Saturday, May 7, 2011

Sony's woes--end of the week wrap-up


Analysis: Sony woes may cause some to rethink cloud computing
Reuters
By Jim Finkle and Liana B. Baker BOSTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Sony data breach that compromised the personal data of more than 100 million customers of the Japanese electronics conglomerate may claim yet another victim -- the cloudcomputing ...
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Can cloud computing help your household?
The Rolla Daily News
By Dan Rafter You may not understand what cloud computing is, but you should understand that it can save your family time and money. You might already use cloud services without knowing it. Do you have email through Hotmail or Gmail? ...
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SAS Storage In The Cloud
InformationWeek (blog)
These systems may be ideal for small to medium-sized cloud providers looking to cost effectively implement high performance shared storage. Pure SAS systems, systems that have SAS drives and SAS connectivity to servers, tend also to have very ...
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Worth It? The 'Cloud' at Home
Wall Street Journal (blog)
From some consumers, there may be concern about the reliability of “the cloud.” Buffalo Technology says customers can avoid losing data by backing up all their data on that second drive, and that users don't suffer the same risk they might with a ...
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Cloud Thunder: The Biggest Bang for the Buck, Part 2
E-Commerce Times
By Dick Benton The shortest lead time to cloud benefits appears to be by way of PaaS, while the largest financial return might be from targeted use of SaaS services. PaaS may provide the quickest implementation, but its pricing complexities make ...
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Most Canadians unaware of online tracking, says privacy watchdog
Vancouver Sun
By storing information and services on shared remote computers and accessed via the Internet or the "cloud," companies can reduce their storage requirements and costs. But as Sony has discovered with the recent theft of personal information of over 100 ...
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Brocade shindig sees the fabric king stretching out
Register
The Fibre Channel fabric king held a Techday Summit in San Jose on May 2 and 3 and outlined itscloud-optimised thinking around the data centre becoming the network in virtual enterprises. It's a neat vision but what does it boil down to? ...
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Witness reports 'something' lowered itself down out of cloud
Examiner.com
By Roger Marsh A California witness reports noticing a cloud with "ripples" where a "bump" suddenly formed and "this thing started to lower down out of the cloud," according to May 6, 2011, testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness ...
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Cloud adoption underestimated?
ZDNet (blog)
Indeed, the private cloud movement may be happening at all levels under the radar. I've been involved in survey research (PDF download) that looked at cloud adoption among members of the Independent Oracle Users Group, and we found that 44% of ...
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Acronis Adds DR Protection for Cloud Data
eWeek
... of cloud-stored data alongside that of virtual and physical on-site systems. Acronis Backup & Recovery 11, announced May 3 for availability in June, is aimed at midrange and smaller businesses and remote offices within larger enterprises. ...
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SANpulse Automates Discovery and Migration to the Private Cloud
Marketwire (press release)
JERSEY CITY, NJ--(Marketwire - May 6, 2011) - Paving the path to the next generation data center with technology led solutions, SANpulse Technologies, Inc., today announced support for enterprise private cloud initiatives powered by next generation ...
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OpenStack Now Supported for SMEStorage Open Cloud SaaS Platform and Cloud ...
PR Newswire (press release)
SMEStorage enables users of Swift to quickly take advantage of the vast numbers of clients and tools that SMEStorage Open Cloud Platform supports. LONDON, May 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- SMEStorage today announced that it has enabled support for OpenStack ...
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Postcard Services Launches New Suite of Cloud Based Business Tools
The Open Press (press release)
(OPENPRESS) May 7, 2011 -- Postcard Services has gone "live" with its new website (http://postcardservices.com) that assists small businesses with their advertising campaigns. Usingcloud-based technology, the site provides a suite of direct marketing ...
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IBM to sharpen focus on growth markets, analytics, cloud
istockAnalyst.com (press release)
A couple of years ago, IBM outlined four focus areas--growth markets, analytics, next-generation data centres and cloud, and smarter planet--with clearly laid out financial objectives to be achieved by 2015. These areas would continue to receive ...
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HP Exec Inadvertently Leaks Cloud Details on LinkedIn
Web Host Industry Review
By Liam Eagle, May 06, 2011 (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- According to several reports released this week, some details concerning a cloud solution that HP is building under wraps were inadvertently revealed this week when chief technologist and ...
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Navigating the Public Cloud
Baseline
Control: When data is moved to the public cloud, businesses no longer have control over that data. Period. Once you move the data, your cloud provider has "got you" because it is very difficult and costly to move it back. Your business may own the data ...
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With Cloud Inititiatives and Partners, Red Hat Is Marching Forward
OStatic (blog)
by Sam Dean - May. 05, 2011Comments (0) As it ramps up to become the first billion dollar a year open source company, Red Hat is expanding its cloud-based strategy, and citing strong partnerships as fueling the company's momentum. ...
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Big Changes Afoot in the Linux Market
TechNewsWorld
These are the community distributions from Red Hat and Novell (now Attachmate following its acquisition of the Suse Linux technology and business), and they may also represent these vendors' hidden strength in cloud computing. ...
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Cloud Computing: Federal Agencies Follow a Pathway to the Cloud
Formtek Blog (blog)
While IT in the federal government has had a reputation for being slow moving behemoth, that may be changing. Efforts to squeeze more IT from the shrinking federal budget is causing Kundra to look tocloud computing. According to Kundra's plan laid out ...
