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Cloud Computing: Effectively Changing The Business Operation Model
May 17 2013 - Forbes
By: Michael Goodenough
Cloud computing technologies are ubiquitous. While not exactly new technologies, the speed with which they’re transforming business models and efficiencies seem to have accelerated over the past few years. The reason for the transformation depends on how the business operates and its specific needs, but there are some major trends that have emerged.
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Tech Stocks Woes: Cloud Shift Hurting IT Spending
May 17 2013 - Investors.com
By: REINHARDT KRAUSE
Worries that cloud computing services are taking IT spending away from "old guard" hardware and networking companies has been a drag on tech stocks, says Barclays in a report.
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Cloud Still No Match For Organizational Inertia, Survey Finds
May 16 2013 - Forbes
By: Joe McKendrick
Sorry, but it turns out cloud computing is not the cure-all for organizational screw-ups. Despite the incredible efficiencies cloud computing introduces, the laws of nature — and organizational inertia — still prevail
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Cloud Computing: Making that Lining Silver
May 16 2013 - The Epoch Times
By: David McLaughlin
Although cloud computing was once touted as the solution to business IT issues everywhere, the pace of adoption of on-demand services has been lukewarm at best.
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Cloud Computing And The Integration Quagmire
May 15 2013 - Forbes
By: Bob Evans,
While cloud computing’s popularity as a powerful and transformational business tool is soaring, some companies have been frustrated with cloud apps procured from multiple vendors requiring extensive integration that has dragged out time to value, stunted innovation initiatives, and reinforced the very silos those cloud apps were intended to break down, a new survey has found.
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The Cloud Is Killing The PC, And Giving It New Life
May 15 2013 - Cloudtweaks.com
By: Pete Knight
The personal computer industry has certainly slumped, but these are dynamic companies. It is probably unwise to write them off because of a slump. Looking at the reasons for the slump is instructive. Some believe that the market is being lost to mobile and cloud applications. This school of thought holds that the newer, smaller, and faster technology has rendered the PC obsolete.
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Does your cloud vendor protect your rights?
May 14 2013 - Computerworld.com
By: Thomas J. Trappler
From time to time, organizations are asked to provide access to data for legal reasons. Those requests can be more complicated when the data is in the cloud. But a new report sheds some light on one critical aspect of such requests.
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Count Them on One Hand: 5 Steps to Improving Your IT Operations in the Cloud
May 14 2013 - Data Center Journal
By: Richard Seroter
When Eric Clapton sang, “It’s in the way that you use it,” he might have been singing about making IT operate effectively in the cloud. Cloud computing is a technological phenomenon, but one must tackle a number of operational challenges if the goal is to make money—or save money—with the cloud. IT managers who are tasked with implementing a cloud strategy to help business units achieve their objectives are finding that seemingly small operational decisions can result in handsome gains in IT efficiency. It’s no accident that Clapton’s song was on The Color of Money soundtrack. Getting the business benefit of the cloud has a lot to do with being operationally smart. Here
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Who Are Cloud Providers And Cloud Consumers? Depends On Whom You Ask
May 14 2013 - Forbes
By: Joe McKendrick
The cloud is forcing enterprises and vendors alike to reconsider what business they are in. And for many enterprises, the growth of private cloud capabilities puts them only a step away from becoming cloud solutions providers themselves.
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Is A Private Cloud Really A Cloud?
May 09 2013 - Cloudtweaks.com
By: Abdul
We essentially have two implementation models for cloud computing: the Public cloud, what people call the real cloud, and the Private cloud, which is an implementation of the same elements and infrastructure of a Public cloud on a private level. There are a lot of arguments to be made here but let’s take things at face value. The words private and public are already biased, and private clouds were actually made because people wanted to be more secure with their data.
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Corporate Crackdown on Rogue Clouds has Begun, Survey Suggests
May 08 2013 - Forbes
By: Joe McKendrick
Has a corporate crackdown on rogue cloud adoption begun? That’s the view of authors of a new survey of 234 North American corporate IT professionals, which finds growing alarm over adoption of outside computing services by employees.
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The Cloud: Perceptions, Preconceptions, and Performance
May 08 2013 - Futuregov.asia
By: Sumedha Jalote
Analysts and experts examining the field of government technology and innovation identify the emergence of cloud computing to be a major trend in government transformation. However, from the discussions I participated in during FutureGov Forum Singapore 2013, it was clear that the concerns most government departments have about cloud computing have not changed, and remain common across departments and even countries!
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10 Ways Cloud Computing Is Revolutionizing Manufacturing
May 07 2013 - Forbes
By: Louis Columbus
The best manufacturers I’ve visited this year all share a common attribute: they are obsessed with making themselves as easy as possible to work with from a supply chain, distribution and services standpoint. Many are evaluating cloud-based manufacturing applications including Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and several have adopted cloud-based applications across their companies.
