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September 1, 2012 Off

Six Questions about the Cloud

By David
Grazed from CFO.  Author: David Rosenbaum.

At an increasing number of companies, cloud computing tops the technology agenda. That’s not surprising. It can be a lot cheaper and more efficient to buy and access computer services over the Internet (in the cloud) — whether it’s applications, software and product development tools, or servers and storage — than to acquire the physical stuff and manage it internally.

But as with any new trend, companies should critically examine cloud computing before embracing it. Here are six questions, plus answers, that every CFO should ask about the cloud:

1. Will the total cost of ownership for the cloud be lower than what we’re already spending for IT?
That depends: do you know what you’re already spending?…

September 1, 2012 Off

In cloud computing, Intel aims to fill the automation gap

By David
Grazed from Daily News and Analysis.  Author: Aswathy Varughese.

What’s Intel’s vision for cloud computing?
Cloud computing technology is at a maturing phase. Development of both private and public cloud has become a priority for many cloud services and vendors. Intel’s cloud vision for the next few years will be on three important areas: federated, automated and client-aware. Federated refers to communications, data and services moving easily within and across cloud computing infrastructures. Today, the industry is just reaching the point that enterprises can move or migrate workloads within and between their own data centres.

Automated will make the cloud computing resources and services specified, located and secure with zero human interaction. Our vision is to fill the gap the industry is facing to achieve full automation. Data centre management remains very manual today. Intel’s vision on cloud computing calls for automation that dynamically allocates resources to agreed-upon service levels and optimises the data centre. Client-aware will be a significant focus area, which will help clients take advantage of the capabilities of the end point to optimise application delivery in a secure fashion…

September 1, 2012 Off

Cloud Computing Compliance Hazy For Banks

By David
Grazed from American Banker.  Author: Editorial Staff.

When Peoples Bank & Trust’s email system crashed earlier this summer, it turned to a hosted solution to ensure future continuity, and thus triggered an emerging and muddled compliance challenge many banks face.

"The email crash took us down a couple of days. Email is very important to the function of the bank, so we couldn’t take that risk of a crash again," says Robert Porter, vice president and IT director at the bank, a $275 million-asset community bank based in Hazard, Ky. The bank moved its entire email system to a hosted Safe Systems solution called SafeSysMail. It’s also using an email archiving and encryption service from Safe Systems. For a bank that only has two IT workers, the move to a hosted environment is expected to save about $80,000 over the next three years…

August 31, 2012 Off

Cloudant Brings BigCouch Cloud Database to Microsoft Azure

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Grazed from eWeek. Author: Jeff Cogswell.

Cloudant is a big data analytics company that has created a customized version of CouchDB called BigCouch that handles scalability and high-performance data distribution. BigCouch is distributed across multiple cloud providers throughout the planet.

Cloudant also includes a Web-based control panel through which you can sign up, allocate and manage your distributed cloud databases. The control panel makes use of CouchDB’s RESTful interface, allowing you to manage your database through Javascript and Ajax…

August 31, 2012 Off

Pano Logic Expands Desktop Computing Platforms to Support Terminal Services and Simplify Cloud Migration

By David

Grazed from ChannelPro. Author: Editorial Staff.

Pano Logic, a provider of zero client desktop virtualization and ‘Desktop in the Cloud’ computing, has announced Pano System for Cloud/Terminal Services 2.0, which links cloud-based computing with legacy terminal services resources, easing migration to the cloud.

By expanding its platform compatibility to include terminal services, Pano Logic now supports three major computing platforms, all using a zero endpoint that contains no processor, operating system, or moving parts. IT organizations can migrate their users to a common Pano Zero Client endpoint architecture and then deliver a range of end-user desktops through the cloud while still providing access to legacy Windows applications…

August 31, 2012 Off

Use the hybrid cloud model to unite disparate cloud computing visions

By David

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Tom Nolle.

Cloud projects often create so many questions that enterprises don’t know exactly where to start. There’s the public versus private cloud debate, the decision over which cloud service architecture to adopt and even the argument over who drives the cloud — individual business units or the IT department. No matter how you frame it, enterprises need to think about whether to approach the cloud using an "outside in" or an "inside out" approach.

The outside-in view of a cloud model

Line of business (LOB) planners think of cloud in the "outside in" model; they want cloud computing to make IT a more tactical component of operations. Those of the "outside in" cloud camp see the need to purchase capital equipment and software, sustain a data center and support internal IT activities as a potential cost issue and a definite impediment to agility…

August 31, 2012 Off

Secure-24 Recognized with EMC Journey to the Cloud Award

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Grazed from PRWeb. Author: PR Announcement.

Secure-24, a leading provider of cloud computing, application outsourcing and enterprise hosting services – has become a recipient of the 2012 EMC® Journey to the Cloud Award.

The award is given to EMC partners, customers or individuals who drive innovation, business value and performance through the use of virtualization as the transformational pillar for the move to cloud computing.

Secure-24 offers over 150 clients with operations around the globe managed hosting solutions on its enterprise private cloud. As a Certified SAP Partner and an Oracle Gold Partner, the company provides customized infrastructure solutions for ERP systems in a highly efficient, secure and redundant infrastructure…

August 31, 2012 Off

Cloud Computing: Workday, ORCL, SAP Competitor, Files to Go Public

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Grazed from TechDaily. Author: Tiernan Ray.

Enterprise software vendor and cloud-computing pioneer Workday this afternoon filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission a prospectus for a highly-anticipated public offering of shares.

Workday, founded in early 2005, offers software that runs on its own managed data centers to provide corporate functions such as payroll processing, benefits management, and contract tracking. The company is going up against “cloud-based” offerings from Oracle (ORCL) and SAP AG (SAP), among others…

August 31, 2012 Off

Cloud pleaser in China

By David
Grazed from ChinaNewsDaily.  Author: Lin Jing.

Cloud computing is spreading across the world, overshadowing other information technologies. But in China it is destined to take a different form to that enveloping Europe and the US.

The computing "cloud" is an abstract term representing an amorphous mass of IT applications and services that can be combined, integrated and tailored in numerous ways over the Internet and local networks to increase an organization’s efficiency.  It is increasingly being applied in commercial and government systems, so far mainly in telecoms, health, education, oil and finance.

Globally, revenue from the cloud computing market is expected to grow this year by 92.3 percent to $60.7 billion from the previous year, a report by Beijing IT consultancy CCID Consulting said. Another research body said the market will be worth $241 billion by 2020…

August 31, 2012 Off

Bright future beckons for cloud pioneer

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Grazed from Business Day. Author: Richard Hemming.

This week ASG showed that being a revolutionary can involve pain, particularly for shareholders.

The group has spent about $20 million in the past few years changing from being a traditional IT services provider to being a genuine cloud-based business.

The cloud we’re talking about here is not simply “hosting” or moving servers from the company onto a big data centre. It means being the direct provider of IT services. ASG is now the provider of systems such as Oracle, SAP and Microsoft to clients including Rio Tinto, ANZ, Sydney Water and government departments…