Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Google Enterprise goals: cloud, mobile and social

Google Enterprise narrows goals to cloud, mobile and social
ZDNet (blog)
By Rachel King | December 20, 2011, 11:29am PST Summary: Predictably, Google is focusing its resources on cloud, mobile and social technologies to serve enterprise customers better in 2012. Some people make new year's resolutions, while others make ...

Cloud à la Carte: 6 Ways to Order Off the Cloud
Fox Business
Everyone is talking about “the cloud” these days, but most small business owners think virtualization is a one-size-fits-all service that's more aptly suited to Fortune 500s with big IT budgets than smaller shops with limited means. ...

IGT Displays Game-Changing IGT Cloud at ICE 2012
MarketWatch (press release)
20, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- International Game Technology /quotes/zigman/230150/quotes/nls/igt IGT +3.18% transforms the gaming industry with the debut of the innovative IGT Cloud at ICE Totally Gaming (ICE), Jan. 24-26, 2012 at the Earls Court ...

Private Cloud Provider SunStream Networks Selects Telx
MarketWatch (press release)
NEW YORK, NY, Dec 20, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Telx(R) today announced that SunStream Networks, a provider of private cloud network services over a fiber optic infrastructure, is leveraging its secure, carrier-neutral C3 Cloud Connection Center ...

In the Cloud, There is No Sudo
Wired News
This is one very good reason why people who are accustomed to being super-users can sometimes panic when faced with the prospect of a public cloud migration. My recent cloud troubles have also caused me to wonder about the opposite issue — namely, ...

SAP runs VMware to provision private clouds that support complex and critical ...
ZDNet (blog)
By Dana Gardner | December 20, 2011, 9:08am PST Summary: In this specific cloud, typically we have between a couple of hundred and a couple of thousand VMs running. Overall, at SAP we're running more than 20000 virtual machines (VMs). ...

What cloud and SOA will bring in 2012: seven 'half-baked ideas'
ZDNet (blog)
The year 2011 has been an interesting year in terms of SOA-cloud convergence, and the next year will see even more of it. Looking ahead, here are some half-baked ideas — or HBIs — on what appears to developing for the year ahead, and beyond: 1) SOA ...

RobotShop Launches MyRobots, Cloud Robotics for All
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
RobotShop.com makes "Cloud Robotics" accessible to all by launching the new MyRobots.com portal. Connect your robots and reap the benefits. RobotShop.com, the world's most visited e-commerce site specializing in service robotics, announces today the ...

Cloud Host AIS Network Claims Three MindShare Grads and CEO Is Newest
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
AISN CEO Jay Atkinson has graduated from the MindShare Class of 2011, rounding out to three the number of MindShare alumni in the cloud hosting company's executive leadership. "I am honored to be among the newest MindShare graduates," said Atkinson. ...

Quest Acquires Bitkoo For Cloud Identity Management
InformationWeek
Loosely, that means being able to store identity and access management information in a single location, and then calling it as a service from--theoretically--any enterprise application, database, SharePoint installation, or cloud-based application. ...

LiveOps Makes Shortlist for International 2012 Cloud Awards
MarketWatch (press release)
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Dec 20, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- LiveOps announced today that it has been named a finalist in the inaugural 2012 Cloud Awards program in the "Best Platform as a Service" category. The Cloud Awards is a premier international cloud ...

Cloud Momentum Grows with SAP Bid for SuccessFactors
Enterprise Apps Today
SAP's planned acquisition of SuccessFactors demonstrates that enterprise software vendors cannot ignore the growing importance of the cloud. Andrew Filipowski, CEO of talent management vendor SilkRoad Technology, is one of many industry observers who ...

Cloud activity to explode in 2012
Network World
By Tom Henderson, Network World In testing cloud computing services and observing the growth ofcloud activities, we've noticed that there are distinct phases that organizations go through in adopting cloud. First, application developers fall in love ...

Cisco Cloud Efforts Can Carry Stock to $21
Forbes
The worldwide data center infrastructure market grew 2.7 percent to $26.2 billion in the third-quarter 2011 driven by data center virtualization and consolidation, as enterprises expedited cloud adoption, as well as due to data center refresh. ...

