Author: David

Cloud computing has been hailed as the best way to provide any data to any gadget at any time. Unfortunately, all this ubiquity comes at a cost—the data centers that store, send and receive all of that data consume a lot of energy, most of it from fossil fuels.

Apple has been targeted by Greenpeace as one of the worst offenders. But Apple is trying to shake its image as a dirty data-provider. The company plans to power at least part of its new $1 billion data center in North Carolina using a massive solar array located on about 170 acres of nearby land. The solar panels could produce 20 megawatts of energy. Apple also claims to be building a 5-megawatt, biogas-powered fuel cell near the data center, according to BusinessGreen.com…

Gerald Caron from the US Department of State has been confirmed as a speaker for the 2012 Green IT and Cloud Summit on April 18th. As Branch Chief for EMS, he is responsible for implementation and management of Federal Desktop Core configuration (FDCC) and United States Government Configuration Baseline (USGCB) desktop configurations. Gerald also has responsibility for the Power Management for Desktops program at the State Department. This program introduced a centralized solution that allows for the shutdown, wakeup and centralized reporting for all desktops throughout the Department’s enterprise and has resulted in significant savings and Return on Investment…

Gerald Caron is a Civil Service employee at the Department of State in the Bureau of Information Resource Management, Deputy CIO for Operations, Directorate of Enterprise Network Management. He has a total of 15 years of Federal Government experience. That experience includes 7 years with the U.S. Army, 2 years as a Federal Contractor with the Department of State and 6 years as a Computer Management Specialist Civil Service employee with the Department of State. His current assignment is management of the Department’s Enterprise Lab which evaluates, tests and configures software for use on the Department’s network and oversight of the implementation of the Federal Desktop Core Configuration within the Department.

Some 90 percent of all Web-connected devices will have consumer cloud services tucked into them by the end of 2013, the better to help Web surfers quench their desire to store, synch, stream and share content from any device or platform.

That’s the postulation from researcher Gartner, which defines the "personal cloud" as a system that allows consumers to seamlessly store, sync, stream and share content across devices including smartphones, media tablets, televisions and PCs connected to the Web.

Microelectronics Technology Corporation, through the acquisition of Cloud Data Corporation, an Incubator of Internet Technologies, is positioned to capitalize on the exponential growth of today’s technology market within Cloud Computing.

Cloud Data Corp allows Microelectronics Technology Corporation to differentiate itself within the technology market by providing leadership in the following areas:…

The idea of cloud computing usually suggests vast server and storage resources delivered by external providers. The benefits, we are told, are legion: you pay only for what you use, you scale up to what you need, procurement costs are minimal, operational overhead reduced, and so on.

But many organisations remain concerned about handing their informational crown jewels over to a third party – and rightly so if data security or compliance are a concern. The question becomes can IT facilities be maintained in-house but still deliver at least some benefits of the cloud model?

Within three years the personal cloud will be ubiquitous on consumer devices, Gartner predicts in a research report released Tuesday.

Consumer cloud services that allow users to store, synch, stream and share content over the Internet will be integrated into 90 percent of consumer devices by 2015, the paper predicts.

Technology vendors must stretch their offerings across multiple devices – including smartphones, tablets, televisions and PCs -in order to tap into the $2.2 trillion (�1.4 trillion) that consumers are expected to spend in 2012 on content, devices and services, Gartner said…

That group – IT, user, business, etc. – is pushing hardest for public cloud adoption in your organization, and what internal or external pressures are spurring that group? Who is in charge of your cloud initiatives – CIOs, project managers, system architects or IT?

Consultants from Capgemini have observed many different internal and external change agents in organizations that are considering adopting public clouds, as well as faulty and successful decisions about cloud management leadership. Capgemini’s Mark Skilton sums up and opines on cloud adoption drivers in this article. He also discusses the need for a new type of IT/system administration professional for managing public cloud projects…

I’ve blogged previously on the impact that cloud is having on innovations in the data centre. It’s a constantly evolving story – and one that keeps most of us in the industry on the edge of our seats, reflecting just how deep and pervasive cloud computing has become in the IT enterprise landscape.

Some of these data centre advancements include rethinking how data centres are cooled, including floor design to optimise cooling and airflow, and new concepts such as solar power. The changes are fundamentally necessary and the equation is simple; data centres are costly to run so design needs to be more efficient…

Close to 80 percent of the world’s population now has access to a mobile phone, and new devices like the iPhone and Android smartphones are bringing a throng of applications and services to the palms of people’s hands. At the same time, cloud has become the new way of delivering—and charging for—IT services and functionality. So what happens when two of the hottest technology trends—“mobility” and “cloud”—collide?

To find the answers, Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG) conducted a survey of more than 1,000 U.S. mobile users to understand their current and future needs. The results revealed a host of opportunities to capitalize on this ready-to-explode market…