by cloudtweaks on May 27, 2011
in Apps, Cloud Computing, Companies, Computing, Contributors, Host, IT, Podcast, Technology, Video, White Papers
Managing the Virtualization Maturity Lifecycle Virtualization demonstrates substantial benefits — in agility, availability and cost reduction — but it is not all clear sailing. Most organizations struggle, sooner or later, with added complexity, staffing requirements, SLA management, departmental politics and more. In fact, most organizations face one (or more) clear ‘tipping points’, where virtualization deployment stalls as they stop to deal with these new challenges. This ‘VM stall’ tends to coincide with different stages in the virtualization maturity lifecycle — such as the transition from tier 2/3 server consolidation to mission-critical tier 1 applications; or from basic provisioning automation to
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by Anuradha on May 27, 2011
in Cloud Computing, Companies, Computing, IT, Open Source, SaaS, Security, Storage, Technology, Trends
Twenty- eight percent of U.S. organizations are using cloud computing today, according to a recent report by CDW, a provider of technology products and services to business, government, education and healthcare. Results from CDW’s first Cloud Computing Tracking Poll indicate that most organizations prefer to go for the implementation of a single cloud application. For this report, the company assessed current and future cloud computing use in business, government, healthcare and education and questioned 1,200 IT professionals who are familiar with their organization’s use of, or plans for, cloud computing. Majority of the organizations (84 percent) said they have already
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by cloudtweaks on May 26, 2011
in Business, Cloud Computing, Companies, Computing, Host, IBM, Invest, IT, Phone, Security, Stocks, Storage, Technology, Web Hosting
AT&T: Benefits of Marching into Cloud Computing being a leading Telecom Company. Business is a dynamic activity, so should be your infrastructure. Of late, cloud computing has invaded the IT world, fixing its roots deeply and swiftly. With the unexpected seasonal spikes showing up in businesses every now and then, hiring cloud services has become extremely essential to counterbalance this inflated business activity. And the exponential increase in the demand has certainly shot up the allurement of setting up separate departments and organizations for development of these profitable services to a degree that even the communications giants AT&T couldn’t refrain
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by Anuradha on May 26, 2011
in Business, Cloud Computing, Companies, Computing, News, Performance, Rackspace, Startups, Storage, Trends
Citrix Systems has launched two powerful new cloud networking products NetScaler Cloud Gateway and NetScaler Cloud Bridge. Both these products can seamlessly connect enterprises to external clouds. NetScaler Cloud Gateway gives IT an easy, unified way to orchestrate the delivery of any mix of SaaS, web and Windows apps to end users. NetScaler Cloud Bridge gives IT unlimited capacity by seamlessly and securely extending any datacenter to any external cloud service. Citrix has built both products on a common service delivery fabric provided by the NetScaler SDX platform. Popularity of cloud is soaring every day and this has rapidly changed
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by cloudtweaks on May 25, 2011
in Amazon, Business, Case Study, Cloud Computing, Companies, Computing, IBM, IT, Reviews, SaaS, Security, Storage, Technology
InstaCompute: Simple & Instant Cloud Computing Overview: InstaCompute is an upcoming cloud solution from Indian Telecom Giant, Tata Communications, provisioning raw computing resources on-demand by offering Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solutions for cutting edge application development & testing, scalable web applications, cost effective and on –demand computing power whenever, wherever you need it. InstaCompute is competing in a market largely dominated by Amazon & Rackspace, by coming up with computing resources that are cheaper, more flexible, multiple payment options to choose from and an expanding choice of data centers, keeping the global nature of business in perspective.
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by sourya on May 25, 2011
in Amazon, Audio, Blogs, Business, Cloud Computing, Companies, Computing, Images, IT, Music, Security, Social networks, Storage, Technology, Video
How Lady Gaga Punctured Amazon’s Cloud Computing Balloon It is a safe guess that most of the regular readers on this website are not fans of Lady Gaga; so, here’s a brief outline: Born March 28, 1986 and named Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, Lady Gaga came to prominence with her first album, “The Fame”, released in 2008. Since then, she has won five Grammys besides selling fifteen million albums and fifty-one million singles. She is also famous for notching up 10 million followers on Twitter earlier this month, the highest in the world. In other words, she is extremely popular.
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by Anuradha on May 25, 2011
in Apps, Cloud Computing, Companies, Computing, Host, IT, SaaS, Security, Stocks, Storage, Technology, Web Hosting
SMBs Using Cloud Storage Also High On Network-Attached Storage More than seven in ten small and medium-size businesses that use cloud-based storage solutions also use networked-attached storage (NAS), according to a newly released survey by research firm In-Stat. This report comes close at the heels of an IBM report that said sixty percent of organizations will embrace cloud computing over the next five years. This finding was based on a survey of more than 3,000 global Chief Information Officers. For those unaware, network-attached storage is a specialized server that is connected to a network which provides file-based data storage services
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by cloudtweaks on May 24, 2011
in Apps, Business, Cloud Computing, Companies, Computing, Google Cloud, Google OS, IT, Microsoft, News, SaaS, Stocks, Storage
Working Together to Deliver the Cloud If you had any notion of not taking the cloud seriously for your business, your assumptions will certainly be challenged this year. This week alone has seen two significant developments that have boosted the visibility (if not the viability) of the cloud. First, there was Microsoft’s purchase of Internet telephony company Skype for $8.5 billion. There is a lot of speculation on whether this was a good business move for Microsoft, but regardless of how it turns out, it’s clear that Microsoft is betting big on the cloud as platform instead of Windows exclusively.
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