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Trusted Cloud Services to Take Center Stage in 2012
Sacramento Bee
2, 2011 -- /PRNewswire/ -- As provider interest in cloud services grows, telcos are exploring ways to differentiate their products while the IT industry works on standardization at different layers of the cloud operating stack, according to the latest ...
Oracle Rides WebLogic Server 12c to the Cloud
eWeek
Oracle launches WebLogic Server 12c, a major revision of the company's Java app server with enhancements to better support cloud computing. Oracle announced a new version of its Java application server, Oracle WebLogic Server, 12c, which new features ...
The Cloud, Day 17: Cloud Entertainment Comes with Strings Attached
PCWorld
By Tony Bradley, PCWorld The cloud is emerging as a platform for entertainment beyond just streaming music. The problem right now is that many of the content providers have the model backwards and insist on linking cloud-based viewing with old school ...
Cloud security: Better than you think
GigaOm
2, 2011, 5:00am PT 1 Comment Security is almost always cited as the primary inhibitor to wider cloud adoption by businesses. For example, more than three-quarters (77 percent) of 390 IT pros surveyed think the use of cloud computing makes it harder to ...
Big Banks Look to Occupy the Cloud
Wired News
Via CloudAve, American Banker is running a substantial piece on Dutch banking giant ING's move into the cloud. Predictably, the company has started out with a large “private cloud” deployment—essentially a virtualization roll-out—and they're taking ...
Cloud News: ING, VirtualSharp, Cisco
Data Center Knowledge
ING Bets big on the Cloud. Bank Technology News reports that global financial giant ING is developing a hybrid cloud that combines features of public clouds and private data centers. The hybrid IT infrastructure will achieve the variable costs, ...
Cloud Storage Firm Data Storage Corp Secures $20 Million in Equity Financing
Web Host Industry Review
By Nicole Henderson, December 02, 2011 (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Cloudstorage and cloud computing provider Data Storage Corporation announced on Thursday that it has signed a $20 million equity line agreement with investment firm Southridge ...
The Cult of Salesforce.com
PC Magazine
We were at Cloudforce, Salesforce.com's annual cloud-computing evangelism event. CEO Marc Benioff was on stage. Here's the takeaway: Benioff convinced us that CRM – in particular, cloudCRM – is the coolest thing ever. He brings a rock-n-roll vibe to ...
Atom AMPD Integrates Botnet Defense Cloud
NewsFactor Network
Atom AMPD, LLC, Volo, developer of the AtomOS Kwick Key™, a single-source network and communications platform, has formed a strategic partnership with ThreatSTOP in which ThreatSTOP's Botnet Defense Cloud is integrated into Atom AMPD Kwick Key™ as a ...
Cloud Computing: HP Wants Third Parties Selling Its Cloudware
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Back in the olden days, when cloud was still a young thing and not everybody's middle name, back before the Apotheker distractions and false trails, and before HP, in catch-up mode, started indiscriminately trying to be all things cloud to everybody, ...
Talking about the benefits of cloud computing
Computerworld (blog)
There are lots of options for cloud computing, but each offers specific benefits. What are the primary ones users hope to see? Responsiveness: Cloud computing gives IT the ability to respond to demands from business units faster than ever before. ...
Will Networking Define The Cloud, Or Law?
Seeking Alpha
This was the year when mainstream enterprise vendors accepted the cloud. Next year, they hope, is the year they capitalize on it. But are they all automatic winners? Cisco (CSCO) insists it's one, with a study it calls the Global Cloud Index claiming ...
Deutsche Bank completes cloud computing overhaul
Computerworld
By Leo King Computerworld UK - Deutsche Bank is set to complete the first phase of a major cloud computing overhaul aimed at improving internal application development. The German investment bank, which has a substantial presence in the City of London, ...
SMEStorage Cloud FTP Provides Ubiquitous Access to Over 30 File Storage Clouds
PR.com (press release)
SMEStorage CloudFTP now supports over 30 popular file and storage Clouds even if the Clouds do not natively support FTP. London, United Kingdom, December 02, 2011 --(PR.com)-- SMEStorage, the Open Cloud File Server Appliance company, today announced ...
