April 26th, 2012
Before cloud-based technology became popularized, mold designers needed to have all the schemaics and geometry and software loaded on to their hard drives.
A cloud-based software removes this difficulty as it gives molders the opportunity to maximize their day-to-day production. An article in Plastic News talks about software company Autodesk and their specialized simulation program, Moldflow. This enables mold designers to download large models that traditional computers cannot handle, have all calculations done on a remote server, and allowing their own systems to have room to run
other programs. All these can be accessed through a secure log-on.
Read the whole article in Plastic News and find out how cloud technology improves the workflow and production monitoring in the plastics manufacturing industry.
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April 25th, 2012
Two major players in the tech industry are rumored to be joining the cloud storage market as written in a release in Business Cloud News.
In a matter of days, consumers can already store their data in:
While the public is looking forward to Google’s online storage that is said to be in direct competition with Dropbox, equally anticipated is Samsung’s S-Drive, which will be launched with the new Galaxy S3.
These new cloud storage providers are expected to provide much better features in terms of capacity and limitations.
Find out what features in these new cloud storage solutions are in store for the market, read Business Cloud News now.
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April 24th, 2012
Cloud computing expert and author, David Linthicum writes in Infoworld some quick tips for organizations that are moving to the cloud for the first time.
In a management point of view, these tips might be substantially helpful especially when it comes to answering questions about why public cloud is able to reduce cost and how can it give value to the business?
In this article, there are also tips on setting up a security plan as well as who to involve in the planning-execution process and why.
These tips, in shortened versions are:
Find out how the author further discusses these tips and how it can help in the adoption of cloud computing, visit Infoworld now.
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April 23rd, 2012
With the prevalence of mobile applications, predictions about the obsolescence of the web are also becoming the talk of the town.
A short article in Atelier talks of this web vs. mobile apps debate. According to a survey conducted to experts and internet stakeholders, this evolution will progress by 2020.
Apps will continue to become enterprise’ valuable source of income, and can further support apps to have comparable processing power and capability as traditional web applications.
How will cloud computing affect this feud between the web and mobile applications? Visit Atelier to find out.
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April 20th, 2012
The CFO’s Growing Role in Cloud Adoption
Company CFO’s are expected to play a significant role in the purchasing and management of IT services. This was induced from a reasearch conducted by Vanson Bourne, to senior financial decision makers on behalf of Google, a summary of which was published in CBR Online.
Here are some conclusions derived from the survey:
As other key decision makers are seeing the cost benefits of the cloud, IT service purchase and management are beginning to be influenced by non-IT officers.
Read the ful article in CBR Online and see more result on how cloud computing is seen as a catalyst for innovation and why it is slowly becoming an attractive option for businesses.
Subtrends Affecting Cloud Strategy
According to Gartner, cloud computing trends need to be continuously monitored to prevent organizations from making costly mistakes or miss market opportunities.
An article in Help-Net Security talks about the five cloud computing subtrends that will affect cloud strategy. These are the important aspects that need to be factored in the monitoring the development of technology:
These subtrends will be accelerating, shifting or reaching a tipping point over the next few years and these need to be considered in organizations’ planning processes.
Read further about these subtrends in Net-Security and see how each of these can be optimized to keep up with the rapid change in today’s technologies.
Business Continuity Management
A release in Marketwatch talks about the results in the 2011-2012 Continuity Insights and KPMG LLP Global Business Continuity Management (BCM) Program Benchmarking Study.
The results showed that business continuity management has become a key discipline so that organizations can better mange operational risks.
Here are some market trends that were cited:
Visit Marketwatch for the link fo the full report and find out what the 685 execuritve respondents from 40 countries are saying about Business Continuity Management.
Open Stack
A group of major cloud vendors have collaborated to create standards for the cloud.
The Openstack coalition was founded and supported by large vendors such as:
By creating these standards, they aim to differentiate themselves on service. They believe that they will be able to address common CIO concerns about the cloud.
Visit CIO Journal to read the full article and see which organizations have joined Openstack.
Open Data Center Alliance
The Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) has released new cloud usage models to help beter mange security and infrastructure issues across cloud computing applications.
As listed in Network Computing, these five usage models are:
Visit Network Computing to get the link for downloading these models.
Proper Transition to the Cloud
D&H Distributing believes that busineses will need guidance as to what kind of cloud capabilities will best serve their business models.
An article in Echannelline talks about the organization’s initiative in teacing resellers in the SMB space on how to transition their end users toward cloud-based technologies.
Furthermore, this movement is in support of Microsoft’s “Smart Coud Solutions”. Aside from giving businesses access to online tools and data, this will help businesses increase productivity through hosted IT services and applications.
To read the full release and find out more about this new cloud initiative, visit Echannelline now.
Cloud Analytics Summit 2012
Another exciting update on this year’s Cloud Analytics Summit includes the participation of Richard Broome, the CIO and VP of Operations of Host Analytics, in a panel of executives about industry-specific customer success stories.
The summit is to happen on Wednesday, April 25 in California.
Visit Marketwatch to view the full details of the event.
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April 19th, 2012
While it is clear and obvious for some industries on how they can leverage on the power of cloud computing, the hospitality industry is not entirely part of it.
A transcript of an interview with Fladgate partner, Anthony Lee by Hotel Industry discusses what hoteliers need to know about the cloud.
According to Lee, in the front line perspective, the industry is already utilizing the cloud in the form of global distribution systems (GDS’s) such as Galileo and Amadeus. On the back-end perspective, there are already activities toward web-based systems.
Here are major considerations that were mentioned:
Ensure sensible precautions to secure data
Secure a sensible contract and meaningful service levels
Risks, according to Lee, will always be present – whether it is technological or caused by people. The key here is to ensure that these risks are contained and that the right provider is chosen.
