Thursday, January 12, 2012

Amazon AWS Direct Connect locations increased

Amazon adds more spots for companies to connect to its cloud
Computerworld
By Mikael Ricknäs IDG News Service - Amazon Web Services has added four locations where enterprises can use its Direct Connect network service to communicate with its cloud, the company said on Tuesday. The new AWS Direct Connect locations are CoreSite One Wilshire in Los Angeles, TelecityGroup Sovereign House in London and Equinix in Singapore and in Tokyo. The two existing locations are both in the U.S....

UBM TechWeb's Cloud Connect Makes 12 Cloud Predictions for 2012
MarketWatch (press release)
11, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Cloud Connect, the premier technology event for cloudcomputing produced by UBM TechWeb, presents the top 12 predictions in cloud computing for 2012. In five years, cloud computing has evolved from a novelty to ...

CES: Two cloud gaming firms, two different visions
Gamasutra
by Kris Graft [Console/PC, Social/Online, Exclusive, Business] They're often considered direct competitors, but cloud gaming firms Gaikai and OnLive have different visions of the data streaming future. At CES in Las Vegas this week, the two companies ...

Gamasutra

BBVA Ascends to Google's Cloud
Wall Street Journal (blog)
You could get a deal to sponsor the National Basketball Association, or you could become the largest tenant in Google's cloud. Following its deal with Google, announced Wednesday, the Spanish bank plans to move all of its 110000 employees to the cloud, ...

Adobe Nudges Customers Toward Cloud-Based Software
PC Magazine
Last October, Adobe announced Creative Cloud, an online offering of services and applications for making, publishing, and sharing creative output across a variety of channels and mediums. CreativeCloud, which is due out sometime in early 2012, ...

Health IT Managers Slow To Implement Cloud
InformationWeek
Security concerns keep health IT pros from jumping on cloud computing faster, a KLAS study suggests. By Nicole Lewis InformationWeek Healthcare IT managers understand that cloudcomputing has its benefits, but many are concerned about privacy and ...

Auto Makers Look to the Cloud
Wall Street Journal
By IAN SHERR Manufacturers like General Motors Co. and Ford Motor Co. are using the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to show off a set of services that operate online, or through the "cloud," and allow customers to remotely track their cars, ...

Autonomic's ARC-P Government Cloud Receives FISMA Moderate Authority to ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The ATO provides assurance to government agencies that the stringent security standards required to credibly service the cloud first policy initiatives have been met. Autonomic views the US General Services Administration (GSA) as a strategic partner ...

Bond University offers cloud computing course to students
ZDNet (blog)
By Charlie Osborne | January 11, 2012, 8:44am PST Summary: Bond University is now offering students a new specialisation in cloud computing, at both undergraduate and post-graduate level. Bond University, based on the Gold Coast in Australia, ...

NGINX's Igor Sysoev Wins 2012 Cloud Award for Developer of the Year
MarketWatch (press release)
Sysoev's selection as a Cloud Awards winner underscores the level of recognition and appreciation NGINX has achieved in the marketplace as the next-generation web server. The complete list ofCloud Award winners can be viewed at ...

Service Providers to Seize the Cloud Services Opportunity in Emerging Markets
MarketWatch (press release)
NEW YORK, Jan 11, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- As cloud computing continues to gain acceptance in emerging markets, service providers (such as telcos, MSOs and hosters) are well positioned to gain mindshare and become an important route to market (RTM) for ...

Rovi Cloud Services Power Leading Entertainment Apps Across Platforms and ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Rovi Cloud Services is a suite of entertainment-focused web services designed to enable the rapid development of innovative new products and applications for the connected consumer. These services, which include real-time access to Rovi data, search, ...

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Now Available on Dell Cloud with VMware vCloud ...
MarketWatch (press release)
11, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- SUSE today announced that SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server is the first Linux distribution for Dell's new VMware software-based cloud offering, Dell Cloud with VMware vCloud® Datacenter Service. ...

