Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Gartner Raises IT Spending Growth Projection on Cloud Services

Gartner Raises IT Spending Growth Projection on Cloud Services
Bloomberg
Global spending on information technology may grow at a 3 percent pace, faster than previously forecast, to $3.6 trillion this year as expenditures for public cloud services increase, Gartner Inc. said.

Cloud computing boosts software M&A
MarketWatch
First-half software M&A up over year-ago levels --Established companies acquiring cloud expertise, market share --Buying spree likely to continue in second half Cloud computing is lifting the cloudover software mergers. Recently SAP AG SAP bid $4.3 ...

Cloud computing moves from fad to foundation
InfoWorld (blog)
Despite some setbacks, such as the recent Amazon Web Services outages, cloud computing is beginning to cross from the experimental phase to production systems that businesses can rely on. This has not been an overnight occurrence: Enterprises have ...

Cetrom Cloud Services Unaffected by Violent Mid-Atlantic Storms
MarketWatch (press release)
VIENNA, Va., Jul 09, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Cetrom Information Technology, Inc. (Cetrom), aCloud Computing pioneer and leading provider of custom Cloud solutions for global SMBs, today announced its services were uninterrupted during the ...

Cloud Computing - Cloud Spending Looking a Bit Fluffier: Gartner
SYS-CON Media (press release)
By 2016, it says, enterprise public cloud services spending will reach $207 billion. Notice, please, that it says nothing about consumer spending on the cloud like on, say, cloud storage. It finds Business Process-as-a-Service (BPaaS) still accounts ...

SYS-CON Media (press release)

The Economic Impact of Cloud Computing
IT Business Edge (blog)
As the presidential campaign gets into full swing in advance of the November election, there's obviously a lot of focus on the employment outlook. While the accuracy of the numbers that the Department of Labor posts are dubious at best, there's no ...

Is the cloud the best solution for every small business?
Computerworld
Cloud computing is currently one of the most talked about topics for many business, for a large percentage of whom it is the perfect solution. For a startup, low costs and simple entry are appealing features -- while large corporates have the clout to ...

Cloud Computing: Microsoft Buys Perceptive Pixel; Confirms Win 8 Dates
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Microsoft is buying Perceptive Pixel Inc. (PPI), which makes large-scale, multi-touch displays, a new hardware line for the software giant. Terms were not disclosed. 3M is understood to be an investor in PPI. Kurt DelBene, president of Microsoft's ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)

European Science Champions Score an Early Goal for Cloud Computing
MarketWatch (press release)
Atos, CloudSigma and T-Systems have provided the cloud computing resources to host the flagships and were instrumental during this PoC phase. Atos has been active in opening up its existing cloud services to research organizations. Michael Symonds, its ...

Gartner sees stable IT spending, growth in cloud services
Computerworld
Public cloud services spending will jump to $109 billion this year, compared to $91 billion last year, Gartner said. Global IT services spending is set to grow 2.3 percent to $864 billion in 2012, according to Monday's announcement. Spending on ...

Managing risk in the wake of Amazon's cloud outage
ZDNet
Summary: With the recent Amazon Cloud outage many are suggesting that it bringsCloud Computing into question. And that Cloud Computing will now be more difficult to sell. I disagree.

ZDNet

Cloud Said to Create Silver Lining for IT
Wired News
Global spending on IT may grow faster than forecast -- at a 3 percent pace to $3.6 trillion this year -- the research firm Gartner said on Monday, with spending on public cloud services expected to increase from $91 billion last year to $109 billion ...

Cloud computing market size – Facts and trends
DABCC.com
Although estimates of the overall cloud market size vary considerably, the consensus is that cloud computing is growing rapidly. I came across interesting statistics while reading about this topic. Market Research Media, cited in the Bloomberg report ...

VM-Savvy Cloud DR: It's All About The Application
InformationWeek
If you want the secondary to be in the cloud, you're in for even more work bringing up a cloud storage gateway, since few cloud services externally expose standard network storage protocols like NFS, CIFS, or iSCSI. Data Replication, Meet The ...

Gartner: Worldwide IT Spending to Pass US$ 3.6 Trillion, Cloud Computing ...
CMSWire
And although IT services spending is only expected to rise 2.3 percent this year compared to last year, Gartner forecasts spending on enterprise cloud services will increase a healthy 19.8 percent, from US$ 91 billion in 2011 to US$ 109 billion in 2012.

