Saturday, December 17, 2011

How to Get Rich In the Cloud

How to Get Rich In the Cloud
PCWorld
By David Linthicum, Infoworld Tech jobs are coming back, and cloud computing skills are at the top of the list; a well-placed bet in a cloud computing skill could lead to good paydays in the next few years. However, cloud computing as a term is so ...

Cloud Computing: Salesforce Follows SAP into Cloud-ified HCM
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Salesforce.com is taking a step outside its core contact management cloud and into very social, cloud-based human capital management (HCM) with its announcement Thursday of a definite agreement to buy three-and-a-half-year-old Toronto-based Rypple on ...

SYS-CON Media (press release)

Cloud music, less 5.1, slow death of discs: Home theater trends for CES 2012
CNET
Online music fans have been enjoying cloud music storage services from the likes of Amazon and Google for months on their PCs and smartphones, but there's not much support for those services on home theater devices. That's too bad, because it's an ...

CNET

Instant Cloud: Just Add Appliances
IT Business Edge (blog)
By date: by Arthur Cole, IT Business Edge It's no surprise that like so many other data center functions, appliances are making deployment of cloud resources that much easier. The difference today, though, is that low-cost appliances are no longer ...

EMC works to boost acceptance of public and private clouds
Network World
By Tim Greene, Network World EMC has tied its fortunes to the future of cloud computing and is working hard to change the hearts and minds of IT executives so they will embrace the same vision, according to the firm's chief marketing officer. ...

Top 10 Consumer Cloud Applications of 2011
ReadWriteWeb
By Scott M. Fulton, III / December 16, 2011 12:00 PM / View Comments For the last few years, many everyday folks who've been asked in surveys, "What is a cloud application?" have either guessed wrong or said they don't know. Folks don't know what "the ...

Google Cloud Print Reaches 6 Million Printers Through Chrome
CIO Today
By Barry Levine In April, Hewlett-Packard announced its support of Google Cloud Print. The company said that any user could add the e-mail address of an HP ePrint-enabled Photosmart, Officejet, or Laserjet Pro to their Google account, which would allow ...

CIOs Survey: Consumerism Threatens the Enterprise Cloud
ReadWriteWeb
By Scott M. Fulton, III / December 16, 2011 1:00 PM / View Comments The fact that cloud services and virtualization are making it feasible for executives to oversee the administration of their enterprise networks from devices like smartphones and ...

VoicePort Announces Cloud-Based IVR Hosting Services for Newspapers
MarketWatch (press release)
The cloud-based IVR combines VoicePort's proven CircPort(TM) automated IVR services with advanced SIP telecommunications. The solution provides toll free telephone calls into the IVR and any required transfer calls either to the newspaper or to a third ...

How do cloud providers distribute your data?
ZDNet UK (blog)
By manek , 16 December, 2011 17:34 Cloud computing brings its own sets of problems for cloudproviders. Hmph, I hear you snort, who cares? After all, the cloud is the cloud is the cloud, right? As a previous colleague of mine was wont to say: it isn't ...

Cloud News: Embrane, Dell, RightScale, Salesforce.com
Data Center Knowledge
Embrane announced its strategy to help cloud service providers (CSPs) and enterprises build more agile networks for delivering cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). The foundation of Embrane's strategy is heleos, the industry's first distributed ...

IE9 Now Auto-Updates; Chrome 16 Gets Cloud Printing
Tom's Hardware Guide
Meanwhile, arch enemy Google Chrome 16 now adds cloud print by default. Google Cloud Print (GCP) made its debut earlier this year, appearing as one of the main features in Chromebooks and as a product test in the Chrome beta channel. ...

Slalom Consulting Brings Effective Cloud-based Solutions to Businesses
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Slalom Consulting, using the "national network of local offices" approach it pioneered to provide innovative business consulting to companies large and small across the United States, is making headlines with cloud-based technology solutions. ...

Cloud Hosts Wealth Of Disruptive Opportunities
EE Times
Cloud computing is turning out to be as big and attractive as it is hard to get your head around. The applications that drive it—often called workloads—are evolving and fragmenting rapidly, fueling an increasingly varied and complex set of chip and ...

EE Times

Altair Engineering Opens High-Powered Data Center to Support Cloud-Based ...
MarketWatch (press release)
16, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Altair Engineering, Inc., today announced the opening of an exceptionally high-powered data center in Troy, Mich., this month to house and manage its growing HyperWorks On-Demand cloud-based computer-aided ...

Microsoft: Cloud Computing Can Cut Emissions by 30% or More
Environmental Leader
As well, ICT industry leaders are asking the European Commission to provide for a coherent legal framework for cloud computing services which they say would help EU businesses participate in a global market forecast to reach 70 billion euros annually ...

Environmental Leader

Taking advantage of cloud computing
PublicServiceEurope.com
by Costas Galonis When you talk to a bona fide cloud supplier they talk in a straight-forward, clear and non-technical way about the business benefits ofcloud computing. However, in the same way that 200 jumbo jets landing safely at Heathrow is not ...

PublicServiceEurope.com

AWS Launches Cloud in Sao Paulo, Brazil
TheHostingNews.com (press release)
(The Hosting News) – A new cloud zone by Amazon Web Services is now available in South America for businesses and software developers. The company announced the launch of the new cloud region in Sao Paulo, Brazil on Thursday. The cloudprovides for ...

TheHostingNews.com (press release)

Amplistor Connector Helps Panzura Expand its Cloud Storage Ecosystem
The Complete Managed Services Resource
By Mini Swamy In order to tackle the growing need of enterprise customers who need seamless collaboration on file-based content at multiple sites, Panzura has entered into a partnership with Amplidata and added the AmpliStor cloud connector to the ...

