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If you know anything about cloud computing you know that if you were to ask 10 people what it means you will get 10 different answers most likely.I found a good place for some good practical information about the cloud. While googling the other day I can across an event being held at the Savvis Headquarters in St Louis Missouri called CloudCamp.
Cloud Computing Benefits For Businesses and Individual Users By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Vimlaksh_Gautam]Vimlaksh Gautam Cloud Computing is not a new computing technology rather it was present in a diminutive form right since the evolution of the internet. But cloud computing has really broken new ground in terms of potentialities in the last two to three years when companies like Amazon and Google built out large horizontal networks consisting of multiple services, platforms, applications and storage tools that allowed users to access various services from the internet directly without having to store or run the applications on their machines. Read the rest of this entry »
By Mike Jessop
In the 80’s it was Home Computing, in the 90’s it was Internet Computing, the 2000’s was wireless computing. What’s next? Cloud Computing is looking to be the way forward. Cloud Computing, similarly to home computing and the internet will revolutionize the way people interact and use technology. Cloud computing will change the way you live.
By definition, Cloud Computing is style of computing in which dynamically scalable and often virtual resources are provided as a service over the Internet. Users need not have knowledge of, expertise in, or control over the technology infrastructure in the “cloud” that supports them. Any clearer? Cloud Computing essentially will remove capital expenditure for the consumer treating the use of a computer as a service rather than a physical purchase as the computing power will be pooled in the cloud allowing maximum processing power shared across many systems and infrastructures.
The server infrastructure is therefore integral to the effectiveness of cloud computing and the virtualization of its resources to supply the demand of the cloud users. The cloud with be able to be accessed virtually through an internet connection, the server will contain open source and or registered software which can be accessed online and used by the user from any computer with an internet connection. The virtualization of server and client hardware can be distributed to fit the demand. Where does this put IT support?
Some of the best IT Support Companies in the world rely on maintaining client hardware issues as well as infrastructure problems and software glitches, this could all change with cloud computing as companies will have infrastructures based solely within the cloud, thus removing the need for a complex hard wired network. IT Support Companies therefore need to identify the need to support server virtualization in order to benefit from the change to cloud computing. When companies adopt a cloud structure they’ll want an IT Support company to be able to provide adequate IT support. Those who focus on server consolidation and flexibility will be those who come out on top.
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Net Services Inc offers Utility computing which will allow St Louis area companies to only pay for the computing resources they need, when they need them which can save up to 47% on I.T. cost
St Charles, MO October 30, 2009 – Net Services has launched a new service which
provides Local business with a flexible computing infrastructure that will adjust to fluctuating demands. Only paying for the services it uses, St Louis companies deploying Utility Computing will not spend resources on underutilized technology they may never need. Further, Clients will have the flexibility too easily and quickly add-on software and hardware as their needs demand.
Utility computing offers small to medium size businesses simple, secure and scalable voice and data solutions at an affordable monthly utility fee that reduces over all IT expenditures.
For more information, please visit the Net services website at http://www.netservices1.com or call toll free (888) 369-3910.
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Dr._Jim_Anderson]Dr. Jim Anderson
Cloud computing is all the rage these days and everyone who is anyone is making plans to implement at least some flavor of it as soon as possible. It turns out that the decision to go with a cloud computing solution for your IT department might not be as simple as some would lead you to believe. There are challenges to successfully using a cloud and we need to talk about them…
The Seven Challenges Of Cloud Computing
With all of the magazine articles, conferences, and vendors who have shown up to sell it, it’s easy to forget that utility computing is still an emerging technology – it’s not quite fully baked yet. Neal Leavitt has spent some time studying this area and has identified the following seven issues. CIOs will need to investigate their potential effects before agreeing to any cloud-based initiative:
Control: this is the biggest issue when it comes to using utility computing. By design a company gives up control when they sign up to use a firm’s hosting resources. This means that the provider can make changes to the infrastructure without telling the company at any time. This needs to be managed.
Performance / Reliability: When you are using resources that are not located within your firm’s buildings the question of how much computing horsepower you have available when you need it comes up. Additionally, failures will happen and so understanding how you’ll be notified and how quickly issues will be resolved is critical.
Security: You know that you can protect your mission critical business data when it’s inside your own walls, but what happens when somebody else is managing it for you?Cost Of Bandwidth: You should be saving money on buying hardware and staffing to maintain it. However, you’ll need to very accurately forecast you bandwidth costs in order to determine the true cost of using the cloud.
Vendor Lock-In: true standards for how applications communicate and control applications that are in a vendor’s cloud have not yet been established. This means that vendors are creating their own proprietary interfaces that could end up tying you to a vendor for longer than you would like.
Transparency: basically this comes down to the difficulty that you’ll have doing an audit of your IT resources. Since you don’t have true visibility into the cloud you can’t say for certain who has access to your data and how you can keep people out of your sensitive data.
Reliability: I’d like to say that clouds are 100% reliable, but I can’t. The trade rags are filled with stories about connections that have gone down and back-up diesel generators that have failed to switch on. There is risk with every decision, you need to decide if you can handle the risk that comes with cloud computing.
Final Thoughts
As exciting as the new field of cloud computing is, CIOs need to slow down and take a deep breath. This is new stuff and that means that not all of the details have been worked out just yet. There are seven major areas that could have a dramatic impact on your company’s ability to get the most out of cloud computing. Do your homework and see if cloud computing offers you a way to apply IT to enable the rest of the company to grow quicker, move faster, and do more.
Dr. Jim Anderson http://www.TheAccidentalSuccessfulCIO.com
Dr. Jim Anderson has spent over 20 years consulting with a wide variety of IT firms from the very big to the very small. He provides you with his insights into the leadership needed to combine the separate worlds of business and IT strategy. His guidance offers hope to firms everywhere who are struggling with this challenge.
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