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Grazed from ITProPortal.  Author: Stuart Andrews.

Cloud computing isn’t just about business, it’s making a big impact on games too.

With services like Spotify and Netflix changing the way we enjoy music or watch movies and TV, games look set to be the next form of entertainment to embrace the cloud. In fact, you could say that the nature of gaming almost makes it inevitable. Even before there was an Internet, Multi-User-Dungeons (MUDs) had players exploring online worlds together, while the likes of Doom, Quake and EverQuest were popularising online gaming at a time when the idea of streaming music or video over the Web would have seemed ridiculous. Games and the Internet just go together.

Yet the coming cloud revolution goes deeper than simply enabling the next World of Warcraft or Call of Duty. As with what’s happening with music and movies, cloud gaming is set to make games more immediately accessible, more convenient and more social. As with the smartphone and tablet gaming revolutions, it could see games reach an even wider audience…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Cloud computing is revolutionizing business of all sizes, and it seems like every organization is in some stage of developing, implementing, or managing a cloud strategy. However, before businesses or channel partners can fully capitalize on the cloud, they need to understand it. Currently, there is a lack of informative and educational materials aimed squarely at helping technology buyers use the cloud to produce clear business results.

Today, Evolve IP attacked that problem by evolving the state of cloud information resources with the launch of the Cloud IQ blog. This new information portal aims to help technology buyers make sound decisions about the future of their IT infrastructure, applications, and security services. The blog also seeks to help partners capitalize on new revenue-generating opportunities…

Grazed from Digital ID News.  Author: Editorial Staff.

In addition to convenience, cloud computing is touted for its money saving capabilities as companies reduce software licensing costs and hardware requirements.

Identity management in the cloud isn’t as cut and dry. Standards are emerging to manage identities in the cloud but, until now, it hasn’t been a priority. The auditing and provisioning capabilities that are typical with enterprise-based ID management systems are tough to come by with cloud-based systems. “ID management is the biggest weakness we have right now,” says Tony Busseri, CEO at Route1, a digital security and ID management provider. “People have rushed to embrace a technology that’s great in concept, but they have ignored the ID management.”.

These issues exist more in the public cloud than the private cloud, Busseri explains. “The public cloud is great in terms of functionality but from a privacy standpoint you don’t know where the information is going,” he says…

Grazed from Enterprise Apps Today.  Author: Ann All.

A new study from Saugatuck Technology suggests organizations are taking a more cohesive approach to purchasing and deploying cloud-based software.

In the early years of this decade, it seemed like most companies needed cloud computing like a fish needed a bicycle – to steal a phrase from the late feminist Gloria Steinem. Now, however, a growing number of companies need the cloud like a fish needs water.

Two new studies highlight not only the inexorable advance of cloud computing, but also a growing sophistication in how companies aim to use it.

According to Gartner, global revenue from software-as-a-service will hit $14.5 billion this year, up nearly 18 percent from 2011 revenue of $12.3 billion.  That follows an increase of more than 20 percent in worldwide SaaS revenue from 2010 to 2011. Gartner is forecasting robust growth through 2015, when it expects SaaS revenue to reach $22.1 billion…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Cycle Computing provisioned a 50,000-core utility supercomputer in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud for Schroedinger and Nimbus Discovery to accelerate lead identification via virtual screening. This milestone — the largest of its kind — is Cycle Computing’s fifth massive cluster in less than two years on the heels of a 30,000 cluster in October 2011, illustrating Cycle’s continued leadership in delivering full-featured and scalable cluster deployments. Cycle Computing revealed the cluster creation during today’s opening keynote at the AWS Summit in New York City.

Schroedinger’s widely used computational docking application, Glide, performs high-throughput virtual screening of compound libraries for identification of drug discovery leads. Computing resource and time constraints traditionally limit the extent with which ligand conformations can be explored, potentially leading to false negative while the same constraints may require a less accurate level of scoring, which can lead to false positives. Tapping into Cycle’s utility supercomputing, Schroedinger ran a virtual screen in collaboration with Nimbus Discovery of 21 million compounds against a protein target. The run required 12.5 processor years and completed in less than three hours…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

VMware Inc.’s VMW +5.42% first-quarter net income rose 52% on strength in license revenue and services, as companies continued to invest heavily in technology for cloud computing.

International revenue made up 54% of total revenue for the period, the highest level for any quarter, and helped VMware post quarterly net income of $191.4 million, or 44 cents a share, up from $126 million, or 29 cents a share, a year earlier. Excluding stock compensation and other impacts, earnings rose to 66 cents a share from 48 cents a year earlier. The consensus of analysts polled by Thomson Reuters projected adjusted earnings of 60 cents a share.

VMware dominates the market for virtualization software, which allows users to run multiple computers’ operations on a single machine, the first step in cloud computing. Customers that had turned to the company for software to virtualize their information systems are now buying software to build applications and run their enterprise…

Grazed from CloudTweaks.  Author: Humayun Shahid.

Cloud computing has a lot in store in terms of future job creation. It is anticipated that cloud computing will lead to a generation of an estimated 14 million novel job opportunities across the world in the span of the coming three years. Surprising enough, the scope of the fresh jobs may extend beyond the IT sector. The estimates are an outcome of research carried out by IDC funded by the Microsoft Corporation. Fourteen million expected jobs sure is a promising number in itself, but when stacked against the current volume of the available global workforce (a little greater than 3 billion to be exact) it equals a shy half a percent – a mere droplet compared against the  pail…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Joyent, a global provider of cloud computing software and services, today unveiled Joyent Cloud Europe, an extension of the US-based Joyent Cloud that will provide high-performance real-time Infrastructure-as-a-Service in Europe, located in Amsterdam.

This launch is driven by demand from customers in North America who are expanding into Europe and need the same level of real-time performance, reliability and unmatched Cloud Analytics they receive from Joyent in the U.S. Joyent’s Amsterdam facility will also provide Europe-based businesses and developers with access to Joyent Cloud’s superior value.

Joyent Cloud Europe uses Joyent’s SmartDataCenter, the company’s cloud infrastructure platform, to deliver in-depth analytics, reliability, performance and scalability all while ensuring data security…

Grazed from MoneyControl.  Author:  Editorial Staff.

Networking giant Cisco bet big on the cloud computing space a decade ago, and today, it has emerged as a leader in that universe.

In conversation with CNBC-TV18’s editorial director Senthil Chengalvarayan and Forbes India’s consulting editor, Mitu Jayashankar, the CEO and chairman of Cisco, John Chambers discusses his strategy based on market transitions.

Below is an edited transcript. Watch the accompanying videos for more.

Chengalvarayan: It’s increasingly becoming a wireless world and you are synonymous with switches, routers and in the wire world, your margins are been stretched thin by Juniper and HP and others. In the world of the cloud, you have got formidable competitors – Microsoft, Google,

Chambers: No, it’s actually the reverse. Cisco focusses on some market transitions and we are customer driven; the trend being in all those areas that you talked about from Intelligent Networks i.e. switches and routers in services, into the cloud i.e. the data centre activity, service coming together with a network, through video capabilities, which will be 90% of the loads on the internet, through collaborations, social media – all tied together, architecturally solve customer’s business problems that’s what we are about…