Thursday, January 26, 2012

Amazon Unveils Cloud Storage Gateway

Amazon Unveils Cloud Storage Gateway
InformationWeek
AWS Storage Gateway is a software-based appliance that uploads snapshots to the Amazon's S3 storage cloud. By Deni Connor Amazon joined the rest of the cloud storage gateway vendors on Wednesday with the announcement of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) ...

Megaupload Closure Forces Cloud Storage Questions
InformationWeek
By Mathew J. Schwartz InformationWeek Can cloud-based file-storage services be relied on for business use? The FBI's takedown of cyberlocker site Megaupload last week sparked an international outcry from disenfranchised users, who had relied on the ...

Feds Issue Comprehensive Cloud Security Guidance
InformationWeek
National Institute of Standards and Technology urges government and private sector users not to leave cloud security to providers or service arrangements. By J. Nicholas Hoover InformationWeek There's no silver bullet to ensuring security in the public ...

1st Annual CloudNOW Awards Recognizing Women in Cloud Computing to Take Place ...
Sacramento Bee
25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Cloud Connect, produced by UBM TechWeb, today announced fresh program elements for this year's event including new tracks around Big Data and Mobile, and the Carrier Cloud Forum. In addition, CloudNOW, a nonprofit group of ...

VMware Opens Cloud, Virtualization Marketplace
eWeek
VMware is opening its Solution Exchange, an online marketplace that offers virtualization and cloudsolutions, to help the company attract new customers and fend off competition from Red Hat, Microsoft and IBM. VMware is joining a number of other ...

Cloud-based IPOs: Guidewire, IntelePeer
TheStreet.com
By Debra Borchardt 01/25/12 - 07:00 AM EST NEW YORK (TheStreet -- Both Guidewire Software (GWRE) and IntelePeer(PEER) are hoping the cache of the cloud will fetch them a higher share price when they make their public debuts this week, according to ...

Can cloud-based collaborative data-sharing be secure enough for defense systems?
Network World
By Ellen Messmer, Network World Though wariness about the perceived lack of security in cloud-based services is often voiced, there are some situations where the opposite is the case. Some businesses mindful of security say the cloud services that are ...

Mozy Synchronizes Cloud Storage Across Devices With Stash
eWeek
Like standard Mozy, Stash provides users with cloud-based access to their backed-up files, but it also enables availability to them at all times and across multiple devices -- including all computers, smartphones and tablets. Mozy, VMware's cloud ...

States Allow Voting Via Cloud For Citizens Overseas
InformationWeek
By Elizabeth Montalbano InformationWeek Several states are using an online balloting website based on Microsoft's cloud-computing platform to allow US voters living overseas to cast their votes via the Web in 2012 primary elections.

5 cloud trends you won't want to miss in 2012
VentureBeat
Industry analysts like to refer to 2011 as “the year the cloud arrived.” But now that it's here, what are we going to do with it? Vendors are tripping over themselves to bolster their product lineups withcloud-hosted software and services, ...

CX.com Offers 25GB of Cloud Storage for .99 Cents Based on Strong User Demand
Sacramento Bee
25, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- CX Inc., the fastest growing cloud storage and cloud solutions company, begins a 48-hour limited promotion today for all users offering them 25GB of storage for .99 cents/month for the next 12 months.

Dell fluffs up fatter Microsoft private clouds
Register
By Timothy Prickett Morgan • Get more from this author Dell is hedging its bets in the private cloudwar that is ranging between VMware and Microsoft and has crafted two different versions of its vStart prefabbed clouds: one to run the vSphere stack ...

Head in clouds: a week-long experiment with the new technology
Deseret News
By Eric Sisler, For the Deseret News It seems we can't go anywhere in the tech world without hearing something about cloud computing. Walk through any electronics superstore and you'll hear cryptic phrases like "It's all goin' to the cloud, ...

Dome9 Unveils Industry First Multi-Cloud Security Groups
MarketWatch (press release)
SAN MATEO, CA, Jan 25, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Dome9 Security(TM), the leading provider of cloud security firewall management for public and private clouds, as well as for dedicated and virtual private servers (VPS), today announced it has ...

Novatrend Builds New Cloud Services With Turnkey Cloud Platform From CA ...
Sacramento Bee
25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) today announced that Novatrend, a Swiss managed service provider (MSP), has chosen the CA AppLogic® turnkey cloud computing platform to launch a new set of cloud services.

10 Megaupload Alternatives to Keep Your Cloud Files Safe
eWeek
Here, eWEEK identifies the top 10 Websites that offer gigabytes of cloud storage space for nominal fees. All these sites offer the ability to share files, as well store files for preservation or backup purposes. Many of the identified sites also offer ...

eWeek

SPIN METER: Release of tax filings and consulting work only cloud positions on ...
Washington Post
WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney released two years of his federal tax returns under pressure from Newt Gingrich, who made his 2010 tax filings public ahead of his GOP rival. Romney, in turn, successfully pressed Gingrich to disclose contracts between his ...

