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 There are a variety of applications that support numerous business lines across an enterprise. These applications exhibit a wide range of operational characteristics as they service the diverse business demands. That diversity is the key to business success, but it has consequences. As...Nov. 20, 2009 01:00 PM EST Reads: 294 |
 "The more I look at what they've done, the more I realize they've built a business platform more than a technology platform," said Sam Ramji, Vice President of Strategy at Sonoa Systems, as it was announced today that MindTouch, the open source alternative to Microsoft SharePoint, has ...Nov. 20, 2009 07:45 AM EST Reads: 456 |
 Mezeo Software launched the Cloud Storage Strategy monthly newsletter. Sponsored by Mezeo, the Cloud Storage Strategy newsletter and blog focus on Cloud Storage insights and observations from industry thought leaders. The Business Model Toolkit helps Service Providers assess the benef...Nov. 18, 2009 03:15 PM EST Reads: 570 |
 Trusted by Fortune 500 multinationals and national governments, Astadia's rigorous engagement methodology was developed over two decades of experience with transformational client projects. Many firms claim that customers can save money merely by moving applications to the cloud. Astad...Nov. 18, 2009 02:00 PM EST Reads: 414 |
 OpSource announced three innovative OpSource Cloud partner programs that offer incentives, discounts and easy technology on-ramps for individuals and companies of all sizes looking to enter the lucrative cloud computing space. Available for online purchase by the hour from www.opsource...Nov. 18, 2009 12:15 PM EST Reads: 494 |
 Here’s my premise: high impact, culture-bending technological innovations – however different they may be one from another – conform to a predictable template of evolution. It goes something like this... Break-thru - The point of entry at which a technology breaks onto the market scen...Nov. 16, 2009 07:00 PM EST Reads: 684 |
 Recently I asked a question on twitter, one I figured would stir up some debate. (Which was the point) The question was "Does the CTO matter any more with the rise of Cloud Computing or is it all about the CIO with data reigning supreme?"Nov. 13, 2009 11:00 AM EST Reads: 529 |
 Amazon Web Services LLC, the company’s cloud arm, figures to push into Asia-Pacific in the first half of next year, so businesses can deploy its EC2 compute and S3 storage resources closer to their end users there to minimize latency and increase performance.
It said software devel...Nov. 12, 2009 08:02 AM EST Reads: 304 |
 SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, held on November 2 – 4, 2009, in Santa Clara, attracted more than 50 sponsors with over 2,200 delegates, a record attendance. The three content-packed days emphasized value with a rich array of sessions led by exceptional s...Nov. 10, 2009 10:00 PM EST Reads: 2,484 |
 Cloud Expo is the new PC Expo, Comdex or InternetWorld, and will be the next global IT event for the decade starting with 2010. This year's West Coast conference had 1,700 pre-registered delegates on the Friday before the conference opened. More than 500 additional registrations came i...Nov. 10, 2009 02:15 PM EST Reads: 1,751 |
 There is so much waste in the data centers of Fortune 1000 companies today that a CIO – as an officer of the company – could be considered in breach of their fiduciary duty to stockholders given the dollars in question. Of course that requires costs transparency, so sadly most are saf...Nov. 7, 2009 06:00 PM EST Reads: 441 |
 The company says “extensive collaboration with large enterprise beta customers, such as Comviva, Host Europe, NTT Communications, Qualcomm and Swisscom, resulted in enhanced product capabilities designed to meet enterprise requirements for deploying and managing heterogeneous virtualiz...Nov. 6, 2009 05:00 PM EST Reads: 723 |
 Organizations who wish to use Cloud services in conjunction with their own SOA and those of their partners face major issues related to reliability and trustworthiness. One significant challenge is aggregating services from multiple domains including Public, Private and Community Cloud...Nov. 5, 2009 12:15 PM EST Reads: 660 |
 At the Cloud Computing Conference and Expo in Santa Clara, California, the opening keynote session venue was completely filled, with the organizer (SYS-CON Events) obliged to quickly expand the audience into two overflow rooms, in addition to mounting displays in hallways adjacent to t...Nov. 4, 2009 01:15 PM EST Reads: 654 |
 The Vitality Group announced that Savvis, Inc. has selected its incentive-based wellness program to motivate and support Savvis associates as they take ownership of their personal health. Savvis, one of the largest IP network and hosting providers in the world employs more than 2,200 e...Nov. 4, 2009 01:15 PM EST Reads: 567 |
 The zebra in this analogy is the private cloud, where corporate IT departments feel safe controlling everything internally, and not risking exposure to the perceived tigers "out there" in the public cloud arena. But Tejada stated that in the end, large-scale IT initiatives always conce...Nov. 4, 2009 12:45 PM EST Reads: 838 |
 "With cloud computing, price to deploy applications goes through the floor while flexibility to scale those applications goes through the ceiling!" says WaveMaker CEO Chris Keene, in this lively round-up of The State of Cloud Computing compiled and published by Conference Chair Jeremy ...Nov. 3, 2009 07:15 AM EST Reads: 5,032 Replies: 1 |
 What is a cloud computing platform? Is it simply automated provisioning systems coupled with a resource virtualization, where the workload is policy driven, and resources over committed and any resource contention handled by policy driven resolution? As it turns out technologies that p...Oct. 28, 2009 09:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,078 |
 This post is part of a series examining the issues involved when moving applications between internal data centers and public clouds. The true challenges in storage and data management in the cloud result from the diverse and often unfamiliar processes and infrastr... Oct. 28, 2009 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 675 |
 What is enterprise cloud computing? Simply stated, it’s a behind-the-firewalls use of commercial, Internet-based cloud technologies specifically focused on one company’s or one business environment’s computing needs. Enterprise cloud computing is a controlled, internal place that offe...Oct. 27, 2009 08:30 PM EDT Reads: 924 |
