Friday, December 2, 2011

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It's cloud prediction time: IDC, Gartner (and I) weigh in
GigaOm
1, 2011, 2:23pm PT No Comments Analyst powerhouses IDC and Gartner both rolled out their latest cloud computing and big data predictions and statistics Thursday morning, and while some are bold, others might have you saying “Duh. ...
The Cloud In 2012: Maturing, But With Growing Pains
Forbes
Cloud computing is real and here to stay. Executives are seriously considering thecloud's financial and productivity benefits versus continuing to perform all IT functions in-house. As 2012 nears, the success of cloud computing is undeniable. ...
VirtualSharp to Enable Disaster Recovery to Public Clouds
PCWorld
By Nancy Gohring, IDG News VirtualSharp hopes to soon let its customers set up disaster recovery plans that fail over from their private clouds to public clouds, the company announced this week at the CloudBeat conference in Redwood City, California. ...
HP launches Hybrid Cloud product and services barrage
ZDNet (blog)
By Dan Kusnetzky | December 1, 2011, 3:01am PST Summary: HP launches a long list of products and both professional and training services in the hopes of positioning itself as a go-to Cloud solution provider. Better design and more openness are HP's ...
Cloud Computing Trends In India; Intel's Cloud 2015 Vision
VC Circle
Adoption and usage of private Cloud solutions by small and medium businesses besides various government organisations in India are fuelling chipmaker Intel's aggressive push for adopting Cloudcomputing as part of its Cloud 2015 vision. ...
Dell Boomi Announces Development of Cloud-Based Master Data Management ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Dell Boomi, the world's largest integration cloud, today announced development of a cloud-based master data management (MDM) solution, which will offer improved capabilities to simplify data management within cloud and software-as-a-service (SaaS) ...
Private cloud computing over the wide area network
SearchEnterpriseWAN.com
SearchEnterpriseWAN.com spoke with Stephen Smoot, one of the authors of Private CloudComputing: Consolidation, Virtualization, and Service-Oriented Infrastructure, about private cloudcomputing over the wide area network. We asked Smoot how private ...
Cloud security to focus on technologies
The Guardian
Security around cloud computing is likely to focus on accreditation for individual technologies rather than wide ranging guidelines, according a leading official from CESG. Chris Ulliot, deputy technical director for CESG, the National Technical ...
CloudPassage Named Finalist in UP-START 2011 Cloud Awards
Sacramento Bee
1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- CloudPassage™ Inc., the leading cloud server security company, announced today that it was selected as one of three finalists for the most promising startup category of the UP-START 2011 Cloud Awards. The panel of judges, ...
Office 365 'momentum' Announcement Met With Some Skepticism
PCWorld
Office 365, a cloud collaboration and communication suite for organizations launched in June, is selling eight times faster than its predecessor, the Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS), and is on track to become one of the company's ...
Salesforce Launches Enterprise Social Marketing Cloud Suite
Enterprise Apps Today
Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) is extending the social enterprise to marketing with the release of its Radian6 Social Marketing Cloud. The new Radian6 Social Marketing Cloud offers enterprises new features in social monitoring, insights, engagement, ...
LG phone buyers get free cloud storage
TG Daily
If you own an Android-powered LG phone, congratulations - 50 GB of cloud storage is yours, courtesy of Box.com. The mobile manufacturer has teamed up with the online file-storing service in an effort to get a differentiating advantage over other ...
Oracle VP talks challenges of the public cloud model
VentureBeat
About two months ago, Oracle announced it would finally take the plunge into public cloud computing with the Oracle Public Cloud. Oracle Technology Product Marketing VP Rick Schultz talked more about the public cloud today and admitted it was a new...
Zimory Launches New Open Cloud Business Solution
MarketWatch (press release)
BERLIN, Dec 01, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Zimory GmbH introduces its new, open cloud business solution, offering European customers improved interoperability and reduced costs; fully compliant with the EU mandate on Data Protection. ...
Tata Communications Further Expands Its Cloud Portfolio With the Launch of ...
