I read a great article on Microsoft’s new survey, “Cloud Computing and Sustainability: The Environmental Benefits of Moving to the Cloud.” In that study, Microsoft suggests that large businesses could cut their direct energy consumption and carbon emissions by up to 30% by moving certain on-premise applications into the cloud. From its study, Microsoft found [...]

OK.  So we all know that Amazon.com has plenty of internal excess computing capacity. That’s why it started offering its own pay-as-you-go cloud hosting services. It was a smart move for the company, as today they’re still leaders in Cloud Computing hosting — even though Google and MS are trying their hardest to catch up. [...]

It’s my job to stay on top of the latest statistics on cloud computing around the world. And I’ve been meaning to write about the new survey by Harris Interactive, sponsored by Novell, that says business use of the cloud  is rising in the U.S., especially private cloud platforms. In the poll, one-third of 210 [...]

A new research report says the cloud computing market — including SaaS, PaaS, IaaS Market, Mobile Cloud Computing and other business sectors — will reach $25 billion by 2013. The report, produced by Renub Research, and available on MarketResearch.com, wisely points out that the different segments of the Cloud Computing market, for example, SaaS, PaaS, [...]

San Jose, CA – October 20, 2010 – Paid Monitor, the leading provider of the world’s first Cloud-based network and application monitoring suite, today announced a significant new product launch – the Paid Monitor Logs, on-demand system events log monitoring and analysis service. Paid Monitor Logs enables IT managers and system administrators to be alerted when critical issues [...]

Challenge: food stores and shops who want to be socially responsible and sell locally grown produce often have a hard time finding out who they should buy from. Solution: The Cloud can enable the running of sophisticated food trading hubs where buyers and sellers can locate each other and transact business. This was the message [...]

It always helps to know who, within your organization, is behind you and who’s going to prove a tough nugget to convince once you decide to make the switch to the cloud. I read recently about the journey to the cloud of a small college, Baltimore’s Coppin State, which has about 4,000 students and 2,000 [...]

Gartner’s got  a new survey out. The analysts polled nearly 500 IT budget management professionals (CIOs, IT VPs, IT directors, IT managers) worldwide, querying participants on cloud resources in their current budgets and asking about estimated spending for2011. Guess what? If you didn’t know this already, the cloud market is evolving rapidly. In the survey, [...]

Probably one of the most sensible and natural customers for the cloud is the government sector. Why? Because states’ budget deficits are growing larger and, at the same time, public employees, including IT pros, are being asked to do more with less. And one of the most notable examples of the cloud working for a [...]

I feel very excited these days because I see so many positive changes coming about.  Yes, there’s a chill in the air, as summer fades into fall — and that always gives me a bit more stimulation. But what I’m talking about is the seemingly rapid growth of cloud services and its embrace among a [...]