What to Do When Your Organization Says 'No' to Cloud Computing

Jeffrey M. Kaplan submits: Plenty has been written about last week’s disruption of Amazon’s Web Services (AWS) which took hundreds of organizations offline, including many rapidly growing start-ups, and about evolving aspects of enterprise operations.

The Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) kicked off the second Cloud Computing Forum & Workshop today at its headquarters in Gaithersburg, Md., providing a report on the agency’s efforts to collaboratively develop a Cloud Computing Roadmap among multiple federal and industrial stakeholders.  

By Andy Batts:Cloud computing is a pay-per-use consumption and delivery model that enables real-time delivery of configurable computing resources (for example, networks, servers, storage, applications, services). It is a computing model providing web-based software, middleware and computing resources on demand. The Future of Cloud is Extremely Bullish

Stockerblog submits: Cloud computing can make businesses more green and cost efficient. Cloud computing means that instead of running software applications on your computer, you run the apps in the "clouds" in cyberspace, in other words through the Internet.

ByAlpha Hunter:Cloud computing is no longer an emerging trend. For instance, salesforce.com has seen 14 years of operation and it has been more than 5 years since it topped 1 million subscribers. Similarly, other organizations operating in cloud computing have made significant progress in cloud-enabling their applications.

By Bret Jensen:Any SA followers that have regularly read my columns know that I am big fan of busted IPOs. Buying fast growing firms after the IPO hype has died and the stock price has fallen substantially, has been a profitable strategy for me over the years. The key is to find firms that have the potential to live up to their previous hype now selling at a discounted level.

By Dana Gardner:Today HP filled out its cloud computing strategy, a broad-based set of products and services, that set a date (finally!) for its public cloud debut (May 10).