Sunday, September 4, 2011

Can any cloud catch Amazon Web Services?

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Can any cloud catch Amazon Web Services? (part 2)
CNET (blog)
There is no doubt in my mind that Amazon's developer-centric approach to cloud sets it far apart--and ahead of--the hosting companies trying to compete in that market. That said, Amazon's market position is not invulnerable, and there are several ways ...
Apple's iCloud runs on Microsoft's Azure and Amazon's cloud
VentureBeat
Apple's iCloud runs on two services from its biggest competitors, Microsoft's Azure and Amazon's elastic cloud, reports The Register. Sources tell the site that both Microsoft and Amazon were instructed to remain mum on the iCloud deal. ...
Cloud control
Inquirer.net
Cloud computing became my savior when I got a new netbook and realized I was too cheap to shell out for an original copy of pricey word processing software. It made me discover Google Docs, Google's online office suite which lets you create documents ...
Microsoft: Our clouds are cheaper than VMware clouds
Register
But at the premium prices that VMware is charging for its infrastructure cloud software, the company might want to review the history of the Unix server market and not make the same mistake that open systems vendors made a decade ago by overcharging ...
Biz Break: No silver lining in economic cloud, iPhone 5 and TechCrunch stories ...
San Jose Mercury News
The negative report had economists scrambling for the right cloud-based metaphor. "There is no silver lining in this one," Steve Blitz, senior economist at ITG Investment Research, told AP. "It is difficult to walk away from these numbers without the ...
Syncplicity expands its cloud storage to the iPad
Computerworld
By Joel Mathis Macworld - The cloud-storage service Syncplicity has revamped its iOS app, expanding the previously iPhone-only offering into a iPad-friendly universal version that will let users access their documents from just about any device they ...
On Cloud Nine
Inquirer.net
Not just books and sundries, Amazon also lets you store stuff in their cloud by giving you 5 GB of storage free and additional space for an annual subscription. Any digital music purchased from it can also be stored here. ...
Red Cloud Promotions Selected For "100 Fastest-Growing Private Companies Based ...
MarketWatch (press release)
2, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Red Cloud Promotions of Los Angeles, CA has been honored with a recognition by Los Angeles Business Journal in its selection of "100 Fastest-Growing Private Companies Based In Los Angeles County. ...
Linode Reduces Transfer Pricing, Free Inbound Bandwidth for all Cloud Services
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Linode, a leading cloud hosting provider, announced that it will again lower pricing for its cloudservices. Specifically, all inbound data transfer to any Linode Cloud server or NodeBalancer will be 100% free of charge, for all customers located in ...
Cloud breakup: Why CloudSpokes chose Database.com over Azure
GigaOm
CloudSpokes, an Appirio-led community that hosts contests in which developers compete on projects for cloud companies with the goal of winning a monetary prize, recently re-architected the site from Microsoft Windows Azure to Database.com, ...
Doc looks at cloud computing
Vancouver Sun
Google World also touches on the dark side of Google's move into cloud computing, where our digital data no longer exists on our home computers, but in server farms. The advantage is that we can access it from anywhere. The danger is that it becomes ...
Salesforce Continues Its Push to the Cloud
Destination CRM
By Leonard Klie SAN FRANCISCO (DreamForce 2011) — Salesforce.com and its leader, chairman and CEO Marc Benioff, have both staked their reputations on cloud computing, so it comes as no surprise that Benioff is a big proponent of software-as-a-service. ...
Create Your Own Mobile Cloud With Pogoplug Mobile
TechnoBuffalo
Need mobile access to docs, but not willing to pay for a subscription or put your trust in free services like Google Docs, Amazon Cloud Drive, DropBox or the soon-to-arrive iCloud? Then Cloud Engine Inc. might have something for you — like your very ...
Agio CIO Miten Marvania Speaks at Acclaimed Cloud Computing Industry Event
MarketWatch (press release)
NEW YORK, Sep 02, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Agio Technology, a leading provider of managed IT services for the nation's premier hedge funds, today announced that CIO Miten J. Marvania, spoke at this year's Dreamforce '11 conference, the premiere cloud ...
Update on Predictive Analytics in the Cloud
Smart Data Collective
Our Predictive Analytics in the Cloud research is moving forward. We announced this multi-stage, multi-client project a week ago and are busy developing the survey (plan is to launch this mid-September) and the initial position paper. ...
Dreamforce review: Social media enters the business Cloud and why RIAs should care
RIABiz
The conference kicked off with master showman and CEO Mark Benioff reinforcing the benefits of the technology Cloud in his keynote remarks in front of 15000 attendees – plus another 35000 people watching online. Benioff's keynote speech revealed the ...
Survey Results: CMS Interfaces, Cloud Computing Services
Business Insider
