Category: News

Grazed from SSRN. Author: Oliver R. Goodenough.

As cloud computing becomes ubiquitous, the need to fashion better and more finely targeted rules for the cloud takes on increasing urgency. Governance at its best is not an abstraction; rather, it is a set of institutional structures that help people to achieve better outcomes than would occur in a world of unconstrained, self-interested decision making.

The rules in contracts, through associations, and by governments can each play a role in creating beneficial governance, provided they are crafted to effectively meet the challenges and characteristics of the activity in question. This paper – still a work in process – explores a number of factors that rule makers should take into account in crafting such a suite of laws and customs. These factors include the structure and history of cloud computing, the ways in which it creates, captures and allocates values, the fundamental challenges of trust for the industry, and the toolkit of private and public rule making that can create structures to help cloud computing reach is potential for providing and distributing benefits…

Grazed from NetworkAsia.  Author:  Sharat Sinha.

Cloud computing encompasses an increasingly broad array of uses from applications to data services, virtualization, software and platform as a service. However, instead of viewing the cloud as the utopia IT architecture for all enterprises, the cloud is in fact one of multiple options towards a more efficient, responsive and available IT infrastructure. Rather than an immediate migration, there’s still a lot to do in terms of data center consolidation, segmentation, securing your virtualized infrastructure, and safely enabling data center applications.

Within Asia Pacific, and as reported by CNC Data and the Synergy Research Group, corporate spending on cloud and data centre infrastructure reached almost US$10 billion in 2012, a 21 per cent increase from 2011. The adoption and expansion of cloud, mobile, and wireless technologies have also created new and different threats to the network, therefore increasing the scope of the IT security products market…

Grazed from BusinessTechnology.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Martin Bishop, Telstra Global’s head of cloud computing, believes that, when it comes to the cloud, the most successful businesses will always consider the three Cs: connectivity, consistency and control.

Connectivity: combining the flexibility of cloud computing with a world-class global network

According to Bishop, Telstra Global customers can feel safe in the knowledge that their cloud capabilities are award-winning and among the largest and most diverse in Asia-Pacific…

Grazed from PRWeb.  Author: PR Announcement.

The report, “Government Cloud Market By Agency (Federal Cloud, State and Local Cloud, Defense & Military Cloud), By Delivery (Saas, Paas, Iaas), By Deployment (Public, Private, Hybrid, Community) Global Advancements, Market Forecasts and Analysis (2013 – 2018),” has defined the adoption trends of the cloud solutions in government organizations. This comprehensive report offers a detailed analysis and forecast of the global government cloud market. It also highlights the drivers and restraints for this market, along with the insights on trends, opportunities and challenges.

Browse more than 139 market data tables, 103 figures spread through 345 pages and in-depth table of content on “Government Cloud Market": http://www.marketsandmarkets.com/Market-Reports/government-cloud-market-1170.html…

Grazed from PR.com.  Author: PR Announcement.

StarWind Software Inc., a leading provider of software-defined storage and storage virtualization software, announced today that their solution, StarWind iSCSI SAN & NAS, has been nominated as a finalist in the SVC Awards 2013 in two categories: "Virtualization Management Product of the Year" and "Storage Virtualization Product of the Year." These highly prestigious awards reward products, projects and services, and honor companies and teams which operate in the cloud, virtualization, and storage sectors.

StarWind iSCSI SAN & NAS delivers industry-adopted storage architecture, which helps to solve common challenges in storage environments including: storage system costs, capacity growth, securing confidential data, inability to scale efficiently, and other complex management problems. One of the most affordable and easy-to-use solutions available, StarWind software provides innovative and advanced technologies which deliver powerful data protection, cost savings and business process improvements…

Grazed from Midsize Insider.  Author: Sue Poremba.

The future of cloud computing seems to be in the hybrid cloud. In an October press release, Gartner predicts that by 2017, half of all large enterprises will have adopted a hybrid environment, and CWCS Managed Hosting predicts that 43 percent of all businesses will be using hybrid, up from 27 percent today.

Predicting Hybrid Cloud Growth

In an article in BusinessNewsDaily, staff writer Sara Angeles reports that midsize businesses will likely be the driver for this move to hybrid due to the fact that they have taken the lead in other cloud technologies. Based on the data from various areas of cloud usage in midsize businesses, all data indicates a good degree of growth for the hybrid option…

Grazed from PRWeb. Author: PR Announcement.

Talygen, the world leader in Business Management Automation today unveiled its cloud storage feature. Companies can now store and share their files in the cloud for easy access and collaboration among managers, team members and clients. Users no longer have to worry about saving files in the wrong device or carrying large disk drives with them. Since everything is stored in the cloud, users can gain access to their documents as long as they have access to the internet.

This also means that users no longer have to worry about failed back-ups or corrupt documents. “Cloud computing is essential in project management since it involves a lot of communication and collaboration among teams and clients,” mentioned Harold Saini, Chief Program Manager at Talygen. “With our cloud storage capabilities, users can do that and so much more.” Some of the features and benefits that come with Talygen’s cloud storage include: …

Grazed from TechSling. Author: Thomas Parent.

Cloud computing technology continues to evolve at an astounding pace. As more individuals and organizations have embraced this technology, cloud computing architecture has changed to accommodate increasingly diverse requirements. Initially, cloud computing was synonymous with public clouds which are hosted on shared servers.

When security concerns were raised, many organizations adopted private clouds which are housed on dedicated servers. These developments spawned hybrid clouds which incorporate both public and private clouds. Now multi-clouds are becoming popular. The term multi-cloud refers to multiple public and/or private clouds (this generally includes hybrid clouds as well)…

Grazed from Channelnomics. Author: Larry Walsh.

There’s nary a tech vendor in the market that doesn’t have a cloud computing story to tell. Every vendor – hardware or software – is touching cloud services in one form or another. And, correctly so, most see cloud computing and the services model as the wave of future.

The problem is cloud transformation – the conversion of revenue streams from traditional product sales to recurring revenue – isn’t easy. IBM’s most recently quarterly earnings reveal this fact, even as the company’s cloud revenue’s top $1 billion for the first time…

Grazed from GCN. Author: Michael C. Daconta.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and IBM recently have been battling in court over a $600 million contract to build a private cloud for the CIA. That’s a sizable contract, but it’s worth much more than its face value. Let’s briefly examine the facts in the case and their ramifications:

• AWS wins the contract from the CIA in late 2012.
• IBM protests to the Government Accountability Office in February 2013.
• GAO sides with IBM on two points and recommends the CIA rebid the contract.
• AWS sues the government to stop the re-bid. IBM files as “intervener” in the case.
• On Oct. 7, a federal judge rules in favor of AWS…