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Thinking It Over: 5 Ways IT Shops Can Manage Cloud Costs
May 07 2013 - Data Center Journal
By: Richard Seroter
On his classic 1950s TV show, the immortal Jack Benny once replied to a mugger—who said, “This is a stickup. Now come on. Your money or your life…”—by saying “I’m thinking it over!” Jack Benny would have been a great IT operations manager. Another time, when told “You’re gonna give us $10,000, or we’re gonna break both your legs,” he replied, “Does it have to be both?” Faced with seeming life-or-death financial decisions, the seasoned IT manager knows that the correct answer is seldom the easy one. Some evolving practices in the cloud, however, are making it a bit easier to deliver outstanding cloud-based IT while managing costs. Below, we’ve listed five simple tactics to help IT shops achieve more from their cloud spend.
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Indian Public Cloud Services Mkt To Reach $443 Mn In 2013: Gartner
May 06 2013 - Biztech2.com
By: Biztech2.com Staff
The public cloud services market in India is forecast to grow 36 percent in 2013 to total $443 million, up from $326 million in 2012, according to Gartner, Inc. Infrastructure as a service (IaaS), including cloud compute, storage and print services, continues as the fastest-growing segment of the market in India, growing 22.7 percent in 2012 to $43.1 million, and it is expected to grow 39.6 percent in 2013 to $60.2 million.
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Cloud And Clear
May 06 2013 - CRN
By: Dhaval Valia
The cloud is landing on the earth. After almost three years of euphoria and hype, cloud computing is finally entering the reality phase. The forecast for cloud computing adoption in India is resounding. Zinnov Consulting puts the total size of the Indian cloud market at $4.5 billion by 2015 which would be almost 12 percent of the projected IT market in the country by then. This market was only $110 million in 2010, suggesting exponential growth.
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How Cloud Computing Has Empowered The End User
May 06 2013 - Data Center Knowledge
By: Bill Kleyman
Until the last couple of years, organizations have been focusing technologies around corporate efficiency, growth capabilities and the ability for business continuity. Of course, these are all still important. However, with the advancements around cloud computing, WAN technologies and virtualization, a new trend has begun to emerge. Because of cloud computing and IT consumerization, there is now a distinct focus on the end user.
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Powering Up the Cloud
May 01 2013 - The New York Times
By: QUENTIN HARDY
A new product from one of Silicon Valley’s legendary engineers also says a lot about where the industry is going. On Wednesday, Arista Networks, a maker of very fast computer networking equipment, announced a data switch that can move outputs of 10 gigabits per second as well as ones that are four and 10 times that speed. At the fast end, that is more than enough to transmit two high-definition movies a second, from each of 96 ports, or data outlets, on a single switch. A few years ago, 1 gigabit per second was considered lightning-fast.
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How cloud is reinventing the IT department
May 01 2013 - Computerworld
By: Rohan Pearce
Gartner predicts that by 2016, public cloud spending in Australia will reach US$5.2 billion. The analyst firm is forecasting that Australian spending on public cloud will reach US$3.2 billion this year, representing a growth rate in excess of 23 per cent. It puts Australia ahead of the global average of 18.5 per cent growth for 2013.
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Five Questions Boards of Directors Need to Ask About Cloud Governance
May 01 2013 - Herald Online
By: ISACA
The many benefits of cloud computing include helping enterprises become more efficient, agile, innovative and flexible, but achieving those benefits depends on a number of factors, including the involvement of the board of directors. ISACA, a nonprofit, independent association of more than 100,000 governance, risk, security and assurance professionals worldwide, has issued new guidance outlining key questions for boards of directors to ask to ensure their enterprise’s cloud initiative is in line with business objectives and the organization’s risk tolerance.
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Healthcare and The Cloud
May 01 2013 - The Financial
By: Melissa Jun Rowley
If ever there was an industry in need of higher quality for less money, it’s the healthcare sector. In addition to the demand to improve operational efficiency, healthcare service providers are increasingly facing competition, which is putting the pressure on to do more for less. This is where cloud computing proves to be beneficial. According to the “Healthcare Cloud Computing” forecast, the cloud computing market in healthcare is expected to be worth $5.4 billion by 2017.
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How Big is Cloud's Impact? Depends On Who's Asking
April 29 2013 - Network World
By: Brandon Butler
Is cloud computing really catching on in the enterprise? Well, that depends on who you talk to, recent surveys have found. RightScale, a company that acts a broker between end users and public cloud service providers, released the most recent results of its annual State of the Cloud report and found that about 75% of respondents surveyed were using the cloud in some capacity.
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Colleges reluctant to avail cloud computing facility
April 29 2013 - TNN
By: Ashish Gaur
Although free, many technical colleges in the city are yet to introduce the AICTE's (All India Council for Technical Education) cloud computing facility. Out of nearly 45-50 colleges, only two have adopted the facility.
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The great cloud governance grab of 2013
April 29 2013 - InfoWorld
By: David Linthicum
CA is buying Layer 7 for its API management and governance capabilities. And Intel is buying Mashery, another API management provider. Furthermore, Mulesoft just received a fifth round of VC funding, to the tune of $37 million, for its API management capabilities.
