- The Complex Transition to the Cloud
Wall Street Journal (blog) In June of 2008 I participated in a conference on cloud computing. After a full day of talks and discussions, the sense of the meeting was that cloud computing has the promise to bring a real paradigm shift to the IT world, although, as the conference … (more)
- Moving To The Cloud Doesn’t Just Save Money — It Also Lets You
Experiment … Business Insider Over the last few years, cloud computing has become one of the most widely used technological innovations for businesses and tech-enthusiasts alike. And why not? Cloud services give users access to their information anywhere and everywhere they happen … (more)
- Cloud Computing Trend gives Australian Web Service Providers Opportunity
to … NewsMaker (press release) Cloud computing allows for resources, software and data to be provided as a service rather than as a product to be managed by the consumer. The advantages of this model for businesses include faster application set-up and better resource allocation … (more)
- Open data center alliance, feds work on standardizing cloud, open government
CivSource According to the Alliance, the usage models are based on user driven feedback about cloud computing as well as the original vision set out by the organization last year to define IT requirements for open and interoperable cloud solutions. (more)
- Red Hat Storage 2.0 Aims to Unify File and Object Access
Infostor magazine The system will also provide components from the open source OpenStack cloud effort to enable unified file and object access. “GlusterFS already allows users to store and retrieve data as files using traditional file system/NAS interfaces like native … (more)
- Privacy risks plague cloud computing, says commissioner
Delimiter news In a recent speech on ‘Privacy risks and potential benefits in the cloud’, Acting Victorian Privacy Commissioner Anthony Bendall has highlighted some of the privacy concerns with cloud computing, particularly in its use by the local government. (more)
- Platform as a Service, Software as a Service, what are they and …
We further discuss different points of a customer’s journey to the cloud and discuss Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, DB as a Service, Software … (more)
- Selling Software as a Service – Enhancement Requests
Selling Software as a Service. … I sell Software as a Service e.g Office365 or Google Apps – The products have no stock, and are all sold on a regular monthly or … (more)
- HP opens up public cloud beta in May
Register HP Cloud Services is based on the open source OpenStack cloud fabric created by NASA and Rackspace Hosting back in July 2010. The “Essex” release of OpenStack, which has five components, was just released last Thursday with 150 new features compared to … (more)
- HP to offer cloud-based computing service
San Jose Mercury News By Brandon Bailey Hoping to stake a bigger claim in the growing market for
cloud computing services, Hewlett-Packard is moving into direct competition with Amazon and other companies that essentially rent computing services to businesses on an … (more)
- How cloud computing can improve your charity’s efficiency
The Guardian (blog) The growth in cloud computing adoption is being led largely by the private sector, but many charities are beginning to embrace this technology because of the obvious money savings, increased work efficiencies and the greater flexibility it affords. (more)
- Red Hat Contributes More to OpenStack than Canonical Ubuntu
InternetNews.com (blog) By Sean Michael Kerner | April 09, 2012 Last year, Canonical the lead
commercial sponsor behind Ubuntu, made a big deal about switching their Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) technology to an OpenStack base. The OpenStack open source cloud community also … (more)
- Clouds Hang over Cloud Cuckoo Land
SYS-CON Media (press release) By Maureen O’Gara ASF will incubate CloudStack as an open source rival to
OpenStack and a foil to proprietary VMware, Citrix’ hereditary enemy. And then it loudly proclaimed to anybody who would listen that Amazon’s proprietary APIs are the de facto … (more)
- Cloud Computing Trend Gives Australian Web Service Providers Opportunity
To … HostReview.com (press release) … specialist infrastructure and platform-as-a-service providers, says a new study from analyst firm, Telsyte. Cloud computing allows for resources, software and data to be provided as a service rather than as a product to be managed by the consumer. (more)
- SaaSMarkets Launches SaaS App Stores in 18 Countries Across the Globe
