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Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

IO, the leading provider of next-generation modular data center technology and services, announced today a record year for IO. Anywhere® customer deployments. The rapid growth of mobile and cloud computing combined with the unique ability to deliver an operational data center in as little as 90 days positions IO for significant growth in 2012.

IO. Anywhere deployments in 2011 spanned a broad range of industries and companies including: Allianz, Avnet, Logicalis, Photobucket, Red Cloud and Suntron. Today, IO owns and operates the largest modular data centers in the world in Edison, New Jersey and Phoenix, Arizona.

"Today’s data center is obsolete when taking modularity and the fast maturation of this market into consideration," said Jason Schafer, research manager, Tier1 Research. "If data center owners and operators are not at least exploring and considering modular components as a means for data center expansions and new builds, they are putting themselves at a significant disadvantage from a scalability, cost and possibly maintenance standpoint."…

Grazed from CloudTweaks.  Author: Jeff Norman.

Surmounting the economic challenges of 2011, cloud computing emerged as a new technological force to be reckoned with. The New Year has already announced additional strength for the cloud, particularly in the mobile phone sector.

Several major tech junkets predicted cloud computing’s push into society’s cell phones and mobile devices — predictions that I did not wholeheartedly believe.

The cloud’s flagship asset of storing and updating important data in multiple locations simultaneously is simple enough to grasp. However, most major companies have failed to communicate just how simple and useful cloud computing can actually prove to be for consumers…

Grazed from Information Week.  Author: Nicole Lewis.

Recent research on cloud computing in healthcare suggests that many IT managers are reluctant to store critical patient-related data in a cloud-computing environment. With this in mind, one healthcare executive from information management firm Iron Mountain is prodding health CIOs to take a second look at the technology.

Ken Rubin, senior vice president and general manager for Iron Mountain’s healthcare division, understands that CIOs have many concerns as they develop a robust IT infrastructure that lets clinicians access data quickly, while ensuring that the system helps the organization meet its obligations under the Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act (HIPPA) privacy and security rules.

Although the findings of a recent study from KLAS found that the healthcare market has seen little adoption of cloud technology for critical data such as electronic health records (EHRs), patient accounting, and enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications, Rubin believes health IT managers can learn to appreciate the benefits of cloud computing once they begin using the technology…

Grazed from PR NewsWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

EcomNets is proud to sponsor the Green IT | Cloud Computing 2.0 Summit as a Gold Sponsor hosted by the Green IT Council. The venue is the Sheraton Premiere near Washington DC on April 18th, 2012. The Green IT Council is a leading Green and Sustainable IT, and cloud computing association dedicated to the energy efficient computing across the enterprise, data center, and society.

EcomNets’ commitment to reduce enterprise and data center energy consumption and TCO, while obtaining a rapid ROI, is the core reason for being a sponsor of the Green IT Summit according to EcomNets CEO, Raj Kosuri. EcomNets maintains a Green Technology at their Danville Facility in Danville, VA…

Grazed from IT World Canada.   Author: Shane Schick.

A hosting company based out of the U.K. is hoping that a data centre located in Toronto will convince Canadian businesses fearful of the U.S. Patriot Act to take a cloud computing approach to managing their IT infrastructure.

ElasticHosts this week announced an expansion of its footprint in the North American market that also included a facility in Los Angeles. The company already offered hosting services out of San Antonio, Tex. in addition to its main office in London…

Grazed from CFOWorld.  Author: Dallon Christensen.

The pace of cloud computing will only accelerate in 2012. The increasing development of information technology, and the intense focus on cost reduction, are highlighting the benefits of moving IT administration off-site. And one cloud computing expert wants CFOs to be aware of the short-term challenges and long-term benefits to organizations.

"Large enterprises must realize cloud computing will not(in all cases) provide immediate cost benefits to their organizations," Sadagopan (Sada) Singam, global vice president, cloud computing, of HCL Technologies, said in a recent interview. CEOs and CFOs “must understand how cloud computing technologies will drive long-term benefits two to three years following the initial implementation.”…

Grazed from Telecom Paper.  Author: PR Announcement.

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has established a Joint Coordination Activity on cloud computing (JCA-Cloud). The work of the ITU-T Focus Group on Cloud Computing (FG Cloud) will now be progressed through a number of ITU Study Groups with the JCA acting as a mechanism to coordinate the many dimensions of the study of cloud computing.

The primary objectives of JCA-Cloud will be to allocate FG Cloud’s deliverables to study groups with associated domains of competence, and to ensure that the ITU-T standardisation work on cloud computing progresses in a well-coordinated manner across all the relevant study groups…

Grazed from eWeek.  Author: Frank Ohlhorst.

"Convergence" is the word as big data moves further into the cloud and into the reach of small and midsize enterprises.
 
Truth be told, big data is not a big or new concept.

The ideology behind big data has been around since the early days of mainframes and scientific computing. What is new about big data is the term itself, which has become part of the nomenclature of today’s business speak. Still, for most of its existence, big data has been out of the reach of small and midsize businesses (SMBs) because the storage and processing power needed to make this technology work is too expensive…

Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author: Yung Chou.

Amid the many benefits of having the NIST SP 800-145 as a tool to facilitate the understanding of cloud computing, the classification and some definitions of the four deployment models are redundant and inconsistent. Particularly, the definition of "community cloud" is a redundancy of that of a private cloud, the deployment models are defined with two sets of criteria, and "hybrid cloud" is a confusing, ambiguous, and extraneous term.

SP 800-145 is the de facto standard in the IT industry of describing what cloud computing is with five essential characteristics, three delivery methods, and four deployment models. The five essential characteristics will specify the qualifications and expected behaviors of an object qualified with the term cloud. The three delivery methods signify the essence of cloud computing centered on the concept of a "service." Both the characteristics and the delivery methods in SP 800-145 form a solid foundation and present a conceptual model envisioning what cloud computing is and about. SP 800-145 gets inconvenient where the four deployment models including public, community, private, and hybrid clouds are defined, as shown below…

Grazed from Sacramento Bee.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Ascent Data, Pittsburgh’s trusted provider of Cloud Computing, Colocation, Disaster Recovery Solutions and Data Encryption is pleased to announce new additions to its hosted Cloud solution, Ascent2Cloud. Ascent Data’s newest Cloud clients include Computalogic, The National Association of Subrogation Professionals (NASP) and StepOne Systems.

Compared to the traditional approach of purchasing servers and adding IT staff, an increasing number of companies are moving their IT infrastructure to the Cloud.  Cloud services are especially effective for start-ups, small-to-mid size businesses (SMBs) and Software as a Service (SaaS) providers.

Computalogic’s MethodOne software application is a fully integrated clinical and financial management system. "Working directly with a senior-level technical team that is familiar with HIPAA regulations was important to me. Our data is confidential. I need to know that my records are protected. We’ve worked with other Cloud vendors and didn’t receive the personal service we receive with Ascent Data," said Keith Jones, CEO at Computalogic…