Friday, September 9, 2011

Amazon SDKs for Android and iOS

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Amazon Marries Cloud, Mobile Apps With Android, iOS SDKs
CRN
By Andrew R Hickey, CRN Amazon Web Services has launched a pair of cloud software development kits (SDKs) for Google Android and Apple iOS that the company said will make it easier for developers to build mobile applications and services that leverage ...
Mid-sized companies call cloud overrated; more than half have no cloud plans ...
ITworld.com
By Kevin Fogarty Add a new comment September 08, 2011, 11:44 AM — Mid-sized companies in the Midwest that are heavy users of Microsoft enterprise business products are also far less likely to use cloud computing for anything more than to outsource ...
THQ's Farrell on how the cloud will change the video game business
VentureBeat
The cloud is as sure to be as disruptive to video games as it will be for other industries, but one of the first tasks is to figure out exactly what cloud gaming means, said Brian Farrell, chief executive of big video game maker THQ. ...
Cloud Computing: What You Need to Know About PaaS
CIO
Bernard Golden explains what CIOs need to know about this nascent segment of the cloudcomputing market. By Bernard Golden CIO — Cloud computing discussions invariably begin with the "IPS" taxonomy: Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service ...
Vembu Acquires Cloud Nucleus to Expand Cloud Backup Services
MSPmentor
Vembu Technologies, which promotes an online backup service to MSPs, has acquired CloudNucleus, a data protection software developer. Plus, we're hearing rumblings about several other managed services-related deals that are expected to impact the ...
Comtex News Network Expands Relationship with Virtustream to Enrich ...
MarketWatch (press release)
"The cloud has evolved over the last decade and the technology has now allowed it to gather sufficient momentum to provide greater flexibility and versatility." Comtex will migrate its core operating systems from an existing dedicated hosted ...
HP starts private beta of OpenStack-based cloud
ZDNet UK (blog)
HP has launched its cloud service as a private trial as it prepares to compete with Amazon, Google and Microsoft for the public cloud market. The closed beta for the infrastructure-as-a-service cloudhas a limited number of places, HP said on Wednesday ...
Tendril is Cloud Technology of Choice for Communicating Beyond the Meter
MarketWatch (press release)
Tendril, the provider of the cloud platform for the Energy Internet, now works with all of the top advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) communications suppliers, making it the de facto cloudtechnology platform for providing real-time communications ...
Appian Named Amazon Web Services GovCloud (US) Solution Partner
MarketWatch (press release)
AWS GovCloud (US) is an AWS Region designed to allow US government agencies and contractors to move more sensitive workloads into the cloud by addressing their specific regulatory and compliance requirements. Appian's cloud BPM software on AWS has been ...
Was brief Google Docs outage a tremor or a tsunami?
CNET
I said, "This is likely to be a major blow to the growth of cloud computing, as it reminds IT managers of the danger of relying on a unified product to serve all a company's users." As commenters said, and I'm generously paraphrasing, I'm a kook. ...
CopperEgg(TM) Launches RevealCloud Pro(TM) Bringing Comprehensive Performance ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Now, DevOps and development teams can gain true real-time performance monitoring of cloudsystems so they can isolate and solve critical performance problems before they impact application service delivery. According to IDC, cloud computing will ...
Product News: Adobe Unveils Carousel Cloud-based Photo Management
The Mac Observer
Adobe introduced its new cloud-based photo management service Carousel on Wednesday. The service can sync photos between devices, and when it launches later this month will be available only for OS X Lion and iOS. Carousel will include photo editing ...
Dow Jones VentureWire Names Aryaka, the World's First Cloud-Based WAN ...
MarketWatch (press release)
MILPITAS, CA, Sep 08, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Aryaka, provider of the world's firstcloud-based WAN optimization and application acceleration solution, has been named to VentureWire's FASTech 50 list of the most innovative technology start-ups. ...
MSPmentor 250: Bodie Focuses Claris On Cloud Services
MSPmentor
And he has a clear message for readers: Now is the time for MSPs to embrace thecloud. Bodie began working as a sub-contractor for Claris Networks in 2007 before becoming chief financial officer (CFO) and chief operating officer (COO) in 2008. ...
Salesforce's Benioff: VMware Not In Cloud Computing Biz
CRN
That's now where you got my attention, because putting virtual machines on servers is great and I understand they call it private clouds, but our vision of cloud computing is not that." VMware did not respond to CRN's request to comment. ...
Soonr Releases Native BlackBerry Application to Access, Store, Share and Sync ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Soonr Inc., a cloud services company focused on team productivity for small and medium businesses (SMB), today announced a native application for BlackBerry touch screen smartphones including the new BlackBerry Torch. Reflecting the way business "works ...
Kodak dons cape for a Google Cloud Print-compatible Hero all-in-one printers
Engadget
By Brian Heater posted Sep 8th 2011 2:10AM Looks like HP will be getting some company in Google's print cloud. Kodak today announced a new line of Cloud Print-friendly all-in-one devices, which let users print documents without all of those pesky cords ...
