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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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