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Top five ways cloud computing impacts mobile application development teams

Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:09:24 +0000

There's no arguing the fact that development cycles in the mobile application development world are incredibly short. So it's no surprise to discover that development teams who are intent on getting their mobile applications to market quickly are relying heavily on a variety of cloud-based technologies. Here are five of the most effective ways that mobile projects are finding success by taking advantage of the cloud

How to Track Cost Allocation for Cloud Apps

Mon, 01 Oct 2012 11:48:56 +0000

One of the most interesting aspects of cloud computing is the way it changes cost allocation over the lifetime of an application. Many people understand that pay-as-you go is an attractive cost model, but fail to understand the implications that the new cost allocation model imposes on IT organizations. The pay-as-you-go model addresses several obvious and painful limitations of the previous model, which was based on asset purchase; in other words, prior to application deployment, a significant capital investment had to be made to purchase computing equipment (i.e., servers, switches, storage, and so on)

How Cisco Moved Along to PaaS

Mon, 01 Oct 2012 11:42:08 +0000

Having on-demand virtual machines for employees is one thing, but that wasn't enough for networking giant Cisco, says Rodrigo Flores, an enterprise architect in the company's intelligent automation business unit

Oracle’s New Cloud Computing Bets

Mon, 01 Oct 2012 11:19:37 +0000

When Lawrence J. Ellison, the founder and chief executive of Oracle, is selling his products, the claims may need a little checking, but the tone is perfect for the times. On Sunday evening in San Francisco, Mr. Ellison kicked off his Oracle OpenWorld gathering before an audience of 10,000 engineers and businesspeople, bathed in lights of Oracle red. Supposedly one million more people watched online

Disaster recovery moving to the cloud

Fri, 28 Sep 2012 11:01:07 +0000

Disaster recovery and the cloud should be a match made in heaven. Take a function that enterprises love to hate and address it with an outsourced, efficient cloud service that makes it easier and less expensive to reach recoverable nirvana, and presto -- instant success. Well, not so fast. During the past 12 to 18 months, analysts say the disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS or RaaS) market has exploded, with legacy DR vendors pivoting to offer cloud-based services and a crop of new pure-play cloud providers leveraging automation and shared resource efficiencies to break into the game

Cloud Computing: The Next Step Towards the Future

Fri, 28 Sep 2012 10:45:02 +0000

Cloud computing can be described as computer resources delivered as a service through a network. Although cloud computing has gained popularity recently, its origin can be dated as far back as the early ‘90s. Some may even argue that its conceptual origins date back to the ‘60s, and it has no signs of slowing down in the future

Cloud Computing Technology – Investment Strategy: IBM, Microsoft, Intel, Oracle, Amazon

Fri, 28 Sep 2012 10:35:15 +0000

Cloud computing is a pay-per-use consumption and delivery model that enables real-time delivery of configurable computing resources (for example, networks, servers, storage, applications, services). It is a computing model providing web-based software, middleware and computing resources on demand

Cloud Infographic: The Rise Of The Cloud

Fri, 28 Sep 2012 10:24:45 +0000

Findings from a joint Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) and ISACA survey show that government regulations, exit strategies and international data privacy dominate the Top 10 areas where confidence in the cloud is lowest

Facebook gets involved with cloud storage via Dropbox integration

Thu, 27 Sep 2012 09:57:59 +0000

The personal cloud storage market is getting more crowded by the week, and even Facebook is getting in on the action...sort of. Facebook is teaming up with Dropbox on a new integration that allows Facebook users to share content stored in their Dropbox accounts directly with contacts in Facebook Groups

PaaS – Top 5 Trends Which May Rule This Lustrum

Thu, 27 Sep 2012 09:53:02 +0000

The latest buzz in the IT industry is not about iPhone5, but about PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service). The industry is already split into two groups—one shouting for the long life of IaaS and the other cheering for PaaS. PaaS, with its end-user freedom and facilities, has already won many hearts as a much promising enterprise solution than its forerunner, SaaS (Software-as-a-Service). This fast-growing cloud computing service just requires an enterprise to buy or rent the server, storage, and network. Then, with the solution stack and some virtual tools, the enterprise can easily create or customize its own platform. If we go with the market analysis and prediction, this SaaS is all set to rule the IT world for at least the next five years

Cloud Computing Capabilities In PS4?

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:46:13 +0000

Sony is keen to elevate the marketing hype of its “next generation console”, the Play Station 4 as its release date hits the door. There are many features that are revealed in the introductory presentation about the Play Station 4 including the much awaited “cloud computing”. A lot is being said about the cloud computing capabilities of the Play Station 4.

Why Cloud Computing Offers Affordability and Agility

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:40:47 +0000

When I was a kid, Miller Lite ran an endless series of commercials in which former sports greats debated the merits of the beer.

