IBM opens UK cloud lab

IBM has opened a cloud computing lab in Britain to provide business partners with reaping the benefits of the emerging cloud revolution, states Top News.

The new facility, which is situated in the Hursley IBM Innovation Centre, is accessible from any of company's 38 innovation centres across the world. It will help IBM's business partners acquire the sales and marketing skills that are essential to take advantage of the up-and-coming technology.

IBM stated that the facility would “help a partner explore a wide variety of cloud computing models and become cloud builders, application, technology and infrastructure providers.”

A move towards more and more services in the cloud is inevitable, but vendors still need to focus on security, and the US government needs to rewrite privacy laws to protect cloud customers, a group of experts say, reveals PC World.

Cloud computing will offer many benefits, including remote access to data, remote collaboration and reduced IT costs, says Greg Nojeim, senior counsel for the Centre for Democracy and Technology.

But cloud vendors, customers and US policy makers still have "a lot of questions to work through," he says

The Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) is considering to introduce a scheme on cloud computing to help Indian SMEs in lowering IT infrastructure costs, writes SME Times.

"The industry is considering a scheme on cloud computing. It will perhaps be the introducing of a giant Web-based company by Google, Amazon etcetera , that will offer sharing of web infrastructure to deal with Internet data storage and competition for catering to customers like MSMEs those are looking for more affordable IT solutions," MSME Secretary, Uday Kumar Varma says.

SMEs usually find lots of difficulties in setting up IT infrastructure, he says, adding, "MSMEs alone would perhaps find it insufficient in terms of costs to set up that kind of infrastructure.”