Sacramento Bee
InstaHCM will launch in partnership with SuccessFactors, Inc., (NYSE: SFSF) the global leader incloud-based business execution software. Together, Tata Communications and SuccessFactors will bring India-based enterprise customers a secure and scalable ...
Verecloud, Inc. Selected by Leading Analyst Firm in "Who's Who in Cloud ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Like most new technology innovations, the Cloud has become the Wild West of the Web. SMBs (small to medium size businesses) are finding it increasingly difficult to make sense of the rapidly growing universe of cloud services. ...
Bluewolf Deepens Cloud Talent Pool With Free Training For Unemployed
CRN
By Andrew R Hickey, CRN Cloud provider Bluewolf is looking to kill two birds with one stone: boost the amount of cloud talent in the market and stem the tide of unemployment. With those two items on the agenda, Bluewolf at Salesforce.com's Cloudforce ...
myERP simplifies cloud-based business management with new app
VentureBeat
myERP, a cloud-based business management suite for small and medium-sized businesses, just got a major upgrade with much more simple and refined interface. myERP CEO Francois Nadal took the stage today at CloudBeat 2011 to participate in the ...
ING Bets Big On The Cloud
Information Management
Firm's project involves building a large hybrid cloud that combines features of public clouds and private data centers, one it will open to other banks to use. For Tony Kerrison, the day has long passed when it made sense to question whether cloud ...
Bessemer Cloudscape: A map of the major cloud players
GigaOm
Even as global markets struggle beneath the weight of unemployment, government paralysis, debt crises and Occupy Wall Street, one segment of the economy enjoys explosive growth with the promise of leading the recovery, one job at a time: cloud ...
Digital River's Global, Cloud-Based Subscription Billing and Commerce Helps ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Digital River's Cloud-Based Subscription Billing and Commerce provides companies a critical infrastructure for building recurring revenue streams. At the same time, it offers consumers and business buyers the level of convenience and flexibility they ...
Is Cloud Support 'Racing to the Bottom?'
Computerworld
software and cloud vendors is very vulnerable to this effect. If a customer support group is a cost center, the imperative is to reduce costs. If support is a meager profit center, the endless pursuit is to keep margins up by lowering costs. ...
Securing Nebulous Privacy Rights in the Cloud
Miller-McCune.com
The cloud may be a blessing to global business, but it remains a major headache for sovereign states determined to protect its citizens' privacy. By Stuart Braun A brouhaha coming from Germany may spur US regulators and cloud-based businesses to better ...
How Netflix, Zynga Beat Amazon Cloud Failure
InformationWeek
InformationWeek Architects for Netflix and the popular social networking game provider Zynga said they were able to cope with Amazon Web Services' outage over the Easter weekend and meet other challenges in using the public cloud without disrupting ...
SMEStorage Cloud FTP provides ubiquitous access to over 30 File Clouds
prMac (press release)
[prMac.com] London, United Kingdom - SMEStorage, the Open Cloud Appliance company, today announced that their CloudFTP feature add-on for their open cloud platform now supports over 30 popular file and storage services. CloudFTP is unique in that it ...
Microsoft cloud to power environmental big data
GigaOm
1, 2011, 10:35am PT No Comments Cloud computing can be a powerful tool for scientists and researchers sharing massive amounts of environmental data. At the United Nations climate conference (COP 17) in Durban, South Africa, this week, The European ...
Creator of Java to Discuss Next-gen PaaS at UP2011 Cloud Computing Conference
Sacramento Bee
James Gosling, CumuLogic advisor, Internet legend and creator of the Java programming language to be a featured speaker at UP 2011 cloud conference in Mountain View, December 5. By Cloudcor OAKVILLE, Ontario, Dec. 1, 2011 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Cloudcor® ...
Open Source + Cloud | Cloud Computing Journal
Larry Carvalho runs Robust Cloud LLC, an advisory services company helping various ecosystem players develop a strategy to take advantage of cloud computing. As the 2010-11 Instructor of CloudExpo's popular Cloud Computing ...
Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal
Seven Ways Enterprise Cloud is Transforming the IT Market – Part I ...
