Friday, October 7, 2011

Benioff's Private Cloud Bluster: Can It Last?

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Benioff's Private Cloud Bluster: Can It Last?
InformationWeek
Will Benioff's customers insist he stop the private cloud denial? By Laurianne McLaughlin InformationWeek As the tech industry said goodbye to visionary innovator Steve Jobs Wednesday, two other larger-than-life Silicon Valley personalities started a ...
US Lawmakers Question Cloud Security
PCWorld
By Grant Gross, IDG News A rush by President Barack Obama's administration to move US government agencies to cloud computing services may lead to unintended security problems and other headaches, some lawmakers said Thursday. While agency adoption of ...
Oracle Launches Own Social Network for Cloud Services
eWeek
CEO Ellison also took the wraps off his company's newest cloud-oriented middleware products and strategy, called Oracle Public Cloud, in an afternoon keynote at the OpenWorld 2011 conference. SAN FRANCISCO -- Oracle jumped onto the increasingly crowded ...
OpenStack: We Are The Open Cloud Alternative
CRN
By Andrew R Hickey, CRN OpenStack will be the open alternative to proprietary cloud players, the open-source cloud initiative's driving forces said Thursday at the OpenStack Conference in Boston. And as the Rackspace-led OpenStack open-source cloud ...
Feds: Cloud Computing Doesn't Increase Security Risk
InformationWeek
By Elizabeth Montalbano InformationWeek Federal officials defended their move to adopt cloudcomputing, stressing steps federal agencies are taking to ensure the technology does not present greater cybersecurity risks than already exist today, ...
UBS's New Cloud ETN Doesn't Really Offer A Pure Play On The Sector
Seeking Alpha
There's a new cloud computing fund in town, an exchange traded product from UBS that will have the ticker symbol LSKY. It will compete directly with SKYY, a fund that started trading in July 2010 and has since lost about 20% of its value. ...
Nimbula and Electric Cloud Release Free Plug-In That Provisions Cloud ...
MarketWatch (press release)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA and SAN JOSE, CA, Oct 06, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Today at the Electric Cloud Summit, Nimbula, the Cloud Operating System Company, announced an integrated solution with Electric Cloud so that development teams using ...
OpenStack's Secret Weapon Is Modularity
PCWorld
By Joab Jackson, IDG News Although somewhat late to the market for cloud computing infrastructure, OpenStack enjoys an advantage over other cloud stacks in that it has a modular architecture, said one of the first developers of the open-source cloud ...
Cloud 101: Are You a PC, Mac … or Cloud?
KSEE
Now, however, cloud computing gives you another option: the cloud OS. A cloud OS is designed to run within your Web browser, which means that it and all your programs and data live on the Internet rather than locally on your computer's hard drive. ...
Google Adds Cloud-based SQL Database to App Engine
PCWorld
By Juan Carlos Perez, IDG News Google has created a relational database for its cloud-hosted App Engine application development and hosting platform, a much-requested addition, the company said on Thursday. For now, the database, called Google Cloud ...
Cloud computing is the future of networking
gulfnews.com
By Naushad K. Cherrayil, Staff Reporter Dubai: Every new technology is hyped as a miracle, butcloud computing managed to fog the eyes of even experienced IT people because its whole purpose is to behave as if it is a miracle. ...
A quick look at Adobe's Creative Cloud
Computerworld
By Jackie Dove Macworld - Adobe Creative Cloud, announced this week at the Adobe Max 2011 annual conference, is a cloud-based software initiative designed to redefine the process of content creation, storage, and sharing, and as a major component of ...
Making the Cloud Less Cloudy for Educators
Forbes
This is where Cloud comes in. It was just such an application that had me wringing my hands in frustration a few years ago. And then, I found out that I could subscribe to the small, but important HR application as a service from a software company. ...
CloudSleuth: Compuware Releases Top 25 Cloud Service Providers' Global ...
MarketWatch (press release)
DETROIT, Oct 6, 2011 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) -- Compuware Corporation /quotes/zigman/52741/quotes/nls/cpwr CPWR +2.47% , the technology performance company, today released the one-year average results of the top 25 cloud service providers' global ...
CCID Consulting: Outlook on Future Applications of Cloud Services
MarketWatch (press release)
BEIJING, Oct 06, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- The construction mode for IT infrastructure, based oncloud computing, provides a completely new approach in the industry. It can not only save cost and expand application, but also make better use of resources. ...
Panda Cloud Antivirus Outperforms McAfee, Microsoft and Trend Micro on Malware ...
MarketWatch (press release)
ORLANDO, Fla., Oct. 6, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Panda Security, The Cloud Security Company, today announced that Panda Cloud Antivirus Free Edition, the world's fastest growingcloud-based antivirus, has been certified by the prestigious, ...
Cloud Business Provider Aplicor Combines CRM/ERP for Optimal Performance
TMC Net
To leverage the clear value in any ERP deployment, it can help to move your ERP and CRM tools to the cloud. Aplicor, as a cloud business provider, can help in the process. This Enterprise Apps Today report highlights that vendors have been making great ...
