Category: News

Grazed from Forbes. Author: Joe McKendrick.

Cloud computing is poised to reshape and disrupt the way organizations use information technology, right? Ultimately, yes — but a new industry survey says it may be a few years before the disruptive effect of cloud is fully felt across the business landscape.

These are part of the conclusions of a new survey of 252 cloud users, providers, consultants and integrators jointly conducted by the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) and ISACA, an IT certification group. The survey finds the cloud market has not yet reached a level of maturity that will support major industry disruptions. “Instead, the survey participants believe that platform and infrastructure service offerings are still in the infancy stage of maturity, while software service offerings are just emerging from infancy and are in the early stages of market growth. The respondents estimate that it will take approximately three years for cloud platform and infrastructure services to be firmly placed within the growth stage, and at least two years for software services to reach that stage.”…

Grazed from ComputerWorld. Author: Derek Du Preez.

Whether companies should be looking to commodity-based computing for public cloud offerings or highly engineered systems has caused a split in the IT industry. This is according to Derek Wilson, managing director for Global Platforms, BT Innovate & Design, who spoke to Computerworld UK at Oracle OpenWorld this week in San Francisco.

Wilson’s comments come shortly after CEO Larry Ellison’s announcement that Oracle will be branching into infrastructure-as-a-service, which will be offered on its highly engineered systems. This approach differs to companies like Amazon Web Services, which run on commodity hardware…

Grazed from MarketWire. Author: PR Announcement.

CallidusCloud®, a leader in sales effectiveness and cloud computing, announced today the integration of CallidusCloud’s CPQ (Configure Price Quote) with Oracle® Sales and Marketing Cloud Service to help enable businesses to add cloud-based proposal generation to their Oracle Sales and Marketing Cloud Service deployment. CallidusCloud’s CPQ automates product selection, pricing and proposal generation within Oracle Sales and Marketing Cloud Service giving salespeople quick and easy access to the critical internal resources needed to configure, price, quote, and propose their products and services. CPQ accelerates sales cycles across companies, including those with simple product catalogs and distribution models all the way to complex, multi-channel sales networks.

"CallidusCloud’s CPQ maximizes deal revenue, protects margins and generates a professional proposal in seconds," said Rory Cameron, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Alliances, CallidusCloud. "We are excited to be collaborating with Oracle on Oracle Sales and Marketing Cloud Service and showcasing it at Oracle OpenWorld."…

Grazed from Bit-Tech.net. Author: Gareth Halfacree.

Intel Capital, the chip giant’s venture capital arm, has announced its latest round of funding, investing in ten companies across the world and in doing so providing a glimpse at the technologies and markets the company sees as important to its future growth.

First, cloud computing. Having gone from being a buzzword used to make internet-connected servers that you never own where third-party companies have full access to all your private data to an accepted term for the likes of Gaikai’s remote-rendering gaming service, Intel is clearly predicting some serious growth in this region. Accordingly, it has sunk a wodge of change into cloud-based file storage and collaboration service Box – previously known as Box.net – and Bollywood video streaming service Hungama. For the enterprise market, the company has also provided funding to Tier 3, a US company specialising in infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS.)…

Grazed from NewPakistan. Author: Usman Khalid.

William Blair and Co. started coverage of cloud-computing service providers Interxion Holding with a buy rating. The investment bank had positive view about the company for the reason that it has a strong business model to go forward. “This company has a solid competitive position and attractive business model, which includes predominantly recurring revenue streams, largely fixed-cost infrastructure and expanding free cash flow,” analyst Jim Breen wrote in a research note.

The cloud-computing industry had caught root of late due to the cost-effective model of storing and retrieving data from remote services. More and more companies are plunging into cloud computing and virtual server configurations due to the fact that they consume fewer resources and provide the same services and on-site services…

Grazed from ComputerWorld. Author: Nicholas D. Evans.

Cloud computing. Mobile technology. Big data. Social networks. With so many disruptive technologies on the horizon, timing your move into each can make the difference between getting ahead of the competition and falling irreparably behind. One thing that can help you gauge when to take up an emerging technology is the technology adoption life cycle. This sociological model, invented by researchers at the University of Iowa who were studying the adoption of hybrid seed corn by farmers, illustrates that adoption typically follows a bell curve, with the first adopters being the innovators, followed by the early adopters, the early majority, the late majority and finally the laggards.

It can certainly be argued that, over the course of the 20th century, technologies were adopted at a faster and faster pace. For example, the telephone took 25 years to reach 10% penetration of U.S. households, and another 39 years to reach 40%. Midcentury, |color television took 18 years (between 1954 and 1972) to reach 50% adoption by U.S. households. More recently, the smartphone needed just 10 years to reach 40% adoption by U.S. consumers, and the tablet has reached 10% penetration in less than three years…

Grazed from Blue MauMau. Author: Andy Roberts.

Advances in virtualization and distributed computing have allowed corporate network and data centre administrators to effectively become service providers that meet the needs of their "customers" within the corporation. Marketing media that uses the words "private cloud" is designed to appeal to an organization that needs or wants more control over their data than they can get by using a third-party hosted service such as Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud or Simple Storage Service. Private cloud computing, offers a number of significant advantages, which includes lower costs, faster server deployments and higher levels of resiliency. What is often over looked is how the Private Cloud can dramatically changes the game for IT disaster recovery in terms of significantly lower costs, faster recovery times, and enhanced testability.

Before we talk about the private cloud, let’s explore the challenges of IT disaster recovery for traditional server systems. Most legacy IT systems are comprised of a heterogeneous set of hardware platforms – added to the system over time – with different processors, memory, drives, BIOS, and I/O systems. In a production environment, these heterogeneous systems work as designed, and the applications are loaded onto the servers and maintained and patched over time. Offsite backups of these heterogeneous systems can be performed and safely stored at an offsite location. There are really 2 options for backing up and restoring the systems:…

Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: Richa Pokhriyal.

Cloud computing services and related developments are definitely changing the way we network, collaborate, consume information and deploy applications. Businesses are now demanding more from service providers and cloud computing is more prominent across various industries. So being on cutting edge is rewarding but at the same time it has some side-effects too. Cloud is popular, it is one of the hottest topics discussed today and hence there are some myths associated with it too.

Blame it to over marketing, unawareness of users or something else, recent surveys and customer feedbacks are sufficient enough to prove that there are still some myths around the usage and effects of adopting cloud. Let’s discuss these myths and how we should perceive these for our own business…