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Grazed from TechTarget.  Author: Michelle Boisvert.

Public clouds make enterprise IT uneasy. For one thing, it’s a disruptive technology — a significant shift toward compute resources becoming a shared utility. It also creates a lack of visibility and less control over IT assets. Add concerns about data loss and security that BYOD creates and it’s no wonder some cloud rookies are breaking out in hives.

SearchCloudComputing.com spoke with Jim Reavis, executive director of the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), about the true security concerns of public and private cloud as well as common misconceptions that are keeping enterprises from diving headlong into cloud…

Grazed from ServicesAngle.  Author: Matt Weinberger.

In a guest editorial for Forbes Mike Pearl, the cloud computing leader for international professional services giant PricewaterhouseCooper, succinctly and clearly explained just why the cloud is so awesome. Okay, maybe he didn’t use the word “awesome.”

That editorial, more properly called “Looking At Cloud Strategy Through The Lens Of Value,” starts with a high-level view of cloud strategy, and how vendors that don’t market cloud solutions as such are falling behind. Pearl likens the cloud to the role of credit in financial services, insofar as it enables an organization to grow and move beyond their physical assets. But putting aside the technology itself, there are really four distinct ways in which the cloud can add value to a business, he writes…

Grazed from TheServerSide.  Author: Lucas Stewart.

Private cloud computing seems to be surrounded by much fog and misinformation as to exactly what it means for the enterprise. What types of companies are a good fit? Who might need a private cloud? Are security issues the only reason? Developing your private cloud takes considerable skill but is a viable option for companies looking to achieve economy of scale behind the corporate firewall. So say respondents of the 2011-2012 TSS Java Trends survey.

What exactly is a private cloud? It is simply a marketing term for a proprietary computing architecture that provides hosted services to a limited number of people behind a firewall. A private cloud is typically implemented by first virtualizing internal commodity hardware, then adding an application services layer, and finally managing the new infrastructure as a single resource. This single resource is often allocated to applications that process and store sensitive and private company information in accordance with internal or government policies, such as Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPPA…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

With a spotlight on its cloud computing platforms in booth #508 at the 2012 Interop Expo May 8-10 in Las Vegas, Premio ( http://premioinc.com/ ) is demonstrating how data centers or enterprises who wish to offer reliable, flexible, elastically-scalable and price competitive cloud computing services can do so seamlessly within their existing infrastructure.

Premio is a U.S.-based premier provider of complete design, engineering and manufacturing services to OEMs and ODMs around the globe and excels at "build-to-order" technology solutions in a wide range of markets that are unmatched in both quality and affordability. Demonstrations at Interop will showcase Premio’s expertise in computing, storage and cloud technologies as well as the company’s association with strong ecosystem providers such as Intel, MPSTOR and EchoStreams…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Piston Cloud Computing, Inc., the enterprise OpenStack(TM) company, today announced its Co-founder and CEO, Joshua McKenty, will be participating in a panel session at Interop Las Vegas titled, "Is OpenStack the Answer to the Walled Garden?" taking place at the Mandalay Bay Casino in Las Vegas from May 6-10, 2012. Interop features the latest innovations in virtualization, mobility, cloud computing and the data center.

What: Learn which companies are involved (and how involved) with OpenStack and how OpenStack’s open source community approach is destroying the value proposition of closed and proprietary models from other vendors…

Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author: Elizabeth White.

Nirvanix announced on Thursday it has raised over $25M in a Series C funding round led by Khosla Ventures. Current Nirvanix investors Valhalla Partners, Intel Capital, Mission Ventures and Windward Ventures also participated in the round. The company plans to utilize the capital infusion to significantly expand its engineering organization and accelerate the delivery of innovative new cloud storage services while increasing its global footprint across sales and marketing. The new investment brings Nirvanix’s total capital raised to $70M.

"Our enterprise cloud storage focus has clearly resonated with customers, as demonstrated by the fact that we booked more revenue in Q1 of 2012 than nearly all of 2011," said Scott Genereux, President and CEO of Nirvanix…

Grazed from RenewableEnergy.com.   Author: Steven Leone.

Knowledge has always been power, but how that information is stored has emerged as one of the most challenging issues facing the evolution of technology.

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Appcara, maker of cloud application lifecycle solutions, is using next week’s Interop Las Vegas and Citrix Synergy events to demonstrate a vastly simplified means of onboarding, managing and automating enterprise cloud applications with its AppStack(R) cloud application lifecycle agility and portability platform. As cloud computing expands beyond simple, predefined workloads, AppStack is poised to provide exceptionally fast time-to-market for key business applications — maximizing time, knowledge and profitability.

Despite widespread use of cloud applications, most enterprises are still holding back from placing their more advanced business applications in the cloud – due to the lack of holistic integration and management capabilities required to assure these applications can be installed, configured and tracked reliably to corporate governance and reporting requirements. IT managers still face a limited choice, the need for intensive technical knowledge, and a lot of pain to achieve complete application portability across public and private cloud infrastructures. What is needed is a truly dynamic cloud platform that can address the needs of advanced business applications, and accelerate application services for both enterprises and service providers…

Grazed from Forbes.  Author: Dan Woods.

One huge question hangs over the cloud computing industry: Can cloud infrastructure support traditional applications that were not built to deliver reliable performance from unreliable components?

If a cloud provider can answer yes to this question, it then becomes possible for a massive number of applications to migrate to the cloud, either public or private versions. Remember, the cloud industry is now at the end of the beginning. The big money, most of the almost $2 trillion that is spent running the IT infrastructure that runs the world, is still going to data centers, on-premise applications, and other technologies of pre-cloud vintage. There are many reasons that this is true, but one of the main barriers to adoption of the cloud is that most of the applications out there were built assuming that the computers, databases, storage, and networks they use deliver high performance…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Connectria Hosting, a global managed hosting provider, today announced the availability of its IBM AIX Cloud.

The IBM AIX Cloud closely follows the launch of Connectria’s IBM i Cloud, demonstrating Connectria’s continued innovation and leadership in Cloud Computing.

Connectria’s IBM AIX Cloud Hosting is designed to run on the reliable IBM Power Systems, leveraging a compelling balance of affordability and performance. An IBM AIX Cloud with Managed Services starts as low as $1,245 per month, and can scale upward from 1/10 core with a 3 GHz processor. With Connectria’s IBM AIX Cloud, customers will be able to purchase the IBM AIX capacity and support they need, when they need it, for as long as they need it — backed by Connectria’s world-class 24/7 IBM AIX administration and support…