Apple iCloud coming?

Apple may brand its rumored cloud services "iCloud" Ars Technica By Chris Foresman | Last updated April 28, 2011 11:45 AM Apple has reportedly been working hard to launch new cloud-based services for iOS and Mac users, including a revamped MobileMe and an iTunes-based "digital locker," all powered by a huge data ...

Pervasive Software Launches Data Integration 'App Store' eWeek Pervasive Software, which held its annual Metamorphasis Cloud Integration Summit here at the Hotel Sofitel, on April 28 launched a new marketplace for data integration processes. Pervasive Galaxy, which had been running in beta for a few months, ...

This Week in Cloud, April 28, 2011: AWS outages and what businesses can learn ... SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog) A while back I ran across an article about the '7 Deadly Sins of Cloud Computing' in Computerworld. Antony Savvas was writing about a report from the Information Security Forum (ISF) that announced it had identified those items of great IT wickedness ...

4 Apps for HR Management in the Cloud GigaOm By Amber Singleton Riviere Apr. 28, 2011, 2:05pm PT No Comments Increasingly, the information we use to manage our companies is moving to the cloud, and human resources is no exception. Here are several solutions that provide simple and affordable...

AWS and OpenStack: an interesting contrast worth considering during cloud ... ZDNet (blog) By James Staten | April 28, 2011, 9:23am PDT James Staten calls out a couple of contrasting approaches for users as they give consideration to cloud implementation. Having attended the OpenStack Design Summit this week and at the same time fielding...

Web Host Connectria Offers Amazon EC2 Trade-Up Program Web Host Industry Review By Justin Lee, April 28, 2011 (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- Cloudhosting provider Connectria (www.connectria.com) announced on Thursday it is offering a trade-up program for those Amazon cloud customers who are displeased with their service. ...

NetSuite Announces First Quarter 2011 Financial Results PR Newswire (press release) SAN MATEO, Calif., April 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- NetSuite Inc. ( NYSE: N), the industry's leading provider of cloud-based financials / ERP software suites, today announced operating results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2011. ...

Fire Host Introduces PCI 2.0 Compliant Public Cloud Offering ZDNet (blog) By Dan Kusnetzky | April 28, 2011, 3:16am PDT Daniel Kusnetzky, Analyst and Founder of Kusnetzky Group LLC, is responsible for research, publications, and operations. Mr. Kusnetzky has been involved with information technology since the late 1970s. ...

Intel's Smith Says Explosion in Demand for Mobile Data Fuels Server Sales Bloomberg Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg April 27 (Bloomberg) -- Stacy Smith, chief financial officer at Intel Corp., talks about the outlook for growth in the markets for cloud-based servers and personal computers. Smith also discusses Intel's ...

Security Standoff in the Cloud? PR Newswire (press release) ... 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) and the Ponemon Institute, an independent research firm specializing in privacy, data protection and information security policy, today released a study that shows cloud providers andcloud ...

HP Wins $2.5 Billion NASA Cloud Services Contract Web Host Industry Review By Justin Lee, April 28, 2011 (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- IT services giant HP (www.hp.com) announced on Thursday that its enterprise services unit has been awarded a $2.5 billion services contract with NASA (www.nasa.gov). In the fixed price deal, ...

Baseball Disaster: Yanks Leak 21000 Ticket Holders' Personal Info TIME By Matt Peckham on April 28, 2011 From Amazon's cloud collapse to Sony's PlayStation Network catastrophe, it's been one of those weeks, and it just got measurably worse: Imagine the personal info of over 21000 New York Yankees ticket holders--names, ...

Hubwoo Announces Q1 2011 Results PR Newswire (press release) PARIS, April 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Hubwoo (Euronext: HBW.NX), a leading global provider of Cloud Procurement solutions powered by SAP® software, today announced financial information for Q1 2011, in accordance with the "European Transparency ...

