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Homeland Security To Move Websites To Cloud
InformationWeek
DHS is first agency to use GSA's infrastructure-as-a-service blanket purchase agreement as it awards $5 million contract to move all public websites to the cloud. By Elizabeth Montalbano InformationWeek The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has ...
Piston Announces Enterprise Cloud OS
NetworkComputing.com
Piston Cloud Computing, Inc. is throwing its hat into the OpenStack-based open-source cloud arena with the release of pentOS (Piston Enterprise OSTM), 'an easy, secure and open cloud operating system for managing enterprise private cloud environments. ...
Oracle needs some cloud computing mojo
GigaOm
29, 2011, 9:20am PT  Oracle's cloud computing stance has, um, evolved, to say the least, over the past few years. As the company preps for its annual Oracle OpenWorld mega-show in San Francisco next week, a question lingers: Is Oracle ...
Interior Department: Back To The Drawing Board For Cloud
CRN
By Andrew R Hickey, CRN The US Department of the Interior will again seek a vendor to handle itscloud computing e-mail and collaboration system, citing dramatic changes in the cloud landscape since it had originally selected Microsoft as its go-to ...
Heroku floats heavenly Python into platform cloud
Register
By Timothy Prickett Morgan • Get more from this author The polyglotting of platform cloudscontinues apace, with the Heroku platform-as-a-service cloud, owned by Salesforce.com, announcing support for PHP, and with PaaS competitor Engine Yard adding ...
Cloud computing 'could revolutionise the working day'
Experian QAS Data Quality News (UK)
The continual growth of cloud computing is likely - in time - to cause a variety of changes to the normal working day for a number of companies and individuals alike. That is according to the Editor of Cloud Pro Maxwell Cooter, who believes cloud ...
Sensible Cloud Intros Cloud Control
Cloud IT Pro
Cloud control platform developer Sensible Cloud has entered the cloud management sector with a company launch and the introduction of its sense platform that's designed to give enterprises enhanced control over cloud environments. ...
Amazon's 'cloud' browser raises privacy concerns
CNN International
"All of your web surfing habits will transit Amazon's cloud," he writes on Sophos' Naked Security blog. "If you think that Google AdWords and Facebook are watching you, this service is guaranteed to have a record of everything you do on the Web. ...
Terremark and URS Achieve DIACAP Certification for Cloud Solution
MarketWatch (press release)
MIAMI, Sep 29, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Terremark, a Verizon Company, and its delivery partner, URS Corporation's information technology business URS-Apptis, today announced that The Enterprise Cloud: Federal Edition is one of the first ...
StillSecure, SoftLayer Offer Cloud Security Monitoring Service
eWeek
SoftLayer customers can download Cloud SMS for free through the SoftLayer Technology Partner Marketplace portal. StillSecure, a managed network security solutions and certified compliance company, announced the availability of a cloud security solution ...
UBM TechWeb Launches 2012 Cloud Connect Events in Chicago & Bangalore ...
NEWS.GNOM.ES
ES/ — UBM TechWeb today announced the expansion of the Cloud Connect event series to Chicago and Bangalore, India. Cloud Connect, the premier technology event for defining the cloudcomputing industry, will expand to two new locations in order to ...
Cloud Standards Customer Council to Hold Webinar to Introduce the "Practical ...
PR Newswire (press release)
29, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- -- The Cloud Standards Customer Council (CSCC) will be holding a webinar to introduce the completed "Practical Guide to Cloud Computing" on Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at 11:00 am EDT. The Guide itself will be published and ...
JRuby: Now Available on Engine Yard Cloud
eWeek
Engine Yard has delivered JRuby on its cloud platform to enable Java developers programming in Ruby to innovate faster and scale their apps. Engine Yard has announced the general availability of JRuby on the Engine Yard Cloud...
Cloud-Powered Facial Recognition Is Terrifying
The Atlantic
Unlike Groucho Marx, unfortunately, the cloud never forgets. That's the logic behind a new application developed by Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute and Google that's designed to take a photograph of a total stranger and, ...
Rackspace CEO Sees 'Cloud' Revolution For Decade
Investor's Business Daily
By VANCE CARIAGA, INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY Posted 04:33 PM ET The rise of cloudcomputing also has elevated Rackspace Hosting (RAX), which bills itself as "the largest pure-playcloud company." The San Antonio-based company runs computer and data ...
TMNG Global Defines Operational Roadmap for Successful Migration to the Cloud
MarketWatch (press release)
The paper defines the need for a disciplined approach to Cloud migration which includes an operational roadmap, a framework of requirements and best practices, and a solid financial model. According to TMNG Global, many IT projects fail because of ...
