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Evaluating vendor cloud security strategies
Forbes
As IT infrastructure is overwhelmed with the “move to the cloud” every vendor of security products is tasked with coming up with a cloud strategy. In my mind tactics are based on “what do we have and how can it be virtualized? ...
Cloud Computing Concepts (C3) Selects TransMedia Group to Publicize the ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Today, ready or not, Cloud Computing is poised to do it yet again and South Florida based CloudComputing Concepts, LLC ("C3") has retained TransMedia Group to let businesses nationwide know that C3 stands ready to guide them as they take their first ...
5 Cloud Lessons Learned From Finance Industry Gurus
InformationWeek
The advantages of private clouds and the lack of good IT talent gets Boston members of the Wall Street Technology Association talking. By Charles Babcock InformationWeek The members of the Boston branch of the Wall Street Technology Association remain ...
Fujitsu Launches NuVola Private Cloud Platform Solution Featuring ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The NuVola Private Cloud Platform(TM) solution is an appliance-based offering built with class-leading Fujitsu server and storage products, and paired with advanced software tools and utilities that transform business critical processes by leveraging ...
Know Your Clouds
Campus Technology
By Rama Ramaswami, Dian Schaffhauser Just as there are all kinds of real clouds--stratus, cirrus, cumulus--there are different types of computing clouds. The three primary cloud types are public, private, and hybrid. The most appropriate cloud for your ...
Nirvanix Cloud Storage Takes Center Stage at TAG Entertainment Society Event
Sacramento Bee
By Nirvanix SAN DIEGO, Oct. 31, 2011 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Nirvanix, the leading provider of enterprise-class cloud storage services, today announced that its Director of Systems Engineering, David Bailey, will deliver a presentation titled "Leveraging ...
Internap Unwraps First OpenStack Cloud Service
NetworkComputing.com
It calls its Open Public Cloud the world's first commercially available OpenStack service, while its new Vmware-based public and private cloud services are starting off with VMware vCloud Powered status. The company also reported a segment profit of ...
InfoRelay Expands Peering Relationships in Los Angeles-Strengthens Cloud Position
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
The inclusion of Amazon in network peering arrangements will aid InfoRelay in its efforts to build on current infrastructure to become the nation's leading network infrastructure provider for clouddeployment initiatives. "By adding direct peering to ...
Building cloud-optimised networks
Register
By Chris Mellor • Get more from this author Expert Clinic Three experts look at building cloud-optimised networks from the operational point of view, a fabric-based infrastructure point of view, and a service delivery model point of view. ...
CloudPassage Launches Halo GhostPorts Features - Most Secure Way to Access ...
Sacramento Bee
"Securing remote access to sensitive functions like administrative consoles, database services, and data transfer facilities is very problematic with a mobile workforce," said Chris Brenton, cloudsecurity architect of CloudPassage. ...
Gartner Symposium: IT Solution Providers Take on the Cloud
Channel Insider
IT solution providers, especially systems integrators, are ideally positioned to take advantage of the opportunities raining down from the cloud. The omens all pointed upward at this year's Gartner Symposium ITxpo 2011: Attendance was up by about 1000, ...
SolidFire raises $25M to boost cloud provider agility and performance
VentureBeat
SolidFire, a solid-state storage provider for cloud services, has raised a new $25 million round of funding to help improve performance and reliability for emerging cloud providers, the company revealed Monday. SolidFire sells powerful solid-state hard ...
CRM rivals invest in social and cloud
CNET
Back in March, Salesforce.com enhanced its social strategy and Service Cloud 3 offer with a $326 million purchase of Radian6, the popular social-media monitoring platform. Last week, Oracle made competitive moves to boost its cloud business announcing ...
Glue Networks Announces Partnership With Nexus IS, Inc.
MarketWatch (press release)
A secure, affordable and easy to use cloud-based networking service, gluware(TM)Cloud Services extends voice, video and real-time data capabilities to an enterprise's remote teleworkers, branches or retail offices. As part of its advanced technology ...
Aon eSolutions Launches RIScloud, the Next-Generation Cloud Solution Designed ...
Sacramento Bee
Aon eSolutions is the original cloud provider to the risk, insurance and safety community; the business took its hosted solutions clients online in 2001. CEO Kathleen Burns gave clients a sneak peek earlier this month at the 12th Annual Aon eSolutions ...
Is Google's L.A. Cloud Deployment Derailed?
CRN
By Andrew R Hickey, CRN Google's cloud computing contract with the City of Los Angeles, a problem-plagued deployment nearly from the start, is again in trouble, as city officials claim that Google and solution provider CSC can't meet the security ...
DemandTec Network Expands Cloud-based Planning and Performance Capabilities
MarketWatch (press release)
"Our continued investment in expanding the DemandTec network will deliver richer analytical decision-making apps, elevated trading partner collaboration workflow, and an increasingly sophisticated platform infrastructure - all in the cloud," said Marc ...
Symplified and Solstice to Address Mobile Security for Cloud Applications
MarketWatch (press release)
BOULDER, Colo., Oct 31, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Symplified(R), the Cloud security company, today announced a partnership with Solstice Consulting, an emerging technologies systems integration firm, to address the growing need among enterprises to ...