National Cloud Computing Strategy: good for business

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:40:36 +0000

Are you looking at using cloud computing services in your business but feel like you don’t have enough information? Many business owners may feel this way

CenturyLink buys Portland cloud computing startup AppFog

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 08:02:47 +0000

CenturyLink has acquired a Portland startup called AppFog and will integrate it into a subsidiary called Savvis, according to several sources familiar with the deal, reported earlier tonight by GigaOm

Just Like Xbox One, PlayStation 4 Can Use Cloud Computing to be More Powerful, Says Sony

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 07:54:02 +0000

This generation there has been a lot of debate over which console has better specs – the PS3 is more powerful on paper, but the impossibly complicated Cell chip and low RAM means that most of that power is never tapped by third party developers

More Businesses Looking to Cloud Accounting Software

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 07:53:29 +0000

A recent survey of 750 small businesses found that they are still wasting too much time on administrative tasks that can be handled with new technology. Smart Company reports on June 14 that many of the tasks are related to accounting.

Rackspace launches hybrid cloud

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 07:36:12 +0000

Australia now has its first public cloud offering powered by open source software OpenStack, deemed the "hybrid cloud." Following the opening of the Rackspace Sydney datacentre in February 2013, today’s launch combines elements of public cloud, private cloud and/or dedicated servers, and allows them to work together as one infrastructure

Australian Government reaches for the computing clouds

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 07:31:09 +0000

On 29 May the minister for broadband and the digital economy, senator Stephen Conroy unveiled a National Cloud Computing Strategy aimed at realising a vision that “Australians will create and use world-class cloud services to boost innovation and productivity across the digital economy.”

Cloud computing: how can companies reduce the security risk?

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 08:01:37 +0000

In the last five years, organisations have increasingly embraced cloud applications to help them innovate and transform their business. Applications that automate sales processes, HR management, collaboration, email and file sharing are growing fast and enabling organisations to meet their needs in a shorter timeframe than ever before

Moving Computer Services to the Cloud Saves Energy

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 07:55:04 +0000

A six-month study led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) with funding from Google has found that moving common software applications used by 86 million U.S. workers to the cloud could save enough electricity annually to power Los Angeles for a year. The study, conducted with Northwestern University, is summarized in a report

How Infosys is using cloud for infrastructure optimization

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 07:49:20 +0000

Infosys started using the cloud in mid-2008 primarily for automation and things around it. The basic focus was built around how Infosys can move closer to IT users, Infosys clients and its partner ecosystem.

HP launches Cloud OS for Moonshot and other HP systems

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 07:43:36 +0000

On the second day of its annual HP Discover user conference in Las Vegas, Hewlett-Packard launched an OS designed specifically for cloud computing, called the HP Cloud OS. Initially, however, the software can only be obtained by purchasing HP systems

Metacloud Will Build, Run Your Private Cloud

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 07:38:26 +0000

OpenStack is a good foundation for a private cloud, but some say it's hard to master all the skills you need to get the different components to work together. Maybe Python isn't your thing. Still, you want your cloud operations to be on your hardware in your data center. OpenStack is one way to do it

Sony: PlayStation 4 Can Offload Computing to the Cloud.

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 07:33:55 +0000

Just like Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox One, Sony Computer Entertainment’s PlayStation 4 can offload heavy and latency insensitive computations to the cloud, according to Shuhei Yoshida, president of Sony Worldwide Studios. The PS4 has plenty of horsepower for virtually all game genres, but if it is not enough, the decision about usage of cloud computing is up to game developers

Developers can integrate cloud computing on PS4

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 07:27:29 +0000

Lack of online requirement will not deter devs from adopting cloud functions, says Yoshida PS4 developers will be able to offload some computing calculations to remote servers through the cloud, Sony’s worldwide studios president has said

Intel Pitches SSD Storage for Cloud, Big Data

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 07:22:47 +0000

The age of magnetic storage is on its way out. That's been clear for some time on PCs and mobile devices, where data tends more and more often to live in the cloud or flash memory than on local disks. But it's also becoming true for the servers that power the cloud itself, as solid-state disk (SSD) storage replaces traditional hard drives.

Computer scientists develop fun cloud computing solution

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 07:22:26 +0000

Computer scientists at the University of Glasgow have developed a working model of a cloud computing network using Lego bricks and mini-computers

World Cloud Computing Market 2013-2018

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 07:31:54 +0000

Companies are often held back by an inflexible and complex IT infrastructure that cannot keep up with the evolving needs of business. These restraints result in slow deployment of critical applications and services, limited resources, poor operation management, and unpredictable system integration. Yet cloud computing appears as a very lucrative and commercially interesting solution for many companies in this situation

HP launches Cloud OS for Moonshot and other HP systems

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 07:21:48 +0000

Raspberry Pi, Lego used to make cloud computing infrastructure

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 07:13:30 +0000

LONDON: Computer scientists have made a working model of multi-million pound cloud computing technology using just Lego bricks and a handful of £20 mini-computers.