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Grazed from TMCNet.  Author: Mae Kowalke.

In order to streamline their operations and cut costs, many companies are looking for ways to incorporate cloud computing concepts into their information technology (IT) structures. Automation is a big part of this.

In this context, automation refers to IT systems that essentially run themselves, with little or no day-to-day management of things like resource allocation, security, or workflow optimization. Self-service provisioning—the ability of users to access resources on their own, from any location—is a major component of automation…

Grazed from the Ritchmond Times Dispatch.  Author: John B. Farmer.

Grazed from MIT Technology Review.  Author:  Christina Larson.

In a suburb of Beijing, 800 workers arrive each day to a glass-and-masonry office block and a shared mission: to create China’s version of the Internet cloud. 

Known as Cloud Valley, the 7,000-square-meter technology campus is the creation of Edward Tian, a 48-year old entrepreneur credited with bringing broadband Internet to China in the 1990s. On the campus, millions in investments from Tian’s enterprises now fund engineers to wire-up servers into refrigerated shipping containers and all-night coding sessions by young programmers. These are components of what Tian hopes will become a complete supply chain for cloud computing—all of it Made in China…

Grazed from AlaskaDispatch.  Author: Chris Gaylord.

When the Apple iPhone 4S and Amazon Kindle Fire tablet debuted this fall, the tech press blogged breathlessly about how these new devices harness ‘the cloud.’ Menacing as this hazy tech term may sound, the cloud is actually a regular part of daily digital life. In fact, gadget analysts expect this metaphorical cloud to envelop more of the world in coming years…

Grazed from ADI News.  Author: Mark Whysall.

There’s a lot of hype happening right now about a technology that has been around since, what 2006? Cloud hosting and cloud computing are becoming big buzzwords again for a few reasons, the first being money and the second being that Amazon is offering packages for resellers and those resellers are signing up affiliates left and right. Has cloud computing really changed over the past five years? Not a whole lot, but it has been developed into a reliable technology that is becoming the standard for big businesses. Even after a massive data center outage back in April, Amazon still demonstrates that cloud hosting is solid, even though they had to learn a hard lesson about EBS re-mirroring. Even in the face of a near disastrous meltdown of the Amazon cloud, the technology has captured the minds of thousands of small business owners wanting to save on their IT service expenditures…

Grazed from IT Pro Portal.  Author: Erica Thinesen.

Colt announced that it is soon going to launch its public cloud services based on VMware’s vCloud, aimed at the company’s customers in mainland Europe.

Developed for Europe at the desire of users who want a non-US-based provider of cloud services (CSPs), this service will also satisfy concerns of customers as to where their data is located…

Grazed from Wall Street & Technology.  Author: Harrell Smith.

Cloud computing, it seems, is everywhere. It is almost impossible to look at the news today without hearing about the latest cloud-based service model threatening to disrupt the status quo (see: Google’s Chrome OS and Docs, Microsoft Office 365, Amazon EC2 and Salesforce.com, to name just a few). While some industry observers believe the term "cloud computing" has been overhyped, it is clear that businesses today are looking for scalable and reliable hosted solutions that will allow them to deliver — and consume — services more efficiently than they have in the past…

 

Grazed from Experian QAS.  Author: Paul Newton.

Data management processes look set for a shake-up as both public organizations and private firms move towards cloud computing.

According to research from the International Data Corporation (IDC), cloud computing is set to be the "key driver" of new IT spending over the next five years…