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Grazed from IT Business Edge.  Author: Michael Vizard.

One of the more interesting attributes of cloud computing is the ability to invoke compute-intensive resources as a service. Rather than having to acquire and deploy IT infrastructure to handle peak loads or processing requirements, IT organizations can “rightsize” their IT investments to handle their average workload requirements. Any time their computing requirements exceed those average workload limits, they can invoke additional compute capacity in the cloud using a process known as “cloudbursting.”

It’s still early days in terms of the mainstream adoption of “cloudbursting,” but the concept is already leading to the creation of some new business models. For example, Pixar has announced that it is partnering with GreenButton and Microsoft to deliver a new rendering service in the cloud that will be managed by GreenButton using its namesake cloud management software running on the Microsoft Azure cloud computing platform…

Grazed from Forbes.  Author: Joe McKendrick.

The development of cloud computing will promote economic growth, increase productivity and shift the type of jobs and skills required by businesses, according to a new study by the London School of Economics and Political Science.

The LSE study selected two industries, aerospace and smartphone services, and examined the impact of cloud computing on these  industries across the UK, USA, Germany and Italy between the years 2010 and 2014. The LSE study was underwritten by Microsoft.

Investing in cloud computing is contributing to growth and job creation in both the fast-growing, high-tech smartphone services industry as well as the longstanding and slow-growth aerospace sector, the study claims. In addition, cloud is directly creating employment through the construction, staffing and supply of data centers, which will host the cloud. Using cloud computing enables businesses of all sizes to be more productive by freeing managerial staff and skilled employees to concentrate on more profitable areas of work…

Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author: Maureen O’Gara.

Amazon’s cloud, which, let’s face it, is still pretty much developer turf, broadened its push into the enterprise Wednesday with the introduction of AWS Storage Gateway, a beta virtual appliance nominally meant to automate enterprise data backup to S3 while creating a comfort level with the cloud among the leery.

It’s the first time Amazon has proposed putting its own software on the ground inside a corporate data center. And the stuff’s targeted at large corporations. Amazon says some customers asked for such a solution. It also expects resellers to offer the service.

It is of course proprietary and a competitive problem for other cloud storage and gateway suppliers. Come to think of it, Amazon as repository of corporate data is a problem for a lot of people…

Grazed from Cadalyst.   Author: Eric Marks.

There is a lot of talk about cloud computing today, and its exponentially growing presence among enterprise technologies, particularly product lifecycle management (PLM). The adoption rate of PLM "in the cloud," however, has been slow. Customers are having a difficult time deciphering when, how, and even whether to use PLM in a cloud. Some users feel apprehension about moving sensitive information — such as that managed in PLM — to the cloud. Adoption is gradually gaining momentum, however, as more customers learn about the available options and advantages.

PLM software is branching out from its traditional stronghold in engineering-intensive discrete manufacturing and moving aggressively into process-oriented industries such as energy, food and beverage, and consumer goods, according to a study released by the ARC Advisory Group in November 2011. Cloud-based PLM is garnering more support and higher adoption as these industries start to deploy newer technology and more evolved IT computing environments…

Grazed from CBR.  Author:  Editorial Staff.

UK-based managed service provider (MSP) Vnetrix has deployed CA Technologies AppLogic software to reduce the launch time for hosted cloud services from weeks to hours and is helping global customers, Universal Music and Atkins, to benefit from cloud-based operations.

Vnetrix is leveraging the CA Technologies AppLogic turnkey cloud computing platform to drive Business Service Innovation by reducing time-to-market for new business services, while simultaneously increasing margin.

CA AppLogic application-centric cloud platform allows users to turn an application and the infrastructure that supports it into a single manageable object…

Grazed from InfoBoom.  Author: Shawn Drew.

Sourcefire recently announced the release of its FireAMP software, which harnesses the power of the cloud to provide malware protection to businesses. The release is one more example of the rise of cloud-based security, which uses the massive computing power of the cloud to provide solutions that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago.

Grazed from Network World.  Author: Bernard Golden.

In Silicon Valley, the saying "it’s a dessert topping and a floor wax" is often used to puncture the pretensions of a product that promises that it can address every need; it’s applied to products claiming oxymoronic qualities. For example, the saying would be applied to a product that claimed to perform network management and word processing–two different, mismatched, and disharmonious functionalities.

I’m reminded of this when I listen to a debate common to cloud computing discussions. One person will assert that cloud computing is less expensive than the traditional IT infrastructure operations; a second person then says "cost isn’t really the issue for IT, what they really want from cloud computing is greater agility," meaning rapid provisioning of infrastructure resources…

Grazed from PRWeb.  Author: PR Announcement.

OAGi today announced it has launched a Mobile Business Initiative to improve the ability of enterprises to extend their business data interoperability all the way to the edges of their organizations

OAGi plans to do this by adding technology to the OAGIS standard to better support Mobile Business and Cloud Computing, and to provide support for Java Script Object Notation (JSON), the most common data expression technology in this new and growing area of business solutions.

When OAGi was formed 16 years ago, the vision was to provide a business process based data exchange language for B2B, Enterprise Integration, and Enterprise to Execution Systems…

Grazed from IT Business Edge.  Author: Loraine Lawson.

Cloud is driving growth for data integration vendor Pervasive Software — which isn’t surprising. But what is surprising is that 65 percent of the integration work is still on-premise, according to Lance Speck, general manager for integration at Pervasive Software.

How’s that again?

It seems the cloud becomes the last straw on custom code.  "A lot of these people who were satisfied with whatever clunky custom code they had built to hold them together for the last decade or two are now forklifting pieces of that to the cloud and when they do, they break their integrations and their infrastructure, so they have to rethink how they do it," Speck said. "So they’re saying, ‘Well, we’re not building ourselves again because that was a mess’ or maybe ‘There wasn’t an option at the time, but now we’d like some place where they have subject matter expertise on how  to build it in an extensible way that will scale and give them things they’ve had on their wish list for the last 10 years.’ For us, it’s opened tons of conversations."…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

EMC Corporation today announced that Nexica, a Spanish provider of ICT infrastructure managed services including cloud computing and critical application hosting, has selected EMC® VNX(TM) unified storage, together with Cisco UCS and VMware virtualization and cloud infrastructure technologies, to power its newly launched public cloud services for its exceptional performance, efficiency, simplicity and data protection.

Customer Benefits:

Improved Performance and Scalability – With EMC VNX unified storage, Nexica has increased the availability and performance of its data center infrastructure by 100%, enabling it to deliver better quality of service and a more responsive and scalable solution to its customers…