The federal government is currently deploying a federal community cloud.
Using the BAH study as a guide, and assuming that community cloud economies mimic those expected from a hybrid cloud, transitioning IT services from an agency-owned IT infrastructure to the GSA IaaS platform should deliver benefit cost ratios of approximately 7:1.
This effort by NYSE is a classic example of a community cloud in that it is a private IaaS solution (yes, there is dedicated hosting too) designed specifically to meet the needs of a particular market and open to all members of that community.
Much discussed but often not fully appreciated by the business community, cloud services enable custom sites to perform well under varying, and sometimes severe, traffic conditions.
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If the broader Cloud community can sustain that customer-centric view despite the growing competitive and financial pressures, I predict continued growth and adoption for the platform.
Sam Johnston is a well-known influencer in the cloud community.
More information regarding the additional capabilities of Adobe Creative Cloud, including applications, services and community and full Adobe Creative Cloud paid membership options will be available in the first half of 2012.
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The IT arm of NYSE Euronext announced beta of Capital Markets Community Platform, its cloud computing offering this week, and the effort, on the surface, is a good example for other vertical markets to follow.
Cloud Currencies offers community rewards for local merchants and earned donations for favorite non-profits.
We also aspire to offer the INTIX solution through the SWIFT Cloud, to the SWIFT community.
In considering cloud computing for the Intelligence Community, security is an obvious concern.
The world is being re-shaped by the convergence of social, mobile, cloud, big data, community and other powerful forces.
The OpenStack Foundation and the Open Compute Project is a community of 150 companies committed to building cloud architecture based upon open source software and open hardware standards.
As a bonus, cloud computing offers DoD and Intelligence Community agencies the ability to increase efficiencies and incur marked cost savings during their life-cycles to alleviate some of the pressure of budget reductions.
Research posted last year by Lydia Leong, Research VP at Gartner, points to some of the challenges facing Cloud providers, specifically within the OpenStack community.
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Already, there are ground-up efforts to promote cloud computing best practices in the high technology community.
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Cloud-based communication, customer development, community building and financial applications help small businesses acquire and manage information quickly and strategically.
Ever since 2009 when NIST published its first definition of cloud computing there has been a promise of community clouds, and now we finally have a second one in the financial services market, thanks to NYSE Technologies.
In a press release issued last month about the investment, William Strecker, In-Q-Tel's chief technology officer, said the intelligence community is looking for new ways to secure information given the increasing ubiquity of cloud computing.
The Cloud Engines philosophy is that by making a product simple, open and affordable, the community will participate in making it better.
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Jesse Robbins, Chief Community Officer and co-founder of OpsCode, creator of the Chef systems integration framework for the cloud, pointed out in October 2007 that working such magic creates a competitive advantage.
The tech community is split over AWS's troubles: Some commentators blame customers for failing to build more redundancy into their cloud products by spreading service over multiple data centers or regions.
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