Companies that Ignore Cloud Computing Could Be Left for Dead
I wrote a few months ago in Wall Street & Technology about the dissolution of the corporate data center brought about by the undermining of data center economics resulting from colocation and proximity hosting. As one major tenant leaves the data center, the "rent" lost from that tenant is shifted to the remaining tenants, increasing their costs and reducing their profitability. Higher allocations force more tenants to leave, until processing costs force everyone out of the data center. It’s the "last guy at the bar picks up the tab" phenomenon. I believed this erosion would take place over the next 10 years or so.
Cloud Security Alliance Makes Free Security Tools Available
There’s a temptation when it comes to security in the cloud to limit the conversation to firewalls and the security paraphernalia that gets deployed at the edge of the network. But in reality, the conversation about security in the cloud needs to go much deeper than that.
Critical Impact Areas for Cloud-Based Health Care
Dell Acquires Boomi to Provide Cloud-Based Integration Functionality
Cloud computing ‘great idea for new businesses’
Entrepreneurs who are getting a business off the ground could benefit from using cloud computing solutions.
This is the advice of Geekzone blogger Nate Dunn, who said a move to the cloud is a "great idea", especially when a company is just beginning to get going.
"Start up costs can be hefty and by using the cloud more, you can concentrate on your core business," he stated.
Mr Dunn explained cloud computing allows users to purchase the capacity they require at a specific moment, with the flexibility to upgrade this if it is deemed necessary.
Google’s Cloud Connect Is a Two-Way Street for Microsoft
Dell Signs New Partner Deals To Advance Cloud Computing
Dell has announced two new partnership deals that it says will improve its competitiveness in cloud computing. The company has partnered with Joyent, a cloud computing software and service provider, and Aster Data, a data management and analytics firm, to deliver their technology through Dell’s Data Center Solutions (DCS) business.
The DCS effort is intended to help customers to built data centers optimized from the beginning for cloud computing, be they a private, public or hybrid model, said Roy Guillen, general manager of DCS, at a news conference Nov. 19 in San Francisco.
Scaling Data Management to Meet the Cloud
The cloud may be the newest technology on the enterprise block, but in many ways it is following the same deployment pattern of previous hardware and software developments.
One habit that never seems to change is the need to get up and running with the latest offering and save pesky details like monitoring and management for later. Unfortunately, some top-tier firms that are already pushing workloads onto the cloud are finding that later is already here.
Brennan wins five year, $5m contract
The contract, valued at about $1 million a year, requires Brennan to provide Northline with a hosted managed service, including servers, a national private network linking all Northline offices and telecommunications infrastructure that allows for portable personalised numbers and videoconferencing.
Northline CEO Craige Whitton, said the new technology infrastructure, backed by fully redundant Brennan IT data centres in Sydney and Brisbane, would allow the company to deploy the latest release software without any disruption.
Google Apps for Business users gain access to ‘full spectrum’ of consumer apps
Google has dramatically increased the functionality available to its commercial Google Apps customers by including its previously consumer-oriented applications such as Picasa Web Albums, Google Voice, Reader, and Blogger.
The significance is mainly that the change allows administrators to specify that groups have access to particular applications, as the additional apps are still only provided on a ‘best effort’ basis, with no guaranteed service levels or phone support.