Author: David

October 20, 2010 Off

Cloud Computing Shines At Interop New York

By David
Grazed from CRN.  Author: Andrew R. Hickey.

Cloud computing is taking center stage at this week’s Interop New York 2010, with dozens of cloud players showcasing their latest and greatest solutions to make the leap to the cloud a smooth one.

October 19, 2010 Off

Cloud computing ‘to have bigger impact than internet’

By David
Grazed from Experian QAS.  Author: Neil Hill.

Cloud computing is one of the leading technological developments that will help transform the IT industry over the next decade, a new report has forecast.

According to a study by Gartner, cloud computing is one of four main trends that will develop the economy over the next ten years – the others being the business impact of social computing, context aware computing and pattern-based strategy.

October 18, 2010 Off

Getting started on cloud with Microsoft Windows Azure

By David
Grazed from ZDNet.  Author: Lee Lup Yuen.

With cloud computing, you can host your enterprise applications and data at an external data center that can scale to meet your computing demands. Rightfully, IT managers are apprehensive about cloud computing:

October 18, 2010 Off

Microsoft software head Ray Ozzie resigns

By David
Grazed from BBC.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Ray Ozzie, chief software architect of Microsoft and proponent of cloud computing, has resigned unexpectedly.

Mr Ozzie was a top member of the company’s management, having taken over the software role from Bill Gates.

Chief executive Steve Ballmer announced his colleague’s departure in an email to company staff.

He said Mr Ozzie would remain with Microsoft during a transitional period, and that the company was not looking for anyone to replace him.

Microsoft shares dropped 2.2% in after-hours trading on the news.

October 18, 2010 Off

Software-as-a-service solutions ‘to become standard’

By David
Grazed from Experian QAS.  Author: James Glass.

Enterprise architects and IT managers will see software-as-a-service solutions become more popular over the next few years, it has been said.

Gene Leganza from Forrester spoke to ZDNet to suggest that software-as-a-service is one platform for data management that will be a standard in the industry in the near future, with rapid deployment a good idea for many businesses.

October 18, 2010 Off

The mechanics of cloud computing connections

By David
Grazed from CWDN.  Author: Adrian Bridgwater.

CA Technologies used its recent appearance at VMworld 2010 Europe to hang out the flags for a new agreement to integrate its own CA IT Process Automation Manager with the VMware vCloud Application Programming Interface (API).

The integration, which according to official sources is under development using the VMware vCloud API in BlueLock’s VMware-based public cloud is intended to "enable process automation and orchestration" for providing and consuming virtual resources in the cloud.

For the record, BlueLock is an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider of cloud hosting solutions.

October 18, 2010 Off

Looking Ahead to the On-Demand Cloud

By David
Grazed from IT Business Edge.  Author: Arthur Cole.

One of the chief advantages that cloud computing brings to the IT table is the concept of on-demand applications and resources. Say goodbye to the complicated provisioning and allocation of enterprise capabilities. Simply scroll through the offerings on the cloud, boot them up and get to work.

Of course, setting up a cloud does not automatically produce such a robust environment. It can still be a rather tricky dance to ensure all the links between application, data and end user are in sync and that any and all business policies and practices are being adhered to.