Cloud-Based Software Combines Image Sharing with Clinical Planning Tools
Medgadget.com
by Brian Klein on Dec 2, 2011 • 4:46 pm Brainlab (Feldkirchen, Germany) has announced the debut of VoyantLink, a cloud-based image sharing platform for clinicians, hospitals, and imaging centers. The platform also can be used for patient exam planning, ...
5 ways to benefit from NIST's cloud road map now
GCN.com
But in area of cloud computing, at least, help is on the way. On Nov. 2, the National Institute of Standards and Technology released a “cloud computing technology road map,” a set of steps to setting up cloud systems that its creators said would help ...
Moving to cloud will help enterprises scale costs, expand product offerings ...
Hindu Business Line
At a time when the cloud computing market in India is maturing, the role of IT services providers such as MindTree is to de-clutter the cloud market and help enterprises leverage the power of cloud, said its Managing Director and CEO, Mr Krishnakumar ...
Skytap Aims to Bring Simplicity, Security to Hybrid Cloud
Integration Developers
Skytap Inc., a provider of self-service cloud automation solutions, has rolled out new cloudcomputing capabilities for increased simplicity, security, visibility and control. The new features make it easier for business users to tap into the Skytap ...
European Distrust of US Data Security Creates Market for Local Cloud Service
PCWorld (blog)
By Jennifer Baker, IDG News Concern in the European Union that US data protection laws are too lax has created a new market for European cloud computing services. A recent survey indicated that 70 percent of Europeans have concerns about their online ...
PEER 1 Hosting pushes public cloud with Zunicore
Cloud Pro
The new division will offer public cloud infrastructure and platform services to the business professional. PEER 1 Hosting today announced its move into public cloud services with the launch of its Zunicore division. Although the company has played its ...
DSPanel Launches Game-Changing Cloud Business Intelligence, Financial ...
Sacramento Bee
Canvas Online means mid-market organizations that have shied away from deploying cloud business intelligence, reporting or financial consolidation solution because of concerns over cost, complexity or maintenance issues, will now have access to cutting ...
Salesforce & the Social Marketing Cloud: Round 1 Goes to...
ZDNet (blog)
That said, reading and hearing the announcement of Radian 6 as the “social marketing cloud” makes me queasy. First, because it isn't. Second, because salesforce is underestimating the value or at least apparently underestimating the value of the ...
Box Takes On Microsoft, Google for Cloud Dominance
PC Magazine
By Chloe Albanesius Cloud-based storage for the enterprise space might not seem like the most exciting of topics, but Box CEO and co-founder Aaron Levie begs to differ. In six years, Levie and co-founder Dylan Smith have taken Box from a college ...
SugarCRM Cloud Computing Strategy
ZDNet (blog)
By Dan Kusnetzky | December 2, 2011, 3:13am PST Summary: SugarCRM has plans to offer its software as a service offering through other cloud service providers. An early example of this strategy is IBM's SmartCloud Enterprise. ...
HP pushes further into hybrid cloud
Computing
By Martin Courtney Earlier this week, HP signalled its intent to push further into thecloud services market, introducing a hybrid platform and bringing its cloud service provider partner program to Europe. The IT giant hopes to make its server, ...
IT security processes overview and cloud | Thoughts on Cloud
By Turgut Aslan
IT security concerns are one major hindrance why IBM's commercial customers hesitate to embrace emerging cloud technologies. A good method to address those concerns is to evaluate each IBM global IT security process one by one and to ...
Thoughts on Cloud
Friday Cloud News Roundup | GMO Cloud America
By GMO Cloud America
Cloud Computing News Highlights: E-Passports, Cloud Technology in 2012, Eye on Earth and Noise Watch, The Cisco Global Cloud Index, the Patriot Act, and a look back at 2011's CloudTechnolology.
