Cloud Adoption
Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Dana Gardner. It now falls to CIOs to not only rapidly adapt to cloud computing, but to find the ways to protect their employees and customers as they adopt cloud models – even as security threats grow. This is a serious — but not insurmountable challenge. Cloud computing has clearly sparked the imagination of business leaders, who see it as a powerful new way to be innovative and gain first-mover advantages — with or without traditional IT’s consent. This simply now means that the center of gravity for IT services is shifting toward the enterprise’s boundaries – moving increasingly outside their firewalls. And so how can companies have it both ways — exploit cloud’s promise but also provide enough security to make the risks acceptable? How can organizations retain rigor and control while pursuing cloud benefits?... |
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Grazed from MarketWatch. Author: PR Announcement.  Wyse Technology, the global leader in cloud client computing, will exhibit, demo and lead discussions on cloud client computing at Citrix Synergy(TM) 2012 in San Francisco, May 9th - 11th. Wyse, a Platinum Sponsor, will demonstrate its complete line of solutions, including the Wyse Xenith -- the award-winning zero client for Citrix XenDesktop(R) and Citrix HDX(TM) technology, as well as reveal its next game changing solution -- in Booth #206 at Moscone Center... |
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Grazed from PRWeb. Author: PR Announcement.
Cloudscaling joined the Alliance as a Contributor member and will participate with the Alliance’s Infrastructure Technical Workgroup to further the development of usage models developed by the Alliance. Contributor members are selected and approved by the organization’s Steering Committee. Participation in the ODCA contributes to Cloudscaling’s development of hardware blueprints. The blueprints comprise a layer of the recently announced Cloudscaling Open Cloud System (OCS) that defines production-grade server and networking combinations that deliver predictable technical and economic performance to meet specific design requirements. Blueprints show how to implement cloud resource block designs in physical hardware to meet design requirements for security, availability and subscription rates... |
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Cloudscaling has joined the more than 300 member companies of the
Grazed from MarketWatch. Author: PR Announcement.  Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider will be showcasing its next-generation data center switches, CloudEngine 12800, at Interop Las Vegas. With the industry's largest switching capacity and highest performance, the CloudEngine series provide a better way for global enterprises to tap into the opportunities presented by the rise of cloud computing and ICT convergence. In addition to showcasing its latest innovations, Huawei will leverage its industry-leading, high reliability and high security campus solutions to power networking connectivity for Interop attendees and exhibitors at the event venue as one of two core network providers selected by the organizer.
"As one of the leading business technology events, Interop is an important platform for us to showcase our advanced products and expand our business globally," said William Xu, CEO of Huawei Enterprise Business Group. "We are excited to introduce the CloudEngine 12800, Huawei's latest data center switches that provide the industry's highest performance and help customers build scalable, virtualized and converged data canter networks in the cloud computing era."... |
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Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Beth Stackpole. The biggest fact that organizations building out cloud environments don't understand about governance in the new world of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) is that, despite the handoff of certain IT functions, the responsibility around governance still remains at home. Within the structure of traditional IT, companies could skirt some of the real governance challenges by clamping down on certain deployment scenarios and keeping anything questionable within the four walls and security controls of internal IT. That's not so easy with a true cloud environment, which mixes it up between private and public clouds, ultimately with applications running between the two, depending on demand and use case. "What's great about cloud computing is that it offers a great deal of agility, but that poses a governance challenge," said Bernard Golden, VP of enterprise solutions at EnStratus, a provider of cloud management and governance tools. "In the past, even if you didn't do governance quite right, everyone and everything was still in the same sandbox. But now you can't rely on that."... |
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Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: Joseph Walker. According to cloud computing experts at IEEE, the biggest barrier to cloud services adoption is not cloud security or privacy fears, but concerns about service interoperability. According to Dr. Alexander Pasik, CIO at IEEE and a former Gartner analyst: Security is certainly a very important consideration, but it’s not what will inhibit further adoption. To achieve the economies of scale that will make cloud computing successful, common platforms are needed to ensure users can easily navigate between services and applications, regardless of where they’re coming from. IT decision makers from corporate CIOs to SMB owners want to know that their cloud services—both software and infrastructure—will be able to communicate with one another, and that they will be able to easily migrate from one service to another. They’re also concerned about service integration, cross-platform support and the ability of new cloud solutions to integrate with their existing on-premises infrastructure... |
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Grazed from MarketWatch. Author: PR Announcement.  Infinitely Virtual, a leading provider of virtual server cloud computing services for businesses, today announced it has added Microsoft's SQL Server 2012 to its menu of servers from which customers can choose to meet their specific business needs.
In the first major upgrade since 2008, MS SQL Server 2012 introduces "Always On" data protection, and provides more rapid query performance and faster data discovery, among other key enhancements. "Our customers are increasing their investments in the cloud and upgrades such as Microsoft SQL Server 2012 help us give them the most advanced hosting capability, with the latest enhancements in data management, business intelligence and protection," said Adam Stern, founder and CEO, Infinitely Virtual... |
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Grazed from Wired. Author: Robert McMillan.
It’s part of a high-profile lawsuit between Oracle and Google. Oracle says that Google violated its copyrights and patents when it wrote its own version of Java for the Android mobile operating system. Part of what the court is trying to figure out this week is whether Google wronged Oracle by writing software that mimicked the Java Application Programming Interfaces (APIs are coding standards that let programs communicate with one another). The conventional wisdom in the coder community has been that it’s fine to reproduce the interface of someone else’s APIs, so long as you don’t actually copy their software. So if the court finds that APIs are copyrightable, it could have major implications for any software that uses APIs without explicit permission — Linux for example. But it could affect things in the cloud, where there are several efforts to clone Amazon’s Web Services APIs... |
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A San Francisco court has spent the past few weeks considering a copyright question that could weigh heavy on the future of cloud computing.
Grazed from eWeek. Author: Nathan Eddy. Midsize businesses are looking to specific IT investments to boost their businesses, and the larger the organization, the more likely it is to cite technology as having the greatest potential to increase productivity, according to the findings of a new survey of midmarket companies by Deloitte. The study shows cloud computing emerging as an investment priority. When asked what types of investments companies were likely to make in technology, 40 of the respondents cited cloud computing. That's close to automation of business processes (46 percent) and data analytics (41 percent). “Interestingly, there seems to be a greater recognition of the benefits of cloud computing," the report stated. "In our September 2011 survey, it was recognized as a distant fourth as a means to increase productivity. In this survey, it nearly equaled data analytics and business intelligence in terms of likely investments.”... |
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Grazed from IDM.com. Author: Allison Stanfield. The benefits of cloud computing must be considered in light of some of the potential risks writes e.law founder Allison Stanfield. Cloud computing has become all the rage amongst businesses, and with good reason. Cloud computing provides a cost effective way to store data.
No more re-leasing equipment every three years, no more spending money on version upgrades to software and less spent on IT professionals. However, Cloud vendors can provide space on servers so cheaply because they are able load balance clients’ data across their various server farms...
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