computing services as the preferred way to do business. Senior Vice President of Research for Gartner, Mr. Peter Sondergaard claims that cloud computing sits among the top four trends that will change IT in the next few years. It is no secret that any business outfit that is still reluctant in the adoption of this technology is losing out on a lot of benefits. The early adopters, furthermore, are not sitting pretty and enjoying these benefits but rather are looking for more effective ways that they can harness for a more competitive edge in their field of business

Competitiveness is often acquired when a business attains an upper hand through practices or resources that will outperform its competitors. These practices, strategies or resources are those that will save the company money in cost reduction, those that will improve effectiveness and or increase revenue. Any business can indeed achieve competitiveness through strategic exploitation of cloud features as follows:…

Grazed from CloudTimes. Author: Saroj Kar.

The power of very big supporters of OpenStack has become more evident in recent weeks. In less than two years, the open source platform OpenStack cloud deployment drew the attention of the biggest players in the industry. Companies such as Rackspace, through its private cloud, already offer free OpenStack distribution. Others like CloudScaling, Piston Cloud Computing, Red Hat, and Ubuntu offer their own version of OpenStack deployment.

As to celebrate its 20th anniversary, SUSE officially has chosen the OpenStack cloud distribution path for private cloud solutions. SUSE Cloud is a platform for automatic administration of clouds, which can be used to deploy and manage IaaS type private clouds…

Grazed from PR NewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

ClearScale™, The Cloud Computing Integration and Application Development company, today announced that it will be releasing its new product CloudDash ™ a highly customizable Cloud Management platform. CloudDash ™ is the only customizable Cloud Management Platform on the market today.

CloudDash ™ enables a flexible and customizable platform to manage your Cloud Computing resources. CloudDash ™ is available in both On-Premise and Hosted deployment options.

Grazed from PRWeb. Author: PR Announcement.

Bureaucloud, the UK based Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service Provider, has launched a Cloud Reseller Program. The program is designed for UK IT Managed Service and Support companies to be able to offer additional Cloud Services to their customers without any upfront costs or additional expertise.

The newly launched Bureaucloud Reseller Program is aimed at IT support and managed services providers who want to offer UK based Cloud Computing and hosted server environments to their customers without any need to invest in hardware, datacentre facilities or to hire additional admins. The new program is designed to accelerate the uptake of Cloud Computing within the UK Small and Medium Sized business market…

Grazed from Forbes. Author: Joe McKendrick.

KPMG LLP, a firm whose members think about taxes all day and every day, is concerned that too many companies are overlooking the tax considerations of moving to cloud computing.

This oversight is surfaced in a new survey the advisory firm just conducted among 206 senior corporate tax professionals. While the use of cloud environments continues to be increasingly embraced by companies, 52% of senior U.S. corporate tax professionals surveyed say they are “generally not included in discussions with top management or other groups in their organizations” to discuss the tax implications of cloud initiatives…

Does Every Enterprise Need a Hybrid Cloud?

Grazed from Manufacturing.net. Author: Don Lyman.

Cloud technology is proliferating throughout corporations around the globe, and manufacturing companies have been among the earliest adopters of cloud-based solutions. According to the July 2012 IDC Manufacturing Insights report, “Business Strategy: Cloud Computing in Manufacturing”, 22% of manufacturers worldwide have already implemented cloud-based computing systems, and an additional 45% of those surveyed are actively evaluating cloud deployments to replace internally-managed IT infrastructures over the next 24 months.

For the large number of manufacturers considering moving to the cloud, this article will provide a clear analysis of how cloud-based systems differ in their capabilities and costs from the traditional on-premise and hosted IT alternatives…

Grazed from NetworkWorld. Author: Brandon Butler.

Having a cloud computing startup has at some times felt like being part of the California Gold Rush, says Nand Mulchandani, CEO and co-founder of ScaleXtreme, a 2-year-old company focused on easing management of multi-cloud environments.

Scads of entrepreneurs over the past few years have launched companies in an effort to grab a share of the riches they’ve seen companies such as Amazon Web Services, Rackspace and VMware reap. And why not? Forrester last year projected that the cloud computing industry will grow six-fold from $40 billion in 2010 to $241 billion by 2020…