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Grazed from VMBlog.com.  Author: David Marshall.

Global studies prove that ‘cloud services’ could add US $800bn in net new business revenue by end of 2013.

The time when IT was just a support function to a few businesses around the world is over. Global politics and the global economy are being shaped by IT. For the IT leader to survive and sustain in this environment they must lead by consistently changing the strategies and re-create IT. This new era brings with it urgent and compelling forces : the cloud, social, mobility and an explosion in information.

Fleming Gulf Conferences launches Cloud Computing Imperative 2012 to be held on 12-13 March followed by a cloud security workshop programme on 14 Marchin Dubai – UAE, which will set the stage for IT specialists from public, private and government entities to network with industry peers, share experiences and learn how to view and implement Cloud and its security…

Grazed from The BrainYard.  Author: David F. Carr.

Before I try to rank social business stories, let me explain what I’m talking about.

Someone asked me to define "social business" the other day, and my take is that it’s broader than just "enterprise social networking" (social media applied inside the firewall) but still ought to be construed to mean serious business applications of social media, beyond publishing, advertising, and marketing. Naturally, the consumer applications of social media are serious business for companies such as Facebook and LinkedIn, but I’m more interested in social collaboration technologies and techniques that can be applied to any business–the enterprise 2.0 stuff…

Grazed from TechTarget.  Author: Ed Scannell and Stuart Johnston.

Despite slow adoption by enterprise IT in the years since cloud computing emerged, 2012 may turn out to be the year when cloud technologies finally begin to gain parity with more traditional data center staples such as virtualization and tape libraries.

TechTarget’s 2012 IT Priorities Survey found that a growing number of enterprises — some 24.1% — plan to grow their expenditures for cloud services over the next year. In fact, 27% of respondents said that cloud computing initiatives were viewed with high importance at their companies. Another 53% rated the importance of their cloud projects as medium…

Grazed from InformationWeek.  Author: Sridhar Sarathy.

Cloud Computing is definitely the biggest trend in the market. However, the transition to cloud computing won’t realize its full potential until more vendors and buyers fully understand security requirements in the cloud. If you’re overseeing your company’s migration to the cloud, you need to ask some tough questions and consider getting an assessment done by a third-party before committing to the migration. 

The questions can be broadly classified in one of the following categories –

1. Can you ensure segregation of my data from that of your other customers?…

Grazed from InternetEvolution.  Author: Jerry Bishop.

When Congress passed the fiscal 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) last week, it may have done more for cloud computing than any other organization to date.

Now that his objections have been addressed, President Obama is expected to sign the final version of the NDAA (HR1540) into law. The majority of news coverage of the act has focused on controversial provisions for the indefinite detention of US citizens who are suspected of terrorism, but the cloud computing industry and IT departments should focus on “Section 2867: Data Servers and Centers.”…

Grazed from the Los Angeles Times.  Author: David Sarno.

If you’ve ever had your laptop stolen, watched your toddler baptize your PC with Pepsi, or had your MacBook come to a cold, dead stop, you know that the digital memories we store on our home computers are anything but indelible.

But now there’s a special place coalescing where data never dies: It’s called the cloud.

Internet giants Google Inc., Amazon.com Inc. and Facebook Inc. have relied for years on cloud computing, where information is split up and stored across large networks of remote servers, rather than all in one place. When storing a holiday dinner photo, for instance, Google slices it into many shreds of data that are then duplicated and sent to dozens of data centers all over the world. That way, if one data center melts down or has a long power outage, your family portrait can be reassembled from the pieces still stored in the center’s surviving peers…

Grazed from Hosting News.  Author:  Travis J. Hampton.

One of the primary reasons a company might turn to cloud hosting is the perception that it will save money. With rising energy costs, the demands for faster and more powerful hardware, and the cost of maintaining in-house servers, cloud computing seems like an economical choice. That perception may or may not be reality, and that largely depends on the business.

Over the course of five years, you may spend several thousand dollars on new server hardware and also have to pay for power and bandwidth. Still, you could conceivably end up paying more over the course of five years, even with low fees from a cloud hosting provider. That may make you wonder why so many people are moving to the cloud to save money…

Grazed from The Motley Fool.  Author:  Evan Niu.

42.

I’m not referring to the meaning of life, mind you. I’m talking about the annual list of the Top 500 supercomputers in the world. When you look at that list, Amazon.com‘s (Nasdaq: AMZN  ) virtual supercomputer built using its Elastic Compute Cloud, or EC2, ranks No. 42, according to a recent Wired report.

The reason that’s such a feat is that Amazon’s virtual powerhouse is in the clouds and its raw processing power is decentralized and spread throughout its global network of data centers. This contrasts with the old-school approach of calling up Cray (Nasdaq: CRAY  ) or Penguin Computing and ordering a multimillion-dollar machine, similar to what the feds just ordered sporting NVIDIA (Nasdaq: NVDA  ) and Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD  ) chips or this one using only ARM Holdings (Nasdaq: ARMH  ) -based NVIDIA chips…

Grazed from Daily Journal of Commerce Oregon.  Author: David Murray.

The term “cloud computing” is everywhere these days. It’s not a new phenomenon, but rather it is continuing to evolve.

The simplest, nontechnical definition of cloud computing is using an Internet browser to access software applications over the Internet. People who use Facebook, LinkedIn, Salesforce.com or free email services are using a form of cloud computing.

The recent surge in popularity in cloud computing is driven by the fact that businesses do not need to make a large capital investment in servers or licensing fees. In other words, the future of computing becomes subscription-based, and not ownership-based…

Grazed from Web Host Industry Review.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Cloud services provider CA Technologies announced on Wednesday it has partnered with ECS Technology to promote cloud adoption in the commercial, retail, government, finance, insurance and manufacturing industries.

The companies will provide technical support for cloud adoption in China and help deliver Business Service Innovation by enabling new levels of speed, innovation, performance and cost/risk efficiencies.

This support will allow local firms to benefit from cloud computing and accelerate time to market with agile business services that deliver innovation, business value and competitive advantage…