Category: News

Grazed from BusinessCloud. Author: Editorial Staff.

The issue of security has been consistently talked and written about, ever more so since businesses first took the decision to migrate to the cloud. Regardless of the well-documented benefits of cloud computing to businesses — flexibility, agility, improved capabilities — every company looking to outsource key operations or storage has to have assurances about the safe keeping of its information.

The latest survey carried out by OnePoll on behalf of Interactive Intelligence conducted last year found that 43 per cent of respondents cited perceived concerns around data security as being the greatest barrier to cloud adoption. Even if that figure has improved in the last six months, there are still a significant number of businesses looking for more reassurance before moving their operations to the cloud…

Grazed from CloudTech. Author: James Bourne.

In September 2012, the European Union released its “Unleashing the Potential of Cloud Computing in Europe” document, aiming for a yearly 160bn Euro (£127.6bn) boost to the European GDP by 2020 and a gain of 2.5m by the rollout of cloud. A full 15 months later, the response by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) was published. The ‘Cloud Standards Coordination’ report, requested by the European Commission, aimed to analyse Commission VP Neelie Kroes’ opinion there was a “jungle of technical standards.”

ETSI asserted that cloud standardisation was “much more focused tha[n] anticipated” and added the landscape was “complex but not chaotic.” The executive summary outlined the state of play in the key areas. Important gaps in standards had been identified, with new standards encouraged, whilst the legal environment for cloud computing remains “highly challenging.”…

Grazed from TheGuardian. Author: Editorial Staff.

Last year saw a whole host of news – from the NSA revelations around data and privacy breaches, to examples of lost customer data – that caused businesses and consumers to question governments, technology and, more specifically, the cloud. As the cloud has risen up the agenda over the last few years, I thought we’d left behind arguments about the perceived negatives, particularly security.

So I was somewhat surprised to also read an article from Chi Onwurah, Labour MP for Newcastle Central, late last year, who said she was "reluctantly and unhappily" moving to the cloud. Onwurah said that she doesn’t think cloud computing is "fully ready for the mass consumer market", and that she, like many others, has worries over security and data protection…

Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: David Linthicum.

The primary drivers for moving data into private, public, or hybrid clouds are the efficiency and capabilities that clouds can bring. Enterprises have never seen such efficiencies and capabilities in traditional database technologies, including those from Oracle and IBM. What databases in the public cloud offer is hugely compelling: Elastic scalability, universal network accessibility, integration with mobile platforms, pay-per-use efficiencies, avoidance of capital costs, and the ability to work with widely scattered structured and unstructured data (that is, big data).

As a result, there’s been a massive migration to cloud-based databases, aka data-as-a-service — one that seems to have escaped notice perhaps because it seems such an obvious step to take. The cloud is just too cheap, too fast, and too compelling. We’ll see this massive migration continue this year as well…

Grazed from PRWeb. Author: PR Announcement.

OW2, the global community for open source infrastructure software, announces the program of the first of its Open Cloud Forum Series, organised at Cloud Expo Europe in London on February 26-27. The Open Cloud Forum at Cloud Expo Europe 2014 is the first event in Europe exclusively dedicated to explore the trends shaping the future of open cloud computing.

The Open Cloud Forum Series are events dedicated to promoting open source cloud projects and market offerings as well as awareness for interoperability in the cloud. The Open Cloud Forum Series leverage OW2’s open source expertise and its support for many open cloud projects. The next two events in 2014 will be organised in Paris and in Brussels…

Grazed from ThoughtsOnCloud. Author: Rene D. Svendsen.

In a series of six blog posts, I will focus on how a migration from traditional development environments to ones that leverage the cloud impacts developers, their applications and the programming models they use. These blog posts will be based on my own experience as well as work conducted by the IBM Academy of Technology and the Cloud Standards Customer Council (CSCC). I also encourage you to read A reference model for moving your applications to cloud by Joydipto Banerjee and Migrating Applications to the Cloud: Roadmap for Success.

Background

Hosting in the cloudCloud computing promises benefits often historically reserved for specialized solutions and hosting, based upon the virtualization of physical resources, and delivering operational efficiencies through automation and standardization. The pure virtualization of infrastructure is rarely a concern for developers and it represents the first obvious step in migrating an existing physically hosted application to the cloud. However, the popularity of cloud computing has given rise to a misconception around the cloud provider magically offering boundless elasticity, resiliency and performance. In reality, applications are either authored with the cloud in mind or need to become more cloud-friendly…

Grazed from EvolvingSol. Author: Editorial Staff.

Jack Woods of Silicon Angle pulled together a number of key stats every CIO should know when they are thinking about cloud computing. Let’s check out what he has to share:

• By 2015, end-user spending on cloud services could be more than $180 billion
• By the end of 2014, U.S. businesses are projected to spend more than 13 billion on cloud computing and managed hosting services
• Global spend is predicted to reach $79.1 billion by 2018
• 82% of companies reportedly saved money by moving to the cloud

You must have been out of the picture of life for so long if you have not joined the wagon of cloud computing. For enterprise holders, the cloud can be a fairly crafty entity that lays bear several benefits. In the simplest case, it is a big thing for the IT fraternity since it means massive portable drives.

Cloud computing is the industry darling, which allows organizations to run all of its applications with a traditional corporate center of data. Targeted to improve system, making storage and access to data far easier, and ultimately cutting down costs, the cloud has expanded from a simple, promising concept all the way to being one of the rapidly growing portions of the new face of the IT industry.

Grazed from CXOToday. Author: Editorial Staff.

Corporate spending on cloud computing is expected to triple from 2011 to 2017, according to IHS Technology (IHS) report, which predicts that enterprise spending on cloud computing will amount to nearly $235.1 billion, triple the $78.2 billion spent in 2011. This year, global business spending for infrastructure and services related to the cloud will reach an estimated $174.2 billion, up 20% from the amount spent in 2013, says the study.

“Cloud services, applications, security and data analytics will account for an ever-growing portion of total information technology spending by enterprises, valued at about $2 trillion at present,” IHS analyst Jagdish Rebello says in a statement. He adds that the robust growth will come as an increasing number of large and small enterprises move more of their applications to the cloud, while also looking at data analytics to drive new insights into consumer behavior…

Grazed from Fool. Author: Anders Bylund.

"2014 is going to be a defining year for the technology industry," says Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst. "This will be the year when cloud architectures go from experimentation to deployment, where big data goes from promise to production, and when we get our first glimpse at how these innovations could potentially change our world." Sounds like a big idea to me. So I hopped on the phone with Whitehurst to discuss this game-changing trend.

"For the last couple of years, we’ve been talking about the cloud," he said. "But realistically, it’s only been about customers starting to toy around with it. You’re finally seeing these things go into production. So now, when I talk to CIOs of large companies, they are seriously talking about using Amazon.com to run applications. Not just running development and testing, but truly moving to production in the cloud."…