Saturday, August 27, 2011

Cloud computing bigger deal for startups than enterprise

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Cloud computing bigger deal for startups than enterprises: OMG's Richard Soley
ZDNet (blog)
Cloud computing is nice, but startups are seeing most of the benefits from this approach — not established enterprises. That's the view of Richard Soley, CEO and chairman of the Object Management Group, expressed in a recent interview with TechTarget ...
E-Discovery Moves to the Cloud
Forbes
Electronic discovery is moving to the cloud. This is hardly surprising when one considers the client-focused benefits of cloud computing and the extraordinary market opportunities for vendors. Let's look at the numbers. The market for electronic ...
Canvas Systems and Cirracore Partner to Exhibit CloudPod and Private Cloud ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Canvas Systems and Cirracore are partnering at VMworld 2011 to provide live demonstrations of a private cloud utilizing VMware and Canvas Systems' CloudPod solution. Canvas Systems, a global leader in IT infrastructure solutions and services, ...
IBM Unveils New Hybrid Cloud Solution for the Enterprise
NetworkComputing.com
Analysts from North Bridge Venture Partners, GigaOM Pro & 451 Group agree - the need for hybridcloud solutions is growing. The joint "Future of Cloud Computing Survey, 2011" performed by those analysts, reports that 39 percent of cloud users say that ...
What Comes After Flickr? The Future of Photos in the Cloud
Xconomy
That's the strongest case I can think of for storing all of your photos in the cloud. (It sounds like Branson's photos were prints, but he probably could have afforded to get them scanned.) There are other big reasons too—once a photo is online, ...
Verizon Hoping For Cloud Lift With CloudSwitch Deal
Wall Street Journal (blog)
By Scott Denne Verizon Communications Inc.'s acquisition of start-up CloudSwitch Inc. is designed to help the communications company reap some of the momentum behind cloud computing. Associated Press Earlier this year, Verizon spent $1.4 billion to ...
VMware vSphere 5 Cloud Infrastructure Suite Now Available
Web Host Industry Review
By Nicole Henderson, August 26, 2011 (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Virtualization and cloud infrastructure provider VMware (www.vmware.com) announced on Thursday that VMware vSphere 5 is now generally available. The cloudinfrastructure suite delivers ...
IBM Launches Smarter Energy Cloud in Iowa
PR Newswire (press release)
26, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) and the City of Dubuque, Iowa today announced the availability of the Smarter Energy Cloud in Dubuque, Iowa. The cloud, or internet-based computing, will enable citizens to access information about their energy ...
Hurricane Irene Renews Focus on Hybrid Cloud Solutions for Disaster Recovery ...
MarketWatch (press release)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA, Aug 26, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Egnyte, a leading provider ofcloud file server solutions, is promoting awareness of the importance of incorporating the hybridcloud as part of a company's disaster preparedness strategy. ...
McAfee Mobile Security on NEC's "LifeTouch" Series Cloud Communicator
TMC Net
By Anamika Singh McAfee (News - Alert) Co., Ltd., the Japanese subsidiary of McAfee, announced that NEC (News - Alert) Corporation will provide McAfee Mobile Security pre-installed on its “LifeTouch” series cloud communicator starting from August 26, ...
Telstra adds Red Hat to cloud offering
Register
By Richard Chirgwin • Get more from this author Telstra has become a Red Hat Certified CloudProvider, readying the carrier to offer the Linux specialist's enterprise solutions as a guest operating system. Australia's incumbent telco has been ramping ...
Panasonic Unveils Lumix Club Cloud Service
Twice
Secaucus, NJ - In addition to its other digital camera introductions on Friday, Panasonic took the wraps off a Wi-Fi-enabled model, the Lumix DMC-FX90, and announced a Cloud-based photo service. The Lumix Club is accessible via smartphones and computer ...
Salesforce.com Backs Cloud Solution Company Appirio's World Domination Plans
TechCrunch
