Tuesday, August 16, 2011

The real costs of cloud computing

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Preparing for the real costs of cloud computing
Computerworld
By Bob Violino Computerworld - At a cloud computing conference in New York in June, a number of speakers pointed out that the cloud is moving past the hype stage and is beginning to deliver tangible benefits to organizations. ...
Joyent launches a new OS for the cloud
GigaOm
15, 2011, 7:22am PT No Comments Joyent, the company behind private cloud software and the Node.js event-driven programming language, has open sourced its cloud operating system. Called SmartOS, and already utilized in Joyent's public cloud and ...
RIM BlackBerry Management Center Aimed at Small Businesses
eWeek
BlackBerry smartphone manufacturer Research In Motion announced the debut of the BlackBerry Management Center, a free online service for small to medium-size businesses to centrally manage company- or employee-owned BlackBerry smartphones in the cloud ...
Kindle Cloud Reader quick look
tuaw.com
The launch of Amazon's Kindle Cloud Reader web app added a new wrinkle to the Apple / Kindle story. Let's take a quick look at the Kindle web app and see how it compares to the native app. Since it's a web app, you really don't install anything. ..
Grid Cloud Solutions Announces 10 MW Solar Project Submissions
MarketWatch (press release)
SAULT STE MARIE, ON, Aug 15, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Grid Cloud Solutions Inc. (pinksheets:GRDC) is pleased to report securing options to develop solar power on lands in prime regions for available transmission capacities totaling over 10 MW of ...
Logicalis Deploys Modular Cloud in One Month
Data Center Knowledge
Global IT solutions specialist Logicalis is the latest company to adopt a modular data center model, deploying its enterprise cloud computing platform in an i/o Any where module at the i/o Phoenix data center, the company said today. ...
netTALK Purchases 23000 Square Foot Cloud and Data Center Featuring Fortune ...
Financial Post
“The netTALK Cloud Center marks a major step in our evolution as a company,” commented Anastasios 'Takis' Kyriakides, President and CEO of netTALK. “Building on our recently-announced multi-year wholesale agreement with Lightsquared, ...
BC/DR and cloud-services lessons learned from a recent Amazon outage
CSO
An Amazon cloud-services outage that occured earlier this month shines the light on some weaknesses with the company's disaster recovery plans. Gregory Machler opines on what companies should consider to protect themselves By Gregory Machler Another ...
New 420000 Sq. Ft. Cloud Computing Campus Brings 500 Jobs and State-of-the-Art ...
Bradenton Herald
A former AT&T facility that sat idle for 10 years is being brought back to life as a state-of-the-artcloud computing center by SHI International, a $3 billion woman-owned technology company based in New Jersey. The new facility will also serve as the ..
Smart features, slow scans in Kaspersky 2012
CNET (blog)
The latest major updates to Kaspersky Internet Security 2012 (download) and Kaspersky AntiVirus 2012 (download) debuted today, including a new method of protecting computers using a combination of cloud and local detections, expanded and ...
athenahealth and Maine Medical Center Physician-Hospital Organization Partner ...
MarketWatch (press release)
With these programs, the practices will access tools and information to provide optimal patient care. athenahealth's services run in the cloud, a web-based environment, which means there are no costly set-up, maintenance, or upgrade fees. ..
The ABCs of Managed Services – B is for Cloud Backup
MSPmentor
Welcome to Part III of the series, The ABC's of Managed Services, focused on B for Backup, including cloud backup and online backup services. As some of you undoubtedly know, I work for Intronis. This blog, however, is more about building a backup and ...
Cloud Communications Company Completes Acquisition of Alteva
TMC Net
By Anshu Shrivastava, TMCnet Contributor Warwick Valley Telephone Company (WVT), a cloudcommunications company, has finalized its acquisition of Alteva (News - Alert), a unified communications (UC) solutions provider headquartered in Philadelphia. ...
Trend Micro Updates Web Gateway Security for Broader, "Beyond the Browser ...
PR Newswire (press release)
15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704), a global cloud security leader, today announced the latest release of the company's web gateway solution, which now delivers even greater visibility and control over the growing ...
Telcos offer cloud alternative
ComputerWeekly.com
Large telcos are an increasingly attractive alternative for businesses looking for added value, high availability cloud services, said analyst Mark Giles. "They are coming to cloud from a managed service point of view. They are making substantial ...
Cloud-based gaming coming to UK
Fresh Business Thinking
By Max Clarke The pioneering cloud-based gaming service, OnLive, is set to debut in the UK this autumn. The service, which offers instant access to more than 100 games via iPad, PC or internet TV and most recently, Android, is being introduced to the ...
The Role of VPNs and Application Assurance in Business Networking and Cloud ...
TMC Net
In the tech world, that's common VPN 101, but it's important to understand VPN, how it works and, believe it or not, how it plays a role in cloud services. Lately, cloud computing is a topic that has always been the talk of the world of Information ...
Cloud Education Key to Dispelling Consumer Haziness
SYS-CON Media (press release)
TheInfoPro, a division of The 451 Group, has released the results of a cloud computing services study. Fifty-two percent of the cloud decision-makers interviewed were of the view that internal change and learning were the main stumbling blocks to cloud ...
