Saturday, December 31, 2011

Cloud News: Past, Present, Future

Amazon's Cloud: A Supercomputer Anyone Can Rent
Mashable
It's in the cloud. Cloud computing gets a lot of attention, and deservedly so. Harnessing the processing power of multiple machines in different locations to attack a single, complex task that would usually be completed by a machine in a single ...

2011 in Review: Tablets and the Cloud Take Center Stage
PC Magazine
Tablet computers became a bigger part of our technology lives—both for personal and business users—and cloud computing evolved from just a buzzword into a common phrase in our vernacular. On the hardware side, it was clearly the year of the tablet, ...

How The Cloud Is Changing The Video Game Business
Forbes
Following its sold out Cloud Gaming Summit in San Jose, CA September 7-8, FC Business Intelligence is bringing the cloud conversation to London January 17-18, 2012 with Cloud Gaming Europe. Four of the leading speakers from the upcoming summit offer ...

Forbes

Host Virtual expands its Hong Kong and India Clouds with a Localized Level of ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Cloud Hosting provider Host Virtual, Inc has expanded both its India and Hong Kong cloud locations with additional capacity, providing low latency, localized Cloud Services to two of the fastest growing economies in the world. Cloud Hosting provider ...

Cloud, Social Computing Expected To Dominate 2012
Investor's Business Daily
And social networking, mobile computing, cloud computing and digital delivery of entertainment will continue to change the competitive landscape. A look ahead: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg shows off changes to the social site in 2011. ...

Cloud Computing Trends for 2012 Made Clear
Infoboom
In order for small and midsize businesses (SMBs) to move forward in cloud computing, it's essential that they know where the market is going and invest wisely to maximize IT dollars. Though the cloudhas seen significant growth over the last two years, ...

How To Accelerate Cloud Adoption Through Windows 8
CRN (blog)
By Greg Pierce, for, CRN December 30, 2011 Windows 8 is an operating system that is a great fit for tablets -- far better than a phone OS that can be jiggered to deliver enterprise functionality, says Pierce, Managing Director of Cloud Computing at ...

2012 and the Cloud: Computing Wonders That Won't Cease
CloudTweaks News
We're well aware of CloudTweaks' readers' hunger to get the scoop on what's to come for the cloudin the New Year. But only vetted psychics can divine the future with truly reliable accuracy, andcloud computing has yet to invent a custom-made crystal ...

Questions about moving to the cloud? We have answers.
Nextgov
As policies from the new federal chief information officer, Steven VanRoekel, become better known,cloud computing technology is proving more important than ever. VanRoekel has pledged not only to continue the Cloud First policy established by his ...

Insync cloud storage service uses Google to undercut Dropbox
The Verge
On the surface, it's similar to other cloud storage services like Dropbox, Egnyte, and Box, where a folder created in your user account is automatically synced to remote servers for simple backup and sharing. However, there are a few differences that ...

Cloud-Based Reference Architecture
SYS-CON Media (press release)
During the past few years enterprise services have been leveraging cloud-based technologies for several reasons including scalability and automated provisioning capabilities [1, 2]. In a development / design environment, cloud platforms provide dynamic ...

SYS-CON Media (press release)

Just Cloud Revealed as the Webmaster's Choice by Top10CloudStorage.com
PR Web (press release)
Affordable, Unlimited, Quick, Free Trial, everything that represents why Top10CloudStorage.com has chosen Just Cloud as the Webmaster's Choice for the New Year. Just Cloud re-energizes a positive outlook for the future of file storage. ...

Cloud Computing: Where to Find the Silver Lining
The Fiscal Times
Now cyber space, under its proper name of “the cloud,” has become one of the hottest investment trends around – it even has its own exchange-traded fund, the First Trust ISE Cloud Computing Index Fund (SKYY) to prove it. Over the last three years, ...

The Fiscal Times

Ultimate Software Offers Cloud for Human Resources
Human Resources Journal
The Ultimate Software Group, from Weston, Florida, is growing much faster than those numbers mentioned above as it acquires more clients for its cloud-based human resources services. “Good people can always find another job. ...

Beachwood company lives in 'the cloud'
Cleveland Jewish News
Together, the three developed innovative cloud-based property management software that helps track things such as rent payments and service requests at both residential and commercial properties. "You don't install anything on your computer," Pearl ...

Department of Defense's Cloud Computing Strategy: Saving Money & Increasing ...
Smart Data Collective
The 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) recently passed by Congress includes a section on data centers and servers, concerning the IT industry and cloud hosting providers (Section 2867). A plan to reduce the resources needed for servers and ...

