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Grazed from Midsize Insider.  Author: Doug Bonderud.

There’s a "tipping point" for cloud adoption, according to Google CIO Ben Fried, and it’s rapidly approaching. Once that point arrives and companies are over the hump and into the world of cloud computing, there’s no going back–it will become the standard for IT. But how do midsize businesses and their IT fit into this picture? Is such adoption only meant for large enterprise-level customers, or will it better benefit "mom and pop" organizations? Where does the midsize business end up?

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A recent article at The Wall Street Journal examines Fried’s take on the new world of cloud computing and why he thinks macroeconomic tides will force companies to adopt cloud options soon. Five years ago, Fried was working at an investment bank and started to notice that "consumer companies were forcing efficiencies on a scale never seen before." He headed for one source of this consumer disruption, Google, to see what all the fuss was about…

Grazed from GlobalNewsWire.  Author: Editorial Staff.

The days of bloated, device-dependent, operating system dependent fat client software are over, according to Rafael Laguna, CEO, Open-Xchange, who will speak at Computerworld’s Open Source Business Conference (OSBC).

"No one is better suited than the open source community to create the future of smaller, nimble, collaborative web and mobile applications," says Laguna. "All that is needed is a device that has a browser, which also lets users switch between devices, with the same software (delivered over the Internet), as well as the same data."

His session, titled Delivering Productivity from the Open Cloud is scheduled for Tuesday, May 22 at 2 pm and OSBC is from May 21-22 in San Francisco. Open-Xchange, supplier of email and collaboration software, is a Gold sponsor of the event…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Bill.com, the leader in integrated bill payment, online invoicing and cash flow management solutions for businesses, today announced seamless integration with NetSuite’s N -0.02% cloud computing platform. NetSuite is the industry’s leading provider of cloud-based financials/ERP software suites.

Bill.com’s award-winning Cash Flow Command and Control(TM) System provides NetSuite’s users with a new and easy way to automate their bill pay and workflow online. The ability to pay bills, eliminate redundant data entry, collaborate with vendors, simplify paper management and sync the entire bill payment process with NetSuite enables them to save time and get back to what matters most — their business, not their bills…

Grazed from Daily Nation.  Author:  Esmond Shahonya.

Cloud computing technology was in yester-years considered the next big thing in the IT sphere.  Now it is here with us. Companies and individuals are using this technology in one way or another.

The number of cloud computing vendors has increased over the years as the new kid on the block takes root.  Electronics firm LG recently unveiled its cloud service that will allow consumers a taste of the technology on the company’s smart televisions, PCs, and smartphones.

The Korean technology giant is offering free 5GB per person of data storage in the cloud for those with its smart gadgets.  Users will also be able to stream content between their smartphone, television, and PC…

Grazed from US News and World Report.  Author: John Sandman.

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Seeing increasingly strong enterprise demand for secure cloud computing solutions across North America, Terremark, a Verizon Company, increased its cloud infrastructure capacity by deploying a node of its Enterprise Cloud at its data center in Denver. With the introduction of a cloud node, the Denver data center joins the company’s global footprint of cloud-enabled data centers that seamlessly combine secure and agile cloud computing resources with an extended solution portfolio all within a multi-carrier, highly resilient, and secure facility.

Terremark’s cloud-enabled data center in Denver features more than 70,000 square feet of premier floor space with redundant subsystems to support the leading IT infrastructure services delivered by Terremark. These data center services are backed by service level agreements for 100 percent availability of power and cooling. As with its cloud deployments in the Network Access Points (NAPs) in the United States, Terremark provides complete transparency to customers regarding the exact location of their application workloads and delivers leading security services to support the public cloud infrastructure. Additionally, the company provides customers a compelling hybrid model for enterprise IT by enabling a seamless integration of existing IT infrastructure with Terremark’s cloud computing services through its CloudSwitch software…

Grazed from Information Week.  Author: Thomas Claburn.

If cloud computing were marketed as a medicine, it would be a wonder drug. Its healing powers would be so great that the cautious consumer might suspect quackery.

But Microsoft insists the cloud can cure a bleeding wallet, a perennial concern among small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs).

The company’s Trustworthy Computing Division recently surveyed SMBs–companies with between 100 and 250 PCs, some who use cloud computing, and some who don’t–in the United States, India, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Singapore.

Among the U.S. organizations surveyed–93 cloud, 94 non-cloud–Microsoft found that SMBs relying on cloud services feel three to five times better about IT costs, IT value, and IT security than those who shun the cloud…

Grazed from 4-Traders.  Author: Editorial Staff.

SingTel also awarded renewal of cloud services bulk tender for the supply of public cloud services

Singapore, 15 May 2012 – Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel) today announced that it has secured two key tenders awarded by the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) to accelerate the Singapore Government’s adoption of cloud computing.

i. G-Cloud for Whole-of-Government

SingTel has been awarded a five-year tender to deploy a private cloud computing infrastructure on a whole-of-government basis. To be rolled out by the end of 2012, the G-Cloud marks the first private cloud infrastructure to be developed on such a scale to cover all government bodies in Singapore. SingTel will provide and maintain G-Cloud for an initial five years with the option for renewal of a further five years…