Category: News

January 18, 2011 Off

Tale of Two Surveys: Opinions on Cloud Security Differ

By David
Grazed from IT Business Edge.  Author: Ann All.

If there’s one thing I’ve learned from my years in journalism, it’s that you have to take surveys with a grain (or sometimes a whole shaker) of salt. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen surveys with similar questions yield wildly different results, depending on the size and composition of the sample, the way the questions are asked, who asks them, etc., etc.

 

January 18, 2011 Off

Cloud computing summit planned for Auckland

By David
Grazed from Experian QAS.  Author: Neil Hill.

Business owners in New Zealand may be interested in attending a summit on the topic of cloud computing that is set to take place in Auckland next month.

The event is due to be held on February at a yet-to-be-disclosed location in the city, with speakers from Microsoft and IT analyst Gartner set to be in attendance, reports the TechDay website.

With the conference being organised by the former company, among the topics up for discussion will be the myths, challenges and opportunities related to cloud computing.

January 18, 2011 Off

Meet Elastic Beanstalk, Amazon’s PaaS Play

By David
Grazed from GigaOM.  Author: Stacey Higginbotham.

Amazon Web Services, which popularized cloud computing with its Elastic Compute Cloud and Simple Storage Service, has moved up the stack from infrastructure to providing Amazon Elastic Beanstalk, its Platform-as-a-Service play. However, Amazon is layering its PaaS offering on top of its other services in a way that’s easily reversed, which means developers can take the easy way out of developing on Beanstalk, or they can peel back the platform to manually provision and tweak their underlying VMs if they want.

January 14, 2011 Off

A Rocky Road to the Hybrid Cloud

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

The popular consensus is that 2011 will be the year of the cloud. Well, not quite. More likely, it will be the year of the hybrid cloud.

Despite what appears to be a mad rush to push infrastructure concerns to someone else, the fact is that most enterprises will be content to test the cloud waters over the next few years. The best way to do that is to integrate local resources with those available on the cloud. In that way, you retain control over data and applications while scaling resources up when the need arises.

January 14, 2011 Off

Facing Up to Cloud’s Complexity

By David
Grazed from IT Business Edge.  Author: Loraine Lawson.

One of the things everyone likes about the cloud is the simplicity of it. Whether you’re talking about services or computing power, the overall concept is that you can just sign up, enter a credit card number and get what you need. It’s implicit that you avoid all the wrangling with IT over things like architecture, integration, governance, technology and bureaucratic, blah, blah, blah.

 

Be honest, businesses: Down deep, didn’t you know it was too good to last?