Beijing hopes to dominate cloud computing with "Cloud Valley"
SmartPlanet.com (blog)
By Tom Hancock | December 16, 2011, 4:48 AM PST BEIJING — American firms like Amazon and Google may have pioneered cloud computing, but Beijing's city government hopes the industry will head east. So they built “Cloud Valley,” an angular 7800 square ...

India will be a cloud-first IT market
GigaOm
16, 2011, 5:08am PT 1 Comment India will be a cloud-first IT market, says Google India Managing Director Rajan Anandan. Essentially, because traditional IT infrastructure isn't all that prevalent in India, the infrastructure that will emerge to support ...

GigaOm

Google Apps Loses L.A. Law Enforcement Deal
InformationWeek
Security concerns mean Los Angeles Police Department and other law enforcement agencies won't move to Google's cloud-based e-mail suite. By Elizabeth Montalbano InformationWeek Google's deal with the city of Los Angeles to provide Google Apps for an ...

Cross Match Technologies Selects Tenrox Cloud PSA to help Expand Biometric ...
MMD Newswire (press release)
Glendale, California (MMD Newswire) December 16, 2011 - - Cross Match Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of biometric identity solutions, has chosen Tenrox cloud-based professional services automation (Tenrox Cloud PSA) to help support its growing ...

OpenNebula 3.2 Beta Cloud Management Toolkit Is Out
SYS-CON Media (press release)
OpenNebula, the open source cloud project managed by C12G Labs, has announced the availability of the first beta release of OpenNebula 3.2. OpenNebula is the Industry standard for on-premise IaaS cloud computing, offering the most feature-rich, ...

SYS-CON Media (press release)

Cloud Computing: Jury Gets Novell Antitrust Case Against Microsoft
SYS-CON Media (press release)
After an eight-week trial Novell's private antitrust suit against Microsoft for monopoly abuse went to the jury early Wednesday morning. The jury reportedly deliberated into the evening after peppering the judge with questions about what the AP said ...

SYS-CON Media (press release)

Review: OnLive Mobilized: How cloud gaming works on through cell carriers
VentureBeat
Last week OnLive – the cloud-gaming company which streams games rather than playing them natively – released an app for Android (the iOS update is still pending approval from Apple) for use with smartphones and tablets. The mobile service functions ...

Israeli Telco Bezeq Taps CTERA for Cloud Attached Storage
TalkinCloud (blog)
by Nicholas Mukhar on CTERA Networks has scored a major telco client in its own back yard: The Israel-based cloud storage and data protection provider has announced that Bezeq, which bills itself as Israel's largest telecommunications provider, ...

Cloud Computing: Salesforce Follows SAP into Cloud-ified HCM ...
Salesforce.com is taking a step outside its core contact management cloud and into very social,cloud-based human capital management (HCM) with its announcement Thursday of a definite agreement to buy three-and-a-half-year-old ...
Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal

InfoQ: Regulatory Compliant Cloud Computing: Rethinking web ...
By Arshad Noor
Not all data is sensitive and hence an equal and balanced investment in securing all data categories is not justified. This article presents an architecture that leverages cloud-computing, cloud-storage and enterprise key-management ...
InfoQ Personalized Feed for Fergus Neff

Friday Cloud News Roundup | GMO Cloud America
By GMO Cloud America
Cloud Computing News Highlights: PistonCloud CEO, PersonalWeb Cloud Patents, HealthcareCloud Adoption, Federal Government Cloud Security.
GMO Cloud America

Q&A: Jamcracker's Steve Crawford Discusses Cloud Services ...
Q&A: Jamcracker's Steve Crawford Discusses Cloud Services Aggregator Platform | The Web Host Industry Review - Web Hosting News.
theWHIR.com - Web Hosting Industry...

2012… The year of the Cloud. | Cloud Technology Solutions
By Rosie Kaye
I think it's fair to say that throughout 2011 the buzz word amongst I.T is 'Cloud.' Everything has been repackaged redesigned or some companies have.
Cloud Technology Solutions

Apprenda: PaaS – Your 2012 Cloud Secret Weapon : VMblog.com ...
By David Marshall
In 2012, as cloud utilization continues to skyrocket, we'll see enterprises deploying private Platform as a Service (PaaS), which will bring new types of agility and economics to the IT department and corporations.
VMblog.com - Virtualization Technolog...

How to save in IT investments through cloud | Thoughts on Cloud
By Fernando Garcia Velasco
There are various ways to save money when assuming a cloud computing strategy. Sometimes it is difficult to see these savings from the start, because people tend to think that there is a need to get into an up-front investment, which won't ...
Thoughts on Cloud

Salesforce Gets Into the HR Cloud With Rypple Acquisition - Arik ...
By Arik Hesseldahl
Marking the third acquisition of a cloud software firm since October, Salesforce grabs Rypple and says it will rename it Successforce. Sound familiar? It should.
AllThingsD

SMEStorage adds support for EMC Atmos & PogoPlug to its Cloud ...
By admin
UK based SMEStorage today announced that it has enhanced support for using Private CloudStorage with its Cloud Appliance by integrating the EMC Atmos and ...
MacMegasite

Improving Cloud Provider Assessment
By Kyle Hilgendorf
Most cloud providers in my recent experience have become quite good and open in sharing their security controls with prospective clients, but it is very time consuming for clients to hop from provider to provider, ask to see these controls, and ...
Kyle Hilgendorf

Cloud and Decoupling the Business Benefit - Journey to the Cloud
At its very basic instantiation cloud is a label affixed to a whole host of interrelated and completely separate technologies and concepts.
www.journeytothecloud.com/.../cloud-and-decoupling-the-bus...
 

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