Sunday, September 11, 2011

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Google, Microsoft Weather Cloud Computing Outages
eWeek
Google and Microsoft both watched their cloud computing systems choke this past week, with Google Docs going dark for an hour and Microsoft Hotmail, Office 365 and SkyDrive knocked offline for three hours. It was not a banner week for cloud computing. ...
Intel Invests in Gaikai Cloud Video Game Streaming Service.
X-bit Labs
The deals total over $24 million and include new investments in various providers ofcloud-based services, including Gaikai, a video game streaming service. The seven companies have developed innovative technologies related to key initiatives of ...
Asia Cloud Report Offers Benchmarks, No Surprises
SYS-CON Media (press release)
A new 14-nation survey within Asia, called the Cloud Readiness Index and published by the Hong Kong-based Asia Cloud Computing Association (Asia Cloud), shows the developed nations in the region topping the survey results and the less developed nations ...
Hotmail Down: Top 8 Reasons Why Cloud Computing Is Still in the Stone Age
International Business Times AU
s e-mail and cloud services worldwide were scratching their heads at the end of the week: Hotmail, Skydrive, Office 365, and others Windows Live service were inaccessible. Though service was restored in a couple of hours for most, the downtime was the ...
How a Google Drive Revival Would Help Your Work
PCWorld (blog)
Meanwhile, "store your files in the cloud" services like Box.net, Sugarsync, and Dropbox have gained in popularity, with Dropbox recently valued at $4 billion. People want their files online but aren't ready to work exclusively in the cloud as Google ...
HP CloudSystem: An integrated platform for private, public, and hybrid clouds
InformationWeek
Overview: Business users, IT professionals and service providers have different viewpoints on thecloud. Business users recognize the cloud's advantages in speeding innovation and reducing time to revenue, IT professionals agonize over security, ...
Google Music Works on Apple Devices
Mobiledia
By Kat Asharya | Fri Sep 09, 2011 3:10 pm Google Music, a media locker service, is now available for Apple iOS devices, as the Internet giant ramps up its cloud offering against rivals like Apple and Amazon. The Mountain View, Calif. ...
Future consoles won't have discs - THQ
GameSpot
By Brendan Sinclair, GameSpot THQ CEO Brian Farrell predicts wide-ranging benefits when hardware makers bypass physical media by moving everything into the cloud. THQ CEO Brian Farrell predicts wide-ranging benefits when hardware makers bypass physical ...
IDC: Embedded Systems Market to Double by 2015
PCWorld
Much of this growth will be propelled by more sophisticated, cloud-connected embedded systems, which will have faster chips, better connectivity and more advanced operating systems and analytical software, IDC predicted. IDC referred to these systems ...
HP Rolls Out New Printers, 3D Scanning, Better Cloud Printing
PCWorld
By Michelle Mastin, PCWorld On Thursday, HP announced 13 new printers and scanners, many of which target the small and midsize business market. This new range of printers and scanners emphasizes Web-connected printing and advanced scanning. ...
Internap not for sale, bets on data center growth: CEO
Reuters
Bankers and analysts had identified Internap as a potential target for bigger rivals amid a scramble to tap into strong demand for 'cloud computing' that allows remote access to computing power and data over the Internet. "I am not shopping the company ...
Mercury News interview: Jay Chaudhry, CEO of Zscaler, a cloud computing ...
San Jose Mercury News
The company provides security software for companies that use cloud services. (Photo by Patrick Tehan/Mercury News) Born in a hardscrabble town of about 800 in India's Himalayan foothills, Jay Chaudhry has found the United States to be exceedingly ...
All the agility and efficiency needed by today's virtual and cloud data centers
InformationWeek
Overview: Today's virtual and cloud data centers demand agility and efficiency. This white paper unveils HP 3PAR Utility Storage Technologies, the only storage platform available that delivers the performance, scalability, and availability required of ...
Google Wins Chance to Prove Cloud Security
Bloomberg
By Leah Nylen - Fri Sep 09 23:01:19 GMT 2011 A federal judge will order the US Interior Department to hire an independent expert who will examine the security of Google Inc.'s cloud computing e-mail products. In order issued today, Judge Susan Braden ...
IBM Earmarks $1 Billion For SMB Tech
InformationWeek
Big Blue will make loans through its channel partners to small and midsize businesses that acquire its analytics, cloud, and other technologies. By Kevin Casey InformationWeek IBM will lend as much as $1 billion to creditworthy small and midsize ...
HP Opens Cloud Services Beta Program
SDTimes.com (blog)
by JD Hildebrand 09/09/2011 02:17 PM EST Last March, Hewlett-Packard CEO Leo Apotheker took advantage of the company's annual analyst meeting to announce plans to launch a public cloud service. That service is one step closer to reality with today's ...
4PSA's Cloud Instance to Take Center Stage at ITEXPO
The Open Press (press release)
Orlando, FL (OPENPRESS) September 10, 2011 -- 4PSA, a technology leader in CloudCommunication Software will be presenting the latest enhancements to their VoipNow Unified Communications Platform at ITEXPO West 2011, held at the Austin Convention ...
