Wisdom of the Cloud

Wisdom of the Cloud? SYS-CON Media (press release) Going over my checklist and starting to pack my stuff for Cloud Expo in Santa Clara. This will be the biggest one yet, and should attract more than 10000 people. I've been reporting from Asia since attending Cloud Expo in New York in 2009. ...

KineticD announces beta of hybrid cloud backup KineticCloud for Servers eChannelLine By Mark Cox Online backup provider KineticD has announced the beta-version of its hybrid cloudbackup software solution, KineticCloud for Servers, which integrates the disk-to-disk-to-cloudtechnology acquired from ROBOBAK earlier this year into a ...

New Citrix CloudPortal Turns Clouds into Profitable Businesses Benzinga (press release) Today at Citrix Synergy™, the conference where cloud computing, networking and virtualization meet, Citrix (NASDAQ: CTXS) unveiled Citrix CloudPortal™, a new product line designed to help providers transform general purpose cloud infrastructure into ...

Floating on Cloud 9? Deccan Chronicle By Anjishnu Kumar Cloud data storage has become a buzzword these days — with Apple announcing grand plans that will render hard drives redundant. What is CloudStorage? It simply means using a network (like the Internet) to store your data on an ...

Steve Jobs Biography Never Reaches Apple Founder's Core eWeek His vision still involves end-to-end products, not only in terms of hardware and software but also thecloud. His dietary quirks persist, to the point where his pickiness interferes with his ability to handle the ravages of cancer. And most of all, ...

Allegra Marketing and Print is Focused on the Importance of IT and Securing ... What They Think Ted Raymond with Allegra Marketing and Print shares how they've learned from their early mistakes with their IT strategy and how they are putting increasing efforts in planning their IT infrastructure and securing their cloud services. ...

What's Missing From Most Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery? Network Replication Smart Data Collective I've written several blog posts on how cloud computing changes disaster recovery. One of the most significant advantages to cloud computing is how it makes disaster recovery more cost-effective and lowers the bar for deploying comprehensive DR plans ...

Legal Ethics Considerations for Lawyers' Use of Cloud Computing Services Internet For Lawyers We often get questions about the security of "cloud computing" services like Google Apps and whether that security is tight enough for lawyers to use them. Google Apps, for example, meets the security standards put in place for the online storage of ...

HP's NZ partners to get cloud 'centres of excellence' Reseller News By Vera Alves, Auckland | Monday, 31 October 2011 HP's Cloud Centre of Excellence programme, launched last January in a number of countries, will be rolled out into New Zealand during the 2012 fiscal year, the company has announced. ...

Transition migrates its market-leading training commerce solution to the cloud Training Press Releases (press release) 31-Oct-2011 » Training Press Releases » Transition, a leading provider of e-learning products and services, has redeveloped its dedicated web commerce solution to exploit the power, resilience and cost savings associated with cloud computing. ...

Government PaaS – Key Cloud architecture for Shared Services SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog) The 'Cloud Security Zones' document from Shared Services Canada defines logical models for co-location, IaaS and PaaS. It says: “This document also provides guidance as to how departmental security domains can be connected to an ITSS shared services...

rPath, Cisco to Present Webinars on Application Automation for Private Clouds Benzinga (press release) rPath, the application engine provider for the private cloud, today announces two live webinars with Cisco that will present strategies for sending applications to the cloud consistently, reliably and fast using a Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud ...

Window to the Private Cloud by EMC Windows IT Pro A: Having the Exchange server in the cloud with Office 365 adds some interesting dynamics when your clients are using a virtual desktop environment, be it VDI or session based. There are numerous guidelines and best practices around Outlook ...

Cloudy Concepts: IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, MaaS, CaaS & XaaS ZDNet UK (blog) Hence no surprise that when the seemingly simple concept of Cloud Computing took off, so did the emergence of an abundance of acronyms and synonyms reaping a new breed of IT professionals who were the only ones that could correctly understand them ie ...

US Signal Expands Its Managed Security Offering with Cloud Based Advanced Security Benzinga (press release) US Signal, a leading provider of network infrastructure in the Midwest, today announced the addition of its Cloud Based Advanced Security offering to its Managed Services portfolio. In June of 2011, US Signal introduced a comprehensive cloud-based ...

