Category: Adoption
U.S. Feds: Ultimate Cloud Computing Cheerleader
Were there ever a near-ideal case study demonstrating the merits of cloud computing, the United States government would provide exhibit 1A. Since moving portions of the national data infrastructure to the cloud, federal chief information officer Vivek Kundra says the government has saved $3 billion in less than five months. This and other IT streamlining [...]
IDC projects Asia-Pacific upsurge in Cloud Services adoption in 2011
A new report by global market intelligence firm IDC projects an upsurge in the adoption of cloud services in the Asia Pacific region in 2011. The report, ‘Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Cloud Services and Technologies 2011 Top 10 Predictions: Dealing with Mainstream Cloud’ indicates that the use of cloud technologies for IT infrastructure is expected to accelerate rapidly [...]
The Cloud 2 Era – Cloud computing enters a new growth phase
The switch to the cloud and the mobile Internet marks a “tectonic shift” to a “technology supercycle,” said Mark Murphy, a Piper Jaffray analyst. He sees the cloud software market growing 23.9% annually over five years vs. 4.7% for the broader software sector. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff calls this the start of the “Cloud 2″ [...]
More Healthcare Providers Set To Embrace Cloud
Healthcare is slowly moving into the cloud computing technology space, with experts predicting that it’s just be a matter of time until the off-shoring of content, data, and applications in this industry become the norm. Hospitals and medical care providers have not been that quick in the uptake of offsite data management systems due to [...]
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, [...]
Cloud Computing – Do The Benefits Outweigh The Risks?
Cloud computing is still a fairly recent software and file management system, but it has the potential to revolutionize the way people, businesses and governments store, share and access files. With this system now at hand, it’s no longer necessary for individuals or groups to buy highly expensive equipment to save sensitive files, applications and [...]
Take your app security with you to the cloud
Great article from Bill Pennington Cloud computing is becoming a fundamental part of information technology. Nearly every enterprise is evaluating or deploying cloud solutions. Even as business managers turn to the cloud to reduce costs, streamline staff, and increase efficiencies, they remain wary about the security of their applications. Many companies express concern about turning [...]
How Cloud Computing Changes IT Staffs
A good friend who spent years selling to CIOs once commented about CIO priorities “They can only focus on three big things, and two of them are budgets and people, so don’t expect that it’s easy making your widget a top priority within the organization.” There’s a lot of wisdom in Abbie’s and my friend’s [...]
Ireland could create 8,600 jobs with cloud computing adoption
Thousands of IT jobs could be created in Ireland if the country takes advantage of the rise in cloud computing, according to a new report published by Microsoft. Around 8,600 new roles may be generated if Ireland acts now to be a part an industry that could be worth around 40 billion euros (£34.22 billion) [...]
IBM slated To Build Asia’s Largest Cloud Computing Data Center
International Business Machines’ ever-expanding cloud computing services will continue development in Asia. The company announced it is collaborating with Range Technology Development, out of China, to build a state of the art cloud computing data center in Langfang City in Hebei province. It will be the largest cloud computing center in Asia, says IBM. “This [...]
Speculation is rampant that Microsoft Server Chief was fired over Cloud Strategy
This is getting interesting to watch. The latest speculation about Microsoft and Azure… Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer may have dismissed Bob Muglia from his role as head of the company’s $15 billion Server and Tools Business unit because he felt Muglia was not the right individual to lead Redmond into the cloud computing age, according [...]
SAP Moves Emissions Reporting to the Cloud
SAP has begun the first of what is anticipated to become an ever-growing migration of reporting mechanisms to a cloud platform. With its newly launched version 5.0 of SAP Carbon Impact OnDemand, which reports carbon emissions, the software company is positioning the product at a lower cost and at various scales. SAP is using Amazon’s [...]
Cloud Computing Buyer Beware
By David F Carr Jon West figured he couldn’t lose by going to Rackspace for hosting. “I’d heard all about the ‘fanatical support,’ and blah, blah, blah,” he says. Also, this cloud computing thing seemed to be pretty hot–instant scalability on demand and pay-as-you-go pricing. But for West, at least, the Rackspace Cloud turned out [...]
U.S. army takes cloud computing to Afghanistan
TAMPA — The U.S. military is taking cloud computing into rugged terrain in Afghanistan, where according to Lt. Gen. Richard Zahner, the basic hardware and software technology is being packed into mobile boxes that later this year will start to play a key role in networking for soldiers in the sky and on the ground. [...]
