Friday, September 30, 2011

Homeland Security To Move Websites To Cloud

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Homeland Security To Move Websites To Cloud
InformationWeek
DHS is first agency to use GSA's infrastructure-as-a-service blanket purchase agreement as it awards $5 million contract to move all public websites to the cloud. By Elizabeth Montalbano InformationWeek The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has ...
Piston Announces Enterprise Cloud OS
NetworkComputing.com
Piston Cloud Computing, Inc. is throwing its hat into the OpenStack-based open-source cloud arena with the release of pentOS (Piston Enterprise OSTM), 'an easy, secure and open cloud operating system for managing enterprise private cloud environments. ...
Oracle needs some cloud computing mojo
GigaOm
29, 2011, 9:20am PT  Oracle's cloud computing stance has, um, evolved, to say the least, over the past few years. As the company preps for its annual Oracle OpenWorld mega-show in San Francisco next week, a question lingers: Is Oracle ...
Interior Department: Back To The Drawing Board For Cloud
CRN
By Andrew R Hickey, CRN The US Department of the Interior will again seek a vendor to handle itscloud computing e-mail and collaboration system, citing dramatic changes in the cloud landscape since it had originally selected Microsoft as its go-to ...
Heroku floats heavenly Python into platform cloud
Register
By Timothy Prickett Morgan • Get more from this author The polyglotting of platform cloudscontinues apace, with the Heroku platform-as-a-service cloud, owned by Salesforce.com, announcing support for PHP, and with PaaS competitor Engine Yard adding ...
Cloud computing 'could revolutionise the working day'
Experian QAS Data Quality News (UK)
The continual growth of cloud computing is likely - in time - to cause a variety of changes to the normal working day for a number of companies and individuals alike. That is according to the Editor of Cloud Pro Maxwell Cooter, who believes cloud ...
Sensible Cloud Intros Cloud Control
Cloud IT Pro
Cloud control platform developer Sensible Cloud has entered the cloud management sector with a company launch and the introduction of its sense platform that's designed to give enterprises enhanced control over cloud environments. ...
Amazon's 'cloud' browser raises privacy concerns
CNN International
"All of your web surfing habits will transit Amazon's cloud," he writes on Sophos' Naked Security blog. "If you think that Google AdWords and Facebook are watching you, this service is guaranteed to have a record of everything you do on the Web. ...
Terremark and URS Achieve DIACAP Certification for Cloud Solution
MarketWatch (press release)
MIAMI, Sep 29, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Terremark, a Verizon Company, and its delivery partner, URS Corporation's information technology business URS-Apptis, today announced that The Enterprise Cloud: Federal Edition is one of the first ...
StillSecure, SoftLayer Offer Cloud Security Monitoring Service
eWeek
SoftLayer customers can download Cloud SMS for free through the SoftLayer Technology Partner Marketplace portal. StillSecure, a managed network security solutions and certified compliance company, announced the availability of a cloud security solution ...
UBM TechWeb Launches 2012 Cloud Connect Events in Chicago & Bangalore ...
NEWS.GNOM.ES
ES/ — UBM TechWeb today announced the expansion of the Cloud Connect event series to Chicago and Bangalore, India. Cloud Connect, the premier technology event for defining the cloudcomputing industry, will expand to two new locations in order to ...
Cloud Standards Customer Council to Hold Webinar to Introduce the "Practical ...
PR Newswire (press release)
29, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- -- The Cloud Standards Customer Council (CSCC) will be holding a webinar to introduce the completed "Practical Guide to Cloud Computing" on Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at 11:00 am EDT. The Guide itself will be published and ...
JRuby: Now Available on Engine Yard Cloud
eWeek
Engine Yard has delivered JRuby on its cloud platform to enable Java developers programming in Ruby to innovate faster and scale their apps. Engine Yard has announced the general availability of JRuby on the Engine Yard Cloud...
Cloud-Powered Facial Recognition Is Terrifying
The Atlantic
Unlike Groucho Marx, unfortunately, the cloud never forgets. That's the logic behind a new application developed by Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute and Google that's designed to take a photograph of a total stranger and, ...
