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IBM Sitting Pretty on Oracle-Sun Debacle

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:30:00 EST

It's my contention that we're only now entering the true data-driven decade. And all that data needs to run somewhere. And it's not going to be in MySQL, no matter who ends up owning it.

Majority of Cisco Shareholders Urge "Say on Executive Pay"

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:15:00 EST

Christian Brothers Investment Services (CBIS), a leader in socially responsible investing (SRI) for Catholic institutions, announced that a majority of shareholders voted in support of its "say on executive pay" proxy resolution at the Cisco Systems' annual meeting of shareholders. Fifty-one percent voted in favor of the resolution. Cisco initially declared the vote "too close to determine" and therefore declined to report it with the other preliminary vote results.

The Case for Market Based Patent Reform

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:15:00 EST

In the wake of the financial crisis and its attendant repercussions across the global economy, the U.S. Congress stands poised to address the issue of patent reform. Much debated and long anticipated, patent reform legislation is back under consideration with the bill possibly coming up for vote, prior to the end of 2009. Under the stewardship of a set of legislators well sensitized to the salient issues and with the thoughtful counsel of David Kappos, President Obama’s business savvy head of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the stars are aligning to usher in legislation that promises to offer significant advances in an arena that has been overdue for reform.

Internet Security Suite and Antivirus Software

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:30:00 EST

In recent days, there has been increase in virus and other security related threats, inorder to combat those a powerful security program needs to installed in the computer to safeguard our digital assets inculding passwords, banking details, SSN, and our other confidential details and data.

3Tera to Demonstrate Global Cloud Computing Solutions at Cloud Expo

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:15:00 EDT

3Tera®, the leading provider of cloud computing technology and utility computing services, announces Peter Nickolov, President and CTO, 3Tera will be participating in two speaking sessions at the 2009 Cloud Computing Conference and Expo (http://cloudcomputingexpo.com) on November 2-4 in Santa Clara, California.

CTOedge: Better Collaboration Tools Than Google

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:15:00 EDT

Google has certainly been busy building a lot of different software tools that can be used for collaboration, including Google Docs, Google Voice, Google Sites (formerly Jotspot) and Google Calendar. But there are a number of specialized tools that are more useful than these Google services for particular circumstances. These can be big productivity boosts for enterprises.

Study Says Economics Not A Driving Factor in Cloud Computing Adoption

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:15:00 EDT

Paul Miller, who pens Cloud of Data, had an interesting perspective during a chat this week on what effect infrastructure upgrade cycles might have on cloud computing adoption. Paul postulated that as these servers fail and organizations have to make the decision to replace or not replace them that cloud computing becomes a more viable option. That seems a reasonable assumption, especially if the primary reason organizations are evaluating cloud computing is driven by a desire to reduce costs. But in a recent post Paul posits this might not be the case, citing a recent ongoing study from Avanade in which C-level executives were asked, among other questions, how the economic climate effected their decisions regarding cloud. Interestingly “only 13% suggesting it had ‘helped’ adoption plans and 58% reporting ‘no effect.’”

In my conversations with Nick Carr and others, there’s been an underlying presumption (on my part, as well as theirs) that cost-saving arguments with respect to Cloud Computing would prove persuasive and compelling. It would appear not. This would suggest, of course, that Enterprise adopters are taking to the Cloud for reasons other than the budget sheet…

I’ll come back to this, as I’m not convinced there is a direct correlation between external economics and internal budgets, at least in this case. But let’s go with that for a moment. Assuming there are budgetary constraints on organizations what else would drive adopters to cloud computing and where are they getting the money?

Our own research on this subject found that efficiency, not reduction of costs, was the primary driver for public cloud computing adoption and that despite budgetary constraints 71% of organizations would see an increase in fund allocation for the purposes of public and private cloud computing initiatives. But a reduction in capital expenses still ranked high with 68% of respondents citing a reduction in capital expenses as a driver toward public cloud computing and 63% citing the same as a driver for private cloud computing.

ISN’T THAT CONTRADICTORY?

It seems so, doesn’t it? If organizations are interested in cloud computing as a means to reduce capital expenses then why would we be seeing an increase in spending on cloud computing initiatives, especially private cloud computing which almost certainly requires capital expenditures to achieve? After all, there’s virtualization software, improvements in infrastructure, and management systems that need to be in place for the successful implementation of a private cloud computing environment.

Perhaps the budget increases are coming at the expense of other areas in IT. Let us consider the aforementioned study on server failure:

In round numbers, the scheduled replacement of some three million servers worldwide, or about 3 percent of all servers, has been delayed, Peter Sondergaard, Gartner's global head of research, said today at the research firm's Symposium/ITxpo 2009 conference here. He added that the number of delayed replacements should reach 10 percent of all servers by 2010.

Certainly one way to reduce capital expenses is to not purchase new servers. But the servers that will begin to fail certainly have applications deployed on them that are if not critical at least important to the business, otherwise they would not have hardware dedicated to them. So where are those applications going? Virtual machines, most likely. Consolidated onto newer, more reliable hardware capable of supporting many applications contained within virtual machines. Virtualization is a primary enabler of consolidation efforts, which in turn reflects in IT budgets as reductions in capital expenditures.

