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Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Barb Darrow.

In the latest phase of a well-organized succession plan at IBM, Virginia Rometty will become chairman of the IT giant on October 1. Sam Palmisano will stay on as advisor until December 1, the company said. It’s not unexpected but it’s still worth noting — IBM CEO Virginia “Ginny” Rometty will succeed Sam Palmisano as chairman of the computing and services giant on October 1. Palmisano will stay on as a senior advisor until his retirement date of December 1, 2012, IBM announced late Tuesday afternoon.

Last October, IBM tapped Rometty, who is 55 years old, as its first female CEO and ninth CEO overall. She officially took the reins as president and CEO and became a director on January 1, 2012. Rometty, who started at the company as a systems engineer in 1981 and worked her way up the ranks…

Grazed from WSJ. Author: Spencer E. Ante.

International Business Machines Corp. is taking aim at a market where the technology goliath is more like the new kid on the block. In a shift for a company that typically deals with the world’s largest corporations and governments, IBM will ramp up its efforts to sell so-called cloud computing services to midsize businesses.

The Armonk, N.Y.-based company has lined up partners to resell its services and is helping software companies adapt their products to IBM’s machines. The move, to be disclosed on Wednesday, puts it in more direct competition with Amazon.com Inc. and Salesforce.com Inc. Both have been successful…

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Grazed from CIO. Author: Bernard Golden.

One of the most interesting aspects of cloud computing is the way it changes cost allocation over the lifetime of an application. Many people understand that pay-as-you go is an attractive cost model, but fail to understand the implications that the new cost allocation model imposes on IT organizations.

The pay-as-you-go model addresses several obvious and painful limitations of the previous model, which was based on asset purchase; in other words, prior to application deployment, a significant capital investment had to be made to purchase computing equipment (i.e., servers, switches, storage, and so on)…

Grazed from Forbes. Author: Joe McKendrick.

A few months back, IDC released a study, underwritten by Microsoft, that predicted cloud computing would eventually add about 14 million jobs to the global economy. Of course, those are direct jobs cited in the study, such as developers. Of even greater significance are the jobs indirectly affected by cloud. Essentially, we could be talking about every job in every organization that will either be enhanced or diminished with the arrival of cloud. But no matter how you look at it, cloud will be part of many job descriptions to be written over the next few years.

Ironically, as cloud sweeps through with new ways of running businesses, we’ll be calling it “cloud” less and less. It will simply be the way information is delivered and processed, without the need to think whether it comes from an outside service or from internal systems. Here are five key ways cloud computing is reshaping the way business is conducted:…

Grazed from PR NewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Mythics Consulting, an award winning Oracle Platinum Specialized Consulting partner, today announced that it has been selected to team with HP Enterprise Services to provide the Department of Defense and other federal agencies with enterprise cloud computing services under the Army Private Cloud contract (APC2).

APC2 is a $249M indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract (IDIQ) available to all U.S. federal agencies and military services for the acquisition of enterprise private cloud computing services. The new initiative will allow the military to consolidate its existing data centers by establishing a secure, cost-effective private cloud. Mythics will combine its expertise in the Oracle product stack with HP leadership in data center outsourcing to provide customers with a broad range of capabilities across a multitude of IT domains…

Grazed from Business2Community. Author: Sue Poremba.

As more companies turn to the cloud for their computing needs, it is inevitable that the role of the IT professional will change. According to CompTIA’s Third Annual Trends in Cloud Computing study, more than eight in 10 companies currently use some form of cloud computing solution, and more than half plan to increase cloud investments by 10 percent or more in 2012. But that cloud popularity also means that businesses are re-examining the functions of their IT staff.

“We are seeing the modern IT pro being moved in a number of different directions,” explained Antonio Piraino, CTO of ScienceLogic. “Firstly, there are the newer tasks of being the orchestrator and decision maker for a critical component of corporate budgets shifting toward IT. The IT pro is being seen as the trusted adviser for business productivity applications that are leveraged in critical ways, and by far more impatient and demanding users than ever before.”…

Grazed from VentureBeat. Author: Paul Miller.

The cloud computing market continues to explode. It will expand nearly six-fold by 2020, making it one of the fastest-growing industries on the planet: Forrester last year predicted market growth to $241 billion by the end of the decade, from $41 billion.

With healthy competition between incumbents and ambitious startups, it’s unlikely any single player will dominate for the foreseeable future. And yet, the hype blitz around big vendor showcase events is almost enough to persuade us they really do sell everything we’ll ever need…

Grazed from PropertyCasualty360. Author: Robert Regis Hyle.

How many transformative technologies can one industry endure in a 12-month period? Transformative itself may be the early favorite for Word of the Year in insurance technology if it’s not beaten out by another serious contender: disruptive.

We may go out of our way to place too much pressure on one piece of technology—such as telematics—to lead the industry into the promised land, but despite the hype it’s hard to argue that the use of cloud computing is going to have a powerful effect on the industry. The next 10 years will offer great challenges as carriers look to secure their operations via a private cloud yet still have access to large amounts of third-party data and—even more important—tremendous computing power to analyze all that data…

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Caitlin White.

Whether it’s for the grocery store or for your cloud computing project, a list will keep you focused. Fortunately, SearchCloudComputing.com has done some legwork for you and created a countdown of our most helpful cloud adoption lists.

So whether you’re migrating virtual machines to the cloud, trying to avoid common cloud computing mistakes or shifting to the next stage of your private cloud build, you can consult these lists for quick answers. We can’t remind you to pick up milk on the way home from work, but we can remind you what not to do in the cloud…

Grazed from PRWeb. Author: PR Announcement.

In August, more than 10,000 jobs were advertised online for technology positions that need experience and knowledge of cloud computing in the United States, according to WANTED Analytics™ (http://www.wantedanalytics.com), the leading source of real-time business intelligence for the talent marketplace. Cloud computing has been a growing skill as more companies move data to virtual servers and there is a need for talent to develop, manage, and secure the flow of information online. The number of job ads increased rapidly in 2012, reaching new highs in demand each month and is now up 80% since August 2011.

The most commonly advertised job titles for IT talent with cloud computing skills are:…