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Grazed from GigaOM.  Author: Katie Fehrenbacher.

Grazed from IT Business Edge.  Author: Arthur Cole.
 

The cloud is driving new levels of storage performance, which is proving to be a boon for native Fibre Channel installations following years of erosion by Ethernet-based protocols. The first trickle of 16 Gbps Fibre Channel is starting to hit the channel, with expectations that large enterprises and cloud service providers will flock to the technology in order to accommodate expected increases in storage traffic.

Grazed from GigaOM.  Author: Paul Miller.

Grazed from MIT Technology Review.  Author: Lee Gomes.

Grazed from IT Business Edge.  Author: Michael Vizard.

There’s obviously a lot of concern when it comes to the security of public cloud computing services. But there’s also a lot of opportunity to right the mistakes of the past as IT organizations move to embrace what amounts to a fundamentally new approach to enterprise computing.

Grazed from GigaOM.  Author: Derrick Harris.

Cloud computing is no longer just the “next big thing.” It has arrived in the consciousness of the mainstream with industry buzz, TV commercials showcasing its power, and the real promise of revolutionizing computing as we know it. But for those of us dancing on the ground trying to make clouds appear out of the clear blue sky, the next generation public cloud is still just over the horizon.

Grazed from GigaOM.  Author: Derrick Harris.

Grazed from Computer Weekly.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Governments around the world have been looking at how best to reduce functional redundancy through the concept of "shared services" where different departments share a single source of function. For example, in the UK, a concept for a government cloud (G-Cloud) has been proposed to provide the shared services described by Sir Peter Gershon in his 2004 report – but this may have to be revisited under the current government spend reviews.

Grazed from IT Wire.  Author: PR Announcement.

Grazed from InfoWorld.  Author: David Linthicum.

Every overhyped technology has good and bad aspects. The trouble is that few are willing to fill you in on the bad aspects. Doing so is often met with several dozen rounds of being called a hater. Cloud computing is no exception.

Here are the three major cloud computing secrets:

1. Some public cloud computing providers are falling and will fail.
2. Public clouds don’t always save you money.
3. Using clouds can get you fired.
   

Now to the details.