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4 Game Changing Trends Coming to Cloud Computing
April 29 2013 - Cloud Times
By: Erik Grueter
Cloud computing is set for a number of big shakeups this year. The big story is in the effect these changes will have on smaller businesses. Public clouds that can be accessed cheaply and without a big IT overhead are likely to be chosen by small, developer friendly companies. Big data is also more accessible than ever thanks to new analytics and data mining technologies.
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Cloud Computing Changes IT for Good and Bad
April 29 2013 - Windows IT Pro
By: B. K. Winstead
Whether your organization is jumping full force into cloud computing or hanging back and assessing options carefully before deciding if the cloud can benefit your organization, there's no question that IT shops are being changed by the industry's drive toward cloud delivery. However, it's equally clear that not every change is for the best. The challenge for IT pros is to find the cloud computing models that can aid your organization without sacrificing data security, organizational efficiency, and business productivity.
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Latest US research shows proliferation of hybrid clouds
April 19 2013 - Cloud Computing News
By: James Bourne
A survey of over 800 US-based IT decision makers from Virtustream in conjunction with independent cloud research firm Neovise has revealed that over half of US enterprise are using cloud computing in one form or another.
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Cloud computing gives small businesses a 106% productivity boost: Study
April 16 2013 - Smart Company
By: MICHELLE HAMMOND
Small businesses that use cloud computing were 106% more likely to see a revenue rise in the past year, according to new MYOB research, although only 16% actually use cloud computing in their business. These figures are from the March 2013 MYOB Business Monitor, which is based on a survey of 1005 SMEs, from sole traders to mid-sized companies, across major industry sectors.
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Cloud Computing Gets Deeper and More Strategic, Survey Shows
April 16 2013 - Forbes
By: Joe McKendrick
Close to two-fifths of organizations now run private clouds in one form or another, and one- fourth are using public cloud services in an enterprise capacity. Private clouds are being extended deeper into the organizations that have them — a majority expect to be running most of their workloads in the cloud within the next 12 months, especially Platform as a Service middleware. In addition, close to one-third of public cloud users report they are employing hosted services to run their private clouds for them.
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The Cloud Hits the Mainstream: More than Half of U.S. Businesses Now Use Cloud Computing
April 16 2013 - Forbes
By: Reuven Cohen
If you’ve attended a technology conference over the last couple years it’s hard to avoid the obvious buzz around cloud computing. Almost every vendor has applied the term to anything and everything imaginable. During this time there has been some debate over the level of adoption outside of the startup scene, specifically within the larger “enterprise class” of companies. We’re now at a point where most “new software” created, is created with the Internet as a central tenant. It’s how modern software is developed, deployed and consumed. Yes. The cloud has gone mainstream.
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Making cloud computing cost models work for you
April 16 2013 - Search Cloud Computing
By: Christine Cignoli
Cloud computing has changed the cost and budget equation for many businesses, and IT managers can get a better understanding of where the money goes -- and get more for their cloud money -- if they keep a watchful eye on the numbers.
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Cloud computing templates give IT teams control
April 16 2013 - Search Cloud Computing
By: Christine Cignoli
Cloud computing templates offer IT a way to customize and standardize cloud builds while removing some of the guesswork. In general, cloud computing templates help IT teams keep some control over their cloud technology, according to Mark Szynaka, founder of consultancy CloudeBroker, who spoke on the topic at the Modern Infrastructure Decisions conference here on April 11.
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The Middle East: Big News for Cloud Computing
April 16 2013 - Business2Community
By: Matthew Ramsey
Cloud adoption is now indeed a worldwide phenomenon. You are most likely aware of the pressure IT decision makers have in choosing the most reliable and cost-efficient solutions on the market. The economic climate of the past few years has aided the explosion of cloud technology. Enterprises in the United States, however, are not the only ones now looking to outsource their IT infrastructure and take advantage of hosted and managed services.
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Selling-at-a-Loss: Why the Cloud Is Threatened By Unprofitability
April 15 2013 - Minyanville
By: André Mouton
2012 was a great year for the cloud. The industry grew by over 20%, hosting providers like Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) and Rackspace (NYSE:RAX) continued to build out their networks... and cloud software companies lost more money than ever.
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Good News for Companies Making the Move to Cloud Computing
April 15 2013 - Sacramento Bee
By: Inspector Jones
PERTH, Australia, April 15, 2013 -- /PRNewswire/ -- InspectorJones.com is a new service for enterprise customers to find the right cloud vendors. Based on expert IT analysis, Inspector Jones gives companies a way to weed through the thousands of cloud options and get straight to the best – the enterprise-grade vendors with a track-record of delivery, good features, and strong security.
