Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Cloud Computing Can Reduce Carbon Emissions By Half

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Cloud Computing Can Reduce Carbon Emissions By Half, Report Says
Reuters
By Yale Environment 360 at Yale Environment 360 Major companies could reduce their carbon emissions by as much as 50 percent and significantly increase energy efficiency by shifting to cloudcomputing, according to a new report. In an analysis of UK, ...
Vidyo Bringing Video Conferecing to the Cloud
eWeek
With the Virtualized VidyoRouter, Vidyo is making video conferencing available via public, private and hybrid cloud environments. Vidyo is bringing its video collaboration technology to the cloud. Vidyo officials on Nov. 8 unveiled the Virtualized ...
Software AG Highlights Progress in Cloud Strategy
MarketWatch (press release)
Software AG today announced the general availability of Software AG Cloud Ready, the latest solution in the company's cloud strategy. Software AG unveiled its strategy earlier in the year, embracing the vision of 'extreme collaboration' to help knock ...
Cloud News: PEER 1, CA, Telx, Cirracore
Data Center Knowledge
PEER 1 launches Zunicore cloud division. PEER 1 Hosting (PIX) announced today that it has launched its public cloud division, Zunicore, to offer Cloud Hosting. Utilizing its own infrastructure and network, PEER 1 allows for customizable resource pools, ...
Tantus Technologies' Dan Philpott to Speak at Cloud Computing Solutions Seminar
Sacramento Bee
Mr. Philpott will be addressing Cloud security, transitioning to Cloud Computing and Federal Information Security. "It is an honor and a pleasure to speak on the subject and share insight into how to successfully achieve a smooth and secure transition ...
The Right Tech for the Cloud
The Epoch Times
By James O. GrundvigCreated: November 8, 2011Last Updated: November 8, 2011 The cloud did not happen overnight—it emerged in 1995 and slowly gained its place in the consciousness of IT enthusiasts. Its growth is now accelerating for commercial use, ...
Bright Computing bursts HPC to EC2 clouds
Register
By Timothy Prickett Morgan • Get more from this author SC11 If you want to do cloud bursting in an HPC environment, the last thing you want to do is try to manage the movement of running workloads from your own cluster out to a compute cloud like ...
McAfee Sees Identity Key To Cloud Security
CRN
McAfee wants to toss that strategy in the age of cloud computing and replace it with building trusted networks of identifiable people and services. As the cloud evolves, vast networks of relationships, contacts and services can be protected by ...
Cloud Computing and the Truth About SLAs
Computerworld
By Bernard Golden CIO - I was looking through the program for an upcoming cloud computing conference and noted a number of sessions devoted to negotiating contracts and service level agreements (SLAs) with cloud providers. ...
Blue Coat rolls out new cloud connectivity option
ConnectedPlanet
By Joan Engebretson Blue Coat Systems today announced Cloud-Connector, a new cloud connectivity option for enterprises with branch locations. The offering, which is implemented on the same platform that supports Blue Coat's WAN optimization service, ...
TM Forum Partners with Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) for Cloud ...
MarketWatch (press release)
ORLANDO, Fla, Nov 08, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Today TM Forum announced that it is partnering with the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF), a leading standards organization in the cloud industry, to coordinate their work around the development and ...
SecurID Brings Two-Factor Authentication To MS Cloud Apps
InformationWeek
In a big cloud app security step, RSA's SecurID platform integrates now with Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services. By Mathew J. Schwartz InformationWeek RSA announced Monday that its SecurID two-factor authentication hardware and software can ...
Fedora 16 Combines Sophisticated Cloud and Virtualization Features with Usability
MarketWatch (press release)
"Fedora 16 combines the newest advancements in open source virtualized and cloud computing environments with significant under-the hood-improvements -- all while continuing to improve the operating system's usability. The Fedora Project's commitment to ...
Aryaka Executives Ashwath Nagaraj and Sonal Puri to Speak at Cloud Computing ...
Broadcast Newsroom
MILPITAS, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 11/08/11 -- Aryaka (www.aryaka.com), provider of the world's firstcloud-based WAN optimization and application acceleration solution, is a sponsor of the CloudExpo West conference and leading a presentation in the ...
