Cloud Computing Growing on the Businesses Priority Front
A survey of small and mid-size businesses found an interest in harnessing
technology to improve business efficiency.
Midsize businesses are turning to IT investments to grow their businesses and
the larger the organization, the more likely it is to cite technology as
having the greatest potential to increase productivity, according to a new
survey of midmarket companies by Deloitte.
The study shows cloud computing emerging as an investment priority. When
asked what types of investments companies were likely to make in technology,
40 of the respondents cited cloud computing. That's close to automation of
business processes (46 percent) and data analytics (41 percent), according to
eWEEK.
"Interestingly, there seems to be a greater recognition of the benefits of
cloud computing," the report stated. "In our Septem... (more)
Two years ago, Rackspace joined a global collaboration of developers and
cloud computing technologists to create an open source cloud computing
platform that can be used with both private and public cloud formats. Now the
code for the program, OpenStack, is freely available and is being used by a
number of corporations, service providers, researchers, data centers, and
others.
Based on the growing numbers of companies turning to OpenStack, the original
developers were obviously onto an idea that has proven popular. But why have
companies turned to it?
"We chose OpenStack becaus... (more)
HP have joined the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) market and released
their HP Cloud service in public beta. Here’s the announcement press
release. The services on offer are:
Available Now as Public Beta
Compute – on-demand server instances. Cloud Object Storage – object-based
storage using RESTful APIs. Content Delivery Network – local distribution
of web content.
Still in Private Beta
Cloud Block Storage – persistent data for compute images Relational
Database for MySQL – managed cloud databases
There’s also the HP Identity Service for managing key & token access
managem... (more)
All the buzz surrounding OpenStack over the past few months may beg the
question of whether Openstack can repeat for Cloud what Linux has done for
server operating systems over the past several years. With an enthusiastic
following and a compelling, if not industry-leading set of functionality, the
possibilities may be boundless. This week’s announcement of the HP Cloud
public beta, an OpenStack-based cloud that includes compute, object storage
and a content delivery network, provides even further momentum to this open
source effort. With well-known vendors such as HP, Rackspace ... (more)
Adobe Systems on Tuesday announced the availability of Adobe® CQ Cloud
Manager, a Software-as-a-Service application that provides enterprises the
ability to easily and quickly launch marketing initiatives in the cloud. With
CQ Cloud Manager, part of the Adobe Digital Marketing Suite, digital
marketers have access to an integrated set of cloud-hosted Web Experience
Management (WEM) services to create, manage, measure and optimize
personalized experiences on websites, mobile devices and social media.
Organizations have the flexibility to work with interactive agencies and
infrastr... (more)
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