Category: Strategy
IEEE works towards cloud interoperability standards.
The IEEE on Monday launched a cloud computing initiative that seeks to set standards for cloud interoperability. To this end, the organization has announced two working groups, under the chairmanship of David Bernstein. One group P2301, is chartered to draft a standard for establishing portability, or the ability of a workload sent to one cloud [...]
VMware acquires EMC’s Mozy
VMware is expanding its presence in the cloud computing market with the acquisition of EMC’s Mozy cloud-based data protection service. The deal was announced Monday by VMWare’s CTO Steve Herrod. According to a blog by Herrod, “VMware will operate the Mozy service on behalf of EMC without interruption”. No financial figures were mentioned for the [...]
Lesser Known Threats Of Cloud Computing
Security has been one of the major stumbling blocks which has prevented cloud computing from achieving wide acceptance from the business community. Threats in offsite infrastructure are vastly different from the ones that you encounter in traditional onsite management facilities. Different approaches that would involve both vendors and buyers need to be employed when dealing [...]
IBM announces $38 million data center in Singapore
IBM has announced that it will build a new $38 million datacenter in Singapore to provide cloud computing solutions and services to businesses in India. The new data center is scheduled for launch in April, and will deploy IBM’s cloud services and technology portfolio, according to a statement from the technology giant. The new datacenter [...]
Rackspace, Equinix and Dell form partnership to deploy OpenStack cloud platform
Rackspace, Equinix, and Dell on Wednesday announced a partnership to offer an OpenStack demonstration and test environment to customers. This test environment will enable the customers move cloud assets between data centers in different regions, and will be the first implementation of geographically dispersed data centers running OpenStack. In making the announcement, Vince DiMemmo, Equinix [...]
HP’s Apotheker pushes company’s new growth strategy
At the Tuesday AlwaysON OnDemand conference at their headquarters, Hewlett-Packard Chief Executive Leo Apotheker continued to outline his strategy to outperform rivals including IBM and Oracle. HP intends to increase its involvement in the rapidly expanding cloud computing market by running next-generation data centers for large enterprise customers. According to Apotheker, his goal is “to [...]
Cloud Computing model cannibalizes traditional vendor revenue streams
The marketplace has witnessed a burgeoning demand for cloud computing as companies seek out computer infrastructure, software and storage to be provided as a utility service. With the market for cloud computing services growing rapidly, vendors face the challenge of reworking their revenue models so as not to lose profits to the new paradigm. However [...]
Close to forty percent of small businesses planning cloud computing – Microsoft.
According to Microsoft, 39 percent of small businesses intend to buy one or more cloud computing services over the next three years. This is a conclusion from Microsoft’s third annual worldwide study into how small and medium businesses plan to use cloud-based resources in the next three years. The study indicates that SME’s will [...]
Is Box.net The Facebook Of Cloud computing?
A relatively new player in the cloud computing business, Box.net, is making big waves these days, with many drawing parallels between the company and Facebook. Like the most popular social networking site in the world, Box.net is the brainchild of a college dropout, 26-year old Aaron Levie, who was previously enrolled in the University of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