Rackspace CEO Sees 'Cloud' Revolution For Decade
Investor's Business Daily
By VANCE CARIAGA, INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY Posted 04:33 PM ET The rise of cloudcomputing also has elevated Rackspace Hosting (RAX), which bills itself as "the largest pure-playcloud company." The San Antonio-based company runs computer and data ...
TMNG Global Defines Operational Roadmap for Successful Migration to the Cloud
MarketWatch (press release)
The paper defines the need for a disciplined approach to Cloud migration which includes an operational roadmap, a framework of requirements and best practices, and a solid financial model. According to TMNG Global, many IT projects fail because of ...
Cloud-Mobile Mega Trends Point To Need For Rapid, Radical Applications ...
istockAnalyst.com (press release)
In many ways, the mobile device explosion and the cloud computing ramp-up reinforce and support each other. Cloud services make mobile devices -- like smartphone and tablets -- more productive, while making users better connected to enterprise ...
Should I Move to the Cloud or Save the Monthly Fee?
Reuters
By Cynthia Hsu at FindLaw.com The cloud is the "it" thing for business lately. You hear and read about it constantly. Are you thinking about moving your business data to the cloud? Is the cloudright for your small business? You may be using cloud ...
Supercomputing center targets big, fast storage cloud at academics, industry
Ars Technica
By Jon Brodkin | Published September 29, 2011 9:40 AM A storage cloud with 10 Gigabit Ethernet speed and scalability to hundreds of petabytes has been launched to provide virtually unlimited storage capacity to supercomputing customers. ...
3CLogic Announces Extension of Cloud Switch Program
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Seamless and easy migration to 3CLogic's Cloud Based Contact Center Service has been extended from September to December. 3CLogic, the leader in cloud based contact centers, announced today that they will be extending their Cloud Switch program until ...
Host Analytics and Proformative Join Forces on Finance in the Cloud
MarketWatch (press release)
As cloud technologies have improved business processes higher up the company ladder, the next natural frontier is finance. Cloud technology is tailor-made for dynamic data and can close the information gap found in most organizations for automatically ...
NTT Com to Expand Cloud-based Enterprise Network Service Globally
Sacramento Bee
29, 2011 -- /PRNewswire/ -- NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com) announced on September 29 that Arcstar (TM) Universal One, which enables enterprises to rapidly deploy cloud-based networks on a reliable, scalable basis, will soon expand from Japan ...
Box Ups Ante To Challenge SharePoint
InformationWeek
Happily tweaking Microsoft like Scott McNealy used to do in his prime, Box CEO Aaron Levie announced a round of upgrades to his firm's cloud content management system that he said is designed to make SharePoint even more irrelevant. ...
Like Salesforce, Microsoft Makes CRM More Social
Forbes
Salesforce.com currently has around 15% market share in the overall CRM market, but it is the leader in cloud based CRM. As the shift to cloud-based on-demand CRM systems becomes more prominent, it is expected to gain additional market share. ...
Piston Cloud Key Fits The Could On a USB Drive | Geekosystem
By Eric Limer
With a name like the Cloud, you sort of expect it to be something amorphous, nebulous, and hard to picture, much less something you can get your hands on, but thanks to ex-NASA engineer Joshua McKenty of Piston Cloud Computing, the ...
Geekosystem
Oracle needs some cloud computing mojo — Tech News and Analysis
By Barb Darrow
Oracle's cloud computing stance has evolved, to say the least, over the past few years. As the company preps for its annual Oracle OpenWorld mega-show in San Francisco next week, a huge question lingers: Does Oracle--and its CEO Larry ...
GigaOM
TIA Takes Cloud Computing by Storm
Under the federal government's "Cloud First" plan, which sets a goal of devoting 25% of all federal IT spend on Cloud Computing initiatives, one question that demands immediate attention is: Will the ICT industry be able to keep up with the ...
TIA Press Releases
A Storage Cloud for Supercomputers » Data Center Knowledge
By John Rath
The SDSC Cloud leverages the infrastructure designed for a high-performance parallel file system by using two Arista Networks 7508 switches, providing 768 total 10 gigabit (Gb) Ethernet ports for more than 10Tbit/s of non-blocking, IP-based ...
Data Center Knowledge
Scripting News: What comes after the cloud?
You know I think the cloud is great. I've been preaching the advantages of everyone having their own outpost on the web forever. The dream goes back, for me, to the early 80s. I wanted Compuserve to host my apps. They said I was crazy. # ...
