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05.4.2012
Cloud computing is seen as an energy saver for organizations. This is made possible by cloud hosting providers offering large amounts of storage and access to applications.
The next questions is, since providers ave had to scale up their power consumption, how much energy is actually being consumed?
The report, “How Green is Your Cloud” by Greenpeace is all about tracking sustainabilities among tech companies and assessing the green footprint of the move to cloud computing. This summary can be found in an article in Health News Digest.
Some sites like:
have already started to lead the sector down a clean energy pathway through innovations in energy efficiency.
Most organizations, however, have not yet followed this trend. Visit Health News Digest to read the full article and see how companies can successfully implement green cloud adoption.
Small Biz Tech Summit Revisited
The Seventh Annual Small Business Summit held last March 6, 2012 was mainly focused on cloud computing and how it will help in the success of small businesses.
A recent article in Small Biz Technology shows highlights from the event. The summit also made efforts in showing the attendees how cloud computing works.
Visit Small Biz Technology to get the link to archived videos from the event and revisit the lessons delivered from the speeches of industry experts from:
Big Data and Cloud Convergence
An article in Global Services Media talks about how the collaboration of big data and cloud computing will influence a transformational shift in the outsourcing and IT services delivery market – this is because these aspects are generally user-driven.
According to Novatium Solutions India CEO and Managing Director Alok Singh, the cloud is actually the result of consumer expectations and is also for everyday consumers who are unknowingly using cloud.
Here are some benefits from Cloud-BI convergence that consumers can leverage on:
How does the fast growing IT consumerization affect the cloud technology industry? Visit Global Services Media to read this comprehensive blog and see which other business verticals would immensely benefit from this convergence.
Wal-Mart’s Disc-to-Digital Expansion
After the recent launch of Wal-Mart’s Vudu-powered cloud video service, Disc-to-Digital, it will be expanding to be offered to 30 other countries in:
Currently, the Ultraviolet-based service has already surpassed Sony and Amazon in video distribution. This service allows users to upload their CD’s and have them stored in Apple’s cloud and be accessed from any Vudu-enabled device like iPad, laptops, Xbox, Bluray and HDTV.
Visit Computerworld to see and subscribe to more updates on this new service and other technologies that promotes IT consumerization.
The Emergence of Cloud Infrastructure Testing and Monitoring
In adopting cloud technology, enterprises usually test:
An article in Sacramento Bee shares a new analysis from Frost and Sullivan’s Cloud Infrastructure Testing and Cloud-Based Application Monitoring Markets.
It showed that from 2010′s $168M revenue, it is projected to increase to $556.2M by 2017. With this in mind, methods on testing the effectiveness of cloud services have emerged. Enterprises adopting the cloud need to perform a careful analysis of expected ROI and use market intelligence information to determine growth opportunities.
Providers and vendors have now come up or are coming up with equipment and solutions to assess these factors and validate cloud infrastructure.
Visit Sacramento Bee to read the article and find out why testing and assessment is deemed crucial to the success of the cloud adoption market. Furthermore, gain access to the full Frost and Sullivan report by click on the link in the site.
GigaOM’s Structure Conference 2012
This year’s GigaOM Structure Conference will be held on June 20-21 in San Francisco, California.
The event will be evaluating how the cloud will affect the way companies do businesses globally.
Here are some highlights of the event:
Visit GigaOM to sign up for the conference and get more updates on the event.
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05.3.2012
An article in InPharm talks about cloud computing being the next big thing in the Healthcare industry. This forecast of significant growth was supported in the article by citing a new report by GBI Research, a firm specializing on business intelligence analysis – it indicated that improved electronic data systems are eagerly anticipated in hospitals all over the world.
The challenge however, in the Healthcare IT industry, is the risk aversion and cost-cutting measures taken by developed countries because of the global economic recession.
Still, the status of cloud technology remains strong, this applies to the pharmaceutical market as well. According to R. Arun Kumar, Senior VP of Applications Services at CapGemini, cloud technology’s presence is starting to be felt in:
This technology is starting to be recognized as a crucial aspect in the development of the industry as it has capabilities that traditional computing cannot accommodate.
Visit InPharm to read the full article and see which cloud providers are now offering specialized services to the healthcare industry.
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05.2.2012
The cloud technology industry is still in its early stages of evolution. This being the case, it can be said that standards have not yet been fully established.
An article in IT World observes the increasing volume of companies that assist cloud deployments and how this is a manifestation of the lack of standardization for formatting data to be easily moved between cloud providers.
Some organization like the Storage Network Industry Association (SNIA) and Cloud Security Alliance have already begun their efforts in pushing for standardization such as:
In this phase of cloud evolution, the term “adoption curve” was mentioned to describe a point where cloud providers will see their competitors’ adoption of standards and will follow the trend. This stage is quite crucial to the maturity of the cloud industry.
Visit IT World to read the full article and find out other implications of cloud adoption standardization.
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05.1.2012
Enterprises are now following the cloud computing trend including the transfer of the technology acquisition decision-making from the IT professionals to the business unit leaders.
ISACA, the non-profit organization that delivers standards for information systems, releases a paper that initially describes the nature of cloud computing and areas in the enterprise that need to be addressed. More importantly, it consists of six guiding principles for a more effective cloud computing adoption and use.
Visit the ISACA website to get a copy of the paper and more updates on the development and use of globally accepted technology practices.
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