WSO2 to Present Technology Sessions on Web Services Security and Multi-Tenant ...
MarketWatch (press release)
As a sponsor of the conference, WSO2 also will have a booth to demonstrate how its open source middleware enables enterprises to seamlessly deploy applications and Web services on-premise and in the cloud. ApacheCon 2011 is being held November 7-11, ...
Riverbed Joins OpenStack Community
MarketWatch (press release)
As organizations move their data and applications to the cloud, connectivity over the wide area network (WAN) increasingly poses a challenge to the performance of the applications. As a member of OpenStack, Riverbed(R) is working to add OpenStack ...
Skyscanner Flies Into the Cloud With iomart Hosting
Sacramento Bee
By iomart Hosting iomart Hosting, one of the UK's leading cloud computing and managed hosting providers, has taken Skyscanner, Europe's leading travel search website, into the cloud to support its objective of becoming the number one flight search ...
SAP Launches Cloud-Based Intelligence Platform
TheStreet.com
NEW YORK (Trefis) -- SAP (SAP) has launched a cloud-based version of its BusinessObjects business intelligence offering. SAP BI OnDemand will be powered by SAP's HANA in-memory computing platform, offering enterprises a high performance data analysis ...
Interxion Launches Second Cloud Testlab at Its City of London Data Center
MyHostNews.com (press release)
By MyHostNews.com Web Hosting News – LONDON – INTERXION HOLDING NV (NYSE: INXN), a leading European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services, today announced the deployment of its second Cloud Testlab, a turnkey cloud hosting test ...
eFuture Launches Cloud Service Offering in Celebration of 5-Year NASDAQ ...
MarketWatch (press release)
eFuture's cloud service launch and fifth anniversary listing celebration will take place on Friday, November 4, 2011, and will be attended by senior executives from China's Top 100 retailers, industry experts and representatives from leading media ...
Apple spending big next year on retail and cloud
GigaOm
By Erica Ogg Oct. 31, 2011, 7:57am PT 5 Comments Apple is doubling down on its retail and cloud operations. The company says it will spend about $8 billion in capital expenditures in 2012, which is almost twice as much as the $3.4 billion it spent ...
Cloud Expo Media Partner IDG Best in Cloud Offers Special on Gold ...
Best in Cloud is a competition and conference hosted by Germany's number one IT weekly "Computerwoche", seeking excellent cloud projects run by all kinds of cloud providers - from start-ups to global players, around the world. Paper will be ...
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Business Intelligence in the Cloud | GMO Cloud America
By GMO Cloud America
With the advantages of cloud computing, it should come as no surprise that Business Intelligence (BI) should be moving to the cloud.
GMO Cloud America
Is Data Encryption a must have in the public cloud? | Porticor Cloud ...
By Ariel
This article explores the new risk vectors associated with migrating data to the cloud and the need to deploy data security in public clouds.
Porticor Cloud Security
Globally, cloud computing is on course to become an $83B market ...
By GigaOM
Cloud computing is the future. It is winning over entire industries. According to recent reports the total value of the cloud market will hit $83 billion by 2016. Companies and organizations urgently need a game plan for moving from the current ...
GigaOM
From GITA Event – Leveraging Cloud Computing for GIS Success ...
By glenn
The DMP team (Digital Map Products) recently attended the GITA GIS in Oil & Gas event in texas and have shared a short blog post to recap some of their.
AnyGeo - GIS, Maps, Mobile and...
Clearing the Fog from Cloud Computing | ERP Software Blog
By Michael Camp, Synergy Business Solutions
Whether you already have on-premise Microsoft Dynamics ERP software, are exploring a new accounting system, or just want to research the benefits of the Cloud (and cut through the hype), you will find information to help you make an ...
ERP Software Blog
Moving Beyond the Word Cloud | Duke University Libraries ...
By Amber Welch
Although word clouds are a great tool for quickly conveying information about a large amount of text, they have their limits when it comes to more statistical validity. As librarians we are often presented with or consider ideas for gathering data ...
Duke University Libraries Instruction...
Cloud Cover: What Is This Cloud Computing? | Zeh Lezeh (For One ...
By jayruderman
Imagine, the cloud will mean that each person with a disability will have a unique identifier (stored in the cloud) so that every time the person accesses their mobile phone, PDA, notebook, laptop, netbook, computer or any device with a screen ...
Zeh Lezeh (For One Another)
VMware: VMware vCloud Blog: Dell Launches Public Cloud: Dell ...
Dell has officially launched its first public cloud offering based on VMware technology this morning, allowing enterprise customers the flexibility and efficiency of ...
blogs.vmware.com/.../dell-launches-public-cloud-dell-cloud-w...
A Strategy for Innovation: Mission Engineering® and Cloud Computing
and business processes in support of cloud analysis. With cloud ... enablement opportunities—or “cloud service candidates”—are identified and defined within ...
www.boozallen.com/.../Mission-Engineering-Cloud-Computin...
 

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