The King of Cloud: Q&A with Marc Benioff

The King of Cloud: Q&A with Marc Benioff Technology Review The CEO of Salesforce.com explains why traditional software is dead and how giants like Oracle are twisting the meaning of cloud computing. By Tom Simonite Back in 1999, when the first Web boom was in full swing, Marc Benioff, then an executive at ...

ITpreneurs Providing Training Courses for Certified Cloud Computing Instructors MarketWatch (press release) ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS, Oct 28, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- ITpreneurs, the leading provider of competence development solutions for IT best practices, is expanding its instructor pool to meet market demand for Cloud Computing Education. ...

Cloud Expo Media Partner IDG Best in Cloud Offers Special on Gold Pass SYS-CON Media (press release) As a media partner of Cloud Expo, IDG Best in Cloud is offering special passes to SYS-CON's 9th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 7-10, 2011, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. (For these special VIP Gold ...

TIBCO Spotfire to Showcase Cloud-Based and Mobile Analytics at TDWI World ... MarketWatch (press release) Both cloud computing and mobile BI are featured topics in the conference's emerging technologies area. What: TIBCO Spotfire will provide demonstrations of TIBCO Silver(R) Spotfire(R) 2.0 -- a portfolio of on-demand offerings enabling anyone with an ...

The cloud solves those lingering supply chain problems Network World Yet many of the world's biggest corporations still only dream of having FedEx-like technology to support their global supply chain operations, but cloud-based services promise to change that. Despite massive investments in infrastructure, software and ...

Cyber expert: UK must boost G-Cloud cyber-skills ZDNet UK By Tom Espiner, ZDNet UK, 28 October, 2011 17:09 The UK civil service needs to develop general cybersecurity awareness and skills necessary to support the government's G-Cloud programme, according to a Cabinet Office cyber expert. ...

Microsoft awards Dimension Data Cloud Accelerate Partner status ITWeb (blog) Dimension Data has achieved Microsoft Cloud Accelerate Partner status, held by less than 1% of Microsoft partners around the world. Combined with Dimension Data's existing Microsoft Hyper-V Private Cloud partner status, it re-enforces the Group's ...

What Is Cloud Computing? Business Insider Everyone is talking about cloud computing. Forrester projects that the total market for cloud computing will be $241 billion by 2020. Cloud computing means computing can be used as a service rather than a product. This has become possible because it's ...

Peter Hadekel: Ericsson Montreal zooms in on cloud computing Montreal Gazette By PETER HADEKEL, Freelance October 28, 2011 Telecom giant Ericsson Canada Inc. is giving its Montreal research-and-development centre a new focus to develop products and applications forcloud computing. While specific product mandates have not yet ...

Government launches G-Cloud strategy Public Service The government is "committed" to adopting cloud computing across Whitehall in order to create an agile, cost effective and environmentally sustainable ICT estate, the Cabinet Office's new G-Cloud strategy has said. A key milestone in the implementation ...

Firefox is the cloud's biggest enemy ExtremeTech By Sebastian Anthony on October 28, 2011 at 4:37 pm With more and more of our everyday activities moving to the cloud, you would think that Mozilla — like Google — would be over the moon. The browser is the portal through which the entire web is ...

Security roundup for Oct. 28: Cloud security holes; Facebook vulnerable ... Network World By Ellen Messmer, Network World The research team used a variety of XML-based signature-wrapped attacks to gain administrative access of customer accounts, then created new instances of the customer's cloud. They also used cross-site scripting attacks ...

Cloud Carib Achieves VMware Solution Competency in Infrastructure Virtualization DigitalJournal.com (press release) Cloud Carib today announced that it has successful completed the Infrastructure Virtualization solution competency. This achievement demonstrates that Cloud Carib is committed to be an expert in helping customers virtualize their IT environments. ...

Will Apps or Hardware Manage Cloud Services to the Home? BusinessWeek Consumers are frustrated trying to connect all their home devices to a wireless network. Who, or what, will fill the gap? By Stacey Higginbotham The enterprise is where the big bucks used to be, but home is where the hearts of consumers are. ...

RIM BlackBerry Business Cloud Services for Microsoft Office 365 The Mobile Indian By Rahul Gupta, The Mobile Indian, New Delhi, October 28, 2011 Research In Motion, in an attempt to bring Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Office functionalities to BlackBerry smartphones, announced the launch of BlackBerry Business CloudServices for ...

Exclaim Mobility Acquires SmrtGuard Mobile Security Cloud-service Applications MarketWatch (press release) The Snap Secure mobile applications and cloud connectivity for backing up and restoring critical application and user data will build on the success of SmrtGuard as an Android and BlackBerry device security platform, which was named one of the best ...

