Cloud Standards Get Customer Push
The newly formed Open Data Center Alliance is using an array of usage models to weld cloud-using customers into a force that prevents vendor lock. At the same time, the group is promoting secure movement of virtual workloads from one provider to another. The organization is made up of more than 200 members including JPMorgan Chase, Lockheed Martin and Marriott.
While there are other nascent cloud-user organizations forming, namely CSCC (Cloud Standards Customer Council), ODCA (Open Data Center Alliance) in June issued eight usage models that organizations can use today when specifying baseline requirements for cloud projects.
The formation of both customer groups comes at a seminal moment for data center design. Virtualization is driving compute, storage, networking, application and desktop IT managers to drastically increase the efficient use of costly resources. And the option to outsource some or all virtual workloads is a bell that cannot be un-rung…
Your own cloud – silver lining included
There’s a lot to like about cloud computing, but why use the other fellow’s cloud? Many of us save our most precious photos, videos, documents, and music on servers owned by Google or Amazon or Microsoft. But now it’s cheap and easy to create clouds of our own, with simple, but powerful servers that will fit on a bookshelf in the basement and transmit our files to any Internet-connected device on earth…
Austin Texas Cloud Communications Expo – September 13 – 15, 2011
Sep. 13–15, 2011. Austin, TX
If you are a communications professional, cloud communications fundamentally changes how your business will run, who purchases your goods and services, and how they pay for it. This event will provide you with a good grounding in the latest technologies, players and business models, and offer excellent opportunities to meet your peers and potential partners…
Trend Micro Reports Alarming Rise in Mobile and Cloud Computing Cyber Attacks
Android malware and cloud computing-related data breaches are growing at an alarming rate. Social networking scams have become more sophisticated, and cybercriminals continue to instigate malicious schemes, according to Trend Micro’s (News 
– Alert) 2Q 2011 Threat Roundup report…
Pyramid Research Asks Latin American Operators to Adopt Cloud Computing
Telecom operators in Latin America should adopt cloud computing at the earliest to keep pace with their global competitors as well as to expand their service portfolio, suggests market analyst firm Pyramid Research…
Java 8 Gears up for the Cloud
Now that Java 7 SE (Standard Edition) has officially been released, Oracle and members of the JCP (Java Community Process) have started mulling over what features to include in the next version of the programming language, Java SE 8. On the agenda for this new release: engineering Java for the cloud.
"Java 8 is supposed to set the scene for the cloud, for a wider deployment arena," said Mark Little, senior director of engineering for Red Hat’s middleware business, as well as Red Hat’s primary liaison for the JCP. Oracle left out many of the advanced features planned for Java 7 in order not to further delay the release, he noted. Those releases may very well be included in Java 8…
Rackspace Cloud Computing Hosting Rises on Q2 Earnings Results
Shares of Rackspace Hosting (NYSE: RAX) are trading higher in the after-hours following the release of the company’s Q2 
HP to invest US$1b in APAC cloud computing centres
Hewlett Packard (HP) is investing some US$1 billion (RM2.97 billion) to set up at least six commercial data centres to offer cloud computing services in the Asia Pacific region this year.
HP Enterprise Services chief technology officer for Asia Pacific and Japan, Bradden Wondra said the company has identified six locations for the data centres, namely in Japan, China, India, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand…
North Carolina city announces speaker lineup for Asheville Cloud Computing Day 2011
The City of Asheville’s Information Technology Services Department is sponsoring "Asheville Cloud Computing Day 2011," a mini-conference scheduled for Aug. 10, from 9-11:30 a.m. in the Municipal Building (100 Court Plaza, 4th floor)…
Legal Considerations for Cloud Telephony?
Do you ever wonder about any legal considerations with cloud computing? If you’re using cloud computing we imagine the subject has crossed your mind once or twice.
India’s industry journal Tech Circle recently featured an opinion piece by Anu Vaidyanathan, founder of PatNMarks, an intellectual property consulting firm and an academic.
Or put it another way: Just what do the Winklevi think they’re doing, suing Facebook (News – Alert) until it becomes ridiculous?…