Friday, December 9, 2011

Feds launch cloud security standards program

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Feds launch cloud security standards program
Computerworld
By Jaikumar Vijayan Computerworld - Federal agencies will soon have a government-wide security standard for assessing, authorizing and monitoring cloud products and services. Federal CIO Steven VanRoekel Thursday unveiled the Federal Risk and ...
Cisco CloudVerse: Build One Private Cloud, Multiple Hypervisors
InformationWeek
Cisco steps back from close partner VMware to help firms build a private cloud using Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware ESX Server, plus Cisco blades. By Charles Babcock InformationWeek Cisco Systems Tuesday took a step back from its close cloud partner ...
Microsoft, HP Teaming on Cloud Services for Businesses
eWeek
Microsoft and HP are teaming to offer their combined cloud products to businesses in major markets. Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft will jointly offer private and public cloud solutions for organizations under a newly announced four-year initiative. ...
UBM TechWeb's Cloud Connect Announces 2012 Keynote Speakers
MarketWatch (press release)
8, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Cloud Connect, produced by UBM TechWeb, today announced keynote speakers for next year's event. Top minds in cloud computing, including executives from large enterprises like Google and Cisco, will take the keynote ...
IBM Pays More than SAP and Oracle for Cloud Growth
TheStreet.com
By Antoine Gara 12/08/11 - 11:05 AM EST NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- IBM(IBM) Thursday said it would buy DemandTec(DMAN) for $13.20 a share, a 57% premium, in a push to bolster its cloudofferings for business users. In characteristic form, IBM expects that ...
SMEStorage Adds Support for EMC Atmos and PogoPlug to its Cloud Appliance
Sacramento Bee
SMEStorage which provides an 'Open' Cloud File Server, has enhanced support for private CloudStorage by integrating the EMC Atmos and PogoPlug Clouds. By SMEStorage NEW YORK, Dec. 8, 2011 -- /PRNewswire/ -- SMEStorage has announced that it has ...
Circonus Joins the Joyent Cloud Partner Ecosystem
MarketWatch (press release)
COLUMBIA, Md., Dec 08, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Circonus, the organization-wide unified monitoring company, today announced it has joined the Joyent Cloud ecosystem as an analytics and optimization partner to deliver end-to-end solutions that benefit ...
SAP on the Cloud Bandwagon
Zacks.com
SAP AG's (SAP) American subsidiary, SAP America, Inc. acquired SuccessFactors (SFSF), a leading California-based provider of cloud-based human capital management solutions. SAP intends to acquire all outstanding shares of SuccessFactors, the enterprise ...
Phones Get Game Power in the Cloud
New York Times
But OnLive runs all of the games on its service entirely on powerful server computers in its data centers and delivers them over the Internet, through so-called cloudcomputing. Other companies are trying to do the same thing, including Gaikai, ...
ServiceSource Channel Sales Cloud Helps More Than 19000 Channel Partner ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The Channel Sales Cloud application is a centralized, cloud-based renewals portal that enables ServiceSource customers' reseller partners to easily access and collaborate on accurate information about their maintenance, support and subscription ...
Cloud Computing a Top IT Investment Priority: Report
eWeek
Half of respondents to a Unisys poll say cloud computing is their top IT investment priority for 2012. As businesses get ready to capitalize on emerging technology trends in 2012, cloud computing remains at the top of many companies' lists: Fifty ...
Can Australia lead global cloud market?
Delimiter
news The Australian Government's IT industry advisory body has stated in a report that the nation has the scope to become a global leader in cloud computing technology and drive innovation and productivity. Releasing the report by the Information ...
SMB Cloud Services: a High-Growth Market Opportunity
ConnectedPlanet (blog)
Why now is the time for Service Providers to invest in Cloud Services for SMBs. By Scott Puopolo, Cisco IBSG Global Lead Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are leading the way to cloudservices. In fact, SMBs represent two-thirds of the public ...
Relativity Media Selects Nirvanix Enterprise Cloud Storage for Content ...
Sacramento Bee
8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Nirvanix today announced that Relativity Media, a next generation studio engaged in multiple aspects of entertainment, including full-scale film and television production and distribution, has selected the Nirvanix Cloud Storage ...
