Topic: Distributed Computing

Green Data Center Market to More Than Triple Over Next Five Years

Looking to get into the sustainable technology arena? Consider investing in the green data center market, which is projected to increase from $3.82 billion in the U.S. today to $13.81 billion in 2015. By the same year, energy ...READ»

Outsourcing Ready to Vanish in the Cloud?

Is the rise of cloud computing going to take out the $1.7 trillion global IT outsourcing business?READ»

Microsoft Reveals Cloud Computing System, Azure, eBay Partnership

Microsoft's Partner Conference for 2010 is just getting underway, and already some big news is coming out of the event: MS is officially revealing its Azure cloud computing platform, and noting big first-run customers like eBay and ...READ»

Cloud Computing Expo

The much-hyped cloud really is growing -- so quickly, in fact, that this year's New York conference is expected to draw 5,000 attendees, more than quadruple last year's crowd. Even President Barack Obama has called for a switch to ...READ»

AT&T to Throw $1 Billion at Its Network (And You Thought the iPad Was Expensive!) [Update]

In a typically dense press release, AT&T announced that it is investing $1 billion in its infrastructure this year. The head office's largesse will benefit nearly every aspect of the company's network, from cloud computing and ...READ»

Greenpeace: Cloud Computing Greenhouse Gas Emissions to Triple

As cloud computing-fueled devices like the iPad grow in popularity, so will associated greenhouse gas emissions, according to Greenpeace's "Make IT Green" report. The report, which dubs 2010 the Year of the Cloud, offers up a ...READ»

SxSWi offered loads of innovation...and risk to your business

So, maybe it wasn't the best idea to leap full tilt into those cool new tools we discovered through SxSWi. Learn how to safely integrate innovation without putting your infrastructure, data, business and brand at risk.READ»

Cisco's visionary SVP shares about how Web 2.0 is affecting business

[video_twistage 1]Nick Earle, SVP at Cisco, talks to me about what he's seeing happen inside the enterprise thanks to Web 2.0. Customization. Social networking. Changes to data centers and cloud computing. All that and more came up in ...READ»

Trends at MWC – Cloud and OPEX

Another day here in Barcelona, and it’s interesting to see which trends are at the forefront at Mobile World Congress. App stores, mobile OS, cloud computing and power consumption are the significant trends this year, and while ...READ»

Internet Marketing Five Steps To Increase Revenue

Recent studies supported by The Pew Research Center show that 79% of all adults in the U.S. use the Internet for social networking, retail shopping, education, and broadcast news sources versus only 46% in the year 2000. Further, we find 56% of Internet users are wirelessly connected versus 0% in the year 2000. This dynamic mobile integration has only begun spawning the ability for small business entrepreneurs to compete worldwide with breakthrough innovations for efficient cost controls savings of over 45% using new virtual services and (SaaS) cloud computing technology from geographically dispersed locations. Read more...READ»

Tech Trend: Cloud Computing

All internet users should be familiar with cloud computing. Anyone that uses a web-based e-mail service (think Gmail or Hotmail or Yahoo!), or manages a social networking profile (such as Facebook or Twitter) should be...READ»

Microsoft Office 2010 Moves to the Cloud

When Canadian company i4i sued Microsoft this past August, watchdogs in the software community predicted that the move would encourage Microsoft to bring up their plans for a move to cloud computing much earlier than planned – and it looks like they were right. In addition to the announcements of a new and improved version of Internet Explorer and a major update of the Silverlight runtime platform at this week’s Microsoft at the…READ»

Microsoft to launch cloud computing system

Microsoft has announced that it will be releasing its cloud based computing system Azure on January 1, next year. The company plans to take advantage of the growing interest in internet-based software and services, according to ...READ»

AT&T and IBM Fluff-Up Their Cloud Computing Systems

Both IBM and AT&T have unveiled new schemes that put their giant processing power and vast data storage facilities at the disposal of the little guy (or business) with a Net connection. IBM's entry into the cloud-computing ...READ»

The True Sustainability Potential of Cloud Computing: Smarter Design

To hear experts tell it, cloud computing is “the new dot-com,” the “biggest shift computing shift in two decades” or even technology era’s “Cambrian explosion.” But it's also a way to address the enormous need for energy ...READ»

Can Cloud Computing Ever Truly Be Sustainable?

Data centers aren't exactly known for their sustainability--the power hogs are responsible for 1.5% of all power use in the United States. But as cloud computing, the IT golden child that uses mega-data centers to store information, ...READ»

IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing

Outlook for Bangalore: Cloudy. Experts on cloud computing -- that fancy term for using supercomputers and amped-up servers for remote services -- will gather in India. Ahead of the meeting, we called Ramnath K. Chellappa, the ...READ»

Helping Companies Take on "the Cloud"

More and more companies are diving into cloud computing, but there are security, quality and scalability concerns. That's where Sonoa Systems comes in.READ»

Amazon's Virtual Private Cloud Bridges Gap Between Enterprise and EC2 Atmosphere

Amazon, everyone's favorite online bookstore, also offers some pretty neat pay-per-use cloud computing systems. The company's just tweaked them, adding in all sorts of hooks for business networks to make it an even more useful ...READ»

Is Apple Shooting for the Cloud?

More information is trickling out about Apple's new data center in North Carolina--it seems it's going to be big. Amongst the biggest in the World, in fact. Are the folks at Cupertino shooting Apple into the cloud computing ...READ»

Intel Uses Facebook and Distributed Computing to Fight Climate Change, Disease

Remember SETI@home? Launched in 1999, the alien-tracking effort was one of the first (and most popular) distributed computing efforts. It's still going, but a number of new distributed computing projects have popped up. The latest ...READ»

Head in the Clouds

What does Amazon nuking Kindle copies of 1984 tell us about cloud computing? Unfortunately, quite a bit.READ»

Steve Ballmer’s Cloud Computing Ambitions for Microsoft

Inside Steve Ballmer’s push into Web services.READ»

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Cloud Computing Goes Cucku

Four years ago, a nasty virus infected my hard drive. Windows essentially just froze and never thawed. After a few days of trying to fix it with no success, I realized I would have to reformat my computer. I had no backups, and I ...READ»

Cloud computing, virtualisation and databackup

I became quite interested in reading alot on the current developments on Cloud computing, virtualisation and Data back technologies. Before I get into the main findings, after reading online articles on these topics Ive began to ...READ»