By Will Price
ADOTAS – In tech – an industry where great companies rise and fall in what feels like the blink of [...]
Display ads need to become destinations where viewers can engage with the brand inside the unit, rather than being whisked away to a separate landing page. Enter: the cloud. Cloud technology gives display ads a fighting chance, where before they had none.New cloud ad platforms have the capability to build ads where a brand’s entire campaign messaging is in the unit itself – including collateral, creative content and social media feeds. The ad unit itself is no longer the static product it was 17 years ago.
Adotas
Nimbula Offers Help Building Private Clouds
PCWorld
By Nancy Gohring, IDG News Some businesses that rely on Amazon Web Services to run Web applications are starting to realize that they can save money or get better performance by building their own internal clouds -- and Nimbula is hoping to help them ...
Top 10: Private Cloud FAQs
Windows IT Pro
There's no doubt that cloud computing is one of the most significant technology shifts that has ever hit the IT market. However, if there's any one word that characterizescloud computing, that word is confusing. It seems that every vendor has a ...
Windows IT Pro
eFuture Signs First Mobile Cloud Service Client
MarketWatch (press release)
Chacha Food, which provides roasted seeds, nuts and potato chips, signed the contract with eFuture following the successful completion of a pilot program to test eFuture's mobile cloud service offering, which consists of a mobile-based Sales Force ...
Microsoft Shrinking Margins Loom as Cloud Push Lifts Costs: Tech
San Francisco Chronicle
s push into cloud computing will help the company compete with Google Inc., Apple Inc. and Salesforce.com Inc. It also will hurt profit margins. The company's cloud software lets corporate customers pay a subscription to do things like manage ...
Collabnet Sees Enterprise Cloud Development as the Next Wave in Agile ALM ...
Sacramento Bee
19, 2011 -- /PRNewswire/ -- CollabNet® (www.collab.net), the global leader for cloud development and Agile ALM products and services, expects the adoption of cloud development practices to increase in 2012 as a growing number of IT organizations build ...
The PC is Order, the Cloud is Chaos
Wired News
When I first started Cloudline, my intention was to do for the cloud what I had done for the PC—to explain the different parts of it a thoughtful, accessible way using diagrams, analogies, and plain English prose. But I've learned a lot over the past ...
Urban Robotics Extends Octree Format to Point Cloud Library Open Source Community
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Urban Robotics Inc., a leading provider of three-dimensional (3D) imaging sensors, software and algorithms, today announced it is making its highly scalable, spatially searchable and colorized 3D octree-based point cloud format available to the Point ...
Telligent Buys Leverage Software To Boost Cloud Power
InformationWeek
Seeking to strengthen its cloud computing and enterprise social networking products, Telligent acquired Leverage Software in a transaction that closed Monday. Dallas-based Telligent and Leverage Software of San Francisco are both private companies ...
StreamWIDE Launches Cloud Offering for Operators in the Americas
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
StreamWIDE, the specialist in next generation value-added telephony solutions for telecom operators, today announced the launch of its StreamWIDE Cloud offering to wireline and wireless operators in The Americas. The StreamWIDE Cloud offering enables ...
Cloud Enabler Red Hat Barely Meets Revenue Views
Investor's Business Daily
The Linux software and services provider, which helps clients set up cloud computing data center operations and more, said EPS minus items for the quarter ended Nov. 30 jumped 40% to 28 cents. The consensus of 24 analysts polled by Thomson Reuters ...
Xignite Market Data Cloud Expands to Include Comprehensive Global Bond Data ...
MarketWatch (press release)
SAN MATEO, Calif., Dec 19, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Xignite, the leading global market datacloud, is the first and only data vendor to provide bond data on-demand via the cloud, creating a level of transparency that offers investment advisors, ...
SAP Steps Up Mobile, Cloud And In-Memory Commitments
InformationWeek
By Cindi Howson InformationWeek At SAP's seventh annual Influencer Summit in Boston last week, Co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe highlighted four areas of SAP innovation: core, mobile, cloud, and in-memory. Interesting to me is that SAP now considers the core ...
GlobalOne Launches Mobile Cloud Services Practice
MarketWatch (press release)
NEW YORK, Dec 19, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- GlobalOne, a leader in Cloud Computing, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Social Collaboration professional services for the enterprise, today announced GlobalOne Mobility, a new practice that will offer ...
VMware Cloud Foundry PaaS adds support for .NET
TechCrunch
VMware, whose core products specialize in virtualizing Windows and Linux workloads, is making some interesting maneuvers in the Platform as a Service (PaaS) space with their Cloud Foundry offering. a href=”http://www.cloudfoundry.com”>CloudFoundry.com ...
