Should Your Business Use Cloud Computing? They Already Do
Cloud computing sounds complicated and ethereal – doesn’t it? (I picture Lando Calrissian tending to computers in Cloud City for the benefit of us all.) "That’s cutting edge; I need to get my business on the right track and look into cloud computing." These thoughts can be overheard at most companies. So, what does it mean anyway? I was going to write about a shared network of servers off site. The fact that you can save a ton of money by cloud computing. (You actually can.) However, a much simpler definition of cloud computing exists…
Role of Telecommunications & Benefits of Cloud Computing (ITU-T FG Cloud)
Grazed from Viode. Author: Alan Weissberger.
Telecommunication/ICT (Information Communications Technology) players have an important role to play in the emerging Cloud market and ecosystem. The telecommunications network is a central part for multi-tenant cloud architecture delivering multi-services for multi-users with high QoS and optimal resource allocation. This role is uniquely positioned to deliver high-grade clouds services integrating services, platform, data center and IP network infrastructure with end-to-end SLA guarantees . The Telecommunication/ICT roles in cloud computing are considered from both operational & technical aspects…
STI buys stake in cloud-computing firm
Businessman Eusebio Tanco has invested in Los Angeles-based cloud computing firm Morphlabs Inc. through his STI Colleges, creating synergies in pooling manpower for the IT firm’s operations in the Philippines, Japan and Australia…
What are effects of energy used from social networking sites and web surfing?
The environmental impact of so much online time really boils down to energy usage, which in turn affects the amount of greenhouse gases we pump into our atmosphere. For one, each of us can help by limiting computer time (whether surfing the ‘net or not) and shutting them down or putting them into sleep mode when we aren’t using them (this can be automated via the computer’s power management control panel)…
Google Introduces Cloud Database
Google has launched a new service to make its cloud computing platform more appealing to businesses. The company on Thursday introduced a limited preview of Google Cloud SQL, a scalable, hosted MySQL database environment.
Navneet Joneja, product manager for Google Cloud SQL, says that one of the most frequent requests from Google App Engine users has been for an easy way to develop traditional database-driven applications. Using App Engine, Google’s platform-as-a-service offering, in conjunction with Cloud SQL allows developers to avoid the burden of database management, maintenance, and administration…
IBM Buys Q1 Labs
IBM is buying privately held security ISV Q1 Labs, whose software is used to detect hacking threats and attacks through real-time data analysis…
How to Choose a Cloud Computing Vendor for your Start-up
A ray of hope for those enterprises who wants to store a huge data and needs to increase information technology capacity or capabilities quickly without investing in buying new infrastructure, licensing software and training staff, cloud computing is constantly showing an increased template. But, when it comes to selecting a cloud computing vendor, there are thousands of options. Now, the question arises, how to find the best one that suits your business needs?…
Outages Altering Cloud Perception, Practice
It seems that every time a high-profile Internet service goes down, pundits predict that it will undermine confidence in cloud computing. And yet through 2010 the cloud model has shown surprisingly resilience in the face of this “headline risk,” continuing to gain momentum and mindshare.
But that may be changing. High-profile service outages at Amazon and Microsoft have made some prospects wary of placing business applications on cloud computing services, and have altered the way many existing customers deploy their services, according to analysts from The 451 Group…
Retailers Adopt AccessVia Enterprise Cloud Computing Model for Retail Shelf-Edge Sign Printing
AccessVia announces Web dSignShop SaaS (Software as a Service). AccessVia Web dSignShop delivered in an enterprise cloud computing model delivers retail shelf-edge sign and label printing with faster deployments, lower implementation costs, and reduced maintenance effort…
Server farms sprouting in Silicon Valley
The centers are sprouting up to house everything from your family photos to the growing number of applications migrating to the Internet cloud. They get their nickname from the endless racks of computer servers that fill them…