Friday, November 11, 2011

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Standing Cloud raises $3M to help new cloud providers stay competitive
VentureBeat
Cloud application management provider Standing Cloud has raised $3 million in a new funding round, the company announced today. Standing Cloud is a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) company that offers an application storefront and life cycle management to ...
Why the Cloud Will Bring the App Store Revolution to Enterprise IT
Wired News
Though I think the term is generally useless as either an analytical tool or category of computing that large entities can and should use in planning strategy, I'm not quite ready to give up on the idea that “the cloud” does have at least some ...
HEIT Launches Outsourced Cloud Hosting Services at Annual HEIT Summit
MarketWatch (press release)
These services enable financial institutions to outsource all of their IT servers and hardware needs to a cloud-based environment, allowing them increased flexibility and efficiency. The Cloud Hosting Services combine outsourced infrastructure and ...
Amazon Adds HyperOffice's Cloud Email, Collaboration and Mobility Software to ...
Sacramento Bee
10, 2011 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Today, HyperOffice announced that in partnership with Amazon its award winning cloud communication and collaboration software is available through AWS GovCloud, acloud infrastructure built to meet the security and ...
CMiC Announces X Cloud Initiative at Annual User Conference
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
CMiC, the leader in creating advanced, open, enterprise-wide software solutions for project based organizations, unveiled X Cloud - its enterprise cloud services platform - at Connect 2011, the 13th annual CMiC user group conference in Las Vegas, NV. ...
Public Cloud Security Credentials Flunk A Research Test
InformationWeek
Researchers who grabbed security credentials via Google code search advise caution regarding sensitive data and public cloud services. By Tim Wilson, Dark Reading The access codes and secret keys of thousands of public cloud services users can be ...
Oracle Pitches Solaris as 'First Cloud OS'
Wired News
On a video replay of the launch, Oracle President Mark Hurd calls Solaris 11 “the first cloud OS,” and said things like, “With this OS: Game over.” At one point he jokes about the event's low-key marketing, forcing producers to rerun a cheezy 10-second ...
Accenture's new private cloud offering supports SAP apps
Computer Business Review
Accenture has developed a private cloud offering in support of SAP applications which allows businesses and organisations to easily migrate to a lower cost, private cloud infrastructure. The accenture's cloud offering is designed to enhance the ...
Firms Will Flee Cloud If Lessons From Siri and RIM Outages Not Learned
PCWorld
By Antony Savvas, computerworlduk.com In light of the recent Apple Siri and RIM BlackBerry outages firms will avoid moving to cloud services unless suppliers stop "designing them to fail", sayscloud research firm Saugatuck Technology. ...
What are the steps to sound cloud computing?
SearchSOA
Recently The Open Group released Cloud Computing for Business, which takes a close view at cloud computing from the business side, but which is not uncongenial to those looking at things from the enterprise architect's point of view. ...
Audials One 9 is now Filling Every Cloud With Free Music, Videos and Films
Sacramento Bee
By RapidSolution Software AG Owners of smartphones, tablets, netbooks, game consoles, PCs and many other internet-enabled devices can save themselves the trouble of moving media files around by using so-called cloud storage. With its Version 9, ...
Cloud computing is gaining momentum in Singapore despite concerns over data ...
Techgoondu
According to the Cloud Maturity Index commissioned by VMware, 63 percent of Singapore firms are either using or planning to roll out cloud initiatives, compared to 53 percent in 2010. The survey was compiled by Forrester Research, which interviewed ...
Cloud Offering From NetSol Technologies and BMC Software Gain Traction as ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Companies in the Application Software sector have recognized this trend and many are currently boosting their offerings in one of the hottest sectors around lately, cloud computing. The Bedford Report examines the outlook for companies in the ...
iland Cloud Infrastructure Selected by Multiple Organizations in Recent Weeks
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
iland™, the global cloud infrastructure provider and VMware Service Provider Partner of the Year for Americas today announced that multiple customers worldwide have selected iland for their cloudinfrastructure needs over the past few weeks. ...
Is Geospatial Cloud Computing a Commodity?
DirectionsMag.com
By Directions Staff Directions Magazine conducted a survey to snapshot the current thinking among several solution providers (Esri, Ubisense,eSpatial, Accela, ERDAS) about geospatial cloud computing. We wanted to know if cloud computing is now ...
Zencoder and Aspera Team Up to Support Encoding of Large Video Files in the Cloud
MarketWatch (press release)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Nov 10, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Zencoder, the performance leader in cloud-based video encoding, today announced that they have added support for Aspera's fasp(TM) high-speed transport technology to enable content providers to ...
Head in the Cloud
PropertyCasualty360
By Mark Breading, Karen Furtado Is cloud computing a technology approach that will make a difference for insurers? And just what is cloud computing, anyway? These questions are on the mind of many business and technology executives in insurance today. ...
Cloud Outages Strike Fear
Windows IT Pro
This week has me wondering whether anyone in the cloud has ever heard this saying. I'm not talking about the highly publicized outages of the Microsoft Office 365 services in August and September of this year. Both of those outages were clearly growing ...
The Right Tech for the Cloud: Interview with Right Scale CEO Michael Crandell
NTDTV
By James O. Grundvig 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, and the 2011 Cloud West Expo, which starts in Santa Clara ...
