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Is the cloud the ultimate disruptive innovation?
Fortune
Box.net CEO and co-founder Aaron Levie argues that cloud computing is unleashing a massive value shift across the enterprise IT ecosystem. By Aaron Levie, contributor FORTUNE -- Fans of Clayton Christensen's "Innovator's Dilemma" will be unsurprised ...
Private Clouds for SMBs Made Easy
TMC Net
By Erik Linask , Group Editorial Director Cloud computing and virtualization – two intimately related technology buzzwords. In fact, as Nelson Ruest noted this morning at Zenith Infotech's It's YourCloud seminar in Miami, you can't properly leverage ...
V3 Cloud Summit: Lingering security worries slow cloud uptake
V3.co.uk
by Shaun Nichols Business uptake of cloud computing services has been slowed by security worries, despite the best efforts of vendors and industry evangelists, according to new V3 research. The study found that 87 per cent of enterprises are concerned ...
NASA Cloud Architect Forms Company for Private Cloud
PCWorld
By Nancy Gohring, IDG News The lead architect of NASA's cloud platform, which spun off into the open-source OpenStack cloud operating system, is launching a new company and product aimed at helping enterprises more easily build private clouds. ...
Cumulo Ethernet: Building Ethernet cloud fabrics
Register
By Chris Mellor • Get more from this author Expert Clinic Scaling up Ethernet for the cloud means longer wires and many more of them, plus many more switches. What are the effects of linking all this gear together? Do new risks emerge? ...
Cloupia Offers Open Automation for Clouds
eWeek
Cloud automation and management software provider Cloupia announced Open Automation forClouds, allowing its customers and partners to extend, add or enhance data center management and operations automation in addition to its Cloupia Unified ...
V3 Cloud Summit: Cloud needs new metrics for assessing ROI
V3.co.uk
by Daniel Robinson Moving to the cloud is not the Holy Grail but for those considering such a move, greater IT agility and freeing up of resources to focus on innovation are benefits that should make the case for adoption, according to Bert Van Rij, ...
FilesAnywhere Implements Zendesk Cloud-Based Help Desk
Sacramento Bee
27, 2011 -- /PRNewswire/ -- FilesAnywhere, one of the world's leading providers of remote file storage, and Zendesk, the proven cloud-based help desk software provider, today announced the launch of the FilesAnywhere Support Center. ...
Leading Cloud-based Secure Document Sharing Company Launches Next Generation ...
MarketWatch (press release)
LOS GATOS, Calif., Sep 27, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- ShareVault, a leading provider of secure document sharing services, today announced it has launched the next generation of its secure, intuitive virtual data room cloud service giving customers ...
Keeping the clouds white with cloud computing
Intelligent Utility
The same may be said today of cloud computing, or SaaS (Software-as-a-Service), a versatile tool utilities can use to better manage environmental compliance. This fuzzy new world is slowly coming into focus at some electric utilities. ...
Virtacore Supports VMware vCloud(R) Services 'Gateway to the Enterprise Cloud'
MarketWatch (press release)
STERLING, VA, Sep 27, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Virtacore Systems, Inc., an industry leader in hybrid cloud services, today announced that it is one of four VMware partners to offer trial cloud services as part of the initial launch of ...
CampusIT, One of Europe's Largest Cloud Based Student Management Systems, to ...
MarketWatch (press release)
CampusIT  the education management systems provider, today announced the US launch of its cloud-based student interaction management product, CampusIT Interact. CampusIT is also announcing that it is to be showcased by Oracle at ...
Toshiba cloud-based Canvio 3.0 portable HDD surfaces
SlashGear
Today Toshiba has announced a new version of that HDD that is also packing a USB 3.0 connection and is a cloud-based storage device. The storage device comes in 500GB, 750GB, and 1TB capacities. All versions are pre-loaded with the software needed to ...
Nefsis Web-Based Video Conferencing Cloud Eliminates the Cost and Complexity ...
Sacramento Bee
Today, all that is required is a plug-and-play webcam or HD peripheral and an all-in-one, software-as-a-service subscription to cloud-based Nefsis. The scope of business video conferencing applications has grown to include multipurpose conference rooms ...
Piston Cloud Launches pentOS, An Enterprise OpenStack ...
By Sarah Perez
Piston Cloud Computing, Inc. is today emerging from stealth and introducing its new enterprise-readycloud operating system for private clouds called pentOS. The new OS is built on OpenStack, the open source IaaS cloud computing project ...
TechCrunch
Birst: When the Cloud Isn't Always in the Cloud - Arik Hesseldahl ...
By Arik Hesseldahl
Birst, a business intelligence start-up, offers software that runs the same on premise as it does in thecloud, but for a very good reason.
AllThingsD
Sensible Cloud Introduces Industry's First Comprehensive Cloud ...
Sensible Cloud, the industry's first cloud control company, today introduced sense™, a new solution that makes cloud computing easier, more cost-effective and transparent, ensuring that organizations have tighter governance over cloud ...
