Head in the Clouds

2012 is fast approaching! Before we head into the New Year, one last clouducation post for 2011.

At the end of every year, I reflect on all the things that have helped shape our cloud community. It’s been an incredible time in this space and even more exciting year for CloudStack team. With that, I thought that this post should be focused on Cloud Predictions for 2012.

Thank you for your continued support and making 2011 an exciting year for us. In appreciation of your support- Mark, David and I put together a nice thank you gift and I would like to take this opportunity to share it with you folks (we’ve been practicing this for months!). Have a wonderul holiday season everyone! Enjoy!

Cloud enthusiast!

Before I dive into our interesting reads for this week, I would like to inform you that the CloudStack team will be attending Cloud Expo Conference next week! If you're in the area next week and would like to attend the show, you can, FOR FREE!

Attend the show as our VIP guest, participate in our sessions and visit us at booth 514! We will have a live demo of our latest version of Cloudstack, product experts to answer your quetsions and a bunch of CloudStack goodies at our booth! We would love to meet you!

Here are your interesting reads, enjoy!

Rise of cloud computing has complicated the security landsccape 

 It's Friday! Here are your interesting reads for the week!

German Researchers disclose Amazon Cloud Vulnerability 

Amazon has fixed a cryptographic hole in its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC 2) and Simple Storage Service (S3) services that could allow hackers to compromise customer accounts. 

Infographic: What Your Admin Should Know About Cloud Management

How fast is the average virtual infrastructure growing? Woud you believe that 80% of the are adding 10-50 VMs annually? And that 63% of those surveyed are handling cloud computing installations. 

Below are your interest reads for this week! Enjoy!

Clouds vs. Outsourcing: The Next Battleground

IT outsourcing is being disrupted by IaaS from cloud providers. Analysis of Pricewaterhouse's recent Future of IT Outsourcing and Cloud Computing survey of 489 firms indicates that a majority will soon favor the pureplay infrastructure service providers.   

Apple vs. Google vs. Microsoft: A look at the stacks

“On the client computing front, it’s shocking how much Apple, Microsoft and Google are starting to look alike. The real battle is in the cloud though.”

 It's Friday, here are your interesting reads for this week! Enjoy everyone!

Cloud Computing Now Makes it Easier (and Cheaper) to Innovate: Study 

A recent suvey of 1,035 business and IT executives, along with 35 vendors, conducted by the London School of Economics and Accenture, has unearthed this new emerging role for cloud computing- as a platform for business innovation. Many people tehse days still see cloud within its' information technology context, as a cheaper alternative for existing systems. But this may only be the first and most obivious benefit. The study's authors, Leslie Willcocks, Dr. Will Venters and Dr. Edgar Whitley - all of London School of Economics and Political Science - identified three stages cloud computing moves into as it's adopted by organizations

Citrix Acquires ShareFile, the “Dropbox for Enterprise”

The move is in keeping with Citrix’s vision of a so-called “personal cloud” – a collection of files, apps and personal data unique to every person and accessible from any location and device.