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Grazed from PR NewsWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

StrikeIron has won the Cloud Infrastructure and Cloud Computing Company of the Year awards in the inaugural 2012 Cloud Awards Program.

The annual cloud computing awards program, open internationally across the US and EMEA regions, recognizes and celebrates industry leaders and pioneers in the field of cloud computing. Categories include Best Cloud Infrastructure and Cloud Computing Company of the Year.

Cloud Awards organizer Larry Johnson said, “Almost 200 organizations entered the program, which is among the first of its kind. We were swamped by entries, and the standard was remarkably high. Judging the submissions was a challenging task. But we’re happy to endorse StrikeIron as among the best of the best in their field…

Grazed from Techtarget.  Author: Stephen Pritchard.

As businesses struggle to process ever-larger volumes of data, the uptake of cloud-based business intelligence (BI) is expected to grow rapidly.

Figures from market research firm IDC suggest that cloud analytics and BI deployments, though still a small part of the business intelligence market as a whole, will grow at three times the rate of conventional, on-premises BI systems through 2013.

IDC’s most recent survey of the market found that half of businesses were considering BI in the cloud — a far higher level of potential take-up than for cloud computing technologies overall…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Full Windows® Apps, Including Microsoft® Office, Delivered Instantly from the Cloud.  OnLive’s Instant-action Cloud Computing Provides Seamless, Media-rich Experience.  Remote Feels Local: Revolutionizing Cloud Computing for Consumers and Busines.

OnLive, Inc., the pioneer of instant-action cloud computing, announced that it is bringing the first no-compromise Windows desktop to iPad® through its free OnLive™ Desktop app, available Thursday in the iTunes® App Store. OnLive Desktop provides instant access to full-featured, media-rich Windows 7 applications, including Microsoft® Word, Excel® and PowerPoint® software, remotely hosted on powerful PC servers in the cloud. Based upon OnLive’s instant-action cloud gaming technology, OnLive Desktop delivers a seamless Windows desktop experience, with instant-response multi-touch gestures, together with a full on-screen Windows keyboard and handwriting recognition, enabling complete and convenient viewing and editing of even the most complex documents. Rich media, such as video, animation, slide transitions and even PC games, never before practical via remote desktop delivery, run fluidly and dynamically with instant-action interactivity. OnLive Desktop makes remote feel local…

Grazed from HostReview.com.  Author: David Frankk.

In the world of application development the technology of Cloud computing has brought a huge innovation. The migration from old technology to the new cloud computing infrastructure for application development has made it possible to make strong applications in lesser time and at a lower cost. Cloud-based applications are much faster. Companies can use cloud computing in almost all spheres of their business activities. Businesses nowadays are running all kinds of applications on the cloud platform, like customer relationship management, HR, accounting and much more. World’s largest software development companies moved their applications to the cloud after testing the security and reliability of cloud platform.

Cloud technology focuses on developing applications that deliver true value to your business. Starting from general word processing software to a custom-made program anything can run on a cloud computing platform. With the help of cloud computing, companies would be able to access their applications and data from anywhere at any time as the cloud system can be accessed from anywhere using any computer linked to the Internet. Cloud computing bring the hardware costs down. It just needs a monitor, a keyboard and a mouse and a processor to connect to the cloud system. Cloud applications need large storage spaces and the right software to achieve goals as the entire information gets stored on remote servers…

Grazed from PC World.  Author: Yardena Arar.

The move to cloud computing isn’t just for businesses. At CES, home network giants D-Link and Netgear are showing a range of equipment that leverage cloud services to give consumers more access to and control over home networks–and network content–from mobile devices.

D-Link cloud routerCloud features don’t have to cost much. D-Link’s $40 Cloud Router (DIR 605L) lets you use the free MyDLink iOS or Android app to check up on what’s using your network, what sites they’re browsing, and whether a firmware update is available; you can also block unauthorized Wi-Fi users. The Cloud Router is a basic, two-antenna 802.11n router operating on the 2.4GHz band only and delivers top speeds of 300 megabits per second; it’s available now…

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

Brocade Communications Systems, which has tried to get bought at least twice before, is entertaining bids according to Reuters, which explains why its stock was up 8% Monday.

The wire service heard from nameless knowledgeable sources that Brocade has gotten "first-round bids from a handful of potential buyers."

The switch maker has reportedly had Qatalyst Partners out looking for a leveraged buyout and Qatalyst is famous for bringing home juicy deals. However, Brocade is apparently no easy sell. According to Bloomberg Qatalyst has been looking for two years. Meanwhile, Dell bought Force 10 and HP bought 3Com. Reuters says Qatalyst was brought back in in November…

Grazed from CIO.  Author: Bernard Golden.

A year ago I laid out my predictions for cloud computing in 2011. In the spirit of honesty and willingness to display my errors in public, I thought it would be useful to recap those predictions, grade them, comment on them and review an exciting, tumultuous year.

Below are my five predictions for cloud service providers and five for end users, followed by comments and a grade for each one.

Cloud Service Providers Predictions…

Grazed from IT World.  Author: Nancy Gohring.

AT&T became the first U.S. telecom service provider to join OpenStack, the organization that has developed an open-source cloud software stack.

Having a major carrier like AT&T backing OpenStack will help drive the project forward, Jim Curry, chief stacker at OpenStack, said. He spoke on Monday at the AT&T Developers Summit at CES in Las Vegas.

AT&T last year began talking about offering new cloud services for enterprises. In addition to throwing its support behind OpenStack, on Monday the operator also launched new cloud services geared toward mobile developers. Cloud Architect, which will become available in the "coming weeks," will allow developers to set up public and private compute instances on dedicated or shared computing resources. Developers will be able to scale apps quickly and order up new services via an online service portal…

Grazed from IT Business Edge.  Author: Sadagopan Singam.

Cloud computing has cast a shadow over the IT landscape in the past several years, sparking as much confusion as genuine interest. But despite the buzzword du jour feel of the topic, most people now agree that cloud computing is more than just a new IT delivery model and instead represents a sweeping transformation of IT. For CIOs, it can be a significant career enhancer, enabling them to drastically decrease costs and improve IT services for their organizations.

With more and more enterprises planning to transition IT to the cloud, there’s a daunting task facing every CIO who must decide what, when and how to invest in cloud infrastructures and how to leverage opportunities created by transforming their processes and the associated systems. The key challenges include appropriate opportunity selection, choosing the right cloud solution framework, ROI/benefit assessment, resource management and change management…

Grazed from Government Computer News.  Author: Rutrell Yasin.

Federal agencies looking to move IT services to the cloud have yet another option.

 

CSC has unveiled a cloud computing platform designed primarily for federal agencies, which provides infrastructure-as-a-service offerings.

Built using National Institute of Standards and Technology guidelines, the CSC CloudCompute for Government will offer other cloud services in the future. The multitenant community cloud can respond rapidly to changing requirements at a fraction of the cost of a private cloud or a traditional data center, CSC officials said…