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Mobile Video Editing Builds Momentum in the Cloud
April 15 2013 - What's Your Tech
By: Lee Rickwood
Home videos are moving from the computer desktop to the smartphone, and Hollywood films from the post-production studio to the cloud. Moving from iMovie to WeVideo and beyond, there are now video creation tools for absolute beginners and experienced professionals in the cloud, and a range of browser-based editing tools that run on computers and mobile devices.
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Channel Chiefs: 12 Tips For Taking On The Cloud
April 15 2013 - CRN
By: Rick Whiting
Cloud computing -- and how solution providers can add these services to their offerings -- was a key topic during the Channel Chief Roundtable at the XChange Solution Provider event in Orlando, Fla., last month.
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Use Cloud Hosting to Grow Your Website
April 15 2013 - Business2Community
By: Mun Yin Liu
In today’s world, your website should work. Plain and simple, it should be accessible at all hours of the day, and should load quicker than the time you need to even think about it. This combination of reliability, speed and durability can be easily achieved with a little bit of help from good quality cloud hosting.
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Your cloud computing SLA can't be a marketing gimmick
April 15 2013 - TechTarget
By: Kara Deyermenjian
Every industry is guilty of perpetuating some kind of marketing gimmick, but it's in a cloud provider's best interest to ensure that its service-level agreement (SLA) isn't one of them.
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Cloud Technology: Taking Your Company To A Brighter Future
April 15 2013 - CloudTweaks
By: Artem Kuprin
Cloud computing is a technology that we have heard about many times but not realized that we have been using it in our daily routine. The reason for this is that we do not what cloud technology exactly is. Cloud technology includes the usage of a cloud which is a place where all devices are connected so that access can be gained from anywhere.
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Cloud computing reaches tipping point, survey shows
April 04 2013 - Irish Independent
By: Independent
Cloud computing has reached a "tipping point", according to a new survey of Irish IT resellers. The survey from industry magazine 'Irish Computer', in association with Let's Operate, found 85pc of IT specialists had customers who have enquired over the last 12 months whether they should be using cloud services. And 87pc expect increased interest and enquiries from customers over the next year.
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How Storage is Shaping The Cloud Data Center
April 04 2013 - Data Center Knowledge
By: Bill Kleyman
Several converging trends, such as IT consumerization, increased number of users, more devices and a lot more data, have pushed the storage environment to a new level. Now, these new technologies aren’t only driving the cloud — they’re pushing forward all of the technologies that support cloud computing. At the epicenter of the cloud sits the data center. This is the central point where all information is gathered, and then distributed to other data centers or to the end- user.
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Demand for Cloud IT careers on the rise – DataOne exec
April 04 2013 - Tempo
By: Online
Cloud computing technology is poised to revolutionize not just how businesses and the government use information technology (IT), but will also potentially shape the country’s work
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Cloud providers working with big data
April 04 2013 - ZDNet
By: Phil Wainewright
What does big data mean for cloud providers? This is the topic under discussion at a EuroCloud UK meeting next week. This blog post is both a reflection on the topic as well as a taster for the event itself, which has an interesting and knowledgeable line-up of speakers — more details on that below [disclosure: I'm chair of EuroCloud UK, so I do have a vested interest in the success of the event].
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Cloud one of the five IT “game-changers” in latest survey
April 04 2013 - Cloud Computing News
By: James Bourne
Communications provider CommScope has released a report, entitled the 2013 Global Enterprise Survey, to assess which aspects of IT were changing the paradigm for organisations around the world – and found that cloud computing and enterprise mobility were the biggest tickets on the list.
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Revisiting cloud computing: how has it changed – and changed us?
March 27 2013 - Gizmag
By: Will Shanklin
We take a step back and look at how cloud computing has changed us since going from buzzword to everyday life.
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Hackers follow business shift to cloud computing
March 27 2013 - ABC Australia
By: Jake Sturmer
Security experts warn cloud computing in Australia is becoming an increasingly appealing target for hackers as businesses rapidly take up the technology. Tapping the online cloud is fast becoming the service mode of choice for many big Australian businesses, with nearly half of them using the technology.
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Number of issues need to be resolved before cloud computing trend takes off
March 27 2013 - BDLive
By: JENNIGAY COETZER
WITH all the hype in the market about cloud at present, there are still many concerns to be addressed before this trend gathers serious momentum at all levels.
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Security Fears Give Way to Economics as Cloud Computing Grows
March 27 2013 - Bloomberg
By: Jordan Robertson
Stuart McClure has simple advice for companies that want to put their data in the cloud: Don't do it. When it comes to security, the former chief technology officer of McAfee said choosing a safe service can be like "picking a dog with the least fleas."
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Cloud Computing: Challenge For Financial Firms?
March 27 2013 - Forbes
By: Emma Byrne
Cloud computing is not as disruptive as many organizations feared. Using a cloud provider has come as naturally to most organizations as using webmail. But for the financial sector, international laws make life—shall we say—challenging. Here’s why.
