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Grazed from Channel Insider.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Historically solution providers in the channel tended to align themselves with one major computing platform or another. Given the complexities of setting up any particular server platform, that approach made a lot of technical and economic sense even if it did tie the interests of a solution provider to a particular vendor.

But in the age of the cloud solution providers will be free to pretty much do as they please. In fact, as long as a cloud computing service can support a particular application, the underlying platform that application is running on becomes less relevant. In fact, the customer might not even care that much what particular cloud service their application is running on as long as the solution provider can guarantee a certain level of performance…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), an Amazon.com company, today announced AWS re: Invent, its first global customer and partner conference. The conference will take place November 27-29, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada at The Venetian hotel and will include more than 100 sessions such as hands-on workshops, cloud computing strategy sessions and technical deep dives delivered by the AWS team and AWS customers and partners.

Attendees will learn how to leverage AWS services and features for a variety of popular use cases such as big data analytics, high performance computing, disaster recovery, web applications, mobile and game development, and enterprise IT applications. The AWS engineering and service teams will lead hands-on workshops throughout the conference and will be available in the developer lounge to answer technical questions each day of the conference…

 

Grazed from CloudTimes.org.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Cloud Computing and Big Data have been the hope and challenge for many companies. Companies believe that the cloud holds all the answers to their data problems. The idea is to utilize and maximize the unlimited scalability of the public cloud for corporate needs resulting to more cost-efficient and more elastic solutions.

Like most technological solutions, this is easier said than done. There are still a lot of critical technical and strategic issues that must be addressed before companies should even think about migrating databases to the public cloud…

Grazed from ZDNet.  Author: Tom Espiner.

Openlab, a collaboration between CERN and five companies to develop technology to underpin the Large Hadron Collider experiment, will next concentrate on challenges such as cloud computing.

Openlab, which involves collaborative research between CERN and HP, Huawei, Intel, Oracle, and Siemens, officially went into its fourth phase on Wednesday.  "During the next three years, CERN is preparing the LHC [Large Hadron Collider] for operating at higher energy and luminosity," CERN director general Rolf Heuer said in a statement. "This fourth phase will be instrumental in addressing the increased computing challenges in an innovative way."…

Grazed from Daily Disruption.  Author: Bill Klump.

Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider today launched its innovative CloudEngine series switches at Interop 2012.  The CloudEngine series switches provide the industry’s largest single-frame switching capacity of up to 48T and support high-density switching of 100GE, 40GE, 10GE and GE interfaces, as well as virtualization and computing, storage and network convergence. This enables the sustainable development of enterprise data centers over a 10 year span.

Committed to providing a better way for enterprises to tap into the opportunities presented by the rise of cloud computing and ICT convergence, Huawei’s CloudEngine series switches provide stable, reliable and secure services to help customers build scalable, virtualized and converged data center fabric architectures…

Grazed from EDN.  Author: Raj Pawate.

Content is king for most adherents of cloud computing. They are captivated by the cloud’s ability to provide all kinds of content, from rich multimedia video to cold hard data almost anywhere. But there is a drawback to this notion of content anytime and anywhere. Often, the device where the content ends up is not the most appropriate type of device for viewing, sharing and experiencing it, and that’s just what the user wants to do. An effective way around this dilemma is remote display technology.

Mobility is of paramount importance for many of the devices that access the cloud, such as smartphones, tablets, and the new thinner and lighter laptops. Users of these devices simply want to carry the cloud in a pocket or purse. But that means small display screens and few, if any, hardwired connectors that could link to another device like one of the many large-screen LCD monitors that are becoming more and more ubiquitous as their prices drop. Remote display technology also bridges this gap so that content from the cloud can be experienced to its fullest…

Grazed from HostReview.  Author: Editorial Staff.

The new Python Cloud Server provides businesses with more access to greater computing power than ever before thanks to cloud computing and the services of third parties such as Python Cloud Servers. By harnessing the power of such services, businesses from SMEs to large enterprises can eliminate wasteful practice and improve hardware utilisation, no longer needing to buy hardware or software or have the expensive skills and resources needed to manage IT in-house. Instead businesses pay for what cloud-based services they use, removing the need to make large, one-off investments. Indeed, recent Gartner research (Gartner Executive Programs, January 2012) showed that SMEs are placing cloud computing within the top three of their future technology priorities…

Grazed from Credit Union Times.  Author: Jason Ray.

Companies are quick to incorporate cloud computing into their business functions, and with all the benefits the cloud offers, it’s easy to understand why.

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platforms, like Salesforce.com, allow employees to conduct their work more efficiently and at a reduced cost to the company. Meanwhile, personal cloud-computing networks, such as LinkedIn, have become important marketing and recruiting tools.  

Yet, despite all the good that cloud computing has to offer, the potential risk exposure it presents is enough to keep in-house counsel up at night.

Legal departments are just beginning to understand how cloud computing may impact e-discovery, and the initial reaction of many corporate counsel is to exert extensive control over the flow of electronic information. However, as the landscape of cloud-based apps and social media changes on a daily basis, attempting to control the actions of employees is becoming an impossible task…

Grazed from DailyFinance.  Author: Keki Fatakia.

Cloud-computing software maker VMware (NYS: VMW) seems to be on a roll. The company’s first-quarter revenue managed to beat analyst expectations, as it came in at a little over $1 billion, about 25% higher than the comparable quarter last year. That’s also applicable for the company’s more-than-expected net income, which soared 52% to $191.4 million.

So what is it that makes VMware tick and why should it continue doing well in the future?

A cloud-driven future
The whole thing boils down to the fact that companies like VMware are benefiting from the boom in customers who prefer to cut costs by shifting to a cloud-computing-based IT system. In fact, the sheer demand for the company’s cloud-based products even prompted VMware to raise its full-year revenue forecast to between $4.53 billion and $4.63 billion, in contrast to the $3.77 billion it made last year…

Grazed from CRN.  Author: Editorial Staff.

As the cloud computing model has moved from hype to a bona fide segment of the technology landscape in a few short years, distinguishing the major players from those just looking to throw their hat in the ring can be a difficult task. For solution providers and their customers looking to reap the benefits of the cloud, sifting through the increasing list of potential partners can be downright daunting.

Fortunately CRN has drilled into the growing madness that is the cloud computing industry with an annual list that examines the best-of-the-best when it comes to cloud vendors. The aim of CRN’s 100 Coolest Cloud Computing Vendors is to identify the most innovative cloud vendors across the platforms, infrastructure, storage, security and software segments. For solution providers already arming customers with cloud services, check to see if your partner made the cut. And for those looking to get into the cloud game, don’t select a vendor without consulting this list…