Sunday, July 31, 2011

New Service Lets Users Store Porn in the Cloud

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New Service Lets Users Store Porn in the Cloud
BusinessNewsDaily
Msamazing.com, a cloud service, provides users with up to a terabyte of online storage space for X-rated material, while providing round-the-clock access to any computer, smartphone or tablet. While there are a number of cloud services available,...

IndiaMART.com & IAMAI Solve Cloud Puzzle for SMEs
PR Newswire (press release)
The conference helped SMEs gauge the potential of cloud and connected them to this new emerging technology. The panelists, representing different fields of ICT, brought forward their perspectives to demystify the move to cloud for SMEs. ...
Alibaba Creates Aliyun Mobile OS to Compete with iOS, Android
PC Magazine
The OS will debut inside a phone and tablet from Beijing Tianyu Communication Equipment Co., specifically the K-Touch Cloud-Smart Phone W700, the company said in a statement. Alibaba's operating system makes use of "cloud-based" services, ...
Investors have their heads firmly in cloud computing
Royal Gazette
Technology investors have their heads in the cloud these days. Cloud computing, which supplies on-demand hosted services over the Internet, requires only that its clients have a computer and Internet access. It handles the functions traditionally ...
Mozilla and Baidu join battle for the new cloud OS
Register
But the fight to control the user interface to the cloud is wide open, and with Apple and Microsoft on the back foot, a Linux-based winner looks logical. Google has pitched Chrome OS, Hewlett-Packard has webOS and Intel has MeeGo. ...
Amazon cloud hosts nasty banking trojan
Register
Amazon's cloud storage service has been caught hosting services used to control the notorious SpyEye banking trojan, researchers said. Data compiled by antivirus provider Kaspersky Lab over a 11-day period in July showed Amazon's Simple Storage Service ...
Rapidsoft Systems Announces Cloud Player, a Blackberry Music Player, with a ...
Benzinga
Princeton, NJ, July 30, 2011 --(PR.com)-- Rapidsoft Systems Inc., a leading product and software development company announces the availability of Cloud Player on Blackberry App World. This application converts Blackberry into a powerful music enabled ...
How Cloud Computing Will Change IT: 6 New Predictions
Network World
By Bernard Golden, CIO IT is in a time of disruptive transition, caused by the rise of cloudcomputing. CIOs are in the midst of a maelstrom, and--like Ulysses, the fabled hero from Homer's Odyssey--are torn between the Scylla of established IT ...
Cutting Government Spending With Cloud Computing
Investment U
In short, the government wants to implement cloud computing networks to save money on expensive physical data centers. The federal government spends about $80 billion on information technology each year. According to Vivek Kundra, Chief Information ...
Telecom firms eye cloud-based medical service business
Focus Taiwan News Channel
Taipei, July 30 (CNA) Major local telecom operators are gearing up to develop cloudtechnology-based business to tap the growing medical services sector at home and abroad, market sources said Saturday. Chunghwa Telecom Co. ...
Fujitsu fluffs COBOL, Java on Azure clouds
Register
Fujitsu launched its own private-label platform cloud based on Microsoft's Azure software stack back in June, after a delay of more than six months. Fujitsu was lined up along with Hewlett-Packard and Dell back in July 2010 by Microsoft to stand behind ...
Mobile Cloud Music Showdown – Subscription Services, 6th Place: Grooveshark
Unwired View
By Matthew Ismael Ruiz on 29 Jul 11 Founded in 2006 by students at the University of Florida, Grooveshark has morphed through various iterations over the past few years. It is one of the few services to have users upload content to be consumed by other ...
Ready Your Infrastructure for the Cloud
Wall Street & Technology
Is this hype or has the cloud arrived? Before we can answer that question, we will need to take a step back and explore just what this thing called "cloud" really is and what organizations hope to gain from it. Companies today want to use cloud ...
Move over Android, China has a new cloud-based phone!
