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Grazed from Cloud Pro.  Author: Adrian Bridgwater.

There is a disproportionate amount of ‘industry chatter’ at the moment centred on what we should do with the new powers afforded to us by the cloud computing model of IT delivery. With vendors keen to talk up the public cloud’s suitability to what appears to be every possible deployment scenario; the reality of exactly what, where and when public cloud works well demands a somewhat more considered analysis…

Grazed from ComputerWorld.  Author: Antony Savvas.

Only one-in-ten companies are currently deploying cloud computing technologies, mainly because of network bandwidth concerns, research has found.

The news comes in spite of companies stating that seven-in-ten of their staff want access to cloud-based software…

Grazed from CRN.  Author: Andrew R. Hickey.

Amazon’s cloud computing services, branded under the Amazon (NSDQ:AMZN) Web Services (AWS) moniker, could be a $1 billion business for the online retailer turned cloud provider by as early as next year, several analysts contend.

Grazed from CRN.  Author: Andrew R. Hickey.

The cloud computing funding festivities continued this week with Boston-based cloud startup CloudBees raking in $10.5 million in Series B financing to pump up its cloud Platform-as-a-Service.

The latest funding round for the 16-month-old startup, which was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners with Matrix Partners participating, adds to the $4 million CloudBees snagged in Series A funding.

Grazed from SiliconRepublic.  Author: Carmel Doyle.

Cloud computing is being lauded for its environmental and financial benefits in a new study released by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) today, which predicts that companies that embrace cloud computing can realise US$12.3bn in energy savings and 85.7m metric tonnes of CO2 savings annually by 2020…

Grazed from dBusinessNews.  Author: PR Announcement.

Today DataChambers is introducing a new Cloud Hosting service that will enable companies to replace or extend their existing server network without making a costly capital investment. A secure, high-performance computing infrastructure will be accessible over the Internet – hosted, maintained and managed by DataChambers.

Companies using the service can use Cloud Hosting to replace their existing servers, to augment their existing computing capabilities or to provide redundant processing capacity in the event of an in-house network outage. In each instance they will have the ability to respond to changing information technology needs, without sacrificing performance or paying for excess, unused capacity…

Grazed from PR NewsWire.  Author:  PR Announcement.

Dolphin announced its Content Archive Service (CAS) for Cloud 2.0 has achieved SAP certification as powered by the SAP NetWeaver® technology platform. The solution has been proven to integrate with SAP® solutions, providing users access to cloud services as a repository to the SAP ArchiveLink® software. The cloud solution is SAP-certified for archived SAP data and documents and does not require any new on-premise infrastructure…
 

Grazed from Business Insider SAI.  Author:  Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry

Amazon’s cloud business is growing like crazy, and could hit $1 billion in revenue next year according to analysts, Reuters reports. Right now Amazon Web Services, its cloud computing unit, is small enough that Amazon doesn’t report its revenue, but according to estimates, it generated $500 million in revenue last year and will do $750 million this year–a 50% growth rate, which is impressive for such a large unit. If Amazon really hits these milestones it will be a big event not just for the company, but for the cloud computing industry in general.

Grazed from CRN.  Author: Kevin McLaughlin.

Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author: Maureen O’Gara.

Huddle figures it’s the first cloud-based collaboration and content management service to offer an eyes-only private collaboration service to government customers with highly classified clearance that they can use to access and share their very private data stores.

It seems that the only way spooks on both sides of the pond can collaborate is still through couriers, the all-purpose drop box, phone calls and e-mail. Huddle means to bring them in out of the cold but its solution, which resembles Microsoft’s SharePoint, isn’t just meant for three-letter agencies like the CIA and MI6.