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Grazed from CIO. Author: Bernard Golden.

It’s the time of year when darkness comes early and people begin to sum up how this year has gone and next year will unfold. It’s also the time of year that predictions about developments in the technology industry over the next 12 months are in fashion. I’ve published cloud computing predictions over the past several years, and they are always among the most popular pieces I write.

Looking back on my predictions, I’m struck not so much by any specific prediction or even the general accuracy (or inaccuracy) of the predictions as a whole. What really comes into focus is how the very topic of cloud computing has been transformed. Four or five years ago, cloud computing was very much a controversial and unproven concept. I became a strong advocate of it after writing Virtualization for Dummies and being exposed to Amazon Web Services in its early days. I concluded that the benefits of cloud computing would result in it becoming the default IT platform in the near future…

Grazed from Business2Community. Author: Brian Wallace.

As you can imagine, new technologies have brought many changes to the performance of server class CPUs beginning from the Pentium era. CPU performance itself has historically been measured by clock speed and front side bus of the processor. Clock speed is the speed at which a microprocessor executes instructions. The front side bus is the digital pathway connecting the CPU to the motherboard. Higher bus speed means faster communication with the rest of the system.

In 1993, the original Pentium featured a clock speed of 60 MHz and a front side bus speed that ranged from 60-66 MHz. Three years later, the Pentium II would boast clock speeds that ranged from 233-450 MHz and front side bus speed that ranged from 66-100 MHz. Many breakthroughs happened in the early 2000s…

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.

IBM (IBM) Labs has introduced—and patented; let’s not forget the importance of the patent—new technology that is intended to improve the security of cloud applications and mobile users. The technology aims to help businessess increase cloud security and support secure transactions by preventing mobile devices from accessing malicious software code, even if it was encrypted after it became infected.

The IBM technology was developed as a result of the increasingly common bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend that is seeing more and more employee-owned devices enter the workplace and connect to corporate data, applications and services. According to the patent (U.S. Patent #8,341,747, in case you want to look it up), the invention is listed as a "method to provide a secure virtual machine launcher."…

Grazed from ITWorld. Author: Nancy Gohring.

Today Cisco becomes the latest to make an announcement in the desktop-as-a-service market. It is offering a set of products to cloud providers so that they can offer DaaS to end users, based on either VMware’s Desktone or Citrix’s desktop virtualization technology. The announcement follows VMware’s acquisition of Desktone in October and Amazon Web Services’ entry into the market in November with its own desktop service for businesses. What’s driving all of this activity, given that desktop virtualization has been stagnant for years? Here are a few reasons for the buzz around DaaS:

–Consumerization of IT. “Increasing mobility and flexible workstyles in the midst of rising compliance needs — including the need to support multiple OSs and device types that are often owned or managed by the employee instead of the company — means that companies need simpler ways to provide secure, managed access to Windows desktops, applications and other systems of record behind the company firewall,” said Forrester’s Dave Johnson…

Grazed from MarketWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Fifty percent of organizations will spend more on IT in 2014, investing heavily in public and private cloud-enabling technologies like infrastructure and virtualization, according to a survey of 1,000 IT professionals. However, half of all respondents participating in cloud initiatives within their organizations need more education on the technology and note their current skillsets do not adequately prepare them to do their jobs well in the coming year.

The survey, conducted by next generation IT monitoring software provider ScienceLogic, found that lack of education is not the only headache employees will face in the coming year. While IT spend is increasing in 2014, survey results reveal a lack of industry investment in employees, with 40 percent of respondents confirming they would make the same or less money year-over-year in 2014…

Grazed from eCommerceTimes. Author: Editorial Staff.

Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud is a must-have reference guide for any IT manager or sysadmin whose job involves working with computer systems that are tethered to the cloud. Author Brendan Gregg is no newcomer to writing definitive books on computer networks and system performance, but his latest release could well be his best work so far. Gregg received the 2013 LISA Award for Outstanding Achievement in System Administration. He is lead performance engineer at Joyent; before that, he was a Solaris kernel engineer at Sun Microsystems.

Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud is a detailed guide to optimizing systems performance. It treats a topic of immense importance in today’s enterprise computing environments. Large-scale enterprise, cloud and virtualized computing environments face serious new challenges…

Grazed from ECManaged. Author: PR Announcement.

ECmanaged, the multi-Cloud and IT management tool, is proud to announce it has been shortlisted in the 2013-2014 Cloud Awards Program in the category “Best Software as a Service”. Juan Carlos Moreno, Co-Founder and CTO at ECmanaged said “We have developed an online IT management tool that brings Cloud and physical IT platforms to the next level. This award is an acknowledgement for the innovative character of ECmanaged and Europe.”

Over 200 organizations entered the Cloud Awards contest, with entries coming from across the globe, including Europe, the US, Canada, Australia and the Middle East. ECmanaged will compete with BeGlobal – SDL (UK), HRBoss (Singapore), Xero (US) and Workshare (UK)…

Grazed from ControlCircle. Author: PR Announcement.

MaxCloud provides a complete view of corporate Amazon Web Services and IT infrastructure for monitoring and optimisation Corporate users of Amazon Web Services (AWS) can now have complete visibility of their cloud computing operations with the launch of MaxCloud, a new monitoring service from ControlCircle.

Research from the Cloud Industry Forum highlights that 79 per cent of CIOs want a single monitoring solution to oversee all IT operations but only 30 per cent of CIOs perceive that they have this capability today. In response, MaxCloud provides IT management with a holistic and unified view of their estate, bringing transparency to the infrastructure. This ensures that organisations can maintain control of quality, governance and expenditure, enabling them to correlate IT spend and value…

Grazed from eWeek. Author: Sean Michael Kerner.

Dreamhost has emerged in recent years to become one of the world’s most popular shared hosting providers. The company is now expanding its lineup with new cloud compute and storage services, leveraging the open-source OpenStack platform serving as the foundation. Helping to fuel Dreamhost’s expansion is a new $30 million round of financing. In a video interview with eWEEK, Dreamhost CEO Simon Anderson discussed his company’s OpenStack efforts and where the cloud is head in the next year.

Dreamhost’s DreamObjects service is an OpenStack Swift Storage compatible cloud object storage service that launched in 2012 and is continuing to grow in 2013. The DreamObjects platform leverages the Ceph open-source storage file system at its base.  Dreamhost’s other big cloud effort is the DreamCompute cloud platform, which is currently in beta, and is rapidly nearing wider availability. DreamCompute is Dreamhost’s cloud computing platform and is based on OpenStack, as well…

Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Editorial Staff.

SaaS makes it incredibly easy to replace on-premises software with cloud services. The problem: Most corporate data still resides in-house. Think of trying to use Salesforce.com without access to customer contact info or sales records. See the problem?

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