Cloud Storage Firm Caringo Names Storage Veteran Its Marketing Head Web Host Industry Review By Liam Eagle, April 28, 2011 (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –-Cloud storage technology firm Caringo (www.caringo.com) announced this week that it had appointed industry veteran Adrian J. Hererra, formerly ofcloud storage technology firm Nirvanix, ...

Euronet Deploys Cisco Unified Computing System and Cloud Infrastructure Marketwire (press release) BUDAPEST, HUNGARY--(Marketwire - Apr 28, 2011) - Cisco ( NASDAQ : CSCO) today announced that Euronet Worldwide, an industry leader and provider of highly secure electronic financial transaction solutions, has deployed the Cisco Unified Computing ...

Grid Cloud Solutions Positioning Itself as Market Leader Benzinga COM, April 28, 2011 ) Carson City, NV Grid Cloud Solutions (GRDC), the growing renewable energy services company, which offers its services to the Solar, Wind, Hydro and Biomass energy industry, is busy positioning itself at the forefront of the ...

The Cloud Messenger by Aamer Hussein: review Telegraph.co.uk By Philip Womack 12:47PM BST 28 Apr 2011 The title of this taut new novel from Aamer Hussein comes from a legend, in which clouds carry messages of love from separated lovers across the world. Relationships, and their varying levels of permanence, ...

TwinStrata Announces Availability of CloudArray® Version 2.5 PR Newswire (press release) NATICK, Mass., April 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- TwinStrata, Inc., the leading innovator in data storage and data protection solutions leveraging cloud storage, today announced the availability of CloudArray® Version 2.5. With the latest release, ...

Plex Online Named Finalist for Three CODiE Business Software Awards Marketwire (press release) AUBURN HILLS, MI--(Marketwire - Apr 28, 2011) - Plex Systems, Inc., provider of the Plex Online, Cloud ERP for manufacturers, today announced that Plex Online has been named a finalist in three categories of the prestigious CODiE Business Software ...

Akkadian wins Hollywood Park feature San Jose Mercury News Great Warrior returned $3.40 and $2.40, while Cloud Man was another 1 3/4 lengths back in third and paid $3 to show. The victory was Akkadian's second in four starts and increased his earnings to $77760. Joyful Success won the sixth race, giving Tyler ...

Artezio launches a new department for cloud based solutions development PRLog.Org (press release) PRLog (Press Release) – Apr 28, 2011 – For the past couple of years cloudtechnologies have become a popular model for many companies around the world. According to the Brocade survey, nearly 48 percent of European companies have already implemented a ...

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New Product News – April 28, 2011 Information Management Pitney Bowes Inc. launched pbSmart Connections, its cloud-based email marketing solution. An expansion of the company's pbSmart Suite of on-demand customer communications management products, pbSmart Connections features scalability for growing ...

PHP Fog Announces General Availability of Its Cloud Platform as a Service ... Marketwire (press release) MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA and PORTLAND, OR--(Marketwire - Apr 28, 2011) - Today at Under The Radar, PHP Fog announced that its Cloud PaaS for PHP developers will be generally available within the next 30 days. PHP, the foundation of web-scale sites like Digg, ...

Channel IQ Selects Tier 3's Enterprise Cloud Platform to Optimize its Online ... PR Newswire (press release) BELLEVUE, Wash., April 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Tier 3, an enterprise cloud platform company, today announced that Channel IQ, the leading provider of online pricing intelligence and channel management solutions, has selected the company's ...

The Art of Service Expands Cloud Computing Certification Pathway PR Newswire (press release) SAN JOSE, Calif., April 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Art of Service, one of the world's premier IT service framework companies, has expanded its cloud computing certification pathway to make it more comprehensive and applicable to IT customer service. ...

Master IT support providers Chris and Greg Tinker's take on how integrated ... ZDNet (blog) Gardner, a leading identifier of software and cloud productivity trends and new IT business growth opportunities, honed his skills and refined his insights as an industry analyst, pundit, and news editor covering the emerging software development and ...