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Spanning Cloud Apps Secures $6 Million in Funding
March 26 2013 - Talkin' Cloud
By: Chris Talbot
Spanning Cloud Apps has tripled its funding after an undisclosed investor led the company's latest round of financing. The developer of Spanning Backup for Google Apps has added another $6 million to its coffers to build out its direct sales team and its reseller channel.
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Cloud Computing and SaaS: Reasons Why So Many Businesses are Satisfied
March 26 2013 - Formtek
By: Dick Weisinger
While there are reasons to complain about SaaS-deployed software, like poor customer service and worries about security, the benefits appear to be out-weighing the negatives. In fact, a recent survey by TechRepublic found that an overwhelming 91 percent of organizations using SaaS reported high satisfaction with the cloud-based technology (13.3 percent say that it exceeded their expectations and 78.6 percent say that it meets their expectations).
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Public Cloud Concerns Remain Strong: Survey
March 26 2013 - InformationWeek
By: Charles Babcock
In a survey of cloud marketplace participants, 70% of responders said they wanted to run financial applications and ERP in a private cloud setting, 60% said the same about email and collaboration, and 55% said private
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Five Myths of Cloud Computing
March 26 2013 - Datacenter Knowledge
By: Bill Kleyman
Technologies around the Internet and the WAN have been around for some time. However, it wasn’t until very recently that a specific term began circulating which was supposed to emphasize the combination of these technologies. Cloud computing was born out of the idea of a distributed computing system where information was available from numerous different points. Although the idea has certainly caught on – there are still some misconceptions and confusions around the cloud.
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Gartner predicts the death of the traditional sourcing model by 2015
March 26 2013 - CloudTech
By: James Bourne
Gartner’s been gazing at its crystal ball again, and has forecast that service-led solutions – software as a service (SaaS), infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and so forth – will displace more traditional sourcing methods by 2015.
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10 Quotes on Cloud Computing That Really Say it All
March 25 2013 - Forbes
By: Joe McKendrick
Plenty has been said or written on cloud computing in recent years — pro, con and somewhere in between. Periodically throughout the rise of cloud computing, there have been some real gems put out there, aptly describing what’s on people’s minds — and maybe what was needed to be said. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison’s famous “fashion-driven” analogy back in 2008 is the stuff of legend, and makes this list, compiled below. Here are some memorable quotes and apropos quotes about cloud that that have surfaced over the years:
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How Cloud Computing Has Changed The Face of HR and Recruitment
March 25 2013 - BrightMove
By: Traci Kingery and BrightMove Recruiting Software
Chances are high that your industry, company, or perhaps more specifically, your role, has been altered over the years by cloud computing. The rate by which these changes continue to happen is increasing at an alarming rate as more corporations seek cost saving solutions and tools to increase productivity and effectiveness. Your organization has most li
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12 hard truths about cloud computing
March 25 2013 - InfoWorld
By: Peter Wayner
For the past few months, I've been poking around the various commercial clouds, buying new machines, trying software, and running benchmarks. Well, not exactly buying machines -- just renting them for a few hours and plunking down a few pennies on the barrelhead.
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5 Steps To Convince Your CEO On Cloud Computing
March 25 2013 - Business2Community
By: Lindsey Nelson
Cloud computing’s adoption in the enterprise has been primarily driven by personal use. People are now accustomed to being able to access their personal email and documents from all devices and at all times. So it only makes sense we should be able to do this with our work content!
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Royal Mail, AOL and PayPal lead all-star line-up at Big Data World Congress
March 20 2013 - Cloud World Series
By: Keynote World Media
Top IT giants from Royal Mail, AOL and Paypal will converge in London to present their views at the Big Data World Congress - www.bigdatacongress.com. Taking place at London’s National Hall Olympia from 26th-27th June 2013, the event analyses this growing subject, covering topics such as security, strategy and analytics.
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Cloud Computing: A CFO’s Perspective
March 20 2013 - Data Center Knowledge
By: Bill Kleyman
Cloud computing and the technologies surrounding the platform have made a big impact on the modern business. Now, more organizations are looking for ways to leverage the cloud and see where it can create cost savings. Although many IT professionals will fight for a cloud model – in many cases, the CFO needs to make a good recommendation as well.
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Who’s the number one cloud computing nation?
March 20 2013 - Cloud Computing News
By: James Bourne
The BSA has put together a report which ranks the top 20 countries worldwide in terms of cloud readiness, and it may not be a surprise as to which nation is at the summit... Japan is the highest ranked cloud computing nation worldwide, according to research published by BSA: Software Alliance.
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A Few Early Cloud Computing Mavericks
March 20 2013 - Forbes
By: Reuven Cohen
Yesterday I had the honor of being included in Charles Babcock’s InfomationWeek list of early cloud pioneers. It’s a great list and includes an extensive group of early cloud trailblazers including James Urquhart, David Linthicum, Michael Crandell, John Keagy and others. Although an impressive list, I couldn’t help but think it was missing a few of the folks I’ve looked up to in the early years of cloud computing. So without further ado, here’s my list of a few early cloud computing mavericks.
