Monday, December 5, 2011

IDC on 2012: Prepare for Cloud wars

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IDC on 2012: Prepare for Cloud wars, mobile explosion, higher IT spending
Computerworld Australia
IDC researchers say some big battles will be brewing in 2012 in the cloud, mobile and Big Data arenas, so much so that "companies like Microsoft, HP, SAP, RIM, and others -- including Apple -- will face 'crossroads moments' in 2012. ...
Big IT vendors missing the boat with cloud developers
CNET
by Dave Rosenberg December 3, 2011 6:33 PM PST Follow @dr138 The big IT vendors continue to miss the key factor to the adoption of their cloud products: developers. This past week Oracle announced that it would soon release a new "cloud" ...
NZ may beat US to cloud code of practice
Computerworld New Zealand
By Stephen Bell | Wellington | Monday, 5 December, 2011 New Zealand could be leading most of the world in the evolution of a code of practice for cloud computing. Looking around the world, says project coordinator Joy Cottle, it appears there is only ...
Cloud and SMB App Providers BambooHR and Small Improvements Deliver Integrated ...
Exec Digital (press release)
Provo, UT, December 01, 2011 --(PR.com)-- BambooHR, a leader in human resources cloudsoftware, today announced a strategic partnership with employee performance review system provider Small Improvements. This alliance and product integration creates a ...
Will iTunes Match Win Cloud Music War?
International Business Times AU
Apple launched iTunes Match, Google opened up Google Music, and Amazon offered Amazon Cloud Drive. With the launch of these music-related options, how do you know that you are choosing the right one? iTunes Match is now available for testing on Apple ...
Frontline Insights with cloud storage provider Symform
eChannelLine
By Bill Brandt, Managing Partner, Channelline Two execs from cloud storage provider Symform, Kevin Brown, the VP of Sales, and Margaret Dawson, the VP of Marketing, talk with ChannelLine Managing Partner Bill Brant about Symform, their partnering ...
Pacnet Expands Cloud Computing Offering With New Virtual Private Server Solution
Business Review Australia (press release)
"Pacnet VPS, our new IaaS service which is part of our broader cloud strategy, extends high-end computational, storage and networking assets to customers that require access to scalable, advanced server infrastructure, without the need for huge, ...
Video On The Record with Ingram Micro's Jason Bystrak
eChannelLine
By Robert Cohen, CEO and business editor, Channelline Jason Bystrak, Director of Sales, North American Services for Ingram Micro, talks with Channelline CEO Robert Cohen about the distributor's recent cloud partnering efforts, which have resulted in a ...
How unique online platforms grease the wheels of innovation
GigaOm
They hadn't really thought about the impact of hardware at cloud providers on the user experience of their game customers (hint: old servers usually mean unhappy or lost customers). A few years ago we would have shaken our heads, wished them good luck, ...
Iomega partners with MindTree and Tulip for cloud services
Voice & Data Online
Iomega has launched cloud based video surveillance storage management solutions in collaboration with Tulip Telecom and MindTree. The solution consists of Iomega's StorCenter network storage devices, Tulip's national broadband network with cloud data ...
Carrier Cloud Forum: In Pictures
Light Reading India
The precise role of telecom service providers in the cloud sector will undoubtedly be critically important, which is why Light Reading India staged Carrier Cloud Forum events in New Delhi and Mumbai recently. (See Building a Profitable Carrier Cloud ...
iCloud, Standing out from the Crowd
PRWire
Finding a Cloud service to keep all your files safe, secure and internet accessible whether it's for your personal use or to manage your business content online, just got a lot easier. Cloud computing has been around for more than a decade and is ...
Five Key Enterprise Development Trends
eWeek
They should also continue to concentrate on Web, mobile and cloud development, and take advantage of advances in languages and integrated development environments (IDEs). HTML5 is going like gangbusters. Microsoft has adopted HTML5 for Windows 8, ...
Research of Distributed File Systems in Cloud Storage Archive - IT ...
By paper
Cloud Storage has been increasing in popularity recently due to per-use pricing and elastic scalability, providing a significant advantage over the typical acquisition and deployment of equipment that was previously required. It would be the ...
IT Research Paper
TechCrunch trivializes SAP's $3.4B billion cloud acquisition
By Michael Krigsman
The SAP acquisition demonstrates the mainstream importance of cloud computing; it's good for everyone involved in the cloud ecosystem. From startups, which are TechCrunch's usual fare, to the largest players in the world this acquisition ...
Enterprise Irregulars
SAP Barges Into The Cloud With $3.4 Billion Buy
By Matt Rosoff
SAP is the third-largest pure software company in the world by market cap behind Microsoft and Oracle. But it's been a bit of a laggard in moving its business model from on-premises software tocloud-based services. Box.net CEO Aaron Levie ...
Business Insider
Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson: CloudMASTER & CloudGURU ...
By noreply@blogger.com (Kevin L. Jackson)
The National Cloud Technologist Association is bringing the CloudMASTER & CloudGURU certification classes to the Washington Metropolitan Area in 2012. First introduced in November at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) in ...
Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson
SAP acquires SuccessFactors – is it all hot air in the cloud? | People ...
By John Appleby
But for the cloud side of the business, 2011 has been very lacklustre for SAP. Wookey left SAP and in a cruel twist of fate, ended up at Salesforce after his gardening leave was complete. The noise around HANA and SUP meant that the cloud ...
People, Process & Technology
James Hamilton on High Availability for Cloud Computing Database ...
He cites an ECS talk Ashraf Aboulnaga of the University of Waterloo: High Availability for Database Systems in Cloud Computing Environments, which describes two papers: RemusDB: Database high availability using virtualization, and ...
Inside-Cloud
5 ways to benefit from NIST's cloud road map now - All VoIP News
By AllVoIPNews
5 ways to benefit from NIST's cloud road map now. All about VoIP solutions and small business telephone systems. VoIP providers, new PBX systems and IP phones.
All VoIP News
Bill Alert - Cloud sync - Finance iPhone App (PAID) - iPhone World ...
By NewsBot
Bill Alert - Cloud sync Gladtiding, Inc. App
iPhone World forum - iPhone AppStore
SAP fluffs up cloud biz with $3.4bn buy – Channel Register ...
By Blackmere
SAP is shoring up cloud computing capabilities with the acquisition of SuccessFactors, a human resources software firm, for $3.4bn cash. Based in California, SuccessFactors is perhaps the second-biggest pure play apps-in-the-cloud firm, ...
Blackmere Consulting
SOA in Cloud Computing | Cloud Business Review
SOA, service oriented architecture broken down into simple terms via a video course for your benefit. Understand cloud concepts and SOA easily.
www.cloudbusinessreview.com/.../soa-in-cloud-computing.ht...
Cloud Computing is Perfect Fit For Mobile Working « Perspectives ...
To facilitate this the company decided to use 'Cloud'-based IT and accounting systems. This means they can be accessed from anywhere which is perfect given ...
cloud-computing.learningtree.com/.../cloud-computing-is-perf...