Deal means more SAP cloud changes
Computerworld
If his company becomes part of SAP in a $3.4B deal, SuccessFactors CEO Lars Dalgaard will lead the combined firm into the cloud. By Chris Kanaracus Computerworld - If its $3.4 billion bid to buy SuccessFactors is successful, SAP could finally stabilize ...
Microsoft`s Windows Azure Cloud: 8 Recent Upgrades
eWeek
By Darryl K. Taft on 2011-12-19 Microsoft on Dec. 12 announced several updates to the Windows Azure platform, including new open-source capabilities, SQL Azure database enhancements and a simplified Windows Azure billing and management experience. ...
eWeek
SkyDox cloud file-sharing service streamlines collaboration
ZDNet (blog)
SkyDox works by allowing companies to share documents that might need reviews or revisions within a secure, cloud-based workflow. The application allows authorized individuals to comment or to read, and it provides an audit trail of who touched the ...
Nigeria: Cloud Computing Issues
AllAfrica.com
Now that you understand what cloud computing is about (Daily Trust, November 21, 2011), you will want to consider whether or not your business or institution should go right into the cloud, or play some watchful-waiting game until the dust settles on ...
Cloud Computing: Saudi Prince Puts $300 Million in Twitter
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Expecting high growth, Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal and Kingdom Holding Company (KHC), the investment fund he largely owns, have put $300 million in Twitter. A canny investor, the insanely rich prince, a nephew of Saudi King Abdullah, ...
Cloud Computing Imperative 2012 - The rise of the Cloud
PR Urgent
Global studies prove that 'cloud services' could add US $800bn in net new business revenue by end of 2013. The time when IT was just a support function to a few businesses around the world is over. Global politics and the global economy are being ...
Rackspace To Name New Global Channel Chief
CRN
According to the San Antonio-based cloud and hosting upstart, come 2012 Christopher Rajiah will take over of as vice president of Rackspace's global partner program and US channel sales. Since joining Rackspace in early 2010, Rajiah has held the ...
Virtustream Adds Enomaly, SpotCloud Through Acquisition
CRN
By Andrew R Hickey, CRN Virtustream got a two-for-the-price-of-one deal with its acquisition ofcloud software player Enomaly, which includes Enomaly's roughly year-old cloud capacity brokerage SpotCloud. The terms of the deal weren't released and it ...
'Server Huggers' Impede Cloud Migrations
CIO
Chipita America has become almost serverless over the past six years by moving its ERP, EDI and BI systems, Office and Exchange applications and file servers to the cloud. By Patrick Thibodeau As companies move to adopt cloud applications and solutions ...
Aryaka Blazes Into 2012, Increases Customer Base for Cloud-Based WAN Optimization
MarketWatch (press release)
MILPITAS, CA, Dec 19, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Aryaka, provider of the world's firstcloud-based WAN optimization and application acceleration solution, is entering 2012 with a rapidly growing global customer base, expanded partner ecosystem, ...
Service Providers Employ Certeon aCelera Solution to Help Companies Move Into ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Early adoption of Fluid's new services has been strong with 100% of their customers signing on for the suite of cloud offerings. "aCelera allows Fluid Consulting to offer organizations what is unquestionably the fastest and most cost efficient way to ...
2011: The year the cloud went mainstream | TechRepublic
By Thoran Rodrigues
Thoran Rodrigues looks back over the year in cloud technology and makes a case for 2011 bringing the cloud out of the mists and into the IT mainstream.
The Enterprise Cloud Blog | TechRepublic
CTERA: How Cloud-based Object Storage Could Help Businesses ...
By Scott M. Fulton, III
The main functions for services like Dropbox and Box.net are simple sharing and, to a limited degree, collaboration. Multiple parties can share access to a cloud-based storage device ...
ReadWriteCloud
Web Host Secure Cloud Space Integrates Softaculous Auto-Installer ...
Web Host Secure Cloud Space Integrates Softaculous Auto-Installer with Control Panel | The Web Host Industry Review - Web Hosting News.
theWHIR.com - Daily Web Hosting News
Bitdefender's cloud-based security tools worth investigating for ...
By Steven Trippe
Steven Trippe describes Bitdefender's cloud security services and points out issues to consider for SMBs weighing security solutions.
IT Security Blog | TechRepublic
Simple development of App Engine apps using Cloud SQL ...
