Category: News

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

MeriTalk Cloud Computing Exchange (CCX) ( www.meritalk.com/ccx ), a community of Federal cloud leaders focused on public-private collaboration and best practice exchange, today announced findings from a new study, "Cloudy with a Chance of Savings." The study, which identifies where the Federal government stands on cloud today and what the future holds for cloud adoption, reveals that Federal agencies are saving approximately $5.5 billion with cloud implementations today. This number pales next to the $12 billion annual savings estimates from the Cloud Computing Exchange Calculator, based on budget data input by Feds from real Information Technology (IT) programs.

MeriTalk CCX announced these findings at the inaugural Cloud Computing Brainstorm today, co-hosted by Senators Carper (D-Del.) and Brown (R-Mass.). The program brought together Federal and state chief information officers (CIOs) with industry executives to discuss cloud computing best practices, lessons learned, progress against FedRAMP, and fundamentally, to accelerate the government’s path to cloud computing…

Author: Hoofer.

While grazing around in Ubuntu pastures, Hoofer found out that he has Super Powers…  This easter egg is embedded in the "apt-get" command.   Enjoy…

Grazed from BusinessWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

Courion Corporation, the leader in identity and access management (IAM) for access risk, today announced the results of a survey that confirmed cloud computing’s rapidly growing popularity and also uncovered concerns about protecting vital IT data and applications in the cloud.

Courion’s survey of more than 400 companies worldwide found that 64 percent are using cloud-based applications to achieve cost and efficiency advantages. That number shows a growing acceptance of cloud computing as more open enterprises deliver critical IT resources to a broad range of users through a variety of premise-based and mobile devices.

The survey revealed a big opportunity for IAM vendors offering alternatives to traditional implementation methods. More than 50 percent of respondents handle IAM manually and 70 percent identified benefits of IAM in the cloud would include: improved speed of business operations; usability; cost; and access risk management; thus indicating that companies that provide alternatives to overcome the long implementation cycles and high costs associated with traditional IAM deployments are positioned to make inroads into a growing market…

Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author: James Carlini.

Every cloud computing platform that is being sold today will be obsolete prematurely unless they can retrofit them with a single-source timing device. If cloud computing is going to be as pervasive tomorrow as some sales executives have hyped them, the need for a more sophisticated platform has to be fulfilled today.

It’s not enough to tweak some components or put some functions like I/O on the chip. That will definitely help performance, but we are not looking at just shaving off some latency when it comes to financial and other mission-critical applications. Clocking needs to be totally synchronous and that means getting it from one source…

Grazed from MarketWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced the creation of CloudOpen, a technical conference that will bring together in a vendor-neutral environment the open source projects, products and companies that are driving cloud and big data ecosystems.

The inaugural CloudOpen event will take place in parallel with LinuxCon North America on August 29-31, 2012 in San Diego, Calif. Designed for software developers and IT managers responsible for deploying and developing cloud solutions, CloudOpen will feature technical content that includes, but is not limited to Chef, Gluster, Hadoop, KVM, Linux, oVirt, Puppet, and Xen, as well as big data strategies and open cloud platforms and tools. This conference will also cover open source best practices and how they relate to topics such as company data and APIs…

Grazed from TheStreet.  Author: Dana Blankenhorn.

In the history of computing, an innovation has defined each decade and its technology leadership.

• The 1950s were about mainframes and IBM(IBM).
• The 1960s were about minicomputers and companies such as Digital Equipment Corp.
• The 1970s were about the microchip and companies such as Intel(INTC).
• The 1980s were about local networks and companies such as Novell(NOVL).
• The 1990s were about the Internet and, to a large extent, Microsoft(MSFT).
• The 2000s were about gadgets and, of course, Apple(AAPL).

We’re now into the third year of the 2010s, and it’s clear that the computing theme of our time is cloud computing. The question is: Where will the leadership lie? Who will be the prime beneficiary?…

Grazed from CIO.  Author: Kenneth Corbin.

Salesforce.com, already a leading provider of cloud services to the public sector, is doubling down on its government business, unveiling on Wednesday a major initiative to host federal, state and local agencies’ computing operations in a multi-tenant cloud environment, along with a new app marketplace and a training program to equip integrators with the skills to help government clients shift to the cloud.

The cornerstone of Saleforce’s announcement is a new government cloud, a multi-tenant, dedicated cloud computing environment for public-sector databases and applications…

Grazed from InformationWeek.  Author: Charles Babcock.

Microsoft System Center 2012 is now generally available as a reorganized systems management system with separate provider and consumer management consoles. The addition of a consumer console allows a company’s employees to provision themselves with virtual machines.

Systems Center 2012 has been restructured, not only to help IT and operations managers handle large sets of Windows Server systems, but also to give System Center a more private-cloud-like approach to data center management, said Brad Anderson, Microsoft corporate VP of security and management…

Grazed from Bloomberg.  Author: Brian Womak.

Google Inc. (GOOG) stepped up competition with Apple Inc. and Microsoft (MSFT) Corp. in cloud computing, enabling users to store documents, audio clips and videos through a Web connection.

The Google Drive service, beginning today, gives users online storage similar to a hard drive’s, allowing access to files from computers and other devices, said Sundar Pichai, Google senior vice president. As much as 5 gigabytes of cloud- based storage is provided free, while users may pay $2.49 a month for 25 gigabytes and higher fees for more…