Is tax revenue lost in the cloud?
State sales tax systems created to generate revenue from face-to-face exchanges of tangible goods are struggling to keep up with the rapid shift of business transactions into the so-called cloud of the Internet.
As more companies use cloud-based servers and software, which are remote networks of computing resources often shared by multiple customers, the 20th-century rules of taxation no longer apply. Instead, accountants, lawyers, state tax officials and companies such as Google Inc., Apple Inc. and NetSuite Inc. are working to develop new guidelines for taxing the use of these emerging technologies…
Implementation of Cloud Computing Solutions in Federal Agencies : Part 2 – Challenges of Cloud Computing
Despite the myriad benefits of cloud computing solutions, several challenges still exist. Being a young industry, there are few tools, procedures or standard data formats or service interfaces in place to guarantee data, computer application and service portability. As evidenced with the recent situation involving the services failure of Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud, outages can be a potential risk—and can have widespread implications for consumers of cloud services. This risk becomes even more severe if a mission-critical environment could be impacted…
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…