Shifting the budget that would normally be allocated to acquire new hardware to virtualization and cloud computing initiatives, both public and private, would certainly explain an increase in funds available for cloud computing. This would also explain why external economic factors do not appear to be, according to Avanade’s study, a driving factor in cloud computing adoption.

COSTS STILL A FACTOR

It’s still important to remember that Avanade’s study doesn’t indicate that reducing costs isn’t a driver for cloud computing, it just says that external economics aren’t really playing a role in decision-making at this time. In fact within the study is this little nugget indicating cost savings are, in fact, an important factor in cloud computing adoption:

Companies are under equal pressure to innovate and save money and, many are turning to new technology as a way to do this. The vast majority of respondents (85 percent) report that their company’s rate of new technology adoption is either increasing or staying the same (83 percent in the United States).

But if we assume that organizations are shifting allocation of funds rather than asking for bigger budgets, then it is possible that economic constraints have little effect on adoption of cloud computing. If cloud computing initiatives required funding without reducing other existing budgets then it would be more likely that adoption rates would be slower than what is shown in both Avanade and F5 research and more folks in the Avanade research might have indicated that economics were in fact impacting their adoption plans.

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Lately I seem to feel like that 80's Rock Band that had that one big hit, doomed to play the same song night after night. In my case I happened to stumble upon this thing called Cloud Computing a little earlier then most. Over the last 6 years or so I've watched as the concept of outsourced web centric IT go from a fringe concept to an overly hyped, albeit under adopted buzz word. I've watched just about anything with the word "cloud" attached to it take off.

Ecosystem is the Killer App for Cloud Computing

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Why SOA Needs Cloud Computing - Part 1

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:30:00 EDT

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Red Hat Navigates the Summer Doldrums Well

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:30:00 EDT

Red Hat did slightly better than the Wall Street pundits supposed it would in its last quarter, the dreaded summer months of June through August in the midst of an awful year. Boosted by a tax benefit, earnings were up 29% to $27.5 million, or 15 cents a share or 16 cents (non-GAAP), on revenue up 12% year-over-year to $183.6 million against expectations of 15 cents on $179.1 million.

Five Reasons to Choose a Private Cloud

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:45:00 EDT

As enterprise interest in cloud computing offerings and concepts continues to increase, the number of solutions in both the public and private cloud spaces increases as well. Theres been much debate over public versus private cloud, even to the point of debating whether there can be such a thing as a private cloud. Im not here to debate the latter (in my opinion the location of the service has nothing to do with whether or not it is a cloud), but rather I want to take a look into why consumers would choose private clouds over their public counterparts.

SYS-CON White Paper: Velociti Partners Customer Survey

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:30:00 EDT

JBoss' expert technical support services are clearly acknowledged by its client base as well as the comprehensive nature by which their service is unsurpassed. Every category that was evaluated resulted in JBoss rating higher than the competition. More important, JBoss' performance has yielded unprecedented customer loyalty as evidenced by its favorable quantitative loyalty rating.

Red Hat Aims To Grind a Magic Key To Unlock All Clouds

Sat, 05 Sep 2009 10:00:00 EDT

Red Hat Thursday unveiled Deltacloud, a new open source project aimed at enabling an ecosystem of developers, tools, scripts and applications that can interoperate across the public and private clouds complements of a common REST-based API that developers can write to once and manage anywhere. Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens claims the breakthrough will be “epic.” Currently, he said, each infrastructure-as-a-service cloud uses a unique API that developers and ISVs have to write to in order to consume the cloud service. Red Hat imagines using Deltacloud to start an instance on an internal cloud, then with the same code start another on EC2 or Rackspace. It says it will protect apps from “cloud API changes and incompatibilities.”

Cloud Gets Endorsement From Events

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:45:00 EDT

Many of the concepts first proposed and extolled during the Internet hype curve in the mid-1990s are now bearing fruit. Perhaps we should think of cloud computing as less than a separate hype curve, and more as the realization of the original Internet value curve , now some 15 years into its mainstream maturity.

Red Hat Unveils DeltaCloud Interoperability Broker & API

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 09:15:00 EDT

Yesterday, Red Hat announced a new DeltaCloud Interoperability API Framework with the goal of enabling an ecosystem of developers, tools, scripts, and applications which can interoperate across the public and private clouds. The open source project is built using Ruby as described as a cloud broker. The broker comes complete with drivers that map the API to both public clouds like EC2, and private virtualized clouds based on VMWare and Red Hat Enterprise Linux with integrated KVM. (Think of it like Red Hat's Libvirt project for cloud service providers)

Red Hat Announces Enhancements to Enterprise Linux Management Solutions

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:15:00 EDT

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Red Hat Launches Catalyst Program

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 08:34:00 EDT

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Red Hat Executives Live from Red Hat Summit on September 2

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:15:00 EDT

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Red Hat Remakes Its Reseller Program

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:00:00 EDT

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Hadoop Company Closes Series B Funding

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:15:00 EDT

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SaaS Solutions Make Customer Service “the Other R&D”

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:45:00 EDT

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Rackspace Sends Its Cloud API to Public Beta

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Thu, 12 Feb 2009 06:00:00 EST

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