Apple Clears The Cloud Air: Details MobileMe To iCloud Transition
Apple (NSDQ:AAPL) has detailed what’s in store as MobileMe users prepare to make the leap to Apple iCloud, the company’s soon to be de facto cloud service and the lynchpin of Apple’s cloud strategy.
IBM rolls out cloud-based backup, recovery and archiving services
A set of new cloud-based backup services from IBM lets government agencies and companies save, restore and archive important data in the event of a disaster or major system failure.
Five Mistakes Companies Make in their Cloud Strategies
A Tablet that Wants to Take Over the Desktop
The latest entrant in the increasingly crowded tablet computing field, Cisco’s Cius, is bulkier than the iPad, and has a smaller screen (7 inches diagonally, compared to the iPad’s 9.7). But it packs a number of tricks all of its own, designed to woo business users. The Cius is designed to integrate closely with Cisco’s voice and video phone systems, and it can even replace a desktop computer when docked to a new Cisco desk phone, which connects to a monitor, keyboard and mouse.
Gartner: Virtualisation and cloud computing race ahead of security practices
The rush toward virtualisation of internal enterprise computing resources and cloud computing can have many advantages, such as server consolidation, but it’s largely outracing traditional security and identity management practices.
That’s leaving huge gaps, a sense of chaos and questions about where security products and services should be applied in the world of multi-vendor virtual-machine (VM) hypervisors.
Top cloud candidates? Startups and non-critical apps
It won’t surprise anyone to hear that established companies aren’t moving their most important apps and data to the cloud — at least not yet — but, we got confirmation on that from some of the leading cloud vendors and some of the most progressive cloud adopters, who all gathered this week at the Structure Conference in San Francisco to talk about the state of the cloud.
Enterprise Java upgrade geared to PaaS clouds
The next version of enterprise Java will be fitted with capabilities for PaaS (platform-as-a-service) cloud computing, according to Oracle.
Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) 7 is targeted for release in the third quarter of next year. "What our main goal is, is making the Java EE platform ready for use in the cloud so that you can deploy your Java EE apps into a cloud environment," said Linda DeMichiel, Oracle Java EE platform lead, at the Jax conference in California.
Census Bureau Takes to the Cloud
The U.S. government was dealing with a lot of data during the 2010 Census—and that’s an understatement. Even before a count of 308,745,538 people was reached, the Census Bureau knew it needed a system to gather and organize an overwhelming mass of information.
After Acumen Solutions had demonstrated its cloud-based solution to the Census Bureau in 2008, Acumen was enlisted to develop a custom Salesforce.com CRM application. With only 12 weeks until the go live date, Acumen was responsible for the largest cloud implementations in the federal government.
Cloud Computing: the Economic Problem
Cloud computing is the next big thing in the computing world. But there’s a small little economic problem that needs solving.
The idea that we can all put everything into the cloud and then access it from anywhere is quite delightful. Hard drive failures become someone else’s problem for a start. But a part of the story is that bandwidth and storage elsewhere is cheaper than storage locally. Yes, of course there’s more to it than just costs but as we all know, costs do still loom large in any business decision.
Is IT Ready for True Pay-as-you-go Software Model?
Several months back I wrote a post about how confusing licensing terms and conditions were becoming a sticking point for adoption of cloud computing. While customers are eager to take advantage of the pay-as-you-go usage model promised in the early days of the cloud, software vendors are understandably reluctant to give up their large licensing fees and ongoing support and maintenance revenues.