Daily Cloud Feed – Oct 5, 2012

Daily aggregation of cloud news from @cloud_aware, cloudaware.net.

  • Taipei forum to discuss cloud computing industry trends

    • Focus Taiwan News Channel Taipei, Oct. 5 (CNA) Over 100 local and foreign experts and industry representatives will discuss future trends and applications of cloud computing, at a forum to be held in Taipei Oct. 11, the organizers said Friday. The Taipei Summit, now in its … (more)

  • IPO Preview: FleetMatics Group Plc – Seeking Alpha

    • By IPOdesktop
    SUMMARY FLTX is a leading global provider of fleet management solutions delivered as software-as-a-service, or SaaS. … The market is fragmented and many competitors rely on a non-Software-as-a-Service business model. … FLTX’s mobile software platform enables businesses to meet the challenges associated with managing their local fleets of commercial vehicles and improve productivity by extracting actionable business intelligence from vehicle and driver behavioral data. (more)

  • Multitenancy | The Cloud Evangelist

    • Posts about Multitenancy written by Richard Morrell. (more)

  • IDC Survey: U.S. Corporations Aim to Tackle IT Challenges with Cloud

    • Computing Sacramento Bee TROY, Mich., Oct. 4, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ — Forty-four percent of U.S. executives aim to tackle current IT challenges through leveraging cloud solutions, and they are planning to invest more in cloud computing in the future. That is the finding of an … (more)

  • What Is Hindering Cloud Computing Uptake?

    • CloudTweaks News Cloud computing is still young, but everybody is talking about it. It’s great for businesses and individuals at different levels of society. Despite these advantages, cloud computing uptake remains low. Some businesses have adopted it partly, whereas … (more)

  • Making a VMware vCloud multi VM vApp template

    • DABCC.com As you’ve read by now I’m making my first steps into vCloud Director 5.1 and stumble across some simple things. One of these is the quest on how to create a multi VM vApp template. Had been searching for this and was afraid it wasn’t even possible, but … (more)

  • Citrix updates XenServer with cloud computing in mind

    • ZDNet The company also hopes that the tighter integration of XenServer in CloudStack-based cloud computing environments will help customers with their own cloud computing efforts. It also hopes this move will improve its competitive position when it is … (more)

  • Cloud Computing, Hyperscale Datacenters and Extreme Low-Energy Servers …

    • X-bit Labs Three key server segments – hyperscale data centers, hosted virtual desktop (HVD) workloads and extreme low-energy (ELE) servers – will offer opportunities for growth through 2015, according to Gartner. “The server market was worth $52.8 billion … (more)

  • Clueless about Cloud? Why it Doesn’t Matter

    • Forbes Incredibly, only 16% of people can explain what cloud computing is, a recent survey said. Most believed it was about drugs, pillows, the weather, or toilet paper. (No, I’m not making this up.) But just because people don’t understand the cloud, it … (more)

  • David vs Goliath: is cloud computing the new slingshot?

    • The Guardian (blog) That software is everywhere is so commonly accepted that it hardly needs repeating. Take, for example, Getaround. To consumers it’s a marketplace where the car-having and car-needing come together to work out short-term rentals mano a mano. But the … (more)

  • Op-ed: Encryption, not restriction, is the key to safe cloud computing

    • Nextgov The encryption of cloud data protects critical information without becoming an onerous burden to users seeking to capitalize on the efficiencies of cloud computing. What’s critical is how the encryption system is structured. If a customer relies solely … (more)

  • VMware vCloud 5.1 Networking for Dummies

    • DABCC.com In April of this year I finally was able to take the VMware vCloud course with Mr. Eric Sloof himself. The training was based on vCloud Director 1.5 and I learned quite a lot and really thought I had this vCloud networking thing in my fingers. The … (more)

  • Citrix Startup Accelerator backs Cloud Vertical to measure cloud …

    • By Barb Darrow
    Dublin-based Cloud Vertical, which wants to help companies get the most bang for their cloud computing buck, now has cash and backing from the Citrix Startup Accelerator to build its business, says Cloud Vertical CEO Ed Byrne. (more)