GMO Cloud America
Banking Sector Gets More Comfortable With Cloud
By Krishnan Subramanian
The cloud naysayers get their highs by claiming that banking sector will never embrace cloud. But, to their dismay, banking sector was much more open to the idea of cloud computing than many expected. This trend is only continuing to ...
CloudAve
Movie studio DreamWorks takes to the cloud | VentureBeat
By Jennifer Van Grove
Hello, cloud? Hollywood is calling. That's right. DreamWorks, the innovative motion pictures studio known for blockbuster animation flicks like Shrek, is so hip to the cloud that it's now outsourcing 20 percent of its compute capacity to it.
VentureBeat
Research on GIS Application Model Based on Cloud Computing ...
By paper
Cloud Computing is one of the hit technologies that developed in computing industry in recent years. It turns all IT resources into a service that customers can rent based on their practical need and teamwork through internet. Cloud computing ...
IT Research Paper
Seven Ways Enterprise Cloud is Transforming the IT Market – Part II ...
By Carl Meadows
In Part I, we recapped four of seven roles cloud computing plays today or will play in the near future, as discussed by Indu Kodukula, CTO of SunGard Availability Services. Here we complete the discussion with the final three roles Kodukula ...
Mission Critical: Cloud
Business in the Clouds in 2012 | CloudTweaks.com - Cloud ...
By Rick
Business in the Clouds in 2012 The year 2012 is quickly approaching and I would like to add my thoughts about what will might see. I have nothing to add.
CloudTweaks.com - Cloud Computing...
Five Cloud Predictions for 2012 from CTO of Rackspace
By clarejacobson
We're always looking for predictions, and when we find good ones, we like to share. Below are the five cloud predictions for 2012 of John Engates, CTO of Rackspace. He was interviewed by Ken Hess of ZDNet and you can read the entire ...
Under the Radar
Cartoon: The Inner Workings of Cloud Security - ReadWriteCloud
By David Strom
We continue our series of cartoons from Cloudville, that mythical but somewhat familiar place where the laws of IT don't quite seem to apply. Like our last cartoon ...
ReadWriteCloud
Zenny's Weekly Cloud Links #36 by @tbalinas via @Zenoss
By Travis Balinas
Every Friday we like to highlight some of our favorite posts on Cloud Computing, service orientated infrastructure, DevOps, Big Data, and anything else that grabbed our attention over the week. Here are some great articles from the week of ...
The Cloud Management Blog
Microsoft "Eye On Earth" Project Uses The Cloud for Environmental ...
By Jaymi Heimbuch
Using the cloud to coordinate scientists and data, this new program could help advance our understanding of the environment.
Latest Items from TreeHugger
Cloud Computing: Boies Swings Both Ways on Android | SOA World ...
Maureen O'Gara the most read technology reporter for the past 20 years, is the Cloud Computing and Virtualization News Desk editor of SYS-CON Media. She is the publisher of famous "Billygrams" and the editor-in-chief of "Client/Server ...
Latest News from SOA World Magazine
This Week in Cloud: The Ship Has Sailed | SiliconANGLE
By Maria Deutscher
The networking company expects very rapid uptake by the year 2015, when data originating fromcloud datacenters will add up to an annual traffic rate of 1.6 zettabytes, or a third of total datacenter traffic – significantly larger than the current ...
SiliconANGLE
Linux Today - Rumble in the cloud: 5 cloud storage services compared
"It used to be that when I said "cloud services," people's eyes would glaze over and in minutes they'd be gently snoring. That was then. This is now. While CIOs ...
www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2011120100439RVDTNT
Office 365: A Cloud-based Productivity Tools Solution ...
Microsoft Office 365 offers access to familiar Office applications that are updated and licensed directly from the cloud. There are also online versions of ...
cloud-computing.learningtree.com/.../office-365-a-cloud-base...
Cloud computing services depend on data safety: Trend Micro ...
NEW DELHI: Security software provider Trend Micro said the adoption of cloud computing services in India would largely depend on factors such as data safety.
articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/.../30443891_1_public-cl...
 

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