Monday, April 25, 2011

CLOUD BUBBLE building?

Dell to Invest $1 Billion to Expand Cloud Computing Capabilities
ITChannelPlanet
Vendor plans to build new cloud computing data centers, open solution centers, unveils new solutions and services and three-year strategic alliance with Microsoft. Dell Inc. said that it will invest some $1 billion in its current fiscal year into ...
IBM, CA, Rackspace, Software AG, Kaavo, Founding Sponsors of New Cloud End ...
ITChannelPlanet
45 initial members of Cloud Standards Customer Council aim to advance cloud adoption by focusing on reference architectures, hybrid cloud, security, compliance. A number of IT companies, including CA Inc., IBM Corp., Kaavo, Rackspace Inc. and Software ...

From DocVerse to Cloud Connect: Shan Sinha reflects on year one at Google
Los Angeles Times
Google, a titan of a tech company with the leading search engine and smartphone OS among its successes, is looking to become the leader in business applications based in the cloud. The Mountain View, Calif., firm is banking that its Cloud Connect ...

Global CIO: How The Cloud Changes What IT Pros Do
InformationWeek
As Brady Corp. has moved to cloud computing, its CIO sees a shift in the skills its IT organization needs. By Chris Murphy InformationWeek As companies move more of their software to the cloud, there are some indispensible skills IT pros need to hone ...

Cloud: Putin Sets Example for US Tech Talk. What???
SYS-CON Media (press release)
He said he saw no reason to limit content on the Internet, and he expressed hope that Russia would be able to create new momentum in its use of technology, including Cloud Computing. He was seemingly rueful that his country was not a current Internet- ...

Cloud Computing Solutions at NCEA Conference
PR Web (press release)
Common Goal Systems (http://www.common-goal.com) will be showcasing enrollment-friendly cloudcomputing solutions at the National Catholic Education Association (NCEA) Conference in New Orleans. The first solution is TeacherEase, a web-based gradebook ...

The Cloud and Outages : Five Key Lessons-
By patrick
AWS suffered a significant outage at one of their locations this week. We analyse what this tells us about achieving reliability in the cloud and how both vendors need openness to allow customers to make informed cloud purchasing ...
CloudSigma Cloud Computing Blog - http://www.cloudsigma.com/blog/

Legal challenges could hold back 'cloud computing'
Dallas Morning News
The dispute revolves around the notion of “cloud computing,” the idea that your digital material isn't trapped on a hard drive in your laptop or iPhone. Instead, you keep your data in online computer servers that are accessible anywhere you can get an ...
Despite Improvements, Data in the Cloud Remains Dirty
PCWorld
By Ilie Mitaru, PCWorld Few parts of our lives remain untouched by software in the cloud. From connecting with friends on Facebook to organizing your finances on Mint, these tools are becoming increasingly embedded into our professional and personal ...
Cloud Technology Under Scrutiny After Service Disruptions
Hollywood Reporter
Service interruptions in Amazon's cloud computing web services on Thursday as well as Sony's PlayStation Network on Friday raised questions about the promise of cloud services just a week after the subject grabbed huge amounts of attention at the ...
The new 'space' race: Apple, Google compete for cloud-stored music
New York Post
By CLAIRE ATKINSON and GARETT SLOANE Apple and Google are vying to determine the future of music distribution through rival "cloud"-based storage services. The tech giants are racing to reach deals with the major music labels so that they can roll out ...
How to manage the risk in the cloud
Sunday Times.lk
Any enterprise that has not yet begun to think of a cloud strategy may soon be left behind. The temptation to put things on/in the cloud and sit back can be extremely compelling. But like everything that appears too good to be true, cloud computing ...
Why Dropbox?s Privacy Policy Is OK (Just Proceed Carefully)
PCWorld
But as far as cloud storage services go, Dropbox's data-sharing policy is really standard, in that it complies with laws and mandates in the United States. But I would still not recommend using the service to upload anything that you would not ...
Google sees huge potential in India cloud services market
Moneycontrol.com
There is a bit of Google in our lives everyday. Whether it's a purchase of a mobile phone or a car, most of us log on to the internet to gather all sorts of information available. In an interview with Siddharth Zarabi of CNBC-TV18, Shailesh Rao the ...


Cloud goes beyond storage: Microsoft exec
Times of India
Take cloud computing, for instance. By now, most small and mid-sized business (SMB) decision makers know they can use the cloud for storage. Hosts of online service providers offer space in the cloud to safely backup business data, and scores of SMBs ...

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