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How Should We Measure Clouds?
March 20 2013 - InformationWeek
By: Alistair Croll
There isn't a simple answer to the above question. First of all, cloud computing is hidden behind a fog of abstraction. Whereas IT organizations could once instrument every element of an application, today's applications are like Descartes' brain in a jar -- we're never quite sure if they're real or virtual.
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Live Q&A: A guide to cloud computing for small businesses
March 19 2013 - The Guardian
By: Emily Wight
Here on the Small Business Network a range of experts have been keen to point out the benefits of cloud computing to small business owners. For a start, our bloggers have written about the numerous benefits of this technology, such as how it allows staff to work remotely and more flexibly. Andrew Brewerton from EVault explained how the cloud allows users to back up and synchronise their data, ensuring whoever accesses it is viewing the most up-to-date information. Elance Europe's Kjetil Olsen highlighted the range of web tools that help make paperless collaborative working the norm.
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Google 'Keep' App Outed: Beware Evernote?
March 19 2013 - InformationWeek
By: Thomas Claburn
Although Google has discontinued over 70 products since September 2011, its executions aren't final. The company has a habit of reviving dead services in a different package. Google Wave, among the company's most high-profile flops, was discontinued last year, but the technology that made it interesting -- operational transformation -- became the foundation of Google Docs collaboration.
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Learn How You Can Benefit from Cloud Computing
March 19 2013 - Cisco
By: Giuliano Di Vitantonio
Cloud computing provides new opportunities to increase capacity and add new capabilities on the fly. Whether you are an enterprise looking for ways to make your business more agile and responsive to market transitions, a Service Provider exploring new business models, or an executive wondering how your employees can benefit from cloud collaboration services, there’s a lot to learn.
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Cloud Security: Vetting Applications and Cloud Providers for Compliance and Security
March 19 2013 - SmartDataCollective
By: Thu Pham
The latest report from the Ponemon Institute, located in Traverse City, Michigan, sought to analyze trends in cloud computing security among organizations that use software as a service (SaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS). Only half of organizations are assessing the effect of the cloud on the ability to protect confidential information, and similarly, 51 percent are concerned about the security of cloud computing resources, per usual.
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How Do Local Cloud Computing and Web Hosts Compete with Amazon?
March 19 2013 - Business2Community
By: Ryan Turner
Based on information provided by Amazon, you can see they revolutionized EC2 cloud computing. Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) “is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.” While Amazon may be one of the most well known companies competing in this marketplace, host to major clients like Instagram, there are other small-scale companies that offer bigger benefits. For one, smaller companies can customize their cloud computing and web hosting to each client, tailoring their services to the needs of the client.
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Making Cloud Computing More Efficient
March 18 2013 - Lab Manager
By: MIT News Office, and Larry Hardesty
For many companies, moving their web-application servers to the cloud is an attractive option, since cloud-computing services can offer economies of scale, extensive technical support and easy accommodation of demand fluctuations.
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Guest blog: Cloud democratises IT and offers opportunities for IT leaders
March 18 2013 - CBR Online
By: CBR Staff Writer
Rob Fraser, CTO Cloud Services at Microsoft UK, outlines the opportunity for the IT team by partnering with tech savvy ‘Change Agents’ who are deploying cloud computing to drive positive business change.
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Actionable Analytics Emerging as a Corporate Cloud Computing Trend
March 18 2013 - Cloud Tweaks
By: John
The major premise of cloud actionable analytics is having a budget-worthy processor and dedicated staff. The agility of businesses lies in the way they analyze their operations in and out. They have to strategize on ways to improve their productivity while cutting costs. In the past, it took data outsourcing to get a candid view of where the company stood and how it was likely to perform in coming years.
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8 Tools Changing Business Technology Resiliency
March 12 2013 - InformationWeek
By: Rachel Dines
What do cloud gateways, emergency communications tools, and disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) all have in common? All are changing the way businesses run their continuity programs. The products that make up the business technology resiliency market landscape historically have been fragmented and ill-defined, despite the fact that the products share a common mission: improving uptime.
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How Cloud Computing Helps Cut Costs, Boost Profits
March 12 2013 - CIO
By: Thor Olavsrud
CIO — The decision over whether to move your organization's IT to the cloud can be a daunting one. After all, it means a wholesale change in the sourcing and delivery of IT products and services. However, many companies are making the leap, at least for select capabilities—a recent by CDW of 1,242 IT professionals found that more than half of organizations are moving a variety of capabilities to the cloud. And a majority of them are recognizing cost savings and increased profits, according to another study by Rackspace Hosting.
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Is the Middle East The Next Big Market For Cloud Computing?
March 12 2013 - Forbes
By: Reuven Cohen
As cloud computing technology reaches a saturation point in North America many in the space are beginning to look at other markets to supplement growth prospects. According to IDC, the Middle East could be the next major market to adopt cloud computing. A recent report by IDC expects total spending on cloud delivery in Saudi Arabia to increase 34.86 percent year on year in 2012 with long term spending to expand at a compound annual growth rate of 49.7 percent between 2012 and 2016.
