Thursday 29 July 2010
cloud computing report
Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “TecTrends Reporter: Cloud Computing Key Recent Media Coverage Issue 0907″ report to their offering.
This monthly edition of TecTrends Reporter considers the opportunities and challenges posed by cloud computing as an important new development in information technology. One of the most promising new computing models to
emerge in the recent past, cloud computing refers to the use of computing resources owned and operated by third-party providers that are available on-demand. A way of increasing capacity or adding new capabilities without investing in new infrastructure, cloud computing is a very appealing concept for IT managers. Still at an early stage in its evolution, cloud computing is already being offered by a diverse group of providers including Amazon.com, IBM, and Salesforce.com. How is cloud computing pushing beyond older models like utility computing and software-as-a-service? What challenges face this new approach to information services and data center management? This TecTrends Reporter considers both the opportunities and challenges posed by this important new development in information technology.
1. Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
2. Amazon Web Services (AWS)
3. Apple iPhone
4. Azure Services Platform
5. CentOS (Community ENTerprise Operating System)
6. Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
7. Force.com
8. Inc.
9. InformationWeek
10. Jigsaw
11. Jigsaw Data Fusion
12. Linux
13. MailShadow
14. Microsoft Active Directory
15. Microsoft Exchange Server
16. Microsoft Forefront
17. Microsoft System Center
18. Microsoft System Center Service Manager
19. Microsoft Windows Server
20. MobileMe
21. OpenOffice.org
22. ParaScale Cloud Storage (PCS)
23. Red Hat Linux
24. SAP Business Suite
25. Virtual Machine Manager
26. Windows 7
27. Windows Azure
Countries Covered:
- Denmark
- France
- Germany
- Hong Kong PRC
- United Kingdom
- United States
Key Topics Covered:]
- B2B (Business to Business) Marketpl
- BPM (Business Process Management)
- Business Intelligence
- Cloud Computing
- Computer Equipment
- Computer Networks
- Computer Security
- Computer Software
- Computing Virtualization
- Content Management
- Copyrights
- CRM
- Customer Relationship Management
- Data Analysis
- Email
- Enterprise Systems
- Entrepreneurs
- File Management
- Financial Information
- Globalization
- Information Management
- Integration Software
- Intellectual Property
- SaaS (Software as a Service)
- Search Engines
- SMB (Small & Midsized Businesses)
- Trendspotting
- Web 2.0
- Web Development
- Web Services
List of Articles:
- Article 1 What Technologies Sell in a Down Economy?
- Article 2 Search for Success: Information Discovery in the Effective Enterprise
- Article 3 How to Build Private Clouds
- Article 4 Jigsaw Launches Data Fusion
- Article 5 Bailouts, Stimuli, and Backups
- Article 6 Microsoft Unifying Cloud, Net Mgmt.
- Article 7 Jigsaw Debuts Data Cloud Service
- Article 8 The Cloud Does NAS Homegrown Video
- Article 9 Clouds on SAP’s Horizon
- Article 10 Storage in the Cloud
- Article 11 Desktops, the Final Frontier
- Article 12 Microsoft Tries Carrot to Fight China Piracy
- Article 13 MailShadow Syncs Corporate and Off-Site, Cloud-Based e-Mail
- Article 14 Web-Hosting Firms Defy Recession
- Article 15 Enter the Cloud
- Article 16 Golf Association Hooks Into IBM’s Cloud
- Article 17 How to Buy Cloud Computing Services
- Article 18 A Model That’s Right for the Times
- Article 19 Can You Trust the Cloud?
- Article 20 SaaS: Bailing Out Government IT
- Article 21 So Far, the Cloud Seems Too Leaky
- Article 22 Unlocking the Cloud
Companies Mentioned:
- Alibaba.com Corp
- Amazon.com Inc
- Bechtel Corp
- Capgemini SA
- Cemaphore Systems Inc
- Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA)
- eBay Inc
- Eli Lilly & Co
- EMC Corp
- Equinix Inc
- Gartner Group Inc
- Google Inc
- HyperStratus Inc
- IBM Corp
- IDC
- Internap Network Services Corp
- Isilon Systems Inc
- Jigsaw Data Corp
- Linux Foundation
- Netop Solutions A/S
- newScale Inc
- Oracle Corp
- Red Hat Inc
- SAP AG
- Sony Pictures Imageworks Inc
- Sun Microsystems Inc
- US Department of Defense (DoD)
- Voice of America (VOA)
- Xeround Inc
- Yankee Group Research Inc
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With the amount of sensitive content floating around enterprise content management systems it is hardly surprising that ‘security’ is becoming an increasingly important issue, especially given the number of companies that are beefing up their web presence. Only last week, US data and email security firm Websense introduced a new Web Gateway appliance that allows companies access Web 2.0 sites without security concerns. This week, UK-based Sword Group, a provider of high value and hi-tech business applications, has unveiled a new gadget that will allow enterprise content management integration for Google Apps. And the clincher — using the gadget can access complex ECM repositories that are firewalled up to the hilt.
