View from the Cloud: Establishing ROI from Cloud Computing

admin — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:21:58 +0100

Cloud Computing has been described as a technological change brought about by the convergence of a number of new and existing technologies. But this is only half the story, says Mark Skilton of Capgemini.

These technical characteristics can also be found in non-disruptive technology solutions.

Cloud banking from Ganart

admin — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:50:55 +0100

A good example of what should become probable as the cloud separates services from technology stacks, making the latter a matter of appropriate choice, can be seen in the development of a critical financial transaction cloud datacentre by US-based Ganart Technologies.

What Ganart is aiming at is to bring consumable banking to the masses. It has put into the cloud software and systems that aim to offer customers consistency with their financial services from end to end.

The company’s datacentre is organised as a cloud.

AEP’s policy for security

admin — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:52:23 +0100

Today sees the launch of CloudProtect from network services company, AEP Networks. This is a security environment aimed at both end users looking to establish private clouds, and managed service providers looking to expand their range of service offerings.

View from the Cloud: Beyond the hype to Cloud's future

admin — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:36:30 +0100

Investment in Cloud Computing is expected to rocket significantly in coming years, according to recent findings of the technology analyst firm, Gartner. The analyst house predicts the global Cloud market will reach $148.8bn by 2014, up from $58.6bn in 2009.

HP and Dell come to blows over 3PAR

admin — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:32:12 +0100

Long-time computing rivals Dell and Hewlett Packard are locked in an increasingly aggressive bidding war for data storage solutions provider 3PAR.

CSC expands VCE collaboration

admin — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:27:19 +0100

Services giant CSC is expanding its alliance with the Virtual Computing Environment coalition (VCE), the collaboration of Cisco and EMC with Vmware.

Cloud brings new server approaches and a Probability

admin — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 12:25:57 +0100

Just as it looks like the hardware side of cloud infrastructures is close to becoming a 'done deal' built on commodity Intel x86-based servers, there are interesting signs that a new server `war’ might be on the verge of starting. Not only that, further out a new and radically different approach – probability computing – could fundamentally change the way we utilise servers and develop cloud architectures.

In the here and now there is already a groundswell of both interest and development going on around alternative processors.

Bright future for Brightpearl?

Neil Davey — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:44:31 +0100

SaaS start-up Brightpearl hopes that a deal with Google Apps Marketplace later this year will help push it into the big time.

Sand Clouds

admin — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:21:25 +0100

Packaging up solutions into the right, bite-sized pieces that user businesses can rapidly understand and digest is an important step in helping them make the transition from exclusive on-premise operations to a cloud-based operation. This is the thinking behind the announcement by Platform Computing of the Platform ISF Starter Pack.

Cloud Computing – the logistic fundament of Future Networked Care

admin — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:36:49 +0100

Patient centric care models are more and more superseding provider determined structures and hospital based care. There is evidence for associations between structural capabilities of health care providers and performance.