Friday, April 22, 2011

Apple not green?

Apple Worst of 'Dirty' Cloud Companies, Greenpeace Says ...
By Environmental Leader
Apple gets the worst ratings in a Greenpeace report that claims cloud computing companies are perpetuating the use of fossil fuels. The report, How Dirty is Your Da...
Environmental Management & Energy News - http://www.environmentalleader.com/
Whose cloud is the dirtiest --- Google's, Microsoft's, Facebook's, or Apple's?
Computerworld (blog)
By Preston Gralla Which cloud computing heavyweights are greenest in their use of electricity for the cloud, and which are the dirtiest? Greenpeace has just released a report about it, and how Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, and others fared will ...

Apple Tipped For Cloud Music Service Ahead Of Google
PC Magazine
By Damon Poeter Apple is ready to roll out a new cloud-based music storage service for iTunes users and plans to beat rival Google to the punch in the process, according to a report by Reuters on Thursday. Apple has yet to secure licensing agreements ...
Amazon Cloud Service Suffers Errors, Hurting Websites
Wall Street Journal
Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud service is core to the company's cloud computing platform and is often listed as a model for other such offerings. The service allows users to run programs and store information remotely, access the applications over the...
Microsoft Ties Embedded Computing to the Cloud
PCWorld
By Joab Jackson, IDG News The cloud will play a pivotal role in expanding the scope of embedded computing, according to a top official from Microsoft. "Being able to capture the intelligence from the edge of the network will make a profound change in ...
Cloud Storage Startup Cirtas Retreats
PCWorld (blog)
By Stephen Lawson, IDG News Another cloud storage operation shut down last week when startup Cirtas Systems, which developed a controller for storage in the cloud, announced it was leaving the market to regroup. The company, founded in 2008, ...
Defense CIO wants to speed adoption of cloud, mobile technologies
Computerworld
By Patrick Thibodeau Computerworld - WASHINGTON -- US Department of Defense CIO Teri Takai intends to move the agency's IT in a more mainstream direction to help speed adoption of new technologies, particularly the cloud and mobile. ...
Microsoft BPOS-Federal Cloud Gains FISMA Certification
CRN
We plan to pursue FISMA certification and accreditation for Office 365, our next generation cloud productivity suite, after it launches." Microsoft's accusation started a FISMA flap in which Google defended its FISMA certification claims and said that ...
Microsoft to 'Support' Cloud Computing Startups in India
Bloomberg
(MSFT), the world's largest software maker, will provide financial “support” to fourcloud-computing startups in India, Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner said. The support will be in the form of “grants” and will amount to about $100000 in total, ...
Ubuntu 11.04 Tiptoes Into OpenStack
Server Watch
By Sean Michael Kerner (Send Email) Ubuntu 11.04, codenamed the Natty Narwhal, will be a major release for the Linux distribution's cloud aspirations. Ubuntu 11.04 will be the first release that includes the OpenStack open source cloud platform, ...
Hosting.com Introduces a Fourth Cloud Supersite to its Geographically ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Hosting.com, the leading provider of cloud hosting and recovery services, today announced the availability of cloud hosting solutions in its Irvine Datacenter. Irvine is Hosting.com's fourth cloud supersite in North America - joining Denver, Colorado, ...
Salesforce.com Puts a $400 Million Small Biz Project — Into the Cloud
Forbes (blog)
But Saleforce.com's focus on cloud computing turned out to be a game-changer. Of course, now the company is the dominant player in the space, with a market value of $18.5 billion. Yet Salesforce.com is not just about making huge profits. ...