Getting to the results of our survey about cloud services, it looks like a mixed bag among which services are being used, and how many of our readers have begun to adopt cloud computing in some fashion. These show us that cloud services, no matter the ...
Let's get real about the cloud
Search Storage
Cloud storage is really a pretty simple concept, so how the heck did it get so complicated? This week, a few of my fellow editors and I spent more time than reasonable people would expect trying to work out a definition for the term “cloud washing. ...
Salesforce.com Chief Financial Officer to Present at Citi Technology Conference
Sacramento Bee
With more than 100000 customers, salesforce.com is the enterprise cloud computing company that is leading the shift to the social enterprise. Social enterprises leverage social, mobile and open cloudtechnologies to put customers at the heart of their ...
NovaStor Managing Director, Mike Andrews to Participate in ExecEvent's “Data ...
PR.com (press release)
The “Data Protection for Cloud and Virtualized Environments” panel discussion will take place during the upcoming three-day Virtualization & Cloud event, September 14-16 at the Network Meeting Center in Santa Clara, Calif. The panel further rounds out ...
Three Customer Service Apps Duke It Out Over Salesforce
ReadWriteWeb
By Scott M. Fulton, III / September 2, 2011 2:56 PM / 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. ...
Concur agrees with Salesforce.com cloud strategy
PC Advisor
Built on Salesforce.com's cloud-based platform for developers, the employee-facing app will integrate into Salesforce customer relationship management (CRM) and Chatter to make it easier totrack expenses while on the road. Concur is an integrator of ...
Graphon Protected $7.1 Million in Equity Financing
USA Market News
GraphOn, a manufacturer of cloud submission deliverance solutions, this morning announced that it has secured $7.1 million in equity financing in a private placement to a group of investors, employing intellectual property investment bank MDB Capital ...
Talk of the Day - Greeting next 'golden decade' of semiconductors
Focus Taiwan News Channel
Another high-tech heavyweight, Barry Lam, chairman of Quanta Computer, named the next generation as the "C-generation," referring to cloud computing. The C-generation was born in the 1990s, in the time of electronic devices, and they are savvy on the ...
Cloud Realities at VMworld 2011 | SiliconANGLE
By Maria Deutscher
The Cloud Realities Spotlight at VMworld 2011 covered some of the biggest of the biggest disruptors the industry has been seeing lately, as well as the whole big data trend that's been going on in the past year or so. Manish Goel, EVP at ...
SiliconANGLE
Baidu Looks To Leapfrog Google With Cloud-Based Mobile OS ...
By Jordan Crook
Chinese search giant Baidu is reportedly developing a cloud-based smartphone platform in attempt to dip its toes into the mobile pool. Mobile internet users in China totaled 233 million in 2010, projected to reach 957 million by 2014. For some ...
TechCrunch
Verizon's Cloudswitch Acquisition Highlights Hybrid Cloud Reality ...
By Jenny Navadomskis
CloudSwitch provides a software appliance that facilitates workload portability between IaaS providers, a critical security factor to help IaaS customers prevent cloud-provider lock-in. CloudSwitch also enables workload movement from a ...
Nemertes Research - Independence,...
Improve Your Online Security With Cloud Scanning
When it comes to the issue of security, in previous decades most people were concerned with the security of their homes and how well protected they were from burglars, robbers and the like.
BriefingWire.com
Baidu sees possible acquisitions in mobile, cloud (Reuters ...
By Jeffrey Hawkins
Baidu sees possible acquisitions in mobile, cloud (Reuters) Reuters - China's top search engine Baidu Inc is on the lookout for potential acquisitions and investment opportunities in the mobile and cloud computing spaces, its chief financial ...
Hawkins Consulting
HP Blogs - Healthcare, Insurance, Cloud, Info Management: Ar ...
By HP_ES
By Alison Watterson, Enterprise Services WW Marketing Here is a summary of the Enterprise Services blog topics for this past week: Bringing Healthcare Systems Together via a Holistic Approach by Dan Klein There is a sea of cha.
Enterprise Services Blog articles
Dell OpenStack Cloud Solution | Dell
Get everything you need to build and manage a comprehensive opensource cloud ecosystem. The Dell OpenStack Cloud Solution, based on Dell PowerEdge C ...
content.dell.com/.../by-need-it-productivity-data-center-chang...
VMware: The Cloud Era with Cloud Computing and Virtualization
See how VMware virtualization is the enabling customers to transition to secure cloud computing. The next decade of IT will allow you to leverage existing ...
www.vmware.com/cloud-era/
Kundra Says Head to the Cloud for Cost Savings
Former US CIO Vivek Kundra argues that cost pressure will force governments to the cloud, and what's good for the government is probably good for you too.
blog.ness.com/.../Kundra-Says-Head-to-the-Cloud-for-Cost-Sa...

Using the Cloud to Enhance Resilience - Cloud Computing - News ...
Disaster can strike at any time, and opportunities can arise out of the blue, as well . Companies must have failover plans in place to minimize ...
www.eweek.com/c/a/.../Using-the-Cloud-to-Enhance-Resilienc...
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