Category: News

Grazed from Silicon Republic.  Author: John Kennedy.

Smaller companies in the Irish economy are attributing job creation directly to the adoption of cloud computing and 35pc of firms have implemented cloud, according to the inaugural Microsoft/Amarach cloud index as part of the brouhaha surrounding Cloud Week.

The survey of 151 organisations, including large, mid and small-sized firms, found that just less than two-fifths – 37pc – had implemented cloud computing.

This rises to more than half (53pc) of the large organisations in Ireland that employ more than 250 people.

The majority of public and private-sector organisations, however, have yet to deploy cloud technology…

Grazed from Business Wire.  Author: PR Announcement.

High-tech companies are struggling to transform their traditional business models of shipping hardware products or packaged software to more complex business models of providing new services based on cloud computing, new Accenture (NYSE: ACN) research has found.

The research, summarized in a new report released today, Where the Cloud Meets Reality: Scaling to Succeed in New Business Models, included interviews with more than 40 senior executives from 30 companies that operate, or are building, Software-as-a-Service, Platform-as-a-Service or Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud-based businesses. The goal was to develop deeper insights to help companies create approaches to successfully scale and operationalize these new cloud-based business models…

Grazed from NetworkWorld.  Author: Brandon Butler.

One of the premier technology shows of the year once again hits Las Vegas from May 6-10 and many of the themes IT leaders grapple with on a daily basis will be the hot topics at this year’s forums and panel discussions. The show focuses on nine subject areas this year including: cloud computing, networking, wireless and mobility, virtualization, data center, storage, collaboration, information security and risk management, and IT management. Mobility is a dominant discussion point at this year’s show though with 14 sessions on the topic.

Organizers of the show are expecting similar numbers to last year’s 13,000 attendees and 350 exhibitors at Interop this year says Interop General Manager Jennifer Jessup. Jessup, who is managing the show for the first time this year, says her goal is to connect attendees with some of the leading thinkers in technology today and provide a forum for IT professionals to engage with other users about ongoing issues in the tech world…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Teradata Universe EMEA — Greater utilization of processing power has been a key driver and sought-after benefit of corporate private cloud computing implementations – to centralize and share computing resources and increase utilization to 60 percent or higher. Today, only about 25 percent of the available processing power of virtualized servers is being utilized by many companies that adopt virtualization, a Gartner analyst recently told CIO magazine(1). Teradata today announced important new private cloud capabilities to help companies effectively realize much greater utilization.

To view the full social media version of this press release with image, please visit: http://www.teradata.com/News-Releases/2012/Teradata-Active-Data-Warehouses-Provide-Private-Cloud-Benefits-Today/ …

Grazed from eWeek.  Author: Darryl K. Taft.

Amazon Web Services kicked off its cloud computing service in 2006 and has since taken a commanding lead in the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) space by adding more and more services and amassing a number of customers. What’s more, AWS has no intention of slowing down as the cloud is poised to take over the world.

At the AWS Summit 2012 NYC here, Adam Selipsky, vice president of sales, marketing and support at AWS, gave a brief history of AWS’ innovations over the last six years, highlighting some of the more recent ones, including the AWS Marketplace, which AWS announced on April 19…

Grazed from Enterprise Irregulars.  Author: Michael Fauscette.

It’s a statement that I hear often lately, as more traditional software vendors start to invest in cloud computing, that they’re "late to the cloud". Of course many of those who are saying it are "pure play" SaaS vendors that are no doubt starting to feel some competitive pressure as more vendors start selling SaaS applications. I also hear it from colleagues and I suppose that it is a true statement of fact but to me there’s a little more to the story than that. I think the bigger question might be whether being late to the cloud is "bad"…

Grazed from Tech Source.  Author: Alex Dimitru.

The rumor mill says that Samsung’s cloud computing service, named S-Cloud, will be unveiled on May 3rd, along with the South Korean company’s new flagship smartphone, Galaxy S3.

A South Korea-based website claims that Samsung is preparing to launch a storage in the cloud service. Is still uncertain how Samsung will call their new service, as both sCloud and S-Cloud are plausible solutions. As you probably guessed, the South Koreans are planing to compete against Apple and their iCloud service.

According to Maeil Business sources, quoted by The Verge, the launch of a storage in the cloud service is part of Samsung consolidation plan, and it will be officially announced on May 3rd…

Grazed from MSPMentor.  Author: Joe Panetierri.

Hewlett-Packard’s top cloud computing executive opened his arms to MSPs (managed services providers) today, predicting that cloud computing will “usher in a complete renaissance in MSP land.” Zorawar ‘Biri’ Singh, senior VP and GM of HP Cloud Services, also said mobile devices on the front-end are driving the massive cloud trends on the back-end.

Singh’s statements were part of a channel-centric interview today at an OpenStack conference in San Francisco.

Singh announced HP’s Converged Cloud and HP Public Cloud strategy earlier this month. Part of that strategy involves OpenStack, a fast-emerging open source cloud computing platform. More than 1,000 people — software developers, vendors and IT consultants — attended this week’s OpenStack conference. HP’s cloud strategy also involves extensive managed services…