Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Cloud services are maturing fast

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Another reason not to cloud wash - real cloud services are maturing fast
ZDNet (blog)
By James Staten | November 22, 2011, 8:55am PST Summary: If you are dismissing true cloud services, it is time to change that attitude, blogs James Staten. We know that enterprise infrastructure & operations (I&O) professionals are under tremendous ...
Cloud burst will boost server demand
Times of India
Now we have a new inflection point, cloud computing. The cloud runs on servers and it's going to make consumption of servers even more easy. The cloud enables a large company to very easily provision more servers. And a small business that never bought ...
Cloud application performance management: Ten insights
SearchSoftwareQuality.com
Cloud applications are deployed, for the most part, in private cloud instances first, and then as demand increases, public cloud instances may be pressed into service. Challenges arise from monitoring cloud application performance using this medley of ...
Economics of The Cloud -- Can It Make Money?
Forbes
“The Cloud” is a high multiple phrase and participating companies are highly sought after by investors. As such, a variety of companies from Rackspace to Salesforce.com to Amazon are benefitting by investor exuberance. Is this a bubble? ...
EMC Improves Atmos Cloud Metering, Adds GeoDrive Linux Support
Internet.com
EMC upgraded its Atmos Cloud Delivery Platform with enhanced cloud metering services and improved administrative reporting and controls. It also added Atmos GeoDrive support for Linux environments. "We've seen tremendous traction and interest from both ...
Secret net Tor asks users to sign up to cloud services
BBC News
Use of Amazon's cloud service will make it harder for governments to track, experts say. Amazon's cloud service - dubbed EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) offers virtual computer capacity. The Tor developers are calling on people to sign up to the service in...
The Cloud isn't elastic enough
BetaNews
It will all be magically available to stream or download on-demand through "the Cloud". This was the dream when I started my first Internet business in 1995. Now, people think it is the reality. And, while we are making great progress towards such a ...
Cloud News: Amazon, GoGrid, Alcatel-Lucent, Trellia
Data Center Knowledge
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced that Elastic Load Balancing can now be used with Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). Elastic Load Balancing allows fault tolerance across multiple Amazon EC instances for responding to incoming application traffic, ...
Cloud Computing: BNA Webinar Forecasts State Tax Opportunities and Pitfalls in ...
MarketWatch (press release)
22, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Cloud computing technologies have increasingly become the answer for companies looking to minimize information technology costs and gain more customers. Many businesses are harnessing the power of the cloud by ...
Cloud predictions for enterprise IT in 2012
SearchCloudComputing.com
Ask around and you'll hear it over and over again: Enterprise IT shops are worried about using thecloud. They're concerned about the security, privacy and governance risks of moving their data and applications outside their four walls. ...
Legal Issues in the Cloud: Exploring Business Continuity, Liability and SLA ...
CTR
by Andrew L. Goldstein This article is the second in a two-part series examining the potential legal issues – for both the vendor and customer – involved with the deployment of cloud computing solutions. Read the first part of the series here. ...
Ten tests for software applications in the cloud
SearchSoftwareQuality.com
Cloud-based applications are becoming more common these days whether they are on privateclouds, public clouds or a combination of both. Testing for cloud-based applications presents its own specific challenges. Understanding how these applications are ...
Cloudcor Announces ViaWest as a Premier Partner for UP2011 Cloud Computing ...
MarketWatch (press release)
OAKVILLE, Ontario, Nov 22, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Cloudcor(R) today announced that ViaWest, a leading cloud and hosting service provider, has been named a premier partner for UP 2011, a hybrid format Cloud Computing Conference taking place December 5 ...
Cloud Vets Start PaperShare, Giving IT Pros a Better Place to Geek Out
Xconomy
Since 1999 he's been running the site DABCC, which focuses on a niche audience of professionals interested in nitty-gritty developments in cloud computing and virtualization. Brown, a jack of several trades who previously worked at Citrix, ...