  • Cloud computing’s environmental footprint – Memex 1.1

    • By jjn1
    I was struck by James Glanz’s NYT article about the environmental footprint of cloud computing and so tried to summarise it in a small slide-deck. Hope it’s useful. There’s a chapter on this in my new book. This entry was posted on Friday, … (more)

  • Cybersecurity Norms and the Public Private Partnership: Promoting …

    • By Trusted Cloud Team
    The Trustworthy Computing blog shares Microsoft perspectives about cloud computing. From security in the cloud to the evolution of IT, we show how Microsoft works to build a trustworthy cloud. (more)

  • Another call for market-based pricing of private cloud services

    • ZDNet (blog) … and based on a pay-per-use model. The bottom line, she says, is the private cloud services offered need to be competitive with similar services being offered by outside Software as a Service, Infrastructure as a Service, and Platform as a Service … (more)

  • Fleetmatics Celebrates IPO on the New York Stock Exchange

    • DailyFinance NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Fleetmatics, a leading global provider of fleet management solutions for small and medium-sized businesses delivered as software-as-a-service (SaaS), visited the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) to celebrate the … (more)

  • Flexible computing in business: Move to cloud computing or go modular?

    • TechTarget signals the end of the IT department.” Just where along this spectrum is reality? Unfortunately, it’s not that easy to provide a definitive answer, since the correct place for your organization along this spectrum is dependent on so many variables … (more)

  • Cloud Will Never be Cheaper Than On-Premise: Claranet

    • CIO The EC claims that 80 percent of organisations adopting cloud computing achieve cost savings of at least 10-20%, and intends the new strategy to create 2.5 million new jobs and boost GDP by 160 billion (APS127bn) by 2020. However, TechMarketView … (more)

  • Nine Ways To Manage Risk in Your Cloud Contracts

    • Forbes When purchasing cloud computing services, here are nine practical considerations to manage your business and legal risks to ensure successful adoption of this emerging compute model. These recommendations were presented at the San Francisco-based … (more)

  • Why Rackspace Is Still A Buy Post-OpenStack

    • Seeking Alpha Seen in conventional terms Rackspace (RAX) should be a sell right now. It’s best known for OpenStack,an open source cloud infrastructure it began working on with NASA a few years ago. But this summer it “lost control” of that software, placing it into … (more)

  • Cloud Computing | Dell

    • Gain all the advantages of a pure software-as-a-service integration platform in less time, at less cost and with less complexity than conventional integration … (more)

  • Software as a Service (SaaS) – Federal Business Opportunities …

    • Software as a Service (SaaS). Solicitation Number: Agency: Department of Homeland Security Office: Immigration & Customs Enforcement Location: ICE- OAQ- … (more)

  • Platform as a Service Solutions by CDW

    • CDW Gets Platform as a Service (PaaS). Platform as a Service solutions include not only the underlying infrastructure but all the development tools required to … (more)

  • Sales EHR Software as a Service

    • Company Description ICEMEDX (www.icemedx.com) is a start-up online Electronic Health Record company servicing providers in the western region of the … (more)

  • 7 reasons why Europe really matters to cloud computing

    • GigaOM We’ll discuss many of the finer points of European cloud computing and web infrastructure at our Structure: Europe event Oct. 16 and 17 in Amsterdam, both business and technological. To whet your appetite, though, here are seven reasons why Europe is a … (more)

  • Oracle CFO: no acquisitions needed to compete in cloud

    • Chicago Tribune Catz said Oracle is now a one-stop shop for companies moving to cloud computing, while rivals like Amazon.com and Salesforce.com each offer some but not all of the necessary components. Echoing comments by Ellison to CNBC television earlier this week … (more)

  • Larry Ellison Rewrites History, Claims Invention of the Cloud

    • Tom’s Hardware Guide Admittedly, Ellison was one of the pioneers of commercial cloud computing and pitched, for example the idea of its $200 NC (network PC), a thin client computer, back in 1996 at Comdex Spring in Atlanta. Essentially, the NC was designed to work in a … (more)

  • Open Cloud Means APIs, Data and Code, Says Mickos

    • Linux.com (blog) It transformed the industry. Today, cloud computing represents another major shift. What role does Linux and open source play now? Mickos: We have learned by now that open source is *always* a superior way to produce software. But open source software … (more)