Google committed to opening up its cloud infrastructure so that others can benefit from “our enormous computational power” . . . . details on plans to make its cloud technology available for processing and serving geospatial data. http://goo.gl/dIN2L
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 ... | ||
| 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 ... | ||
| 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, ... | ||
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| Microsoft BPOS-Federal Cloud Gains FISMA Certification CRN We plan to pursue FISMA certification and accreditation for Office 365, our next generation cloudproductivity 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 four cloud-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 cloudsupersite in North America - joining Denver, Colorado, ... | ||
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| 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 ... | ||
| The Cloud Contract Adviser: Service-level agreements Computerworld By Thomas Trappler This guide explains how to simplify the migration process, ensure backup and restore procedures, and confirm post-migration verifications. Learn more! Learn how enterprises can leverage the key benefits of OST (Open Storage) API for ... | ||
| "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 ... | ||
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| 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 ... | ||
| 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 Cloud Wireless ... | ||
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| 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 aboutcloud computing, especially the private kind, ... | ||
| Hosted Predictive Dialer: The Cloud Can Simplify Data Security TMC Net By Linda Dobel, TMCnet Contributor Multi-site, multi-source contact centers have, at this point, come to appreciate the many benefits of transitioning to the cloud. Still, the biggest concern, and therefore the biggest hold back, is security. ... | ||
| Karmaloop.com Selects TwinStrata CloudArray® and Amazon S3 Cloud Storage for ... PR Newswire (press release) NATICK, Mass., April 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- TwinStrata, Inc., the leading innovator in cloudstorage and data protection solutions, today announced Karmaloop, a Boston-based online retailer of name brand underground fashion, selected CloudArray® to ... | ||
| Video: The VAD's Increasingly Important Role in the Cloud Channel Partners The Cloud Convergence Council – a joint partnership between Channel Partners and The 2112 Group – proved to be one of the best-attended events at the Spring 2011 Channel Partners Conference & Expo. Channel Partners teamed with Council sponsors to ... | ||
| Amazon's Trouble Raises Cloud Computing Doubts New York Times “This is a wake-up call for cloud computing,” said Matthew Eastwood, an analyst for the research firm IDC, using the term for accessing services and information in big data centers remotely over the Internet from anywhere, as if the services were in a ... | ||
| 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 ... | ||
| Music Row: Music industry turns to cloud as energy use knocked The Tennessean Much of that consumption comes in the form of cloud storage — in which massive amounts of data are saved on large servers in data centers that, in some cases, are four, five or more times bigger than a typical Walmart Supercenter. ... | ||
| Cloud brokering: Building a cloud of clouds ZDNet (blog) By Dana Gardner | April 22, 2011, 1:51pm PDT The ability to select among several publicclouds is only one benefit of cloud brokering. It also supports the ability for an organization to move application instances or data between private and public ... | ||
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| Amazon crash reveals 'cloud' computing actually based on data centers ITworld.com It also has an object lesson to anyone who thinks of cloud computing as a quick path to problem-free, low-cost, top-flight computing without the trouble of building or maintaining the technology to make that possible. Clouds are data centers. ... | ||
| Microsoft Cloud-Based Apps Pass FISMA Scrutiny Redmondmag.com By Kurt Mackie Microsoft announced on Wednesday that its cloud-based suite of applications has passed muster for government use per Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) standards. Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Suite for the ... | ||
| Google Airs Its Cloud Security Redmondmag.com By Kurt Mackie The company opened up a little about how it physically secures one of its datacenters within its global cloud network. The security measures are described in both a Google blog posted on Friday and in an interesting YouTube video that ... | ||
| Virtela offers mobile device management from the cloud iTWire By Stuart Corner US based cloud services provider, Virtela, has launched what it claims to be the first global cloud-based mobile device management service, enabling enterprises to secure and manage Apple iOS, Blackberry, Android, Windows Mobile and... | ||
| IT shops need direction from Microsoft on reaching cloud SearchCloudComputing.com But IT shops need more details about how the company will help them transition from on premises and hosted applications to software-as-a-service and cloud-flavored versions of products in that suite before it can be seriously evaluated. ... | ||
| Cloud Computing Solutions at NCEA Conference PR Web (press release) Common Goal Systems (http://www.common-goal.com) will be showcasing enrollment-friendly cloud computing solutions at the National Catholic Education Association (NCEA) Conference in New Orleans. The first solution is TeacherEase, a web-based gradebook ... | ||
| Cloud: the MSP's dilemma DatacenterDynamics As is the case with the rest of the IT world, conversation in the managed services space today is dominated by cloud computing. While some MSPs embrace it, others fear profits may be cannibalized if they do. Providers that do have cloud offerings have ... | ||
