Archive for February, 2011
Cloud Connect To Tackle Enterprise Challenges
Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon Web Services, and other leading advocates of cloud computing will be speaking at the second-annual Cloud Connect show, March 7 to 10 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Silicon Valley. Whether the cloud has evolved into a secure and reliable adjunct to data center operations is likely to be [...]
Apple North Carolina data center starts this spring
Apple’s ambitions to boost its cloud-computing prowess got a significant push as its $1 billion data center in North Carolina approaches its opening date this spring. AppleInsider which was present at Apple’s annual shareholders meeting reported that the North Carolina data center will be Apple’s second data center. The new data center is five times [...]
Cisco Kills Cloud Computing Email Service
Email is a tough business. Just ask networking giant Cisco. After just over a year of trying to make a market for its own Linux-powered hosted email service, Cisco is calling it quits. “The product has been well received, but we’ve since learned that customers have come to view their email as a mature and [...]
Sktyap To Offer Hybrid Computing Services To Customers
Skytap, a cloud computing firm based out of Seattle, Washington has recently developed a program that will allow their customers more flexibility and autonomy in using the company’s infrastructure. Called the Skytap Hybrid Cloud, this revolutionary product allows users to interface their own data with Skytap’s data management infrastructure. In addition, users also have the [...]
Vargatron Hits A Home Run Into The Clouds With their New Baseball App
A developer called Vargatron has come up with an ingenious cloud based application for the iPad. Named Pennant, this program is set to become the ultimate ‘bible’ for any baseball fan worth his salt. Pennant is enormous – allowing you to look up, compare and review the records, statistics, and performances of all professional baseball [...]
Press Release – 4PSA Introduces Cloud Licensing for Software
Orlando Fl – February 23, 2011 – 4PSA, a leading innovative Cloud Computing software technology company, well-known for its award-winning VoipNow® Unified Communications solution, has announced today the availability of Cloud Licensing, a licensing methodology that brings cloud computing flexibility and scalability to software licensing. The new licensing methodology follows the investments made by the [...]
Software AG unveils Cloud-Computing vision
RESTON, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Software AG today announced its comprehensive technology approach for cloud computing. Software AG fully supports the vision of extreme collaboration with cloud enabling technology to facilitate faster change and process improvement with greater participation from all key stakeholders. “Everyone understands that cloud computing can reduce total cost of ownership and speed-up time to [...]
Cloud Computing and Patent Trolls: How To Prepare Now
Here’s the scenario: Your IT team writes a web service, and part of its WSDL interface includes a hash algorithm the team came up with on their own. You publish the API and your business partners use your clever little hash in integrating with across cloud services. Years later, you get a letter from a [...]
Microsoft to Increase China Staff to Boost Cloud Computing Presence
In an effort to boost its presence in China’s fast-growing smartphone market and strengthen its cloud computing and Internet search capabilities, Microsoft Corp., has announced plans to increase its research and development staff in China by around 10 percent this year. Ya-Qin Zhang, chairman of Microsoft’s (News - Alert) Asia-Pacific R&D Group, told the Wall [...]
Cloud Computing Attempts To Reshape Communications By 2020
If John Donovan, the current Chief Technology Officer of AT&T is right, then we will all be able to throw away our mobile devices in just 10 years time. According to Donovan, future technology will allow us to store on cloud platforms our personal information, contact numbers, email addresses and many other kinds of data [...]
Cloud Printers A Security Risk?
The modern printer is one of the most versatile bits of office equipment around. New printer models can scan, copy, and print your documents in a flash. Some advanced printers can even be hooked up to the Internet and through cloud technologies such as Google Cloud Print and Hp ePrint, you can use them remotely [...]
A great Cloud Computing Industry synopsis
I love this bunch of paragraphs from Phil Wainewright of ZDNET. He captures the essence of the Cloud dilemma perfectly… The further that SaaS vendors penetrate into the higher echelons of enterprise computing, the more they’re accused, like the pigs running the show at the end of George Orwell’s Animal Farm, of becoming just like [...]
Softbank Telecom partners with VMware
TOKYO (Nikkei)–Softbank Telecom Corp. said Tuesday it has formed an alliance with U.S.-based cloud computing giant VMware Inc. The telecommunications operator will adopt VMware’s technology to offer cloud computing services to corporate clients starting in July. Softbank Telecom is the first Japanese firm to offer cloud services certified by VMware and the seventh overall, following [...]
VMware Streamlines Electronic Medical Record Delivery Through Spectrum Health's Cloud Computing Environment
PALO ALTO, CA–(Marketwire – February 22, 2011) – VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced that Spectrum Health has chosen VMware ThinApp™ to provide fast and efficient access to point-of-care applications, electronic medical records (EMR) and patient data from their cloud computing environment. Spectrum Health, a premier national [...]
VMware Streamlines Electronic Medical Record Delivery Through Spectrum Health’s Cloud Computing Environment
PALO ALTO, CA–(Marketwire – February 22, 2011) – VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced that Spectrum Health has chosen VMware ThinApp™ to provide fast and efficient access to point-of-care applications, electronic medical records (EMR) and patient data from their cloud computing environment. Spectrum Health, a premier national [...]