Microsoft takes Office 365 beta to the cloud
Cloud IT Pro
Microsoft has announced that its Office 365 software is now available in the cloud in public beta status. The company is particularly focused on how the new platform can benefit small and mid-sized businesses in terms of both productivity and the cost ...
The Cloud Contract Adviser: Service-level agreements
Computerworld
By Thomas Trappler Tackle the most complex analytic challenges and glean insight from vast amounts of data. Learn how a columnar-based, massively parallel processing analytic database can provide high performance analytics against complex SQL workloads ...
CloudSwitch teams with Riverbed to enhance the cloud
Cloud IT Pro
Cloud enterprise gateway developer CloudSwitch has announced that it is integrating Riverbed Technology's Cloud Steelhead solution into its platform, in an effort to help its enterprise customers optimize the performance of applications in the cloud ...
"Free" Google Chrome OS cloud notebook: $15/month
Computerworld (blog)
In IT Blogwatch, bloggers have their heads in the cloud. Your humble blogwatcher curated these bloggy bits for your entertainment. Not to mention Harlem 1977 - 2004... We can now confirm from a reliable source that ... Chrome OS based notebooks will be...
Cloud UC Specialist Smoothstone Acquired By West Corp.
CRN
By Chad Berndtson, CRN West Corp. on Tuesday confirmed it will pay about $120 million to acquire Smoothstone IP Communications, a provider of cloud-based unified communications services. Smoothstone will become part of West's expanding UC arm,...
NSA Wants Cloud Computing, Smartphones, and Open Source
DailyTech
The NSA is looking to take inter-agency info-sharing "to the cloud". (Source: Microsoft via YouTube) It also plans on embracing smart phones, tablets, and laptops for the first time. (Source: Flickr) Given that its duties significantly overlap with ...
Tech Today: Wii 2 controller, Apple iTunes cloud music
T3
Apple will launch a cloud music service before Google gets its own plans out of the front door according to a report from Reuters this evening. The iTunes subscription service will store all of your music in the cloud and allow you to access it at any ...
Bloomberg Reports IT Firm Profits A Result Of Increased Cloud Spending
ITProPortal
Rise in demand for cloud computing services has helped IT firms to post satisfactory financial report cards, indicating that the economy is indeed bouncing back on increased IT spending. According to a report on Bloomberg, Intel and IBM had posted ...
Rebuilding Japan: Cloud may have silver lining for Fujitsu
Telegraph.co.uk
Cloud computing from computer giant Fujitsu is providing a data storage solution the country can build on for the future. As the world's third-largest ICT company, with revenues of 4.7 trillion yen (£35bn) last year, Fujitsu has a long record in Japan ...