Dell Commits Funding, Cloud Technology and Employee Engagement to Fight ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Dell today announced a major commitment of funding, employee engagement and cloud computing technology to support pediatric cancer research programs globally, including the world's first personalized medicine trial for pediatric cancer conducted by the ...
It Could Happen to You: The Importance of a Cloud Security Platform
TMC Net
By Carrie Schmelkin Just as you need a trusty alarm system to keep your home as safe as possible, it is imperative to find a trusty cloud security platform that will watch over your servers and prevent breaches. Fortunately, as companies look to move ...
Five Services That Can Move Your Music to the Cloud
PCWorld
If you're ready to let your music "reach for the cloud," here's a look at five new and not-so-new services that let you sync, stream, and download your music on your PC, your mobile devices, and even your television's set-top box. ...
Don't Let Cisco's Cloud Growth Go Unnoticed
TheStreet.com
All Things D did traders a solid by actually mentioning the new business: cloud and video conferences which, alas, did do quite well, an encouraging sign for a rusty old technology giant like Cisco, to say the least, and one that should not pass ...
INTERNOTE Corporation Announces Availability of "INTERNOTE Cloud Service" for ...
MarketWatch (press release)
"INTERNOTE Cloud Service" enables registered users to post and view handwritten content viacloud technology. Each piece of handwritten data is managed by a page called a 'leaf' which is given a unique URL. This method is expected to advance the usage ...
Rackspace Launches OpenStack Private Cloud » Data Center ...
By Rich Miller
The new offering provides Rackspace with an opportunity to build revenues atop private clouds living in customers' on-premises data centers or third-party colocation centers operated by companies like Equinix. It also allows Rackspace to ...
Data Center Knowledge
The Secret to Doing Cloud Scalability Right | Cloud Computing ...
Cloud scalability – whether on-premise or off – should be a balancing (pun only somewhat intended) act that maximizes performance and efficiency while minimizing costs. While allowing “the cloud” to auto-scale encourages operational ...
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Dispatch: taming the cloud — building43
By Robert Scoble
There are a number of services that allow us to leverage the cloud for file storage and file sharing, unlocking information once trapped on a single device and making it accessible from our smart phones and tablets. In fact, many.
building43
The Road to Cloud Services: An ING Case Study
By Lisa Archer
Cloud computing is the number 1 technology priority for CIOs, according to Gartner research. Gartner also predicts that the cloud market will be $150 billion by 2015. By 2015 cloud services will make up 46 percent of net new growth.
CompTIA Blog
Recovery In the Cloud, Part 2 – What CIOs Should Ask | Mission ...
By Carl Meadows
Evaluating cloud providers is time-consuming and you don't do it often enough to become expert. Here are a few questions that go to the crux of most CIO concerns.
Blog Center
Scale workforce on cloud through crowd | Thoughts on Cloud
By Sunil Joshi
Cloud can really be a disruptive model for the workforce. Other than the common benefits (and pitfalls) generally being discussed – such as cost savings, time-to-value, security, quality of service, and so on – one of the biggest shakeups ...
Thoughts on Cloud
Cloud technology evolves as mainstream business enabler ...
As Cloud technologies and services mature and user understanding of their capabilities improve, theCloud is developing into a mainstream Information Technology option. It is clear it is no longer viewed as a disruptive technology but an ...
Enterprise Innovation RSS feed
The Public Cloud | Rickscloud
By Rick Blaisdell
While I was writing my article on the history of cloud computing the other week, I have realized how far we have come, starting from brilliant ideas in Internet and computing as services, to today's world where both are common place. ...
Rickscloud
Inside OpSource's New Cloud Software for Developers | WHIR Web ...
Inside OpSource's New Cloud Software for Developers | The Web Host Industry Review - Web Hosting News.
theWHIR.com - Web Hosting Industry...
Panda Security's Collective Intelligence Cloud-Scanning Backend ...
By Panda Security
Since its launch in 2007, Panda Security's system for automatically scanning, detecting, classifying and disinfecting malware has processed more than 200.
Press Panda Security
Are you in the same Cloud? | Teambox Blog
By Merce Ruestes
How many times have you heard “We are in the Cloud!” from a CIO? Nowadays many companies have moved to the cloud due to its amazing advantages while keeping costs down: immediate deployment, no implementation cost, ...
Teambox Blog
The Consumer Cloud: Your Next Big Home Computing Project
Today we're beginning a series of posts exploring the world of cloud services from a consumer's point of view. The word "cloud" refers to an online repository for ...
www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_consumer_cloud.php
Introducing CloudBeat, VentureBeat's cloud-focused channel ...
The CloudBeat category has been sitting atop VentureBeat's homepage for a few months, but today we're officially launching the channel with web app ...
venturebeat.com/.../introducing-cloudbeat-venturebeats-cloud-...
OpSource Cloud Software | OpSource
OpSource Cloud Software is commercial software loaded onto a Cloud Server as an operating system (OS) image that incurs additional charges when deployed ...
www.opsource.net/Services/Cloud-Hosting/Cloud-Software
Cloud Security - Cloud Computing Security | McAfee Solutions
McAfee Cloud Security helps you safely and confidently leverage cloud computing services and solutions.
www.mcafee.com/us/solutions/cloud.../cloud-security.aspx?cid...
 

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