VMware's Cloud Computing Software Leads Movement
Investor's Business Daily
By MARILYN ALVA, INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY Posted 04:21 PM ET Cloud-computing helper VMware (VMW) threw some rain on its outlook in October due to uncertainties over the global economy. But close watchers of the software company still see sunny days ...
Health care moving toward cloud storage services cautiously
SearchHealthIT.com
Hospitals, faced with growing amounts of electronic records and digital images, would seem a good fit for cloud storage services -- but security and other concerns compel health care providers to proceed with caution. One reason for reticence: the ...
Cloud Society: Why Adobe wants us thinking about the creative cloud
Cloud Pro
Can it cope with the impact of cloud? For technology companies large and small, success can be achieved in only a handful of ways. Incumbency is a workable option, but generally only open to the gorillas of the market, the IBMs, Microsofts and Oracles ...
Why Nigerian businesses must adopt cloud technologies – Dimension Data MD
BusinessDay
With global businesses consumer preferences setting the pace for cloud-based technologies it's about time that Nigerian and West African businesses get on board and begin to use the many benefits of cloud technologies to impact their bottom-line, ...
Wyse Expands Cloud Client Computing Portfolio With Trellia Acquisition
Channel Insider
Wyse Technology, a provider of cloud client computing, announced it acquired Trellia, a specialist incloud-based mobile infrastructure management. The Trellia solution suite provides Wyse, its customers and partners with a suite of cloud-based mobile ...
Cloud Computing: Slow Adoption Rates, Current Obstacles
Internet.com
Despite the hype, companies are only slowly migrating to cloud computing, chiefly due to several key challenges. Since cloud computing is a recent innovation, current adoption rate across the industry is limited. For instance: Microsoft's 'SMB Cloud ...
Netsuite "SuiteAcademy" Program Graduates Cloud Computing to Higher Education ...
Sacramento Bee
Driven by the growing global demand for teaching NetSuite cloud solutions in college classrooms, "SuiteAcademy" will put NetSuite software and professor developed curriculum in the hands of students, giving the next generation of business leaders a ...
Xbox Dashboard Update Adds Cloud Storage, Kinect Control, and More in December
1UP.com
Cloud storage for Xbox Live profiles and save games is also being added. The benefit of this is you don't need to worry about any issues with your hard drive costing you that precious Skyrim save. It'll also allow you to recover your Gamertag without ...
MediaPlatform Partners With Riverbed to Optimize Cloud-Based Video on Demand
MarketWatch (press release)
Announced today by MediaPlatform, the joint offering integrates MediaPlatform's PrimeTime media management technology with Riverbed Cloud Steelhead enabling enterprises to optimize Internet bandwidth load while accessing VOD content stored in the cloud ...
Cloud Computing: Business Model or Technology?
CloudTweaks News
There are many articles on the Internet about cloud computing, and I have written quite a few as well, covering all sorts of subjects from history to future trends, advantages, disadvantages, what it is, what is not, and the list could go on and on. ...
ActiveState Commits to Free Stackato Micro Cloud for Developers
MarketWatch (press release)
VANCOUVER, BC, Nov 22, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- ActiveState, the dynamic language experts offering solutions for Perl, Python, Tcl and other web languages, has announced today that after Beta, Stackato Micro Cloud will continue to be free of ...
International Development Organization CHF International Selects Tenrox Cloud ...
PR Web (press release)
CHF International (CHF), a relief and development organization based in Silver Spring, MD, has chosen Tenrox cloud-based project portfolio management (Tenrox Cloud PPM) platform and will partner with Tenrox to develop a comprehensive specialized ...
Cloud Expo Takeaways: Cloud Policy and Governance is the ...
With 9th Cloud Expo at Silicon Valley's Santa Clara Convention Center now finished, CloudComputing Journal asked a variety of industry stakeholders what their Top Three takeaways were from the event, now that the many thousands of ...
Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal
Will cultural pushback kill private clouds? — Cloud Computing News
By Derrick Harris
If a recent blog post by Gartner analyst Lydia Leong is telling, it looks as if cultural hurdles are impeding private cloud adoption as well as public cloud adoption -- at least when it comes to doing it right. It takes sacrifice to operate like Google.