Scripting News
Virgin Media launches Cloud service for businesses ... eventually ...
By Anh Nguyen
'Last to the game, but best dressed,' network company claims.
CIO - News RSS feed
The Benefits of Cloud Computing for SMB [INFOGRAPHIC]
By Travis Balinas
As companies ebb and flow with today's IT trends, the topic of Cloud Computing continues to be a hot topic – and with good reason too. Adoption of Cloud is on the rise according to our VMworld survey showing more than 75% of attendees ...
The Cloud Management Blog
Peter J. Leithart » Blog Archive » Cloud of doves
By Peter J. Leithart
Isaiah's vision of the procession of nations to Jerusalem includes this beautiful image: “Who are these who fly like a cloud, and like the doves to their windows” (Isaiah 60:8). A cloud – Yahweh's glory, which is the nations. A cloud coming to a ...
Peter J. Leithart
An Open Interoperable Cloud | Cloud Computing Software ...
By cloud
This article describes how through leveraging mature open standards, you can create open and interoperable clouds. It demonstrates the use of the major.
Cloud Computing Software Development
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Thursday, September 29, 2011

Eight cloud computing risks, and how to quash them

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Eight cloud computing risks, and how to quash them
ZDNet (blog)
By Joe McKendrick | September 28, 2011, 10:34am PDT Summary: A series of 'what-if' scenarios for what could go wrong with cloud, developed by The Open Group. What could go wrong with cloud? Let's count the ways…. In their latest book, CloudComputing ...
Enterprises gain cloud efficiencies with Sensible Cloud
Computerworld
By Nancy Gohring IDG News Service - UK company Sensible Cloud on Tuesday began offering software designed to help companies take greater advantage of the benefits of cloud computing. Sensible Cloud's Sense is Java-based software that enterprises deploy ...
CAGW Publishes "Cloud Computing 101"
MarketWatch (press release)
WASHINGTON, Sep 28, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Today, Citizens Against Government Waste published an educational report that aims to familiarize taxpayers and lawmakers with the basics of cloud computing. The Obama administration's "Federal Cloud ...
Amazon Kindle Fire Harnesses The Cloud In A Tablet
CRN
And while Amazon Kindle Fire is a sign that Amazon capitalizes on the growing tablet craze and beat out some of its key competitors, the Seattle-based company is leveraging the Kindle Fire tablet to move its cloud computing agenda forward, ...
Cloud Storage Platform Box.net Raises $50 Million From Salesforce And Others
TechCrunch
Learn More Cloud storage platform Box.net has raised a whopping $50 million in new funding with participation from CRM giant Salesforce.com. Past investors also participated in the round, as well as new 'strategic partners', who will be revealed soon. ...
Enterprises usher in mobile cloud computing
SearchCloudComputing.com
Even though cloud computing may facilitate end-user access to mobile apps, IT managers and developers must address a few nagging issues with mobile cloud computing. In the past two years, mobile cloud computing has gained interest among a limited ...
JRuby Now Supported on Engine Yard Cloud
ADT Magazine
By John K. Waters Engine Yard, a provider of Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) for Ruby on Rails, now supports JRuby applications on its cloud platform, the company announced today. The Engine YardCloud also added support for Trinidad, the application ...
Cloud Computing: Profile of Cloud-Adopter Companies
Formtek Blog (blog)
By Dick Weisinger, on September 28th, 2011 There is a strong correlation between the culture of a company and how a company approaches the cloud. An excellent white paper by Michael Heric, Ron Kermisch and Stephen Bertrand of Bain & Company examines ...
Riverbed to Showcase Hybrid Cloud Performance Solutions at Interop New York 2011
MarketWatch (press release)
At the conference, Riverbed(R) (booth #409) will showcase its hybrid cloud performance solutions, which help globally-connected enterprises to consolidate IT infrastructure and reduce costs while increasing employee collaboration and productivity. ...
Virgin Media to Enter Cloud Space
Zacks.com
Virgin Media Inc. (VMED - Analyst Report), the British cable and telecom giant, is on the verge to enter cloud computing services for its business customers. The company's cloud services will be delivered through a virtual private data center that can ...
