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Grazed from Forbes.  Author: Joe McKendrick.

A federal IT consortium now estimates that federal agencies are now already saving about $5.5 billion annually with their cloud implementations, but that’s only part of the story. It’s likely that this savings will rise to $12 billion as cloud efforts move forward.

That’s the call from MeriTalk Cloud Computing Exchange (CCX), a community of Federal cloud leaders. The rosy savings numbers come from a newly released survey of 108 federal IT managers that extrapolates the cloud numbers from reported savings. On average, the IT executives report a savings so far of at least 7% off their IT budgets for the next fiscal year.  Based on the 2013 IT budget of $78.9 billion, that’s about $5.5 billion in annual Federal savings, the study concludes…

Grazed from Forbes.  Author: Eric Savitz.

If the innovative ways that businesses are using cloud computing haven’t set off alarms within your organization, it’s time that they did. Enterprises that look at the cloud solely through the lens of technology will be left behind by more agile competitors that use the cloud to develop innovative new business models based on faster time to market, new modes of customer interaction and more efficient operating models. Likewise, IT service providers that market their cloud offerings simply as technology solutions will be outmaneuvered by competitors that position their offerings based on the business value they deliver.

Gone are the days when cloud computing could be regarded as just the latest in a long line of technology trends. For leading-edge enterprises, the cloud has emerged as one of the key strategies CEOs are exploring to enable their companies not only to reduce costs, but, more importantly, to empower entirely new business models and offerings for customers…

Grazed from Globes.  Author: Shmulik Shelach.

Cloud computing company Gizmox Ltd. has raised $3.5 million at a company value of $26 million. Gizmox shareholder Maayan Ventures Ltd. (TASE:MAYN), which owns 30.4% of the company, announced that investment funds IVIC and CIG invested $2.5 million, and current shareholders, Maayan Ventures, Citrix Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CTXS) and private investors, including Prof. Arie Scope, invested $1 million.

Gizmox CEO Navot Peled, Guy Peled, and Dan Lichtenfeld founded the company in 2007. The company’s Visual WebGui solution converts applications to cloud environments. The company has raised $11 million to date…

Grazed from IT News Online.  Author:  Sachin Choughule.

Over the years it has been observed that every new technology is first looked at with skepticism. Not all the technologies that are newly brought into the market affect the market and their functioning dynamics. Some fail to create the desired impact and are easily forgotten than noticed and taken into consideration.

Cloud Computing is the new talk of the technology town. Will it stay or be rejected and slip away as fast as it came?

Companies have to look at Cloud Computing as the next big Technological revolution changing the rules and the platform of business. In a country like India, the companies will now have to start exploring and researching on utilizing cloud computing…

Grazed from GigaOm.  Author:  James Urquhart.

Enterprise architects have been a staple of corporate IT departments for well over a decade now, starting in earnest with the advent of service-oriented architecture and corporate data modeling. The need for enterprise architecture was spurred by the need to gain control over an increasingly complex computing environment, and an increasingly large backlog of data and feature needs. But those needs are changing, and so is the job of the enterprise architect.

The use of the term “architecture” in this context comes, in part, from the idea that one can create a “blueprint” for how a business can run on technology. The “architect” is someone who looks at the materials available, interviews the “client” (aka the business) about desired form and functional outcomes, and engineers solutions to meet those needs…

Grazed from Houston CultureMap.  Author: Minh Vu.

Google has announced the arrival of its latest project and dubbed the cloud computing service "Google Drive."

Drive allows users to access their files at anytime, on any platform and starts users off with 5GB of free storage. The new service will ultimately replace Google Docs once an account switches over to Drive, but will retain many of the same features that Google Docs provided.

Users of the service simply install an app for their Windows PC or Mac and can then sync their files with their Drive account so no matter what, the files will be updated in real time and can be accessed from your tablet, phone, work, or anywhere for that matter…

Grazed from HealthNewsDigest.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Leading tech companies like Google, Apple and Microsoft are now offering unprecedented amounts of data storage and access to “apps” on huge Internet-connected servers, saving consumers and businesses the hassle of installing and running programs and storing information on their own local computers.

This emerging trend, dubbed “cloud computing,” means that these providers have had to scale up their power consumption considerably, as they are increasingly responsible for providing more and more of the computing horsepower required by the world’s two billion Internet users. No doubt, sharing such resources on centralized servers is more efficient than every individual and business running their own versions separately. In fact, the research firm Verdantix estimates that companies off-loading data and services to cloud servers could save $12 billion off their energy bills and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 85 million metric tons within the next decade. But for the greenhouse gas savings to be realized, the companies offering cloud computing services need to make the right energy choices…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Cloudcor(R) today announced that Sonian, the pioneer in cloud-powered archiving and search, is a Premier Partner at Cloud Slam’12 Cloud Computing Conference and Expo taking place May 30 — June 1, 2012 in San Francisco and broadcast online.

Sonian will showcase (at booth #16) its archiving service, which is a cloud-powered subscription-based service that eliminates the need for costly and time consuming ‘on premises’ archiving solutions. By delivering industry leading email archiving on a disruptively low ‘per mailbox per month’ pricing model, the service is available for all email users whether they have 50 or 50,000 mailboxes in use….

Grazed from CFO.com.   Author: Timothy Chou.

With the growth in cloud service offerings, and the increasing adoption of private, public, and hybrid cloud computing strategies and practices within the enterprise, many people have begun discussing the future of the CIO and corporate IT.

Will the IT department simply become a purchasing organization managing a bunch of service contracts at the behest of finance and the lines of business? By the time 2020 rolls around, will there be any need for a CIO? After all, if, as Nick Carr predicted in his 2004 book Does IT Matter? IT truly becomes a utility, like, say, electricity, conferring no competitive advantage, well, we don’t have a CPO (Chief Power Officer), do we?…