“Cloud computing plays a key role in the President’s initiative to modernize Information Technology IT by identifying enterprise -wide common services and solutions and adopting a new cloud-computing business model. The Federal CIO Council under the guidance of the Office of Management and Budget OMB and the Federal Chief Information Officer CIO, Vivek Kundra, established the Cloud Computing Initiative to fulfill the President’s objectives for cloud computing.”

via Apps.gov brings cloud computing to the Federal government | CTOvision.com.

I will start of with Larry Ellison, the oracle of software industry. Most opinionated and mostly correct, as history has proven, sometimes a few years later. Did I mention he is funny too?.

via What the Hell is Cloud Computing? | Strategies for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC), Open Source| PrudentCloud.

Household names like Google, Amazon and Microsoft are racing each other to create rival global platforms for the storage and manipulation of data. They have sent their marketers out amongst us to proclaim the Good News- Cloud Computing will reduce costs and improve service when compared to the traditional self-built and run server rooms most significant organisations are used to.

via McGarr Solicitors – Dublin Solicitors Ireland | Cloud Computing: European Data Protection Dangers.

Snapshot for September 2009

Of the 500k sites analyzed, these are the results for the IaaS providers tracked:

via State of the Cloud – September 2009 :: Jack of all Clouds.

“If gaming from the cloud is as big as gaming on console via DVD then it will be bigger than the music industry in revenue terms before long. Imagine the upgrades and re-versioning that could happen then, nightly builds or hourly builds or mid game code updates! And if the game is in the cloud not the console then the IP is closer to the owner and the not duplicated millions of times to plastic. Game on. ” says Brian Greene who is so not a gamer you would not believe it!

[www.gamasutra.com reports] OnLive Opens Beta For Cloud Computing Game Service. Onlive, which announced its cloud computing gaming service at GDC 2009, revealed today that it has entered open beta.

The service allows gamers to play PC titles through their own PCs or television sets, without needing to render the game on their own hardware — rather, it is rendered remotely and sent frame-by-frame back to the local display device.

In a blog post, OnLive CEO Steve Perlman described the unique challenges of the beta rollout.

“One of the key challenges that OnLive technology addresses is providing a high-quality, fast-response gaming experience over a wide range of situations: different speeds/locations/types of broadband services, a variety of different PC and Mac configurations, several kinds of input and display devices, etc,” he said. “So, a major focus of OnLive Beta is to test as many of these different situations as we can.”

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via IIA Cloud Computing Working Group.

via Cloud Computing: Get Your Head in the Clouds – Home – Kent Langley’s Blog on Cloud Computing, Scalability, and Operations.

Congrats to CloudSpilt in the green white and gold of a new logo move onto the pad for launch.

via [echolibre blog] Last night, a simple holding page for a brand new productwas quietly put live, and announced through a tweet from Joe Drumgoole. CloudSplit is a service that offers users of cloud computing a realtime view of what’s happening and how that hits their wallets.

The first fruits of the new designation is a product recall service for the food industry, which is being launched in Canada.

Announced yesterday, the service will run on HP’s cloud computing platform for manufacturing and is being offered through a partnership with GS1, a non-profit organisation that attempts to make supply chains more efficient.

Cloud computing, which involves accessing applications over the web rather than installing them on a customers’ own premises, is gaining popularity rapidly.
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