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Grazed from JourneyToTheCloud. Author: John Dixon.

With the acceptance of cloud computing gaining steam, more specific issues related to adoption are emerging. Beyond the big-show topics of self-service, security, and automation, cloud sprawl is one of the specific problems that organizations face when implementing cloud computing. In this post, I’ll take a deep dive into this topic, what it means, how it’s caused, and some options for dealing with it now and in the future.

Cloud Sprawl and VM Sprawl

First, what is cloud sprawl? Simply put, cloud sprawl is the proliferation of IT resources – that provide little or no value – in the cloud. For the purposes of this discussion, we’ll consider cloud to be IaaS, and the resources to be individual server VMs. VM sprawl is a similar concept that happens when a virtual environment goes unchecked. In that case, it was common for an administrator, or someone with access to vCenter, to spin up a VM for testing, perform some test or development activity, and then forget about it…

Grazed from ITBusiness.ca. Author: Marylka Empey

My first cloud computing conference, and the anticipation of the crowd is palpable as people from around the globe have gathered at SuiteWorld 2014. The Commonwealth is well represented – so far; I have met Aussies and Brits, as well as an expat Canadian who works for NetSuite in San Mateo – sweet!!

This year’s conference is the biggest SuiteWorld to date; over 6500 attendees, and 200 sessions. There are more than 100 NetSuite partners in attendance, and I learn that an astonishing 70 per cent of all Netsuite implementations are as a result of work involving this group…

Grazed from Forbes. Author: Louis Columbus.

Finding the best candidates for hard-to-fill positions, tracking hiring trends in fast-growing industries, and for job seekers, finding the best career opportunities are three of many areas where analytics is making a strong contribution today. Wanted Analytics is the leading supplier of data analytics for the human capital marketplace, having accumulated one billion records since the company’s founding in 2005.

The company’s advanced real-time analytics platform includes measures of hiring activity and historical trends of 11,000 individual occupational categories. HR departments use Wanted Analytics to find candidates for positions that are difficult to fill, in addition to benchmarking their company’s hiring strategies against competitors…

Grazed from Intercooler. Author: Editorial Staff.

CloudNOW, the executive consortium for the leading women in cloud and converging technologies, today announced the winners of their Top 10 Women in Cloud. All winners will be invited to compete in a pitch-style event June 17th in San Francisco to vie for the #1 ranking of Top Woman in Cloud Innovation. For more information visit CloudNOW.

“CloudNOW is paying tribute to ten outstanding women in cloud computing for their contributions, accomplishments and thought leadership in our dynamic industry,” said Jocelyn DeGance Graham, founder of CloudNOW. “We are excited this year to be adding the element of a pitch competition, and having each of these leaders present the projects that garnered them their spot on our Top 10 list.”…

Grazed from PRWeb. Author: PR Announcement.

RISC Networks, an industry leading IT Operations Analytics developer in areas of cloud computing readiness and planning and IT infrastructure performance, today announced that the company is working together with RiverMeadow on an integrated workload Discovery, Planning and Migration solution. Using RISC Networks CloudScape workload dependency visualization and cloud readiness analytics, along with RiverMeadow’s SaaS, businesses can quickly find workloads on their network and easily move them to optimal target clouds.

"The challenge of migrating enterprise applications can be complex and expensive, which is why many IT departments struggle to execute on their cloud migration initiatives," said Jeremy Littlejohn, CEO and Chief Analyst at RISC Networks. "These friction points can be overcome by having a simple cloud migration process in place and visibility to workload performance, dependencies and an effective plan…

Grazed from ITProPortal. Author: Lilac Schoenbeck.

Cloud computing services are becoming increasingly mainstream and are fast establishing themselves as an integral part of every organisation’s IT strategy. Many industry analysts firmly believe that cloud will become a major platform for growth for all organisations, and especially mid-market businesses. This is because, previously, if an organisation wanted to get a new idea off the ground, they would often have had to make a significant upfront investment in IT before they even knew if their business idea was going to work. The cloud, however, levels the playing field.

When used effectively, cloud takes away barriers to entry and makes technology available to all organisations, regardless of size. From day one, a business can ramp up very quickly and easily without having to make serious up-front capital investment. The move to the cloud is seamless. Costs are predicable. There are no big step changes or spikes in costs for maintenance or renewal requirements. Remote working and disaster recovery can also be built in…

Grazed from TechRadar. Author: Juan Martinez.

IBM will provide OpenStack integration and cloud virtualization and management capabilities across IBM’s server portfolio, the company said in a statement. The service is designed to enable organizations to more easily adopt and integrate the cloud with their existing IT infrastructure.

The service, IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack, will feature full access to the OpenStack API. OpenStack is a global collaboration of approximately 16,000 developers and cloud computing technologists that collaborate on technological innovation.
Cloud Manager will extend cloud management support to IBM’s System z, Power Systems, PureFlex/Flex Systems, System x, and all other x86 environments…

Grazed from CERN. Author: Editorial Staff.

Helix Nebula launched its new cloud-computing marketplace service during event held yesterday at CERN. ‘Helix Nebula – the Science Cloud Initiative’ is a pioneering partnership between big science and big business in Europe, which charts the course towards the sustainable provision of cloud computing for science.

Now, through a cutting-edge collaboration between commercial providers and public e-infrastructures, including GÉANT and the European Grid Infrastructure (EGI), the Helix Nebula Marketplace offers a first-of-its-kind production service to meet the needs of researchers and facilitate innovation in science…

Grazed from TheGuardian. Author: Werner Vogels.

We are rapidly entering into an era where massive computing power, digital storage and global network connections can be deployed by anyone as quickly and easily as turning on the light. This is the promise – and the reality – of cloud computing which is driving tremendous change in the technology industry and transforming how we do business in Europe and around the world.

Europe’s fastest growing start-ups, like Hailo, JustEat and WeTransfer, some of the largest enterprises, like Royal Dutch Shell, SAP and Unilever, governments, education and research institutes, all are using cloud technologies to innovate faster and better serve their customers and the citizens of Europe…

Grazed from CloudComputineExpo. Author: Michael Bushong.

Grazed from For many SDN and DevOps enthusiasts, the natural outcome of this wave of technological change is a highly-automated network that is well-orchestrated with surrounding systems and applications. One of the prevailing thoughts is that this level of automation is a well-formed abstraction layer. With the abstractions in place, the army of network engineers will be unencumbered by device configuration, and automation will ensure. Or will it?

First off, let me say that abstraction is absolutely necessary. There is no doubt that networking will only advance if we can both remove unnecessary elements and simplify those that remain. We have to accomplish this in a way that is vendor (and ideally technology) agnostic. Abstraction is clearly the path forward…