Disaster recovery plans are an essential element for any organization, and mobile 
After six days of deliberating, a federal jury Wednesday cleared Google and Android of infringing two Java-related patents now held by Oracle.
Dell’s new Desktop Virtualization capabilities combined by Dell’s leadership position in Server, Storage and Networking solutions successfully positions the company as true end-to-end IT vendor.Almost half of technology users are utilising cloud computing to sync music, images and emails between mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets, according to a PC Advisor poll sponsored by Kodak.
Don’t make cloud management an afterthought
It’s clear how public cloud computing is used today by larger enterprises: It’s a storage system here, an API providing data there, and cloud-delivered app dev testing somewhere else. However, what’s almost never apparent is how these providers should be managed to the right level of operational efficiency.
Why? Because those charged with managing the internal resources typically found in data centers don’t — or refuse to — work with public cloud providers. Thus, organizations using pubic cloud resources are either managing them catch as catch can or not at all.
The downside of this is evident: A cloud-delivered storage system goes offline, causing internal application failures, and there are no procedures or technologies in place to correct the problem in time to avoid damaging the business. Or a customer facing a cloud-based Web application is under attack, and other than hoping the customer is in a forgiving mood, you’re screwed…
ISO certification part of Telstra’s continuing cloud investment
Telstra’s infrastructure-as-a-service platform has been independently certified as compliant to the ISO27001 international standard, as the company continues its ongoing multi-million dollar investment in cloud services.
Telstra general manager of cloud computing, Mark Pratley, said the ISO27001 certification was part of the $800 million investment Telstra was making in cloud computing over the next few years and followed on from recent certifications of Telstra infrastructure from global application and hardware vendors.
Pratley said Telstra’s data storage services had long been compliant to the ISO27001 international standard for information security management and now Telstra’s utility and dedicated cloud computing platforms, backup and recovery service, associated operational systems and tools had been assessed as compliant to the strict standard…
Google CIO Ben Fried’s Comments Caused a Stir
Our post on Google CIO Ben Fried’s comments on the economics of cloud computing has stirred a lot of discussion. For those of who haven’t take a look at the story, Fried’s main point is that the economics of cloud computing will compel companies to shift more and more applications to the cloud, despite limitations such as software that isn’t customized for particular industries.
“We don’t offer a special version of gmail for financial services firms,” Fried said May 10 during remarks at the Bloomberg Link Enterprise Technology Summit in New York.. “You have to give up that control with consumer technologies. As a CIO, you have to figure out what is really important to you. Do you really want to worry about customizing email and word processing? You give up a little, but you can get back a lot.”…
Cloud Communications an Alternative for Utilities
Cloud computing originally targeted smaller businesses that didn’t have the capital or information technology resources to invest in the hardware and software required for an in-sourced solution. Quicker implementation and ease of deployment across a disparate workforce has made cloud computing attractive to many companies, even small-to-medium sized. Common cloud computing applications include off-site data backup, outsourced data centers,servers or both and software-as-a-service (SaaS), which can apply to everything from email and productivity applications, such as Microsoft 365 and Google Apps, to customer relationship management (CRM), such as Salesforce.com…
Every cloud needs an SOA lining: analyst
In a new research note, Ovum’s Saurabh Sharma makes the case for making sure there is service orientation behind the cloud.
As he explains it: “It is true that cloud computing can be pursued without SOA, but it is also true that these attempts often fail to deliver the real business value of cloud computing.” Service oriented architecture is a way of designing, sharable technology-based services, regardless of language, platform or underlying hardware, in a well-governed, orchestrated manner that is meaningful to the business…
Cloud Computing: Hewlett Packard Slashes Jobs – Can Meg Whitman Save HP?
Can Meg Whitman save Hewlett Packard?
The former eBay executive who was hired as H-P chief last September announced the company would lay off about eight percent of its 300,000 workforce over the next two years, one of many changes that are coming to the troubled personal computer maker. Wall Street responded positively to the news, pushing H-P stock (HPQ) up more than five percent early Thursday morning.
The layoffs, which are expected to save H-P $3 billion to $3.5 billion annually, are just one phase of a restructuring designed to deemphasize the relatively low-margin PC and printer business and instead focus on the more promising cloud computing services…