Liaison Technologies Predicts Keys to Increased Adoption of Cloud-based Master ...
MarketWatch (press release)
ATLANTA, Dec 20, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Liaison Technologies, a global provider of securecloud-based integration and data management services and solutions, says that offering full-service, turnkey solutions is key to the widespread adoption of ...

Microsoft: The $71 Billion Cloud Underdog
All Things Digital
If I say “cloud computing,” what companies come to mind? Amazon's innovative Amazon Web Services Cloud? Google's cloud-based collaboration tools, Google Apps? Salesforce.com, the pioneer in moving business applications to the Web? ...

Public clouds call IT's bluff
InfoWorld
This is part of a key 2012 trend: Cloud providers will rush to address cloud computing concerns from enterprise IT -- including security, performance, and availability -- through the addition of features taken from existing private enterprise computing ...

Recruitment Specialist Takes InTechnology's Cloud Services
Sacramento Bee
By InTechnology Cloud specialist InTechnology has won significant investment from global recruitment specialist Nigel Wright Recruitment to provide virtual server hosting. Nigel Wright Recruitment has decided to move into the Cloud with InTechnology as ...

Seattle Tech Firm CyberStreams Releases Milestone Update for Cloud Monitoring ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Seattle tech firm CyberStreams is excited to announce the inclusion of cloud services to their remote monitoring technology. With businesses increasingly adopting cloud-based technologies, CyberStreams understands the need to manage a variety of ...

Cbeyond One of First SSAE 16 Certified Cloud Companies
MarketWatch (press release)
As a result of the successful audit, Cbeyond is now one of the first cloud providers to receive such certification. Considered the second-generation data center audit standard, SSAE 16 SOC 2 reviews evaluate the design and operational effectiveness of ...

Tier 3 Recognized in the Magic Quadrant for the Public Cloud Infrastructure as ...
PR Web (press release)
Tier 3 is delivering a cloud platform for mission-critical applications and services to our Enterprise customers today and is well positioned to challenge for a leadership position in 2012. Tier 3, Inc., the enterprise cloud platform provider, ...

BPO, the cloud and the future of the analyst firm
ZDNet (blog)
During our conversation, Fersht explained how the world of BPO is changing with more C suite executives considering the cloud as an alternative BPO enabler. The arguments over whether the cloud is safe and secure have given way to discussions around ...

Put your audiobooks in the cloud with iTunes Match
Macworld
by Kirk McElhearn, Macworld.com While iTunes Match was designed for matching music and providing cloud access to a music library, there are many audiobook listeners who might want to access their favorite books in the cloud. Doing so requires a bit of ...

Buy the Dip in Cloud Computing Stocks
Forbes
The move to virtualization and cloud computing as a whole is a multiyear story, between five and 10 years' worth of adoption, as people and companies get more comfortable with keeping data outside of their control area.

Oracle Misses Estimates; Shares Fall - Bloomberg
Oracle Corp., the world's second- largest software maker, reported quarterly sales and profit that missed analysts' estimates as customers held off on purchasing ...
www.bloomberg.com/.../oracle-misses-estimates-as-clients-thro...
Oracle Q2: What Will Larry Ellison Say about Growth, Cloud?
Forbes
In particular, analysts will be straining to hear Oracle results and commentary on two subjects: its Q2 growth rate, and its cloud strategy. While the significance of the growth rate speaks for itself, Oracle's cloud strategy has become something of a ...

Forbes

Former Vodafone GM Leads GlobalOne Mobile Cloud Services Practice
Web Host Industry Review
By Nicole Henderson, December 20, 2011 (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Cloud services firm GlobalOne announced on Monday that it has launched GlobalOne Mobility, a new practice that offers professional services for building, deploying and maintaining ...

Henry Red Cloud: Solar Warrior for Native America | Energy Bulletin
By kristinsponsler
Henry Red Cloud's address is 1001 Solar Warrior Road on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. But the road sign hasn't arrived. A windmill towering over the cottonwoods in the draw of White Clay Creek marks the location of ...
Energy Bulletin -

Cloud Computing: The Shrink-Wrapped Cloud | Cloud Computing ...
"We are seeing a lot more private cloud and Telx is right in the center," notes Darryl Brown, Director of Cloud, SaaS & Media at Telx, in this SYS-CON.TV interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 9th International ...
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Keeping Cloud Workloads on the Right Flight Path
By Industry Perspectives
Billy Cox, of Intel, describes the way workloads are managed through a cloud environment.
Data Center Knowledge

China and the Cloud: Revising Culture to Reap New Business ...
By Jeff Norman
China and the Cloud: Revising Culture to Reap New Business Access your information from anywhere. This is one of the primary tenets of marketing for cloud.
CloudTweaks.com - Cloud Computing...