Army Cloud Intelligence Center Will Give Greater Security, Better Access
Technorati
These attained resources include the military's first tactical cloud, which came online in Afghanistan in March of 2011. The cloud is the foundation of the intelligence gathering system. Within the cloud, information is accumulated and stored, ...

GWATA to chew over 'cloud' basics at luncheon
The Wenatchee World Online (blog)
But those are old-style clouds. Even though they ARE wireless. The new cloud — the big honkin' computing cloud — is a whole different animal that looks like ... hmm. We don't really know what it looks like. So give thanks that the topic of the ...

Cloud Computing: The Testing and Development Environment
SYS-CON Media (press release)
There has been a lot of advancement on the cloud computing side in the past few years so you can provision service in a matter of minutes, but there has not been a whole lot of advancement on the application side," states John Yung, CEO at Appcara,...

SYS-CON Media (press release)

Cloud based photo host Everpix goes public as beta - Neowin.net
By Paul Ferson
The Everpix photo host has went public today, in pre-release beta. While currently limited only to Apple devices, it could have features to draw you away from your current image host.
Neowin.net

Zenny's Weekly Cloud Links #39 by @tbalinas via @Zenoss
By Travis Balinas
Every Friday we like to highlight some of our favorite posts on Cloud Computing, service orientated infrastructure, DevOps, Big Data, and anything else that grabbed our attention over the week. Here are some great articles from the week of ...
The Cloud Management Blog

The Pros and Cons of Cloud Hosting
By prateek
One issue with cloud providers like Amazon is that you have to build around uncertainty. Your instances can go down or degrade anytime. In fact Netflix has a Chaos Monkey to simulate such situations and make sure their system stays up. ...
SupportBee's DevBlog

Government Cloud Adoption a Significant 2011 IT Trend
Cloud computing adoption became a frequent solution for several traditional IT problems in 2011, as companies and government agencies throughout the United States implemented cloud strategies at an incredible pace. The government ...
Proofpoint - Security, Compliance...

A Year in Cloud: From Analytics to iCloud | SiliconANGLE
By Maria Deutscher
The past year has been a significant one for the cloud industry. Both enterprises and consumers have realized the potential of the technology, and vendors across both sectors have done their best to push as much innovation and marketing ...
SiliconANGLE

Insync: A New Cloud Sync/Backup Solution That Uses Google ...
By Paul Thurrott
As time moves on, cloud services mature, and now there are more options than ever. And today, what appears to be a very interesting alternative for both cloud sync and backup has emerged. It's called Insync, and it uses Google's scalable ...
Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows

Friday Cloud News Roundup | GMO Cloud America
By GMO Cloud America
Cloud Computing News Highlights: SOPA, Forrester's End of Year forecast, Open Source Technologies, Cloud Technology Changes IT Roles, Splunk, Electronic Medical Records and the AMA.
GMO Cloud America

Moving into the cloud | Unlimited Priorities
By Al Stevens
While there's still a lot of hype, cloud computing is now regularly delivering real benefits that include increased flexibility, reliability and responsiveness while lowering costs -- often substantially.
Unlimited Priorities

Government Call Centers Can Access Cloud-Based Video ...
By admin
ViewMe. ViewMe. Anywhere, Anytime. ViewMe is the cloud-based video collaboration solution that unlocks the significant investment in Cisco, Polycom or LifeSize telepresence systems. Video Exchange. VideoExchange. Protect & Connect. ...
Stratus Video

Securing the cloud |
By John
Thoughts on how enterprises can secure the cloud as more and more adopt it as a platform for producing their work, etc.

A Brief Analysis on the 3 Kings of Cloud Computing, Microsoft ...
Google, Microsoft and Amazon are said to be the three kings of cloud computing. Moreover, all the three are built with a view to give users' public cloud platform, through which they can run their daily work operations smoothly and efficiently. ...
Student Lounge

OpenLogic's Provides a PaaS Solution to Rackspace Cloud Users
Link to the Rackspace Cloud & Show the Love. Live Chat with us or Call 1.877. 934.0409 Today.
www.rackspace.com/.../openlogics-provides-a-paas-solution-to...

Congress Calls for Defense Department Plan for Cloud Computing ...
Congress ordered the Defense Department to develop a plan to use more cloud- computing services, a move that may lead to U.S. contracts for suppliers ...
www.businessweek.com/.../congress-calls-for-defense-departm...

Cloud and Virtual Data Storage Networking now on Kindle ...
It only makes sense that a book about Clouds, Virtualization, Data Storage and Networking be available via a cloud service in electronic format. Today Amazon ...
storageioblog.com/?p=2338



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