Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Cloud Computing May be a Shot in the Arm our Economy Needs

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Cloud Computing May be a Shot in the Arm our Economy Needs
Forbes
at business IT, cloud and SOA industry events and Webcasts. In recent years, I had the opportunity to keynote the International SOA and Cloud Symposium in Amsterdam, and SOA Congress in Germany. I am also one of 17 co-authors of the SOA Manifesto, ...
Cloud insurance sees hazy future
ZDNet Asia
By Kevin Kwang , ZDNet Asia on September 19, 2011 (9 hours ago) Most cloud services already covered by ample service level agreements and insurance premium unlikely to be competitive for complex implementations involving multiple vendors, says analyst. ...
Integra Telecom Introduces Cloud Security Services
eWeek
The company is incorporating the Cloud Firewall Service as a core infrastructure component throughout its fiber network. Integra Telecom, a provider of fiber-based, business-grade networking, communications and cloud solutions, introduced a cloud ...
ClearCube Technology Acquires Cloud Computing Provider Network Elites ...
Sacramento Bee
19, 2011 -- /PRNewswire/ -- ClearCube Technology, the leader in virtual desktop products for cloudcomputing, including rack-mounted workstations, blade PCs and zero clients, today announced that it has acquired privately-held Network Elites, a cloud ...
Appcelerator Opens Mobile Developer Market
InformationWeek
The Titanium app development platform gets an online store for buying code, files, and cloud services. By Thomas Claburn InformationWeek Mobile cloud development platform provider Appcelerator on Monday introduced its Open Mobile Marketplace, ...
Cloud Computing Tips for Small Business
Small Business Computing
By Jill Billhorn , September 19, 2011 Cloud computing technology offers both time- and money-saving benefits, which makes it a great fit for small business. As cloud computing benefits become more tangible, more small businesses are moving to the cloud ...
Who Will Win the Cloud War? Apple vs. Google vs. Microsoft
TechNewsDaily
By Dan Howley, LAPTOP Staff Writer The cloud and its promises of web-based software, near limitless storage, and streaming media services, has long been predicted as the next arena for the tech industry's heavyweights to do battle. ...
Cloud E-Mail Showdown: Gartner Says Google Gmail Ready To Rival Microsoft Exchange
CRN
By Andrew R Hickey, CRN Google Gmail is now a viable alternative to Microsoft Exchange online and other cloud e-mail offerings, and has claimed roughly half of the enterprise cloud e-mail market, according to a recent Gartner report. ...
World's Leading Companies Using Glowpoint's Cloud Managed Video Services
Sacramento Bee
19, 2011 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Glowpoint, Inc. (OTCBB: GLOW), a leading global provider of cloudmanaged video services, today announced that the company signed over 30 new cloud managed video service customers in the first half of 2011. ...
Joyent and MiTAC Announce MiCloud, Taiwan's First Public Cloud for End Users ...
MarketWatch (press release)
(MiTAC), a worldwide systems integrator, today launched MiCloud, Taiwan's first true public cloudservice and a cloud solution bundle for enterprises and service providers. MiCloud is a fully integrated hardware and software solution consisting of ...
Cloud Computing Transforming Contact Center Industry
MarketWatch (press release)
The event, which was attended by more than 300 customers, industry experts and partners, explored the powerful opportunities that cloud computing creates for contact centers, and inContact's /quotes/zigman/112982/quotes/nls/saas SAAS -4.80% ongoing ...
How Cloud Computing Is Changing Data Center Design, Cost
Computerworld
By Bernard Golden CIO - If you've read this blog for a while, it's no secret that I believe that one aspect of cloud computing is a dramatic drop in the cost of computing. While many discuss cloudcomputing's cost advantage in terms of better ...
Open Virtualization Alliance Membership Grows Significantly With Cloud ...
MarketWatch (press release)
KVM provides unique advantages for companies looking for an open alternative for building cloud deployments and in emerging markets where cost and freedom from vendor lock-in are key criteria in selecting a virtualization solution. ...
CSC Unveils Cloud-Based and Software as a Service Options for Billing Across ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The Java version is now available as software as a service (SaaS) and accelerates agile implementation in client data centers on a physical or virtualized stack, or on a private cloud. With consumption-based pricing, carriers of all sizes offering ...
Cloud Plays Disruptive Role in Financial Services
InformationWeek
As some Wall Street firms prepare to license NYSE trading systems in the cloud to outsiders for short use periods, a privileged club opens. By Charles Babcock InformationWeek Financial services are about to be permanently changed by cloud computing. ...
Freed-Hardeman University Selects Desktone for Cloud-Hosted Virtual Desktops
MarketWatch (press release)
The Desktone Cloud is the only solution that enables us to get all the benefits of VDI without the costs and complexity of an internal deployment--and with a TCO that is very easy to justify," said Greg Maples, Director of Network Operations, FHU, ...
Aplicor Enters Into the Rackspace Partner Program
MarketWatch (press release)
"Our partnership with Rackspace, which is specialized in accelerating the transformation of innovative hosting and cloud computing solutions, is part of our own transformational efforts to move SaaS to a new level...that of a true Cloud-based Business ...
AppNeta Upgrades PathView Cloud with Enhanced Performance Assessment Capabilities
TMC Net
By Rajani Baburajan AppNeta, a provider of instant-value network performance management, announced enhancements to PathView Cloud with the addition of network and application assessment features. The enhanced PathView Cloud capabilities give network ...