Reuters
The Aliyun platform focuses on cloud-based, web applications but is also “fully compatible” with Google Android apps, according to a statement the company provided to the Wall Street Journal. Alibaba will complement each handset with 100 GB of data ...
Telesphere launches cloud videoconferencing
Network World
Telesphere, a nationwide managed cloud communications provider for businesses, recently announced commercial availability of VideoConnect as a cloud-based videoconferencing and collaboration service. Telesphere manages its customers' services over a ...
BBH Completes Call Center's Voice, Data Apps Integration into its Cloud ...
TMC Net
By Anshu Shrivastava BBH Solutions, a New York City based provider of converged network solutions and IT managed services, has completed cut-over of a national call center's voice and data applications into its cloud environment. ...
Making Sense (and Dollars) of Cloud-based BI
Smart Data Collective
Recently there's been an increase in new providers that offer cloud-based BI as well as the migration of existing providers to the cloud, according to a blog post by David Linthicum (@DavidLinthicum). In fact, the use of cloud-based BI is a “game ...
PTCL brings saving
The Nation, Pakistan
KARACHI - Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) brings an exciting EVO Wi-Ficloud offer for its customers. The customers can now get a new EVO Wi-Fi cloud with two months unlimited internet access and enjoy the third month's usage ...
MANAGING TECH: Separating fact from fiction in cloud computing and SaaS
ABA Banking Journal
By Bill Streeter, editor-in-chief “Software as a Service (SaaS), along with its sibling cloud computing, is one of the most used and misused terms in the IT industry.” So begins an excellent new report from Celent, “Cloud Computing and SasS: Getting ...
Hands on with Office 365: a smart option for small businesses
VentureBeat
It's a cloud-based suite based on the world's most popular office software that launched in late June. It will likely get small businesses and enterprises to start considering cloud software solutions if they haven't already. Microsoft also hopes this ...
Amax intros private cloud appliance
Cloud IT Pro
Cloud infrastructure developer Amax has introduced a new pre-integrated cloud appliance, dubbed CloudMax Apex, aimed at easing the migration of mid-sized and large enterprises implementing private cloud infrastructures. The Apex joins the CloudMax Mini ...
Enterprise cloud by definition demands a custom fit
SearchCloudComputing.com
As cloud computing technologies evolve, early adopters in enterprises are learning that one size doesn't fit all. Services like AWS showed the way. Amazon could deliver more computing with less people and infrastructure and make money; ...
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Saturday, July 30, 2011

Cloud Moves From Talk To Walk

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Cloud Moves From Talk To Walk
InformationWeek
CA and Nebula's cloud announcements this week reflect the reality that enterprises have moved past the theoretical to the practical. By Laurianne McLaughlin InformationWeek You can debate a new technology model only for so long. ...
Fruit of CA Cloud Acquisitions Adds Up
InformationWeek
By Charles Babcock InformationWeek CA Technologies, sometimes identified with the mainframe, repositioned itself recently to help its customers move in pragmatic, discrete steps toward cloudcomputing. Over the last two years, it's made a series of ...
CA Technologies Buys Watchmouse for Cloud Monitoring
PCWorld
By Chris Kanaracus, IDG News CA Technologies is purchasing WatchMouse, a maker of SaaS-based tools for monitoring mobile and on-demand applications, the company announced Friday. Terms were not disclosed. The WatchMouse technology is sold via ...
New Initiative Aims to Stamp Out Cloud Lock-In
TechNewsWorld
By Richard Adhikari The Open Cloud Initiative made its debut at OSCON this week. The organization is set up to provide a common set of standards cloud providers can adhere to in order to let clients know their clouds are easy to migrate into and out of ...
Canonical offers Ubuntu cloud support licences
Inquirer
By Lawrence Latif LINUX VENDOR Canonical has announced a support package that it believes will help it become the operating system of choice in cloud deployments. Canonical, maintainer of the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, has been pushing hard to ...