By Carl Meadows
With 30 year of experience and 10000 disaster recovery and managed services clients, SunGard has a unique perspective on the cloud computing services mid-sized companies need today and in the coming years. SunGard CTO Indu ...
Blog Center
Deloitte's New Cloud Offering – CloudPrint | CloudTweaks.com ...
By sourya
Deloitte's New Cloud Offering – CloudPrint Deloitte, the second largest professional services firm in the world (having recently lost that title to PwC),
CloudTweaks.com - Cloud Computing...
The Healthcare Industry Takes to the Clouds | GMO Cloud America
By GMO Cloud America
Healthcare industry adoption of cloud computing continues to grow as amounts of data and storage needs increases.
GMO Cloud America
Migrating Clouds – Cloud Expo : Media & Entertainment Technology
By Tets
The definition of a cloud is a system that has multiple users who are able to schedule and provision the shared infrastructure. Automatic provisioning and decommissioning, response reports and operating management are all part of this ...
Media & Entertainment Technology
Cloud Infographic: Cloud Services Classification | The Cloud ...
By Ivan
Horn Group, Inc. has released a very helpful cloud computing infographic that classifies cloud-based services into 4 major service layers.
The Cloud Infographic
Big hardware & software companies are spreading FUD about the ...
By Jolie O'Dell
Chief information officers get pitched on "the cloud" more than the rest of us, but when it comes to dealing with legacy vendors -- the big boys like Dell, HP and IBM -- they might hear a lot more fear, uncertainty and doubt (a.k.a. FUD) than the ...
VentureBeat
Four reasons why I hate IaaS | Thoughts on Cloud
By Chris Dotson
I think we all know that people, in general, don't like change. Today, I'll be wearing my System Administrator hat, and explaining why, as a sysadmin, I hate the cloud – private cloud, public cloud, all of them – and specifically the infrastructure ...
Thoughts on Cloud
SAP on the Cloud » Survival of the fittest – how Europe can assume ...
By Sven Denecken
On the demand side, cloud services present a tremendous opportunity to reduce fixed costs and add flexibility that sharpens the user's competitive edge. On the supply side, they open up new potential for growth. To realize this potential and ...
SAP on the Cloud
SMEStorage Cloud FTP provides ubiquitous access to over 30 File ...
By Richard
CloudFTP is unique in that it adds a ubiquitous FTP access layer to Storage Clouds that do not natively support the FTP protocol This means transferring files can be as easy as launching an FTP client and selecting the files to be moved, ...
The MacTrack - iPhone, iPad,...
Phonedeck turns your phone into a cloud app – 500 invites
By Mike Butcher
Phonedeck appeared last year at Le Web. At the time it seemed very much like a beta project to manage calls from a ...
TechCrunch
Integrated Cloud Management
By Informa
An integrated management system is the key component in being able to simplify service provisioning and guarantee end-to-end SLAs, so it must be able to provide vision into all data centers and network facilities, and in a multi-technology, ...
The Safety and Security TechChannel
Rumble in the cloud: 5 cloud storage services compared | ITworld
Amazon Cloud Drive vs. iCloud vs. DropBox vs. Google Music vs. Ubuntu One: Who comes out on top?
www.itworld.com/.../cloud-service-rumble-amazon-cloud-driv...
What is Saas Cloud Computing? | Cloud Business Review
In order to be successful in your cloud business endeavors, you need to understand all the ins and outs. A common question is, what is Saas cloud computing?
www.cloudbusinessreview.com/.../what-is-saas-cloud-computi...
HP Cloud Protection Program
that address common security concerns associated with cloud adoption, designed for clients to increase enterprise agility safely through cloud solutions. Cloud ...
www.hp.com/.../NA_TechnologyServicesCloudAdoption.pdf
HPC in the Cloud: Nimbix Aims to Accelerate HPC Cloud Adoption
It's been a little over a year since Nimbix announced the initial beta launch of its Nimbix Accelerated Compute Cloud (NACC). During the SC11 show in Seattle ...
www.hpcinthecloud.com/.../nimbix_accelerates_applications_i...

 

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