Thursday, October 27, 2011

Amazon Q3 Cloud Revenue Skyrockets

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Amazon Q3 Cloud Revenue Skyrockets
CRN
By Andrew R Hickey, CRN Amazon keeps the exact details of its Amazon Web Services revenue under lock and key, but in its third quarter earnings call this week Amazon gave a smidge of insight into how dramatically its cloud computing business is growing ...
New Citrix CloudPortal Turns Clouds into Profitable Businesses
MarketWatch (press release)
The company also previewed the next upcoming release of its flagship Citrix CloudStack(TM) platform, acquired earlier this year through the acquisition of Cloud.com. To date, more than 2000cloud providers around the world have chosen Citrix as a key ...
Cloud VARs Relishing Role In Defogging Cloud For Customers
CRN
By Kevin McLaughlin, CRN Cloud computing is firmly ensconced in the IT industry vernacular, but vendors have widely differing definitions of what cloud actually means. Clarifying cloud is an opportunity both for traditional VARs making the shift to ...
BlackBerry, Microsoft Cloud Play Goes To Open Beta
CRN
By Andrew R Hickey, CRN BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion's (RIM) and Microsoft's cloudcollaboration, which offers a RIM-hosted cloud-based service that extends Microsoft Exchange Online to BlackBerry smartphones, has been launched into open beta, ...
What Your Cloud Consultant Is Trying To Tell You
PCWorld
By David Taber, CIO Cloud consultants aren't that much different from the consulting and contracting firms that IT has used over the years. But the economics of cloud consulting are a whole bunch different from what the Big 5 firms were doing with SAP ...
MobileIron Connected Cloud™ Goes Global
Sacramento Bee
The pace of innovation and change in enterprise mobility is accelerating and the MobileIron Connected Cloud gives global companies the ability to move fast. The MobileIron Connected Cloud can be fully integrated and operational in less than an hour. ...
Carousel Industries to Participate in Government Cloud Readiness Panel Hosted ...
Sacramento Bee
By Carousel Industries ATLANTA, Oct. 26, 2011 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Carousel Industries, a leader in data networking and converged communications, announced it will be participating in a panel on "cloud readiness" at the upcoming Technology Association of ...
Citrix Barcelona Blitz Includes VDI, Cloud And Acquisition News
NetworkComputing.com
Taking place this week in Barcelona, Spain, Citrix Synergy2011, billed as the conference where cloud computing, networking and virtualization meet, is the epicenter of a barrage of cloud computing, networking and virtualization-related announcements, ...
Oracle Pursues Cloud-Based Platforms and Services
Redmond Developer News
The company announced plans to add RightNow Technologies to its cloud services portfolio, pending approval of the $1.5 billion acquisition. By Jeffrey Schwartz At its OpenWorld conference in San Francisco earlier this month, Oracle signaled it plans to ...
Searchlight to Ramp Up Operations Plans as Growth of Cloud Computing ...
MarketWatch (press release)
An article from the Wall Street Journal cited a report by Forrester Research that "The global market for "cloud computing" is going to increase from about $41 billion in 2011 to $241 billion in 2020." -- It's clear that cloud computing is one of the ...
The IT Jobs Cloud Computing Will Create
Computerworld
By Bernard Golden CIO - I was interested in this week's ZDNet piece, Cloud computing's real creative destruction may be the IT workforce. The piece discusses a presentation at last week's Gartner Symposium that posited cloud computing will be a net ...
CIA: Cloud Solving Our Petascale Data Problem
InformationWeek
Central Intelligence Agency CIO Gus Hunt says cloud computing will save money, produce better intelligence gathering and analysis, and even improve information security at the agency. By J. Nicholas Hoover InformationWeek "Cloud computing has emerged ...
Wyse Cloud Client Computing Solutions to Support Citrix's Latest Desktop ...
MarketWatch (press release)
BARCELONA, SPAIN and SAN JOSE, CA, Oct 26, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Today at Citrix Synergy Barcelona, Wyse Technology, the global leader in cloud client computing, announced the addition of new HDX features in its popular thin and zero client ...
Telephony in the English cloud: Twilio launches in the UK
eu.techcrunch
by Vanessa Zainzinger Telecommunications has moved to the cloud, inevitably. We have a tele-cloud in East London now, where Twilio has opened its first office outside the US today. The reason I'm excited about this is that telephony infrastructure in ...
Cloud Hoster AppFog Adds Java Support
ADT Magazine
By John K. Waters Cloud-based hosting service AppFog has added Java to the growing list of languages it supports, the company announced this week. The Portland, Ore.-based startup, which initially billed itself as a PHP-based Platform-as-a-Service ...
Axcient Unveils Cloud Continuity Solution to Bring Ultimate Peace of Mind to SMBs
PR Newswire (press release)
With Cloud Continuity, SMBs now have total business continuity for the first time. When local servers fail, users can easily run a virtual office on Axcient's cloud platform enabling employees to continue working on their data and applications, ...
Dell's Boomi Lets Apps Talk Via Cloud Hub
InformationWeek
Boomi is one of a handful of online integration services--IBM's Cast Iron is another--that have bypassed the painful, point-to-point connection building formerly done inside the enterprise and substituted a hub in the cloud instead. ...
3CLogic to Double Efficiency of Contact Centers with the Addition of Blended ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
3CLogic removes barriers for call centers to move to a cloud based service with multi-channel interactions including email, text, voice, and chat. Call blending in the cloud can increase new revenues for businesses by as much as 40% 3CLogic, ...
Citrix Cloud, Virtualization Shopping Spree Continues With App-DNA
CRN
By Andrew R Hickey, CRN Citrix continued to bulk up its cloud computing and virtualization presence with the planned acquisition of application migration and management player App-DNA, Citrix revealed Wednesday at its Citrix Synergy conference in ...
Univa Adds Distributed Automation to Xuropa Software Sales Cloud