| 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... | ||
| When the cloud fails: Why universities went public anyway ZDNet (blog) The failure of the Amazon cloud and slow recovery of the web service over the past day has questioned the increasing reliance on the cloud, and whether regardless of backup systems and distributed datacenters, can in fact the cloud be innately trusted ... | ||
| Pancetera Introduces Fast, Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery Software CRN By Joseph F. Kovar, CRN Pancetera, a developer of technology for protecting data in virtualized and cloud environments, this week unveiled new software for replicating virtual machines to a local or cloud storage appliance. The new product, SmartMotion ... | ||
| Amazon outage ends cloud innocence ZDNet Australia By Larry Dignan, ZDNet US on April 23rd, 2011 (6 minutes ago) Cloud computing learned the harsh reality of resiliency as Amazon Web Services' outage crossed into its second day. Meanwhile, start-ups and a host of other AWS customers are in uncharted... | ||
| Amazon`s Cloud Drive Music Service: Why It's Not Ready for Prime Time eWeek Amazon's new Cloud Drive music service is really more a music backup service than anything else. Here, Knowledge Center mobile and wireless analyst J. Gerry Purdy explains why Amazon's Cloud Drive just isn't ready for prime time. ... | ||
| Amazon user Indaba pokes fun at cloud troubles in Site Down Jam! contest Los Angeles Times So it was only a matter of time before someone took the time to make light of Amazon's ongoing cloud computing trouble -- which is gaining the nicknames Cloudburst and Cloudgate, and spawned the #EC2 hashtag in reference to the Elastic Cloud Compute ... | ||
| Canonical Adds OpenStack Support to Ubuntu ReadWriteWeb By Klint Finley / April 22, 2011 5:15 PM / 0 Comments This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloudcomputing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Read the white paper about how Intel ... | ||
| AppRiver among top 20 security vendors Pensacola News Journal Gulf Breeze-based tech company AppRiver has been named by CRN Magazine as one of the top 20 "Cloud Security Vendors" in the nation for 2011. Cloud computing refers to data not stored locally on one computer. Rather the data is in "the cloud," where it ... | ||
| NSA Reveals Cloud Plans, May Open-Source Some of Its Software ReadWriteWeb The nation's cryptologic intelligence agency is moving towards a cloud-centric approach to computing. In an interview with Information Week, National Security Agency CIO Lonny Anderson talks about the cloud, cross-agency information systems and open ... | ||
| Amazon: Skynet NOT to blame for cloud outage ZDNet (blog) By Adrian Kingsley-Hughes | April 22, 2011, 10:11am PDT Here's a bit of fun for a Friday - Amazon confirms that Skynet had nothing to do with the recent cloud outage. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes is an internationally published technology author who has ... | ||
| Ubuntu 11.04 Adds OpenStack to Linux InternetNews.com Ubuntu 11.04 'Natty' will include the open source OpenStack cloud platform, but only as a technology preview. By Sean Michael Kerner: More stories by this author: The Ubuntu 11.04 Linux release is due out next week and with it will debut a new open ... | ||
| CIO Cloud Summit Releases Latest Agenda Details PR-USA.net (press release) The CIO Cloud Summit team announced today agenda details for the upcoming technology event, June 14-16, 2011 at the InterContinental Montelucia Resort in Scottsdale, Arizona. The CIO Cloud Summit is an opportunity for attending CIOs, analysts and ... | ||
| Pitney Bowes Launches pbSmart Connections: Cloud-Based Email Marketing Solution Small Business Trends Stamford, Connecticut (PRESS RELEASE – April 23, 2011) - Pitney Bowes Inc. (NYSE: PBI) recently launched pbSmart Connections, a cloud-based email marketing solution that helps businesses more effectively create and deliver their message globally in ... | ||
| Flite CEO Price on Amazon's Cloud Outages Bloomberg ... chief executive officer of Flite, discusses Amazon.com Inc.'s Internet-based computing services and outages today that affected a portion of Amazon's business customers who run their Web pages and store data on the company's cloud. ... | ||
| Encoding.com Secures $2M in Funding StreamingMedia.com The cloud-based encoder will use the funding to scale up its operations and gain new customers. By Troy Dreier Cloud-based encoding and transcoding provider Encoding.com announced that it has secured an additional $2 million in funding. ... | ||
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| Vembu Technologies named one of the top 20 cloud storage vendors for 2011 MMD Newswire (press release) Carson City, Nevada (MMD Newswire) April 22, 2011 - - Vembu Technologies, today announced it was named one of the top 20 cloud storage vendors for 2011 and additionally it was also named as one of the Coolest Cloud Computing Vendors by Everything ... | ||
| Amazon's Cloud Problem, and Why It Matters PC Magazine By Peter Pachal The great Amazon Cloud Collapse continued this morning into its second day, affecting hundreds, possibly thousands of Web sites and services. One of Amazon's five data centers—the one near Washington, DC—began to have trouble ... | ||
| Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) Sees Cloud Future For Embedded Computing StocksandShares.TV A Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) official has said that the company is trying to tie embedded computing to the cloud. According to the Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) official, the cloud will open a number of wider possibilities to embedded ... | ||
| Salesforce Eats Market Share But Stock Is Too Expensive Forbes (blog) Salesforce.com makes the majority of its revenues through subscription and support fees associated with its cloud-based software that provide customers with access to applications that can systematically record, store, and act upon business data. ... | ||
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