Many small businesses are still uncertain about cloud computing and wonder if it can help boost profitability without being extremely risky. To figure it out, it’s best to start by defining cloud computing in small business terms. There are two commonly agreed upon types of cloud computing: 1) software-as-a-service and 2) infrastructure-as-a-service. Software-as-a-service (SaaS) refers to cloud computing where the software you would normally install on your office computers is instead delivered over the Internet. […]
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UT Dallas Computer Scientists Make Advances in Key Aspects of Growing Field. The decision three years ago by UT Dallas researchers to bolster their efforts in the field of cloud computing is paying dividends: Not only do they now have $5 million in cloud-related research, but their graduate students find they have their choice of internships and job offers. Indeed, two recent PhD graduates have been hired by leading corporate players in the field, Amazon.com […]
According to reports issued over the weekend, the US federal government has chosen 100 data centers to close over the course of this year, part of a larger overall government plan to reduce IT spending, in large part through outsourcing operations to hosting service providers. The government’s plan involves moving resources to “cloud computing” environments, which in a lot of old school IT organizations (and as US organization go, the federal government is pretty old-school) […]
US ambassador to the EU calls for solidarity. The EU and the US must work together to offer a credible response to the emergence of cloud computing, the US ambassador to the EU told a conference this week. William Kennard, a former head of the Federal Communications Commission, said that there was a “new sense of urgency” to debates about privacy, intellectual property rights (IPR) and data protection, because of the increasingly rapid move towards […]
If you came here for the article with the title, “How Cloud Computing Helps a Business Grow”, unfortunately, it has been removed at the request of the publisher of the website from which it was obtained. Asking me to remove it was within their rights, but I believe it was a shortsighted decision based on old media ideas about the copyright “protection” of assets and the imagined potential loss of ad revenue. I am not […]
Say what you will about about the constant appearance of cloud computing as the buzz phrase of the moment in tech circles. For all its vaunted simplification of corporate computing environments that lead to billions in cost savings, here’s a metric that trumps them all: Saving five lives. I learned today about a complicated five-way kidney transplant operation that took place on Friday at San Francisco’s California Pacific Medical Center involving five surgeons, four anesthesiologists, […]
This cloud computing video discusses hosted desktops and virtualization. meshIP uses Quest vWorkspace as part of its public cloud service offering:
When it comes to outsourcing, you ain’t seen nothing yet. Coming up is not just more outsourcing, although that will happen. As the industry evolves, and as new technology comes into play–based in the cloud–IT services will become different in kind. They will have a lot to do with strategy; and the changes may fundamentally change the economics of some industries, resulting in new winners and losers. That’s the message I heard in Mumbai earlier […]
I don’t typically read the Army Times, but a few days ago I ended up there while searching for info on the U.S. federal government’s adoption of cloud computing. The page I landed on was all but astonishing. Army General Keith Alexander, commander of U.S. Cyber Command and director of the National Security Agency, was explaining why cloud computing is secure enough for the Department of Defense (DOD). Alexander was answering questions before a House […]
With nearly one-third of healthcare sector decision-makers already using cloud-based applications and 73 percent saying they are planning to move more applications to the cloud, it’s time to take a serious look at the business opportunity offered and determine what healthcare in the cloud really means. The Cloud Means Savings The cost advantages that cloud computing offers are enticing, especially in a time when healthcare organizations are investing in robust computing technology as part of […]