CIOs say move to cloud applications inevitable as public sector leads the way
ComputerWeekly.com
CIOs will be spending between 40% and 80% of their IT budgets on cloud services in five years, according to senior IT leaders. The promise of lower capital spending on IT, lower overall IT costs and greater technical agility make cloud computing ...
Revevol and esnatech partner to deliver cloud-enabled unified communications ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Esna Technologies (esnatech), a global leader in cloud-based unified communications, and one of Google Enterprise's strongest partners in Europe, Revevol, today announced a partnership to help enterprises deploying cloud strategies to seamlessly ...
NJVCReleases Two New White Papers that Outline How to Build a Successful ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The papers were authored by Kevin Jackson, general manager, cloud services, and are available for download at www.njvc.com . The white papers are written for the audience of federal government executives interested in learning more about cloud ...
The Cloud and IBM
BusinessCloud9
BusinessCloud9 recently spoke with IBM UK Cloud Leader Doug Clark for a general catch up on the vendor's Cloud strategy – a catch-up that touched on a number of critical areas for Cloud adoption. “ We've seen a lot of press about public Clouds and ...
Transera CEO to Speak on Cloud Technology at Contact Center Conference Fall 2011
MarketWatch (press release)
WHAT: Mr. Uppaluru will be leading a track session titled, The Real Facts of Cloud Computing. This session will demystify cloud computing and clarify the differences between hosted and SaaS call centers. WHEN: Tuesday, October 4, 11:15 am - 12:15 pm, ...
Who's Winning the Cloud War?
Government Technology
State and local governments are expanding their use of cloud-based services, but it's hard to pick a clear winner among cloud providers in the public-sector market. To some geeks in government, Google's 2009 defeat of Microsoft to run e-mail for Los ...
Strategic Partners Breaking New Ground With EVault Cloud-Connected Storage ...
MarketWatch (press release)
According to industry analyst firm IDC, the APAC market for cloud computing services will grow by an average of 40 percent each year through 2014 when it reaches US$4.9 billion. "Businesses in APAC are experiencing great growth, and with that comes the ...
10gen Releases Cloud-Based Monitoring and Alerting Solution for MongoDB
MarketWatch (press release)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Sep 28, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- 10gen, the company behind MongoDB, today announced the general availability of MongoDB Monitoring Service (MMS), a new monitoring service that is available free of charge to all MongoDB users. ...
Verecloud Reports Fiscal Year 2011 Results
MarketWatch (press release)
In March 2011, Verecloud shifted its focus to providing an online cloud marketplace targeted directly to small and medium businesses, after building the platform for the telecommunications industry. On August 2, 2011, Verecloud launched ...
Mozy seeds its cloud backup service with Data Shuttle device
SearchDisasterRecovery.com
s Mozy online backup service is looking to get more businesses hooked on the cloud with its new Mozy Data Shuttle, a cloud backup seeding device for SMBs to perform a fast, encrypted first backup of large data sets from their servers to Mozy's data ...
Autodesk Cloud is Here
Core77.com (blog)
Autodesk is not new to the cloud concept—their Buzzsaw software-as-a-service has been hooked up for over a decade—and on Tuesday they announced Autodesk Cloud, officially bringing together over a dozen web-based capabilities that customers can now...
Google Aims To Drop Federal Cloud Lawsuit Against Interior Department
CRN
By Andrew R Hickey, CRN Google has filed a motion to drop its lawsuit against the US Department of the Interior, a suit filed nearly one year ago that claims the federal agency limited the scope of the competitive bidding process for its federal cloud ...
Defining cloud standards | Nubefy, The cloud. Your way.
By admin
SINGAPORE [Sep 28, 2011] – Nubefy, a Cloud Services Management company, today announced that it has joined three of the main cloud computing and virtualization alliances: Open Virtualization Alliance (OVA), OpenStack™ and Cloud ...
Nubefy, The cloud. Your way.
Amazon's New Cloud-Fueled Web Browser Will Predict Your ...
By John Paul Titlow
Silk essentially splits the architecture of the Web browser in half, relying on both the computing power of the hardware and on the remote servers that comprise Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud(EC2). It relies on the cloud to call up certain ...