Cloud
Government as cloud provider | Thoughts on Cloud
By Maks Strajher
Wherever you turn these days, there are discussions about cloud computing: What kind of benefit can cloud bring to the corporation? What are the drivers and barriers to shift workload or complete IT environment in to the cloud (private, public ...
Thoughts on Cloud
4 Must Cloud Security Concerns!
By CloudWays Intl.
Briefs you on what is cloud security and what are the areas of security concern on cloud. It gives you 4 major solutions to cloud security in order you ensure...
Blog
Another reason not to cloud wash - real cloud services are maturing ...
By James Staten
Since cloud became a household word, vendors and enterprises alike have jumped to declare victory on cloud with services and infrastructure implementations that really don't deliver cloud value but have the same foundation - something we ...
IT Infrastructure
Understanding the Cloud | Prevent Website Crashes with Cloud ...
By Jerry Miller
Learn how to prevent website crashes with cloud services and start understanding the cloud better: what it can do, what it can't and how it works.
CDNetworks
Cloud Computing for Business in 2012: What lies ahead? | Cloud ...
By Ivan
The 2012 is approaching and many expect that 2012 will be the year of cloud computing. For the year of 2012, what business owners need to prepare and how?
Cloud Business Review
Global Knowledge Training Blog » The Cloud: Promises
By Guest Authors
Your Source for Technical, Professional, & Leadership Training.
Global Knowledge Training Blog
SkyDrive - designing personal cloud storage for billions of people
By Omar Shahine
The official engineering blog for Hotmail, Messenger, SkyDrive, and Windows Live, hosted by The Windows Blog.
Inside Windows Live
PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: CloudFoundry Is Ramping ...
By Krishnan Subramanian
Last week Wired Magazine carried a story about how HP (disclosure: I had brief strategy discussion with HP on their public cloud strategy without any financial transaction and I was aware of their moves for sometime) is using CloudFoundry ...
CloudAve
Devoteam: Interoperability and Openness in the cloud - Serving ...
By Bart Vande Ghinste
Belgium Luxembourg architecture, enterprise, infrastructure, application, microsoft.
MSDN Blogs
Irish Web Host Blacknight Launches Cloud Hosting Service | WHIR ...
Irish Web Host Blacknight Launches Cloud Hosting Service | The Web Host Industry Review - Web Hosting News.
theWHIR.com - Daily Web Hosting News
News from CA World: CA Cloud 360 Helps Enterprises Accelerate ...
By Christine Needles
Last week at CA World 2011, we unveiled a brand new solution - CA Cloud 360 - providing a prescriptive approach to help enterprise CIOs validate and select which applications and business services are best suited for private, public and ...
The CA Cloud Storm Chasers
ReadWriteWeb: The Consumer Cloud Archives
Yesterday we looked at the three leading "cloud locker" services for music: iTunes Match, AmazonCloud Drive and Google Music. As a preface to that post, ...
www.readwriteweb.com/archives/series/the-consumer-cloud/
IBM Active Cloud Engine Doesn't Support Cloud, but Maybe in 2012 ...
IBM briefed DCIG on the details around its October Active Cloud Engine product announcement on Wednesday, November 16, of this past week. The briefing ...
www.dcig.com/.../ibm-active-cloud-engine-doesnt-support-clo...
'Generation Cloud' is here | iSGTW
Now you can get a good idea of the answer thanks to a new a social study called 'Generation Cloud'. The project was commissioned by Rackspace, a Texas, US ...
www.isgtw.org/visualization/generation-cloud-here

GSA reopens cloud email RFQ
FederalNewsRadio.com
GSA now better defines a government community cloud as a "a multi-tenant cloud offering limited exclusively to United States federal, state, local and tribal governments with registered dot-gov or dot-mil domain addresses. ...
VMware Launches Caldecott Ruby Cloud Data Migration Tool
eWeek
VMware has announced Caldecott, a new Ruby application that lets developers migrate their application's data between different Cloud Foundry clouds. The new technology, now available as a preview release, enables developers to use familiar client ...
 
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