Cisco Survey: The Mobile Cloud Office Generation

9.26.11 | CloudTweaks | Written by: Kiril Kirilov | Cisco Survey
The Internet Is Fundamental Resource for the Humankind, Cisco Survey
Future leaders, workers, and customers will rely increasingly on cloud resources
More than half of all students and young professionals consider Internet as an “integral part of their lives,” according to Cisco’s Connected World Technology Report 2011. In [...]

The Importance of Knowing the Difference Between Virtualization and Cloud Computing

9.23.11 | CloudTweaks | Written by: Charles Buck, COO and Co-Founder of independenceIT
Microsoft raised some eyebrows when Corporate VP Brad Anderson boldly proclaimed that, “Virtualizations is not cloud computing.” While this statement garnered a lot of buzz due to its timing – Anderson said this during the VMWorld annual event – that doesn’t make this statement [...]

Infographic: The Cloud Computing Stratosphere

  9.3.11 | Cloudtweaks

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The Carrier’s Role in the Cloud

Russell Weiss | InfoRelay Online Systems | President
“To the Cloud!” exclaims a couple in one of Microsoft’s TV commercials for Windows Live, advertising how the couple can use Windows Live while at the airport to watch a TV show that they have recorded on their PC at home. Perhaps commercials like these contribute to the [...]

I Want Cloud Apps, Not Just Cloud Servers! – Part 2

8.15.11 | Ulitzer, Inc | Written by: Sam Somashekar
In Part I, I talked about how it is important to think about cloud use from the application’s point of view. We need to digitally centralize our best-practice institutional knowledge so that it can be used to easily replicate application environments from development to test, and then [...]

Consumers Don’t Know What “Cloud Computing” Is, Even Though They Use It

8.9.11 | Ulitzer, Inc | Written by: Pat Romanski
NPD’s “Digital Software and the Cloud Report” Covers Both Consumer Familiarity with and Use of Cloud Computing
According to a recent study from The NPD Group, a market research company, just 22 percent of U.S. consumers were familiar with the term “cloud computing,” which denotes software applications or [...]

I Want Cloud Apps, Not Just Cloud Servers! – Part I

8.9.11 | Ulitzer, Inc | Written by: Sam Somashekar
It is amazing how I continue to hear people talk about how they are still not familiar with “cloud”, what it is and how it will help their specific business. Just the other day I spoke to a customer prospect who believed they had a private cloud [...]

mindSHIFT CEO: Cloud is More Secure than On Premise

6.27.11 | Talkin’ Cloud | Written by: Nicholas Mukhar
mindSHIFT Technologies, a Talkin’ Cloud Top 50 company, has been providing shared IT services for SMBs for the last eight years. A few years ago the company changed its business model to reflect the shift of IT services into the cloud — a move that has paid off for mindSHIFT, [...]

Cloud Data Centers: Goodbye SAS 70, Hello SSAE 16

6.11.11 | Talkin’ Cloud | Written by: Joe Panettieri

When customers and channel partners seek cloud data centers, they often ask about SAS 70 auditing standard. But starting June 15, 2011, the focus started to shift to SSAE 16 — a new standard that seeks to give data center customers and partners more peace of mind. True believers include [...]

Cloud Market: Rites of Passage

6.16.11 | Cloud Computing on Ulitzer | Written by: Greg O’Connor
It’s taken roughly eight Cloud Expos to move from “Cloud what?” to “Cloud how?”
Blink twice and “Can we get a puppy?” becomes “Can I take the car tonight?”  Cloud computing took a little longer.  By my calculation, it’s taken roughly eight Cloud Expos to move [...]