Brightcove Video Cloud Smart Players Provide New Level of Stability and ... Benzinga (press release) Brightcove, a leading global provider of cloud content services, today announced wide-ranging new features for its Video Cloud online video platform Smart Players that help customers overcome inconsistencies in HTML5 video playback across devices, ...

Saba Partners with Workday to Bring Cloud Learning and Human Capital ... Benzinga (press release) WORKDAY RISING 2011 – Saba (NASDAQ: SABA), the premier People Cloud provider, today announced at Workday Rising 2011 that it has established a new partnership with Workday, a leader in SaaS-based enterprise solutions for global human capital, ...

SafeNet Launches Webinar Series to Prepare Software Providers for Cloud ... Benzinga (press release) SafeNet, Inc., a worldwide leader in data protection, today announced the comprehensive educational webinar series, “Let's Do It in the Cloud,” featuring presentations from some of the most experienced names in the cloud and software industries. ...

Interxion Launches Second Cloud Testlab | Cloud Computing Journal Interxion on Friday announced the deployment of its second Cloud Testlab, a turnkey cloud hosting test environment enabling service providers and system integrators to test and develop cloud services at high speed and with best-in-class ... Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal

Ubuntu is the OS for the Cloud, and here's why… « Not Lucky All ... By Robbie Cloud computing and the technologies surrounding it are advancing at an absolutely incredible pace of innovation. Consider how fast OpenStack has matured in the last year, the recent explosion of Hadoop solutions, and the entire movement ... Not Lucky All The Time, But Smart...

Jolicloud aiming to bring all your cloud services under one Android ... By Richard Devine Gmail, Flickr, Dropbox, Picasa, are all massively popular cloud services, but all requiring their own applications to allow you to access your data. This is where Jolicloud, the portable desktop steps in, as they aim to bring their communal cloud ... Android Central - Android Forums,...

cloud 2.1.2 | Software Review and download link By ziadmin cloud 2.1.2 is created as a beneficial and high-speed cloud-computing platform that integrates into the Python programming language. It enables you to leverage. Software Review and download link

Plimus to Speak at Conference on New Cloud Economy | Enterprise ... Plimus Inc. the leader in hosted e-Business Digital Commerce solutions, today announced that Plimus Israel CEO, Eldad Ben Tora, will speak at the IGT International Cloud Summit to be held in Tel Aviv, Israel on Monday, Oct. 31, 2011. During ... Enterprise Communications and...

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A (Suunto) Quest in the Cloud | at home in…, w| Gerald Zhang ... By Gerald The Quest is really, from the ground up, a watch to be used “in the cloud,” though. The cloud, in this case, being Suunto's Movescount platform for social interaction and training analysis – and in this case (rather as it got to be for parts of the ... at home in..., w| Gerald Zhang-Schmidt

Media and Cloud Usage Drive HDD Business : Media ... By PC Oct 20, 2011 - Santa Clara, CA - At the IDEMA's Diskcon event, there were two main topic for the presentation - the technology behind increasing areal density for rotating media (HDDs) and the consumption appetite of the cloud and media ... Media & Entertainment Technology

Building a free Dynamic DNS client with rackspace Cloud | [LINICKX ... By Nick As a cloud server customer you get access to rackspace's free DNS service. When I fist saw this product I had an instance light-bulb moment, I could stop paying for a dynamic DNS service and build my own private one... [LINICKX].com

