Demand For Standards—Interoperability To Fuel Converged Cloud Growth According to cloud computing experts at IEEE, the biggest barrier to cloud services adoption is not cloud security or privacy fears, but concerns about service interoperability. According to Dr. Alexander Pasik, CIO at IEEE and a former Gartner analyst: Security is certainly a very important consideration, but it’s not what will inhibit further adoption. To achieve the economies of scale that will make cloud computing successful, common platforms are needed to ensure users can easily navigate between services and applications, regardless of where they’re coming from. IT decision makers from corporate CIOs to
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by sourya on May 3, 2012
in Amazon, Cartoon, Cloud Computing, Computing, Host, IT, Microsoft, Security, Technology, Virtualization
Is Cloud Computing a Lunch Break Creation? There have been allegations that “cloud computing” is just a marketing term, with the underlying principles and technologies having long existed. Personally speaking, while I do believe that a lot of cloud computing as it exists today did exist before Ramnath Chellappa used the term in a 1997 lecture (See: A History of Cloud Computing), there’s a lot that is different from earlier grid computing and utility computing paradigms (See: Cloud Computing vs Utility Computing vs Grid Computing: Sorting The Differences). Therefore, it may come as a surprise that a recent report cited
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by cloudtweaks on May 2, 2012
in Backups, Cloud Computing, Computing, Host, IT, SaaS, Security, Startups, Storage, Technology, Trends
SaaS Business Apps Drive SMB Cloud Computing Adoption Much of cloud computing’s infancy was fueled by software development firms, enterprise tech companies, and large financial institutions. IBM sparked the trend in 2003 with its on-demand computing initiative. By late 2005, Amazon recognized the potential market for IaaS and PaaS solutions and launched its EC2 service less than a year later. Fast forward five years, and almost every tech startup relies in some way on EC2, Windows Azure, Google Apps Engine, or similar IaaS and PaaS services. But it’s SaaS solutions—and their popularity with SMBs—that have driven cloud computing adoption and
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Cloud Computing Startups Raise Big Money: UPDATE 12 This is the thirteenth in a continuing series on startups raising funding. You can read the latest in the series at: Cloud Computing Startups Raise Big Money: UPDATE 11. For previous updates, please click on relevant links in the aforementioned article. Today, there are two startups in focus – CloudPassage and Opscode. CloudPassage CloudPassage, a San Francisco-based cloud security startup that advertises its services as “Everything you need to secure your cloud servers,” has raised $14 million in second-round funding, bringing total funds raised to $21 million. The B round was led by Tenaya
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The Cloud: Inevitable, But Not Ambiguious With so much hype surrounding the cloud, most IT professionals understandably are left scratching their heads and wondering: Should I move to the cloud? Where will it be the most helpful? How can it help drive efficiencies? Where does it not make sense? How can I separate the potential from the marketing fluff? Read this white paper to separate the technology and business potential from the marketing fluff. Get answers to your most pressing cloud questions and better understand when and where the cloud makes the most sense for your organization. Cloud hype There’s
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by cloudtweaks on April 24, 2012
in Accounting, Big Data, Cloud Computing, Computing, Contributors, Guest Writers, Host, IT, Microsoft, SaaS, Security, Storage, Technology, Trends
The Cloud Scares Me, Why Manufacturing Should Think and Work More Like Microsoft!!! Supply management and manufacturing is now about data, massive numbers of transactions created and shot through thousands of pathways around complex global information networks most wetware cannot, or would prefer not to imagine. Migraine city! Added to the ordinary business of running a company are the countless signals and communications around customer and producer activities – orders, IP such as drawings and concepts, RFQ’s, invoices, shipping documents, etc. It’s blinding, and it’s no wonder that so much fear surrounds the very word “Cloud.” In fact, that CIO
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by Florence on April 24, 2012
in Big Data, Business, Cloud Computing, Companies, Computing, Host, IT, SaaS, Security, Storage, Technology, Tools, Trends
How Important Is Ethical Hacking For Enterprise Security Architecture? With the increasing need for information security, business organizations which plan to adopt new technologies like IT outsourcing, virtualization, and cloud computing must be able to identify and face each security threats and come up with security architectures, policies, and processes. They must consider taking advantage of ethical hacking which is getting popular as an important security practice. In a white paper recently released by Frost & Sullivan, “The Importance of Ethical Hacking: Emerging Threats Emphasize The Need For Holistic Assessments”, ethical hacking benefits were discussed aside from its role, solutions,
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by Humayun on April 24, 2012
in Amazon, Apps, Business, Cloud Computing, Computing, Google Cloud, Host, IT, SaaS, Startups, Storage, Technology, Venture Capital
On the verge: 100% Cloud-fueled ventures The majority of ventures view cloud technology as nothing more than a significant leap towards expenditure cutbacks and superior flexibility. While this remains unequivocally true, cloud technology offers a whole lot more in store for businesses – startups in particular. Almost certainly, the most promising facet of cloud computing is its potential to nurture an altogether novel genre of business – made on the cloud, meant for the cloud. A number of budding ventures exist today that are 100% cloud based. Among such ventures is Coupa, founded and lead by Rob Bernshteyn. Coupa has
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