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Appearing each Wednesday, this Cloud News Report will compile our top three favorite cloud news stories from the past week.                                   

Jared Leto: The Unsung hero of cloud computing?

A modern jack-of-all trades, Hollywood’s Jared Leto has taken on movies, music and this year he moved a bit north on the California coast to tackle cloud computing.  Leto married music with cloud when he founded VyRT, a company dedicated to live streaming events in a new way.  This CloudPro...

Continued from the last customer questions post, Bluelock Solutions Architect Jake Robinson tackles the second part of the customer question,

“Can enterprises go with the complete private cloud [approach]?  Or, is it better to have some portion of public cloud [as part of your strategy] for DR, etc…?”

In Part 1, Robinson sets up the base for private cloud within an enterprise and the changes and best practices to identify when using private cloud.  Today in Part 2, Robinson talks about the...

Appearing each Wednesday, this Cloud News Report will compile our top three favorite cloud news stories from the past week.                                    

Enterprises See Clear Advantage of Cloud Computing and BYOD Combo

Two of the hottest topics of 2012 come together in Fernanda Aspe’s SearchCloudComputing article.  Aspe uses a question-and-answer format to discuss not only BYOD and cloud, but also the impact the two trends have together.  How does one create a BYOD-compatible cloud strategy...

Appearing each Wednesday, this Cloud News Report will compile our top three favorite cloud news stories from the past week.                                    

Do common cloud assumptions hold up to scrutiny?

The holiday season often means getting together with family and friends you don’t see often.  To anyone who works in cloud and is asked about it by someone unfamiliar with IT, you may hear a lot of assumptions first-hand.  Does the weather impact it? Is that how I can watch my DVRed shows...

Appearing each Wednesday, this Cloud News Report will compile our top three favorite cloud news stories from the past week.                         

10 Cloud Computing Pioneers  

In this InformationWeek article, Charles Babcock identifies ten innovators who helped to rewrite the rules of technology with cloud.  The list includes well-known Amazon names like Werner Vogels, Chris Pinkham and other non-Amazon individuals like Randy Bias and Jonathan Bryce.  Who would you put on your own top ten cloud...

Appearing each Wednesday, this Cloud News Report will compile our top three favorite cloud news stories from the past week.                         

Defining the Cloud Architect

Cloud is not only bringing change to existing IT careers, but it’s also bringing new jobs to light that weren’t needed in the past.  One of those jobs, as this Infoworld article describes it, is the Cloud Architect.  This article details the core skills an individual should have to use the title correctly and effectively....

Enterprise companies don't just change on a dime. Much like a cruise ship, it takes planning, teamwork and a good amount of elbow-grease to turn that ship in a new direction. The same analogy holds true when changing the direction of your enterprise IT department and beginning to invite cloud, or public cloud, into your course of action.

As 2012 comes to a close you could be sitting in any number of states. Maybe you already have a private cloud or use SaaS but think you can leverage public cloud...

Appearing each Wednesday, this Cloud News Report will compile our top three favorite cloud news stories from the past week. 

When to use cloud platforms vs. dedicated servers

This ITWorld article takes a very helpful approach to anyone who’s stuck between “a rock and a cloud place” when trying to decide what the future will bring; the rock being a dedicated service, and the cloud place being jumping in to cloud computing.  In this piece Matthew Mombrea, software engineer and founder of Cypress...

Buying public cloud and Infrastructure-as-a-Service isn't like buying a pack of gum. You have a lot of questions to answer before purchasing, and likely your boss does, too.  You should have a lot of questions because you want to be making the right decision for your company and your workload.  You want to have the confidence to know that your data is safe and you are working with a true partner you can trust.

In this blog series we're going to answer those questions, asked by you, each week.  To...

Appearing each Wednesday, this Cloud News Report will compile our top three favorite cloud news stories from the past week.

What It Will Take to Sell Cloud to a Skeptical Business

This Forbes article goes where few articles have gone before when looking at cloud… beyond just IT.  It seeks to describe a new study that looks at cloud’s impact on more than just the CIO, but rather rest of the business unit.

Joe McKendrick’s article quotes VP for Strategic Solutions at CA Technologies Andi Mann as...