Cloud News From Sys-Con

• Cloud Management: The Agentless Approach
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• Cisco - More than Half of Workloads to be Cloud
  More than 50 percent of all workloads will be processed in the cloud by 2014. This statement comes from a Cisco “Global Cloudâ€� whitepaper, which examines the current state of things and guesses where we'll be at in 2015. It also forecasts a 22-percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) for cloud datacenters, with the share of workloads handled by th […]
• The Business Value of Cloud Computing: Collaboration
  Cloud computing has caught the attention of business leaders around the world in every industry because of its enormous transformative potential. Visionary companies know that the value of the cloud is far greater than the current focus solely on technology and operating costs: when combined with a collaborative approach to designing processes, cloud computi […]
• How Quickly Will Software Vendors Move to the Cloud?
  There’s an excellent discussion going on over on the Cloud Computing Google Group about the pace of migration of traditional software to a SaaS model. Here I recently went into some of the very real reasons why the migration is slower than some would like, but didn’t really talk about the pace of adoption. There are some numbers that make for some intere […]
• CloudFlare CEO: China is Company's Second-Largest Market
  Yesterday, I posted the first part of an interview I recently had with Matthew Prince, co-founder and CEO of CloudFlare. Here's the rest of the interview... Cloud Computing Journal: Like it or not, you get dragged into censorship discussions, whether the topic was your customer LulzSec earlier this year, or some government's attempt to quash a site […]
• Is Big Data a Solution in Search of a Problem?
  If you look at the predictions made for 2012, you will find a new entry which was not there last year. Be it Gartner, Forrester or McKenzie – “Big Dataâ€� finds a place in the prediction. So, what is big data? Is it the next path breaking technology which will change everything or is it just a hype which will die down after sometime?read more […]
• Getting Started with EMC Atmos Backup
  EMC Atmos is used in many places now. It is used by well know service providers such as AT&T Synaptic Storage or Peer 1 CloudOne. As we learned from our customers recently, it can also be used by private enterprise to backup data from employee’s local C drive.read more […]
• Open Data Center Alliance Named “Bronze Sponsorâ€� of Cloud Expo New York
  SYS-CON Events announced today that The Open Data Center Alliance, an independent organization that gives stakeholders a voice in shaping the future of cloud computing, has been named “Bronze Sponsorâ€� of SYS-CON's 10th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 11–14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York. The Open Dat […]
• Cloud Needs Application Architects to Understand IaaS
  Application development has been moving in the direction of platform abstraction. That is, the need for developers to have detailed knowledge of the infrastructure that the application was being deployed on was becoming less important with increasing sophistication of the application platform for which they were developing. Cloud computing is now reversing t […]
• Stop Buying Database Licenses: You Have All the Capacity You Need
  Any organization that has deployed a business application has experienced the joy of procuring database licenses. Most database software licensing models are based on the quantity and type of compute processing cores in the underlying database server – the more cores in the processor and the more processors in the server box, the higher the cost of the dat […]