Energy Savings in the Cloud
Cloud computing adopters may find an unanticipated edge when moving to this IT model: the ability to trim energy consumption.
Cloud proponents often cite the ability to rapidly scale resources as the initial driver behind cloud migration. This elasticity lets organizations dial up — and dial down — compute power, storage and apps — to match changes in demand…
Google Bolsters Services, Lowers Prices to Woo Business to App Engine Cloud
Google has beefed up its cloud services with new offerings, including App Engine premier accounts, and has lowered its pricing for Google Cloud Storage, among other moves.
With these actions, Google is aggressively making a stand in the cloud computing space and calling on developers and businesses to give Google a try as their cloud platform of choice…
Why 2013 will be the year of the cloud database
Those businesses that store data in the cloud typically use primitive file storage systems rather than databases. However, these days many cloud computing platforms are adding or enhancing their database offerings, thus becoming more compelling to enterprises…
Citrix pleads the case for Cloud
“The mindset hasn’t been there,” claims Peder Ulander, VP Product Marketing, Cloud Platform Group, Citrix. He says that while businesses in other parts of the world have focused on the cloud as a way of driving down energy costs and consolidating infrastructure, this has not typically appealed to enterprises in the Middle East…
IBM adds PaaS offering and more services to cloud portfolio
IBM has expanded its cloud computing portfolio with the addition of a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering and additional services for public and private clouds.
The company said its SmartCloud Application Services will allow companies to deploy applications on its cloud-based middleware platform…
New cloud alliance comes together
A group of Cloud computing providers have joined forces to form a new alliance called OzHub, helping to build business confidence in cloud computing through establishing a regulatory framework…
Red Hat’s Open-Source Cloud Software Lowers Costs
Cloud computing has been compared to an electricity grid, mainly because end users can access power and services without having to set up and run the infrastructure.
With the cloud, software and applications are stored on remote servers and delivered over the Internet rather than individual computers…
Huawei sharpens cloud focus
Grazed from ITP.net . Author: Editorial Staff.
The company’s cloud solution, which launched around a year ago, originally targeted telecom operators, initially in China, but with the oversea expansion, and the growth of Huawei’s enterprise business, Huawei has now developed the solution for a wide range of customers…
Growing Concerns with Data in the Cloud
The promise of cloud computing might seem limitless, but the challenges it presents are significant, especially in the area of information management, according to a recent study.
The applications and software tools that enable doing business in the cloud also are new places where corporate data resides and is accessed, which requires management and integration with other enterprise data stores…
Microsoft and Oracle part ways over multitenancy in the cloud
After years of ridiculing the idea of cloud computing, Oracle is officially “all in” as of last week’s Oracle Open World show. At the confab, CEO Larry Ellison took the wraps off Oracle’s public cloud platform and strategy.
Oracle’s public cloud is going to be a combination of platform as a service (PaaS) and applications/software as a service (SaaS), with the “glue” being Java Enterprise Edition. The five components comprising Oracle’s public cloud are Sun servers; Fusion Middleware, Oracle database; Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c; and Oracle’s Fusion Applications.A few pieces of the Oracle cloud (like CRM) are there now; most pieces seem to be coming “in the near future” (as is pricing, apparently)…