Saturday, July 23, 2011

IBM brings Cloud and Collaboration to government agencies

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IBM Takes Cloud, Collaboration to Government Agencies
eWeek
IBM's federal community cloud helps government agencies adopt social collaboration tools. IBM also takes its Lotus collaboration tools to the State of Vermont. IBM has announced new cloud-based collaboration services to help US federal government ...
Review: Spotify, Rdio are attractive cloud options
San Francisco Chronicle
I've tested Spotify and Rdio extensively - both their desktop and smart-phone versions - and would recommend either to anyone considering a switch to cloud-based music listening. Start with what the services have in common: unlimited access to an ...
Microsoft Releases Cloud Migration, Office 365 Assessment Tool
PC Magazine
MAP 6.0 assists organizations in planning cloud deployments. It includes assessment capabilities to evaluate workloads for both private and public cloud platforms. There are several components within MAP 6.0: Windows Azure migration portfolio analysis ...
Cloud market to hit $83 billion by 2016: will it still be measurable by then?
ZDNet (blog)
By Joe McKendrick | July 22, 2011, 2:48pm PDT The cloud market is set to boom — but will cloudservices be as common as CDs? Joe McKendrick is an author and independent analyst who tracks the impact of information technology on management and markets. ...
Q&A: VMware CEO Maritz Outlines Path To Cloud
CRN
But much of his company's success during that time frame has been tied to virtualization software, as opposed to cloud computing, where the Palo Alto, Calif.-based company sees the future taking shape. Like many IT vendors, VMware and Maritz still have ...
OpenStack Founder's Startup, Piston, Eyes Private Cloud Security
InformationWeek
With $4.5 million in funding and part of the NASA Nebula cloud brain trust, Piston jumps into the private cloud software market. By Charles Babcock InformationWeek Piston Cloud Computing has recently emerged with $4.5 million in funding to compete in ...
Executive Profiles: Disruptive Tech Leaders In Cloud Computing — Zach Nelson ...
Forbes (blog)
Under his leadership, NetSuite has become the leading provider of cloud computing business management software suites in the world. Nelson holds BS and MA degrees from Stanford University 1. Tell me in 2 minutes or less why Cloud Computing is changing ...
Politics, (computing) power and money in IT and the cloud
SearchCloudComputing.com
BOSTON -- The unmistakable results from the shift to cloud computing were evident at a cloud computing conference here this week. Though IT pros had different problems and different solutions, all saw swift-moving, deep changes to IT as we know it. ...
'Our education problem can be solved with cloud computing'
Times of India
This year the big thing we think is cloud computing. So we have a whole strategy on cloud and we are now very focused on it." But every quarter, HP India identifies emerging developments. Financial inclusion became big towards the end of last year. ...
VMTurbo Brings Agility To The Cloud
InformationWeek
Cloud Operations Manager brings intelligence to virtualization and cloud computing in large, complex, and dynamic environments. By Frank Ohlhorst, Network Computing Most data center managers are facing the increasing complexity of virtualized and ...
Acer shares inch up 0.48 percent
Taipei Times
By Lisa Wang / Staff Reporter The share price of Acer Inc (宏碁) rose by an anemic 0.48 percent as the PC maker's newly unveiled plan to acquire privately held cloud-computing company iGware Inc for US$320 million was given a thumbs down by investors, ...
Verizon Q2: Cloud services and FiOS fuel the wireline engine
FierceTelecom
Ivan Seidenberg, Verizon's chairman said that the service provider continues "to see strong customer demand for FiOS Internet and TV, and for cloud and other strategic services," adding that "we remain focused on our cost structure, as we deliver ...
Cloud campus to help close FY12 on high note: NIIT
Moneycontrol.com
In his exclusive interview with CNBC-TV18, Pawar says the Cloud Campus initiative and the corporate business are showing signs on growth for the other half of the year. Below is a transcript of Rajendra S Pawar's interview with CNBC-TV18. ...