Breakup Of India's Billion Dollar Cloud Market
ZDNet
Summary: Cloud computing in India will be a Billion Dollar market & the government isn't oblivious to it. ... The government is willing to collaborate with the industry and academia to develop a secure and progressive ecosystem for cloud services in India.

Joyent's Cloud Competes With Google, Amazon
InformationWeek
Hoffman said San Francisco-based Joyent is not focused on competing with big established cloudvendors so much as it seeks to convert more of its natural business clientele to its style of cloud computing. Joyent can run workloads running any ...

Skyscape Cloud Services provides Cloud Computing at the Farnborough ...
SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog)
London - July 9th 2012 - Skyscape Cloud Services Limited, the easy to adopt, easy to use and easy to leave Assured Cloud Services Company, today announced its participation at the Farnborough International Airshow 2012 from July 9-15, supporting ...

No Rainy Days Ahead for Cloud Computing
HealthTechZone
For a long time, healthcare organizations shied away from cloud computing, rightfully worried about privacy issues and security when confidential data was stored and managed on the Web. But all that seems to have dissolved. A recent report by Dallas ...

Research data on cloud growth and focus
ZDNet
Summary: New survey research adds to our understanding of cloud growth and discusses areas of concern among business adopters of cloud computing.

ZDNet

Global IT Spending Set to Grow 3 Percent in 2012
Datamation
Yet there is room for optimism, as the outlook for 2013 is looking more positive with cloud servicesleading the way forward. For 2012, Gartner is now ... Tags: cloud computing, enterprise software, SaaS, IT, public cloud · Exploring the Private Cloud ...

IT spend up 3% in 2012, thanks to cloudy thinking
Computerworld (blog)
Enterprise IT will spend 3% more in 2012 than it did last year. It's mainly down tocloud computing, consulting, and services. At least, that's according to Gartner. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers run the numbers.

Computerworld (blog)

Insight Surpasses Two Million Cloud Seats Globally
MarketWatch (press release)
TEMPE, Ariz., Jul 09, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Insight Enterprises, Inc. (NASDAQ:NSIT) , a leading worldwide technology provider of hardware, software and service solutions, announced today it has exceeded a significant milestone in its cloud computing ...

Govt needs to have policy for cloud computing: CII
Times of India
NEW DELHI: As more firms in India embrace cloud computing, there is an increasing need to have a dedicated policy for defining the standards for procurement and usage of the technology, especially by government agencies, says a report by industry body ...

Storms could lie ahead for Cloud IPOs
MSN Money
Cloud-computing companies have been doing well in the IPO market, but investors need to ignore the hype and do their homework.Start investing in technology companies with help from financial writers and experts who know the industry best. Learn what to ...

Komando Q&A: Tip: Find the best cloud storage system
Baxter Bulletin
Question.There are too many companies that have their own cloud storage systems. I can't really tell the difference. Which one is the best? Answer.There's not really a 'best' system, but there probably is one that will work best for you.

Gartner expects 3 pct. rise in global IT spending
Businessweek
Enterprise spending on public cloud services is projected to climb from $109 billion in 2012 to $207 billion by 2016. It totaled $91 billion last year. Cloud computing is a concept referring to software delivered over the Internet, rather than licensed ...

SOS Online Backup '360° Partner Program' Hosts Free Webinars for MSPs ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The "2012 Outlook for Managed Service Providers: A guide to monetizing the coming demand forcloud services" is a white paper recently published by SOS that outlines how small businesses view and use online backup. ... Based in El Segundo, California ...

Companies to spend $207 billion on cloud in 2016
GigaOM
The launch of Google and Microsoft public clouds is looking well timed, as the corporate demand for public cloud services is about to go through a steep growth curve, research group, Gartner forecasts. Like Amazon, Both companies have been lustfully ...

SPL Library Lines: Cloud Computing: Not as spacey as you think!
By Stratford Public Library
Box: When it comes to collaboration, document management and storage, Box is consistently one of most innovative players in the cloud computing space. The company started off as a more consumer-focused cloud storage company, but has ...
SPL Library Lines

Accountability In The Cloud Shouldn't Be Overcast - CloudTweaks.com
By cloudtweaks
Accountability In The Cloud Shouldn't Be Overcast The cloud has radically shifted the definition of software since the early days of computing, when it was. ... Cloud Computing Companies and Information Database ... According to our internal data, 86% of companies are using not one, but multiple cloud services at once, including all of their SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS. That's a lot of variable for... cloud computing comic · cloud computing · The Lighter Side Of The Cloud – Storage Overload ...
CloudTweaks.com - Cloud Computing...