ReadWriteWeb
Autodesk Inc. intros “Autodesk Cloud” to design community | Architosh
By Anthony Frausto-Robledo AIA, LEED AP
Apple is not the only one with a cute “cloud computing” story emerging and a service to offer. Autodesk, Inc, the world's largest software provider in the design and engineering sector, this week introduced Autodesk Cloud, a new service for ...
Architosh
Hostreview.com StillSecure Launches Cloud Security Solution ...
StillSecure(R), a managed network security solutions and certified compliance company, today at the,StillSecure Launches Cloud Security Solution Aimed Directly At IaaS Users And Providers.
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Google drops cloud computing lawsuit against US Department of the ...
By Amar Toor
Last year, Google filed a lawsuit against the US Department of the Interior, on allegations that the government unfairly awarded a $59 million cl.
Engadget
Survey Says…Young People's Heads in the Cloud - EarthLink Cloud
By Tom Sullivan
How do we know cloud computing is the wave of the future? Ask some young ... Cloud computing, which facilitates remote and mobile access, fits perfectly with the strong technology trends reported by the Cisco surveys. Companies that don't ...
- EarthLink Cloud
Google Adds to Cloud Coverage in Asia - John Paczkowski - News ...
By John Paczkowski
Google announces plans to build new data centers in Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan.
AllThingsD
Cloud Storage & Gigabit Ethernet Solutions from NetApp & Intel ...
By Connected Social Media Syndication
Cloud Storage & Gigabit Ethernet Solutions from NetApp & Intel Cloud Builders.
Connected Social Media: The Intel...
Amazon Silk: Cloud-Accelerated Web Browser for the Kindle Fire ...
By Cory Gunther
Along with the announcement this morning of the Kindle Fire, Amazon also had something else exciting to share with everyone. They've developed a brand new.
Android Community
Amazon Launches Cloud-Accelerated Web Browser | SecurityWeek ...
By Mike Lennon
Amazon Silk web browser accelerates the power of the tablet hardware by using the computing power of the Amazon Web Services cloud (AWS), something amazon is describing as “split browser” architecture.
SecurityWeek RSS Feed
Cloud Application Deployment: 10 Deadly Sins to Avoid - Cloud ...
From storage to management controls, hypervisors, security, disaster recovery and governance, IT managers have a laundry list of checkpoints to pass to ...
www.eweek.com/.../Cloud-Application-Deployment-10-Deadl...
Piston launches OpenStack cloud OS for private clouds | ZDNet
Piston Cloud Computing came out of stealth mode today, launching an OpenStack-based cloud OS that allows enterprises to build private clouds that meet.
www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/piston-launches.../9624
Cloud Computing Myths - 10 Myths Users Falsely Believe | Windows ...
Cloud Computing Myths are growing along with the growth of Cloud.Though it is not possible to know all the points which users falsely believe, here are top 10.
thecustomizewindows.com/.../cloud-computing-myths-10-myt...
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Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Is the Cloud the ultimate disruptive innovation?

Cloud Computing & Cloud Hosting by Rackspace
Is the cloud the ultimate disruptive innovation?
Fortune
Box.net CEO and co-founder Aaron Levie argues that cloud computing is unleashing a massive value shift across the enterprise IT ecosystem. By Aaron Levie, contributor FORTUNE -- Fans of Clayton Christensen's "Innovator's Dilemma" will be unsurprised ...
Private Clouds for SMBs Made Easy
TMC Net
By Erik Linask , Group Editorial Director Cloud computing and virtualization – two intimately related technology buzzwords. In fact, as Nelson Ruest noted this morning at Zenith Infotech's It's YourCloud seminar in Miami, you can't properly leverage ...
V3 Cloud Summit: Lingering security worries slow cloud uptake
V3.co.uk
by Shaun Nichols Business uptake of cloud computing services has been slowed by security worries, despite the best efforts of vendors and industry evangelists, according to new V3 research. The study found that 87 per cent of enterprises are concerned ...
NASA Cloud Architect Forms Company for Private Cloud
PCWorld
By Nancy Gohring, IDG News The lead architect of NASA's cloud platform, which spun off into the open-source OpenStack cloud operating system, is launching a new company and product aimed at helping enterprises more easily build private clouds. ...
Cumulo Ethernet: Building Ethernet cloud fabrics
Register
By Chris Mellor • Get more from this author Expert Clinic Scaling up Ethernet for the cloud means longer wires and many more of them, plus many more switches. What are the effects of linking all this gear together? Do new risks emerge? ...