Learn More Salesforce.com Backs Cloud Solution Company Appirio's World Domination&nbs... (current) Combining Clouds: Appirio's ReferMyFriends App Deftly Links Facebook To&nbs... Cloudsolution provider Appirio this morning announced it will be ...
Can PostgreSQL pickup where MySQL left off?
CNET (blog)
EnterpriseDB, a provider of enterprise-class products and services based on PostgreSQL, today announced Postgres Plus Cloud Server, which the company has billed as "a full-featured, Oracle-compatible, enterprise-class PostgreSQL database-as-a-service ...
Eucalpytus 3.0 Advances Private Cloud Availability
Server Watch
By Sean Michael Kerner (Send Email) As cloud deployments continue to grow, so too are the requirements for high availability and stability. That's the direction that open source private cloudvendor Eucalyptus is headed with their new 3.0 release. ...
Level 3 Communications Enhances Business Intelligence with Informatica Cloud
TMC Net
By Nathesh, TMCnet Contributor Informatica Corporation, an independent provider of data integration software, claimed that the Informatica Cloud is helping fiber-based communications services provider Level 3 to attain a complete view of its on-premise ...
Meridian Systems Announces Prolog Sky, a New Deployment Service That Allows ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Learn more about Prolog's Sky service by joining Meridian September 15, 2011 for a Live Webinar: Demystifying the Cloud Technology Trend: Three Principles General Contractors Can Use to Evaluate Cloud Technology for Project Management. ...
Social Enterprise Tops Salesforce Partners' Dreamforce 2011 Wish Lists
CRN
By Andrew R Hickey, CRN The social enterprise and how to build business around mobility, social media and the open cloud are chief among Salesforce.com partners' wish lists for Dreamforce 2011, Salesforce's annual cloud conference. ...
RIM, music cloud leverage Android ecosystem
Android Apps Appolicious
The ruling expands the storage capabilities of music cloud services, ultimately giving more features to end users. Spotify is also making moves in the music cloud, with a new partnership with music search and discovery provider SoundHound. ...
Acer Opens First Cloud Computing Research, Operation Center
Wall Street Journal
TW) on Friday opened its first cloud-computing research and operation center in Taipei, as the beleaguered personal computer maker diversifies away from hardware production. Acer said it will first target corporate customers and hopes to bundle ...
Hybrid Cloud Integration: Looming IT Challenge
Internet Evolution
(NYSE: IBM) showcases its latest battleground: the hybrid cloud. IBM's offer of hybrid cloudsoftware based on its May 2010 acquisition of Cast Iron Systems points to the specific enterprise problem. When a company chooses a "public cloud" for [fill in ...
Key Cloud Migration Decisions
Huffington Post (blog)
When faced with the many opportunities afforded by a cloud infrastructure -- on-demand scale, potential cost reductions, elimination of complex maintenance processes, etc. -- the decision to build a new application in a public cloud is often a ...
Successful selling in the cloud relies on billing
CloudTweaks News
The cloud offers a multitude of benefits for businesses looking to expand their sales channels. In the cloud, these companies can create new, predictable revenue streams; develop economies of scale; gain faster time to market; and shorten sales cycles. ...
Hey (Hey), You (You), Stop Taxing My Cloud
BusinessWeek
The problem arises because cloud computing often transforms taxable goods into nontaxable services. Companies that once installed racks of servers in their offices and bought software on CDs are replacing them with offsite solutions sold by IBM, ...
Wild Bamboo Rocket Delivers Customer Success with GoGrid
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
GoGrid, a leading cloud infrastructure company, announced today that Wild Bamboo Rocket, a consulting firm that specializes in rapidly delivering web apps and websites for Internet startups, is leveraging GoGrid's state-of-the-art cloud infrastructure, ...
rlmumford's sandbox: Cloud CRM | drupal.org
Cloud CRM is the native drupal CRM. Categories: Seeking co-maintainer(s), Under active development, Modules. Maintainers for Cloud CRM. rlmumford - 1 commit ...
drupal.org/sandbox/rlmumford/1260546