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Extreme Networks to Showcase Network Solutions for Cloud and Mobile Enterprise ...
TMC Net
By Rajani Baburajan, TMCnet Contributor Extreme Networks will be showcasing its open Cloud and mobile enterprise network solutions at Interop (News - Alert) Las Vegas, from May 10-12. The networking company, targeting the global mobile world, ...
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Don't put your users in the cloud, Mrs Worthington
ZDNet UK (blog)
According to the company's John Wallis, AppSense is starting to sell user virtualisation into enterprises and cloud providers, with the idea that enterprises will start to virtualise end users, and push end-user data, all the personalisations, ...
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A handy guide to cloud service measurement
Register
VMWare has a good go at it here. Software licences are a delicate consideration. Many vendors have yet to catch up with virtualisation; the internal cloud may end up costing you more. Moving them to a hosted provider may not be cheaper either. ...
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UK Web Host Fasthosts Wins Microsoft Hyper-V Cloud Partner Award
Web Host Industry Review
By Justin Lee, May 06, 2011 (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- UK hosting provider Fasthosts Internet (www.fasthosts.co.uk) announced this week it has been awarded the Hyper-V Cloud Partner for 2010 by Microsoft, during its annual Global Hosting Summit in ...
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Microsoft wades into Google over cloud's "hidden costs"
TechEye
Rizzo is Vole's "software as a service" bloke so that should put him into the hub of Microsoft's cloud plans. It might have been better for Microsoft to slam Google's software, or cloud as being less reliable or something similar.
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CA Technologies improves R&D efficiency through private cloud
ComputerworldUK
By Anh Nguyen | Computerworld UK | Published 09:50, 06 May 11 CA Technologies has significantly improved the efficiency of its R&D team by adopting virtualisation and a private cloud. These technologies have also enabled the IT firm to consolidate its ...
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Cloud Computing a Boon for Small Business
AllBusiness (blog)
Most providers of cloud services offer their service for free (in the case of Google) or charge a monthly or annual fee - sometimes it may cost more than buying software but the benefits far outweigh the costs when you consider that your software will ...
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AllBusiness (blog)
LastPass security breach alarm sows confusion, CEO says threat is minimal
International Business Times
By IB Times Staff Reporter | May 6, 2011 1:30 AM EDT People who prefer to store their numerous, ever-growing list of passwords in the cloud were in for a big surprise when LastPass revealed earlier in the week a possible security breach in its networks ...
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Now, Indian Tech Start-Ups May Raise Seed Funding From Citrix Systems
VC Circle
“What we are looking for are innovative business solutions using the latest technologies, such ascloud computing where the entrepreneurial team can clearly explain how their solution addresses customer pain and delivers a superior user experience, ...
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CIO Cloud Summit Partners with Yankee Group for the Upcoming Technology Event
PR.com (press release)
Chicago, IL, May 06, 2011 --(PR.com)-- The CIO Cloud Summit team announced today that it has formed a strategic partnership with Yankee Group, a leading analyst firm that specializes in the impact of mobile computing. The CIO Cloud Summit, June 14-16, ...
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Web Host FiberCloud Adds Windows Hyper-V Cloud Servers
Web Host Industry Review
By Nicole Henderson, May 06, 2011 (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Web host FiberCloud (www.fibercloud.com) announced on Thursday that it has added cloudservers using Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V to its product line. According to the press release, ...
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8 questions for NetSuite
ZDNet (blog)
Analysts of all stripes have doubts about whether SAP and Microsoft can make the jump to thecloud world, Nelson doesn't need to pour gas on those fires. Instead, I believe NetSuite has to knuckle down on execution. The noises it is making are OK but I ...
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Unexpected storage challenges in cloud computing environments
Continuity Central (press release)
There are undeniable benefits to cloud computing: the elastic computing model it supports provides unprecedented flexibility to respond rapidly to changing business requirements, server and desktop consolidation can lead to much higher resource ...
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Google, Microsoft, HP and IBM to Take to the Stage in Free Channel Seminars
PR Newswire UK (press release)
Other seminars on generating revenues and building business through SaaS, will be hosted by Todd Thibodeaux, CompTIA's president, and Simon Baker, IBM's cloud leader. For those resellers, integrators and consultants looking to secure government ...
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Reminder: Uptime Symposium is Next Week
Data Center Knowledge
A reminder for last-minute planners: The Uptime Institute Symposium 2011 will be held next Monday through Thursday (May 9-12) at the Hyatt Regency in Santa Clara, CA. The symposium's theme this year is “The Disrupted Data Center: Cloud, Cost, ...
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Can the Open Data Center Alliance make a difference?
ZDNet (blog)
From Intel's perspective it was a forum to push their Cloud 2015 vision, as well. When a press release crossed my desk today announcing a new Adopter member (a member who plans on using the ODCA Roadmap as a purchasing guideline), I thought I would ...
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Sony's websites may be next target for hackers, report says
Los Angeles Times
An unidentified group of hackers said it was planning to attack Sony's websites this weekend in response to the anger over the way the Tokyo-based company has handled attacks against its PlayStation Network and cloud-based music service Qriocity, ...
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