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Grazed from BizTech2. Author: Editorial Staff.

Worldwide spending on public IT cloud services will reach $47.4 billion in 2013 and is expected to be more than $107 billion in 2017, according to a new forecast from International Data Corporation (IDC). Over the 2013–2017 forecast period, public IT cloud services will have a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 23.5 percent, five times that of the IT industry as a whole.

As one of the key technologies enabling the industry-wide shift to the 3rd Platform, cloud computing has played a crucial role in changing the way companies consume and use information technology. Now, there are signs that cloud services are starting to shift into a "Chapter Two" phase where the scale of cloud adoption will not only be much bigger, but also more user and solution driven. In this phase of growth, cloud and the other 3rd Platform technologies – mobile, social, and Big Data – will become even more interdependent as they continue to drive growth and innovation across all industries that depend on IT…

Grazed from ProofPoint. Author: Editorial Staff.

As organizations consider how cloud computing solutions might fit into their operations, it’s important they keep in mind the diversity of options when it comes to these emerging technologies. While the public cloud has received a great deal of attention, there are also private and hybrid systems that can assuage certain fears and provide their own particular benefits, including enhanced security.

According to Verizon’s 2013 State of the Enterprise Cloud Report, cloud computing is becoming a more popular option for many companies. Between January 2012 and June 2013, the use of cloud-based storage tools rose by 90 percent, and implementation of cloud-based memory increased by 100 percent. But why? Researchers noted that particularly when it comes to the hybrid cloud, business leaders are choosing these technologies to enhance their ability to meet various security and regulatory compliance requirements…

Grazed from NetworkWorld. Author: Ellen Messmer.

Virtustream, an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) provider focused on the enterprise, says the key to meeting demand for encryption in cloud services is to offer lots of options. Virtustream, a Bethesda, Md., company that launched in 2009, has integrated multiple vendor’s products in ways to support encryption of data at rest and in motion between the cloud and the customer’s on premises applications or mobile systems.

Its focus is on customers that often host large-scale ERP applications, and that include the likes of Goodyear Tires, Domino Foods and Kawasaki. One thing Virtustream has learned over time is that integrating encryption for such companies is best done as the “on-boarding” process begins to shift on-premises IT assets to the cloud…

Grazed from BusinessWire. Author: PR Announcements.

Embotics, a leading provider of Cloud Management Software, today announced that it won a Best of VMworld 2013 Gold Award in the Public/Hybrid Cloud Computing Technologies Category for its flagship software, vCommander(TM) 5.0.

The official media partner for the VMworld Awards, TechTarget’s SearchServerVirtualization.com, announced the winners at the VMworld 2013 Conference in San Francisco held August 25 to 29. The Best of VMworld Awards recognizes the most innovative and high-performing products in the server virtualization, cloud computing and end-user computing markets…

Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: Andrew C. Oliver.

I’ve been surprised at the way fairly traditional companies have embraced the cloud — but don’t always embrace the benefits. For most, the payoff has been relatively small and confined to the infrastructure layer. The thing is, most of the benefits of IaaS (infrastructure as a service) have already been realized through virtualization, which during the last decade cut costs through the infrastructure equivalent of Conway’s law.

Every department wanted its own server or, worse, its own server farm. Virtualization provided those departments with the illusion of dedicated infrastructure, while at the same time enabling management to pool resources and centralize IT operations…

Grazed from NetworkWorld. Author: Brandon Butler.

A week after VMware launched its much anticipated vCloud Hybrid Service (vCHS) at its annual VMworld conference, experts have now had time to reflect on the company’s cloud strategy and now have some questions. Perhaps the biggest is: Does the offering pack enough punch to take on the heavyweights in the industry, most notably Amazon Web Services? Some believe that VMware doesn’t need to take on AWS.

“Today vCHS and AWS are addressing different types of applications and different types of customers. Instead of being an offensive move against Amazon, vCHS is first a defensive move,” wrote Jerry Chen, a partner at venture firm Greylock Partners in an article titled, “VMware: Too big to fail? Or too big to succeed?” With VMware facing increased pressure in its core virtualization market from Microsoft, this new hybrid cloud offering gives customers a way to “extend” their data centers in the cloud…

Grazed from MarketWire. Author: PR Announcement.

CloudPhysics, who provides intelligent operations management for virtualized workloads, today announced that it won the VMworld Best of Breed Cloud Management Award presented by Virtualization Review magazine: http://virtualizationreview.com/articles/2013/08/28/best-of-breed-2013.aspx. CloudPhysics was also named a finalist in TechTarget SearchServerVirtualization’s Best of VMworld Awards in the Virtualization Management category: http://www.techtarget.com/html/pr/pr-08282013.html.

This is the second consecutive year CloudPhysics has won a VMworld Best of Breed Award. The company received the Best Innovation Award at VMworld 2012, when it first exhibited at VMworld: http://virtualizationreview.com/blogs/the-hoard-facts/2012/08/vmworld-best-breed-awards.aspx…

Grazed from PRWeb. Author: PR Announcement.

Born in the Cloud on February 2012, Cloudamour has become one of the fastest growing Microsoft Cloud Partners in the UK, with an ambition to transform the view of office technology and educate SMEs about the benefits of the Cloud.

Cloudamour has now achieved Microsoft Partner Gold status, which elevates it to the top 2% of Service Providers in the UK, with verified skills and competencies that set it apart from its competition. To help inform and educate SMEs about the Cloud, Cloudamour has developed a short film to unravel the mystery of Cloud Computing. Watch it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5V-dssXUVM …

Grazed from ComputerWeekly. Author: Archana Venkatraman.

Chip-maker Intel has launched a second-generation family of system-on-chip (SOC) for micro-servers, a silicon suited for software-defined networking, and a rack designed for telecommunications and cloud service providers to build datacentres of the future. The portfolio of datacentre technologies will help cloud service providers drive efficiency and flexibility into their infrastructure to support growing demand for new services, according to Intel.

As server, network and storage infrastructure technologies evolve to better suit an increasingly diverse set of lightweight workloads, they create a need for micro-server, cold storage and entry networking products. By optimising technologies for specific workloads, the new products will help cloud providers increase utilisation and drive down costs, the company said…

Grazed from The Guardian. Author: Editorial Staff.

OK, I admit it. I wasn’t always watching my kids demonstrate their athletic prowess on the field. Sometimes I had my laptop out and was working. Sometimes I was just watching the clouds go by. One observation about those clouds – they were constantly morphing. They had no fixed edge as they billowed and blew across the sky.

That lack of an edge that clearly defines the cloud environment your organisation may be considering sending your data to can make it seemingly difficult to protect. In fact, security is cited in numerous studies as the number one inhibitor to cloud adoption. Think about possible points of entry for an attacker in a cloud environment. A customer uses an insecure mobile phone to access your network … you can be attacked…