KMPG: 'Cloud is Now'; Technology Spend to Leap Next Year
SmartPros Accounting
October 6, 2011 (SmartPros) The vast majority of senior executives globally say their organizations have already moved at least some business activities to the Cloud and expect 2012 investment to skyrocket, with some companies planning to spend more ...
Playing the Cloud confidence game part 2
Computerworld Australia
Part two of Computerworld Australia's look at why Cloud security risks should be front of mind for IT executives planning a push into the CloudCloud security risks should be front of mind for IT executives planning a push into the Cloud — but their ...
Cloud industry a 'mess' of suppliers and standards, experts warn
ITworld.com
October 06, 2011, 5:02 AM — The complexity of the cloud computing arena is a major stumbling block to adoption, according to delegates at this week's NetEvents business IT symposium in Rome. Ovum analyst Peter Hall presented the analyst house's growth ...
New Cloud Offerings From Autodesk
Daily Markets
Autodesk Inc. (NASDAQ:ADSK) has unveiled a collection of more than a dozen Web-based capabilities, products and services, named Autodesk Cloud. By using Autodesk Cloud, Autodesk customers will be able to store their work and gain access to the related ...
Kaspersky Adds Cloud, Smartphones to Its Updated Offering
eSecurity Planet
This added one particularly significant new feature: reputation-based protection using Kaspersky's cloud-based Security Network. (This is already included Kaspersky's consumer security products.) The update also replaced Kaspersky's Administration Kit...
Survey shows shift to cloud-based services, despite concerns
Network World
By Ellen Messmer, Network World A survey of 5300 IT and security managers in 38 countries aboutcloud computing offers a vivid snapshot of expectations, anxieties and sometimes shattered hopes. According to the Symantec "State of the Cloud" survey, ...
The era of cloud computing
Examiner.com
If you have been following the tech scene over the last 3 years, one of the recent technologies that has been shaking the scene is Cloud Computing. What exactly is Cloud Computing anyway and how does it make your life better, whether you are into ...
Clouds, Consumerization, And The IT Toolbox
InformationWeek
Why should you look at cloud services and embrace the consumerization of IT? It's all about innovation, or the lack of it, from entrenched enterprise providers. By Art Wittmann InformationWeek When Werner Vogels takes the stage, you know you're going ...
Syntergy Unveils Distributed SharePoint Computing in the Cloud at the ...
PR Newswire (press release)
Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, and on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider ...
Zenoss Releases Unified Monitoring for OpenStack Swift Cloud Storage Platform
MarketWatch (press release)
AUSTIN, TX, Oct 06, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Zenoss Inc., a leading provider of management software for physical, virtual, and cloud-based IT infrastructures, today announced the availability of unified monitoring for the OpenStack Swift cloud ...
Time to journey into the cloud
Siliconrepublic.com
For most firms, cloud computing is one of those phrases that seems to be popping up everywhere these days. You could think of it as another buzz phrase or fad, but the reality is it is an inevitable journey for all firms that rely on their IT to stay ...
Oracle's Larry Ellison finally puts his head in the cloud | VentureBeat
By Sean Ludwig
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison on Wednesday finally announced that his company would take the plunge into public cloud computing with Oracle Public Cloud. He made the announcement on stage at Oracle's OpenWorld conference.
VentureBeat
VMware Cloud Foundry | Open Source Cloud | Official Web Hosting ...
By Stan
What is Cloud Foundry ? Cloud Foundry is an open source (free) cloud computing platform as a service (PaaS) software developed by VMware, it is released as.
Official Web Hosting Blog by...
Azure Tops Cloud Provider Performance Index - ReadWriteCloud
By David Strom
Yes, you read that right: Microsoft's cloud service Azure topped the list of 25 different providers in a report out this week by CloudSleuth, just slightly edging out ...
ReadWriteWeb
Oracle Unveils Public Cloud Offering | SecurityWeek.Com
By Mike Lennon
Oracle Public Cloud, a new subscription-based offering, brings access to Oracle's enterprise applications, middleware and database platforms, all managed, hosted and supported by Oracle.
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Notes from the Interop NYC 2011 Carrier Cloud Forum | Everest Group
By Scott Bils, Partner, Everest Group
I had the good fortune to participate in a lively panel discussion at this week's Interop NYC CarrierCloud Forum on the topic of Enterprise Expectations for Cloud Services.
Everest Group
Google Cloud SQL: your database in the cloud - The official Google ...
You can now choose to power your App Engine applications with a familiar relational database in a fully-managed cloud environment. This allows you to focus ...
googlecode.blogspot.com/.../google-cloud-sql-your-database-i...
Private Cloud Computing - Advantages Over Public Cloud ...
Private Cloud Computing offers more adaptability,more safety, more control over the Public CloudComputing Platform. In this article,we will discuss the points.
thecustomizewindows.com/.../private-cloud-computing-advant...
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