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Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: David Linthicum.

These days, many enterprises have processes or data they want to share with the world — and they want to do it with cloud computing. At least, that’s what I find in my travels. The reasons vary, but some emerging patterns are pushing enterprises to become, in essence, small public cloud providers. The patterns include:

• The need to provide information to outside parties using well-defined and secure interfaces. For example, the company wants to allow its partners or customers to see the status of an inventory item, or perhaps the company wants to provide complex data analytics services.
• The need to define access to core business processes to outside partners or customers. For example, a company might want the ability to expose small tactical processes, such as purchase and shipment of products, using cloud-delivered APIs…

Grazed from BizTech2. Author: Editorial Staff.

Ericsson is planning to set up three new ICT centers over the next five years, of which two will be located in Sweden and the third one in Canada. These centers will be another step in providing industry leading cloud-enabled technology.

The new centers will house the company’s complete portfolio, enabling the R&D organisation to develop and verify solutions, creating the foundation for the next generation technology and cloud-based services. The centers will be the new platform for more than 24,000 Ericsson R&D engineers around the world, supporting their lean and agile ways of working…

Grazed from The Register. Author: Phil Muncaster.

Analysis The devastating triple whammy of earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown which struck Japan in March 2011, has led many IT managers to rebuild their infrastructure with a key focus on disaster recovery and business continuity, according to experts.

It’s an effort which has had obvious knock-on benefits for cloud computing, virtualisation and mobile vendors touting their wares in the land of the rising sun but also teaches some important lessons about IT best practice. Now the dust has settled on one of the world’s worst disasters in recorded history, the short and longer term impact on IT operations becomes clear…

Grazed from eWeek.  Author: Nathan Eddy.

Just 38 percent of all organizations indicate cloud services use today, according to a survey of 651 organizations across nine countries from IT research firm Gartner. However, 80 percent of organizations said that they intend to use cloud services in some form within 12 months, including 55 percent of the organizations not doing so today.

The results revealed that although the use of cloud services is growing faster than the overall enterprise IT market, it is still a small part of overall IT spending. The objective of the survey was to better understand how organizations are shifting from the use of traditional technology products to new technology delivered as cloud services and to understand end-user organizations’ use of external service providers for IT services, Gartner explained…

Grazed from Servora.  Author: Editorial Staff.

In order to save on the cost of IT maintenance and installation, many companies have chosen to use cloud computing. Cloud computing has allowed companies to experience the benefits of Software-as-a-Service, strengthening their businesses and make them more efficient all around without the capital expense. But how do you know if you should engage in a private or public cloud?

In order to understand the question being asked, let us first define cloud computing. Cloud computing is essentially SaaS by internet with faster setup and scalability. Once the cloud is set up, these programs, applications and processes are accessed via the internet. The cloud is maintained by the cloud vendor and is paid per use by the company…

Grazed from FierceEnterpriseCommunications: Author: David Weldon.

With virtually every type of computing service going to the cloud, it is only logical that supercomputing should as well.  The concept was recently explored in an article entitled "Meeting Demand" in Scientific Computing World, and it makes great sense for two important reasons: cost and accessibility.

There is no secret to the fact that there is a supercomputer arms race going on. Every month we read about the latest and greatest supercomputer going online somewhere around the world, and where the new machine falls on the Top500 list (the list of the world’s top supercomputers, which is updated twice annually)…

Grazed from Sci-Tech Today.  Author: Seth Fitzgerald.

Even though Windows 8.1 has yet to be released, rumors regarding Microsoft’s coming Windows 9 and 10 are already emerging. A Russian forum user named WZOR provided speculative reports as to what Windows 9 and 10 will be like, as well as how they will differ from the current version of Windows.

Virtually everything that WZOR talked about cannot be proven, but according to numerous articles regarding the information, WZOR has been behind countless other Microsoft leaks. With an impressive track record, it makes sense that many journalists are paying attention to what WZOR has to say about the coming Windows operating systems…

Grazed from ComputerWorld UK.  Author: Matthew Finnegan.

The number of High Court legal disputes over the theft of data from businesses has reached a record high, according to a report, with the popularity of cloud storage services making it easier for confidential data to be taken.  The number of legal disputes taken to the High Court grew by 58 percent last year, according to commercial law firm EMW, with 167 cases during 2012, up from 106 in 2011 and 45 in 2010.

The majority of these cases are said to have been businesses launching civil claims against former employees, aiming to prevent them from using confidential data taken from company databases.  Mark Finn, principal at EMW, believes that part of the reason for the increase in businesses taking action against employees is that it is has become even easier for staff to move information outside the business, thanks to the popularity of cloud storage systems such as DropBox…

Grazed from BizTech2.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Adobe announced a new version of Adobe Creative Cloud that enables creative teams to purchase membership of a single desktop application like Photoshop CC, Illustrator CC, InDesign CC or any other of the entire collection of CC desktop applications. With this new move, Adobe now offers two team plans for Creative Cloud: the complete option that delivers 14 Adobe desktop applications and sophisticated, cross-device collaboration and publishing capabilities; or the new single app plan that includes access to one desktop application along with 20GB of storage and the ability to showcase work on Behance, the world’s leading creative community.

Grazed from Wall Street Cheat Sheet.  Author: Victor Mora.

With shares of Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) trading around $49, is CRM an OUTPERFORM, WAIT AND SEE or STAY AWAY? Let’s analyze the stock with the relevant sections of our CHEAT SHEET investing framework:

T = Trends for a Stock’s Movement

Salesforce is a provider of enterprise cloud computing and social enterprise solutions. The company provides a customer and collaboration relationship management applications through the Internet or cloud. Salesforce delivers its service through Internet browsers and mobile devices and markets its social enterprise applications and platforms to businesses on a subscription basis. Cloud computing — the use of Internet-based computing, storage, and connectivity technology to deliver a variety of different services — has generated a lot of buzz in recent years…