What most drew your interest at the Red Hat Summit?
Open-source experts descended on Boston last week for the annual Red Hat Summit. They were not disappointed as the company provided insights on several topics including: Open source development, emerging cloud trends and cloud security. What most drew your interest at the Red Hat Summit?

Answer Question   |  June 18, 2013  12:55 PM
Cloud Security, Open source, Red Hat

What do expect from Salesforce’s acquisition of ExactTarget?
With Salesforce’s $2.5 billion acquisition of cloud-based marketing software company ExactTarget virtually a done deal, the big question now becomes whether the two cloud computing mainstays are a good fit for each other. What do you expect from the acquisition?

Answer Question   |  June 18, 2013  1:34 PM
cloud, ExactTarget, Salesforce

What is causing the slowdown in the storage sector?
An interesting theory has arisen to explain the slowdown in the storage sector.“It’s the cloud, stupid!”The efficiency of cloud-based systems has curtailed the sales of secondary storage systems, thereby hurting the storage sector as a whole. So what do you think? Is the cloud to blame or is this too simple of an explanation.

Answer Question   |  June 18, 2013  8:25 PM
Cloud storage, economy, Secondary storage

What will the future hybrid IT business model look like?
During the 17th annual Cisco Partner Summit 2013, company executives put the spotlight on three key topics for partners: Opportunities in the midmarket The importance in the cloud The imperative to begin transitioning to a “hybrid IT” business model today In reference to point #3, what do you think this hybrid IT business model that [...]

Answer Question   |  June 18, 2013  2:34 PM
cloud, hybrid, Hybrid clouds

MDB and SOA in the cloud
Cloud papers often refer to “applications”, but how can a mix of in-house and cloud providers handle SOA and MDB?

Answer Question   |  June 4, 2013  2:12 PM
Cloud Computing, Cloud Security, SOA

Is your company thinking of going fully into the cloud?
As companies move from partial to complete cloud storage they are finding surprising costs that they did not expect. While the functional cost of actual storage is low, it is the cost of “transactions,” adding, removing or accessing data that is causing some pain. Is your company thinking of going fully into the cloud? Has [...]

Answer Question   |  June 10, 2013  5:11 PM
cloud deployment, Cloud storage, transaction fees

Are we ready for the growth of public clouds?
Cloud will be king at the Red Hat Summit and JBoss World 2013 conference running June 11- 14. There will be some 50 sessions on cloud deployment at the conference. Much of the anticipation focuses on the rise of public clouds. But as public clouds become more common, the need for the infrastructure to handle [...]

Answer Question   |  June 10, 2013  2:56 PM
cloud deployment, Conferences, JBoss, Public Cloud, Red Hat

Will Jeff Barr’s road trip buoy AWS?
In an interesting marketing move, Amazon Web Services Chief Evangelist Jeff Barr is doubling down on customer outreach with a road-trip tour of 14 AWS user groups throughout the U.S. Will his trip have a positive effect on Amazon’s cloud provider customers? What effect will it have on AWS sales?

Answer Question   |  June 4, 2013  1:37 PM
Amazon Web services, AWS

Would an Amazon-ruled cloud service space be a positive thing?
Amazon is going to do to enterprise cloud companies exactly what it did to bookstores. This line, which was the headline in this week’s Searchlight also caught Karen Goulart’s attention. With the Amazon cloud positioned as a big winner by SMBs as well as CIOs at more established enterprises, do you think an Amazon-ruled cloud [...]

Answer Question   |  May 17, 2013  1:54 PM
Amazon, Cloud Computing, Cloud Services

Resource allocation in cloud service
Namaste sir, I am Sivaram from Chennai, India. I’m happy to share my views with you. I am interested to learn more about cloud issues. Particularly, I want to know about the recent issues faced in resource allocation method in cloud services. I am interested to have a deep study on optimum resource allocation in [...]

Answer Question   |  May 6, 2013  3:39 AM
Cloud Computing, Cloud Services

Security in cloud computing
I have developed a web site for connecting to cloud and I’m storing my files in the server which I have bought from a cloud provider (actually it is an instance of that cloud). But I want to store the data which is uploaded by the user to be stored in the cloud i.e cloud [...]

Answer Question   |  May 1, 2013  6:39 PM
Cloud Computing, Cloud Security, Security

What do you make of the hybrid IT movement?
During last week’s 2013 Amazon Web Services Summit, RightScale’s senior cloud solutions architect Brian Adler said more enterprises are moving their applications and functions to the cloud via ‘hybrid IT architecture.’ Hybrid IT allows companies to expand their architecture though multiple cloud providers and one or more on-premises IT environments. What do you make of [...]

Answer Question   |  May 6, 2013  2:39 PM
Cloud Applications, Cloud Computing, IT architecture

How has your company coped with ‘cloud-washing’?
The cloud-hype wave seems to be in full effect as vendors continue to ‘cloud-wash’ products that don’t deliver the same value as true cloud services. How has your company coped with ‘cloud-washing’?

Answer Question   |  April 29, 2013  4:09 PM
Cloud Computing, Cloud Services

Would you consider using Windows Azure Infrastructure Services?
Microsoft via its IaaS platform Windows Azure Infrastructure Service is actively competing against Amazon Web Services (AWS).  Improvements to Azure include improved virtual machine (VM) Image Templates for SQL Server and SharePoint images and roomier VM sizes to accommodate larger memory servers; and a steeply discounted price.  Would this be enough to make you consider [...]

Answer Question   |  April 29, 2013  6:17 PM
Amazon Web services, AWS, IaaS, Windows Azure

What are your goals when it comes to cloud services?
During the Ingram Micro Cloud Summit in Phoenix this week, MSPexcellence founder Todd Hussey said companies should have three goals when it comes to cloud services: Provide value to customers Attain long-term stickiness Gain a strong revenue steam Do you agree with his goals? If not, what would be your goals when it comes to [...]

Answer Question   |  April 22, 2013  9:18 AM
Cloud Computing, Cloud Services

iCloud backup restore
How do I download my backup stored on iCloud to my iPad?

Answer Question   |  April 1, 2013  2:16 AM
Backup & recovery, icloud, iPads

What is the performance parameter for cloud computing?
Could someone tell me what the performance parameter is for cloud computing?

Answer Question   |  March 25, 2013  5:14 PM
Cloud Computing, cloud computing management

Cloud computing project topic
How do I start project on cloud computing?

Answer Question   |  March 19, 2013  4:03 PM
Cloud Computing, cloud computing management

How is your company handling its storage needs?
Even though companies are moving to the cloud to solve their data storage needs, the market for physical servers is very hot.  Which direction do you see your firm taking? More cloud or more racks?

Answer Question   |  March 25, 2013  8:11 PM
Cloud storage, Rack Servers

Does cloud computing need to be clarified more for the public to understand?
Although cloud computing is a hot topic in the technology industry, it’s struggling to make an impact with the public. A recent poll of 1,000 U.S. citizens by the European cloud company Webfusion said only 25% had an understanding what ‘cloud’ means. Does cloud computing need to be  clarified more to make it easier to [...]

Answer Question   |  March 18, 2013  1:54 PM
Cloud Computing, cloud computing management