Cloud News, Resources and Information
As more agencies move to the cloud, the list of best — and worst — practices is getting longer and more sophisticated.
Yogesh Khanna, the chief technology officer of CSC’s North American Public Sector, has compiled his list of top 10 lessons learned…
Cloud computing is a transformational model for delivering IT Services. Replacing the rigid boundaries of traditional IT infrastructure with the elasticity of the cloud give businesses the agility to quickly react to rapid changes in demand and better serve their customers. Cloud computing is fundamentally different from traditional IT infrastructure because of the flexibility. In some sense, traditional IT infrastructure is fairly static. Increasing capacity in response to anticipated requirements typically means provisioning new OS instances or allocating hardware resources in a slightly different fashion. This is entirely feasible, but is a slow process to avoid disruptions…
Salesforce.com, the enterprise cloud computing company ( http://www.salesforce.com/cloudcomputing/ ), today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Model Metrics, a mobile and social cloud consulting services company. With Model Metrics, salesforce.com will add mobile and social expertise, allowing the company to further transform customers and empower its global partner ecosystem. The transaction is expected to close in salesforce.com’s fiscal fourth quarter ending Jan. 31, 2012, subject to customary closing conditions…
Grazed from eWeek. Author: Clint Boulton.
Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Nov. 14 added 24/7 phone support in its Google Apps for Business for all issues, providing an additional lure for CIOs considering Google’s paid collaboration suite as an alternative to Microsoft software…
While malware attacks continue to be a significant risk and operational cost driver, today’s IT security teams are more concerned about threats brought on by their organization’s reliance on personal mobile devices, virtualization technologies and cloud computing, according to the State of the Endpoint, a new Ponemon Institute study commissioned by Lumension’, the global leader in endpoint management and security. While IT’s focus on the enablement of business productivity is a mind shift expected by other business leaders, inadequate collaboration and lacking resources for security create a perfect storm for hackers to capitalize on…
Cloud computing has long been seen as a slam-dunk for small companies. As IT Business Edge’s Paul Mah wrote in September: "Given the many inherent disadvantages faced by fledgling small businesses or mid-sized businesses, the ability to tap into virtually limitless computational resources without having to commit a single dime of capital expenditure does carry a strong appeal indeed."…
Around this time last year, Forrester published its predictions for what we expected to happen in the cloud computing market in 2011. While some of those prognostications were on the mark, in general we learned once again that markets move much slower than any of us would like…
Convey Computer announced today it is partnering with HPC cloud innovator, Nimbix, to deliver Convey’s unique hybrid-core architecture and bioinformatics personalities as a cloud-based HPC solution. Nimbix, a new Convey customer, will deploy hybrid-core systems to accelerate informatics and discovery applications…
Anyone who who follows technology trends has undoubtedly heard the term “cloud service” thrown around few gazillion times the past few months. But if you don’t know the difference between terms such as PaaS, IaaS and SaaS, don’t fret — you’re far from alone…
What do the following have in common: Computers, limousines, empty beds and stay-at-home moms?
The cloud keeps them busy.
The rest of us are next…