CSC and Aria Systems Form Strategic Agreement to Accelerate Cloud Subscription ...
MarketWatch (press release)
As part of the agreement, CSC has adopted the Aria Systems platform as the foundation of a cloud-based digital monetization service, to be offered initially in the US and Europe. The joint solution will provide large and small organizations seeking to ...
Regulated cloud computing -- our new national nightmare
SearchCloudComputing.com
The move to the cloud is one of the defining information technology trends of the early 21st century. If you think that reporting, reading about or examining federal regulation of the IT sector is hot stuff and not boring, I do not want to come to your ...
BBH Solutions Brings Call Center Integration Into their Cloud Computing ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
BBH Solutions, Inc., a leading New York City provider of converged network solutions and IT managed services, announced today that they have completed cut-over of a national call center's voice and data applications into their cloud environment. ...
IBM To Open Research Center For Mobile, Cloud Computing
Manufacturing Business Technology
(AP) -- IBM Corp. is plucking 200 researchers and experts from its highly profitable services division to create a new laboratory focused on building new products for data mining, mobile computing, and "cloud" technologies. ...
Chinese firm Alibaba announces new smartphone OS - Aliyun
PhysOrg.com
Alibaba Group, a Chinese e-commerce company has announced the development of a new OS for smartphones; called Aliyun, it will initially run on the K-Touch Cloud-Smart Phone W700, built by Beijing Tianyu Communications, a Chinese handset maker. ...
Gluster Joins OpenStack With Scaled-Out Storage
CRN
By Joseph F. Kovar, CRN Gluster, a developer of software for building scale-out storage solutions, this week unveiled its Gluster Connector for the OpenStack open-source cloud platform. The news comes one week after the Portland, Ore. ...
Novell's Vibe Cloud floats away
Register
After floating it around the market for only three months, Novell has decided to evaporate its Vibe Cloud web-based "social collaboration platform for the enterprise". The decision to decommission the Vibe Cloud service as of September 30 was announced ...
Enthusiasm for the Cloud on the Wane, Says Easynet Connect
is4profit
Research published today has highlighted a disconcerting gap in SME attitudes towards Cloudadoption. The results of this annual study, the third of its kind conducted by Easynet Connect, have clearly shown that whilst there is common understanding of ...
NEC, ST Engineering set up cloud computing joint venture
Reuters
SINGAPORE, July 29 (Reuters) - Japan's NEC Corp and Singapore Technologies Engineering's electronics arm ST Electronics will set up a cloud computing joint venture to provide software to firms in Singapore and other Southeast Asian countries. ...
Lack of skills hindering cloud migration
ZDNet Asia
By Kevin Kwang , ZDNet Asia on July 29, 2011 (5 hours ago) Enterprises testing or implementingcloud projects recognize benefits but lack of internal skilled workers mean more time spent identifying right professionals to manage migration, ...
1010data for Huge Data Analysis: 'We Were Cloud Before Cloud'
TMC Net
By David Sims At the recent Cloud Expo 2011 in New York TMC's CEO Rich Tehrani (News - Alert) had the opportunity to interview Tim Negris, the VP of Marketing for 1010data. In May TMC (News - Alert) had the news that 1010data hired Afshin Goodarzi as ...
Senator pushes cloud as deficit cutting tool
Nextgov
By Joseph Marks 07/28/2011 The federal transition to cloud computing is an overlooked source of savings as the government battles over trillions of dollars in spending reductions, the leader of a Senate oversight subcommittee said this week. ...
GlobalSign Announces Strategic Partnership with Cloud Software Provider OnApp
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
GMO GlobalSign Inc (www.globalsign.com), one of the longest established Certification Authorities (CA) and specialist in SSL hosting solutions, today announced a strategic partnership with leadingcloud software provider OnApp (www.onapp.com). ...