#Cloud Computing for Businesses – The Place to Be.. | MyVenturePad By Andrew Wright More than twice as many small businesses are using cloud solutions now in comparison to the second half of 2010, and the numbers continue to increase. So why are so many SMBs turning to the cloud and why haven't all businesses ... MyVenturePad - The world's best... Microsoft to eat its own cloud dog food with Photosynth ZDNet (blog) Microsoft execs have said since Windows Azure launched in early 2010 that the long-term plan was to host most of Microsoft's own cloud services on Azure. Most of the company's new services are hosted on Azure from the get-go these days, ... Cost Management Tools For Multiple-Cloud Developers Dr. Dobb's By Adrian Bridgwater, October 30, 2011 Despite its open source roots, OpenLogic has taken a decisively commercial step forward this week by announcing the platform-agnostic CloudSwing, a "fully flexible" Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) cloud solution ... The future beyond the cloud is in our hands GigaOm When I think about the cloud, for some reason the Chinese yin-yang symbol pops into my head. And when I consider today's billions and tomorrow's tens of billions of cloud-connected mobile devices, inevitable cycles of business and IT centralization and ... Cloud Carib Achieves VMware Solution Competency in Infrastructure Virtualization San Francisco Chronicle (press release) Cloud Carib is committed to be an expert in helping customers in the Caribbean virtualize their IT environments. Cloud Carib today announced that it has successful completed the Infrastructure Virtualization solution competency. ... Cbeyond Cloud Services Renews Partnership with SmarterTools Benzinga (press release) “Small and mid-sized businesses deserve great value and enterprise-level functionality when it comes to IT,” said Jeff Uphues, vice president of sales & marketing for Cbeyond Cloud Services. “SmarterTools combined with our virtual and dedicated servers ... AASL Conference 2011: School Libraries and Cloud Computing School Library Journal By SLJ Staff October 29, 2011 A growing number of K-12 schools are moving to cloud-based networking environments—so maybe it's time to consider taking the leap, too. Doug Johnson (left), director of media and technology at Minnesota's Mankato Area ... Avoiding Cloud Failure: BMC Software Announces Cloud Operations Capabilities ... Benzinga (press release) BMC Software (NASDAQ: BMC) today announced additional capabilities integrated into its BMCCloud Lifecycle Management solution that proactively ensures the service quality of cloud services and avoids many of the risks of cloud computing such as ... Sonus Networks Executive to Discuss Cloud Integration at Salesforce.com's ... Benzinga (press release) Sonus Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq: SONS), a market leader in next-generation IP-based network solutions, today announced that Bill Parks, the company's director of IT application strategy, will participate in two sessions regarding the importance of cloud ... Clarity on clouds New Zealand Herald We need to upgrade our IT security and I understand the cloud is a good low-cost option. Can you advise on this? Patrick Kershaw, director of Horizon Pacific, a national technology support provider, says it makes no sense for a business with fewer than ... The Future Enterprise, Part 5: User-Friendly Delivery E-Commerce Times The rise of cloud computing, social networking and mobile connectivity has put individuals and their needs at the center of the human-computer relationship for the first time ever. As a result, organizations have increasingly come to see their ... Cadac Organice Cloud Solution Offers Full Flexibility The Open Press (press release) The Cloud Solution offers full flexibility in types of use, customer requirements and environment size. The Cadac Organice Cloud Solution allows companies to manage and control engineering documents in a hosted SharePoint environment. ... Red Hat and Telstra Partner to Bring Enterprise Solutions to the Cloud Benzinga (press release) Telstra today joins Red Hat's expanding cloud ecosystem as a Certified Cloud Provider, meaning that its solutions meet the rigorous testing and certification requirements Red Hat has in place to deliver a safe, scalable, supported and consistent ... Tendril Opens Cloud-Based Platform to Application Developers at Cleanweb Hackathon Benzinga (press release) Tendril, the provider of the cloud platform for the Energy Internet, is sponsoring the Cleanweb Hackathon, taking place September 10-11 in San Francisco. At the event, Tendril will be demonstrating the functionality of Tendril Connect™, its cloud ... What Do You Think GIS in the Cloud Will Be Like? V1 Magazine (blog) What do you think GIS in the Cloud will be like? Whether or not you use the wordCloud, for the purposes of this column I am writing it with respect to the delivery of all functions of a GIS from distant computing centers. Imagine GIS in the Cloud. ... Businesses turn to cloud computing Viet Nam News HA NOI – Businesses and consumers are increasingly relying on cloud computing services, and information technology research and advisory firm Gartner predicts that, by next year, 80 per cent of Fortune 1000 enterprises will be using some cloud ... Workday Rising while Oracle Sleeps in the Clouds Smart Data Collective