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Solved! How to make Google's cloud 20 percent more efficient
March 12 2013 - InfoWorld
By: David Linthicum
In my days as CTO of a technology company, I often received outside advice as to how I could improve my technology. A new set of eyes is a good thing, and often the recommendations were solid ideas I implemented to improve the product.
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Making cloud computing more efficient
March 12 2013 - MIT News
By: Larry Hardesty
For many companies, moving their web-application servers to the cloud is an attractive option, since cloud-computing services can offer economies of scale, extensive technical support and easy accommodation of demand fluctuations.
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Seven myths which prevent success of Cloud
March 12 2013 - InformationWeek
By: DD Mishra
Cloud is on the verge of becoming a mega trend and it is necessary we debate this topic to a great depth and discuss it openly to remove any confusion and look at cloud from a different window of opportunity.
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Security Software Consumption In Cloud Business
March 12 2013 - CloudTweaks
By: Walter Bailey
With an increasing number of people getting involved in the world of technology, there are significant security issues that need to be considered as well. The involvement of different departments in this is thought to change the overall trend of the entire marketplace. The way these virtual techniques are replacing the traditional hardware is something that might grow of concern to the governments of countries as they strive to maintain high levels of security.
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Listed cloud computing firms surge
March 11 2013 - Stuff.co.nz
By: TOM PULLAR-STRECKER
The combined market worth of New Zealand's two NZX-listed cloud computing firms, Diligent and Xero, which listed within months of each other in 2007, has jumped by $258 million in the past week.
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Seven myths which prevent success of Cloud
March 11 2013 - InformationWeek
By: DD Mishra
Cloud is on the verge of becoming a mega trend and it is necessary we debate this topic to a great depth and discuss it openly to remove any confusion and look at cloud from a different window of opportunity. I have tried to capture here some of the myths which exist around cloud for a healthy debate in my endeavor to demystify. I am sure there are better opinions and views which are available than what is being presented here and it will be a pleasure to debate them on this forum.
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3 reasons to embrace the private cloud
March 11 2013 - Cloud Computing News
By: Aidan Grayson
For everything cloud computing offers – speed, convenience, simplicity, offsite backups – its “public” nature remains a touchy subject for enterprise.
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Bridging The Gap Between User Experience & The Cloud
March 11 2013 - Cloud Tweaks
By: cloudtweaks
The next big thing in the evolution of internet is the industry of Cloud Computing. With technological advancements making a leap in every quarter of the year, new methodologies are being devised to meet out the requirements of millions of users worldwide. The field of Cloud Computing has greatly eased the cognitive dissonance caused by multiple user experiences, thereby acting as a bridge to create the same UX across all platforms, namely – tablets, PCs, smartphones, and even televisions.
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Cloud Outages: Power Loss Blamed as Main Cause
March 08 2013 - Talkin' Cloud
By: Chris Talbot
Cloud outages are never going to go away. The minute the IT downtime problem is solved, we'll all have to find something else to complain about, after all. But still, unexpected cloud downtime remains one of the larger pain points skeptics point to when they get their hackles up regarding cloud computing.
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Tech Investors Should Keep Their Heads In The Cloud
March 08 2013 - Seeking Alpha
By: Jake Mitchell
Cloud computing is considered by many technology and investing experts as the next great advancement within the Internet's evolution. Cloud Computing allows users to seamlessly integrate everything from computing power to computing infrastructure, applications, business processes to personal collaboration, and it can be delivered to users as a service wherever and whenever they desire. The service increases consumer's bandwidth while simultaneously decreasing overhead expenses as it involves no cost of ownership.
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Big Data Plumbing Problems Hinder Cloud Computing
March 08 2013 - Electronic Design
By: Al Wegener
Let’s examine an impending problem looming at the intersection of big data and cloud computing. Big data is the vague, all-encompassing name given to immense datasets stored on enterprise servers like those at Google (which organizes 100 trillion Web pages), Facebook (1 million gigabytes of disk storage), and YouTube (20 petabytes of new video content per year).
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Data, data everywhere: Data in the cloud computing era
March 08 2013 - IT Portal
By: James Morris
In reality, cloud storage shouldn't be about having some documents on a service like Google Drive and others stored locally, which is clearly a recipe for confusion. It should be about having your documents appear to be in the same place all the time – on whatever machine you are currently using – but also having them seamlessly and securely stored in a remote location as well. You could, of course, standardise on just one cloud service and specify that everyone in your organisation use this for all primary document storage.
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Who’s the top dog in the SaaS space?
March 08 2013 - CloudTech
By: James Bourne
Software as a service (SaaS) has traditionally been the strongest and most valuable cloud computing market.