Cue a chorus of commentary alleging how this shows that if you want to keep stuff private, don’t put it on the web, period, because cloud security is not ready for prime time and nothing is secure on the net. OK, so let’s go back to storing confidential company documents on laptops that people leave in cars or forget on trains, or transferring them on computer tape and CD-ROMs that couriers deliver to the wrong address, or backing them up to USB sticks that go missing, or forgetting to wipe them off the hard disks of office servers when we dispose of them (UPDATE: see Michael Krigsman’s post on the same topic for a catalog of examples). Cloud security is no different from real-world security. It’s just a matter of identifying the risks and containing them.
Users really like the convenience of the cloud — far too much for them to give it up — but the trouble is, they also like the convenience of authentication using a simple username-password pair. They haven’t yet figured out that’s far too little to separate your confidential data from a nefarious interloper, especially when the Web means that authentication will work from anywhere, which dramatically increases the threat level. Now it’s up to cloud providers to inflict the same pain on their users — for their own sake — to protect their data. We won’t like it, but we’ll put up with it because at the end of the day we’d rather jump through all those hoops than give up all the convenience the cloud brings us.
The 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, November 2-4, 2009, being held in the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA, more than 1,500 delegates will find out how cloud computing is transforming the way that enterprises everywhere build and deploy applications. Now held three times a
year - in New York, Prague, and Santa Clara - the Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series is the fastest-growing Enterprise IT event, devoted to every aspect of delivering massively scalable enterprise IT as a service. The event is co-located with our 7th International Virtualization Conference & Expo.
4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo in November will introduce two new and dedicated tracks - “SOA in the Cloud” and “RIAs in the Cloud” - which will examine how service oriented architecture, AJAX, rich internet applications, enterprise mashups, social media and Web 2.0 find their new place in
the Cloud.
Today, the computer giant is launching a new service at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston. Called Sametime 3D, this virtual world is mundane and workaday on purpose. Instead of exotic islands and futuristic nightclubs, IBM’s digital universe features conference tables, a gigantic appointment calendar, and a flip chart. At least one of the avatars, the computer-created characters that stand in for real people using the service, is wearing a tie. This unlikely business product is one of three new projects from the Boston-area IBM Lotus team, all designed to offer the appeal of the latest personal software ideas in office applications.
Besides the virtual world, the group’s products include Twitter-like “micro-blogging’’ as part of a Facebook-style social networking application, and a service that enables “cloud computing’’ - using remote computers connected by the Internet to do work that has traditionally been performed on a local machine. Sametime 3D enables users of Lotus’s instant-messaging client, Sametime, to set up and use virtual meeting spaces, select colleagues from their Lotus Sametime contact list, and invite them to take part in a virtual meeting. LotusLive Connections, which will be available next week, brings some trendy cloud-computing features to Lotus users, allowing them to share documents and data that are hosted “in the cloud’’ - meaning, on easily accessible Web servers. IBM’s Lotus is not alone in adding Web 2.0 features. Microsoft’s SharePoint product, which competes with Lotus, does not have virtual places or micro-blogging, but it has incorporated Web 2.0 features like blogs, wikis, and Facebook -style networking.
Product that challenges assumptions and pursues a solution that’s so simple and obvious that it could never survive the extended process by which conventional consumer hardware is developed and produced. It’s called the CrunchPad. Or it will be, after it’s finally demonstrated and shipped (“as soon as possible” is the only timeframe its makers will commit to, for now; check out CrunchPad.com for info and demo videos). It’s an 18mm thick tablet computer built like a S’More. At the bottom, there’s a crisp layer of a netbook-class computer. Then, a marshmallow-sweet software layer consisting of a WebKit-based web browser. They top the whole thing off with a full-sized 12” color touchscreen display.
The apparent lack of personal, local storage is annoying. But even here, Web 2.0 rides to the rescue via cloud storage services that allows you to put gigabytes of personal documents and media in a private directory, where you can play and view media files through any browser window. Hell, a $99 PogoPlug would allow me to share my office’s current USB desktop drives to the CrunchPad from anywhere in the world.
RedPeak Solutions has successfully combined the skills, expertise and process optimization to deliver winning cloud solutions to enterprises of all sizes,” said Bert Armijo, SVP Sales, Marketing and Product Management, 3Tera, Inc. “As cloud computing matures, we are seeing a greater need for consulting and deployment services to transition traditional applications to the cloud. Having RedPeak Solutions facilitating the cloud computing deployments will accelerate customer adoption. RedPeak Solutions, a cloud computing consulting expert and managed services provider, announced today a strategic partnership with 3Tera(R), Inc., the leading innovator of cloud computing technology and utility computing services, to provide consulting, implementation and deployment services enabling companies to accelerate time to market by combining the right type of cloud solution - internal, public or hybrid - to fit their business needs. Target customers include enterprises, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers, Web 2.0 companies and software development and quality assurance organizations that are moving to cloud environments using 3Tera’s award-winning AppLogic(TM) cloud computing platform.
Tom McKee, Manager of Marketing Communications at Ferrotec USA said, “RedPeak Solutions is great to work with as they’ve supported our online efforts with new Web applications that enable us to differentiate our offering from the competition.” He went on to say, “working with them has been easy, efficient, and in-budget.” RedPeak Solutions worked with our IT team to design a grid-based/cloud-based solution that scales to meet our business needs. With the underlying AppLogic platform, moving our site from a traditional physical infrastructure to a grid solution was perfect for our needs.”
