said it would spend $360 million to build a cloud computing data center in
Research Triangle Park, N.C., bringing to nine its total of cloud computing
centers worldwide
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How Cloud Computing Is Changing the World
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Merrill Lynch (MER) estimates that within the next five years, the annual global
market for cloud computing will surge to $95 billion -
Merrill Lynch estimated that 12% of the worldwide software market would go to
the cloud in that period
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Cloud Computing Promise & Reality | AlwaysOn
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There is a clear consensus that there is no real consensus on what cloud
computing is," -
In other words, something big and profound seems to be going on, although we are
not totally sure what it is yet -
Nick acknowledged that IT clouds are quite different in nature from electricity
- more complex and diverse in the services they offer. So it is too early
to tell how IT clouds will evolve. -
The data center is undergoing a phase of industrialization similar to what
happened in manufacturing twenty years ago. If you stay behind, your
management costs and quality of service will not be competitive -
the key thing we want to virtualize or hide from the user is
complexity. -
"I'm often asked by IBM customers where the Net is headed. I tell them:
Clearly, connectivity is important - but it isn't the real issue.
Let's say soon there will be 1 billion ways to get on the Net. Then
what? What will these connected millions do? What will they want to
do? What will they value? And what will they be willing to pay
for?
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Can Google Apps move up market? | InfoWorld | Analysis | 2008-07-02 | By Tom Kaneshige
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Now Google wants to move up market and become an enterprise player. For example, it has announced enterprise editions of its
Google Apps, and has 600 employees across sales, support, engineering, marketing, and product management dedicated to enterprise
products at Google -
Google Apps is a bunch of free software with very limited functionality hosted at Google's datacenters and accessible over
the Internet. The suite includes Gmail, which receives revenue from advertising; Google Calendar, which lets users share a
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Google claims more than 500,000 companies have signed up for Google Apps, but Gartner analyst Tom Austin
figures only a handful of employees at each company uses the tools. Given Microsoft Office's 500 million users, he says, "it's a raindrop." -
"In a two-year planning horizon, I don't think anybody is going to confuse Google Apps with Microsoft Office,"
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TH-NW : AT&T to Provide Web Hosting Services to Insuresoft - Tophosts.com
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July 2, 2008 (TopHosts News Brief)- AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) announced it has secured a 3-year contract with Insuresoft, a provider of insurance software for the property and casualty insurance industry.
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IBM opens two new cloud computing centres
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in an announcement on 24 June, confirmed the opening of
two new cloud computing centres, one in Beijing, China and the other in
Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Cloud Computing - Morgan Stanley is Banking on the Cloud @ VIRTUALIZATION JOURNAL
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Cloud Computing was front and center this year. One of the more interesting points that kept reoccurring was the need for better security.
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There seems to be a definite desire to use "Cloud Infrastructure" both internally within high performance computing, trading platforms and other various software platform services
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There seems to be a genuine desire to use external cloud resources such as Amazon.
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The need to secure data in the cloud was one of their single biggest concern.
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don't focus on the "it's SaaS", focus on the problem.
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Risks and Rewards: Examining Cloud Computing's Effect on Vendors and Users
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Key Findings
- Vendors will evolve their technologies into cloud-enabled and then cloud
services. - Users will need to establish service management as part of their IT
discipline.
- User organizations must establish categories of services that should be
considered for parts of the business. - Short-term user decisions should center on pricing models and available
services. - Vendor clients should seek partnerships with hosting providers and take a
cut of hosting and service fees indirectly.
- Vendors will evolve their technologies into cloud-enabled and then cloud
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With cloud computing, the focus shifts from paying for technologies to paying
for what technologies enable people to do
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Google spotlights data center inner workings | Tech news blog - CNET News.com
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It puts 40 servers in each rack, Dean said, and by one reckoning, Google has 36 data centers across the globe. With 150 racks per data center, that would mean Google has more than 200,000 servers
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In each cluster's first year, it's typical that 1,000 individual machine failures will occur; thousands of hard drive failures will occur; one power distribution unit will fail, bringing down 500 to 1,000 machines for about 6 hours; 20 racks will fail, each time causing 40 to 80 machines to vanish from the network; 5 racks will "go wonky," with half their network packets missing in action; and the cluster will have to be rewired once, affecting 5 percent of the machines at any given moment over a 2-day span, Dean said. And there's about a 50 percent chance that the cluster will overheat, taking down most of the servers in less than 5 minutes and taking 1 to 2 days to recover.
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Royal Pingdom » Map of all Google data center locations
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Google Data Center FAQ - Data Center Knowledge
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Why is Google so secretive about its data centers?
Google believes its data center operations give it a competitive advantage, -
How many data centers does Google have?
Nobody knows for sure, and the company isn’t saying -
Where are Google’s data centers located?
Google has disclosed the sites of four new facilities announced in 2007, but many of its older data center locations remain under wraps
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About Google Datacenters
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When you type www.google.com
into your browser window today, www.google.com
redirects you, behind the scenes, to www.google.akadns.net.
It is at this latter location that you are then routed to the
Datacenter/IP Address that is both close to you in proximity (area of
the Country) and experiencing lower traffic at that time.
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Sun Utility Computing
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Sun Grid delivers enterprise computing power over the Internet, enabling
developers, researchers, scientists and businesses to optimize performance,
speed time to results, and accelerate innovation -- without investment in IT
infrastructure. This is the future of computing available today: IT as a
service.
