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Grazed from ChannelInsider.  Author: Michael Vizard.

There’s a lot of contention these days not so much over whether customers should embrace cloud computing as much as what’s the right path to get there.

This debate has some significant implications of solution providers that are being asked to represent various cloud computing service providers, especially in the enterprise. One knock that cloud service providers such as Amazon and Google routinely get in the enterprise is that from a support perspective they are known as “faceless entities.” There is generally no one to talk to at these companies in terms of support and the service level agreements (SLA) these organizations provide are all but meaningless…

Grazed from The Register.  Author: Matt Asay.

Open … and Shut The good open source lord giveth, and it taketh away, and no one knows this better than Red Hat.

As Red Hat chief executive Jim Whitehurst declared at this week’s Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco, California, open source and its children – including cloud computing – are laying waste to the economics of how traditional enterprises do business, forcing them to gravitate to information to compete. Red Hat’s role in this tectonic shift? Arms dealer.

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Appnomic Systems today announced its strategic decision to join forces with the Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) through which the company hopes to help drive the Alliance’s focus on actively shaping the future of Cloud computing. Appnomic’s core technology and solution mirror the ODCA’s vision of seamless, secure environment.

Appnomic also announced its participation in the Open Data Center Alliance Forecast 2012 Conference in New York City on June 12, 2012. Appnomic president, Ray Solnik will present critical strategies and emerging technologies to ensure effective application performance optimization and management during the Rapid Fire Panel from 1:50 to 2:35 p.m. Eastern Time…

Grazed from CloudTimes.org.  Author: Editorial Staff.

IBM is set to roll out lower-cost products and services for cloud computing in order to attract more clients. In a move to compete against HP, Cisco, and Equinix, IBM will be offering cloud applications for continued interoperability with Norway’s Otrum, Dell, and Germany’s SAP AG. Instead of managing software applications by themselves, potential clients can choose from the wide varieties of cloud offerings IBM offers. According to IBM’s vice president for SmartCloud and Managed Services Marketing, Craig Sowell, the company will be offering optimized solutions because there is really no one-size-fits-all solution when it comes to cloud computing services.

Aside from the product offerings, IBM is also set to offer companies their data center management service as well as other software and services fitted for the customers’ needs. IBM’s revenue from services grew by 2% for the first quarter while software revenue rose by 5%. However, hardware sales were decreased by 7%. Net income rose by $3.1 billion or 7.1%. IBM’s program director for smart cloud services, Tim Kounadis, said that the company will be offering such products and services at a competitive price. Pricing will be according to the company’s needs and size…

Grazed from PRWeb.  Author: PR Announcement.

During April 2012, more than 12,000 cloud computing jobs were seen advertised online, according to WANTED Analytics™ (http://www.wantedanalytics.com), the leading source of real-time business intelligence for the talent marketplace. Hiring increased almost 50% year-over-year when compared to April of 2011 and more than 275% versus April 2010.

Technology occupations saw the highest number of jobs. Some of the most commonly advertised cloud computing related job titles were Software Engineers, Java Developer, Systems Engineer, Network Engineer, and Websphere Cloud Computing Engineer. Other occupations with high demand for cloud computing skills were Marketing Managers, Sales Representatives, Management Analysts, Operations Managers, and Market Research Analysts…

Grazed from Computer Technology Review.  Author: Adam Stern.

It’s no wonder businesses moving their computing operations to the cloud are feeling a bit insecure these days. There is a considerable amount of information being disseminated about cloud security, and many businesses are left to sift through this information with little or no prior experience in cloud computing. Add to that the various choices – private, hybrid, public, SaaS (Software as a Service), PaaS (Platform as a Service) and IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) – and it can be a daunting change.

Who’s right? And what is the best – and most secure – choice for your business? Let’s examine one choice here – IaaS – and what constitutes a first-rate, secure IaaS-based system.

IaaS is the outsourced delivery of the computing infrastructure and includes managed hosting and development environments. It offers the user flexibility and scalability without the upfront cost of investing in hardware for an enterprise IT infrastructure. IaaS makes use of virtualization to provide users the number of servers they need, when they need them…

Grazed from CNet.  Author: Gordon Haff.

Most discussions about where computing is and where it’s going end up touching on three big themes: mobility, big data, and cloud computing. Yesterday’s MIT Sloan CIO Symposium was no exception, whether those precise terms were used or not.

Perhaps the most striking example of just how rapidly mobile devices are forcing IT organizations to adapt came from Scott Griffith, the CEO of Zipcar, who said that "60 percent of interactions are now through an Android or an iPhone." He also noted that essentially BlackBerry’s entire share had shifted to Android over a period of about two and a half years…

Grazed from Economic Times.  Author: Editorial Staff.

"The start-ups will have access to our resources such as BizSpark programme and $60,000 in Azure credit through BizSpark Plus programme to take advantage of the cloud," Microsoft India (R&D) Managing Director Amit Chatterjee told reporters here unveiling the programme in the Indian sub-continent.

Start-ups that can build any application using the company’s cloud platform and operate in any business or market segment will be eligible to apply for the programme, being launched simultaneously in Beijing (China), Tel Aviv (Israel), Seattle (US) and Bangalore…

Grazed from Network Computing.  Author:  George Lawton.

Virtualization and cloud computing are hot topics at EMC World–but how do you deliver speed and data center resiliency, as well as scalability, in virtual and cloud environments? Ciena is focusing on tackling all three issues with its demonstrations at this week’s conference in Las Vegas.

Jim Morin, product line director, managed services and enterprise at Ciena, says the company’s technology platform for a virtual WAN will facilitate the deployment of ultra-low latency stock market applications and ease the distribution of synchronous virtual machine architectures. In the long run, it will allow the development of bandwidth-on-demand services for data -intensive cloud applications…