Is Oracle the Cloud Computing Leader?
Over the years, Oracle has transformed its business through acquisitions. As part of this strategy, it has become a dominant player in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, which manages the core accounting and financials of a company. ERP is not necessarily a growth business — at least for the large market segment — but it [...]
Asian Cloud Computing fueled by lack of legacy IT
Integrating Cloud Computing solutions with existing legacy enterprise systems is not a trivial challenge. The amount of legacy IT in the West presents an opportunity for China and other developing Asian countries to deploy Cloud Computing more aggressively, according to many discussions at a recent Cloud get-together in Shanghai that featured speakers and attendees from [...]
Trusted Computing Group eyes cloud security framework
The Trusted Computing Group Monday announced a working group aimed at publishing an open standards framework for cloud computing security that could serve as a blueprint for service providers, their customers and vendors building security products. Known as the Trusted Multi-Tenant Infrastructure Work Group, there are about 50 TCG members participating, including HP, IBM, AMD [...]
Customers still dont fully get Cloud Computing
One of the more interesting Cloud Computing articles I have read from ZDNET. Seems like most customers don’t really understand or appreciate the full benefits of Cloud Computing. It was pretty funny to read and I fully recommend: In a research note posted today, Gartner distinguished analyst John Pescatore said many corporate customers he’s talked [...]
What’s a Hybrid Cloud
Hybrid clouds are the Big Foot of cloud computing: tantalizing but difficult to conceive of and frustratingly elusive to the point of arousing deep skepticism on the part of potentially interested parties. Are they real or a myth? The public cloud is more and more a fact of life. Indeed, public cloud computing snuck in [...]
Deloitte says Security an area of concern in cloud computing
Even as an increasing number of Indian firms look at embracing cloud computing, data security continues to remain a primary concern for them, said research firm Deloitte. Cloud computing allows companies to use services, softwares and applications on a pay-per-use model without actually owning any hardware infrastructure or licence. This helps companies save on setting [...]
Salesforce’s Chatter for the enterprise
Salesforce.com on Tuesday said that its Chatter corporate social networking platform is now generally available. For existing customers, Chatter is free as a new feature. The company has a Chatter-only option for $15 a month for each user. Chatter takes the best features of Facebook and Twitter and integrates them into the enterprise. According to [...]
Salesforce's Chatter for the enterprise
Salesforce.com on Tuesday said that its Chatter corporate social networking platform is now generally available. For existing customers, Chatter is free as a new feature. The company has a Chatter-only option for $15 a month for each user. Chatter takes the best features of Facebook and Twitter and integrates them into the enterprise. According to [...]
Guest Post: Measuring the Adoption of Cloud Computing
***This is a guest blog post by David Kelleher on behalf of GFI Software. The views in this post do not necessarily reflect the opinions of CloudComputingZone.com. If you are would like to guest blog for us, use our contact form and send us your submission*** By many accounts, cloud computing has become the next [...]
Smartphones are the Cloud’s Secret Ingredient
A new survey reveals that many experts feel that cloud computing and smartphones go together like vodka and Red Bull. What does that mean for IT managers? Fasten your seat belts, we’re in for a bumpy ride. The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life project recently conducted the fourth iteration of its “Future of [...]
Microsoft betting that India will lead the world in Cloud Computing
NEW DELHI: Microsoft Corp sees India as the global hub for cloud computing, the concept of renting computing power that has taken the technology world by storm and in the words of the NYT, what Silicon Valley cannot seem to get its head out of. “India will not only see a surge in cloud computing [...]
Microsoft wins contract for cloud computing with University of Arizona
The University of Arizona at Tuscon – the state’s flagship university – recently announced that it has awarded Microsoft with its contract to handle the school’s planned shift to cloud computing. Starting next fall, the school’s students and faculty will use Microsoft’s Business Productivity Suite in place of their current email system. Both students and [...]
Software as a Service in Nigeria?
Cool article from the Nigerian Inquirer about software as a service from yours truly: This is the first of a multi-part series of tech articles I am writing for the Nigerian Inquirer. I would like to discuss some technology solutions that I believe would be appropriate and timely for Nigeria today. I was originally going [...]
8 Ways to Measure Cloud ROI
CIO – An initiative from The Open Group has developed a set of key considerations for how to build and measure return on investment (ROI) for cloud computing initiatives from a business perspective. By examining the benefits cloud computing offers organizations and showing the potential return it can provide from the beginning, companies may find [...]
