Category: News

February 4, 2012 Off

Business should dictate move to the cloud

By David
Grazed from CenterBeam.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Although cost savings and the use of new technology are great reasons for moving to a cloud computing solution, Robert Youngjohns, president of Microsoft North Amerca, told a room full of IT vendors that business should be what drives companies into the cloud instead of any of the flash and frills, according to the Tampa Bay Business Journal.

“Going to the cloud is a business decision. It’s not about technology,” Youngjohns said at Tech Data Corp.’s Cloud Champion Summit in Florida, the news source reported. He added that businesses should take things such as costs and applications into effect, but the decision to move into the cloud should mostly look at what will work for the business and what will not…

February 3, 2012 Off

Cable In the Cloud: Picking the Right BSS for the Business Market

By David
Grazed from BOSS.  Author: Carl Davies.

Since at least 2006, the communications market’s best and brightest have predicted an epic battle between cable companies and telcos in the enterprise sector. 2012 may turn out to be the year that proves the soothsayers right, though not in a way anyone could have foreseen at mid-decade. An entirely new market – cloud computing – could turn out to be a major field where telecom and cable face head-on to win commercial accounts.

Last year, opponents fired the opening shots by acquiring or partnering with large cloud-computing companies. In the U.S., almost within the same week, Verizon bought Terremark and Time Warner snapped up Navisite. Not long after, CenturyLink purchased Savvis. Then Britain’s largest cable MSO, Virgin Media, partnered with CenturyLink’s Savvis to offer business-class cloud services up against its competitors, BT and Cable & Wireless…

February 3, 2012 Off

Cloud Hosting-Why It Is So Popular Now?

By David
Grazed from HostReview.  Author: Charles John.

Cloud computing is defined as the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product. It is in fact a marketing term for technologies that provides computation, software, data access, and storage services. The specialty if this method is that does not require end-user knowledge of the physical location and configuration of the system that delivers the services. This means that the end user need not be a computer wiz. The end-users consume service without needing to understand the component devices or infrastructure required to provide the service.

Cloud computing providers deliver the service in such a way that the applications are accessible via the internet, while the actual software and data are stored on servers at a remote location. This concept is called Remote Procedure Invocation…

February 3, 2012 Off

Google: Digital Music Case Has Cloud Law Implications

By David
Grazed from InformationWeek.  Author: Thomas Clabiurn.

In an effort to defend the legal basis of cloud computing, Google on Wednesday asked a New York court for permission to file an amicus curiae, or friend-of-the-court brief, in a record industry lawsuit against ReDigi, an online market that facilitates the resale of digital music files.

A letter from the law firm representing Google, Fenwick & West, warns against granting the preliminary injunction requested by plaintiff Capitol Records. "A premature decision on incomplete facts could create unintended uncertainties for the cloud computing industry," the letter states.

The court, however, denied Google’s request, on the basis that the parties in the lawsuit should be able to address the issues without assistance…

February 3, 2012 Off

It’s war! Apple, Microsoft and Google battle it out to gain a bigger share of the cloud services marketplace.

By David
Grazed from ITWeb TechForum.  Author:  Martin Ray.

The adoption levels of cloud computing are on the rise, driven not only by advancing technology and convenience, but also by the recent downturn in the economic environment. Saving money has been a focus of companies in recent years, and what better way to achieve this goal than to employ cost-efficient cloud computing services.

Catching the worm

Customers won in the early stages of the skirmish will remain with their vendor of choice for some time.

The cloud, with its streaming media services and promise of near limitless storage and other cost-saving functions, has become an arena of extreme interest to both the public and private sectors…

February 3, 2012 Off

What You Should Know About Securing Your Public Cloud — But Didn’t Know to Ask

By David
Grazed from CTR.  Author: Rand Wacker.

While the cloud makes it far easier to procure and deploy computing resources, it also mandates a new set of security requirements that differ from systems running in an organization’s traditional private data center.

Traditional security technologies simply don’t work in these new cloud-computing environments. Without access to the physical network, appliance-based network-scanning can’t see traffic going to and from your servers, and host-based scanning agents usually consume a tremendous amount of CPU time — a resource that customers pay for directly in the metered billing systems popular in the cloud…

February 3, 2012 Off

Enterprise 2.0 Cloud Computing – Agile Cloud best practices

By David
Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author: Cloud Ventures.

In compliment to Jon’s headline focus on Enterprise Cloud Computing, my key specialism is where this technology overlaps with social media aka ‘Enterprise 2.0′.

Although it can feel like you’re playing an intense game of Buzzword Bingo, the key way to approach new technologies like Cloud Computing is to marry them up with other hot topics, like social media and big data.  Typically these aren’t entirely different domains more so simply different perspectives on to the same system, and so it’s helpful to throw them all in a pot and discuss: DevOps, IaaS, PaaS, web 2.0, enterprise 2.0, .. etc.

Agile Cloud best practices
Ultimately they all point to an evolving Internet ecosystem that favours lightweight, fast-moving, modular approaches to systems design and implementation, whereas the ‘old world’ is one of the enterprise monolith. The big bang IT project costing 10′s millions and taking years to implement…

February 3, 2012 Off

Contain mining costs by adopting cloud computing services

By David
Grazed from IT Web TechForum.  Author: Bruce Taylor.

Being agile in the face of unpredictable volatility will become even more important as pressure increases on mining companies to continue growing while reducing operating costs.

A solution to reducing costs is based in cloud computing, which has become a topic of interest for a variety of industries, specifically in mining, where historically, the preference has been to own and run applications onsite, says Bruce Taylor, Natural Resources Lead, Dimension Data Middle East and Africa.

Cloud computing offers the mining sector the opportunity to consolidate multiple applications by hosting in highly virtualised data centres, and to leverage economies of scale offered by multi-tenancy (ie, sharing) at levels ranging from physical infrastructure, to support personnel, right through to the software applications themselves. At the very least, the highly virtualised nature of a private cloud would ensure efficient use of underlying hardware infrastructure, while offering the business much shorter turnaround times on IT infrastructure requests…

February 3, 2012 Off

Another Sunny Day for Cloud Company NetSuite

By David
Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

NetSuite Inc., the industry’s leading provider of cloud-based financials / ERP software suites, today announced operating results for its fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2011.

Total revenue for the fourth quarter of 2011 was $64.1 million, representing a 23% increase over the prior year. Subscription and support revenue for the fourth quarter was $54.2 million, representing 23% growth over the same period in the prior year. Total revenue for the year was $236.3 million, a year-over-year increase of 22%…

February 3, 2012 Off

Can Cloud Computing Address Scientific Computing Requirements for DOE Research?

By David
Grazed from Scientific Computing.  Author: Editorial Staff.

After a two-year study of the feasibility of cloud computing systems for meeting the ever-increasing computational needs of scientists, Department of Energy researchers have issued a report stating that the cloud computing model is useful, but should not replace the centralized supercomputing centers operated by DOE national laboratories.

Cloud computing’s ability to provide flexible, on-demand and cost-effective resources has found acceptance for enterprise applications and, as the largest funder of basic scientific research in the U.S., DOE was interested in whether this capability could translate to the scientific side. Launched in 2009, the study was carried out by computing centers at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California. Called Magellan, the project used similar IBM computing clusters at the two labs. Scientific applications were run on the systems, as well as on commercial cloud offerings for comparison…