VC's Guide to Enterprise Cloud Computing – Jam Today, Not ...
By Neil McEvoy
The backbone of our upcoming submission to the Canadian Government on how they can best manage their $400m VC industry booster, is a deep expertise in Enterprise Cloud Computing. We will be able to describe a high-growth fund ...
Cloud Computing Best Practices

European Science Champions Score an Early Goal for Cloud ...
By jason
'Helix Nebula – the science cloud', set up earlier this year to support the massive IT requirements of European scientists and create a cloud computing market for the public sector in Europe, has announced the initial deployment of its first flagship applications in high ... Michael Symonds, its Principal Solutions Architect, confirmed that: “Setting up a public style cloud for very demanding research organisations is very different to providing private enterprise cloud services to companies.
BizCloud® Network

RapidShare Launches RapidDrive, Cloud Storage Competitor ...
By Julian Horsey
The new cloud storage competitor from RapidShare provides users with cloud storage and file synchronisation, and is currently in its beta stage of development.
Geeky-Gadgets

Survey Says: Cloud Adoption Rising. We Say: Need for Cloud ...
By Elaine Conces, Senior Online Marketing Manager
Surveys Find Cloud Computing Adoption Up The Talkin' Cloud Top 100 Cloud Services Providers list came out recently, along with some interesting stats about the cloud market. In case you were wondering, Talkin' Cloud is the cloud services ...
ScienceLogic

The Olympics and WAN Traffic Prioritization: Are You Ready?
With the 2012 Summer Olympics games right around the corner, it's a good time for IT to assess network traffic and data center technologies, as well as re-prioritize bandwidth: Will increased use ofcloud services require a reallocation of bandwidth for ... Virtualization & Cloud Computing News, Support, Podcasts, Videos, Webinars and Downloads for the Citrix, VMware, Microsoft, Desktop Virtualization (VDI), Remote Desktop (Terminal Services), Application Virtualization, Server ...
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Infosys' Gopalakrishnan to head India's Cloud computing dream team
By Mandira Srivastava
According to a Gartner survey, Indian companies expect to adopt new cloud services much faster than originally anticipated, with two-thirds of CIOs expecting the majority of IT to be running in thecloud within the next four years. In past news ...
Trakin' the india business buzz

Cloud Computing - Cloud Spending Looking a Bit Fluffier: Gartner ...
By 2016, it says, enterprise public cloud services spending will reach $207 billion. Notice, please, that it says nothing about consumer spending on the cloud like on, say, cloud storage. It finds Business Process-as-a-Service (BPaaS) still ...
Java Industry News

How Startups Can Use 3rd-Party Audits to Provide Business Class ...
By cwood
How Startups Can Use 3rd-Party Audits to Provide Business Class Cloud Services. 07/09/2012. SSAE 16 By Mike Pav, VP of Engineering, Spanning. Here at Spanning, we recently completed our SSAE 16 Type 1 audit. This is a compliance ...
Spanning

Think beyond securing the edge of the enterprise. It's time to secure ...
By Zenobia Godschalk
By default, an enterprise should assume it has the ultimate responsibility for securing the Cloud services it uses, including security at the edge of the Cloud, despite whatever reassurances theCloud provider might offer. .... Cloud is no exception. Cloud computing introduces new wrinkles to existing security best practice and technologies. Cloud computing creates an additional perimeter, the edge of the Cloud, that the enterprise must now secure. How an enterprise chooses to secure ...
Cloud Security Alliance Blog

BitCasa Cloud Storage - Business Insider
By Dylan Love
Dropbox is a Web-based file hosting service operated by Dropbox, Inc. that uses cloud computing to enable users to store and share files and folders with others across the Internet using file synchronization. It was founded in... More » ...
Business Insider

MOMCC: Market-Oriented Architecture for Mobile Cloud Computing ...
Cloud exploitation by mobile devices breeds a new research domain called Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC). However, issues like portability and interoperability ...
arxiv.org/abs/1206.6209

Security Implications of Cloud computing, 978-3-659-13397-8 ...
The scalability factor of cloud computing is one of its major advantages as ... This work provides an introduction to the topic of cloud computing, discusses its ...
www.morebooks.de/store/gb/book/.../978-3-659-13397-8



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