Untapped: Why the developing world must treat IT as a national resource
The open source movement has the potential to empower developing countries to use IT as an important national resource — to communicate to its citizenry, expand its educational platform and address national disasters. Open source software is not only free from license restriction; it is also free to be used as a basis for innovation, allowing custom solutions for the unique context of specific issues faced by developing nations. But for many nations, software is not enough…
Smartphone and Cloud Computing Boom Signals Growth for Network Gear
As sales of smartphones soar and companies shift data to cloud computing, the outlook for the makers of the switches, routers and other gear to manage networks may not be as gloomy as recent share market performance suggests…
10 Steps to Cloud Control
Business users are drawn to the cloud. Of course, that’s not surprising, considering they tend to see only the benefits: self-service freedom, scalability, availability, flexibility, and the pleasure of avoiding various nasty hardware and software headaches…
VMware quietly acquires Sunnyvale, California-based PacketMotion.
Today, VMware quietly announced its acquisition of Sunnyvale, California-based PacketMotion. The ultimate significance of this purchase is realized in Dean Coza’s whisper-soft blog entry announcing the transaction. This action removes virtualization and cloud computing adoption fears for the companies that are still holding out on making the move from physical to virtual due to security concerns. PacketMotion’s products audit all activities that occur between users and computing resources. No user makes a move in a PacketSentry protected environment without the Sentry knowing about it…
Cisco to Unveil Cloud Innovations at VMworld 2011
Next week at VMworld(R) in Las Vegas, NV, Cisco CSCO +0.20% will unveil the latest networking and computing innovations to help VMware and Cisco customers to increase network scalability, infrastructure performance, and enhance their security for virtualized data center and cloud computing environments…
HP, Dell creates new storage arrays for cloud storage
Grazed from SearchStorage.com. Author: Simon Sharwood.
HP has created a “storage federation” that it says can “transparently move application workloads between disk systems in virtualised and cloud computing environments.”
Dubbed HP Peer Motion, the new software operates on LeftHand and 3Par arrays and is said to allow redistribution of workloads between arrays without disrupting applications…
Implementation of Cloud Computing Solutions in Federal Agencies : Part 1-Introduction
Grazed from Forbes. Author: Kevin L. Jackson.
Cloud computing is a new approach in the provisioning and consumption of information technology (IT). While technology is a crucial component, the real value of cloud computing lies in its ability to enable new capabilities or in the execution of current capabilities in more efficient and effective ways.
Although the current hype around cloud computing has focused on expected cost savings, the true value is really found in the mission and business enhancements these techniques can provide. When properly deployed, the cloud computing model provides greatly enhanced mission and business capability without a commensurate increase in resource (time, people or money) expenditures…
Spending on Cloud Computing to Increase in the United States: Report
Grazed from TMCNet. Author: Narayan Bhat.
Demand for cloud computing is set to accelerate in the days ahead as a survey conducted by CompTIA (News – Alert) shows an increased interest among organizations in investing in SaaS applications.
More than half (56 percent) of the organizations surveyed for CompTIA’s Second Annual Trends in Cloud Computing study said their investment in cloud computing will increase by 10 percent or more over the next 12 months…
Abiquo Reflects on a Busy, Cloud-Filled Summer
Abiquo (News – Alert) has had a pretty active summer so far – from tripling its cloud management business in the first half of 2011 to announcing the general availability of Abiquo 1.8, the latest version of Abqiuo’s flagship Enterprise Cloud Management solution, to receiving the Cloud Computing World Series accolade for Best Cloud Management Solution. And fortunately for service providers, enterprises and developers out there looking for cloud management solutions, Abiquo is showing no signs of slowing down…
Amazon Turns Memcached-Compliant
There is now a new Amazon web service called ElastiCache meant to put users closer to frequently accessed data and maybe ward off some Amazon competition.
It’s supposed to make it easy to deploy, operate and scale an in-memory cache for any web application running in Amazon’s cloud, reportedly granting Amazon customers one of their most fervent wishes, and replacing what AWS CTO Werner Vogels calls homegrown "operational muck."…