Cloupia Offers Open Automation for Clouds
eWeek
Cloud automation and management software provider Cloupia announced Open Automation forClouds, allowing its customers and partners to extend, add or enhance data center management and operations automation in addition to its Cloupia Unified ...
V3 Cloud Summit: Cloud needs new metrics for assessing ROI
V3.co.uk
by Daniel Robinson Moving to the cloud is not the Holy Grail but for those considering such a move, greater IT agility and freeing up of resources to focus on innovation are benefits that should make the case for adoption, according to Bert Van Rij, ...
FilesAnywhere Implements Zendesk Cloud-Based Help Desk
Sacramento Bee
27, 2011 -- /PRNewswire/ -- FilesAnywhere, one of the world's leading providers of remote file storage, and Zendesk, the proven cloud-based help desk software provider, today announced the launch of the FilesAnywhere Support Center. ...
Leading Cloud-based Secure Document Sharing Company Launches Next Generation ...
MarketWatch (press release)
LOS GATOS, Calif., Sep 27, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- ShareVault, a leading provider of secure document sharing services, today announced it has launched the next generation of its secure, intuitive virtual data room cloud service giving customers ...
Keeping the clouds white with cloud computing
Intelligent Utility
The same may be said today of cloud computing, or SaaS (Software-as-a-Service), a versatile tool utilities can use to better manage environmental compliance. This fuzzy new world is slowly coming into focus at some electric utilities. ...
Virtacore Supports VMware vCloud(R) Services 'Gateway to the Enterprise Cloud'
MarketWatch (press release)
STERLING, VA, Sep 27, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Virtacore Systems, Inc., an industry leader in hybrid cloud services, today announced that it is one of four VMware partners to offer trial cloud services as part of the initial launch of ...
CampusIT, One of Europe's Largest Cloud Based Student Management Systems, to ...
MarketWatch (press release)
CampusIT  the education management systems provider, today announced the US launch of its cloud-based student interaction management product, CampusIT Interact. CampusIT is also announcing that it is to be showcased by Oracle at ...
Toshiba cloud-based Canvio 3.0 portable HDD surfaces
SlashGear
Today Toshiba has announced a new version of that HDD that is also packing a USB 3.0 connection and is a cloud-based storage device. The storage device comes in 500GB, 750GB, and 1TB capacities. All versions are pre-loaded with the software needed to ...
Nefsis Web-Based Video Conferencing Cloud Eliminates the Cost and Complexity ...
Sacramento Bee
Today, all that is required is a plug-and-play webcam or HD peripheral and an all-in-one, software-as-a-service subscription to cloud-based Nefsis. The scope of business video conferencing applications has grown to include multipurpose conference rooms ...
Piston Cloud Launches pentOS, An Enterprise OpenStack ...
By Sarah Perez
Piston Cloud Computing, Inc. is today emerging from stealth and introducing its new enterprise-readycloud operating system for private clouds called pentOS. The new OS is built on OpenStack, the open source IaaS cloud computing project ...
TechCrunch
Birst: When the Cloud Isn't Always in the Cloud - Arik Hesseldahl ...
By Arik Hesseldahl
Birst, a business intelligence start-up, offers software that runs the same on premise as it does in thecloud, but for a very good reason.
AllThingsD
Sensible Cloud Introduces Industry's First Comprehensive Cloud ...
Sensible Cloud, the industry's first cloud control company, today introduced sense™, a new solution that makes cloud computing easier, more cost-effective and transparent, ensuring that organizations have tighter governance over cloud ...
Enterprise Communications and...
Safeguarding data in the public cloud | Simply Security
By Noah Gamer
As business executives around the world begin to realize the vast potential of cloud computing, IT managers will have to move quickly to ensure data remains.
Simply Security
Security Provider StillSecure Launches Cloud Security Monitoring ...
Security Provider StillSecure Launches Cloud Security Monitoring Service | The Web Host Industry Review - Web Hosting News.
theWHIR.com - Daily Web Hosting News
5 Challenges in the Journey to the Cloud | CloudTweaks.com ...
By Rick
5 Challenges in the Journey to the Cloud On my blog, I have already said that Cloud Computing is a Safe Bet for the Future, defining and showing us the shape.
