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, [...]

Legacy Systems May Be Nearing a Dead End - Featuring CoreSite SVP David Dunn

6.27.11 | The Epoch Times | Written by: James O. Grundvig
“We are entering cloud nirvana,” David Dunn, senior vice president of the cloud storage company Coresite, said at the 8th annual Cloud Computing Expo in New York City held at the Jacob Javits Center.
Invited on stage by Interxion, a Netherlands datacenter firm, Mr. Dunn was referring to the [...]

What NYSE’s Adoption of Cloud Computing Means for the Industry

6.20.11 | CloudTweaks | Written by: Sourya Biswas
All of us, at some point in our childhoods have encountered this maxim, drilling into our young minds the supposed correlation between early bedtimes and physical, intellectual and financial vigor. It’s no coincidence that after writing about the possible physical (as in health) implications of cloud computing (See: Health Care’s Reservations [...]

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 [...]

Multi-Tenancy Misconceptions in Cloud Computing

6.11.11 | Cloud Computing on Ulitzer | Written by: Srinivasan Sundara Rajan
One of the biggest benefits of the cloud, ‘Dynamic Scaling,’ goes hand-in-hand with multi tenancy. If your application has a fixed group of users, you can easily predict the server load and still handle it with a typical data center. However, a large number [...]

The Cloud: Stop Selling Ingredients, Start Selling Chocolate Cake

Joe Panettieri | 6.11.11 | www.talkincloud.com
Managed services providers are guilty of selling cloud “ingredients” and need to start selling cloud as part of a larger “chocolate cake” to SMB customers. That’s the key message from TruMethods CEO Gary Pica and CTO Bob Penland, addressing roughly 150 MSPs during the Schnizzfest conference this morning in Philadelphia, [...]

The Evolution of the Cloud

Tom Eagle | Layered Tech | Marketing Director
What began as an intensely hyped technology offering to reduce CapEx is now an established business IT strategy that continues to support enterprises’ business goals in innovative ways. Whether you work at a startup or Fortune 500 company, cloud hosting is changing the way we all do business.
In [...]