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Grazed from ZDNet.  Author: Phil Wainewright.

A few weeks back I seem to have mystified a few readers with my apparent volte-face on the topic of private cloud, when I pointed out that any public cloud provider has to run a private cloud to operate its own service or platform. To help explain my thinking, I thought it might be useful to share with you today the ancient fable of the three little clouds and the big bad world…

Grazed from IT Business Edge.  Author: Arthur Cole.

It’s been said that virtualization is a means to an end, with the implication that "the end" is in fact the cloud.

But that’s not entirely true, considering the cloud is merely another tool in the quest for an even greater end: a fully dynamic, endlessly scalable data environment.

For most enterprises, that means a lively mix of public, private and hybrid resources, all operating as a single, integrated environment that enables users to access only the resources they need for the job at hand.

Sounds simple on paper.

Grazed from Computer Weekly.  Author: Cliff Saran.

Universities can now run cloud-based research on Janet, the joint academic network.

The UK-based service from Logicalis is built on the IBM Power7 platform. It enables communities of researchers to pool their funding to buy a shared slice of high-performance computer (HPC) processing. The Logicalis cloud dynamically allocates the HPC pool equitably in real-time, with each institution able to use up to 100% of the pool.

Grazed from ReadWriteWeb.  Author: Ben Kepes.

One of the themes many of us commentators harp on about is the fact that barriers to entry for application developers have never been lower – the availability of cloud hosting, agile development methodologies, even this crazy frothy investment cycle we’re in all combine to see lots of applications being created…

Grazed from IT World.  Author: Bernard Golden.

Grazed from IT World.  Author:  Todd R. Weiss.

It’s scary out there in the cloud. Data thieves, hackers, criminals, they’re all out there scouring the Internet around the clock for ways to get into your corporate networks so they can steal data from poorly protected businesses.

So how can your enterprise safely use the cloud and what do you need to know about protecting your data and infrastructure from the bad guys? Is it even possible that your business can safely use cloud computing?

None of these are simple questions, says Ara Trembly, principal of The Tech Consultant, an IT consultancy.

Grazed from Cloud Computing  Best Practices.  Author: Neil McEvoy.

One of the keynote topics of our forthcoming International Cloud Symposium is ‘Intercloud‘.

Like the Internet joins networks into a ‘network of networks’, so the Intercloud will do the same for computing clouds…

Grazed from Network World.  Author: Julie Bort.

Here is a diagram of Yahoo’s own public cloud architecture.

Grazed from Network World.  Author: Julie Bort.

Here is a diagram of Yahoo’s cloud computing stack.

Grazed from Network World.  Author: Julie Bort.

Imagine the kind of infrastructure needed for a website fielding 1.5 million requests per second. That was one of the challenges faced by Yahoo’s Todd Papaioannou, vice president of cloud architecture.