Category: News

September 17, 2011 Off

The Future Belongs to the Hybrid Cloud

By David
Grazed from IT Business Edge.  Author: Arthur Cole.

Cloud computing can take many forms and will likely tap into numerous systems and environments at the typical data center. However, if one trend is becoming clear, it’s that most organizations will deploy some form of hybrid cloud over the next several years…

September 16, 2011 Off

Infosys cloud computing services grow five times

By David
Grazed from Financial Express.  Author: Goutam Das.

Riding on a global surge in cloud computing demand, India’s second largest IT exporter Infosys has grown its cloud engagements five times over the past one year, jumping from about 20 last year to over 100 engagements currently…

September 16, 2011 Off

How Cloud Computing Is Changing Data Center Designs and Costs

By David
Grazed from CIO.  Author: Bernard Golden.

If you’ve read this blog for a while, it’s no secret that I believe that one aspect of cloud computing is a dramatic drop in the cost of computing. While many discuss cloud computing’s cost advantage in terms of better utilization via resource pooling and rapid elasticity, we believe that there is a more fundamental shift going on as data centers are redesigned to focus on scale, efficiency, and a shift to commodity components…

September 16, 2011 Off

Three Years of Transforming Businesses with Cloud

By David
Grazed from Wired.  Author:  Lauren States.

In working with thousands of clients, IBM has established that businesses and the world at large have become more interconnected and certainly more intelligent. Just to toss out a few factoids – data is growing at 6 trillion bytes per second, IP traffic will accelerate in 3 years to over a trillion gigabytes, and as of 2010, there were an estimated 30B RFID tags across the global ecosystem. Almost 162 million smart phones were sold in 2008, surpassing laptop sales for the first time. Soon there will be one trillion connected devices in the world, constituting an “Internet of things.” This environment provides both the individual and the organization the opportunity to adapt their thinking and actions to address the challenges of the new world…

September 16, 2011 Off

Journey Towards Cloud Computing

By David
Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author:  Gagan Deep Saini.

As IT infrastructure is moving toward cloud frameworks, many organizations are investing in the consolidation of their data centers and working toward moving their existing heterogeneous data centers (Virtual Servers, Physical Servers) to complete a virtualized environment. Reducing power needs is just one reason why enterprises in virtually all industries are consolidating data centers. Other reasons include assimilating systems from companies acquired in mergers and acquisitions; cost-cutting; replacing outmoded server hardware and software with newer, more efficient models; and improving operational efficiency and most important moving towards cloud computing. In fact, improved operational efficiency was the reason behind data center consolidation that was cited by nearly 60 percent of the IT Industry…

September 16, 2011 Off

Semiconductor sales fall could herald cloud computing rise

By David
Grazed from iHotNews.  Author: PR Announcement.

Worldwide semiconductor sales have slowed, which could mean that more companies are making the most of cloud computing to maximise the use of their existing resources.
 
Gartner has revealed that the market is on pace to shrink 0.1 per cent from last year and will stand at $299 billion (£189 billion) by the end of this year…

September 16, 2011 Off

Amazon Cloud Services Meet Federal Security Standards

By David
Grazed from Network Computer.  Author: Elizabeth Montalbano.

Key pieces of Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) cloud-computing infrastructure have achieved certification with the federal standard for IT security solutions, making the services a more viable option for adoption among federal agencies…

September 16, 2011 Off

Intel lays out vision of “cloud 2015″

By David
Grazed from Wired.  Author: Jon Stokes.

The big cloud presentation at Tuesday’s IDF was a post-lunch session called, “Driving towards cloud 2015: a technology vision to meet the demands of cloud computing tomorrow” by Intel Senior Fellow Stephen S. Pawlowski. Pawlowski’s job at Intel is “pathfinding”—he’s one of the guys who looks at long-term trends and tries to help steer the company in the right direction. As a big-picture guy, Pawlowski’s presentation was necessarily pretty general, since he had a ton of ground to cover in laying out the trends and issues that Intel sees as shaping cloud computing between now and 2015…

September 16, 2011 Off

Cloud Computing: The Evolution of Cloud Standards

By David
Grazed from FormTek.  Author: Dick Weisinger.

The good news is that there seems to be near universal agreement, excluding perhaps from public cloud-leader Amazon (although Amazon might be considered the de facto standard), that standards are important for the future success of cloud computing.  The problem at this stage of cloud development technology lifecycle is that  the landscape can be confusing for organizations trying to make decisions about how they should use the cloud.  But the fact that so many bodies are springing up to create what they see should be the standard for the industry is likely a good thing — it sets the stage for a sort of Darwinian selection from among the standards, with hopefully the best ideas ultimately winning out in the end…