SAP To Acquire Cloud Application Vendor SuccessFactors In $3.4-Billion Deal
CRN
By Rick Whiting, CRN SAP will acquire SuccessFactors Inc., a developer of cloud-based human capital management (HCM) applications, for $3.4 billion in a move the company said will accelerate its cloud software strategy. SAP said Saturday that it signed ...
2011 Golden Bridge Award for the Cloud Security Product of the Year Goes to ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
AP Interview: Haiti leader says Venezuela aid key 12.04.11 CloudAccess, Inc., the leading cloud-based security solution company was honored with the prestigious Golden Bridge Award for Best Product of the Year in New York on August 10 for its ...
Egnyte Hybrid Cloud Solution Helps Resellers Cash In
Business Review Australia (press release)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA--(Marketwire - Jul 26, 2011) - Egnyte, a leading provider of cloud file server solutions, today announced a major milestone in its channel program. Since its launch only four months ago, over 500 resellers have joined the Egnyte ...
Dancing on digital clouds
Malta Independent Online
by George M. Mangion This year, the government unveiled a sweeping strategy that will see it partner Microsoft in an innovation centre, which, in the near future, will create its own internal “cloudcomputing” system – such as that used by other EU ...
Tango Networks Announces Cloud Based Mobile Unified Communications
WiredPRNews.com (press release)
Plano, Texas (WiredPRNews.com) Tango Networks™, a leading supplier of mobile unified communications solutions, today announced the release of the Abrazo Cloud Services suite of applications. Abrazo Cloud Services, or ACS, encompasses the full suite of ...
  
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