Guident Selects Deltek's Cloud-based Government Contracting Solutions to ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Guident will use Deltek's cloud-based solution to improve business performance while minimizing IT and administrative costs. An IT services firm specializing in the development, implementation, and support of business solutions, Guident provides ...
Open Stack vs. Closed Clouds
InformationWeek
Overview: Cloud computing is here, and it's real. It is, as we hear more often these days, The Future of Computing. If you're not yet leveraging cloud computing to streamline IT operations, you soon will be, or you'll be left behind by your competition ...
New Place to Park the Cloud: NGD Opens Computing Hall for Large-Scale Cloud ...
TMC Net
Newport, South Wales – Halfway around the globe from the world's leading CloudComputing Expo – which is going on now – data center services leader NGD has announced immediate availability of a giant, containerized computing hall for large-scale cloud ...
Mirantis Cloud Expert to be Featured on Dr. Dobbs Program
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Kirill Ishanov, director of Engineering, Cloud and SaaS Center of Excellence at Mirantis, will be a featured speaker at the Dr. Dobb's Virtual Event, Building and Testing Apps in the Cloud on November 10, 2011. The day-long event, hosted by Dr. Dobb's, ...
Palisade Systems Unveils Data Security Integration for Mobile and Cloud ...
MarketWatch (press release)
DES MOINES, IA, Nov 08, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Palisade Systems, an industry leader in the Data Loss Prevention (DLP) market, announced today that cloud service providers and mobile device vendors can now integrate Palisade System's enterprise ...
Bentley Makes Point Clouds Valuable Across Full Infrastructure Lifecycle ...
Victoria Times Colonist
Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for sustaining infrastructure, today announced that it has acquired UK-based Pointools Ltd, the leading hardware-neutral provider of point cloud ...
PROACTIS Launches Cloud Supplier Risk Management Platform
MarketWatch (press release)
PROACTIS, the specialist in Spend Control and eProcurement, today unveiled their "Cloud Supplier Risk Management Platform", an evolution of the company's supplier relationship management (SRM) and contract management solution. -- The PROACTIS Cloud ...
Red Hat finds its feet in cloud gold rush
Register
And Shut Cloud computing may be the future, but it appears to be one fraught with unpredictable downtime and security breaches. In other words, it's very much like the bad ol' days of corporate data centres, except that this time Amazon, Salesforce and ...
Why Small Businesses Love Cloud Services
Small Business Trends
By Susan Payton If anything's beating out the skyrocketing growth of the mobile app market, I'd put my money on cloud services. These days, you can do everything in thecloud except your dry cleaning (or can you?). Here's a look at some of the ...
WSO2 CTO to Present Technical Session on Open Source PaaS at QCon San ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The session is part of the event's Cloud and NoSQL Solutions track on Wednesday, November 16, 2011. As a sponsor of the conference, WSO2 also will have a booth to demonstrate how its open source middleware enables enterprises to seamlessly deploy ...
CloudSigma adds SSDs to its public cloud — Cloud Computing News
By Derrick Harris
Cloud provider CloudSigma has become the first to add solid-state-drive storage to its public cloudcomputing service. It's designed to better CloudSigma's price-performance ratio overall, which will bring in more and bigger customers that ...
GigaOM
Cloud Firms Hexagrid and Boston Launch New IaaS Product to ...
Cloud Firms Hexagrid and Boston Launch New IaaS Product to Streamline Private Cloud Delivery | The Web Host Industry Review - Web Hosting News.
theWHIR.com - Daily Web Hosting News
Try Cloud FTP for Wireless iDevice Backup and Storage – A ...
By Emily
Billed as the “missing link” between existing USB Devices and iOS and the Cloud, CloudFTP can turn any USB storage device into a wireless device which is accessible to the iPad or other iDevices, as well as cloud storage ...
PadGadget
Cloud Bloggers Speak Out on Cloud in the Future | GMO Cloud ...
By GMO Cloud America
Every year before the Cloud Expo, Cloud Computing Journal asks a handful of experts what they see as the major trends for cloud computing in the next year.
GMO Cloud America
Q&A: Toby Owen on Rackspace's Updated Hybrid Cloud Solution ...
Q&A: Toby Owen on Rackspace's Updated Hybrid Cloud Solution | The Web Host Industry Review - Web Hosting News.
theWHIR.com - Web Hosting Industry...