ANX Adds New Secure Cloud Gateway to PCI Security & Compliance Solution
Marketwire (press release)
(ANX), a leading provider of managed security, compliance and connectivity solutions, today announced Secure Cloud Gateway, an enhancement to its PCI Compliance & Security solution for small businesses. Secure Cloud Gateway includes proprietary ..
Nastel Named Winner in the Third Annual 2011 Golden Bridge Awards for ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Nastel, a premier global provider of business transaction performance™ solutions for mission-critical applications spanning the distributed, mainframe and cloud tiers, announced today that it has won the prestigious Golden Bridge Awards for its ...
Cloudreach and Ltech Form The Global Cloud Partnership
PR Web (press release)
As leading providers of cloud-based IT products and services, Cloudreach Limited and LTech, based in the UK and USA respectively, announce the launch of the Global Cloud Partnership. Cloudreach Limited and LTech, both Google Enterprise partners, ...
NaviSite Announces Cloud-Based Managed Application Services for Microsoft Dynamics
SYS-CON Media (press release)
NaviSite's secure, cloud-enabled SSAE 16-compliant data centers provide customers with disaster recovery and high availability options. "Hosting services provided by NaviSite allow us to minimize administrative costs required to run the Dynamics-GP ..
New streaming, cloud services changing the way we discover, listen to and ...
Plain Dealer
By John Soeder, The Plain Dealer View full sizeTed Crow, The Plain DealerBetween the music-streaming service Spotify and music-storage cloud services from Apple, Google and Amazon, we're in the midst of a watershed moment in music consumerism. ...
Nirvanix Powers VMware Snaps & Clones to the Cloud at VMworld
SYS-CON Media (press release)
15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Nirvanix, the leading provider of enterprise-class cloud storage services, today announced that it will demonstrate cloud-based snaps and clones for VMware files and feature a promotional offer of 1TB of cloud storage for free ...
Nimbula Unveils the First Cloud Operating System Able to Run Geographically ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 08/15/11 -- Nimbula, the Cloud Operating System Company, today introduced Nimbula Director 1.5, the newest release of its cloud operating system that helps enterprises and service providers build powerful private, ...
Analyst forecasts cloud-based security boost for mobile devices
Cloud Pro
The Western European enterprise mobility management and security market set for rapid growth as convergence with cloud accelerates, according to analyst IDC. Research published by IDC predicts the enterprise mobility management and security market in ...
Managing the Middleware Muddle
IT Business Edge (blog)
To address this issue in the age of the cloud, BMC Software today rolled out upgrades to its Middleware Management platform that make it easier to unify the management of middleware running both on premise and in the cloud. According to April Hickel, ...
Exoprise Offers Office 365, Google Apps Cloud Readiness Assessments
TalkinCloud
by Joe Panettieri on Exoprise Systems Inc., which helps businesses to evaluate their cloudreadiness, is taking a very close look at the Office 365 and Google Apps marketplaces. Among the key inflection points that Exoprise has been studying: Will ...
The (real) state of the cloud, 2011
InfoWorld
A few sources have told me that, these days, when customers get a sales pitch that leads with "thecloud," they reply with a look that says: "If I hear 'the cloud' out of your mouth one more time, I'm going to kill you," or something to that effect. ...
Cloud computing special: decisions to be made when migrating to ...
In the first of a three part AMEinfo special report on cloud computing, Peter Ward talks to George DeBono, GM, Red Hat MENA, about the points a business should consider prior to migrating to the...
AMEinfo.com Latest News
TelVue Corp... Broadcasting Betterment + Into The Cloud ...
By Satnews Publishers
TelVue Corp... Broadcasting Betterment + Into The Cloud (SatBroadcasting™). TelVue homepage link. [SatNews] Bringing video file based workflow to a leading satellite broadcaster, and offering LO/LA cloud services. ...
Satnews.com -- Worldwide Satellite News
Why is The Cloud Different This Time? - Ecademy
As Marc Benioff of Salesforce.com put it, 'The Cloud is so passé.' He's right, companies like his have sold Software as a Service (SaaS), the forerunner of The Cloud, for years. I started PlaceWare Europe back in 1999 same as Webex. ...
Ecademy: user blogs
StillSecure Focused on Cloud, Mobile Device Management | MSPmentor
By Nicholas Mukhar
StillSecure is developing a cloud security platform & enhancing Safe Access, a network access control platform, with mobile device management for Android & iOS.
MSPmentor
AppleInsider | Apple's iCloud faces consumer confusion over 'cloud ...
As Apple plans to push its iCloud service to consumers this fall, a new survey has found that most people don't even know what the term "cloud computing" ...
www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=16678
Amazon Cloud Outage: What Can Be Learned? -- InformationWeekAmazon ...
Primary and backup power systems fail when lightning strikes EC2 data center in Dublin. Could customers have braced for this unusual event?
www.informationweek.com/news/cloud.../231300449
Is Virtualization Really a Base for Cloud? | Cloud Computing Journal
By stating that, virtualization covers maximum of cloud features thus its providing base for cloud. Virtualization is a major player in Private cloud and ...
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