Saturday, October 8, 2011

Larry Ellison unveils Oracle Public Cloud, claims no lock-in

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Larry Ellison unveils Oracle Public Cloud, claims no one will be locked in
Ars Technica
By Jon Brodkin | Oracle said this week that it's building a cloudservice to host many of its key software products, including Java, database, middleware and CRM. As if anticipating concerns that the aptly named Oracle ...
Rackspace Spins Off OpenStack Cloud Computing Project to New Foundation
eWeek
Rackspace has cut the umbilical cord with OpenStack, setting up a foundation to lead the open source cloud computing project it launched with NASA just a year ago. A little over a year after NASA and hosting company Rackspace launched OpenStack, ...
IT departments worldwide aren't ready for the cloud, survey finds
GCN.com
By Rutrell Yasin Despite a high level of interest in cloud computing, IT staffs within organizations say they simply are not ready for it, according to Symantec's 2011 State of the Cloud Survey. Less than 25 percent of the survey's respondents say ...
Security worries can hinder cloud adoption, House panel is told
GCN.com
By William Jackson The General Services Administration is ramping up FedRAMP to provide a governmentwide provisional authority for cloud service providers to operate, but the government lacks a complete framework of security requirements for the new ...
Ubuntu 11.10 to Feature Arm Support, Cloud Orchestration
PCWorld
By Joab Jackson, IDG News The next version of Canonical's Ubuntu Linux distribution, to be released next week, will be the first to run on the Arm architecture, as well as the first edition to offer a newcloud service orchestration engine, ...
Interop New York 2011: Enterprises Embrace Cloud Computing
PC Magazine
By Michael J. Miller Cloud computing is changing the enterprise computing landscape and at yesterday's Interop keynote, representatives from Amazon, Rackspace, and Terremark shared their visions of how big companies can use cloud services to become ...
RightScale: Cloud Bursting Tames Traffic Spikes
Data Center Knowledge
Enter the age of the cloud, where life is more stable and reliable. Perhaps not quite yet. Outages at Amazon Web Services' cloud this spring and summer caused outages at social media sites like HootSuite and Reddit (see DCK coverage in April 2011 and ...
How To Build A Government Cloud
InformationWeek
As federal agencies race to meet OMB's 'cloud first' mandate, they must adapt the cloud model to the idiosyncrasies of government. By John Foley InformationWeek The federal government's cloudcomputing strategy reached a milestone recently when the ...
Sharepoint 2010: To Cloud or Not to Cloud?
CIO (blog)
Is this an indicator of Office 365 cloud migrations to come? Well, yes and no. Research firm Forrester just released a meaty report on Sharepoint 2010 usage based on a survey of over 500 enterprise IT leaders. The report, entitled "Sharepoint Adoption: ...
Adobe to Sell Software Online to Spur More Frequent Purchases
BusinessWeek
Chief Technology Officer Kevin Lynch plans to release what Adobe calls its Creative Cloud suite early next year. The company will let customers rent programs on a monthly basis and easily use them across PCs and mobile devices rather than make larger ...
RIM acquires mobile-cloud software firm--report
CNET
Founded in 2002, NewBay specializes in the development of mobile-phone software that allows users to create, store, and share digital content in the cloud. The company had deals with Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile USA (and parent Deutsche Telekom), ...
UBIC launches the "UBIC Legal Cloud service", a version of Lit i ViewTM ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
UBIC, Inc. today announced offering of the UBIC Legal Cloud service that reduces legal risk exposure for corporate groups operating on a global scale. This service provides a cloud computing environment that allows clients to use the Lit i View ...
Data protection implications with cloud services
Search Storage
More companies are moving to a cloud model that lets them outsource the underlying cloud infrastructure, and that model has widespread implications for users and data protection. The cloud today is a veritable alphabet soup of choices. ...
Ellison's cloud conversion is good for business
Register
By Matt Asay • Open...and Shut For those agnostics who continue to doubt the reality of cloud adoption, there are two clear signs: the adoption of Amazon's public cloud and Larry Ellison's public cloud creation. ...
Medical Imaging Gets Free Ride In the Cloud
InformationWeek
By Neil Versel InformationWeek Medical imaging software developer Merge Healthcare has introduced free access to a cloud-based image-sharing network. The company has partnered with Dell, which already manages more than 4 billion medical images and ...
Cloud Networking- Provider & Vendor Perspective- at IEEE ComSocSCV Oct 12 meeting!
The Viodi View
By Alan Weissberger In a pure Public Cloud based model, applications reside in a multi-tenant environment and are accessible via the public Internet. Amazon's EC2 is an example of such a PublicCloud. Yet there are concerns about security, privacy, ...
InformationWeek Government Announces Speakers for GovCloud 2011, 'Building ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The event theme is 'Building Secure, On-Demand Clouds for Government.' Topics of discussion include public cloud services, private clouds, and shared clouds, and how to use those platforms in a way that minimizes risks and satisfies FISMA and other ...
Syntergy Unveils Distributed SharePoint Computing in the Cloud at the ...
Bradenton Herald
/PRNewswire/ -- At the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2011, Syntergy, Inc., a leading provider of products for enhancing Microsoft SharePoint® Products and Technologies, demonstrated its flagship product, Syntergy Replicator for SharePoint, as a cloud ...
Interop: The Cloud Finds Firm Footing in Hybrid Networking
PC Magazine
I was impressed by how many vendors talked about “hybrid networks,” where enterprises connect their own data centers to cloud-based services. I heard a lot more about “virtual networking” and more about managing mobile devices. ...
