How Green is Your Cloud? - ReadWriteCloud. Cloud computing, it is often claimed, is a good way for companies to reduce their carbon footprint.
The reality, as Tom Raftery explains on Greenmonk, is much more complicated than that. In context, Raftery is writing about a pair of reports from the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) and Verdantix. Raftery argues that "Cloud Computing – The IT Solution for the 21st Century" (PDF) and an addendum for France and the UK (PDF) are fundamentally flawed.
How Has Cloud Computing Impacted Businesses Around the World? [INFOGRAPHIC] Cloud Computing: The Layperson's Guide to Distributed Networks. As buzzwords go, few have conjured up as much debate and discussion as cloud computing.
The idea behind cloud computing is that software, services and information can be provided to users over a network connection and through a web browser, rather than running locally on a computer or a local network server. Popular cloud applications like Google Docs and Salesforce.com offer users robust ways to manage and access content, and the beauty of the cloud is that the content is accessible from any web browser or connected device. Major Cloud Providers and Companies Amazon Web Services: In 2006, Amazon launched its cloud computing platform, Amazon Web Services. AWS is comprised of a number of different products that allows businesses and application developers to build their own cloud-enabled applications. New WiFi Routers Managed in the Cloud - ReadWriteCloud.
Two announcements in the past month show that the wireless routing marketplace is getting cloud-savvy, with the ability to use the cloud to manage widescale deployments.
The advantage of this is clear for companies with several branch offices that want to maintain a single wireless and wired network across their entire enterprise. A Look at Unified Networking for Cloud Environments - ReadWriteCloud. Cloud centers bring high-tech flash but not many jobs to beaten-down towns. Total new full-time jobs running the facility: 50.
Apple’s data center has been a disappointing development for many residents, who can’t comprehend how expensive facilities stretching across hundreds of acres can create so few jobs, especially after thousands of positions in the region have been lost to cheaper foreign competition. But in the newer digital economy, capital investments that a generation ago would have created thousands of new positions often equal only a handful today, with computers and software processing the heavy lifting while the key programming is often done by engineers back in Silicon Valley.
“Apple really doesn’t mean a thing to this town,” said Tony Parker, the owner of Temple Furniture, one of the last surviving furniture makers in Maiden. His son-in-law, Kelly McRee, the company’s operations manager, said: “Apple was the apple of everybody’s eye, but that’s about it. It was something for everyone to ooh and aah over.” Most were not as lucky. The Five Signs That an Application is Ripe For the Cloud - ReadWriteCloud. When you're in the process of establishing your cloud architecture, figuring out what can be moved to the cloud, and when it should be moved, is job one.
That can seem like a daunting task, depending on the size of your organization, the number of applications in use, the complexity of your network architecture, and so on. But it's not as hard as it first seems. You can kick start your cloud migration by looking for applications that share some or all of these five characteristics: From DevOps to NoOps: 10 Cloud Services You Should Be Using - ReadWriteCloud. One of the current trends in computing is the emergence of DevOps - a set of approaches that combines elements of software development and IT operations.
This means that software engineers are becoming increasingly involved in the nitty-gritty of building and maintaining infrastructure while system administrators are playing a more direct role in developing apps. While there are plenty of IT professionals who possess both the skills and passion for working in DevOps, this may not apply to everyone. From a developer's perspective, building apps is much more enjoyable than building infrastructure while the opposite is probably true for sysadmins. Keep in mind that most developers and sysadmins primarily have expertise in one area and are thus less adept in the other. Ross Mason is the CTO and Founder of MuleSoft. Developers, however, cannot entirely avoid the "Ops" in DevOps. To go from DevOps to NoOps, here are 10 infrastructure cloud services developers should consider using: 10. 9. 8. Top 10 Consumer Cloud Applications of 2011. For the last few years, many everyday folks who've been asked in surveys, "What is a cloud application?
" have either guessed wrong or said they don't know. Folks don't know what "the cloud" is, and for the most part, that's not their fault. Unlike the Internet, which truly is a single network of interconnected resources, "the cloud" is more of a concept, one which can be leveraged by marketing departments to mean just about anything. For this year's ReadWriteWeb list of the most important and influential consumer-grade cloud computing apps of the year 2011, we focused our gaze on services that truly fit the formal definition: specifically, services that 1) utilize a remote resource of 2) variable capacity 3) which the user can provision for herself, 4) which is mostly or totally independent of programs installed on the user's devices or PCs, and 5) which is not just a Web site with a big server. 10.
RWW's The Consumer Cloud series by Richard MacManus: 9. 8. 7. 6. 5. 4. 3. 2. iCloud. 1.