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Avoid Patriot Act Surprises: Encrypt Cloud Data On-premise PCWorld The answer, according to AWS chief technology officer, Werner Vogels, is to encrypt private data for transit to the Cloud - and to employ best practice when it comes to classifying data. "We take privacy very seriously," Vogels told CIO Australia. ...

Microsoft Azure Does Big Data As A Service InformationWeek "Project Daytona" tools let researchers use Windows Azure cloud platform to crunch data, and some tech from archrival Google plays a part. By Paul McDougall InformationWeek Microsoft unveiled new software tools and services designed to let researchers ...

SUSE Studio 1.2 ships, SUSE Linux chief to roll out full cloud strategy soon ZDNet (blog) The newly independent SUSE Linux unit unveiled the first leg of its cloud platform today: SUSE Studio Version 1.2. The development platform, which has been on the market for two years, helps SUSE Linux customers build, update and manage applications. ...

The Coming Cloud Wars: Google+ vs Microsoft (plus Facebook) Wired News (blog) If Silicon Valley were hosting a basketball tournament for consumer money and mindshare in thecloud, right now we'd be looking at a Final Four of Google, Apple (plus Twitter), Microsoft (plus Facebook) and Amazon (especially if they can make a ...

Cloud Computing Chops Energy Costs, Carbon Emissions: Study CRN By Andrew R Hickey, CRN Cloud computing has the potential to save large companies a total of $12.3 billion annually on energy costs and reduce annual carbon emissions by 85.7 metric tons come 2020, according to a recent study examining the ...

The cloud: now for connecting electric cars Reuters By Katie Fehrenbacher at GigaOm The car, in particular the electric car, is the latest device to get plugged in to the cloud. Coulomb Technologies, which makes networked electric-vehicle charging stations, plans to start selling cloud-based services to ...

Gaikai Raises $30 Million for Cloud Gaming Network Digital Media Wire Executives are making the short-sighted decision to dismiss quality considerations in the Read MoreCloud-based game service Gaikai today announced it has raised $30 million toward rolling out its network for interactive, real-time gaming, ...

Riverbed buys UK cloud company for $140m Financial Times By Maija Palmer, technology correspondent Riverbed Technology, the US IT services company, on Wednesday announced a deal to buy Zeus, a UK cloud computing company, for $140m in cash. It is the latest in a series of acquisitions of companies providing ...

OS X 10.7 Lion Ditches the Disk, Offers Cloud-Only Recovery Wired News By Charlie Sorrel Both of the new Macs that Apple shipped today come with the latest version of OS X: 10.7 Lion. The update brings many new features, as you'd expect of a new operating system, but there are some fundamental changes both to the user ...

Amazon S3 Storage Cloud: Nearly 500 Billion Objects Stored CRN By Andrew R Hickey, CRN Amazon Web Service's massive growth has long been a thing of legend, as the cloud behemoth isn't quick to attribute numbers to its cloudcomputing growth. But the cloud stalwart this week gave a small peak into its metrics,... CRN

OS X Lion Awakens: Can Akamai handle downloads for Apple's Cloud? ZDNet (blog) Clearly, Apple is going to become very dependent on cloud services in the future, as iCloud is launched with iOS 5 and a huge amount of content starts to get synchronized across millions and millions of devices. Is a distributed, front-end IP ...

Intel notches record revenues amid rise in cloud services, netbook decline VentureBeat Intel announced its fifth straight quarter of record-setting revenues, with $13 billion in revenue and $3.2 billion net income, or 59 cents per share, for the second quarter 2011. That's a 2 percent increase in revenue over Q1 and a 22 percent increase ...

DIY: Secrets of creating a cloud storage farm revealed by Backblaze VentureBeat If Hollywood ever needs a cloud storage facility for a movie scene, they need to call the folks at online storage and backup company Backblaze. You can just picture Tom Cruise, playing a secret agent dressed in black, sneaking around the rows of shiny ...

IDC: 2015 cloud server revenue will hit $9.4 billion Cloud IT Pro Research firm IDC recently released a new study indicating that the total revenue for public and private cloud server deployment will hit $9.4 billion by 2015. The study breaks down that number by public cloud server deployment ($3.6 billion) and ...

Twilio and GoodData Partner to Measure Business Value of Cloud Communications SYS-CON Media (press release) Twilio (www.twilio.com), the cloud communications company, announced today that they have partnered with on-demand business intelligence provider GoodData (www.gooddata.com) to offer an integrated analytics app for tracking performance of voice and SMS ...