Google Cloud Sherpas land in Oz
Delimiter
In a bid to capitalise on the slowly growing number of businesses in Australia making the move to Google Apps, US firm Cloud Sherpas has now opened its first Australian office in Sydney that will provide local support and advice for customers. ...
Amazon's cloud services systematically exploited by cybercriminals
ZDNet (blog)
Does crimeware in the cloud have a future? Most certainly, as cybercriminals appear to have been actively experimenting with the average lifetime for their malware campaigns, both, using rogue ISPs and netblocks, and legitimate cloud services, ...
Dell: Cloud won't damage IT jobs
Cloud Pro
Cautious attitudes to full cloud adoption means there will always be work for in-house IT workers.Cloud computing won't put IT professionals out of work, according to a senior Dell executive. New technologies frequently raise concerns about job cuts ...
Vyopta Releases vControl® Cloud Edition for TelePresence
Benzinga
Vyopta Incorporated, a pioneer in cloud applications for TelePresence technology, announced today the release of a new version of its vControl application. The new version centralizes the management of an organization's vControl accounts through an ...
IndiaMART.com & IAMAI to Take SMEs to the Cloud
PR.com (press release)
This year's theme to focus on "Taking SMEs to the Cloud: Pay as you need." Exhibit inherent power of cloud in streamlining business operations of SMEs, and assist in drawing up simple strategies for SMEs to digitize. Noida, India, July 29, ...
Fundamental Truths of Enterprise Cloud Strategy
Data Center Knowledge
First, sincere thanks to the folks who responded to my last post (Cloud Lessons and Le Mans Racing), either directly on Data Center Knowledge or via my LinkedIn account. It's a genuinely rewarding feeling when you become aware that others value your ...

Cautious vendors should be bolder to drive cloud investment
Cloud Pro
Are companies hoarding cash reserves instead of encouraging better use of cloud services - it looks like it. How well do you think that SaaS/cloud apps vendors understand the modern business landscape when assembling a deal? You might be surprised to ...
Home Infrastructure Cloud Computing Information Protection: Creating Peaceful ...
CIO Insight
The Far Hills, NJ-based United States Golf Association (USGA) protects between 600 gigabytes and 700 gigabytes of mission-critical data every day via cloud computing, using IBM's business continuity and resilience services. This includes more than 4 ...
Cloud transition pays off for Citrix
MicroScope (blog)
The firm, which announced the acquisition of Cloud.com earlier this month, achieved revenue of $531m, compared to $458m in the same quarter last year, up 16%. Net income was $82m, or $0.43 per diluted share, compared to $48m, or $0.25 per diluted share ...
Nebula provides a "cloud-in-a-box"
Network World
Under the recently-completed Vivek Kundra era, the US federal government became an aggressive proponent of cloud computing. Much of this was pure folly leading to wasteful IT assessments and check-box planning, but the feds did come up with a few model ...
Alibaba announces 'cloud-powered' Aliyun OS, K-Touch W700 phone ...
By Dante Cesa
Ready for another mobile operating system? Alibaba certainly is, having just unveiled its Aliyun OS. The new entrant will apparently be 'fully comp.
Engadget
Google starts to open up its cloud music service with user invites
By Martin Bryant
Google gives existing users of its Music service invites for friends, but it's still US-only.
The Next Web
Move over Android, China has a new cloud-based phone! — Mobile ...
By Kevin C. Tofel
Android and iOS phones lead the world, but Alibaba thinks China can use another smartphone OS. The Aliyun platform is a cloud OS that's also runs Android apps. China still has massive room for smartphone growth, so the device may ...
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Cloud Automation Firm GBS Enterprises Buys Web Host IDC Global ...
Cloud Automation Firm GBS Enterprises Buys Web Host IDC Global Networks | The Web Host Industry Review - Web Hosting News.
theWHIR.com - Daily Web Hosting News
It's....Beautiful: New Form Of Cloud Discovered - Geekologie
It's....Beautiful: New Form Of Cloud Discovered.
