Saturday, November 12, 2011

HP Runs VMware's Open Source 'Cloud OS'

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Exclusive: HP Runs VMware's Open Source 'Cloud OS'
Wired News
By Cade Metz Zorawar "Biri" Singh, the man who runs the HP cloud. Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com Nearly a year and a half ago, HP told the world it would offer a cloud service based on Microsoft's Windows Azure, a means of building and deploying ...
Federated Cloud Strategies: What CIOs Need to Know
Computerworld
By Patricia Brown CIO - In many ways the concept of federated cloud is ironic. Cloud computing rapidly gained traction because of its ability to manage the complexity of multiple legacy environments while consolidating infrastructure. ...
Google Partners Prep For Cloud War With Microsoft
CRN
By Andrew R Hickey, CRN Google's cloud promise is "100 percent cloud," while Microsoft's cloudmantra is "all in." Both powerhouses are gunning for cloud dollars and clamoring for channel partners to evangelize their respective cloud visions. ...
The Cloud, Day 4: Checking Out Google Docs
PCWorld
By Tony Bradley, PCWorld As I spelled out on Day 3 of 30 Days With the Cloud, I am going to spend a day with each of the three online productivity suites to see how they meet my needs. After taking a look at each, I'll pick the one I want to use for ...
Oracle's New Solaris 11 for Cloud
Zacks.com
(ORCL - Analyst Report) recently launched Solaris 11, which is claimed to be the first operating system completely dedicated to cloud computing. The updated version of Solaris has been specifically designed to address the security, performance and ...
Building Private Clouds
IT Business Edge (blog)
By date: by SadagopanSingam, HCL Technologies Enterprises of all sizes and across virtually every industry are evaluating cloud computing initiatives for various reasons. Some need to take advantage of the ability to classify the expense on the balance ...
Rackspace Launches OpenStack-Powered Private Cloud
Cloud IT Pro
Rackspace has ventured into the private cloud business Rackspace Cloud: Private Edition, an OpenStack-powered cloud backed by Rackspace managed services and operational support. The offering is aimed at enterprise IT departments that want the benefits ...
RSA Adds SecurID Two-Factor Authentication to Microsoft Azure Cloud
eWeek
Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services now supports RSA SecurID token authentication to secure Office 365 applications, Microsoft Exchange, and Azure Cloud. Organizations can now use their SecurID two-factor authentication deployments to secure ...
No, a copyright case didn't spur cloud investment
GigaOm
A new study authored by investment-banking professor Josh Lerner, and funded by the Computers and Communication Industry Association, not only finds that US venture-capital investment in cloudcomputing startups increased after the mid-2008 decision in ...
Fujitsu Reaches for the CRM Cloud
CRM Buyer
It's also debuted its first cloud solution, called "Fujitsu CRM Cloud Services." Based on open source technology, the company is positioning it as an affordable entry point for CRM users. Fujitsu has jumped into the CRM cloud computing space with its ...
BizCloud Releases Tips for Server Performance Monitoring of Cloud-Hosted ...
TMC Net
By Rajani Baburajan, TMCnet Contributor BizCloud, a cloud technology solutions provider, has released best practices for effectively monitoring the servers and performance of cloud-hosted applications. As cloud grows more ubiquitous, ...
CI pinpoints 200 millionth piece of cloud-based malware
Computerworld
By Taylor Armerding CSO - The good news is that Collective Intelligence (CI), the engine for Internet security created in 2006 by Panda Security's malware research laboratory, recently processed its 200 millionth malware file via the cloud. ...
Social Media, Cloud Create Information Security Challenges
CIO Insight
By Bob Violino on 2011-11-11 In the rush to move into cloud computing, deploy mobile devices and leverage social media, a growing gap is developing between organizations' business needs and their ability to tackle new and complex security threats, ...
SOS Online Backup Adds Bare Metal Recovery To Cloud Backup
CRN
By Joseph F. Kovar, CRN SOS Online Backup this week added bare metal recovery and granular Microsoft application recovery to its cloud storage offering for solution providers and MSPs. The new additions to SOS's cloud storage technology are only a ...
Quanta chief supports cloud computing at alma mater
eTaiwan News
11 (CNA) Quanta Computer Chairman Barry Lam may have bashed his alma mater just weeks ago, but on Friday, he formally donated equipment to help National Taiwan University (NTU) build a cloudcomputing R&D platform. At the donation ceremony, ...
CompTIA Rolls Out Cloud Computing Certification
Channel Insider
CompTIA and ITpreneurs have partnered to release a new credential focused on cloud computing skills and best practices. The Cloud Essentials exam will be available through CompTIA in December. Cloud computing certifications currently available focus on ...
Cloud Computing's Pros and Cons: IEEE CIO Weighs In
CIO Insight
By Alexander Pasik, PhD The spectrum of cloud computing service models offers an increasing collection of managed IT services with concomitant decreasing control and flexibility. The three corecloud computing service models -- IaaS, PaaS and SaaS ...
RightScale Cozies up to OpenStack, SoftLayer
PCWorld
By James Niccolai, IDG News RightScale is adding OpenStack and SoftLayer to the list of cloudservices that can be managed from its RightScale Cloud Management Platform. The SoftLayer support is planned for the first quarter next year, ...
Standing Cloud Raises $3 Million Application Layer Funding
TalkinCloud (blog)
by Matthew Weinberger on Cloud management company Standing Cloud has announced the close of a $3 million round of funding led by existing investors Foundry Group and Avalon Ventures. That brings a total of $8 million in funding to the fledgling cloud ...
OpenStack, Cloud Builders And The Future Of The Cloud
Network World
Earlier this week I wrote about a new service from Rackspace Cloud Builders division called Rackspace Cloud: Private Edition. It is a cloud management as a service (CM-aaS) offering that allows anyone to set up a private cloud on their own premises, ...