Enterasys Announced as Finalist for Best of Interop 2011
PR Newswire (press release)
SAN FRANCISCO, April 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Enterasys Networks, a Siemens Enterprise Communications company, announced it has been selected as a Best of Interop finalist for the Wireless & Mobility award category, recognizing CloudWireless ...
Clouds, consolidation, culture: making federal IT less 'horrible'
ZDNet (blog)
Kundra says he is aggressively pursuing cloud services for government agencies, as well as pushing a data center consolidation effort. The Politico article reports that the General Services Administration uses Google Apps to power email and other ...
Apple's Cloud Music Service is Ready to Rock, Sans Licensing
Complex.com (blog)
By Reggie Ugwu, | Apr 21, 2011 | 6:06 pm | Permalink Reuters is reporting that Apple has completed work on its highly anticipated cloud music service. And guess what? So far it looks like Cupertino hasn't reached any new licensing deals, ...
Clusters in the Private Cloud
CTO Edge
A plethora of applications are being considered for the cloud, but it may take at least another year before cloud computing goes mainstream in the enterprise. It seem like the more we talk about cloud computing, especially the private kind, ...
Apple's Cloud-Based Music Service Ready to Go? - Mac Rumors
Reuters reports that Apple has "completed work" on its rumored cloud-based music service and will beat Google to the punch as the search and advertising giant continues to work on a similar project. Apple Inc has completed work on an ...
MacRumors : Mac News and Rumors - http://www.macrumors.com/
Amazon's Cloud Crashed Overnight, And Brought Several Companies ...
By Arik Hesseldahl
One part of Amazon's cloud came to a screeching halt overnight, and brought Foursquare, Quora, Hootsuite, Reddit and scores of other companies down with it.
NewEnterprise - http://newenterprise.allthingsd.com/
Amazon Cloud Goes Down, Takes Every Hot Startup With It
By Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry
Amazon is a huge player in cloud computing, renting out its servers and computing space to companies so they don't have to buy their own infrastructure. Amazon's cloudservices are particularly popular with young, hot startups. ...
Business Insider - http://www.businessinsider.com/
If Amazon's Cloud Fails, Just Keep Smiling: Cloud Computing News «
By Stacey Higginbotham
Updated: Today, Amazon's Web Services have hit some bumps in the road, taking down a variety of popular sites such as Foursquare, Quora and Paper.li. Since clouds do fail perhaps the best thing to do is provide information and maybe a ...
GigaOM - http://gigaom.com/
Reddit, Quora, Foursquare, Hootsuite Go Down Due To Amazon EC2 ...
By The Huffington Post News Editors
Amazon's affordable cloud-based EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) Web hosting service has attracted many popular startups in the social media space, and technical issues this morning have taken down several popular services including ...
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thenewswire/
Reuters: Apple set to launch cloud-based music service ahead of ...
By Donald Melanson
It's the rumor that wouldn't die, and Reuters is now reporting that Apple is finally set to launch a cloud-based music service -- presumably putting.
Engadget - http://www.engadget.com/
Amazon Cloud Failure Takes Down Web Sites - NYTimes.com
By By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER
Amazon's widespread problems highlight the risks of relying on cloud computing.
We Right Resumes | RecruitersBook.com - http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/
Apple ahead in cloud music race over Google
By Mike Vardy
At the time, Amazon argued that its Cloud Drive service does not need licenses, and said uploaded music belongs to the users. Amazon has since held talks with some labels to reach agreements to an enhanced service, meeting with label ...
The Next Web - http://thenextweb.com/apple/
Report: Apple cloud music service set to launch | iLounge News
By Charles Starrett
iLounge news discussing the Report: Apple cloud music service set to launch. Find more Apple news from leading independent iPod, iPhone, and iPad site.
iLounge | All Things iPod, iPhone,... - http://www.ilounge.com/
S--t Happens: Amazon's Cloud Crashed Last Night (Updated ...
By Admin
Clouds are vulnerable, too. And late last night, Amazon's enterprise-level EC2 cloudcomputing solution crashed - bringing sites like Groupon, Reddit, and Indaba with it. In fact, this is still a problem: "Reddit is in 'emergency ...
Digital Music News - http://digitalmusicnews.com/?s=make+money+online&q=http://www.etoro.com/B503_A25509_TClick.aspx
VMware: The Console: Cloud Foundry -- Delivering on VMware's "Open ...
A choice of clouds for application deployment is imperative for mainstream adoption of PaaS. Even if development is significantly more productive, ...
blogs.vmware.com/.../cloud-foundry-delivering-on-vmwares-...
Amazon Cloud Service Suffers Errors, Hurting Websites
Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud service is core to the company's cloud computing platform and is often listed as a model for other such offerings. ...
online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20110421-717941.html
Amazon cloud outage derails Reddit, Quora | Deep Tech - CNET News
A problem with Amazon Web Services took down some Web sites today. Amazon says it's getting its cloud computing service back to normal. Read this blog post ...
news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20056029-264.html
Business Wakes Up to Cloud Computing - NYTimes.com
There are signs that companies like I.B.M. and their establishment customers now want remote information services to be a bigger part of what they offer.
www.nytimes.com/2011/04/15/business/15cloud.html
Learn more on Cloud Foundry
Cloud Foundry, a VMware-led project is the world's first open Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering. Cloud Foundry provides a platform for building, ...
www.cloudfoundry.com/faq
Microsoft Office 365 Signals Huge Cloud Shift
... adds Microsoft -- Office 365 can't help but boost cloud computing adoption, even if customers end up using a competing service. Here's why. ...
www.informationweek.com/news/software/.../229401843
VMware Launches Open-Source CloudCloud Computing News «
VMware has entered the cloud game by offering an open-source package calledCloud Foundry, a platform as a service that should strike fear in the hearts of ...
gigaom.com/cloud/vmware-open-source-cloud/
HP may bless webOS with cloud-syncing music store -- Engadget
Rumor has it that HP is preparing to enter the cloud-based music storage fray. A reader at PreCentral sent in what purports to be a.
www.engadget.com/.../hp-may-bless-webos-with-cloud-syncin...
Cloud Round-up: Apple Hires Microsoft Data Center Guru, Private ...
We try to tell you everything you need to know about the cloud here every week, but sometimes there's just too much news and analysis for us ...
www.readwriteweb.com/.../4-cloud-articles-you-should-re.php
VMware Releases Open Source Cloud Foundry - Slashdot
Julie188 writes "VMware shook the cloud world with an announcement that it was releasing an open source platform-as-a-service called Cloud Foundry.
news.slashdot.org/.../VMware-Releases-Open-Source-Cloud-F...
Desktop Fun: Cloud Chaser Wallpaper Collection - How-To Geek
Whether they are lazily drifting across the sky or warning of an approaching storm,clouds can evoke our emotions, thoughts, and daydreams. ...
www.howtogeek.com/.../desktop-fun-cloud-chaser-wallpaper-...
Cloud Foundry for Spring Developers | SpringSource Team Blog
By now, many of you have probably seen the Cloud Foundry webinar and Rod's blog from earlier today. I'd like to provide a quick follow-up that features a.
blog.springsource.com/.../cloud-foundry-for-spring-developer...

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