Cloud facilitates a new generation of technology and related impacts that
have never been seen before.
With utility computing and on demand capabilities, many organizations want to
jump on the bandwagon as soon as possible. As the Chief Executive, there are
some tough decisions to be made. There will be people in your organization
who say that Cloud is the best thing that happened since the emergence of the
internet. Others will paint a picture of gloom and doom by citing issues such
as security, privacy, control over data etc.
Cloud can enhance productivity by providing the infrastructure or application
platforms and related tools to respond to customer needs quickly, giving
organizations an edge over others that have not assessed such mechanisms, and
the on-demand capabilities can lead to efficient utilization of resources.
Cloud also facilitates mobility services s... (more)
After OpenStack was announced at OSCON in the summer of 2010, the degree of
momentum behind this new open source platform has been nothing short of
spectacular. Startups and enterprises alike have placed their strategic bets
to monetize the OpenStack wave in various ways. As an ecosystem insider and
one of the founding sponsors of the OpenStack Foundation, I wanted to offer
my views on how various organizations are looking to skin this cat.
I'd like to focus on three of the many efforts currently underway. These
three, in particular, happen to be the most vocal about their positio... (more)
Open-Xchange, the supplier of business-class email and collaboration software
for cloud providers, announced an agreement with NetArt -- a provider of
domain name registration and web hosting in Poland -- to bring cloud-based
communication and collaboration to more than 500,000 users.
NetArt will be offering Open-Xchange webmail on its service, nazwa.pl,
providing end users with the most powerful email service available today.
At no additional charge, nazwa.pl customers will get modern, easy-to-use
integrated email, calendar and contact management. This cloud-based
application ca... (more)
Community cloud services are services that are shared by multiple members of
a community. They centralize the functions and can provide specific mission
requirements. The mission requirements can be related to specific policies
and compliance. Community clouds leverage the benefits of a public cloud but
can satisfy specific requirements. These are perfect for communities with
specific focus areas such as performance, auditing or policies that need to
be applied across the community.
A major benefit of community clouds is that many organizations can come
together and pitch in for... (more)
HP, the public cloud's Johnnie-come-lately, made its first public cloud
services available in public beta Thursday and, to make up for lost time HP
is going to charge utility prices to use the beta albeit at half what it'll
cost when it goes GA.
The widgetry, which reportedly went to private beta in September, is not the
homegrown cloud of HP's dreams that it was working on a year ago. It frankly
didn't have the technology in-house to build it and was lucky that the open
source effort to produce the OpenStack public cloud infrastructure came
along.
Of course, OpenStack is not s... (more)
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