By The App Engine Team
Since we added SQL support to App Engine in the form of Google Cloud SQL, the Google Plugin for Eclipse (GPE) team has been working hard on improving the developer experience for developing App Engine apps that can use a Cloud ...
Google App Engine Blog
New Social Platform PaperShare Connects Cloud Computing ...
New Social Platform PaperShare Connects Cloud Computing Industry through Content | The Web Host Industry Review - Web Hosting News.
theWHIR.com - Web Hosting Industry...
Cloud Hosting Saves Energy and Money | Green House Data Blog
By kfeichtner
Learn more about the efficiency of the cloud. Also see Pike Research's recently posted report “CloudComputing Energy Efficiency”.
Green House Data
KLAS: Healthcare Orgs Ambivalent about Cloud
By Agfa HealthCare
While 71 percent of healthcare organizations are either using or considering the deployment of cloudcomputing or storage technologies, trust in public-cloud services such as those offered by Amazon, Google and others remains weak, ...
Agfa HealthCare
Hey Enterprises: Is Your Head in the Cloud? - The CA Cloud Storm ...
By Jeffrey Abbott
Only 9 months ago, I was writing about how the word "cloud" has no business being used on the consumer level. It was just the latest IT buzzword that nerds tried used to make the "normals" feel dumb or go buy some "i-stuff." But today, I stand ...
The CA Cloud Storm Chasers
Ping! Zine » In South America, Amazon Adds New Cloud
By Ping! Zine Editor
“South American-based businesses and global companies with customers in South America can now leverage the AWS suite of infrastructure web services to build their businesses and run their applications in the cloud,” stated Amazon in a ...
Cisco Blog » Blog Archive » CloudVerse: How Does Cisco ...
Today, Cisco introduced CloudVerse, an end-to-end solution to build, manage and connect clouds. Cisco revealed how it sees the cloud: one in which it ...
blogs.cisco.com/.../cloudverse-how-does-cisco-collaboration-i...
Follow @CloudAlive
More Cloud News below--computing, storage, infrastructure, security
PCWorld
By Nancy Gohring, IDG News Some businesses that rely on Amazon Web Services to run Web applications are starting to realize that they can save money or get better performance by building their own internal clouds -- and Nimbula is hoping to help them ...
Top 10: Private Cloud FAQs
Windows IT Pro
There's no doubt that cloud computing is one of the most significant technology shifts that has ever hit the IT market. However, if there's any one word that characterizescloud computing, that word is confusing. It seems that every vendor has a ...
Windows IT Pro
eFuture Signs First Mobile Cloud Service Client
MarketWatch (press release)
Chacha Food, which provides roasted seeds, nuts and potato chips, signed the contract with eFuture following the successful completion of a pilot program to test eFuture's mobile cloud service offering, which consists of a mobile-based Sales Force ...
Microsoft Shrinking Margins Loom as Cloud Push Lifts Costs: Tech
San Francisco Chronicle
s push into cloud computing will help the company compete with Google Inc., Apple Inc. and Salesforce.com Inc. It also will hurt profit margins. The company's cloud software lets corporate customers pay a subscription to do things like manage ...
Collabnet Sees Enterprise Cloud Development as the Next Wave in Agile ALM ...
Sacramento Bee
19, 2011 -- /PRNewswire/ -- CollabNet® (www.collab.net), the global leader for cloud development and Agile ALM products and services, expects the adoption of cloud development practices to increase in 2012 as a growing number of IT organizations build ...
The PC is Order, the Cloud is Chaos
Wired News
When I first started Cloudline, my intention was to do for the cloud what I had done for the PC—to explain the different parts of it a thoughtful, accessible way using diagrams, analogies, and plain English prose. But I've learned a lot over the past ...
Urban Robotics Extends Octree Format to Point Cloud Library Open Source Community
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Urban Robotics Inc., a leading provider of three-dimensional (3D) imaging sensors, software and algorithms, today announced it is making its highly scalable, spatially searchable and colorized 3D octree-based point cloud format available to the Point ...
Telligent Buys Leverage Software To Boost Cloud Power
InformationWeek
Seeking to strengthen its cloud computing and enterprise social networking products, Telligent acquired Leverage Software in a transaction that closed Monday. Dallas-based Telligent and Leverage Software of San Francisco are both private companies ...
StreamWIDE Launches Cloud Offering for Operators in the Americas
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
StreamWIDE, the specialist in next generation value-added telephony solutions for telecom operators, today announced the launch of its StreamWIDE Cloud offering to wireline and wireless operators in The Americas. The StreamWIDE Cloud offering enables ...
