Combining the Cloud Computing World Forum Asia and the Telecom Cloud Summit APAC, this year’s event provides dual conference streams on both the 13th and 14th November, tackling the two major components of the cloud computing industry – the Enterprise and Telco markets.

Why SaaS Makes Sense for IT Projects

Grazed from AOL. Author: Wyatt Kash.

Federal information technology professionals are confronted with a management landscape that is perhaps as complex as any have seen in a generation. That’s due in part to the convergence of three transformational technologies – cloud computing, mobile devices and big data analytics. The benefits of each technology are generally expected to outweigh many of the associated challenges of implementing them…

But according to a new government-wide study, those decisions must also be balanced against escalating cybersecurity threats, as well as a combination of new budget constraints and shifting administration priorities, making the task of managing and integrating new technologies extremely difficult…

Grazed from The Journal. Author: Margo Pierce.

Government data centers are on the verge of major changes, with consolidation and cloud computing significant components of the transformation, according to industry analyst IDC (International Data Corporation). Shrinking budgets and pressure by government entities such as the Federal CIO Council are some of the factors included in a recent report by IDC titled “Technology Selection: The Government Datacenter of the Future,” (Document #GI237095).

To help government data centers consider their next steps, the Government Insights division, which “assists government policy, program, and IT leaders, as well as the suppliers who serve them, in making more effective technology decisions,” prepared the report. In addition to a review of current infrastructure, the report looks at various trends in the field and the implications each might have for the long-term needs, functionality, and design for IT infrastructure…

Grazed from Windows IT Pro. Author: B. K. Winstead.

What’s holding back cloud computing? If you’re a fan of The Simpsons, as I am, your first thought might be that it’s all down to the Stonecutters secret society, which seems to control just about everything. After all, few people doubt that the concept of cloud computing makes sense and can provide business benefits in terms of increased agility, scalability, and cost savings. What reason could explain the slow uptake of the cloud other than a vast conspiracy?

Perhaps I overstate. In reality, businesses and IT pros have legitimate concerns about transitioning to the cloud, and although these concerns have a number of specifics, I’d say they can all be boiled down to one basic underlying reason: lack of trust. Can the cloud provider’s security match on-premises security? Is data in the cloud safe and protected and accessible in the event of litigation and e-discovery requests? Can the company meet its regulatory compliance goals with a cloud service? What’s does the business do if they can’t reach the service, whether from a failure within the service or some other Internet or communications outage?…

Grazed from Business Wire. Author: PR Announcement.

As big data, high-performance computing (HPC) and cloud-computing applications push the demand for real-time access of data into the zettabytes, Intel Corporation announced today its next-generation data center solid-state drive (SSD), the Intel® Solid-State Drive DC S3700 Series, designed to remove storage bottlenecks and maximize multi-core CPU performance. The Intel SSD DC S3700 Series delivers fast, consistent performance and low latencies along with strong data protection and high endurance to help IT personnel support today’s most demanding data center applications.

Intel SSD DC S37000 Series — The Intel SSD DC S3700 Series delivers fast, consistent performance and low latencies along with strong data protection and high endurance to help IT personnel support today’s most demanding data center applications including big data, high-performance computing (HPC) and cloud applications…

Grazed from CloudTimes. Author: Saroj Kar.

If you need more evidence of an effect of cloud computing on the high technology and the impressive growth of Internet traffic, the Global Cloud Index report prepared by Cisco, will put everything in its place.

According to the study, by 2016 total volume of traffic passing through data centers around the world will grow by 4 times and reach the level of 6.6 zettabytes. The compound annual growth rate of total traffic volume of the cloud – the fastest growing segment of the traffic data centers – will increased from 683 exabytes in 2011 to 4.3 zettabytes by 2016 (an increase of 44 percent)…

Grazed from NewsFactor. Author: Jennifer LeClaire.

News from the LinuxCon Europe conference is trickling in. Along with new cloud Relevant Products/Services-oriented vendor members, the Linux Foundation is also announcing that Hewlett-Packard and Citrix are boosting their investment in the open-source platform.

HP and Citrix are upgrading to Platinum membership. HP was previously a Gold member and Citrix was a Silver member. Other Platinum members include Fujitsu, IBM, Intel Relevant Products/Services, NEC, Oracle, Qualcomm Innovation Center and Samsung. HP and Citrix will each take a seat on the board of directors. Many of HP’s products — servers, printers, networking equipment and more — are already running Linux. HP’s membership upgrade is partly recognition Linux will help drive collaborative development going forward…

Grazed from The Register. Author: Gavin Clarke.

Thanks to projects like OpenStack and the mighty operation that is Amazon’s EC2, open source and Linux are quickly becoming the building blocks of “cloud” computing. OpenStack, which started life in 2010, releases compute, storage, networking and other components under an Apache licence, and it is being adopted by huge companies such as telecom giant NTT in Japan and IT behemoth Hewlett-Packard in its fledgling cloud.

Amazon EC2 runs tens of thousands of Linux servers, providing – among other things – storage, with 762 billion objects housed last year following growth of 200 per cent. 2012 will see the number of objects grow again. Open-source clouds – and we’re talking platform and infrastructure-as-a-service rather than hosted email or collaboration – currently have closed-source efforts such as Microsoft’s Windows Azure encircled and outnumbered…

Grazed from FierceTechnology. Author: Kathy Grise.

Cloud computing has become quite the topic for discussion among just about anyone and everyone today. Google produces about 254,000,000 results on cloud computing. But do we really understand what cloud computing is all about? Ask 10 people if they have heard about cloud computing. They will say yes. Ask them what is cloud computing, and they will give you 10 different perspectives.

Cloud computing is not just a new trend, but can be compared to what happened with the introduction of the Internet. Without common and established standards for the Internet, we would not have the compatibility and reliability today behind the various browsers, FTP clients and applications. The cloud is real and has significant implications to our day-to-day lives. It is big business worldwide, and every day, new jobs, educational offerings and conferences in cloud computing are created…