Thursday, June 16, 2011

Cloud Computing Confuses Consumers

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Cloud Computing Confuses Consumers
InformationWeek
Though consumers have been using the 'cloud' longer than most businesses, many have embracedcloud computing without even knowing it. By Thomas Claburn InformationWeek During the recent introduction of Apple's forthcoming iCloud file synchronization ...
Cloud Economics Favor the Small Workload
PCWorld
By Joab Jackson, IDG News Cloud computing can cut the cost of running small workloads though may actually be more expensive for larger compute jobs, compared to the costs of running such work in-house, according to researchers from Pennsylvania State ...
A Laptop, Its Head in the Cloud
New York Times
By DAVID POGUE You can say all kinds of nice things about Google's Chromebook laptop concept. You can say it's ahead of its time. Or that it's thinking way, way outside the box. Or that, as failures go, at least this one swung for the fences. ...
Gadgets for Cloud Computing
PCWorld
By Agam Shah, IDG News A flood of simple computing devices is hitting the market, aimed at pushing the cloud outside of the enterprise. Samsung and Acer have announced Chromebooks, which are light laptops for users who rely on the Internet for most of ...
Survey: CIOs are putting the cloud first
ITworld.com
By Lauren Brousell, CIO | Cloud Computing Add a new comment June 14, 2011, 3:26 PM — Cloudcomputing is practically mainstream, according to the latest CIO Economic Impact survey of 291 IT leaders. In fact, nearly half (48%) of the CIOs surveyed said ...
Hitachi keen to be cloud content king
Register
By Chris Mellor • Get more from this author Comment Hitachi Data Systems is planning to provide a sophisticated content storage cloud infrastructure with end-to-end deduplication and local file servers accessing a content core having both archive and ...
Recommended: Sony's cloud-based, digital music service now on Android
msnbc.com
By Athima Chansanchai Following recent announcements this spring from Apple, Amazon and Google about cloud-based, digital music services, Sony has now made available on Android its version, Music Unlimited, which boasts access to about seven million ...
Kid sells cloud startup to company even younger than he is...
ZDNet (blog)
By Joe McKendrick | June 15, 2011, 10:22am PDT High schooler created company addressing need for cloud-ready Perl Web apps, and the rest is already history. Joe McKendrick is an author and independent analyst who tracks the impact of information ...
Businesses not into cloud phone services in Office 365
The Seattle Times
Businesses may not be ready to run their phone systems in the cloud, according to a private survey commissioned by Azaleos, a Microsoft partner that provides communication software services in Seattle. The results may mean that businesses are not ready ...
Kojima using 'Transfarring' cloud data for all future games | Joystiq
By Mike Schramm
Hideo Kojima said during a recent Kojima Productions podcast that the cloud data sharing system he created from dragonscales, Old Snake's mustache trimmings and cardboard boxes -- "Transfarring" -- will be available for every title his ...
Joystiq
Sony's Cloud Music Superstore Beats Rivals to the Punch
By Brian Barrett
You've waited months for iCloud. You've waited years for Spotify. But Sony just beat both of those to the punch on your phone, with an all-you-can-hear, cloud-based music buffet available right now in the Android Market.
Gizmodo
Cloud Technology Startup Cotendo Raises $17 Million From Citrix ...
By Robin Wauters
Cotendo, which specializes in cloud-based acceleration technologies, this morning announced that it has raised $17 million in funding from strategic partners Citrix and ...
TechCrunchIT
NEA's Sonsini: Cloud infrastructure still king for VC cash — Cloud ...
By Derrick Harris
Apple's iCloud and other consumer-focused cloud efforts represent a golden opportunity for startups to raise venture capital, but it might not be from jumping on the bandwagon. According to NEA's Peter Sonsini, the key to getting VC ...
GigaOM — Tech News, Analysis...
Cloud Computing: Cloud + Open Source = OpenSaaS | Cloud Computing ...
One of Cloud's little secrets is the lack of portability for applications delivered using the "Software as a Service" (SaaS) model. Many companies sign up for SaaS applications with the belief that it'll be easy for them to migrate to ...
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