BizCloud Computing Consultants Offer Tips for Selecting the Right Cloud IaaS ... DigitalJournal.com (press release) The cloud technology experts at BizCloud® compiled a list of tips to help organizations choose the right partner for cloud hosting and unlock the true value of this technology that promises fast deployment, reduced costs and capital expenditures, ...

To the Cloud! | Ubuntu Cloud Portal By Michael Hall To the Cloud! Posted by Michael Hall // October 28th, 2011 // Uncategorized. In a previous post a commentator was explaining his typical web-stack deployment, and boasting about how he “can roll this out on Debian in less than 4 hours”. ... Ubuntu Cloud Portal

Cloud Anyware – A Platform for Unified Cloud Collaboration « Cloud ... By Neil McEvoy Key to the requirements of major initiatives like Shared Services Canada is “Cloud Anyware”. This is a powerful idea because not only does it refer to the looming ubiquity of the Cloud in general, as it becomes pervasively available via cell ... Cloud Computing Best Practices

Does IBM use cloud? | Thoughts on Cloud By Alfredo Olivieri When I started dealing with cloud computing, about one year ago, I happened to ask myself: does IBM use it? In fact it is something I often wonder about when I approach a new technology as part of an IBM offering, for at least two reasons. ... Thoughts on Cloud

Internal clouds: Many building, few built, yetThe Info-Tech Research ... By John Sloan The internal cloud is a work in progress, and right now most of that work is in server consolidation and virtualization. Fully 75% of enterprises say. The Info-Tech Research Blog

Cloud potential is key to Complete's acquisition of Intellicom ... Kevin Murphy's Complete Telecom, which has notched up contracts valued at over €12m in the last year, has acquired a business telephony software house Intellicom for an undisclosed sum. Silicon Republic - News

Friday Cloud News Roundup | GMO Cloud America By GMO Cloud America Cloud Computing News Highlights: Obama's CIO, Dropbox's New Security, Cloud Mergers and Acquisitions, and Symantec and Mobile in the Cloud. GMO Cloud America

Internap Launches First OpenStack Public Cloud Service - Cloud ... The first OpenStack-based cloud-computing platform is now publicly available, courtesy of hosting service Internap. www.eweek.com/.../Internap-Launches-First-OpenStack-Publi...

Cloud App Development With PHP Cloud | Windows 7,Cloud ... Cloud App Development can be done using the service of phpcloud.com. PHP Cloud offers free PHP developer sandbox and other tools. thecustomizewindows.com/.../cloud-app-development-with-ph...

Cornell Launches Subscription Cloud Service | Informatics Iron ... "Red Cloud" is an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) that runs Eucalyptus, open source cloudcomputing platform, that will provide subscribers with root access to ... www.genomeweb.com/.../cornell-launches-subscription-cloud-...

Cloud Service Delivery Solutions from Arraynetworks Array cloud service delivery solutions provide a gateway from the enterprise to the cloud that enables efficient scaling and control of services at the provider ... www.arraynetworks.com/solutions-cloud-service-delivery.html Internap Takes OpenStack Public Cloud To The People CRN By Andrew R Hickey, CRN Calling it the first commercially available public cloud play based on the OpenStack open-source cloud, hosting player Internap Network Services this week launched its Open Public Cloud compute service. The Open Public Cloud ... Cloud Storage Firm Dropbox Recognizes Business Use with New Service Wall Street Journal (blog) By Tom Loftus Dropbox, the San Francisco start-up that has attracted 46 million users–and a recent $250 million injection of venture capital–to its cloud storage operations announced yesterday a package for small and medium-sized businesses. ... Hitachi Data Systems Unveils Cloud Packages eWeek HDS is developing technology through its acquisition of ParaScale that will help create an informationcloud. Hitachi Data Systems unveiled its plans for helping customers transform their data and announced cloud services to provide a fully managed, ... Researchers Uncover 'Massive Security Flaws' In Amazon Cloud CRN By Andrew R Hickey, CRN Amazon's cloud services are vulnerable to attack via a "massive security gap" that enables hackers to access user accounts and data, a team of German researchers has revealed. Security researchers from Ruhr-University Bochum ... Clouds, open source, and new network models: Part 3 CNET Especially confusing to many is the difference between these kinds of cloud networking services and the increasingly discussed OpenFlow open-networking protocol. In part 1 of this series, I described what is becoming an increasingly ubiquitous model ... Blame cloud skills gap on lack of breadth, experience ZDNet Asia By Jamie Yap , ZDNet Asia on October 28, 2011 (12 hours ago) Expertise to integrate cloud with existing IT systems and ability to manage vendor relations most lacking areas, say industry insiders, with one noting gap won't stay wide for long. ... Follow @CloudAlive

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