Search Cloud Computing - Apr 16 - A major concern for most enterprises considering cloud computing services is security in the cloud. Relatively untested and often in their infancy, cloud providers still have to prove that they can fully protect data in a cloud computing environment. But if you're one of those organizations that has already made the cloud computing plunge, we have some expert advice that will help lock down the privacy of your systems.

Click here to read more

eWeek - Apr 15 - Looking to enable printing without drivers for computers running Google Chrome OS, Google introduced Google Cloud Print. The service lets any application print to any printer from any computing device using Google's cloud computing infrastructure. Google Cloud Print will submit and manage print jobs via the cloud instead of relying on a local operating system or drivers to print. Though the service is still under development, Google April 15 released code and documentation as part of the open-source Chromium and Chromium OS projects.

Click here to read more

Plug Into the Cloud - Apr 15 - At this stage in the evolution of the cloud, transparency is one of the most important criteria by which to judge a cloud computing engagement. That's because performance and security are two of cloud computing's most elemental and essential offerings.

Click here to read more

Network World - Apr 15 - Aspects of cloud computing have been available to-and rejected by-IT outsourcing customers for years, from hosted applications to on-demand hardware support. But as the breadth of the cloud has expanded to include a growing number of software-, platforms- and infrastructure-as-a-service offerings that can be quickly deployed as needed with low management overhead and little vendor interaction, the temptation to move away from traditional IT services provisioning is mounting.

Click here to read more

Market Watch - Apr 15 - Echo Lane, one of the top U.S. solution providers for Salesforce.com and other cloud applications, announced it has been acquired by hiSoft Technology International Limited, the leading global information technology outsourcing company headquartered in China. This is the most aggressive push yet into the U.S. cloud computing market for a major China-based IT Outsourcing company.

Click here to read more

Connected Planet Online - Apr 15 - Enhancements to Verizon’s cloud computing service offering, announced today, include support for server cloning and the SUSE Linux operating system. In addition, the carrier now allows traffic for customers of its Computing as a Service offering to burst to as much as 1 Gb/s. In the past, the maximum limit was 70 Mb/s.

Click here to read more

IT World - Apr 14 -Companies without a cloud computing project will be left behind. So saddle up, start a pilot and pick a partner. This tip comes from Charles Babcock, Editor at Large for InformationWeek magazine and author of Management Strategies for the Cloud Revolution, published by McGraw-Hill. Babcock wrote multiple stories about various aspects of cloud computing and decided a longer form than magazine articles was needed. 272 pages later, he had the book.

Click here to read more

Market Watch - Apr 14 -Stonesoft, a global provider of proven, innovative network security solutions, has identified five ways that organizations can improve cloud computing security. This announcement comes on the heels of recent research released from Gartner, Inc. citing that 60 percent of virtualized servers will be less secure than the physical servers they replace through 2012 (Source: Addressing the Most Common Security Risks in Data Center Virtualization Projects, January 2010).

Click here to read more

Cloud Tweaks - Apr 13 - VMware and Salesforce.com are on the verge of redefining the entire virtualization and cloud computing market -- or, at least, that's what they want you to think.

Click here to read more

Data Center Knowledge - Apr 13 - Colocation and peering provider CoreSite is offering a free cloud computing platform for developers and startups who want to test-drive promising applications, the company said Monday. The CloudCommunity platform launched with three participants – NASA Ames Lab, Eucalyptus and RedPeak Solutions – and is offering up to a year of free cloud hosting for applications that are not generating revenue.

Click here to read more