Intermedia Launches Secure Microsoft Lync Service in the Cloud
MarketWatch (press release)
NEW YORK, NY, Sep 19, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Intermedia, a global leader in cloud services and the largest Microsoft Exchange hosting provider, today announced it launched Microsoft Lync -- the latest instant messaging and conferencing service ...
Web Host Latisys Uses F5 Hardware to Enhance Cloud Services
Web Host Industry Review
Latisys provides a range of services, including colocation, managed hosting, and cloudservices, from its secure Tier III data centers across the United States. The company is enhancing its enterprise-grade managed services offering, which provides ...
US Dataworks Revolutionizes In-Store Payments With PayItFast(TM)
MarketWatch (press release)
The cloud-based delivery model of Clearingworks combined with the PayItFast App ensures a consistent customer experience, regardless of where or how customers choose to pay their bills. Just like other Clearingworks product offerings, PayItFast is ...
SIM Partners Selects the Votacall Hosted VoIP Platform to Deliver an Advanced ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The organization required a Cloud Communications Provider with the tools and expertise to manage all aspects of communications while keeping SIM Partners ahead of the technological curve. The Votacall VBX platform includes end-user and solution support ...
Sibos 2011: Volante Debuts SWIFT Messaging Translations Service
MarketWatch (press release)
19, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Volante Technologies announced today that automated bi-directional translations between SWIFT MT (FIN) and MX (ISO 20022) formats are now offered by Volante in a cloud-based service. The announcement was made at the ...
Proposed: German cloud fortress for security-conscious shops
GigaOm
Last week, a Deutsche Telekom exec publicly pushed for a German cloud that would be safe from US snooping. His revelation came just weeks after the US Department of Justice sandbagged the proposed sale of Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile USA unit to AT&T. ...
Avanquest Software Launches Comprehensive Cloud-Based Smartphone and Tablet ...
MarketWatch (press release)
"Avanquest's Smartphone Services Suite and Tablet Suite are the answer for carriers, ISPs, device makers, insurance providers, retailers and others seeking a cloud-based security solution for their customers that offers maximum flexibility and ...
Full 360 Deploys Opscode for Next Generation Business Intelligence Solutions
MarketWatch (press release)
19, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Opscode, Inc., the leader in cloud infrastructure automation, today announced that Full 360 has successfully implemented Opscode Hosted Chef to manage hosting BI environments for their customers. ...
MediaTile to Host Webinar With Health Care Provider on the Advantages of Using ...
MarketWatch (press release)
SCOTTS VALLEY, CA, Sep 19, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- MediaTile, the leader in 3G and 4G cloud-based digital signage solutions, today announced that it will be hosting a webinar on September 21, 2011, with a member hospital of Catholic Health Care ...
Facebook Wants to Leap Frog Apple in Cloud-Based Music
The Atlantic Wire
Google and Amazon are similarly struggling to create cloud-based products that strike the right balance between paid and free. In a pretty interesting way, Facebook is choosing not to stand eye-to-eye with these competitors, but rather to supply the ...
ADT Commercial Launches Hosted Video Solution
Sacramento Bee
By ADT Commercial ADT Commercial, an industry leader in cloud-based physical security, debuts its Hosted Video solution at ASIS 2011 in Orlando. This new service provides customers with a hosted video recording and management system centrally managed ...
Building clouds for fun and profit | Ubuntu Cloud Portal
By Mark Shuttleworth
So you'd like to spin up an internal cloud for hadoop or general development, shifting workloads from AWS to your own infrastructure or prototyping some new cloud services? Call Canonical's cloudinfrastructure design and consulting team. ...
Ubuntu Cloud Portal
Cloud. And cloud, cloud, cloud. - Forrester Blogs
By Richard Fichera
I just attended IDF and I've got to say, Intel has certainly gotten the cloud message. Almost everything as centered on clouds, from the high-concept keynotes to the presentations on low level infrastructure, although if you dug hard enough ...
IT Infrastructure
SLAs Throttle Cloud Adoption
By Pam Baker
The cloud is hiccuping its way forward for lack of buy-in by vendors. You wouldn't necessarily know that from the pat and parceled messaging that places blame for ...
ReadWriteWeb
The Cloud Channel Summit: Examining the Evolving Role of the ...
By Katie Carlson
SIIA is pleased to support the Cloud Channel Summit, which brings together industry leaders to examine the emerging channel opportunities in the Cloud Computing market. Taking place Monday, November 7th at the Computer History ...
SIIA Digital Discourse
SAP on the Cloud » Unified Success: “The Real Cloud”
By Carolyn Brock
Cloud computing has done one very significant thing with the relationship between the provider and its customers. Their goals have become aligned. Cloud providers do not have any meaningful revenue unless their relationship with their ...
SAP on the Cloud
Driving Best Practices in Cloud Security – Hubspan
By Jim Reavis
Cloud Security Alliance has worked to encourage responsible adoption of cloud computing by leveraging our catalog of security best practices.
Hubspan
Attributes of cloud computing (Cloud Migrations)
What really defines a cloud as opposed to running a consolidated system in a private or public accessible network environment are these four characteristics: 1. ...
blogs.oracle.com/.../entry/attributes_of_cloud_computing
Two New Publications Provide a Cloud Computing Standards ...
Two New Publications Provide a Cloud Computing Standards Roadmap and Reference Architecture.
www.nist.gov/itl/csd/cloud-091311.cfm
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