Healthcare coming to The Cloud
The cloud is destined to play a much larger role in healthcare than it has so far. That will be especially true as more providers adopt e-health records and other digitized clinical systems. It will also be pushed along by storage-hungry systems like 3-D medical imaging and health information exchanges looking to provide more efficient [...]
Why Aren't More Businesses Embracing The Cloud?
There’s a lot of confusion today about cloud computing and the supposed cost benefits that it offers. According to an interesting piece by Alok Misra in Information Week, many companies don’t seem to understand where these reduced costs come from. The reason is that many enterprises right now are not able to distinguish between on-site [...]
Why Aren’t More Businesses Embracing The Cloud?
There’s a lot of confusion today about cloud computing and the supposed cost benefits that it offers. According to an interesting piece by Alok Misra in Information Week, many companies don’t seem to understand where these reduced costs come from. The reason is that many enterprises right now are not able to distinguish between on-site [...]
Explaining Cloud Advantages To Someone Who Doesn’t Have A Clue
What with cloud computing being all the rage today it’s hardly surprising that more and more computing companies are trying to take advantage of this boom by coming up with their own suite of cloud computing products and services. The trend is sure to get the attention of management from all over sooner or later, [...]
Virtualization Can be key to Cloud Security, RSA Chief says
Virtualization technologies can help enable better security and control in cloud computing environments, RSA chief Art Coviello said today. In a keynote address at the RSA Security Conference here, Coviello struck an optimistic tone on cloud security issues. While he acknowledged some of the concerns enterprises might have about moving data and applications to the [...]
Tata Consultancy Expects Business Growth in Clean Energy, Cloud Computing
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., Asia’s largest information-services provider, will increase its focus on renewable-energy technologies and cloud computing, the company’s global head of venture capital said. “These are the growth engines of the future,” Ajoy Mallik said in an interview in Tel Aviv, where he was attending a Landmark Ventures business conference. Mallik named wind, [...]
Cisco, VMware and EMC coalition redesign their channel blueprint
The Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) company has returned to drawing board to design a reseller friendly go-to-market strategy that also involves distributors. The coalition was formed by Cisco, EMC and VMware in the summer of 2009 to punt private cloud building blocks dubbed Vblock and was later joined by Acadia, the venture between EMC and [...]
Bold Claims From Google But Are They Real Foresight Or Just Empty Threats?
Recently, Google Apps, the web-based operating system product from Google, ran a four page ad in the Economist magazine, in an effort to stir up more interest from users and businesses all over. Since its inception in 2007, the company boasts a subscription base of more than 3,000,000 users that continues to grow by 3,000 [...]
Say Goodbye To Hardware – The Future Lies In The Skies
It’s certainly a bold prediction by Alex Wawro of PC World, but one that’s certainly possible. By 2020, not only will it be possible for you to build an IT network without any need for on-site hardware, but it’s probably going to be the most popular way of managing your data. The likely office setup [...]
Self Regulation To Greatly Benefit Cloud Computing Companies
Longhaus, a leading analyst firm, is proposing the implementation of self-regulatory controls among cloud computing companies. Its Research Director, Sam Higgins, said that this is essential for the industry to build and maintain a credible reputation. The firm came up with the proposal after discovering numerous bad practices committed by a number of cloud computing [...]
Is Virtual Security The Key To Cloud Computing Success?
RSA, a computer company that offer cloud computing services, is bullish about the prospects of virtual system management platforms. According to its president, Art Coviello, one major stumbling block of this revolutionary technology is security. He believes that if cloud computing firms properly utilize virtualization technologies, it would become possible to develop security infrastructure that [...]
Enomaly offers a new cloud computing service – But The Sceptics Are Already Out In Force
A new development in the cloud computing world caught my attention the other day. According to a new story published on the Technologyreview.com site, Canadian-based cloud platform provider Enomaly has come up with a new service where companies can lease off their unused capacity to customers. The service, named SpotCloud, is an innovative idea and [...]
Asus Planning Mystery Cloud Computing Enabled Personal Devices For Late 2011
One of the more tantalizing prospects that I have read about recently looks set to come out of Taiwan. According to an interesting piece by Elizabeth Woyke, Asus is attempting to transform the computer world with a brand-new product that will make it much more competitive in the marketplace. Asus stole a thunder on its [...]
The Problem Of Changing Prevailing Business Attitudes Vis-a-Vis Cloud Computing
Wide acceptance of cloud computing technology among corporate businesses has yet to be achieved. Many enterprises are still reluctant to shift to this new data and software management platform due to several reasons, such as security (the biggest concern), resistance to abandon the old ways of doing things, and misconceptions. Cloud computing actually offers a [...]
2011 To Be A Banner Year For Business Cloud Computing?
So far, the year 2011 is proving to be one of the most prolific years yet for the cloud computing industry. Innovations have been moving at an electric pace, and developments with certain specialty fields are fast emerging as well. One of the areas in cloud computing that have seen a significant amount of upgrading in recent [...]