General Dynamics Adds Cloud-based Email as a Service to GSA IT Schedule 70 ...
Sacramento Bee
General Dynamics can provide Federal agencies with cloud-based email services that deliver greater effectiveness, flexibility and lower total cost of ownership. "Email as a Service enhances email functionality for government agencies and supports the ...
Cloud-Gaming Company OnLive Wants in on New Consoles
Escapist Magazine
OnLive is convinced that cloud-gaming is the future, and when that future comes, it wants to be front and center. Cloud-gaming company OnLive has announced that it would like to see its technology integrated with the next consoles released by Microsoft ...
2012: The Year of the Personal Cloud
Huffington Post (blog)
While 2012 will be the year of the dragon, according to the Chinese Horoscope, 2012 will also be the year that the cloud becomes pervasively personal. Prior to now, the personal cloud was mainly the province of Apple iCloud users as well as early ...
Cloud Host OnX Launches Cloud Tools, Managed Services
Web Host Industry Review (blog)
By Justin Lee, December 08, 2011 (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Cloudhosting provider OnX Enterprise Solutions announced on Thursday it has launched a new portfolio of cloud and managed services designed to simplify and accelerate the design and ...
Cloud Computing As the Next Wave of Tech
CNBC.com (blog)
When IBM Earlier this week, SAP AG “At some point in the next year we're going to stop talking about this thing called “cloud computing” in that basically everything is going to a virtualized or multi-dispersed world of computing that is not either ...
Cloud Policy: Where Ideals Meet Reality, Part 2
Data Center Knowledge
This is the second installment of the two-part post I began last month on my sixth fundamental truth of corporate cloud strategy: Technology-driven business practices often circumvent government regulations, but legal and government policy standards ...
BellHawk Cloud-Based MES System Adds Automated Barcode Label Printing
Sacramento Bee
8, 2011 -- /PRNewswire/ -- BellHawk Systems announces the availability of an improved product labeling module for its BellHawk® Cloud-based web-mobile Manufacturing Execution System One of the major issues with moving Manufacturing Execution Systems to ...
NC cloud play rPath opens Waltham office
Mass High Tech
Raleigh-based rPath said in a release that May will focus on selling its new product, the rPath CloudEngine, which is software that allows cloud technology vendors and managed service providers to deliver cloud-based applications to clients. ...
Amazon: The Microsoft of the cloud
Register
By Matt Asay • Get more from this author Even as the cloud market booms, it's an open question whether there is room for anyone besides Amazon to benefit. Even as Microsoft dominated desktop computing over the past two decades, Amazon seems set to own ...
Dell incorporates Salesforce Service Cloud to its DCBA for Enterprises
Computer Business Review
Dell has incorporated Salesforce Service Cloud into its Integrated CRM offering, Dell CloudBusiness Applications (DCBA), to help growing businesses connect with their customers faster and become more responsive across channels, from the contact centre ...
ZXFactory Chooses Zerto for New ZX Continue, Cloud-Based BC/DR Service
MarketWatch (press release)
EDE, THE NETHERLANDS and WALTHAM, MA, Dec 08, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Zerto, the industry's first hypervisor-based replication solution, has been selected as the underlying technology enabling cloud provider ZXFactory's new DR-aaS (Disaster ...
Cloud Infrastructure Firm Atlantic Metro Achieves VMware vCloud Powered ...
Web Host Industry Review
This certification shows its customers that its cloud services are run by VMware's virtualization and cloud computing technology, VMware vSphere and VMware vCloud Director. Atlantic Metro is a member of the VMware Service Provider Program, according to ...
First big upgrade of cloud-hosted TFS: better performance, easier project ...
Ars Technica
By Peter Bright | Published December 8, 2011 4:30 PM Team Foundation Service Preview, Microsoft's cloud-hosted beta version of its Team Foundation Server application lifecycle management, received its first major update today, offering improved ...
From Virtualization to Private Cloud: Cut Through the Cloud Clutter ...
With so many cloud options available, it's difficult to determine what strategy, architecture, and specific solutions are best for your enterprise. This white paper, the first in a series of four, offers practical advice for cutting through the clutter and ...
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IBM Buys Cloud Analytics Firm, Nirvanix' Cloud Gets “Immortalized ...
