Confused about the term Cloud Computing?

Want to be "with the times" when you talk about new technology buzzwords?

This video boils down a section of Cloud Computing, that of Cloud Infrastructure and Cloud Hosting in a way that everyone can understand!

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Cloud computing is an emerging style of Information Technology infrastructure designed for rapid delivery of computing resources. Business or consumer services are delivered in a simplified manner, providing unbounded scale, differentiated quality, and with a user focus designed to foster rapid innovation and efficient decision making.

Cloud is a potentially cost-efficient model for provisioning processes, applications and services while making IT management easier and more responsive to the needs of the business. These services - computation services, storage services, networking services, whatever is needed - are delivered and made available in a simplified way - "on demand" regardless of where the user is or the type of device they're using.

IBM Research Scientist Jonathan Appavoo discuses his views of what this emerging infrastructure offers.

IBMers and customers speak about how leveraging cloud computing can optimize businesses. Cloud computing infrastructure allows businesses to access virtual resources and then are able to package cloud offerings - in one complete solution - to create cost-effective, repeatable services that can help them be more productive.

Linda Cureton, NASA CIO, Discusses Cloud Computing


Take it from the agency that knows all about the stars NASA has been working in the cloud for a long time.

A new era is here


Information technology is changing rapidly, and now forms an invisible layer that increasingly touches every aspect of our lives. Power grids, traffic control, healthcare, water supplies, food and energy, along with most of the world's financial transactions, now depend on information technology.

An emerging IT delivery model—cloud computing—can significantly reduce IT costs & complexities while improving workload optimization and service delivery. Cloud computing is massively scalable, provides a superior user experience, and is characterized by new, internet-driven economics.


Cloud solutions from IBM


Introducing IBM Smart Business cloud solutions. Whether you choose to build clouds behind your firewall or access via the IBM cloud, these secure workload solutions provide superior service management and new choices for deployment.


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Cray and Microsoft join forces on cloud datacentres


Supercomputer maker Cray's custom engineering group has teamed up with Microsoft Research to look into lowering the costs of running cloud-computing datacentres.

The alliance is the first step into the commercial market for Cray's custom engineering group, which was formed in 2008. The group builds special-purpose supercomputers for individual customers, applying Cray technologies such as the EcoPhlex liquid-cooling system and providing custom data-management and consulting systems. Last summer, Cray said the custom engineering division was growing more quickly than the rest of the company.

Cray and Microsoft are looking to address an area of growing concern — the continuing rise in power usage by datacentres. Gartner has said datacentres account for nearly one quarter of global CO2 emissions from information and communications technology.



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CLOUD CULTURE: THE PROMISE AND THE THREAT


...A third threat comes from the new media moguls, the cloud capitalists: Facebook, Apple, Google, Salesforce, Twitter, who will seek to make money by creating and managing clouds for us.

These cloud capitalists are the new powers behind global cultural relations. Their rise has sparked an increasingly vicious civil war with the media old guard led by Rupert Murdoch. This battle between old and new media powers however has distracted attention from the question of how these companies will organise cloud culture on our behalf.

Elements of their business models resemble traditional public services: Google's work with a consortium of libraries around the world to digitise books that are out of copyright; ITunes U provides thousands of models of course material for free. However these companies are also businesses: they will want to organise the cloud to make money.

By the end of the decade Google will have unprecedented control over literary culture, past, present and future. Leave aside issues of trust, privacy and security, commercial providers of cloud services will have strong incentives to manage their users to maximise revenues and so to discourage them from roaming from one service to another. ...


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United States Golf Association is using cloud computing to improve its business resilience and capability to backup & restore mission-critical data daily within budget.

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