Private cloud network VLAN problems: Is OpenFlow the answer?
Search Networking
In the first part of this series on the private cloud network, we examine whether the physical network is hostile to the private cloud. In part two, we look at how the software-defined networking control plane can integrate virtual and physical ...

OutsourceIT buys cloud-services provider
Winston-Salem Journal
OutsourceIT, an information-technology company with a major office in Winston-Salem, said today it has acquired cloud-services provider GoBeyondIT of Baltimore. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The combined company will operate under both brand ...

Your Next Windows Desktop Could Come From A Gaming Company
Datamation
A gaming company's new cloud-based desktop could point to future directions in desktop-as-a-service. This is CES week, when a bunch of products are typically announced that employees want to use at work. It used to be that those of us in IT could just ...

Sony bringing its Music Unlimited cloud service to iOS this quarter
VentureBeat
The company will also be targeting users who have yet to adopt a cloud music service, instead of directly targeting those using competitors. The Music Unlimited service now has over 1 million active users, Schaaf said. The company also recently struck ...

VentureBeat

Gaikai Cloud Gaming Coming to LG's Cinema 3D TVs
Tom's Guide
Starting this year, LG Cinema 3D TVs will offer cloud gaming thanks to Gaikai's processing cloudplatform. This week during CES 2012 in Las Vegas, Gaikai announced that it has teamed up with LG to bring cloud gaming straight to the LG's Cinema 3D TVs, ...

Symplified Surpasses 3 Million Users in 2011 as Cloud Usage Soars
MarketWatch (press release)
BOULDER, Colo., Jan 11, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Symplified(R), the Cloud Identity Company, today announced that in 2011 it nearly tripled revenues year-over-year and increased customer adoption by 300 percent to surpass 3 million licensed users ...

Intermedia Welcomes New Chief Financial Officer
MarketWatch (press release)
As a member of the senior management team, Mr. Allen brings expertise in corporate finance, business development and operations to the cloud services and hosted Exchange company. Most recently, Allen held the role of VP finance & operations at Citrix ...

First look: Zend's PHP developer cloud
InfoWorld
By Rick Grehan | InfoWorld When you consider the cloud, you typically imagine a realm of deployed, production applications. Zend Developer Cloud (ZDC) adds a twist: ZDC creates a place in the cloud where PHP-based applications can be developed for the ...

Apica Expert Shares Top Five Cloud Optimization Predictions for 2012
MarketWatch (press release)
PALO ALTO, CA, Jan 11, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Apica, a leading load testing and performance-monitoring provider for cloud and mobile applications, today announced its cloudpredictions for 2012. These predictions are based on the company's ...

Cisco's refocused Videoscape floats more clearly to the cloud
FierceOnlineVideo
The new Videoscape is pushing aggressively into the cloud, with "Any Screen TV" capabilities that deliver live video and on-demand video experiences to PCs, Macs, iPads, iPhones and Android devices. Videoscape, designed to bring together digital TV, ...

Making "the Cloud" work for business
Shreveport Times
If the Cloud seems a bit nebulous, that's because it is even while it's simple. If bringing your business into the Cloud sounds like adapting to brand-new technology, you're right although you're probably using it already. The Cloud is not new ...

AMAX Joins Intel(R) Cloud Builders Program
MarketWatch (press release)
FREMONT, CA, Jan 11, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- AMAX, a leading provider of enterprise and cloud computing solutions, has joined the Intel Cloud Builders program, which publishes best practices, hardware blueprints and software architectures on ...

KineticD Demonstrates Operational Excellence and Commitment to Cloud Security ...
Sacramento Bee
11, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- KineticD™, known for its cloud backup and disaster recovery services for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs), today announced that the IT infrastructure controls of its SaaS platform have been awarded the Statement on ...

