Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Barb Darrow. With news that Google and Microsoft plan to take on the Amazon Web Services monolith with infrastructure services of their own, you have to ask: How many clouds do we need? This Google-Microsoft news broken this week by Derrick Harris, proves to anyone who didn’t already realize it, that Amazon is the biggest cloud computing force (by far) and as such, wears a big fat target on its back. With the success of Amazon cloud services, which keep started out as plain vanilla infrastructure but have evolved to include workflow and storage gateways to enterprise data centers, Amazon’s got everyone — including big enterprise players like Microsoft, IBM and HP worried. Very worried... |
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Grazed from Digital Trends. Author: Rob Enderle.
 Tremendously powerful new processors toiling away in the cloud could make it irrelevant what kind of screen you connect with, ushering in a new age of computing.Last week, Nvidia launched the first graphics processing unit (GPU) designed for the cloud, dubbed Kepler. Supporting vendors include a who’s who of server providers, such as HP, Dell, Cisco, and IBM — all of which will have products on the market shortly. The whole concept behind these servers is to serve up a desktop experience from the cloud. This means delivering games, applications, utilities, and media to any device that will run the client: iPads, iPods, Android tablets, smartphones, and even cars and smart TVs. As this technology comes to market, it will increasingly not matter what you are using — you’ll be able to get your stuff on it as long as it is connected with decent bandwidth. Let’s talk about some of the results... |
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Grazed from CNet. Author: Gordon Haff. Early discussion of cloud computing focused on the public option. In fact, the economic concept of computing delivered as a sort of utility by mega service providers such as Amazon, Google, and Microsoft was at the core of the original cloud-computing concept. As it turns out though, these public clouds are hardly the only form that cloud computing has taken. Computing is more complicated than a true utility like electricity. For this and other reasons, private and hybrid clouds -- which use computers and other IT resources controlled by a single organization -- have evolved to become an important part of the landscape... |
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Grazed from CenterBeam. Author: Editorial Staff. U.S. businesses looking to protect their data are turning to cloud computing as an answer to data loss, according to a survey conducted by CA Technologies. A large number of organizations identified data or application loss incidents over the past year. Thirty-six percent of businesses reported storing data in the public cloud, and 76 percent reported utilizing a private cloud for storage. The majority of businesses that store data in the cloud feel confident in the safety of that data. Eighty-four percent of U.S. and Canadian businesses storing their data in a private cloud feel their data is adequately protected, and 73 percent felt positively about data protection in the public cloud... |
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Grazed from MSPNews. Author: Allison Boccamazzo.
This new expansion from the service provider combines the impressive MicroTech MicroPodd portable data center with a CA (News - Alert) AppLogic turnkey cloud platform, monitoring solution, business intelligence reporting tool, and cloud minder identity management service to provide a comprehensive private cloud solution. Preconfigured in standard operating systems with templates for Windows, Linux and Solaris operating systems, the MicroTech Advanced Virtual Environment features all the virtual characteristics and functions of a private cloud while also supporting all current standard cloud delivery models: IaaS, PaaS, SaaS (News
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Grazed from Salt Lake Tribune. Author: Editorial Staff. Vlad Shmunis, founder and CEO of the cloud communications company RingCentral, says new cloud-based phone technology lets customers take calls, listen to voice mail and send and receive faxes from anywhere. Cloud-based phone systems leverage the power of cloud computing to give customers the functionality of an expensive corporate private branch exchange, or PBX (telephone switching system). In plain English, cloud-based systems are hosted on off-site serversand are provided as a service. Because they don’t require customers to buy and maintain expensive telecommunications equipment, they’re much more affordable than conventional PBXs. In simple terms, this refers to any switchboard system, and because cloud-based phone technology exists on the Web, it can be accessed from anywhere — a desk phone, a cellphone or even a PC or tablet. Cloud-based phone service lets customers do almost anything on a phone inside and outside the office, enabling greater mobility and flexibility than conventional phone systems allow... |
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Grazed from IT Business Edge. Author: Michael Vizard.  The days of Wyse Technology as an independent company are coming to a close as Dell formally prepares to acquire the company, and one of the more interesting cloud computing initiatives that Wyse has put in play has come to light.In a move that could signal the future ambitions of Dell, Wyse Technology has launched a private beta of a new cloud computing service that not only provisions the thin clients that Wyse sells, but also mobile computing devices such as smartphones and tablet devices... |
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Grazed from Sys Con Media. Author: Mario Meir-Huber. Infrastructure as a Service and Platform as a Service offer us easy scaling of services. However, scaling is not as easy as it seems to be in the Cloud. If your software architecture isn't done right, your services and applications might not scale as expected, even if you add new instances. As for most distributed systems, there are a couple of guidelines you should consider. I have summed up the ones I use most often for designing distributed systems. Design for Failure |
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Grazed from Wired. Author: Todd Neilson.
When it comes to cloud computing IBM is making a big statement this week that the status quo remains. “Whatever you want,” seems to also apply to cloud computing. The company revealed some stats and made some SmartCloud announcements that make a very strong statement about its cloud services... |
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The next time you run into an IBM employee, ask them, “What can you do for me?” Their typical response: some flavor of, “Whatever you want.” This often brings some confusion in the small- and medium-size (SMB) market and the channel, but the truth is and has generally been that IBM can handle anything and everything when it comes to computing … and beyond.
Grazed from The Guardian. Author: Lei Wangyun. An enterprise can opt for either the traditional model or a cloud model to deliver IT services. Under the traditional model, the enterprise first purchases hardware such as servers and storage devices, leases network bandwidth, and perhaps builds a data center. The enterprise then purchases licenses for operating system software and the software applications needed for delivering the required functionality. Of course, professional IT staff must be engaged to maintain the hardware and software. As the business grows and customers require new functionality, new hardware and software must be provided and software customized, while ensuring the interoperability between the old and new hardware and software. This process must be repeated whenever capacity is expanded or a new functional module is added. Cloud computing changes this completely... |
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