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Guide To Cloud Computing -- Web Services -- InformationWeek
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CEO Joe Tucci barely touched on EMC's plans for cloud computing at EMC World
last month, but you can be sure he's thinking about it. The cloud by its very
nature is a virtual computing environment, and where there's virtualization,
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He hints at enabling on-premises server infrastructure to scale up via on-demand
virtual servers, disaster-recovery scenarios, and using management software like
that acquired in VMware's purchase of B-hive Networks to maintain service-level
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where does the data reside
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Who's law applies to the data
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How will where it is stored affect your liability for such things as privacy,
retention, search, seizure etc -
some reserve the right to use your data for other purposes
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If for some reason you decide to change vendor, how difficult will it be to get
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SaaS vendors hold the data captive, or the data can be retrieved, however the
vendor retains a copy, which as you no longer have a contract with them they can
sell to your competitors. -
if you want a highly reliable, very robust, and secure service for the least
amount of money then you should host it yourself. If, on the other hand, one or
more of those criteria can be stretched (mostly available; usually works;
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cloud computing borrows and leverages from proven concepts many of which are
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of all utilizes commodity hardware
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is flexibility in that its possible to reconfigure the cloud on the fly
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Guide To Cloud Computing -- Web Services -- InformationWeek
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Despite its sometimes-contradictory signals, Oracle (NSDQ: ORCL) was an early proponent of the on-demand model, launching
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Speaking to financial analysts last September, Ellison downplayed the SaaS
movement, saying there's no profit to be made in delivering applications over
the Internet. (He's obviously wrong on that point.) President Charles Phillips
has said Oracle plans a "stair-step" approach to the cloud, gradually moving
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Oracle's on-demand business generated $174 million in revenue in the fiscal
quarter ended March 26, up 23% from the same quarter last year, and it's on
track for $700 million for the year. While On Demand represents only about 3% of
Oracle's revenue, it's the fastest-growing part of the business, with 3.6
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To support growth, Oracle, like other cloud service providers, is building a new
data center. This summer, it will break ground on a 200,000-square-foot facility
in Utah and puts the initial investment at $285 million
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Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) became the proving ground for software as a service with
its Web alternative to premises-based sales force automation applications, and
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Salesforce has adopted a multitenant architecture, in which servers and other IT
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The proof is in the sales figures. Salesforce's revenue grew to $248 million in
the quarter ended April 30, a 53% increase over the same period a year ago,
keeping it on pace to become the first billion-dollar company to generate almost
all of its sales from cloud computing
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In April, Google introduced Google App Engine, a service that lets developers
write Python-based applications and host them on Google infrastructure at no
cost with up to 500 MB of storage -
Google charges 10 to 12 cents per "CPU core hour" and 15 to 18 cents per
gigabyte of storage -
Yet Google, like Amazon, has demonstrated the risks of cloud computing. Google
App Engine last week was crippled for several hours -
More than half a million organizations have signed up for Google Apps--including
General Electric and Procter & Gamble--and there are now some 10 million
Google Apps users -
But keep that in perspective: The majority of those users are consumers, college
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Google has taken steps to make its applications, originally aimed at consumers,
more attractive to IT departments -
April it partnered with Salesforce.com to integrate Salesforce CRM and Google
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Google is also adjusting to the reality that users sometimes need to work
offline. Google Gears is a browser plug-in for doing that -
Google has teamed with IBM to provide cloud computing to university students and
researchers
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Guide To Cloud Computing -- Web Services -- InformationWeek
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Amazon now offers storage, computer processing, message queuing, and a database
management system as plug-and-play services that are accessed over the Internet. -
Customers pay only for the services they consume: 15 cents per gigabyte of S3
storage each month, and 10 to 80 cents per hour for EC2 server capacity -
AWS represents three of the defining characteristics of the cloud: IT resources
provisioned outside of the corporate data center, those resources accessed over
the Internet, and variable cost -
Why is Amazon moving so aggressively into Web services? In its rise to
leadership in e-commerce, the company developed deep technical expertise and
invested heavily in its data centers. Now it's leveraging those assets by
opening them to other companies, at a time when many CIOs are looking for
alternatives to pumping more money into their own IT infrastructures -
Amazon Web Services weren't aimed initially at big businesses, but enterprises
are tapping in for the same reasons that attract small and midsize
businesses--low up-front costs, scalability up and down, and IT resource
flexibility
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Guide To Cloud Computing -- Web Services -- InformationWeek
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Cloud computing represents a new way, in some cases a better and cheaper way, of
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Everyone agreed that cloud services such as Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Web Services, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Apps, and Salesforce (NYSE: CRM).com CRM have become bona fide enterprise options, but
there were also questions about privacy, data security, industry standards,
vendor lock-in, and high-performing apps that have yet to be vaporized as cloud
services.
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Enterprise 2.0: Google, Amazon, Salesforce Push 'Cloud' Vision -- Cloud Computing
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"I get concerned about choices that in the long term might lock me in" to a
single vendor, said Richard Mickool, chief technology officer at Northeastern
University's Information Services unit, offering one reason why he's unlikely to
hand off the bulk of the school's computing needs to an Internet vendor any time
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The room was filled to capacity, an indication that businesses are serious,
if somewhat reserved, about cloud computing -- an IT model in which data and
applications reside on Web servers hosted and managed by third parties.
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