Canadian Firm Stage2Data Wins Master Distributor Title for Attix5 the Leading ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Attix5, the UK and EU leader in Cloud Based Backup and Data Recovery chooses Canadian firm Stage2Data as the Master Distributor of Attix5 in the North American market. Stage2Data, under the leadership of Jeff Collier and Jacques Swanepoel, ...

Book Excerpt: "To The Cloud: Cloud Powering an Enterprise ...
By Pankaj_AroraMS
When Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer publicly declared “We're all in” on cloud computing in March 2010, he wasn't just referring to Microsoft's products. He also was giving his IT organization a mandate to move to cloud computing. Since that ...
MSDN Blogs

Does Microsoft Remain a "Cloud Player" in 2012? - ReadWriteCloud
By Scott M. Fulton, III
It's almost impossible to believe now, but when Microsoft premiered its Windows Azure service back in October 2008, there was genuine speculation over whether the company would try ...
ReadWriteWeb

Panasonic Shows Cloud-Based “Smart Vegetable Garden” Device ...
By Serkan Toto
One unit will cost a whopping US$7800, but alternatively, buyers can opt for a US$180 monthly lease plan that includes the cloud-based management service. The device will also be bundled with home solar energy systems Panasonic is ...
TechCrunch » Gadgets

Ignition's Artale: 2012 is the Year of Cloud Applications | Xconomy
By Curt Woodward
For all of you who've felt like cloud computing is some kind of foreign territory that you might never visit or fully understand, take heart. Ignition Partners.
Xconomy

What to expect from the cloud in 2012: Experimentation ...
By Thoran Rodrigues
Thoran Rodrigues says that the cloud trends for 2012 can be summed up in one word — experimentation. He breaks downs some of the areas to watch.
on TechRepublic

ASTRO File Manager Launches Cloud Storage Public Beta – Droid ...
By Tim-o-tato
Our good friends over at ASTRO launched a public beta for their newest service, cloud storage. It allows you to backup, access and download your files from any device you might own. To begin, the amount of storage you have is limited, but ...
Droid Life

Seeking security in cloud SLAs | Simply Security
By Simply Security
As organizations around the world continue to gain experience in public cloud environments, it is becoming increasingly clear that a strong relationship with the host provider is essential for optimizing data and application security.
Simply Security

KLAS survey: 71% of providers have cloud implementation, or plan ...
By Don Fluckinger
"Health care cloud implementation" has become a trending topic, thanks to some of our peers in the health IT media and KLAS, which recently released a survey on cloud use among providers. More on that later.
Health IT Pulse

NPD Group Blog » CES 2012: Cloud-Made Handcuffs
By Eddie Hold, Vice President, NPD Connected Intelligence
The latest approach to encourage loyalty is the cloud. Carriers offer cloud space to ensure that your smartphone device is automatically backing up to a safe zone. Those photos, no longer just trivial snaps, but now your core photographic ...
NPD Group Blog

SAP on the Cloud » Cloud-Centered IT Strategy Should Consider ...
By gregchase
Until recently, discussions of what cloud computing can offer seemed isolated to specific departments: sales executives looking for sales automation, marketing officers looking for campaign management, and even IT directors looking at ...
SAP on the Cloud

Cloud Droppings
By Chandra Hosek, Director, Corporate Communications
George Carlin's rant against useless descriptions of clouds in literature has parallels to/lessons for use of the term “cloud computing.”
ScienceLogic
Rackspace Open Sources Dreadnot - Rackspace Cloud Computing ...
MyRackspace Portal; Cloud Control Panel; Rackspace Webmail Login .... The Rackspace CloudMonitoring team has been working on ways to improve the lives ...
www.rackspace.com/cloud/.../rackspace-open-sources-dreadno...

NexJ Systems to Deliver Hosted CRM Desktops via Private Clouds ...
NEWS ANALYSIS: NexJ Systems has partnered with Winfund to create a cloud- based offering of hosted desktops for financial services markets.
www.eweek.com/.../NexJ-Systems-to-Deliver-Hosted-CRM-De...



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