Cloud-Mobile Mega Trends Point To Need For Rapid, Radical Applications ...
istockAnalyst.com (press release)
In many ways, the mobile device explosion and the cloud computing ramp-up reinforce and support each other. Cloud services make mobile devices -- like smartphone and tablets -- more productive, while making users better connected to enterprise ...
Should I Move to the Cloud or Save the Monthly Fee?
Reuters
By Cynthia Hsu at FindLaw.com The cloud is the "it" thing for business lately. You hear and read about it constantly. Are you thinking about moving your business data to the cloud? Is the cloudright for your small business? You may be using cloud ...
Supercomputing center targets big, fast storage cloud at academics, industry
Ars Technica
By Jon Brodkin | Published September 29, 2011 9:40 AM A storage cloud with 10 Gigabit Ethernet speed and scalability to hundreds of petabytes has been launched to provide virtually unlimited storage capacity to supercomputing customers. ...
3CLogic Announces Extension of Cloud Switch Program
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Seamless and easy migration to 3CLogic's Cloud Based Contact Center Service has been extended from September to December. 3CLogic, the leader in cloud based contact centers, announced today that they will be extending their Cloud Switch program until ...
Host Analytics and Proformative Join Forces on Finance in the Cloud
MarketWatch (press release)
As cloud technologies have improved business processes higher up the company ladder, the next natural frontier is finance. Cloud technology is tailor-made for dynamic data and can close the information gap found in most organizations for automatically ...
NTT Com to Expand Cloud-based Enterprise Network Service Globally
Sacramento Bee
29, 2011 -- /PRNewswire/ -- NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com) announced on September 29 that Arcstar (TM) Universal One, which enables enterprises to rapidly deploy cloud-based networks on a reliable, scalable basis, will soon expand from Japan ...
Box Ups Ante To Challenge SharePoint
InformationWeek
Happily tweaking Microsoft like Scott McNealy used to do in his prime, Box CEO Aaron Levie announced a round of upgrades to his firm's cloud content management system that he said is designed to make SharePoint even more irrelevant. ...
Like Salesforce, Microsoft Makes CRM More Social
Forbes
Salesforce.com currently has around 15% market share in the overall CRM market, but it is the leader in cloud based CRM. As the shift to cloud-based on-demand CRM systems becomes more prominent, it is expected to gain additional market share. ...
Piston Cloud Key Fits The Could On a USB Drive | Geekosystem
By Eric Limer
With a name like the Cloud, you sort of expect it to be something amorphous, nebulous, and hard to picture, much less something you can get your hands on, but thanks to ex-NASA engineer Joshua McKenty of Piston Cloud Computing, the ...
Geekosystem
Oracle needs some cloud computing mojo — Tech News and Analysis
By Barb Darrow
Oracle's cloud computing stance has evolved, to say the least, over the past few years. As the company preps for its annual Oracle OpenWorld mega-show in San Francisco next week, a huge question lingers: Does Oracle--and its CEO Larry ...
GigaOM
TIA Takes Cloud Computing by Storm
Under the federal government's "Cloud First" plan, which sets a goal of devoting 25% of all federal IT spend on Cloud Computing initiatives, one question that demands immediate attention is: Will the ICT industry be able to keep up with the ...
TIA Press Releases
A Storage Cloud for Supercomputers » Data Center Knowledge
By John Rath
The SDSC Cloud leverages the infrastructure designed for a high-performance parallel file system by using two Arista Networks 7508 switches, providing 768 total 10 gigabit (Gb) Ethernet ports for more than 10Tbit/s of non-blocking, IP-based ...
Data Center Knowledge
Scripting News: What comes after the cloud?
You know I think the cloud is great. I've been preaching the advantages of everyone having their own outpost on the web forever. The dream goes back, for me, to the early 80s. I wanted Compuserve to host my apps. They said I was crazy. # ...
Scripting News
Virgin Media launches Cloud service for businesses ... eventually ...
By Anh Nguyen
'Last to the game, but best dressed,' network company claims.
CIO - News RSS feed
The Benefits of Cloud Computing for SMB [INFOGRAPHIC]
By Travis Balinas
As companies ebb and flow with today's IT trends, the topic of Cloud Computing continues to be a hot topic – and with good reason too. Adoption of Cloud is on the rise according to our VMworld survey showing more than 75% of attendees ...
The Cloud Management Blog
Peter J. Leithart » Blog Archive » Cloud of doves
By Peter J. Leithart
Isaiah's vision of the procession of nations to Jerusalem includes this beautiful image: “Who are these who fly like a cloud, and like the doves to their windows” (Isaiah 60:8). A cloud – Yahweh's glory, which is the nations. A cloud coming to a ...
Peter J. Leithart
An Open Interoperable Cloud | Cloud Computing Software ...
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This article describes how through leveraging mature open standards, you can create open and interoperable clouds. It demonstrates the use of the major.
Cloud Computing Software Development
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