Redundancy in the Cloud | Mission Critical: Cloud
By Marifran Manzo-Ritchie
Somehow, a perception exists that a cloud provides a certain level of redundancy by default. However, make no mistake. Redundancy is not.
Mission Critical: Cloud

Life in the Cloud — The Book Designer
By Joel Friedlander
Life in the Cloud and how the new generation of computers are more or less for connecting to other services.
The Book Designer

Just the Cloud FAQs please…
By Gary Carter
If there are any clear conclusions one can draw from our recent webinar: “Exploring Cloud Computing and true cloud databases”, it is that there is a tremendous amount of interest, variety, and questions surrounding cloud databases. ...
Open Enterprise: The PostgreSQL...

CIO Cloud Computing 101 – Problems With Clouds | Business ...
By John Krol
CIO Cloud Computing 101 - Problems With Clouds.
Business, Health, Lifestyle Articles

PaaS Cloud DotCloud Partners with Web Development Language ...
PaaS Cloud DotCloud Partners with Web Development Language Opa | The Web Host Industry Review - Web Hosting News.
theWHIR.com - Daily Web Hosting News

What is the Cloud? | multibrain
By akahn
Okay, so maybe you weren't wondering about THAT cloud. But you've probably been hearing a lot about CLOUD COMPUTING lately.. from commercials (“to the cloud!”) to Apple's new iCloud to.. a number of other services. Here we break it ...
multibrain

AT&T, América Móvil could cooperate in offering cloud services ...
By Patrick Nixon
A cooperation agreement signed between AT&T (NYSE: T) and América Móvil (NYSE: AMX) in November will first focus on leveraging the two companies' IP infrastructure before ramping up to offer other services like cloud computing, Roman ...
Business News Americas - Telecommunic...

Official Google Enterprise Blog: We're better together: how cloud ...
By noreply@blogger.com (Ashley Chandler)
Cloud: The movement of computing to the web is inevitable and will only accelerate in 2012 as many large businesses join Fortune 500 companies like Guardian Life, MeadWestvaco, and Sanmina-SCI in the cloud. We also expect that 2012 ...
Official Google Enterprise Blog

The Cloud Warning
I read recently that Rajan Anandan, Google's managing director for India, says that his country will be a 'Cloud-first' market for computing. The companies there ...
andrewmcafee.org/2011/12/mcafee-the-cloud-warning/

Cloud Foundry Welcomes .NET Framework Community ...
This week two Seattle-based companies, Tier3 and Uhuru Software, contributed . NET Framework support to the Cloud Foundry community. Cloud Foundry was ...
blog.cloudfoundry.com/.../cloud-foundry-welcomes-net-fram...

Cisco Blog » Blog Archive » CloudVerse simplifies Cloud ...
On December 6th Cisco announced CloudVerse, an integrated set of capabilities that enables customers to deliver cloud applications and services by uniquely.
blogs.cisco.com/.../cloudverse-simplifies-cloud-management-i...

Cloud Security Alliance Congress Panel: Building Secure Cloud ...
Check out this really good panel from the recent Cloud Security Alliance Congress 2011 conference in Orlando, Fl. Cloud Security Alliance Panel: Building a.
cloudsecurity.trendmicro.com/cloud-security-alliance-congress...

Cloud Backup Services
Cloud computing is changing the way we do business, and forcing some consumer online storage services to rethink their long term pricing strategies, as the.
webhostinggeeks.com/blog/2011/12/.../cloud-backup-services/

First Look: Deploying .NET Web Apps to Cloud Foundry via Iron ...
6. It's been a good week for .NET developers who like the cloud. First, Microsoft makes a huge update to Windows Azure that improves everything from billing to ...
seroter.wordpress.com/.../first-look-deploying-net-web-apps-t...



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