Cloud Enabler Red Hat Barely Meets Revenue Views
Investor's Business Daily
The Linux software and services provider, which helps clients set up cloud computing data center operations and more, said EPS minus items for the quarter ended Nov. 30 jumped 40% to 28 cents. The consensus of 24 analysts polled by Thomson Reuters ...
Xignite Market Data Cloud Expands to Include Comprehensive Global Bond Data ...
MarketWatch (press release)
SAN MATEO, Calif., Dec 19, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Xignite, the leading global market datacloud, is the first and only data vendor to provide bond data on-demand via the cloud, creating a level of transparency that offers investment advisors, ...
SAP Steps Up Mobile, Cloud And In-Memory Commitments
InformationWeek
By Cindi Howson InformationWeek At SAP's seventh annual Influencer Summit in Boston last week, Co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe highlighted four areas of SAP innovation: core, mobile, cloud, and in-memory. Interesting to me is that SAP now considers the core ...
GlobalOne Launches Mobile Cloud Services Practice
MarketWatch (press release)
NEW YORK, Dec 19, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- GlobalOne, a leader in Cloud Computing, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Social Collaboration professional services for the enterprise, today announced GlobalOne Mobility, a new practice that will offer ...
VMware Cloud Foundry PaaS adds support for .NET
TechCrunch
VMware, whose core products specialize in virtualizing Windows and Linux workloads, is making some interesting maneuvers in the Platform as a Service (PaaS) space with their Cloud Foundry offering. a href=”http://www.cloudfoundry.com”>CloudFoundry.com ...
Deal means more SAP cloud changes
Computerworld
If his company becomes part of SAP in a $3.4B deal, SuccessFactors CEO Lars Dalgaard will lead the combined firm into the cloud. By Chris Kanaracus Computerworld - If its $3.4 billion bid to buy SuccessFactors is successful, SAP could finally stabilize ...
Microsoft`s Windows Azure Cloud: 8 Recent Upgrades
eWeek
By Darryl K. Taft on 2011-12-19 Microsoft on Dec. 12 announced several updates to the Windows Azure platform, including new open-source capabilities, SQL Azure database enhancements and a simplified Windows Azure billing and management experience. ...
eWeek
SkyDox cloud file-sharing service streamlines collaboration
ZDNet (blog)
SkyDox works by allowing companies to share documents that might need reviews or revisions within a secure, cloud-based workflow. The application allows authorized individuals to comment or to read, and it provides an audit trail of who touched the ...
Nigeria: Cloud Computing Issues
AllAfrica.com
Now that you understand what cloud computing is about (Daily Trust, November 21, 2011), you will want to consider whether or not your business or institution should go right into the cloud, or play some watchful-waiting game until the dust settles on ...
Cloud Computing: Saudi Prince Puts $300 Million in Twitter
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Expecting high growth, Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal and Kingdom Holding Company (KHC), the investment fund he largely owns, have put $300 million in Twitter. A canny investor, the insanely rich prince, a nephew of Saudi King Abdullah, ...
Cloud Computing Imperative 2012 - The rise of the Cloud
PR Urgent
Global studies prove that 'cloud services' could add US $800bn in net new business revenue by end of 2013. The time when IT was just a support function to a few businesses around the world is over. Global politics and the global economy are being ...
Rackspace To Name New Global Channel Chief
CRN
According to the San Antonio-based cloud and hosting upstart, come 2012 Christopher Rajiah will take over of as vice president of Rackspace's global partner program and US channel sales. Since joining Rackspace in early 2010, Rajiah has held the ...
Virtustream Adds Enomaly, SpotCloud Through Acquisition
CRN
By Andrew R Hickey, CRN Virtustream got a two-for-the-price-of-one deal with its acquisition ofcloud software player Enomaly, which includes Enomaly's roughly year-old cloud capacity brokerage SpotCloud. The terms of the deal weren't released and it ...
'Server Huggers' Impede Cloud Migrations
CIO
Chipita America has become almost serverless over the past six years by moving its ERP, EDI and BI systems, Office and Exchange applications and file servers to the cloud. By Patrick Thibodeau As companies move to adopt cloud applications and solutions ...
Aryaka Blazes Into 2012, Increases Customer Base for Cloud-Based WAN Optimization
MarketWatch (press release)
MILPITAS, CA, Dec 19, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Aryaka, provider of the world's firstcloud-based WAN optimization and application acceleration solution, is entering 2012 with a rapidly growing global customer base, expanded partner ecosystem, ...