Why Intel put $24M behind cloud, big data
GigaOm
9, 2011, 1:00pm PT No Comments Intel Capital announced $24 million in new investments yesterday, and cloud computing and big data companies were the big beneficiaries. These aren't the first such investments Intel has made in the space, ...
Developer 101 The latest mobile OS – Aliyun from AliCloud
GoMo News
Aliyun (besides the fact that it is homespun in China) has two distinctive features: – firstly, it is a cloud based offering and secondly it is able to run Android apps. Sadly, GoMo News has yet to discover exactly how it performs the latter feat. ...
Entrepreneur Corner: Motivating employees and leveraging the human cloud
VentureBeat
Leveraging the 'human cloud' for successful remote collaboration – Working remote is becoming more and more common for startups, but that can make communication more difficult. Andrew Filev, founder and CEO of Wrike, offers five ways to keep things ...
HIPAA vs The Cloud
Healthcare IT News
Now cloud computing has been added to the mix of service options. This adds some interesting HIPAA compliance challenges since absolute end-to-end control of the data is no longer assured. For the sake of this discussion, we are only concerned with the ...
Many businesses lining up cloud computing but not yet migrating, report claims
ComputerworldUK
By Antony Savvas | Computerworld UK | Published 00:01, 10 September 11 Over half of firms in a survey have said their top priority around cloud computing is "readiness", rather than full migration. IT infrastructure services firm Computacenter ...
Legal Watch
SecurityInfoWatch
I've spent increasingly more time in my practice this year dealing with the cloud for my most sophisticated clients. The cloud, as you no doubt are aware, is the Internet-based system of computing resources. Experts pretty much agree we're all moving ...
Exploring Opportunities in the Cloud: ITEXPO West Interview
TMC Net
To gain additional insight from market leaders, TMC CEO Rich Tehrani recently spoke with George A. Grabowich, managing director of Product Management, Cloud Computing Solutions for Broadview Networks (News - Alert) Inc. Grabowich noted that his market ...
Greytip Introduces Cloud Payroll & HR Solutions For UAE
AddPR.com (press release)
Greytip Software announced the launch of the cloud based Greytip Online HR & Payroll Software for UAE. Greytip Online is a SaaS (Software as a Service) HR and Payroll software specially designed for SME companies having 10 to 250 employees. ...
5 Steps To Managing Cloud Costs « High Tech in the Hub
By Joe Kinsella
When thinking about cloud costs, I am often reminded of Susie Orman telling a shocked caller that the daily $4 Stackbuck's latte he drinks is costing him over a thousand dollars a year. The cost ofcloud infrastructure, like a daily latte, has a way ...
High Tech in the Hub
Virtualization and Cloud Computing with Citrix – Intel ...
By Connected Social Media Syndication
Virtualization and Cloud Computing with Citrix - Intel - Conversations in the Cloud - Episode 24.
Connected Social Media
This Week in the Cloud: The 'All Cloud' Vision; Benioff Chimes in on ...
ITBusinessEdge's Mike Vizard recently wrote a telling piece on how the cloud's forcing IT departments to modernize. Vizard explains how a well-thought-out cloud implementation can save companies from a common IT management pitfall: the ...
Okta Blog
Loss Of Control And Transparency In The Cloud Era
By Krishnan Subramanian
One of the biggest worries organizations have about cloud computing is the unexpected outages and the impact of associated disruptions. In fact, some of the traditional vendors use this very issue to push FUD among their customers so that ...
CloudAve
Microsoft Office 365 Suffers Late-Night Cloud Service Outage ...
By Matthew Weinberger
The Microsoft Office 365 cloud productivity suite was hit with a widespread cloud service outage affecting users across the globe for as long as three hours.
TalkinCloud
Private Cloud Competition Intensifies | CloudTimes
By Czaroma Roman
OpenStack continues to grow, but over the past week, product updates and acquisitions from Citrix, Eucalyptus, Red Hat and VMware signify that the competition to become dominant private cloud provider and win over the enterprise also ...
CloudTimes
Microsoft Launches Dynamics AX 2012, Yet Another Cloud Step ...
Microsoft has offered up its Dynamics AX 2012 to business customers. The ERP ...
www.eweek.com/.../Microsoft-Launches-Dynamics-AX-2012-...
The role of a Cloud broker - CIO
Will Cloud brokers find legitimacy in enterprise computing?
www.cio.com.au/article/399699/role_cloud_broker/
Can any cloud catch Amazon Web Services? (part 2) | The Wisdom ...
How can competitors in the cloud-computing space challenge Amazon Web Services? And, are any of them ready to do so today? Read this blog post by James ...
news.cnet.com/.../can-any-cloud-catch-amazon-web-services-p...
Clearing Up the Cloud at NTEN's Nonprofit Cloud Computing Summit
I was lucky enough to attend NTEN's Nonprofit Cloud Computing Summit on Monday, August 29. The attendees I chatted with ranged from IT directors to ...
forums.techsoup.org/cs/.../b/.../clearing-up-the-cloud.aspx
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