CloudTweaks.com - Cloud Computing...
Piston Cloud Brings First OpenStack Solution: Ready for Prime Time ...
By Kristen Nicole
McKenty is a former RackSpacer, and was also the technical lead and cloud architect of NASA's Nebula Cloud Computing Platform, upon which the OpenStack project was built. Along with other Rackspace alum including Christopher ...
SiliconANGLE
Cloud Computing: Will it Lead to a Greener Building? | Green ...
By sgudeman
Cloud computing, aka remotely hosted, large scale data centers serving many clients, are more efficient and allow for more efficient technology usage, resource-planning and less waste.
Green-Buildings.com
G-Cloud Project Isn't Dead: It's 'Alive and Kicking' | CloudTimes
By Martin Tantow
The G-Cloud project, the government's own cloud computing project, is already alive and kicking, after being put on hold.
CloudTimes
What is the Cloud? Part III | Welcome to GlobalLogic Blogs
By Jim Walsh
What is the Cloud? Part III Is a virtualized data center a cloud? About the author: Dr. Jim Walsh, CTO of GlobalLogic, leads GlobalLogic's cloud.
Welcome to GlobalLogic Blogs
Cloud Law: Data Ownership in the Cloud - EarthLink Cloud
By Chris Chase
Companies considering a transition to cloud hosting will often have questions about more than pricing and the process of switching over…they'll want to know what happens to their data once it's housed on a cloud providers servers. ...
- EarthLink Cloud
Rapid Cloud Foundry Deployments with Maven | SpringSource ...
Apache Maven is a very popular choice in the Java community for building and deploying applications. The Cloud Foundry team has released the Cloud ...
blog.springsource.com/.../rapid-cloud-foundry-deployments-...
Cloud Computing Tips for Small Business - www ...
Cloud computing can offer your small business big benefits – as long as you've done your homework. Here's what you need to know to get your small business ...
www.smallbusinesscomputing.com/..._/Cloud-Computing-Tips...
HP Channel Partners Open New Cloud Centers of Excellence
HP today announced that 19 HP Cloud Centers of Excellence have been established in 2011 at partner facilities throughout the United States, providing ...
www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2011/110920c.html
Piston launches OpenStack cloud OS for private clouds
ZDNet (blog)
By Paula Rooney | September 27, 2011, 11:15am PDT Summary: Piston Cloud Computing came out of stealth mode today, launching an OpenStack-based cloud OS that allows enterprises to build private clouds that meet security and compliance requirements. ...
Cloud Application Deployment: 10 Deadly Sins to Avoid
eWeek
By Chris Preimesberger on 2011-09-27 From storage to management controls, hypervisors, security, disaster recovery and governance, IT managers have a laundry list of checkpoints to pass to successfully get a cloud system up and running. ...
Happy Cloud teams up with AMD for connected TV games
VentureBeat
Cloud-gaming firm Happy Cloud plans to work with Advanced Micro Devices to bring games-on-demand to connected TVs. Under the partnership, Happy Cloud will give users access to Windows-based PC games via web-connected TVs that use AMD's embedded ...
Telx and Hexagrid Align to Deliver Private Hosted Cloud Solutions
MarketWatch (press release)
NEW YORK, NY, Sep 27, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Telx(R), a leading interconnection and data center provider in nine strategic North American markets, today announced a strategic alliance with Hexagrid Computing, a leading developer of cloud ...
Nimbula release builds out cloud ecosystem
Cloud Pro
Cloud operating system (OS) company Nimbula has announced the immediate availability of Nimbula Director 1.5, an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform for managing compute and storage resources. The company has also announced new vendor ...
Autodesk Cloud Enables Access to Design Capability from Anywhere, at Anytime
MarketWatch (press release)
In addition, Autodesk Subscription customers will now have exclusive access to cloud-based, high-performance rendering and design optimization, and enhanced collaboration capabilities. Autodesk Subscription now provides 3 GB of online storage for each ...
Google Seeks To Drop Cloud Case Against Feds
InformationWeek
Google filed suit last year claiming that the cloud computing contract was written to benefit Microsoft. Now it seems to be changing its mind. By J. Nicholas Hoover InformationWeek Google has filed a motion to dismiss its case against the federal ...
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