Service Providers Employ Certeon aCelera Solution to Help Companies Move Into ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Early adoption of Fluid's new services has been strong with 100% of their customers signing on for the suite of cloud offerings. "aCelera allows Fluid Consulting to offer organizations what is unquestionably the fastest and most cost efficient way to ...
2011: The year the cloud went mainstream | TechRepublic
By Thoran Rodrigues
Thoran Rodrigues looks back over the year in cloud technology and makes a case for 2011 bringing the cloud out of the mists and into the IT mainstream.
The Enterprise Cloud Blog | TechRepublic
CTERA: How Cloud-based Object Storage Could Help Businesses ...
By Scott M. Fulton, III
The main functions for services like Dropbox and Box.net are simple sharing and, to a limited degree, collaboration. Multiple parties can share access to a cloud-based storage device ...
ReadWriteCloud
Web Host Secure Cloud Space Integrates Softaculous Auto-Installer ...
Web Host Secure Cloud Space Integrates Softaculous Auto-Installer with Control Panel | The Web Host Industry Review - Web Hosting News.
theWHIR.com - Daily Web Hosting News
Bitdefender's cloud-based security tools worth investigating for ...
By Steven Trippe
Steven Trippe describes Bitdefender's cloud security services and points out issues to consider for SMBs weighing security solutions.
IT Security Blog | TechRepublic
Simple development of App Engine apps using Cloud SQL ...
By The App Engine Team
Since we added SQL support to App Engine in the form of Google Cloud SQL, the Google Plugin for Eclipse (GPE) team has been working hard on improving the developer experience for developing App Engine apps that can use a Cloud ...
Google App Engine Blog
New Social Platform PaperShare Connects Cloud Computing ...
New Social Platform PaperShare Connects Cloud Computing Industry through Content | The Web Host Industry Review - Web Hosting News.
theWHIR.com - Web Hosting Industry...
By Tom Kincaid
EnterpriseDB's Postgres Plus Cloud Database product is now in beta. It is a great product and is one of the easiest ways to get started with Postgres or with a relational database in general. Yes, as an employee of EnterpriseDB I am extremely ...
Open Enterprise: The PostgreSQL...
EnterpriseDB's Postgres Plus Cloud Database product is now in beta. It is a great product and is one of the easiest ways to get started with Postgres or with a relational database in general. Yes, as an employee of EnterpriseDB I am extremely ...
Open Enterprise: The PostgreSQL...
Cloud Hosting Saves Energy and Money | Green House Data Blog
By kfeichtner
Learn more about the efficiency of the cloud. Also see Pike Research's recently posted report “CloudComputing Energy Efficiency”.
Green House Data
5 free security tools every cloud user should know about - Savvis blog
By Ed Moyle
This happens because many cloud migration efforts are economically driven - and security isn't free: either from a planning standpoint or from a control deployment standpoint. So the addition of controls can eat away at projected cost savings ...
Savvis blog
By Ed Moyle
This happens because many cloud migration efforts are economically driven - and security isn't free: either from a planning standpoint or from a control deployment standpoint. So the addition of controls can eat away at projected cost savings ...
Savvis blog
KLAS: Healthcare Orgs Ambivalent about Cloud
By Agfa HealthCare
While 71 percent of healthcare organizations are either using or considering the deployment of cloudcomputing or storage technologies, trust in public-cloud services such as those offered by Amazon, Google and others remains weak, ...
Agfa HealthCare
Hey Enterprises: Is Your Head in the Cloud? - The CA Cloud Storm ...
By Jeffrey Abbott
Only 9 months ago, I was writing about how the word "cloud" has no business being used on the consumer level. It was just the latest IT buzzword that nerds tried used to make the "normals" feel dumb or go buy some "i-stuff." But today, I stand ...
The CA Cloud Storm Chasers
Ping! Zine » In South America, Amazon Adds New Cloud
By Ping! Zine Editor
“South American-based businesses and global companies with customers in South America can now leverage the AWS suite of infrastructure web services to build their businesses and run their applications in the cloud,” stated Amazon in a ...
Cisco Blog » Blog Archive » CloudVerse: How Does Cisco ...
Today, Cisco introduced CloudVerse, an end-to-end solution to build, manage and connect clouds. Cisco revealed how it sees the cloud: one in which it ...
blogs.cisco.com/.../cloudverse-how-does-cisco-collaboration-i...
Follow @CloudAlive
More Cloud News below--computing, storage, infrastructure, security
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