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Grazed from ReadWriteWeb.  Author: David Strom.

A talk by Tom Raftery of GreenMonk at a conference earlier this month in Dublin, Ireland poses our title question. And the answer isn’t as clear-cut, or as green, as you may think.

The problem is doing the math and figuring out exactly what you are replacing with any cloud-based provider, where that provider’s data center is, and what kind of efficiency and fuels profile is being used by the provider – and your own data center – to make the calculation meaningful…

Grazed from CRN.  Author: Andrew R. Hickey.

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.

Grazed from Government Computer News.  Author: Henry Kenyon.

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.

 

Grazed from Logicalis.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Grazed from MIT Technology Review.  Author: Tom Simonite.

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.

Grazed from ComputerWorld.  Author:  Ellen Messmer.

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.

Grazed from ZD Net.  Author: Jason Hiner.

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.

Grazed from ComputerWorld.  Author: Paul Krill.

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.

Grazed from Destination CRM.  Author: Brittany Farb.

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.

Grazed from Forbes.  Author: Tim Worstall.

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.