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Cloud Computing Growing on the Businesses Priority Front

16 May

Cloud Computing Journal

A survey of small and mid-size businesses found an interest in harnessing technology to improve business efficiency.Midsize businesses are turning to IT investments to grow their businesses and the larger the organization, the more likely it is to cite technology as having the greatest potential to increase productivity, according to a new survey of midmarket companies by Deloitte. The study shows cloud computing emerging as an investment priority. When asked what types of investments companies were likely to make in technology, 40 of the respondents cited cloud computing. That's close to automation of business processes (46 percent) and data analytics (41 percent), according to eWEEK."Interestingly, there seems to be a greater recognition of the benefits of cloud computing," the report stated. "In our September 2011 survey, it was recognized as a distant fourth as a means to increase productivity. In this survey, it nearly equaled data analytics and business intelligence in terms of likely investments."
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Cloud Computing and Mobile Processing Saves Small Business

16 May

Forbes.com - Business News

Cloud computing, put broadly, is a term used to describe any service available on the internet. More specifically, cloud computing refers to a hosting environment that leverages pooled computing resources by way of virtualization. Cloud computing takes existing physical servers and creates virtualized servers to exist on top of them. The virtual serves leverage the computing power of the entire infrastructure without necessarily being dependent on any given hardware. This makes the servers more powerful and more reliable.

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Cloud Computing Key to Fighting Data Loss

16 May

eWeek

Disaster recovery is a major stumbling block for businesses, but cloud computing technology can help, a CA survey suggests. - The amount of data created and held by companies is increasing exponentially and keeping it safe continues to be a major cause for concern. At the same time, cloud computing, rather than remaining a theoretical concept, is now a reality for a large proportion of organizations. A survey commissioned ...

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Structure 2012: the ongoing cloud computing evolution

15 May

GigaOM
GigaOM’s fifth annual Structure conference examines how cloud computing is changing the way business is done around the world. Hear from the leaders who are innovating, shaping and defining the cloud computing industry.
Here’s just a few of the hot topics we will cover:
- Why CIOs are finally getting over cloud phobia
- A cloud without borders: international market perspectives
- The state of global infrastructure performance
- Where big data meets the cloud
- No more data centers? Amazon’s big infrastructure store
- Big data will drive the network to become the computer
- Intelligence as a service: how artificial intelligence will disrupt markets
- What’s next for Microsoft?
- The force in government IT
Join us as we dissect where the cloud and data are going. Check out our full schedule here and our complete speaker list here.
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Silicon Valley legend John Sculley on cloud computing

15 May

www.guardian.co.uk

In this edition of Tech Weekly with Aleks Krotoski and Guardian Technology editor Charles Arthur, we look at the plight of Yahoo as turmoil at the top begs the question: what is Yahoo for?
Telecoms correspondent Juliette Garside discusses a Guardian survey of UK broadband speeds and why it appears that we are falling behind in the global rankings.
And Charles speaks to former Apple chief executive and Silicon Valley legend John Sculley about cloud computing, and why it will change health care provision in the US and innovate state services around the world.
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Cloud Computing Migration Showcased at Citrix Synergy

11 May

Topix - Computer Science News

Racemi, provider of technology that accelerates migrations to cloud computing, today announced it will be providing live demonstrations to showcase its SaaS migration service Cloud Path at the upcoming Citrix Synergy event.

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HP expands cloud computing services beta

11 May

Topix - Computer Science News

Preparing for its entry into the market for IaaS , Hewlett-Packard on Thursday launched a second beta program of cloud computing services it plans to offer commercially.

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Clearing up confusion about cloud computing

10 May

The San Antonio Business Journal

A lot of people still have their head in the clouds when it comes to the latest trends in computer technology.One of the biggest trends in recent years that still perplexes people is cloud computing. Cloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices as a utility over a virtual network.For people who still have trouble understanding how this works or who just want to mingle...

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6 Signs of a Maturing Cloud Computing Industry

10 May

Wired - Top Stories

I am continually surprised at how fast the cloud computing industry is maturing and growing. There is news everyday of radical advances in IT delivery through the cloud. Every industry goes through phases and growth pains until they reach maturation. Todd Nielsen highlights six phases currently in progress in the maturity of the cloud computing industry.

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Presentation: Panel: Multicore, Manycore, and Cloud Computing

10 May

InfoQ

Joshua Bloch, Robert Bocchino, Sebastian Burckhardt, Hassan Chafi, Russ Cox, Benedict Gaster, Guy Steele, David Ungar, and Tucker Taft discuss the future of computing in a multicore world. By Joshua Bloch, Robert Bocchino, Sebastian Burckhardt, Hassan Chafi, Russ Cox, Benedict Gaster, Guy Steele, David Ungar, and Tucker Taft

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