Category: News

Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Christine Donato.

If you read my blog last week, Cracking the Cloud Conceptions, wait no longer. As promised, I interviewed each SAP customer I met at SAPPHIRE NOW Orlando and asked the following: What do you think about the cloud? I asked if their company ran business in the cloud, the benefits of the cloud, and their general opinion of cloud computing overall.

Cloud computing is a concept that everyone is speaking, breathing, and hearing over and over again, but do we really understand what it means? As SAP moves towards its mission of simplifying everything to do anything, the cloud is going to play a major role in the success of SAP customers…

Grazed from ComputerWorld. Author: Hamish Barwick.

Public cloud may be able deliver greater agility to enterprises, but it can also complicate the already fraught information security landscape. And according to a Ponemon Institute report issued this month, cloud may mean that when security breaches do happen, the cost could be significantly higher.

However, the cloud needn’t to be a criminal’s paradise if IT managers draw up a contingency plan before placing data into a cloud environment and use a multilayered approach to security. Speaking last month at the Gartner IT Infrastructure Operations and Data Centre Summit in Sydney, the analyst firm’s research director, Michael Warrilow, told delegates that they are not going to get a “perfect risk assessment” when looking at cloud computing…

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: David Linthicum.

Those charged with calculating the true value of cloud computing often refer to the old CapEx versus OpEx model. If we adopt public cloud and avoid purchasing hardware and software, that will save use money, right? It’s not that simple. So, what’s an IT leader to do to establish cloud value for your organization? There are no rules or solid models that you should use every time. As always, it’s a matter of understanding your business and the impact that any new technology can have upon it. Cloud computing is no different.

The old way of defining the value of cloud computing through cost efficiencies and the ability to avoid capital expenses is falling out of favor. The reasoning becomes more apparent as we gather data points about the value of a public cloud computing model. Our old way of defining cloud value gives no consideration to several key issues:..

Grazed from Regrit.  Author: Editorial Staff.

When Google announced the Kubernetes Docker-management system on Tuesday, it wasn’t open sourcing its cloud computing “secret weapon” as much as it was open sourcing its viewpoint on how applications should be built and deployed. Google, the cloud computing provider, will always be compared with Amazon Web Services, but pushing technologies reminiscent of Google’s own vaunted Omega system could become a strong point of distinction and a major draw for developers.

This has been Google’s approach to cloud computing all along, if you’ll recall. The promise of App Engine, its now 6-year-old platform-as-a-service offering, is being able to deploy web applications on Google’s infrastructure stack and being confident they’ll keep running and scale as needed with little handholding…

Grazed from NYTimes. Author: Molly Wood.

Cloud computing may seem incompatible with being offline, but there are ways to live in the cloud even when you don’t have an Internet connection. The most common situation occurs when you are actually in the clouds — stuck on a plane with no Wi-Fi, or, more likely, Wi-Fi so slow it might as well be nonexistent.

The key to using your cloud services without a connection is preparation: You must set up offline access before you head off the grid, either to individual files or to an entire collection. Here are instructions for some of the popular options…

Grazed from NYTimes.  Author: Quentin Hardy.

W00t!: Hurray!

Migration: Moving data and computing resources from one set of computers to another. Companies that shut down old-style data centers in favor of private or public clouds usually migrate data and applications to the new location.

Cloud Computing: A method of configuring and delivering computing power on demand. Individual servers and storage, along with networks and software applications, are pooled and shared by various devices like smartphones and laptop computers, allowing easier use and higher performance. Usage is frequently metered, like a utility…

Grazed from NYTimes. Author: David Streifeld.

The C.I.A. isn’t afraid of the cloud. Amazon, a relative baby in the field of technology services, triumphed over stalwart IBM to gain a $600 million C.I.A. contract, but the most remarkable part of the deal was that the agency was a cloud convert in the first place. The fact that a tech company could warehouse data involving the government’s spies is the clearest signal yet that cloud computing is having its moment.

Somewhat like outsourcing a decade ago, cloud computing is the coming technology destined to sweep away all before it. Amazon Web Services is the fastest-growing part of fast-growing Amazon, and analysts expect it someday to be the dominant part of the company. Google, IBM, Verizon, Microsoft and a host of smaller players are competing for a part of the action. Global spending on public cloud services alone is forecast to hit $210 billion in 2016, up 172 percent from 2010…

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Mike Vizard.

When it comes to cloud computing, data is the once and future king. While most of the cloud computing focus for the last four years has been in infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS), traditional enterprise IT vendors have figured out the best chance they have to thwart the ambitions of rivals is to leverage all the data they have access to inside their applications.

All things being relatively equal when it comes to cloud platforms, the most important factor in deciding where to host that application is access to data. After all, building an application is one thing. But that application is only as valuable as the data it contains. What Salesforce.com, Oracle, Microsoft, SAP and IBM have figured out is they already have a lot of the critical data that developers are looking for within their application environment…

Grazed from BusinessWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

Skyhigh Networks, the Cloud Visibility and Enablement Company, announced that more than 50 cloud service providers (CSPs) who are rated Skyhigh Enterprise-Ready™ have joined the Skyhigh CloudTrust™ Program since its launch in January 2014.

Skyhigh evaluates thousands of CSPs and grants the Skyhigh Enterprise-Ready seal only to those CSPs who fully satisfy the most stringent requirements for data protection, identity verification, service security, business practices, and legal protection. The Skyhigh CloudTrust Program is an objective, comprehensive, and free program available to all CSPs including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS providers…

Grazed from OpenPR. Author: PR Announcement.

A recently released report from TechNavio, the independent tech-focused global research firm, shows the Global SaaS-based Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Market is projecting healthy growth, with a CAGR of 31.11 percent from 2013-2018. While on-premise ECM held a 90.73 percent share in the Global ECM market in 2013, its share is expected to decrease by 2018.

Traditionally, the biggest advantage of on-premise software is that it gives businesses complete control over their critical data, as opposed to SaaS-based models wherein the solution is hosted in the cloud and accessed via the web. The solution is deployed and managed by cloud service providers, and end-users are able to use the service on a pay-per-use model…