MarketWatch (press release)
LISLE, Ill., Oct 26, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Univa, the data center automation company, today announced that Xuropa, the pioneering cloud demo platform for software vendors, will integrate Univa's workload orchestration technology into their Software ...
Cloud Wins Against the Big 4 Management Vendors Drive Record Quarter for Zenoss
MarketWatch (press release)
AUSTIN, TX, Oct 26, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Zenoss, a leading provider of management software for physical, virtual, and cloud-based IT infrastructures, today announced that the company achieved record sales in Q3 of 2011, with expansions ...
Saba Partners with Workday to Bring Cloud Learning and Human Capital ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Saba's leading learning management solutions, delivered via the Saba People Cloud, will be tightly integrated with Workday HCM. The two organizations' complementary solutions will provide customers a broad portfolio of human capital management and ...
MostHost Offers Business Cloud Hosting In San Jose
WebWire (press release)
San Jose, California business cloud hosting is now being offered by MostHost. Experience fastcloud hosting and the easiest business website builder available on the MostHost Cloud. MostHost Inc announced today it has added business cloud hosting in ...
Security: Seeing Through the Cloud
TMC Net
By TMCnet Special Guest When broaching the subject of cloud computing with enterprise decision makers, a “We're not ready to make that jump” response is nearly always followed by a vague allusion to security concerns. The first thing to understand, ...
Final version of NIST cloud computing definition published
EurekAlert (press release)
After years in the works and 15 drafts, the National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) working definition of cloud computing, the 16th and final definition has been published as The NIST Definition of Cloud Computing (NIST Special ...
Virtustream Appoints Karl Deacon as Managing Director in EMEA to Capitalize on ...
MarketWatch (press release)
At Capgemini, Deacon was at the forefront of new and expanding services, inclusive of its cloudservices and orchestration platform, and a cloud advisory service that he built into a profitable group of more than 35 senior management consultants in its ...
CEO Power Panel at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley | Cloud Computing ...
This fast-moving discussion panel at the 9th International Cloud Expo, moderated by Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan, will give Cloud Expo attendees the chance to hear some of cloud computing's finest practitioners and thought leaders, and ...
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12 Real Cases of Revolutionary Cloud Adoption – CloudBeat 2011 ...
By Eliane Fiolet
CloudBeat 2011 — taking place November 30 – December 1 in Redwood City, CA — will be different from existing [...]
Ubergizmo
Cloud security concerns persist | Simply Security
By Simply Security
It seems as though companies can't look past their long-held notions of a lack of security in thecloud.
Simply Security
Atlassian brings JIRA and other major development tools to the cloud
By Sean Ludwig
Enterprise software startup Atlassian announced Tuesday that is moving its collaboration and development products, including JIRA and Confluence, to the cloud with an innovative pricing structure.
VentureBeat
Getting to grips with cloud in China
By Mark
As detailed in Shervin's guest post for Business Cloud News earlier this month, China is currently going through some pretty big changes when it comes to its IT strategy. In late 2010, the Chinese government announced their 12th Five Year ...
Cloud Computing World Forum Blog
Planning your cloud education | Thoughts on Cloud
By Megan Irvine
As with any new technology, there is a learning curve, and cloud poses some unique challenges when it comes to determining the right training path. There are so many different cloud offerings right now, and so many education resources, that ...
Thoughts on Cloud
The 9 Must-Read Blogs for Cloud-Based Businesses | Backupify
By Kristin
Backupify identifies 9 top cloud computing niche blogs you may not know about but are worth a good read. From TechRepublic to White Stratus blog to Google Enterprise blog, we have listed out both what the blogs are and why they are worth ...
Backupify
Web Host Online Tech Launches Cloud Disaster Recovery Solution ...
Web Host Online Tech Launches Cloud Disaster Recovery Solution | The Web Host Industry Review - Web Hosting News.
theWHIR.com - Daily Web Hosting News
Hitachi updates cloud storage infrastructure and services - Page 1 ...
Through recent acquisitions, Hitachi has rounded out its cloud storage solution with two new services and a scalable structure up to a converged infrastructure - Page 1.
Daily IT Newswire
Axcient Unveils Cloud Continuity Solution | MSPAlliance
By Charles Weaver
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – October 26, 2011 - Axcient, Inc., the award-winning innovator of comprehensive data backup, business continuity and disaster.
MSPAlliance
Hardware design is lagging cloud capabilities « The Bankwatch
By Colin Henderson
I have been thinking a lot about cloud computing for a while now. The advantages are clear. You never have to worry about data loss, and you can access your information from any device, mobile, laptop or PC. People worry about security, but ...
The Bankwatch
Challenges for Enterprises in the Cloud | CloudTimes
By CloudTimes
Cheaper, better and faster are the new trends in any computer or business IT solutions, which makes the hybrid cloud the perfect fit.
CloudTimes
Infographic: Generation Cloud | CloudTweaks.com - Cloud ...
By cloudtweaks
Generation Cloud The Study, 'Generation Cloud', commissioned by Rackspace in association with the centre of Creative and Social Technology (CAST) at.
CloudTweaks.com - Cloud Computing...
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Suse Working on Private OpenStack Cloud
PCWorld
By Nancy Gohring, IDG News Attachmate's Suse division has announced plans to offer software based on the OpenStack platform for enterprises to build private clouds. Suse Cloud, which won't be available for nine months to a year, will be based on the ...
 
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