ConnectWise Integrates Symform Cloud Storage Services
Server Watch
By ServerWatch Staff (Send Email) Business management solution provider, ConnectWise, has announced they have completed integration of Symform's cloud storage solution to bring an unlimited cloud storage option to the ConnectWise platform. ...
8 Smart Ways To Use Dropbox
InformationWeek
Dropbox lets you do much more than file sharing via its cloud-based storage service. Consider these eight tips to make your life easier. By Jim Rapoza InformationWeek Dropbox has become an extremely popular service for users looking for cloud-based ...
What Is Cloud Computing? Yes, Another Perspective – Part 2
CloudTweaks News
Cloud computing has several deployment models that are adopted according to need and requirement. Each configuration is implemented according to specific circumstances and necessities. In the following paragraphs, these techniques will be discussed one ...
The Hard Part About Rolling Up Clouds
E-Commerce Times
By Jeffrey M. Kaplan While it might be easy for major players like Oracle to acquire a series of cloud companies and add their solutions to their corporate portfolios, truly integrating them can be problematic. The primary reason that roll-ups have not ...
Lifting the clouds
Public Finance
Cloud computing has been adopted by some parts of the public sector but the economics only work if large numbers embrace it. The government may have to force the issue The best news about the recently announced Government Cloud Strategy is that central ...
EDB ErgoGroup ASA: New public sector case management system with cloud ...
Reuters (press release)
With its seamless integration to other systems, choice of user interface, mobility and access tocloud computing, ePhorte5 will transport the Norwegian case management user into the future", explains Håvard Larsen", Head of the Solutions business area ...
Cloud/Mobile Strategy 5: Security in the Cloud | SiliconANGLE
By Bert Latamore
Security is always a major concern when discussing public cloud services. CIOs and often senior management as well feel safer keeping control over vital company data rather than trusting it to a third party out somewhere on the Internet. ...
SiliconANGLE
Friday Cloud News Roundup | GMO Cloud America
By GMO Cloud America
Cloud Computing Highlights: Moving to Private Cloud, Virtual Disaster Recovery, Adobe Drops Flash, 2012: Year of Cloud Computing, Open Virtualization Alliance.
GMO Cloud America
Zenny's Weekly Cloud Links #34 by @tbalinas via @Zenoss
By Travis Balinas
I was looking through the programme for an upcoming cloud computing conference and noted a number of sessions devoted to negotiating contracts and service level agreements (SLAs) with cloud providers. Reading the session descriptions, ...
The Cloud Management Blog
#Cloudchat November Recap: Retail analytics and the cloud ...
By Katie Keating
Just in time for the barrage of advertisements and deep discounts that dominate the holiday shopping season, our November #cloudchat focused on retail analytics and the cloud. Our panelists, Greg Girard of IDC and John Squire of IBM, ...
Thoughts on Cloud
Oracle's New Solaris 11 For Cloud
By Zacks Investment Research
Solaris 11 helps customers to deploy even their most demanding enterprise applications in any type of cloud smoothly and also at a considerably lower cost than other systems (reduces storage cost by 10 times), due to the integration of file ...
DailyMarkets.com
SMB Cloud Series #2: The Cloud and Mobile Web «Inside ...
By Marcy D.
Time for the second post in our SMB and the Cloud series! In the first post, we talked about cloudstorage of files and assets to allow them to be accessed from almost anywhere by the people in your immediate or extended team as needed. ...
Inside BlackBerry for Business Blog
OpenStack, Cloud Builders And The Future Of The Cloud
OpenStack, Cloud Builders And The Future Of The Cloud. Friday, 11 November 2011 - 16:01 PM. Earlier this week I wrote about a new service from Rackspace Cloud Builders division called Rackspace Cloud: Private Edition. It is a cloud ...
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SAP on the Cloud » My favourite Cloud and SaaS sessions ...
By Sven Denecken
Run your business better, respond faster, and make informed decisions without costly IT. Learn how SAP's cloud strategy, innovations, and on-demand solutions deliver rapid time to value. Hear from SAP's Peter Lorenz, executive VP for cloud ...
SAP on the Cloud
Advantages Of Cloud Software Management
By cloudhostingguy
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Cloud Security Loopholes - easily found with Google Code Search ...
By Ivan
Cloud security warning - a team of researchers has revealed that storing critical information on the public cloud is not a good idea right now.
Cloud Business Review
The Spoons Experience » What is Cloud Protection Software all ...
By admin
Cloud Security Software program will be the software program normally utilized in payment card company and e-mail protection answer. It truly is needed towards the area of PCI Compliance. Payment card security happens prior to the ...
The Spoons Experience
Cloud Trends to Watch Out for in 2012 | CloudTimes
By Martin Tantow
Ovum released its latest analysis this week stating the trends that will impact 2012, which include data analytics, cloud computing and agile developments.
CloudTimes
Cloud Computing - New Buzzword, Old Legal Issues
Not too long ago, the term "cloud computing" appeared on the scene. The technology concept behind cloud computing has been around for more than 50 years, ...
www.ecommercetimes.com/rsstory/73714.html
Taming Big Data Main Theme of Cloud Expo 2011 - Cloud ...
The ninth International Cloud Expo conference in Santa Clara, Calif., this week was packed to the brim. Parking places were hard to find, the food went quicker ...
www.eweek.com/.../Taming-Big-Data-Main-Theme-of-Cloud-...
Cloud Hosting Comparison | Web Development Blog
Cloud hosting is much more than a marketing term, hosting in the cloud is about redundancy and scalability. This article is compares 3 cloud host companies.
www.web-development-blog.com/cloud-hosting/
 

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