Sacramento Bee Bringing Appclick to millions of small and medium sized business across the globe will provide opportunity to businesses that are eager to move towards the software as a service IT model, enabling them to access low cost software products that are easy … (more)
- Anybill to Launch “Wherever, Whenever” Campaign at the Accounts Payable …
MarketWatch (press release) WASHINGTON, DC, Apr 10, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Anybill, Inc., a pioneer in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) accounts payable solutions, announces it will be exhibiting popular automated accounts payable tools at the Accounts Payable Leadership … (more)
- Accenture taps into Windows Azure with public cloud service
ZDNet (blog) Under the deal, Accenture will expand its infrastructure outsourcing options to include Platform-as-a-Service and Infrastructure-as-a-Service solutions as they become available from Windows Azure. The significance here is that it is touted to [. (more)
- Training JumpStart Announces Full Multilingual Support in Any Language
MarketWatch (press release) The software-as-a-service is rare in its truly multilingual capabilities with respect to both the learner’s user interface and to facilities for the site owner to manage course content rendered in multiple languages. To deeply support global e-learning … (more)
- Top 10 ways HP is different and better when it comes to cloud computing
ZDNet (blog) HP is not wed to a profits-sustaining operating system platform, integration middleware platform, database platform, business applications suite, hypervisor, productivity applications suite, development framework, or any other software infrastructure … (more)
- Navigating through SaaS and Cloud Computing Software
WiredPRNews.com (press release) To address this issue, Silicon Valley based, SaaS Markets, has developed Appmerica (www.appmerica.com) and Appclick (www.appclick.co.uk), both online marketplaces hosting over 1100 SaaS and Cloud Computing applications. Appclick, which is has been … (more)
- Cisco and NetApp introduce entry-level FlexPod architecture for cloud
computing V3.co.uk by Daniel Robinson NetApp and Cisco have expanded their FlexPod modular datacentre architecture with an entry-level offering aimed at offering a low-cost option for smaller-scale cloud computing and datacentre deployments. (more)
- Cisco and NetApp Build on Strong Success With Expanded FlexPod …
Marketwire VMware, VMware vCenter and VMware vCloud are registered trademarks and/or trademarks of VMware, Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions. (more)
- Cisco and NetApp extend FlexPod architecture to improve data …
CTR … management tools by managing their solution via open APIs, Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud, VMware vCloud Director or VMware vCenter Server. (more)
- How cloud computing can improve your charity’s efficiency …
Cloud computing allows staff to access IT systems from remote locations and increase data security, writes David Sturges from Workplacelive. (more)
- 7 Ways IBM Will Make $7 Billion In Cloud
InformationWeek IBM in the near future will unveil a comprehensive initiative that better ties together its multi-pronged efforts to offer cloud computing services, according to one of its top cloud strategists. It’s not just concentrating on devoting new resources to … (more)
- How to Avoid the Perils of Virtualization and Cloud Stall
CIO Virtualization and cloud computing offer the promise of cost savings, efficiency and flexibility, but organizations must plan their transitions carefully or risk finding themselves stuck with a bundle of sunk costs and no path forward. (more)
- Cloud Computing: Adoption as Rorschach — Perspectives on the CIO Psyche
Formtek Blog (blog) By Dick Weisinger, on April 10th, 2012 How a CIO reacts to and engages with
Cloud Computing can be interpreted as a sort of Rorschach test for the CIO psyche. A report by CA Technologies found that CIOs that adopt cloud computing tend to be more … (more)
- eXo Beta Testing Its Cloud-Based ‘Intranet-as-a-Service’
Virtualization Review By John K. Waters French company eXo is beta testing its eXo Cloud
Workspaces, which the company calls a new social “intranet-as-a-service” solution. The company said that the new service is designed to “bridge the gap between social networking … (more)
- Fiberlink Provides Webinar on the Google Android Operating System
San Francisco Chronicle (press release) (PRWEB) April 10, 2012 Fiberlink, the leader in software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions for secure mobile device and application management, today announced a free live webinar titled “Ten Mysteries of Android” on Thursday, April 12, 2012 at 2:00 pm … (more)