Tag: Cloud Computing
How will Cloud Computing Affect IT Distribution
As Cloud Computing becomes more prevalent onsite hardware sales will feel the impact. However the Cloud has manifested itself in many forms and distributors will not necessarily suffer on all fronts. Distributors must stay relevant to solution providers as the technology landscape shifts. The danger for distributors is that solutions providers start dealing directly with Cloud providers, and miss out the distribution middle man. Cloud Computing is not just another …
The Cloud As An Evolving Model
Laurianne McLaughlin, editor in chief of US publication Information Week, highlighted this month the issue of journalists writing headlines about moving to the cloud. McLaughlin insisted that you do not move to the cloud because the cloud is not a place in computing terms, ‘it is an operational model (with many variations) that you adopt—and then continue to adapt.’ Her point of view is exactly right and McLaughlin supported this …
Cloud – too elite for the Digital Underclass?
ZDNet journalist Jason Perlow warns of the slow demise of the public library. The growth of digital media means that it is now the preferred way of distributing books, magazines, films, music and newspapers. So, the fears seem to grow truer as the digital revolution reveals what could be the onset of a digital underclass, those who do not have the capital or the skills to acquire digital media for …
Cloud Analytics: Delivering More Using Less
With Cloud Computing becoming an ever-encroaching wide-scale reality, driving data centre efficiency is set to become a huge priority. What has come to be referred to as Cloud Analytics is quickly becoming a crucial investment. One company, Sentilla is currently leading the way and has patented technology allowing the ability to monitor the resource consumption of virtual machines. Monitoring a non-physical asset has proven to be relatively difficult making such …
Federal Data Centre Decommission
The U.S federal government is planning to close down a massive 40% of its data centres over the course of the next four years. This means that 800 of the 2000 data centres which exist across the country will be decommissioned. The hope is that the strategy will drastically reduce the hefty federal budget which is spent on technology every year, freeing up billions of dollars as well a substantial …
Server Sales flying with cloud Buzz
The Cloud Computing movement is thought to lead to huge growth in server sales over the next few years. According to IT analyst IDC sales will surge to $9.4 billion over the next four years. By 2015 it has been estimated that 1.2 million systems will be deployed, underpinning Public Cloud deployments. That is a compound annual growth rate of 21%. Furthermore there will be 570,000 servers which will be …
RIP MobileMe
MobileMe: Reaching Extinction. Apple has suffered a recent glitch in its MobileMe service and must be getting to a stage where it cannot wait to see the back of the somewhat flop of a brand. Multiple users have complained that both the web and IMAP access are giving error messages but as always Apple have made the scale of the problem difficult to gauge. You can’t expect Apple to get …
The Medical Cloud
A new Cloud base platform has just been launched by the NHS in order to allow secure access to medical records. The idea is to speed up communication between patients, consultants and general practitioners through accessing files through the internet. Patients will have the ability to view their data via a number of devices and control exactly who has access to their records. Furthermore they can request to have their …
Cloud Computing and Hacking
Hacks such as that which took place against Gmail and the Sony Playstation gaming network are threatening to dampen the take off of Cloud Computing. Such set backs will slow the growth of the ever-expanding Cloud market which is expected to exceed $55 billion by 2014 according to IDC. The outstanding security issues with Cloud Computing will need to be addressed accordingly if users are going to trust its implementation. …
The Shrouding iCloud
Speculation was triggered when Apple insiders revealed that the company has been building a 500,000 square foot data centre in North Carolina. The new build will complement an already existing data centre in California. Apple’s new Cloud offering will be in contest with the current major players in the market, Google and Amazon. Both of which enable the consumer to upload music and media to their servers and subsequently stream …