Geekologie - Gadgets, Gizmos,...
As Services Move to the Cloud, Monetization Solutions Must Adapt ...
Across service industries, companies are recognizing the value of delivery via the cloud, and they're adapting their business models to exploit the advantages. But the change to a new delivery mechanism only pays off if the new business ...
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HTC ChaCha vs INQ Cloud Touch vs Vodafone 555 - Pocket-lint
By Hunter Skipworth
Many of us want little else from a smartphone other than the ability to fill our Facebook pages with gossip, pics and video while out and about. The result.
Pocket-lint : Latest News
Quanta to cooperate with MIT to develop cloud computing technology
Quanta Computer will team up with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to develop cloudcomputing technologies for health care applications. The notebook ODM is also in talks with some hospitals in Taiwan about providing cloud ...
DIGITIMES: IT news from Asia
Is Cloud Gateway Storage a Path for VARS to Become Services ...
By Alex Williams
Mobile phones are thin, yet converged, feature-rich, devices that function as a presentation layer for a bunch of applications that are served up from some sort of cloud. These initial cloud gateways are essentially converged storage ...
SiliconANGLE
Cloud Computing: After Five-Year Drought, Java SE7 Is Here | JAVA ...
Maureen O'Gara the most read technology reporter for the past 20 years, is the Cloud Computing and Virtualization News Desk editor of SYS-CON Media. She is the publisher of famous "Billygrams" and the editor-in-chief of "Client/Server ...
Java Industry News
Web Development Platform For The Cloud – Opa
By Umut M.
Opa is a web development platform that is mostly focused on scalability, easy deployment to thecloud, security and a faster coding process to create apps. It consists of the following which are tightly integrated into each other: ...
WebResourcesDepot
HP Blogs - Enterprise Creativity and the Cloud - The HP Blog Hub
By erin.reilly
The situation is similar when businesses turn to the cloud. Moving the heaviest IT load skyward makes conditions ripe for innovation. Cloud solutions can save dollars, time and energy. But it's up to enterprise leaders to redirect ...
Enterprise Services Blog articles
Ubuntu One ups free cloud storage to 5GB, hits 1 million users ...
By Lee
Ubuntu One provides cloud storage and synchronization to users and is tightly integrated with the popular Ubuntu Linux operating system. It allows users to store profile information and files online, and access them across different ...
Liliputing
Health Business Blog » Blog Archive » Cloud-based video ...
By David E. Williams of the Health business blog
Nefsis provides cloud-based, multi-point HD video conference solutions for a variety of industries, including health care. In this podcast interview, Nefsis VP Tom Toperczer describes telemedicine applications including hospital/remote ...
Health Business Blog
Cloud Links #20
By Travis Balinas
“There seems to be more cloud construction projects than there is talent to support them. That could spell real trouble. Designing and building cloud computing-based systems is nothing like building traditional applications and business ...
The Cloud Management Blog
Open Cloud Principles (OCP) | Open Cloud Initiative (OCI)
Interoperability (the ability to exchange and use information) between cloud computing products and services is required for unfettered competition between ...
www.opencloudinitiative.org/principles
Cloud Services: Policy and Assessment (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE
The skyrocketing popularity of cloud services among faculty, staff, and students is partly a result of the perception that they are not only feature-rich ...
www.educause.edu/library/ERM1148
Zynga CTO of infrastructure shares cloud lessons
Zynga, a popular social gaming company, is using both Amazon Web Services and its own Z-Cloudto power its customers' game experiences.
searchcloudcomputing.techtarget.com/.../Zynga-VP-of-infrastr...
THIS JUST IN: Dell Announces the Dell OpenStack Cloud Solution ...
Built on a reference architecture honed since DAY ONE of the OpenStack movement, the Dell OpenStack Cloud Solution offers a hardware configuration featuring ...
jbgeorge.files.wordpress.com/.../dell-openstack-cloud-solution...
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