Gaining Control in a Crowded Cloud
Grazed from IT Business Edge. Author: Michael Vizard.
There is no shortage of cloud computing options these days, which is also the major reason why many IT organizations are currently experiencing a loss of control. In the absence of a fully functioning private cloud within their own data centers, many IT organizations have been turning to third-party cloud service providers to either set up or manage a private cloud for them, while relying on low-cost, public cloud services for ancillary functions such as application development.
At some point, IT organizations are going to need to bring all those forms of cloud computing under a common management framework. To address that specific issue, Virtustream, a provider of a cloud computing service, this week announced that it’s making its xStream 2.0 software for managing clouds available to IT organizations that can now use it to manage internal private clouds, third-party private cloud services and public cloud services…
Cloud Computing Transforming IT
Grazed from Sys Con Media. Author: Patrick Burke.
One thing people can agree on is that the cloud is the most transformative information technology to come along in decades – on the same level as the rise of the personal computer or the Internet. And that means there is a lot at stake for enterprises struggling to lay down the foundations needed to support cloud operations going forward, according to a post on IT Business Edge.
It’s possible to identify the key factors in successful cloud development that will encourage the cloud’s transformative aspects while diminishing its disruptive ones. These include user attitudes, technologies and processes, all of which have a lot to gain and lose depending on the way cloud systems are architected and implemented, according to Arthur Cole of IT Business Edge…
Cloud Standards Customer Council Announces Case Study Competition
The Cloud Standards Customer Council (CSCC), managed by OMG(R) and in partnership with BPTrends and TechTarget, today announced the 2012 Cloud Computing Case Study Competition. The competition is open to member organizations of all sizes, including government agencies, which have successfully delivered cloud implementations. CSCC membership is free to all end user organizations. For more information and to submit a case study visit http://www.cloud-council.org/contest-pr .
The goal of the Cloud Computing Case Study Competition is to highlight business success stories and lessons learned to provide proof points and insights for other organizations considering or pursuing cloud computing adoption…
How cloud computing is driving success for Europe’s small businesses
The economic news making headlines across Europe is enough to keep any entrepreneur up at night. Despite this, small and medium-sized enterprises have been remarkably resilient and recent research from Microsoft found that a quarter of SMEs in Europe plan to hire new staff in 2012, while a large portion (up to 40% in some countries) expect to be more successful this year than last.
With only a few bright spots on the horizon, why do SMEs have such a sunny outlook? The Microsoft report provides another interesting clue: 18% of SMEs also plan to invest in new technology in the next year. That number may not seem like a blockbuster statistic, but it points to a key factor driving the success of small businesses, both in Europe and around the globe – cloud computing…
The Amazon API battle for the cloud rages on
Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Barb Darrow.
The battle over whether it’s productive for cloud providers to clone Amazon’s APIs will rage on this week. Amazon rival Rackspace built its new cloud platform atop OpenStack and will not support the popular Amazon APIs while Eucalyptus, famously, will. Rackspace President Lew Moorman is not sure what that support buys Eucalyptus.
“API cloning does not get you to interoperability. The cloud is not a protocol. It’s a deep piece of technology that has to be replicated. If Amazon decided to open source its technology that would be a different story,” Moorman said in an interview going into today’s GigaOM Structure event where he will speak…
Computing, Content, Applications, and Commerce in the Cloud: Legacy Network Operator Threats and Opportunities
Grazed from Research & Markets. Author: PR Announcement.
(http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/fvb653/computing_content) has announced the addition of the "Computing, Content, Applications, and Commerce in the Cloud: Legacy Network Operator Threats and Opportunities" report to their offering.
Migration to the cloud will affect more than just IT outsourcing of datacenters. Cloud represents opportunities and threats to existing network operators as applications, content, commerce, and computing migrate to the cloud. Game changing technologies including 4G, IP Multimedia Subsystem, and cloud computing will transform wireless communications. This transformation will be a boon for some who recognize and seize the opportunities and a bane for others who do not adjust their strategies, products and solutions…
Ubiquisys in First Demonstration of Smart Cells based on Intel Architecture on Live Mobile Network
Grazed from MarketWatch. Author: PR Announcement.
Ubiquisys, the developer of 3G and LTE small cells, will demonstrate smart cells running on a live mobile network at Small Cells World Summit in London on 26-28 June. The smart cell is a new class of device: a small cell base station with a fully integrated cloud computing platform. Ubiquisys has developed a new range of communications-tuned computing modules based on Intel(R) architecture. With support from Intel, Ubiquisys has integrated these modules into a range of 3G/LTE/WiFi small cell base stations, adding massive processing power and storage at the edge of the network.
Small cell deployments in public spaces — incorporating combinations of 3G, WiFi and LTE — are growing rapidly, as they multiply the capacity of mobile networks whilst driving down costs. Users experience major improvements in data performance because the signal is delivered over a short range. But cloud media and core network applications remain at the far end of an often congested commodity backhaul connection, severely restricting the user experience benefits. Smart cells overcome this challenge by bringing context-specific media and applications closer to mobile users, opening new opportunities for operators, end-users and application developers…
CloudConnect is Charting a Course to the Cloud
Grazed from TheSuit. Author: David Novak.
Cloud Computing represents the biggest shift in computing in the last 15-years. It’s as fundamental as the move from client-server computing to web-centric computing, and in many ways more so. Cloud computing is changing business models in that it now gives people the ability to efficiently allocate computing power on demand, in a true utility model. It changes the very landscape of the way companies use IT resources.
By the end of 2012, cloud spending will triple to $42-billion. Already, the money spent on cloud computing is growing at over five times the rate of traditional, on-premise IT. Cloud adopters are enjoying lower costs and greater ability to adapt to changing market conditions…
Cloud Computing Simply Isn’t That Scary Anymore: Survey
Cloud computing just isn’t as scary as it once was to companies and their CIOs. A new survey of 785 companies finds a meager 3% considering it to be too risky — down from 11% last year. Only 12% say the cloud platform is too immature, and that’s down from 26% a year ago. Furthermore, 50% of the survey respondents now say they have “complete confidence” in the cloud — up from 13% a year ago.
Of course, looking at it another way, that means 50% aren’t quite comfortable. But still, cloud is finding its way into day-to-day business.
These are the findings of a new survey conducted by North Bridge Venture Partners. The survey had a lot of industry support behind it, sponsored by 39 companies, including Amazon Web Services, Rackspace, Eucalyptus, and Glasshouse…
ComputeNext Multi-Cloud Marketplace Launches as Structure Launchpad Participant
As a cloud service brokerage, or CSB, ComputeNext is a helping define a market segment projected to yield $5 billion in sales by 2014, according to Gartner’s projections this is the fastest growing area of cloud computing.
This LaunchPad event is held live on June 20th at 5PM PDT in Silicon Valley where the cloud computing, big data, and mobile mindshare come to feel the pulse of IT and disruptive technology. Video streams and recorded captures can be found at: www.livestream.com/gigaomstructure
ComputeNext has been called an "uber-aggregator" of cloud services, and has been gaining traction amongst public cloud providers, bringing choice and interoperability to cloud consumers through a marketplace portal which they deem to be the equivalent of Expedia for cloud computing…