Backupify Closes $5 Million Series B Round Led by Avalon Ventures
MarketWatch (press release)
Backupify will apply this new capital to accelerate further development of it's industry leading and first to market backup solution for the full Google Apps suite, while expanding product functionality and launching new services for other cloud ...
World's First Commercial LTE Cloud Gaming Service: Ubitus and NHN Japan ...
MarketWatch (press release)
7, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Ubitus Inc., the leading cloud computing company, today announced the launch of world's first commercial mobile cloud gaming service, G CLOUD, with NHN Japan Corporation. Ubitus' GameCloud® technology is preloaded ...
Where Investors Can See Clouds Raining Money
Seeking Alpha
It's true a fog of war has enveloped the cloud space as companies like Salesforce, as well as VMWare, Amazon.com (AMZN), Rackspace (RAX) and Red Hat (RHT) try to defend their eye-popping PE ratios from the enterprise computing pack. ...
Cooling the Cloud
TMC Net
By TMCnet Special Guest While the basic concept of cloud computing is fairly clear to everyone, the structure of cloud-computing architectures and the effect of cloud computing on IT and facilities infrastructure are less well understood. ...
Moving to the all-cloud company 'is the next challenge'
BBC News
Rackspace is a global hosting and cloud computing specialist. Founded in 1998, the company has 152000 customers. Net revenue for the second quarter of the year was $247.2m up 32% year-on-year and 7.5% from Q1 2011. For Rackspace I think our biggest ...
Thought Equity Motion Acquires Cloud-Based Video Distribution Platform Panvidea
MarketWatch (press release)
Panvidea provides a scalable, cloud-based solution to encode digital media elements, manage relevant metadata, edit and transform media for multiple audiences, and supply content as digital products to any platform or device. Thought Equity Motion's T3 ...
DreamFactory Launches Branded Partner Program for Cloud Apps
MarketWatch (press release)
CAMPBELL, Calif., Sep 08, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- DreamFactory Software, the leading publisher for cloud computing platforms, is pleased to announce the release of the Velocity Partner Program, designed to instantly turn partner sites into SaaS ...
Microsoft, Oracle, CRM Are Nomura 'Cloud' Favorites
Barron's (blog)
All three seem to be in one way or another a way to invest in the “cloud” computing phenomenon. While the PC market is worrisome, writes Sherlund — just see today's cut by Gartner — nevertheless he argues “the market is currently undervaluing MSFT's ...
IBM's high performance SAN products target cloud and virtual data centers
ZDNet (blog)
IBM System Storage SAN768B-2 and SAN384B-2 backbones – among the industry's newest Fibre Channel switching infrastructure, providing reliable, scalable, high-performance foundations for privatecloud storage and highly virtualized environments. ...
Morphlabs Launches mCloud Data Center Unit for the Association of Southeast ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The mCloud DCU removes the complexities of implementing the most price performant cloudsolution on the market. It leverages an infrastructure blueprint and binds together mCloud software with best-of-breed cloud building blocks to deliver ...
IBM offers up $1B in SMB technology financing
ZDNet (blog)
By Heather Clancy | September 8, 2011, 3:59am PDT Summary: The credit offerings are focused on IBM's technologies in data analytics and cloud services, but they could also cover the hardware and IT services needed to get everything in place. ...
Microsoft eats its own tasty cloud dog food
Ars Technica
But Microsoft still has to prove that Windows Azure, its new cloud service for deploying and hosting Web applications, is reliable, safe, and ready for enterprises. That's where dogfooding comes in. The Windows Azure team blogged this week about how ...
Just Ask Gemalto: Cloud computing explained
MiamiHerald.com
A: Cloud computing is using a Web browser and the Internet to access applications (like word processing, a spreadsheet, email), store your data (files, emails, pictures) or use computer resources (Web hosting, blogging, creating a YouTube channel) on ...
Cloud and the Channel: Momentum Builds
By Carolyn April
Despite much hand wringing over the impact of cloud in the channel, many companies are beginning to gain a clearer – and more relief-tinged – picture of what the model means to the industry at large and their own business.
CompTIA Blog
Understanding the basics of cloud computing
By Mark Morley
This blog provides an introduction to cloud computing, discussing the features of a typical environment and the benefits of moving your business to the cloud.
All About B2B
How cloud-based Gmail is energy efficient — Cleantech News and ...
By Katie Fehrenbacher
Cloud-based Gmail is a more energy efficient option compared to companies' locally-hosted email solutions, according to Google. That's largely due to the inherent efficiencies of the cloud, and also Google's own brand of energy efficient ...
GigaOM
Web Host Acens Enters Cloud Application Market by www ...
By THN News
(The Hosting News) - Open-Xchange, the leading supplier of business-class email for cloud providers, today announced an agreement with Acens, one of Spain's.
www.thehostingnews.com
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