Open Source Finds Its Way Into Mobile, Cloud, Big Data
As the Open Source Business Conference gets underway in San Francisco, a survey shows that open-source software is contributing to development in some of the top IT trends of the day.
Mobile computing, cloud computing and analyzing huge amounts of data are among the top IT trends in 2012 and are also the focus of the Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) 2012 that begins May 21 in San Francisco.
About 40 percent of the new open-source projects started in 2011 were related to cloud computing, 19 percent were for creating mobile applications and 15 percent were mobile-enterprise related, according to a survey of open-source vendors and non-vendors released on the first day of the conference…
Appcore and IP-Converge Bring Cloud Computing Offering to Market in the Philippines
Appcore, an Infrastructure-as-a-Service company, today announced their partnership with IP-Converge, a telecommunications and IT provider and data center facility operator in the Philippines, to deliver cloud hosting services in the region.
The solution chosen for deployment was Appcore Onsite(TM), an IaaS solution which incorporates hardware, software, networking and support into a single cloud computing on-site platform. Appcore Onsite’s easy-to-use software modules include Launch to Cloud(TM), a one-step process which enables users to provision servers in five minutes and select from a comprehensive store of applications…
New Report on Building the Business Case for Cloud Computing Available from Financial Executives Research Foundation and Intacct
The Financial Executives Research Foundation (FERF) and Intacct today announced the availability of a new cloud computing research report, titled: "Building the Business Case for Cloud Computing." FERF, the research affiliate of Financial Executives International (FEI), the leading advocate for the views of corporate financial management, conducted all the research behind the report – including interviewing CFOs from a diverse array of industries. The announcement was made from the 2012 FEI Leadership Summit, taking place this week in Orlando, Florida.
The new FERF report takes a broad look at the motivations for choosing a cloud-based system, the tangible benefits of the cloud, and the impact of cloud computing in transforming the finance function. William Sinnett, senior director of research for FERF, conducted a series of interviews with CFOs and included their commentary and profiles on their use of cloud computing in the report…
Rugged devices, RFID and cloud computing join fight against counterfeiting
The use of rugged mobile devices in production and services industries allied with the cloud and RFID are contributing to major advances in industries from food to pharmaceuticals and fashion beating the threat of counterfeit goods.
Clonmel-based VisionID is joining forces with tech giants Motorola, Microsoft and Zebra Technologies and its independent software vendor partners to study the impact of cloud and mobility on service-based industries at a conference in Dublin…
A new dawn for cloud computing
The knock on Amazon Web Services and other IaaS (infrastructure as a service) providers is that they’re not reliable enough for enterprise-class workloads. And even with recent price drops, it’s cheaper over the long haul to buy and run your own infrastructure.
I’m not going to attempt any in-depth cost comparisons since so much depends on the workloads in question and granular provider pricing for various sevices. But I’m pretty convinced that reliability concerns about cloud computing are going the way of cloud security worries: If you know what you’re doing, in most cases the public cloud is probably at parity or better with the risk posed by your own infrastructure (ultrahardened, mission-critical workloads excepted)…
eGroup Delivers Cloud Computing
Grazed from MarketWatch. Author: PR Announcement.
eGroup announces eCloud v2.0, its newest public cloud computing platform.
eCloud v2.0 delivers efficient, flexible and cost-effective ways for IT departments to meet escalating business needs. In the eCloud, customers can access their applications and data anytime, anywhere, on any device.
Steve Rattacasa, cloud services manager at eGroup says, "Customers from any business and of any size can take advantage of our public cloud offering by running their workloads in our cloud, minimizing their capital and operational costs, and being more agile in meeting the needs of their business." For businesses that are understaffed, eGroup eases the burden of daily IT management by offering hosting agreements with IT support…
Analyst Commentary: Oracle clarifies its Cloud strategy
Oracle was relatively slow to recognize the importance of Cloud computing, as members of its surprisingly frank customer panel pointed out during the recent analyst event. However, these customers also agreed that Oracle has finally got its act together. The company’s overarching marketing message for 2013 of “simplify IT” and “power extreme innovation” is a good fit for its expanding Cloud strategy.After Amazon, how many clouds do we need?
With news that Google and Microsoft plan to take on the Amazon Web Services monolith with infrastructure services of their own, you have to ask: How many clouds do we need?
This Google-Microsoft news broken this week by Derrick Harris, proves to anyone who didn’t already realize it, that Amazon is the biggest cloud computing force (by far) and as such, wears a big fat target on its back. With the success of Amazon cloud services, which keep started out as plain vanilla infrastructure but have evolved to include workflow and storage gateways to enterprise data centers, Amazon’s got everyone — including big enterprise players like Microsoft, IBM and HP worried. Very worried…
Cloud Computing: How Nvidia’s Kepler chips could end PCs and tablets as we knew them
Tremendously powerful new processors toiling away in the cloud could make it irrelevant what kind of screen you connect with, ushering in a new age of computing.
Last week, Nvidia launched the first graphics processing unit (GPU) designed for the cloud, dubbed Kepler. Supporting vendors include a who’s who of server providers, such as HP, Dell, Cisco, and IBM — all of which will have products on the market shortly.
The whole concept behind these servers is to serve up a desktop experience from the cloud. This means delivering games, applications, utilities, and media to any device that will run the client: iPads, iPods, Android tablets, smartphones, and even cars and smart TVs. As this technology comes to market, it will increasingly not matter what you are using — you’ll be able to get your stuff on it as long as it is connected with decent bandwidth.
Let’s talk about some of the results…
Platform as a service moves into the data center
Early discussion of cloud computing focused on the public option. In fact, the economic concept of computing delivered as a sort of utility by mega service providers such as Amazon, Google, and Microsoft was at the core of the original cloud-computing concept.
As it turns out though, these public clouds are hardly the only form that cloud computing has taken. Computing is more complicated than a true utility like electricity. For this and other reasons, private and hybrid clouds — which use computers and other IT resources controlled by a single organization — have evolved to become an important part of the landscape…