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Grazed from All Things Digital.  Author:  Arik Hesseldahl.

One of the basic assumptions about cloud computing is that services outages are bad. An application that goes down for one reason or another is an expensive problem when it happens. But it’s also an expensive problem for which to plan ahead, usually involving buying a lot of redundant hardware and software that kicks in when the primary systems fail. It’s not an attractive notion, but then again neither is downtime…

Grazed from GIGAOM.  Author: Jonathan Koomey.

There have been a few recent analyses showing that cloud computing has significant efficiency and cost advantages. The most recent one with which I am directly familiar was conducted by Jon Taylor’s team at WSP Environment & Energy for Salesforce.com, and it showed per-transaction emissions reductions averaging 95 percent for companies that shift to using the cloud…

Grazed from ITNews.  Author:  James Hutchinson.

The University of Western Australia has embarked on an 18-month project to consolidate approximately 1000 disparate servers to a private cloud platform in Amcom data centres.

The institution would look to migrate 400 terabytes of data currently held on-campus to Amcom’s two Perth-based facilities under a $9 million, three-year agreement signed with the Western Australia service provider over the weekend…

Grazed from IT Wire.  Author: Peter Dinham.

Ovum analyst and author of a just published report into the market, Mark Giles, telcos face “considerable challenges when it comes to supporting and selling cloud services.”

Grazed from Business Day Technology.  Author:  Kevin J. O’Brien.

When the founders of Shutl, a British courier service that makes deliveries in 90 minutes in busy London, decided to set up a business that ran exclusively on cloud computing, they needed to get creative.

Data privacy laws in Europe restrict the transfer of information about individuals outside the 27-country European Union. That had prevented many companies on the Continent from moving to the cloud, where data may be stored on remote servers in Asia, the United States or elsewhere at a lower cost than what a company would pay for its own servers…

Grazed from SBWire.  Author:  PR Announcement.

The Cloud Computing World Series will make its final stop of 2011, when it arrives in Hong Kong for the 2nd Cloud Computing World Forum Asia, taking place on the 30th and 1st December at the Mira Hotel. The event follows on from the success last year’s first World Forum in Asia, which saw over 450 delegates attend. Over 700 delegates are expected this year.

The Cloud Computing World Forum Asia is the place to meet all the key decision makers from the cloud service and SaaS market in one place…

Grazed from Forbes.  Author: Kevin L. Jackson.

FCO Services, a part of the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office, is implementing a collaboration service on the the organization’s  Government Secure Application Environment (GSAE) private cloud infrastructure. On their website, FCO Services describes themselves as:

“[T]he trusted partner of governments and other organisations for whom security is essential. We develop close relationships with our customers building a deep understanding of their needs protecting their people, information and working environment.

Grazed from ReadWriteWeb.  Author:  Dan Rowinski.

Google has one of the largest and most secure clouds in the entire industry. You do not often hear of a successful distributed denial of service attack against Google and rarely are Google applications hacked (unless, of course, it reportedly comes from the Chinese government). How does Google keep the data centers that comprise its cloud so safe and are they the gold standard in data protection?…

Grazed from ReadWriteWeb.  Author:  Klint Finley.

This week the report Cloud Computing – The IT Solution for the 21st Century from the Carbon Disclosure Project has been making rounds in cloud computing circles. The report concludes that large businesses could use cloud computing to cut CO2 emissions by 85.7 million metric tons annually by 2020…