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April 18th, 2012
Is cloud computing doing more for green initiatives aside from cutting down business costs?
An article in Greenbiz shares a summary of the Fourth Annual Energy Efficient IT Report conducted by CDW, a leading provider of tech products and services for various industries. Out of 760 respondents consisting of individual from private businesses, nonprofits, schools and governments, more that 60% see cloud computing as an energy-efficient way to consolidate data centers.
Though isolating and measuring energy use still needs to be identified, the CDW still concluded that cloud computing might play a bigger role in energy efficiency as majority of respondents having virtualized servers claim that energy is reduced by 28%.
Visit Greenbiz to read further environmental impacts that cloud computing has on businesses.
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April 17th, 2012
When it comes to cloud adoption, virtualization simply is not enough. Businesses still need to evolve, optimize, benchmark, cycle through, and then optimize further.
An entry in IT-Director.com shares a very comprehensive excerpt from an HP Expert Chat Session podcast entitled, “How to Best Pursue Cloud Computing Models” with Glenn West, the Data Center and Converged Infrastructure Lead for Asia Pacific and Japan in HP’s Technology Services Organization as guest.
This interview provided some actionable recommendations on how IT can support cloud benefits, re-architect their data centers with low risk and become the benefits enabler.
Here are some takeaways from the interview:
The points above are only the tip of the iceberg. There are so much more techniques that businesses can extract from this article. Visit IT-Director.com to read the full version and see why you need to understand the cloud and how you can optimize it for best results.
April 16th, 2012
Has cloud computing made running a business much easier? Find out in Betanews as small business owner, Ed Oswald shares his personal story on how he uses cloud computing on his day-to-day operations.
As a company of one, he expressed the challenges of playing multiple roles such as CEO, CFO and IT administrator. The use of cloud-based solutions has significantly helped him in running his business and he has provided a short list of benefits that he experienced from this technology:
These are just the highlights of what cloud computing has given him. Visit Betanews to read the full article and see the rationale behind these benefits.
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April 13th, 2012
Increased Spending on Cloud Apps
In a recent IDG Enterprise survey that included 554 IT professionals including 357 IT heads, 60% of US companies have at least 1 cloud application, this was reported in an article in IT World.
Further, more than 70% of these companies intend to spend more on cloud services in the next twelve months.
The top reasons for increased spending include:
Read the full article to see more statistics for the survey, visit IT World now.
SMB’s, Strong Adopters of Cloud
An article in CRN talks about a December 2011 survey conducted by Edge Strategies to over 3,000 SMB’s in 13 countries.
It showed that almost 80% of the respondents are either currently using paid cloud services or are already planning to subscribe in the next 2-3 years.
Aside from ccost savings, these companies expect the cloud to make their operations more productive, flexible, innovative and responsive.
In the survey, these are the top 4 services uses of the cloud:
From these statistics, it is seen that SMB’s are the drivers of cloud computing growth in the next 3 years.
Visit CRN.com to read the full article and check out the statistics of the survey.
CloudTP Event Participations
Two cloud events will be attended by key people of Cloud Technology Partners (CloudTP).
On April 18, founder and CEO Chris Greendale will take part in a panel discussion in the MIT Enterprise Forum in New York entitled, “Cloud Computing: The Next Generation”.
Joining him in the panel are representatives from Agile Equity, Xerox, Gage Networks and more.
Topics for discussion include:
Also, VP John Treadway will be participating in the panel discussion of the Enterprise Cloud Summit entitled, “Is Open Stack the Answer to the Walled Garden?” on May 6-10 in Las Vegas.
Topics to be discussed will include Openstack’s rapid growth, production and hype and also, the question, “How open is too open?” will be addressed.
Visit the Sacramento Bee to view the full details of these events.
Air Force Moves to the Cloud
Government agencies are indeed following the “Cloud First” policy. In a recent release in Nextgov, it was announced that the Air Force is considering commercial cloud computing services for 1 million of its unclassified networks.
The agency will soon be shifting from desktop computers to thin clients to save on operations and maintenance costs.
The most important factor that they will be looking at is of course, security that includes:
Visit Nextgov to read the full article.
Cloud Services for Managing Big Data
Before, there was no cloud service provider that is focused on providing services to projects that must work with big data – until now.
In a release in Virtual Strategy Magazine, the not-for-profit organization, Open Cloud Consortium announced the release of the first ever integrated set of cloud services that manage big data – Tukey.
These providers, also referred to as Science Cloud Service Providers (SciCSPs) are focused on meeting the needs of the research community and supports:
Several research projects are already utilizing the beta version. According to the Director of International Center for Advanced Internet Research Joe Mambretti, “Tukey enables scientists to share their big data sets with researchers around the country and the world”.
Visit Virtual Strategy Magazine to read the article and see the full set of services that Tukey provides.
Lower Cost on Long-Term Cloud
Writer Roger Strukhoff discusses a survey conducted by IDG Enterprise in his Sys-con article.
According to the survey, more than half of security executives believe that there will be long-term cost savings with cloud computing.
Though there are still some concerns regarding the implementation of cloud, majority will still increase their cloud spending within the year and intend to perform most of their IT operations in the cloud.
According to Strukhoff, the results simply show that cloud computing is no longer the new kid on the block, but rather, something that is being taken seriously by enterprise IT.
Visit Sys-con to read the full article and to also check out the details in the upcoming Cloud Expo in New York this June.
Summit for Open Source Cloud Computing
The Ubuntu Cloud Summit is a one-day event for both technology and business attendees interested in how open source cloud computing can help their organizations.
Topics of the summit will include:
The event will be held on May 8 in Oakland, California. Visit the Ubuntu Cloud Portal to view more details of the event.
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