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Cloud Computing Startups Set to Battle in Banff on March 11
March 08 2013 - Digital Home
By: Cliff Boodoosingh
The much anticipated Cloud Matters Conference in Banff on March 11-12 will be highlighted by a startup showdown. Canada’s premiere cloud startups will pitch their business plans to a panel of the nation’s top industry analysts, investors, entrepreneurs and press for a chance to win free office space, Silicon Valley mentorship, marketing exposure and publicity from the event’s organizer, the Canadian Cloud Council.
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Your company's cloud strategy must come from the top
March 08 2013 - InfoWorld
By: David Linthicum
SaaS adoption came from the bottom up. Salespeople within enterprises needed a useful CRM system, and instead of begging IT, they used their own credit cards to purchase a Salesforce.com subscription. Eventually, IT figured out Salesforce.com was pervasive in the enterprise and took over the implementation, settling on the strategy by default.
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Cloud Computing As Collaboration Platform – Part 2
March 08 2013 - CloudTweaks
By: Krishan Lal Khatri
Cloud computing also helps companies to benefit from online services like unified communications services and collaboration that improves productivity and reduces the cost on travel and meetings. Microsoft SharePoint, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Online Services Business Productivity Suite, etc. are a few examples of collaboration platforms that can be used by companies with a monthly subscription without having to purchase software licenses. Some cloud vendors also offer free upgrades to latest hosted software versions.
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Progress on Cloud Computing Policy Is Hit and Miss Around the World, BSA Study Finds
March 07 2013 - Herald Online
By: BSA The Software Alliance
Singapore leaps forward in global policy rankings; Japan, Australia, and US lead global market; Europe stalls WASHINGTON, March 7, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Countries around the world are improving the legal environment for cloud computing — though at an uneven pace that risks undermining the full economic potential of cloud technologies, according to a new report from BSA | The Software Alliance.
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Engineers develop techniques to improve efficiency of cloud computing infrastructure by as much as 20 percent
March 07 2013 - Phys.Org
By: Phys.Org
Computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego, and Google have developed a novel approach that allows the massive infrastructure powering cloud computing to run more efficiently. The new approach can make these warehouse-scale computers run as much as 15 to 20 percent more efficiently. This novel model has already been applied at Google. Researchers presented their findings at the IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture conference Feb. 23 to 27 in China.
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Amazing Growth of HPC in the Domain of Cloud Computing
March 07 2013 - Cloud Tweaks
By: Walter
As the name implies, High Performance Computing (HPC) is something that is paving different ways to increase performance of the public and private cloud. It explains the various mechanisms to get the best out of your cloud in minimum resources. You can obtain larger profits by pitching in a little effort, and cash flows with the help of HPC.
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Will all government services take a cloud first approach?
March 07 2013 - The Guardian
By: Jessica Hawkins
The public sector has not been immune to the appeal of cloud computing, with governments keen to accelerate adoption of cloud services. However, while the private and commercial sector has taken to cloud computing more readily, there still exists a somewhat sporadic adoption across the public sector.
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The 10 Best Countries for Cloud Computing
March 07 2013 - Forbes
By: Joe McKendrick
Japan, Australia and the United States take the lead as the countries with the most cloud- friendly policies and laws, a new study shows. The study, covering the technology environments of 24 nations, finds mixed progress.
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Pricing out cloud computing? Look at your workloads first
March 07 2013 - ZDNet
By: Joe McKendrick
Let's face it: it's not easy to figure out the various costs aspects of cloud. Obviously, there are the low monthly charges that are appealing, or savings from consolidation. But for companies with well-run IT operations, the benefits of moving to cloud may be negligible.
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For credit card handlers, cloud computing guidelines just got clearer
March 07 2013 - Computer World
By: Thomas J. Trappler
The fact that regulations evolve at a much slower pace than cloud computing technologies can lead to confusion regarding how to meet regulatory requirements in the cloud. If a client moves a regulated function to the cloud and later falls out of compliance due to a shortcoming on the cloud vendor's part, the client remains accountable. So it's essential to have as much clarity on these issues as possible. Recognizing this challenge with regards to the handling of credit card data, the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Security Standards Council has recently issued guidance on how to apply PCI Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) in the cloud.
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Cloud Computing Proving To Be Major Resource For Hedge Funds
March 07 2013 - Cloud Tweaks
By: cloudtweaks
As we near the end of Q1 2013, hedge fund managers continue to generate higher returns. Following several years of sub-par performances from global hedge funds, investment managers have turned to cloud computing and infrastructure-as-a-service providers to not only cut costs, but also boost productivity. Many of the concerns that managers once had about migrating to cloud-based IT solutions, such as security, privacy and application performance, have been alleviated, and the benefits, such as cost predictability, business continuity and scalabili
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10 Hot Cloud Startups to Watch
March 06 2013 - CIO
By: Jeff Vance
CIO — When we requested suggestions for cloud startups to evaluate in order to come up with the CIO.com Top 10 list, we received more than 150 nominations. After reviewing the nominations and getting your input, we narrowed the list down to the 10 most promising.
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