Cloud Spring
By Christian Reilly
Following the November 7 announcement of Rackspace's tantalizingly named (and OpenStack-powered) Rackspace Cloud: Private Edition, I've found that I have descended into doing something I don't normally do – getting all hot under the ...
CloudAve
Cloud Expo West 2011: Migrating Enterprise Applications to the Cloud
By Duane Z.
This morning, I had the pleasure of sitting in on Michael Collier's presentation, “Migrating Enterprise Applications to the Cloud”, at Cloud Expo West. The National Architect for Neudesic, Michael had some interesting guidance on how to decide ...
Server Smarts® - The official...
A Cloud Computing Crash Course | Appliedi.net Windows Web ...
By cpluff
You've heard about the Cloud and you have an idea what it means. But do you really? Platform as a Service. Desktop Virtualization. Application Service.
Appliedi.net Windows Web Hosting Blog
Dome9 Security Announces Entry into Rackspace Cloud Tools ...
By FindMyHost News
Web Hosting Services - SANTA CLARA, CA – Cloud Expo 2011 (Dome9 Booth No. 522) – Dome9 Security™, the leading provider of cloud security management for.
FindMyHost Directory
Business Process as a Service (BPaaS) delivered from the cloud ...
By Biren Gandhi
When these services are delivered from the cloud, it changes the economic dynamics. Particularly from the user perspective, one moves away capital expenditure (CAPEX) discussion to the operational expenditure (OPEX) discussion during ...
Thoughts on Cloud
Kindle Cloud Reader Comes to Firefox
By Lauren Indvik
Kindle Cloud Reader, an HTML5 app that lets you read Kindle books both online and offline from your browser, is now available for Firefox.
Mashable » Tech
Occupy Cloud! movement set to occupy Cloud Expo
But, who will speak up for production enterprise applications?” I thought. “The reality is that 99% of production enterprise applications are still earth-bound … not ...
blog.appzero.com/.../occupy-cloud-movement-set-occupy-clo...
Xen Cloud | Xen Cloud Servers
Xen Cloud: learn more about hosted Xen Cloud Servers and Xen Virtual Machines at vServer Center's World Class Data Center. Buy online or call ...
www.vservercenter.com/xen-hosting/xen-cloud.html
Secured Cloud Hosting
Control public or private clouds while incorporating Secured Cloud's enterprise technologies for back-end support.
www.phoenixnap.com/secured-cloud/
Cisco Blog » Blog Archive » The Status of Cloud Adoption in the UK ...
A few weeks back, Cisco in the UK released a report on the status of cloud adoption in the UK - based upon market research by an independent market ...
blogs.cisco.com/.../the-status-of-cloud-adoption-in-the-uk-clo...
Cloud Business Analytics – Pentaho
Pentaho Cloud provides the greatest flexibility for accessing, integrating, and ... Whether you're moving data into or out of the Cloud, managing data within the ...
www.pentaho.com/cloud/

Cloud Technology Partners (cloudTP) to Deliver Rackspace Cloud: Private Edition
Sacramento Bee
"This announcement underscores the maturity and market acceptance of the OpenStack platform," said Jim Lampert, Co-Founder and Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing, CloudTechnology Partners (cloudTP). "However, what makes this announcement ...
Hexagrid and Boston Showcase Unovie Private Cloud Simplicity at Cloud Expo
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Hexagrid and Boston Limited bring the Unovie Cloud to market at Cloud Expo West 2011 as a pre-packaged private cloud solution that offers speed to market, remote service capabilities, and five times better data center space efficiency to benefit cloud ...
CloudSigma Launches First SSD Storage Product in Public Cloud IaaS
MarketWatch (press release)
The new solution is designed to help eliminate the growing storage bottlenecks and variable performance in the cloud brought on by traditional magnetic-based storage solutions' inability to keep pace with the requirements of a multi-tenant environment. ...
CompTIA and ITpreneurs Collaborate on New Cloud Computing Credential
MarketWatch (press release)
The CompTIA Cloud Essentials exam, scheduled for availability in December 2011, will validate knowledge and understanding of cloud computing principles and concepts, including what cloud computing means from a business and technical perspective and ...

 

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