Microsoft cloud email BPOS had short outage Tuesday The Seattle Times Microsoft's cloud email service BPOS, or Business Productivity Online Services, had a short outage on Tuesday morning that lasted about 13 minutes. At 10:54 am the company tweeted that the service was back online. I have asked Microsoft whether these ...

Polycom RealPresence ready and new cloud offerings powered by Polycom UC software Al-Bawaba Polycom is also introducing with its partners new cloud-based offerings powered by the Polycom UC Intelligent Core software platform to deliver affordable and secure video solutions on demand. Tailored for the tighter budgets and leaner staffs of ...

Ctera Links Cloud Storage With Data Protection InformationWeek Appliance gives SMBs a cost-effective way to store data locally for speed, then replicate it in thecloud for disaster recovery. By Frank Ohlhorst, Network Computing Cloud storage vendor Ctera is looking to bring high-speed, easy-to-use, ...

OpenStack's First Birthday: A Year in Review Huffington Post OpenStack, the open source cloud computing project initiated by NASA and Rackspace, celebrated its first birthday on July 19. OpenStack's open source code enables customers to create public or private cloud environments that deliver functionality ...

Akwa Ibom: Intrigues cloud Eket Federal Constituency seat Vanguard BY EMMANUEL AZIKEN, POLITICAL EDITOR PERHAPS it was the scrutiny of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. Or maybe the transparency mantra espoused by President Goodluck Jonathan ahead of the last elections. ...

Administration Closes Data Centers, Moves to Cloud National Journal By Rebecca Kaplan The White House announced on Wednesday that it will close 800 data centers by 2015 to cut $3 billion worth of duplication and inefficiency and will move storage to Internet-based services better known as "the cloud. ...

VMware's Cloud Infrastructure Suite Launched Newswire Today (press release) Expected to be available from Q3 2011, the Cloud Infrastructure Suite is designed to help organisations build 'intelligent virtual infrastructures, which infuse highly virtualised environments with the automation, self-service and security ...

Improving cloud interoperability with application migration tools SearchCloudComputing.com Cloud interoperability goes beyond matters like cloud application programming interfaces and virtual machine image format conversion. It is primarily about application migration; moving them back and forth between private clouds and public clouds or ...

Cloud computing to create one lakh jobs in India NDTV.com As the next technology wave, cloud computing has the potential to create about 100000 new jobs in India, a study said Tuesday. "Of the projected $4.5-billion totalcloud computing market in India by 2015, private cloud will account for $3.5 billion, ...

Akamai CEO Paul Sagan to Preside Over the Opening of the NASDAQ Stock Market Sacramento Bee Combining highly-distributed, energy-efficient computing with intelligent software, Akamai's global platform is transforming the cloud into a more viable place to inform, entertain, advertise, transact and collaborate. To learn how the world's leading ...

8x8, Inc. Announces Record First Quarter Fiscal 2012 Revenue MarketWatch (press release) "Fiscal 2012 got off to a tremendous start for 8x8 with the formal introduction of our channel program and two new initiatives, the acquisition of Zerigo and adoption of the VCE Vblock platform, intended to expand our capabilities in the cloud ...

Why agencies are gun-shy of the public cloud GCN.com By Paul McCloskey Will more government agencies bite on the advantages of moving their applications to public cloud providers? Eventually, according to cloud computing experts at the FOSE conference July 19. But before that happens, agencies will opt ...

Survey: APAC firms up disaster recovery spend with cloud ZDNet Asia By Jamie Yap , ZDNet Asia on July 20, 2011 (13 hours ago) Disaster recovery plans remain largely inadequate among businesses in Asia-Pacific, but more looking at cloud adoption as part of overall strategy and to help manage budget. ...

Gale Technologies intros service tiering for cloud Cloud IT Pro Gale Technologies has introduced new service-tiering capabilities for its GaleForce Turnkey Cloudsoftware platform designed to create a self-service, automated infrastructure for physical and virtual resources. The platform is aimed at enterprises but ... LifeSize Expands Video Collaboration Offerings Into the Cloud eWeek The announcements touch on such high-interest areas as mobility and cloud computing. Some of the new offerings also represent the first joint products from LifeSize and Logitech, which bought LifeSize in late 2009. LifeSize officials announced that ...

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