Category: News

Grazed from eWeek.  Author: Clint Boulton.

Gmail application commands only 1 percent market e-mail market share in the enterprise, but that’s enough for Gartner to proclaim the application has become a credible competitor to Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) Exchange Online and other Web-based e-mail services, proclaimed Gartner…

Grazed from Forbes.  Author: Kevin Jackson.

Cloud computing, as defined by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, is a model for enabling “… convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction.” NIST is implying the economies of scale that go with cloud computing when it refers to a pool of configurable computing resources…

Grazed from Computer Technology Review.  Author: Martin May.

Cloud computing is one of the fastest growing trends in the Information Technology world. It is a simple concept in which shared resources, including software and applications, are consumed by organizations on-demand from a cloud-based service provider. They are paid for according to consumption in much the same way as water or electricity is bought from a public utility company…

Grazed form IT World.  Author: Kevin Fogarty.

An interesting thing has been happening on the way to the fully cloud-ified IT universe in which every company is able to call on as much computing power as it needs, of whatever kind, using whatever software, then return it to the vast, immutable ether, paying later only for what the used of this vast and magical power without being responsible for creating, training, feeding or protecting anything at all…

Grazed from IT Business Edge.  Author: Arthur Cole.

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…

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…

Grazed from Wired.  Author:  Lauren States.

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…

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…