The President’s budget for fiscal year 2010 (FY10) includes $75.8B in information technology (IT) spending, which is a 7-percent increase from FY09. Of this, at least $20B will be spent on IT infrastructure investments. The FY11 budget for IT is projected to be nearly $88B. The governm...| By Jeremy Geelan | Article Rating: |
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Only one publication in the world has been tracking Cloud Computing 24x7 since December 6, 2006, when we first mentioned the concept in an article speculating on the possibility of a Web phone being a possible candidate for something that could be run in the Cloud.
That publication is SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Journal (www.CloudComputingJournal.com).
Since then worldwide interest in the Cloud paradigm of massively scalable IT resources and capabilities delivered as a service using Internet technologies has been mushrooming at a breakneck pace.
Here's a - very brief - glimpse at some of the articles published and blogs syndicated in just in the past couple of days...
ARTICLES
The President’s budget for fiscal year 2010 (FY10) includes $75.8B in information technology (IT) spending, which is a 7-percent increase from FY09. Of this, at least $20B will be spent on IT infrastructure investments. The FY11 budget for IT is projected to be nearly $88B. The governm...
Up to now you may have been reluctant to move your Enterprise application workloads to the cloud, fearing a lack of security in the cloud, compliance issues such as data location regulations and having to rewrite your applications. During his keynote, Rich Marcello will discuss the lat...
What is enterprise cloud computing? Simply stated, it’s a behind-the-firewalls use of commercial, Internet-based cloud technologies specifically focused on one company’s or one business environment’s computing needs. Enterprise cloud computing is a controlled, internal place that offe...
We are standing on the threshold of a new transition in information technology and communications; a radical departure from current practice that promises to bring us new levels of efficiency at a vastly reduced cost. Cloud computing is full of potential, bursting with opportunity and ...
A round-up of the wide range of important issues and timely topics due to be discussed by over 100 industry experts at SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, being held at the Santa Clara Convention Center, November 2-4, 2009. From Building Scalable and Extensib...
Although cloud computing momentum continues to build and scarcely a day goes by without a new cloud announcement or study, there’s been little real enterprise adoption and almost no meaningful case studies. In part, that’s because early cloud providers and vendors were focused on devel...Oct. 15, 2009 09:00 AM EDT
BLOGS
It’s often said that the Cloud will be a game changer and disruptive and that statement is put out there for the future but I believe we have already seen a huge example of this in the mobile telecommunications domain. We have seen in the last twelve months the beginning of a fundamen...Oct. 17, 2009 05:00 AM ED
In the The Economics of Cloud Computing, Gwen Morton and Ted Alford have published an EXCELLENT economic evaluation of the federal government's push to cloud computing. Anyone interested in this market should definitely read it, analyse it, and believe it !! The conclusion acknowledg...Oct. 17, 2009 04:55 AM EDT
The notion of Elastic Load Balancing, as recently brought to public attention by Amazon’s offering of the capability, is nothing new. The basic concept is pure Infrastructure 2.0 and the functionality offered via the API has long been available on several application delivery controlle...Oct. 16, 2009 09:00 AM EDT
We know all about these loose ecosystems of Barney-loving, hand-holding, kumbaya-singing companies who promise a full solution to help you take advantage of the next overwhelming wave of technology...for a fee. In the past, vendor ecosystem announcements indicate a vague intention on t...Oct. 16, 2009 09:00 AM EDT
AUTHORS
Among some of the best-read contributors to Cloud Computing Journal - many of whom submit material directly via SYS-CON's Ulitzer platform - are:
Dustin Amrhein
Reuven Cohen
Paul Miller
Cloud Computing News Desk
Kyle Gabhart
Greg O'Connor
Bob Gourley
Alan Irimie
Michael Sheehan
Eric Novikoff
Chris Fleck
Maureen O'Gara
Alan Williamson
Kevin Hoffman
John Savageau
David Linthicum
Below is a "Wordle" produced by feeding the RSS feed from Cloud Computing Journal into a toy for generating “word clouds” based on the Java 2D API and created by Jonathan Feinberg, whose employer IBM Research extended him the unusual privilege of using code which he wrote on their time for this personal project.
Images created by the Wordle.net web application are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.
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