Verizon nabs CloudSwitch to pursue global cloud strategy
ZDNet (blog)
By Rachel King | August 25, 2011, 4:20pm PDT Summary: Verizon continues on its path to becoming a cloud computing giant with the acquisition of CloudSwitch. Verizon Communications has acquired CloudSwitch, a private cloud software technology company, ...
Appirio to Accelerate Global Expansion Through New Strategic Investment
MarketWatch (press release)
SAN MATEO, CA, Aug 26, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Appirio, a cloud solution provider, today announced it will be expanding internationally to serve a growing base of customers in the European and Asia Pacific markets. The expansion is being funded ...
Cloud CIO: The Challenges of Competing with Cloud Computing Providers
CIO
There is no question that corporate IT departments need to change their cultures and their organizational structures to compete with cloud providers, but doing so introduces a variety of practical challenges--including convincing the CFO to embrace a ...
Acer opens cloud computing centre
Cloud Pro
Acer today opened its new cloud hub for businesses called the Acer Cloud Competency Centre. Running out of the company's data centre in Taoyuan in Taiwan, the new cloud destination has been designed to run cloud solutions for enterprises, ...
Salesforce To Acquire Navajo Systems, Beef Up Cloud Encryption?
CRN
By Andrew R Hickey, CRN SaaS big dog Salesforce.com has kept mum on its plans for Dreamforce 2011 in San Francisco next week, but reports have surfaced indicating that one major Dreamforce announcement will center on the acquisition of Israeli cloud ...
Four categories for expected VMworld announcements
ZDNet (blog)
Cloud computing − everyone and their dog are planning to announce how cloud computing just can not work without their new product or service. Considering what suppliers have approached me and the teasers they've sent, I would guess that we're going to ...
Introducing MarketingPilot Release 12.0 Akela Marketing Cloud
DigitalJournal.com (press release)
Today MarketingPilot announced the Akela Marketing Cloud service. In development for more than a year, the Akela Marketing Cloud Service is a multi-tenant cloud-based service that is tightly integrated with the MarketingPilot Integrated Marketing ...
2011 Cloud & IT Disaster Recovery Statistics
Smart Data Collective
A recent survey conducted by the Aberdeen Group uncovered the IT disaster recovery trends of a range of companies using cloud computing for data storage, backup and recovery. Comparing cloudusers and non-cloud users, they found that mid-sized ...
Ingram Micro Cloud adds BMC Remedyforce Help Desk Tool to offerings
eChannelLine
Ingram Micro has announced BMC Software's Remedyforce Help Desk tool is now available to channel partners for purchase from the Ingram Micro Cloud. "The Ingram Micro Cloud services portfolio is growing rapidly to meet the dynamic needs of our channel ...
Always be Prepared - Cloud-Based Traffic Management | UltraDNS Blog
By Jim Fink
The linchpin of being able to run your business as distributed and virtual is a highly available, lightning fast, advanced featured Managed DNS service.
UltraDNS - DNS Matters – Blog
TM Forum - Cloud & New Services Initiative
Managing Cloud Services. ... including communications - telco, wireless, cable and Internet; cloud; defense; content; and information ...
www.tmforum.org/CloudNewServices/8006/home.html

Two Cloud-Based Test Tools This Week
ReadWriteWeb
By David Strom / August 26, 2011 7:05 AM / 0 Comments This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Read the white paper about how Intel ...
VMware Launches Micro Cloud Foundry and vSphere 5
Data Center Knowledge
A week ahead of its annual VMworld event in Las Vegas, VMware has announced general availability of VMware vSphere 5 and introduced a beta of Micro Cloud Foundry. On Tuesday Vmware announced the immediate beta availability of Micro Cloud Foundry as a ...
Heroku to Java: Welcome to Our Cloud
eWeek
Heroku announces support for Java on its cloud application platform that already supports Ruby, Node.js and Clojure. Heroku, a cloud application platform provider, has announced support for Java on its cloud platform. The addition of Java for Heroku ...

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