By John Furrier
Big moves continue to be made in the fast growing cloud space—a market projected to be over $20B in four years. Just this morning IBM announced that it's spending $440M to acquire cloud-based analytics software maker DemandTech. ...
SiliconANGLE
A Look Back to 2011 On Cloud Computing | CloudTweaks.com ...
By Rick
A Look Back to 2011 On Cloud Computing Here we are, at that time of the year when we look back and analyze how things went, decide what should be improved and.
CloudTweaks.com - Cloud Computing...
IGT Drives Cloud Computing Transformation in Gaming Industry
By jamesheller
“IGT is leading the cloud computing transformation in gaming by offering operators innovative solutions to optimize their operations and casino floors,” said Chris Satchell, IGT chief technology officer. “Utilizing the IGT Cloud will let casino ...
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Larry Magid: OnLive Launches Console-like Cloud Gaming on ...
By Larry Magid
While I don't know much about gaming, I do know something about cloud technology and I'm quite impressed at how OnLive has been able to stream games even better than Netflix streams movies.
The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed
Cloud computing for Business in 2012: Top IT Investment Priority ...
By Ivan
Unisys recent online poll reveals that 50 percent of 300 respondents consider cloud computing as their top IT investment priority for 2012.
Cloud Business Review
SAP On The Cloud Bandwagon
By Zacks Investment Research
Through this acquisition, SAP is also expected to meet its existing goal of 1000 cloud customers by the end of 2011. Cloud computing contributed just about 2% of SAP's total revenue in fiscal 2010, (approximately $335 million).[1] ...
DailyMarkets.com
Cisco's Lame Attempt To Monopolize The Cloud: Make You Buy All ...
By Julie Bort
But Cisco isn't the only one with technology to build clouds. Plenty of others are doing the same. One of them is OpenStack, an open source method of building clouds championed by Rackspace. Over 140 companies, including Cisco, have ...
Business Insider
Data security still has impact on cloud adoption | Simply Security
By Simply Security
Some experts have dubbed 2011 the year of the cloud, as the emerging enterprise technology has gained scores of supporters recently because of its ability to promote a flexible IT infrastructure at a relatively affordable price.
Simply Security
Cloud Connect Blog » Blog Archive » Why Cloud Computing Needs ...
By David Linthicum
Architecture and design come in two core patterns: Those that integrate the use of cloud computing services, either PaaS, IaaS, or SaaS, with existing enterprise IT systems which extend those systems to the platforms of the clouds. Or, there is ...
Cloud Connect Blog
Dezeen » Blog Archive » The Cloud by MVRDV
By Amy Frearson
The Cloud by MVRDV. Dutch architects MVRDV have designed two skyscrapers for Seoul, Korea, that will be joined at the hip by a pixelated cluster. The Cloud by MVRDV. The cluster of blocks will swell out from the twenty-seventh floors of ...
Dezeen
Eight things worth considering before building your first private cloud ...
By Stephane Wacongne
I've been working for almost a year on private cloud projects and in this job I had the opportunity to implement various cloud solutions. It's funny to see that on each project, the same questions come back. In this list of recurrent topics, I picked ...
Thoughts on Cloud
Real-Time Cloud-based Property Management Tools Announced ...
By GMO Cloud America
Jones Lang LaSalle announced a new cloud based property management tools that take smart-building technology and combines it with real-time remote monitoring.
GMO Cloud America
VMware's Cloud Foundry Ranked Top Developer Platform - Cloud ...
New VMware kid on the PaaS block takes "best overall" honors, while Google App Engine is best public and IBM SmartCloud best private cloud platform in ...
www.informationweek.com/news/cloud.../232200211
InfoQ: Introduction to Cloud Security Architecture from a Cloud ...
Security concerns are the number one barrier to cloud services adoption. How do we evaluate a vendor's solution? What is an optimal security architecture?
www.infoq.com/articles/cloud-security-architecture-intro
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Introducing Cloud Pioneer Suntech: Learning about cloud adoption ...
Blogging from Workday Rising: A cloud strategy to . ... Accelerating your Business with the Cloud: A Dream. ... The Cloud Can't Even Handle Me Right Now ...
blog.appirio.com/.../introducing-cloud-pioneer-suntech.html
 

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