Enterprise Communications and...
Safeguarding data in the public cloud | Simply Security
By Noah Gamer
As business executives around the world begin to realize the vast potential of cloud computing, IT managers will have to move quickly to ensure data remains.
Simply Security
Security Provider StillSecure Launches Cloud Security Monitoring ...
Security Provider StillSecure Launches Cloud Security Monitoring Service | The Web Host Industry Review - Web Hosting News.
theWHIR.com - Daily Web Hosting News
5 Challenges in the Journey to the Cloud | CloudTweaks.com ...
By Rick
5 Challenges in the Journey to the Cloud On my blog, I have already said that Cloud Computing is a Safe Bet for the Future, defining and showing us the shape.
CloudTweaks.com - Cloud Computing...
Piston Cloud Brings First OpenStack Solution: Ready for Prime Time ...
By Kristen Nicole
McKenty is a former RackSpacer, and was also the technical lead and cloud architect of NASA's Nebula Cloud Computing Platform, upon which the OpenStack project was built. Along with other Rackspace alum including Christopher ...
SiliconANGLE
Cloud Computing: Will it Lead to a Greener Building? | Green ...
By sgudeman
Cloud computing, aka remotely hosted, large scale data centers serving many clients, are more efficient and allow for more efficient technology usage, resource-planning and less waste.
Green-Buildings.com
G-Cloud Project Isn't Dead: It's 'Alive and Kicking' | CloudTimes
By Martin Tantow
The G-Cloud project, the government's own cloud computing project, is already alive and kicking, after being put on hold.
CloudTimes
What is the Cloud? Part III | Welcome to GlobalLogic Blogs
By Jim Walsh
What is the Cloud? Part III Is a virtualized data center a cloud? About the author: Dr. Jim Walsh, CTO of GlobalLogic, leads GlobalLogic's cloud.
Welcome to GlobalLogic Blogs
Cloud Law: Data Ownership in the Cloud - EarthLink Cloud
By Chris Chase
Companies considering a transition to cloud hosting will often have questions about more than pricing and the process of switching over…they'll want to know what happens to their data once it's housed on a cloud providers servers. ...
- EarthLink Cloud
Rapid Cloud Foundry Deployments with Maven | SpringSource ...
Apache Maven is a very popular choice in the Java community for building and deploying applications. The Cloud Foundry team has released the Cloud ...
blog.springsource.com/.../rapid-cloud-foundry-deployments-...
Cloud Computing Tips for Small Business - www ...
Cloud computing can offer your small business big benefits – as long as you've done your homework. Here's what you need to know to get your small business ...
www.smallbusinesscomputing.com/..._/Cloud-Computing-Tips...
HP Channel Partners Open New Cloud Centers of Excellence
HP today announced that 19 HP Cloud Centers of Excellence have been established in 2011 at partner facilities throughout the United States, providing ...
www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2011/110920c.html
Piston launches OpenStack cloud OS for private clouds
ZDNet (blog)
By Paula Rooney | September 27, 2011, 11:15am PDT Summary: Piston Cloud Computing came out of stealth mode today, launching an OpenStack-based cloud OS that allows enterprises to build private clouds that meet security and compliance requirements. ...
Cloud Application Deployment: 10 Deadly Sins to Avoid
eWeek
By Chris Preimesberger on 2011-09-27 From storage to management controls, hypervisors, security, disaster recovery and governance, IT managers have a laundry list of checkpoints to pass to successfully get a cloud system up and running. ...
Happy Cloud teams up with AMD for connected TV games
VentureBeat
Cloud-gaming firm Happy Cloud plans to work with Advanced Micro Devices to bring games-on-demand to connected TVs. Under the partnership, Happy Cloud will give users access to Windows-based PC games via web-connected TVs that use AMD's embedded ...
Telx and Hexagrid Align to Deliver Private Hosted Cloud Solutions
MarketWatch (press release)
NEW YORK, NY, Sep 27, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Telx(R), a leading interconnection and data center provider in nine strategic North American markets, today announced a strategic alliance with Hexagrid Computing, a leading developer of cloud ...
Nimbula release builds out cloud ecosystem
Cloud Pro
Cloud operating system (OS) company Nimbula has announced the immediate availability of Nimbula Director 1.5, an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform for managing compute and storage resources. The company has also announced new vendor ...
Autodesk Cloud Enables Access to Design Capability from Anywhere, at Anytime
MarketWatch (press release)
In addition, Autodesk Subscription customers will now have exclusive access to cloud-based, high-performance rendering and design optimization, and enhanced collaboration capabilities. Autodesk Subscription now provides 3 GB of online storage for each ...
Google Seeks To Drop Cloud Case Against Feds
InformationWeek
Google filed suit last year claiming that the cloud computing contract was written to benefit Microsoft. Now it seems to be changing its mind. By J. Nicholas Hoover InformationWeek Google has filed a motion to dismiss its case against the federal ...
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