Cloud Computing Growth Hampered by Cost, Security Concerns: Survey
eWeek
Three-fourths of respondents said that they have virtualized their cloud servers, the survey found. A survey of cloud decision makers at large enterprises in North America found that 52 percent of those polled said that internal change and learning was ...
Cloud Identity SCIMs Forward
Business Wire (press release)
(BUSINESS WIRE)--This week at the 2nd annual Cloud Identity Summit, more than 250 renowned security experts gathered to discuss and debate the future for securing the enterprise, its applications and its users in the Cloud. Hosted by Ping Identity, ...
A really useless Cloud Computing Index
SearchCloudComputing.com
Investment firm, First Trust Portfolios' Cloud Computing Index is an interesting sign of the times incloud computing and the surest sign that we're in a cloud bubble, according to many analysts. The bubble hype is neither here nor there, ...
Manulife Partners with IBM to Bring Cloud Computing to its Financial Services ...
TMC Net
Manulife is also looking into using one of the newest information technology trends -- cloudcomputing and high-performance computing – which will allow the company to have more flexibility for some projects, Manulife told Simone. ...
Why cloud-based software is top choice for digital signage
Screenmediamag.com
Everyone's talking about digital signage in the cloud. But what are its advantages over hosting your own system – and what are the pitfalls to watch for? Dan Clemens, CEO of Camvine, has some answers. p> Walking around Screenmedia Expo in London this ...
Dell Offers Cloud Services in Singapore
Bio-IT World
The Center will also offer Cloud services to customers. “Our cloud solutions offered at our Dell Solution Centers aim to enable more customers to gain a better understanding of cloud and how these services can propel their businesses to speed up time ...
Cloud Computing: Spooks Get Their Own Cloud
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Huddle figures it's the first cloud-based collaboration and content management service to offer an eyes-only private collaboration service to government customers with highly classified clearance that they can use to access and share their very private ...
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Beat the challenges of testing the cloud
TechJournal South
By Dan Joe Barry, Napatech Cloud computing has now passed the stage of hype to reality. More and more enterprises are realizing the benefits of remote hosting of IT services rather than local IT management, especially as managing and operating IT ...
AppNeta Launches PathView Cloud Trial Express
TMC Net
By Nathesh, TMCnet Contributor AppNeta, a provider of instant-value network performance management solutions, announced that its newly launched PathView Cloud Trail Express is supposed to help network engineers to continuously monitor their networks ...
OneStream Networks Certifies Grandstream HD IP Phones & Video Phones on Cloud ...
Techzone360
OneStream Networks Certifies Grandstream HD IP Phones & Video Phones on Cloud-based Enterprise Voice, Video and Unified Communications Solution Multimedia and HD IP Phones Combined with MPLS-based Cloud Applications Help SMBs, Enterprises and Resellers ...
Russia: Envisioning the “Cloud Democracy” Utopia · Global Voices
By Alexey Sidorenko
Cloud Democracy [ru] is the title of the new book written by Leonid Volkov [ru] and Fyodor Krasheninnikov [ru], two political bloggers from the Urals region of Russia. Cloud Democracy addresses a wide audience of readers “who, ...
Global Voices
Report on Cloud Computing's Environmental Benefits is Flawed says ...
By Klint Finley
This week the report Cloud Computing - The IT Solution for the 21st Century from the Carbon Disclosure Project has been making rounds in cloud computing circles. ...
ReadWriteCloud
Predicting Egypt – Could Cloud Computing Have Helped? | Cloud ...
The use of Hadoop is rapidly growing in cloud computing architectures and provides highly scalable computing environments. In order to process the millions of blogs into our analytic engine this computing environment was essential. ...
Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal
Building and Maintaining Image Templates for the Cloud » The ...
By jamesw
Typically existing software delivery processes are too lengthy to take full advantage of the “instant-on” nature of the cloud. End users need to be able choose and instantly provision software and applications, then decommission them ...
The OpenStack Blog
Dimension Data Signals Deeper Move to Cloud, Taps Cloud CEO ...