Grid Cloud Solutions Inc Reports New Product Lines for Energy Savings
MarketWatch (press release)
SAULT STE MARIE, ON, Oct 07, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Grid Cloud Solutions Inc (pinksheets:GRDC) announced it has been granted rights to sell two new product lines under its energy conservation initiatives. Grid has been granted a Dealer's ...
Barriers Stunting Cloud Adoption
BankInfoSecurity.com
Alastair MacWillson says the lack of harmonization among state, national and international security laws and regulations has proved challenging for global organizations that want to work in the cloud. That barrier has stunted cloudadoption, ...
ANZ Bank CIO still wary of cloud
ZDNet Asia
By Luke Hopewell , ZDNet Australia on October 7, 2011 (19 hours ago) Cloud computing more suitable for small and midsize businesses than for large financial institutions, and vendors need to tailor products to make them relevant for large organizations ...
Singapore Polytechnic to Launch Educational Cloud Computing Center
Web Host Industry Review
By Justin Lee, October 07, 2011 (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- The Singapore Polytechnic Electrical and Electronic Engineering Cloud Computing Center (www.sp.edu.sg) is set to launch, marking the first educational institute in Asia Pacific to provide ...
Is cloud computing green? Yes! And, err, no.
Computerworld (blog)
Does cloud computing actually save energy? Would moving some of your data center workload to the cloud reduce your greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions? A survey held at an event I recently attended indicated that most CIOs and other senior IT people doubted ...
Outages Altering Cloud Perception, Practice
Data Center Knowledge
It seems that every time a high-profile Internet service goes down, pundits predict that it will undermine confidence in cloud computing. And yet through 2010 the cloud model has shown surprisingly resilience in the face of this “headline risk,” ...
VMware, Brocade and Verizon Define Datacenter Architecture Roadmap for Cloud ...
MarketWatch (press release)
FRASCATI, Italy, Oct 07, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Joe Baguley, VMware's Chief CloudTechnologist EMEA, brought a blend of leading edge Silicon Valley vision plus the wisdom of eighteen years’  experience to today's opening keynote at NetEvents 2011 EMEA ...
Sunny outlook for cloud computing
China Daily
By Linda Deng (China Daily) SEATTLE - Microsoft will host the 2011 Global Mobile andCloud Conference on Saturday, giving IT professionals insight into what's next for the Chinese market. Representatives from Northwest-based companies such as Amazon,...
Cloud on the rise (Love JANET)
Register
We hope you'll join us for this free, 1hr broadcast, which promises to show you how other worlds are dealing with their technology challenges, embracing clouds and, arguably, making JANET one of the key cloud backbones for the UK.
UKFast Round Table: Cloud is Only as Good as You Make It
PR.com (press release)
Manchester, United Kingdom, October 07, 2011 --(PR.com)-- Businesses expecting automatic improvements to their IT infrastructure by moving to the cloud are misunderstanding the platform. The cloud must be properly managed and tailored to the needs of ...
Ubuntu Powers HP Public Cloud | Ubuntu Cloud Portal
By kim0
Today Canonical CEO Jane Silber announced at the OpenStack Conference in Boston that HP has chosen Ubuntu as the lead host and guest operating system powering their Public Cloud. HP and Canonical are working closely together ...
Ubuntu Cloud Portal
Cloud Computing: Adobe's Building a Cloud | Cloud Computing ...
Maureen O'Gara the most read technology reporter for the past 20 years, is the Cloud Computing and Virtualization News Desk editor of SYS-CON Media. She is the publisher of famous "Billygrams" and the editor-in-chief of "Client/Server ...
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Microsoft Partner Addresses Hybrid Cloud by www.thehostingnews ...
By THN News
(The Hosting News) - With the latest release of its flagship product, OnePlaceMail Release 6, Scinaptic is the first of its kind to tackle records capture and.
www.thehostingnews.com
This Week in the Cloud: Oracle-Salesforce Drama and More ...
By Maria Deutscher
This week featured the Oracle OpenWorld 2011 tech conference, and a host of other cloud industry updates. Some of them directly relate to the enterprise IT giant, with the public cloud being one of the main highlights. Both Hewlett-Packard ...
SiliconANGLE
Google App Engine Blog: Google Cloud SQL: Your database in the ...
Google Cloud SQL brings many benefits to the App Engine community: ... Cloud SQL is available free of charge for now, and we will publish pricing at least 30 ...
googleappengine.blogspot.com/.../google-cloud-sql-your-data...
Introducing Oracle Public Cloud at Oracle Open World 2011 (Oracle ...
Larry Ellison announced the Oracle Public Cloud yesterday! For those of you who missed this exciting announcement live, let us quickly summarize it for you: ...
blogs.oracle.com/.../entry/introducing_oracle_public_cloud_at
Cloud Computing: Dell cloud computing solutions | Dell
Dell has developed a growing portfolio of efficient cloud computing solutions to help ... We offer consulting, cloud computing components and turnkey solutions ...
content.dell.com/us/en/highered/cloud-computing
EMC Cloud Tiering Appliance: File Tiering, Archiving, Migration
Optimize your network-attached storage (NAS) infrastructure with fully automated file tiering, archiving, and file migration.
www.emc.com/archiving/cloud-tiering-appliance.htm
Cloud Connect | September 10-13, 2012
After three years of phenomenal growth in Silicon Valley, Cloud Connect is expanding its buzzing expo hall, quality educational conference sessions, and ...
www.cloudconnectevent.com/chicago/
Google Cloud SQL - Google Code
Google Cloud SQL is web service that allows you to create, configure, and use relational databases with your App Engine applications. It is a fully-managed ...
code.google.com/apis/sql/



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