Category: News

Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author: Roger Strukhoff.

As we inch toward the next Cloud Expo in New York, the world inches toward cloud computing. The progress has an inevitability to it, as it seems just a matter of time for the day when "computing" equals cloud computing. The findings of the recent "IDG Enterprise Cloud Computing Study, January 2012."

The study found that 57% of companies surveyed have at least one app or a portion of its infrastructure in the cloud, with anticipated budgets toward cloud computing this year of $300,00+ among smaller companies and $2.55 million among companies with more than 1,000 employees…

Grazed from PR NewsWire.  Author: PR Announcement.  

CornerStone Telephone Company, a provider of advanced communications services, is now working with Verizon Global Wholesale to provide cloud-computing services to CornerStone’s business customers.

Under the agreement, CornerStone will resell an enterprise-class cloud service from Terremark, Verizon’s IT services subsidiary. The service, to be sold under CornerStone’s SkySphere brand, will help its customers efficiently and securely manage on-demand computing resources to meet dynamic business requirements while paying only for the resources consumed…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Eucalyptus Systems, creator of the most widely deployed on-premise cloud computing platform, today announced a free white paper, "Blending Clouds: A Blueprint for Your Hybrid Future." The white paper outlines the key benefits of deploying a hybrid cloud, emerging usage patterns, and the architectural principals behind this approach.

For today’s enterprises, the question isn’t about choosing a public or private cloud. The decision lies in how to enable both in the form of a hybrid cloud. Public and private clouds are quickly dovetailing to enable blended scenarios based on dynamic optimizations for price, policy and performance…

Grazed from Smart Data Collective.  Author: Shaughn Knight.

Business intelligence (BI) industry is experiencing a profound effect since the inception of Cloud computing. The exponential growth in the use of amorphous data by companies, including big data leads many decision-makers to grapple with the most efficient ways to analyze real-time data quickly and effectively. These intensifying data demands are just one of the reasons that predict the developing market interest in cloud-based analytics. While Gartner forecasts the global business intelligence (BI) market to grow 9.7% this year to $10.8 billion, business analytics software-as-a-service (SaaS) is anticipated to spring up three times faster than the total business analytics software market.

BI facilitates companies to analyze data and turn it into valuable business information. As more data and applications migrate into the cloud, numerous new data sources are being created. Cloud-based BI and analytics offer companies and business users multiple benefits. Businesses of all sizes can leverage vast computing and storage resources in the cloud without having to invest in expanding their existing IT footprints or IT support staffs. BI providers are adapting their tools to this new reality, and successful companies must now evaluate and act upon this opportunity. In addition, cloud-based BI and analytics provide business leaders opportunities to quickly gather and act on granular insights from a mix of structured and unstructured data…

Grazed from InformationWeek.  Author: Chris Murphy.

Don’t tell anyone this, because I may yet be proved wrong, but I think I understand Hewlett-Packard’s cloud computing strategy.

I just listened to Biri Singh, head of HP Cloud Services, at the Wells Fargo Tech Transformation Summit in San Francisco. Singh laid out HP’s thinking about cloud data centers, along with a promise to announce soon its public cloud service, which is now in private beta and will hit public beta soon…

Grazed from The Economic Times.  Author: Editorial Staff.

When it comes to storing data in the cloud, companies too often take security for granted, says Mario Santana, who handles security for Verizon Communications’ data-storage division.

Some businesses mistakenly assume that once they opt to store data on outside servers instead of their own, they no longer have to concern themselves with safeguarding that information, he says.  "I’ll run across a problem and point it out as a courtesy, like, ‘Hey, you should fix this,"’ Santana says. "They’re surprised. They had just expected that they wouldn’t have to deal with anything." …

Grazed from eChannelLine.  Author: Mark Cox.

Continual monitoring of cloud computing trends, with regular updates to the enterprise’s cloud strategy, will be essential to avoid costly mistakes or miss market opportunities over the next few years, according to analyst firm Gartner. Although the potential for cloud computing is significant, the breadth and depth of the impact, as well as the level of adoption over time, are uncertain and will require frequent review.

"Cloud computing is a major technology trend that has permeated the market over the last two years. It sets the stage for a new approach to IT that enables individuals and businesses to choose how they’ll acquire or deliver IT services, with reduced emphasis on the constraints of traditional software and hardware licensing models," said David Cearley, vice president and Gartner Fellow. "Cloud computing has a significant potential impact on every aspect of IT and how users access applications, information and business services."…

Grazed from Data Center Knowledge.  Author:  Rich Miller.

In a move to modernize its infrastructure, the U.S. Army will spend up to $249 million to deploy private cloud computing services and modular data centers. General Dynamics, HP and Northrop Grumman are among the service providers selected for the Army Private Cloud contract (APC2), which will provision cloud computing services to consolidate data centers using a secure private cloud.

The Army divided this contract to acquire enterprise cloud computing services in two parts. The first suite will provide savings by using private cloud computing capacity for commercial or government-owned buildings. The second suite will utilize mobile, containerized data centers for contingency operations or when rapid or temporary cloud computing is needed…

Grazed from Washington Today.  Author: Camille Tuutti.

The move to the cloud is not longer in question but that doesn’t make the technology a one-size fits all solution.

In some ways, the decision to move to the cloud has gotten more complicated as federal CIOs learn about the nuances of cloud computing.

For example, in the early days of the cloud, it was a question of go or no-go. Now agencies must decide which model is most appropriate for them: private (government only), public (commercially available) or hybrid. And that decision depends on the specifics of an agency’s application, said David McClure, associate administrator of the General Services Administration’s Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies…

Grazed from Forbes.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Dell‘s shopping spree continues with the acquisition of Clerity and Wyse this week. Dell is clearly looking to diversify away from its PC business, and it seems cloud computing is the way to go for the Round Rock, Texas-based company. The details of both the acquisitions were not revealed by Dell. These acquisitions will put Dell in direct competition with software solution providers such as IBM, HP ,Cisco and Juniper Networks.

We currently have a $25.60 Trefis price estimate for Dell which is significantly above the current market price.

Wyse To Enable Desktop Virtualization Business

Wyse is known for making software and hardware for thin clients and has recently expanded into desktop virtualization software and hardware. Thin clients essentially remove the need to do computing at the client end by using servers and the Internet to provide all the computing on remote servers. This makes thin client computing cheaper in the long run and easier to maintain. If we go by IDC’s estimate, the thin client market size will grow to about $3 billion by 2015 at a CAGR of 15%…