Category: News

Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Derrick Harris.

There are a lot of questions a startup has to answer when making decisions about its cloud infrastructure. Private cloud or public cloud? Amazon Web Services, Google Compute Engine or Rackspace? DynamoDB or open source Cassandra?And after all those questions are finally answered, prudent CTOs might find themselves asking them again as new products hit the market and hourly rates continue to fall.

This is why one investor and adviser told Parse.ly Co-founder and CTO Andrew Montalenti that, when it comes to the cloud, “life is a series of ever-changing alternatives.” Montalenti, whose startup provides analytics to some of the biggest web publishers around, shared that insight and more about the economics of cloud computing on the Structure Show podcast this week…

Grazed from TheServerSide. Author: Editorial Staff.

Anyone who has been paying attention to the cloud computing space, from software engineers to enterprise IT managers, knows that there are significant benefits to adopting this increasingly pervasive technology, be it cost savings, increased efficiency or faster development cycles. But there is still a great deal of friction slowing down the PaaS, SaaS and IaaS adoption process. Even the most forward thinking organizations have a lot of fears and reservations about moving their IT infrastructure to the cloud. They worry about security. They worry about losing control over policies and access. They worry about governance. They worry about over-provisioning or AMI instances being spun up but never being turned off, resulting in costs spiraling out of control. The benefits of moving enterprise IT to the cloud is well know, but that knowledge doesn’t alleviate the fear.

But organizations shouldn’t let fear get in the way of trying out something that can make them more efficient and help scale out IT operations cost-effectively, so it makes sense to choose an experiment that’s low-risk and gets you immediate benefits. When it comes to easing your organization into the cloud, development, test and pre-production environments are a great place to start…

Grazed from TheStreet. Author: Chris Ciaccia.

Benioff, 49, won the voting with 54% of the vote, taking in more than 1300 votes, according to those surveyed. A former Oracle (ORCL_) executive, Benioff has continued to help lead the cloud computing revolution, turning software-as-a-service (SaaS) into a phrase.

He’s also continued to build out salesforce.com into more than just a traditional software company, focusing on making sense of social media. Perhaps a sign that stock price and CEO performance don’t always go hand-in-hand, shares of Salesforce.com have performed the worst out of the candidates mentioned, gaining 28.2% year to date…

Grazed from The Guardian. Author: Adam Davidi.

Increased adoption of hybrid cloud computing models and innovation over cost-cutting are just some of the predictions from our panel of experts on key cloud computing trends for 2014. As we look ahead to the new year, we asked six cloud computing experts for their big trends for 2014. Here’s what they came up with:

Werner Vogels, vice president and CTO, Amazon.com
The cloud allows everyone to become a media company: In 2014 expect a great rise in organisations that are adding media capabilities to their offerings. A good example is sports clubs; all are looking for ways to establish an engagement with their fan base beyond the two hours on a weekend. A successful way to achieve a weeklong engagement is by daily distribution or fresh, exclusive media content. The subscription revenues for clubs that often have millions of fans around the world are substantial…

Grazed from Forbes. Author: Joe McKendrick.

Over the past year, there has been a lot of news swirling around and about the cloud computing space. The events with the most impact included the revelations about National Security Agency snooping into vendor’s data, the mess-up with the Healthcare.gov health insurance exchange portals, and the Amazon outage which briefly brought down some fairly prominent web companies.

Along with that, we had several cloud computing events drew tens of thousands of attendees as the technology methodology continued its march into the enterprise computing mainstream. Out of this whirlwind came some of the past year’s most memorable statements on cloud computing:…

Grazed from CBeyond.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Cloud computing has rapidly evolved from a novel trend in corporate technology to one of the most revolutionary sets of solutions available to businesses today. The advantages of leveraging cloud services for a variety of different tasks, functions and strategies are vast, and are especially pertinent for small business owners who need to maintain smart IT spending budgets. 

10 reasons for cloud deployment
When it comes to running a small business in the modern market, entrepreneurs need to ensure they are utilizing all of the technology available to them to gain a competitive advantage. The cloud can be a major driver of corporate operational improvements, and here are 10 of the most common and advantageous benefits of the services:…

Grazed from The Huffington Post.  Author: Matthew Lynch.

Cloud computing has taken the business world by storm. Climate controlled rooms full of servers are quickly being replaced by remote storage technology, whimsically referred to as "the cloud." Over half of U.S. businesses use some form of cloud computing to back up their important data and improve productivity. Instead of trying to find the capital to pay for a secure server structure, businesses are subscribing to cloud services and paying for more storage as their needs grow.

The practical uses of cloud computing technology also translate to K-12 classrooms. Simply put, cloud storage saves space, money and time for teachers, parents, students and administrators. A report by CDW Government found that over 40 percent of schools use cloud applications to store their data and by 2016, schools are expected to spend 35 percent of IT budgets on the cloud…

Grazed from Hosting.com.  Author: James Schwartz.

Yesterday, Parker Snyder of Migration Services at HOSTING shared his thoughts on what went wrong with healthcare.gov. Today, he shares his thoughts on how mission critical business applications can be developed properly, to avoid embarrassing mistakes.

Parker says to start by taking your projects end goal, in its entirety, and add every involved component together. Observe where the scope crosses boundaries of solutions. For illustrative purposes, let’s think of this in terms of an MS SQL cluster… what real boundaries does it cross?

1. Network
2. Storage
3. Hardware
4. Abstraction layers (i.e. VMware, disk replication, etc.)…