By Matthew Weinberger
Solutions provider and NTT subsidiary Dimension Data appointed company veteran Steve Nola as CEO of its newly formed Cloud Business Unit. Will he find success?
TalkinCloud
Cloud pursuits moving slowly » telecoms.com – telecoms industry ...
By James Middleton
The analysis comes from Informa Telecoms & Media's Telecom Cloud Monitor, an analytical tool evaluating service provider's cloud strategies, tracking 90 groups worldwide, including their interactions with more than 240 cloud-related ...
telecoms.com - telecoms industry...
Internet Evolution - Editor's Blog - Working on a Cloud Project ...
Are you an IT professional working on an important cloud project? If so, we want to make you a video star.
Internet Evolution: Editor's Blog
Amazon Cloud Player app bound for HP TouchPad? | The #1 HP webOS ...
The folks over at webOSroundup noticed something interesting: though Amazon's Cloud Player music streamer works just fine over the HP TouchPad's Flash-enabled browser, if you check off a track and tap the Download button, ...
PreCentral.net
The Cloud - the Dry Bones Blog
By Yaakov Kirschen
Cloud, Technology, hi tech, Computers, Telecommunications, : Dry Bones cartoon. I just got a new computer. The super powerful, cutting edge workhorse I bought just a few years ago is now a slow outdated model with something wonky in its ...
the Dry Bones Blog
FCO taps Huddle for secure cloud collaboration | Enterprise Apps ...
By feedback@zdnet.co.uk (Editors)
A Foreign and Commonwealth Office unit has cleared a modified version of Huddle's SaaS system for collaborative working on restricted government data.
Latest Articles in News and Analysis
Episode 52 - Tankster and the Windows Azure Toolkit for Social ...
By Wade Wegner
In the news:Microsoft Delivers New Cloud Tools and Solutions at the Worldwide Partner ConferenceExtending the Windows Azure Accelerator for Web Roles with PHP and MVC3Announcing: SQL Azure July 2011 Service ReleaseBuild Your Next Game ...
We Right Resumes | RecruitersBook.com
Executive Profiles: Disruptive Tech Leaders In Cloud Computing ...
By R "Ray" Wang
(ZN): The cloud – or more specifically web-native applications — eliminates all of the effort that used to be necessary to make technology work. Once you've done that, you can start accomplishing things which were impossible with ...
A Software Insider's Point of View
Hostreview.com Abiquo Triples Cloud Management Business in First ...
Abiquo, the leading EnterpriseCloud Management software company,today announced significan,Abiquo Triples Cloud Management Business In First Half Of 2011.
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Nasuni New Cloud Storage Services Guarantees 100 Percent Cloud ...
By CloudTimes
Nasuni launched this week a new service called Data Protection which guarantees 100% - 24/7 uptime service-level agreement for access to all objects it stores in the cloud.
CloudTimes
Healthcare IT Consultant: Thought Leadership: Security in the Cloud
By Fred Pennic
As more provider organizations look to the cloud computing model, they face a host of security-related questions. What are the appropriate applications for the cloud, what is the best cloud model, and what do they need to know to choose ...
Healthcare IT Consultant
Why cloud computing must evolve Outside the Box - MarketWatch
The increasing use of cloud computing by businesses will require a revolution in database management technologies, writes Charles Silver.
www.marketwatch.com/.../why-cloud-computing-must-evolve...
Cloud Computing and the Linux Job Market
Given that Linux was the OS of choice for the top 10 supercomputers in June 2011 , Linux professionals are sitting pretty in the cloud.
how-to.linuxcareer.com/cloud-computing-and-the-linux-job-...
Amazon.com Help: Getting Started: MP3 Store and Cloud Player for Web
Purchases stored in Amazon Cloud Drive are available for playback from any Mac, PC, iPad, or Android device and available for download from any Mac, pC, ...
www.amazon.com/gp/help/...html/ref=hp_200593930_faq?...
The silver lining of Happy Cloud | Gamer Limit
With the recent announcement of Happy Cloud officially open for business July 18, the cloud gaming space is starting to look just as varied as the sky.
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