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SkyDrive Builds Up Syncing, Downsizes Free Space April 24, 2012 
Microsoft is giving its SkyDrive cloud storage service a makeover that will include new apps and greater synchronization abilities across mobile and PC devices. The new service includes SkyDrive for the Windows desktop, so it can be managed right from Windows Explorer or from SkyDrive.com.
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Cloud Insecurity: Not Enough Tools, Experience or Transparency April 18, 2012 
It may be that the hype around cloud computing has settled, but security concerns continue to make headlines and are often cited by CIOs as top priorities. CompTIA's latest trends study found that while many U.S. companies trust the cloud enough to use it, only 13 percent trust it enough for heavy lifting.
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Greenpeace Lambastes Apple, Amazon, Microsoft for Creating Foul Clouds April 17, 2012 
Behind every cloud there supposedly is a silver lining, but a new report from Greenpeace, titled "How Clean Is Your Cloud?" may mean stormy weather for Apple, Amazon and Microsoft. The three tech giants use "dirty" energy to power their data centers, Greenpeace said. It looked at 14 of the largest tech companies' data centers and offered assessments of how much power they required, as well as what type of energy they used.
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Is Google Drive Ready to Hit the Road? April 17, 2012 
Cloud-based storage utility Google Drive is set to debut next week. Rumors regarding a Google online storage space have persisted for years, but it's actual release is now just around the corner. The cloud storage system will be available for free, and Google will give new users 5 GB of free space. It will work across Windows, OS X and various mobile platforms.
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Look Who's Going to the Big Data Party April 13, 2012 
The exponential growth of data from a widening array of sources is making the term "Big Data" a hot topic among corporate executives from businesses of all sizes across nearly every industry.
The Big Data phenomenon is being fueled by new social networks, mobile devices and increasingly powerful applications that can apture every keystroke and convert it into valuable information.
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Thin Clients Alive and Kicking April 10, 2012 
In the years since thin client computing arrived on the IT scene, it has been pronounced dead, only to arise again more often than Jason in the "Friday the 13th" film franchise. That's not due to any quality of its underlying architecture. In fact, thin client engineering is often elegant in the extreme and makes clever use of au courant mainstream technologies. What does this have to do with Dell's recently proposed acquisition of Wyse?
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The Cloud's Booming Potential for the Networked Economy April 09, 2012 
It's impossible to factor the implications of cloud computing without examining the context of all the other major business and technology trends in play today. To gauge the potential business benefits -- and threats -- from cloud, we also need to examine the confluence of these developments and how together they change businesses and business ecosystems.
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Making the Most of Chrome in the Cloud April 05, 2012 
I've got a mini-laptop hooked up to my TV, a larger laptop on my desk, a 7-inch tablet in my back pocket for reading at coffee shops, a 10-incher that floats around the loft and rarely goes outside, and a 4.3-inch smartphone that works well on crowded transportation systems -- all lacking in synchronicity.
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Building a Private-Cloud Home for Complex Ops April 02, 2012 
Worldwide enterprise applications leader SAP has designed and implemented a private cloud infrastructure model that supports an internal consulting and training program. By standardizing on a VMware cloud platform, SAP has been able to slash provisioning times for multiple instances of its flagship application suite in the training setting, as well as set the stage for wider adoption of cloud models.
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Customer Relationship Metrics Takes On the Unstructured Data Challenge April 02, 2012 
Customer Relationship Metrics has launched Text BI, its latest offering in its suite of managed analytics solutions. Text BI enables companies to take unstructured text-based data from surveys, emails, social media, CRM systems and other applications, and organize it into a format that makes it easier to analyze.
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Amazon Adds a Hint of Eucalyptus to AWS March 27, 2012 
Amazon Web Services has teamed up with private cloud infrastructure provider Eucalyptus in a move that could enable the deployment of hybrid clouds. Hybrid clouds are a combination of internal private clouds and external public clouds.
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The Proper Care and Feeding of Highly Virtualized Environments March 26, 2012 
Advanced and pervasive virtualization and cloud computing trends are driving the need for a better, holistic approach to IT support and remediation. And while the technology to support and fix virtualized environments is essential, it's the people, skills and knowledge to manage these systems that provide the most decisive determinants of ongoing performance success.
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Microsoft Dynamics ERP Is Bound for Azure Glory March 26, 2012 
Microsoft is stepping up its cloud strategy, with the announcement that it will port its Microsoft Dynamics enterprise resource planning software to Windows Azure this year. The company outlined plans for the transition at Convergence 2012, held last week in Houston. Dynamics NAV 2013 and Dynamics GP 2013, optimized for small and mid-sized businesses, will be added to Azure in the fourth quarter of 2012.
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The Insurgents and the Status Quo March 21, 2012 
If you read Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson, you get a good sense of the rivalry between Jobs and Bill Gates and Microsoft, or between Apple and the rest of the world more generally. But the rivalries were really between that past/present -- and the future -- and Jobs and Gates were only playing parts that were scripted long ago. The play's outlines are of insurgent new ideas against the status quo.
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New Avaya Service Allows Selective Outsourcing of Communications Ops March 16, 2012 
Avaya is formalizing an outsourcing service it has been offering select clients for the past year. The service, Avaya Communications Outsourcing Solutions, manages all of a company's communications operations, regardless of age, location or vendor. It is part of the company's portfolio of Managed Services. "This is a custom managed service targeted at companies in the enterprise space as opposed to the mid- sized space," said Avaya's Ed Nalbandian.
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It's ASP All Over Again March 14, 2012
One of my favorite Mark Twain quotes is, "History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes." I thought of it again last week when I read about the price war going on in the Infrastructure as a Service space. Larry Dignon made the clever observation that he paid more for electricity in January than it cost to get IT infrastructure now that Microsoft and Amazon have decided to double down on the infrastructure game.
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The Cloud Computing Paradigm Shift Is Bigger Than IT March 13, 2012 
Information technology leaders in the U.S. government have been promoting cloud technologies for more than a year. In December 2010, the federal chief information officer launched an IT reform plan that required agencies to start adopting cloud technologies. At the time, some agencies had already implemented cloud solutions, and since then many others have initiated cloud programs.
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No Cloud Apps at Your Company? Don't Just Blame IT March 09, 2012 
Corporate concerns about potential Internet security risks have skyrocketed, not only because of Facebook, Twitter and other popular social networking tools, but also as a result of the rising unilateral adoption of Software as a Service and other cloud services by business end-users without the authorization of corporate IT.
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Cloud University March 07, 2012 
How do you e-pledge a sorority? We may soon find out. The world of higher education is changing rapidly, with the number of college students taking face-to-face classes expected to fall from more than 14 million in 2010 to only 4 million in 2015, making it level with the number of online students. The global e-learning market market is ripe for the taking. There will be fortunes made in the delivery of new educational systems.
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Cloud Computing: Revolution vs. Evolution March 03, 2012 
Andy Mulholland is the global chief technology officer and corporate vice president at Capgemini. In 2009, Andy was voted one of the top 25 most influential CTOs in the world by InfoWorld. And in 2010, his CTO Blog was voted best blog for business managers and CIOs for the third year running by Computer Weekly.
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