Co-founder and co-CEO David Duffield, who founded PeopleSoft, champions a set of core values in its culture and leads a workforce that has built a new generation of ERP applications for deployment in the cloud computing environment. ... RIM announces BlackBerry Business Cloud services for Microsoft Office 365 Moneycontrol.com Research In Motion (RIM) has recently announced BlackBerry Business CloudServices for Microsoft Office 365 – a new RIM-hosted online service for midsized businesses and enterprises that extends Microsoft Exchange Online to BlackBerry smartphones. ... Preventing digital trade war in the cloud Washington Times However, unless the governments of the United States and Europe and multinational tech companies start talking soon about reconciling and simplifying international data-protection rules, some ominous storm clouds could threaten trans-Atlantic ... PoINT presents intelligent and legally compliant cloud storage at the SNW Europe iTWire (press release) Following the fair's slogan “Powering the cloud”, the company presents its software solution “PoINT Storage Manager” as intelligent link to cloud storage as part of a multi-tier architecture. This enables a sensible integration of cloud storage ... Virtustream Opens Office in Atlanta Supporting Cloud Cover Services and Sales ... Benzinga (press release) Virtustream, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise cloud services and next generation infrastructure solutions, today announced the opening of its new office in Atlanta. In addition to providing a regional sales presence, this office will service ... independenceIT Shows SMB Nation 2011 Attendees How to Use the Cloud to Empower ... Benzinga (press release) independenceIT™ (iIT) (Booth #604), provider of the complete cloud workspace, today announced details of its participation at the SMB Nation 2011 Fall Conference taking place September 30 – October 2 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Seth Bostock of ... Getting paper files to the cloud East Valley Tribune (blog) If you have the internal resources to do the scanning, you can download their free ScanDrop “cloudscanning” software that links your scanner directly to their online storage and management service. It works with just about any name-brand scanner and ... Cloud Anyware – A Platform for Unified Cloud Collaboration SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog) This is a powerful idea because not only does it refer to the looming ubiquity of theCloud in general, as it becomes pervasively available via cell phones, digital TVs etc. (anywhere), but also it describes the essential principle of repeatability ... Canadian Cloud Security – Best practices SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog) We're currently building a best practices program that describes general principles ofCloud Security, and then specifically how they can be applied in Canada. In their 'Canada Cloud Roadmap' the Federal Government outlines a general best practice ... Weekly News Roundup: Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) StocksandShares.TV Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) Jordan and Umniah has announced the signing of a CloudComputing and Collaboration Services agreement at the World Economic Forum. Under the proposed deal, Umniah will offer its business users with business ... Global DataGuard Named a Finalist in Cloud Security Category for 2011 Product ... Benzinga (press release) The first hardware appliance of its kind, the ASM™ system combines Global DataGuard's entire unified cloud security suite – including adaptive Network Behavior Analysis and Correlation, Intrusion Detection and Prevention, Vulnerability Scanning and ... The Future of Cloud Computing: Industry Predictions for 2012 ... With 9th Cloud Expo - Cloud Expo Silicon Valley - just around the corner, what's being said about the future landscape of cloud computing? In this round-up we asked a variety of members of the cloudcomputing ecosystem, from CIOs to ... Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal Managing Cultural Change When Moving to Cloud - ReadWriteCloud By Admin Adopting cloud computing requires a fundamental shift in organizational culture and business processes--both within and outside of IT. In fact, managing this change may be the biggest ... ReadWriteCloud With RMB 1 Billion, Alibaba Wants To Build an Ecosystem for Cloud ... By Gang Lu Aliyun comes with four levels of cloud services, Cloud Storage, Cloud Computing, Cloud OS andCloud-OS Phone. Cloud Storage – as Dr. Wang Jian, the CEO of Aliyun said at its Mobile Internet Summit last week. “You may feel OK when lost ... TechNodeTechNode | TechNode Government PaaS – Key Cloud architecture for Shared Services ... By Neil McEvoy For Government projects like Shared Services Canada and the UK G-Cloud hosting bid, a criticalCloud design is 'PaaS' – Platform as a Service. The 'Cloud Security Zones' document from Shared Services Canada defines logical models for ... Cloud Computing Best Practices Dell Announces Its First Public Cloud Offering; Dell Cloud With ... By AllVoIPNews Dell Announces Its First Public Cloud Offering; Dell Cloud With VMware vCloud® Datacenter Service. All about VoIP solutions and small business telephone systems. VoIP providers, new PBX systems and IP phones. 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