 We are standing on the threshold of a new transition in information technology and communications; a radical departure from current practice that promises to bring us new levels of efficiency at a vastly reduced cost. Cloud computing is full of potential, bursting with opportunity and ...Oct. 26, 2009 07:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,119 |
 Voice-Insight (http://www.voice-insight.com ) was at the show and was demonstrating and talking about some of its technology and some of their R&D projects. Voice-Insight is not necessarily focusing on SOA or services; most of their appeal comes from integration to other technologies.V...Oct. 25, 2009 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 635 |
 "We believe that cloud is an important trend that we will support. We have two objectives. The first is to ensure that cloud computing is fully enterprise grade, meaning high performance, scalability, reliability, availability, security and standards-based for portability and interoper...Oct. 22, 2009 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,443 Replies: 1 |
 Cloud Computing is the most important trend in the IT Industry. Even the biggest critics seem to agree that – in spite of some over-zealous marketeers – Cloud Computing is one of the most important paradigm shifts of the past decades. But what is it all about? Where did it come from? A...Oct. 22, 2009 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,540 Replies: 2 |
 "Virtualization requires massive volume to be profitable. Cloud computing will enable that massive volume." With succinct sound bites like that, it is not surprising that Barry X Lynn, CEO of 3Tera, is much in demand as a speaker at conferences devoted to Cloud & Virtualization. In thi...Oct. 19, 2009 05:07 AM EDT Reads: 2,927 |
 While acknowledging that lots of work is currently being done to differentiate and integrate private and public cloud solutions, Microsoft Architect David Chou believes that Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) is the area of Cloud Computing that will make its impact most noticeably in 2...Oct. 19, 2009 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,441 |
 What’s really positive is that the top-down service perspective that says virtualization is great, but the end point is the service. On top of that virtualization, what do I need to do to take it to the next level? And, for many people now, that next level they are looking at is the cl...Oct. 18, 2009 04:22 PM EDT Reads: 473 |
 Only one publication in the world has been tracking Cloud Computing 24x7 since December 6, 2006, when we first mentioned the concept in an article: Cloud Computing Journal. Since then worldwide interest in the Cloud paradigm of massively scalable IT resources and capabilities delivered...Oct. 18, 2009 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,331 |
 I think language is a big issue here. I've always found it interesting that in German, the words for "security" and "certainty" (sicherheit, literally "sureness") are the same. In French, the words for "safety" and "security" are also the same (sûreté, again literally "sureness"). So, ...Oct. 15, 2009 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,962 |
 Should Services be nouns or verbs? It's possible to design Services either way, as Entity Services, which predictably represent business entities, or as Task Services, that represent specific actions that implement some step in a process, in other words, verbs. Which approach is better...Oct. 14, 2009 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 594 |
 SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Journal announced today that the voting in its first annual Cloud Computing Readers' Choice Awards is now open. Voting will end October 23, 2009, and winners will be announced the week of November 2-4, 2009. To vote for your favorite Cloud products and service...Oct. 14, 2009 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,748 |
 The popularity of the concepts around cloud computing have caught many IT departments off-guard. While business and financial leaders have become enamored of the expected economic and agility payoffs from cloud models, IT planners often lack structured plans or even a rudimentary roadm...Oct. 9, 2009 05:45 PM EDT Reads: 616 |
 "I believe commercial solutions - whether its Google’s cloud or Amazon’s web services - may be perfect for many companies. But some corporations and government agencies are not going to be comfortable outsourcing their information and services to the Internet-based cloud," said Jill Tu...Oct. 9, 2009 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,248 Replies: 1 |
 How can you manage the cloud so you – and your data – sleep safe and secure? In a Live Webcast and Interview from Times Square today October 8, Sam Gross, vice president, Global Information Technology Outsourcing Solutions, Unisys Corporation, will answer these questions and more. SYS-...Oct. 8, 2009 06:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,335 |
 Doing more with less is a familiar refrain for IT professionals, and today’s challenging business environment has only increased the pressure on managers to achieve efficiencies, maximize performance and improve responsiveness of the data center. More and more frequently, IT is turning...Oct. 2, 2009 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,842 |
 Getting a feel for the pulse of Cloud Computing can be a difficult endeavor. According to recent Google search trends "Cloud Computing" is at an all time high in terms of raw search queries. This has also been confirmed by an...Oct. 1, 2009 08:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,094 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that Eric Baldeschwieler, VP Hadoop Software Development at Yahoo!, will be presenting at SYS-CON’s 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo in Santa Clara, CA, this coming November 2 – 4, 2009. His session is entitled “Hadoop @ Yahoo - Interne...Sep. 30, 2009 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 4,603 |
 The USPS services seem to be deployed as a SaaS model, accessed through a browser. As yet there do not seem to be managed PaaS APIs available (or are there?) which can be pulled into other applications, for example iPhone apps. Of course, right now it's easy to co-opt the Web interface...Sep. 30, 2009 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 397 |
 Why is cloud computing relevant today from an economic, business and technology standpoint? What are some potential benefits – and pitfalls – of moving to the cloud? What should you look for in a cloud computing provider to ensure the security of your data and applications? And above a...Sep. 29, 2009 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,147 |
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