The Elastic Enterprise Extends IT Operations to the Cloud ….. Today
We were all there at the beginning when, "The Internet changed everything," morphed into the paradigm buster we now call "The Cloud." As an industry, we watched Amazon (AWS) break the $100M revenue mark in 2008; scanned Gartner’s first cloud computing vendor list in 2009; and heard Microsoft declare itself "all in" in 2010…
Dell Donates Cloud Power For Pediatric Cancer Research
Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Marianne Kolbasuk McGee.
Dell Computer is partnering with several hospitals, the National Cancer Institute, and researchers, in a cloud computing project aimed at helping scientists and clinicians develop more personalized and effective medical treatments for kids with cancers…
Strategies for pruning data in the cloud
Grazed from CIO. Author: David Taber.
Year after year, the cost of disk space has plummeted. Since you can pick up a terabyte for $50, it’s often seemed a false economy to be careful with storage.
But in the clouds, the rules are different. If you’ve got too much low-value data or too many copies of files, it can cost you in two ways. First are the monthly storage charges, and second is the inevitable performance hit when it comes to searches, views, reports, and dashboard updates. In the clouds, it really pays to prune you data set…
Why the Cloud Will Bring the App Store Revolution to Enterprise IT
Though I think the term is generally useless as either an analytical tool or category of computing that large entities can and should use in planning strategy, I’m not quite ready to give up on the idea that “the cloud” does have at least some worthwhile content. And after three days at the Cloud Expo, I’d like to suggest a simple signature of cloudiness that seems to fit everything I’ve seen with the sole exception of Oracle’s “cloud” offerings. Here’s my idea: it’s “cloud” at the platform and infrastructure layers if users can provision their own resources via some automated system…
5 key trends in cloud computing’s future
I was asked to talk about the future of cloud computing at Cloud Expo, taking place this week in Santa Clara, Calif. For those of you not at the show, I identified five key trends to anticipate…
Is Geospatial Cloud Computing a Commodity?
Directions Magazine conducted a survey to snapshot the current thinking among several solution providers (Esri, Ubisense,eSpatial, Accela, ERDAS) about geospatial cloud computing. We wanted to know if cloud computing is now considered a commodity and what additional differentiators potential users are looking for before buying solutions…
Fujitsu makes cloud bid with public and private offerings
Fujitsu has extended its cloud computing business with two new services and a set of hardware modules designed to serve as the basis for enterprise private cloud computing deployments…
The New Software Pricing Model: Can the Older Giants Compete?
Cloud computing is not only changing how users access software applications, it’s also upending the pricing model for software products. Fading fast are the days when software packages were sold in boxes with a one-time, perpetual software license fee. Instead, consumers and businesses are increasingly turning to subscription models and are buying only those applications they need for particular tasks rather than broad, general-purpose suites…
Amazon finds startup investments in the ‘cloud’
Amazon.com’s investment opportunities are under a cloud — and that’s a good thing.
Five years after launching its so-called cloud computing service, the biggest Internet retailer is reaping the benefits of what has become a unique window into the technology startup world…
NASA cloud storefront would offer scientists range of services
NASA is working on a cloud "storefront" that will give the agency’s scientists and engineers access to the computing resources and services they require regardless of their IT environment…