How to approach cloud computing
Bizjournals.com
Cloud computing is a fast-growing tool that lets a company make use of servers and software without having to keep it all in-house. “With cloud computing, small companies can look like a big company 

PostgreSQL flies into the cloud
ITworld.com
By Brian Proffitt Add a new comment January 25, 2012, 10:27 AM — PostgreSQL has been getting a lot more enterprise attention lately, and now it's going to be an even bigger player in the cloud. PostgreSQL commercial vendor EnterpriseDB announced today ...

GSA Moving USA.gov, Data.gov To Public Cloud
InformationWeek
Agency has awarded a $20.76 million contract to CGI Group to host its websites in a public cloud. By Elizabeth Montalbano InformationWeek The General Services Administration (GSA) has awarded CGI Group a $20.76 million contract to move some of its ...

G-cloud to aim for 12-month contracts
ZDNet UK
By Jack Clark, ZDNet UK, 25 January, 2012 17:29 @mappingbabel The government is planning to trim IT contract lengths in a bid to prevent its cloud services becoming bound by obsolete technology, the Cabinet Office has said.

Cloud BI has benefits, but no strong biz case yet
ZDNet Asia
By Jamie Yap , ZDNet Asia on January 25, 2012 (11 hours ago) Cloud-based business intelligence tools offer benefits but still lack real business driver, say analysts, who advise enterprises to evaluate cost savings before adopting such services.

Cisco to Leverage Routers, WAN to Help Enterprises Connect to the Cloud
eWeek
Cisco within the next few months will roll out its IEWS, a solution that includes its router and WAN offerings to help enterprises more easily and safely take advantage of cloud computing. Cisco Systems continues to be the dominant player in the ...

ATandT Launches Cloud Unified Communications Service
eWeek
NEWS ANALYSIS: Businesses seeking to implement a unified communications system without the expense of deploying the hardware and software in-house can turn to AT&T for a cloud-based service that's affordable and easy to use.

FireHost's European-Based Secure Cloud Hosting Services Go Live
MarketWatch (press release)
LONDON, Jan 25, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Cloud Expo Europe -- Secure cloudhosting company, FireHost, has today announced the expansion into Europe, with news that its secure hosting services are now available at data centers in London and ...

IT Governance launches Cloud Computing Foundation training course
Einnews Portugal
/EINPresswire.com/IT Governance Ltd, the leading expert in information security training, consultancy, books and tools, has today launched the Cloud Computing Foundation training course. This course is based on the EXIN Cloud Computing Foundation ...

Amazon fuses your storage system with its cloud — Cloud ...
By Derrick Harris
Amazon Web Services is rolling out a new feature called Storage Gateway that lets companies upload data to its cloud-storage services directly from their on-premise storage systems. This should enable cloud cloud backup and cloud bursting ...
GigaOM

1 Raindrop: Understanding Cloud Security Standards Part 3
By Gunnar Peterson
Part three of my three part series on Cloud Security Standards is available on the Intel blog (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) Part 1 examines four Identity and Access Anti-Patterns that occur regularly with enterprises moving to Cloud include: Low/no ...
1 Raindrop

Tony Scott on To the Cloud - Office of the CIO - Site Home - MSDN ...
By Tony Scott, CIO, Microsoft
Tony Scott, corporate vice president and CIO at Microsoft, talks about the role of cloud computing in emerging markets and provides some recommendations to CIOs based on material from the book, To the Cloud: cloud-powering an enterprise ...
MSDN Blogs

Cloud Host FireHost Launches European Cloud Hosting in ...
By Nicole Henderson
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Cloud hosting firm FireHost announced on Wednesday that it has expanded into Europe and is offering its hosting services at data centers in London and Amsterdam. This news comes nearly two months ...
theWHIR.com - Daily Web Hosting News
NIST Finalizes Cloud Security Publication | FedScoop
By David Stegon
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has finalized Guidelines on Security and Privacy in Public Cloud Computing (NIST Special Publication 800-144) that provides an overview of the security and privacy challenges facing cloud ...
FedScoop

Cloud Connect Blog » Blog Archive » Cloud Adoption Case Studies ...
By Jason Quesada
A majority of the cloud related articles that I have read from the end of last year to now, all have a common theme. 2012 is going to be the year of the cloud! I thought 2011 was the year of the cloud. It surely was the most talked about subject ...
Cloud Connect Blog

Executive Corner: Interview with Business ... - Thoughts on Cloud
By Neil Weightman
Julie: My title is Business Development Executive for Cloud for IBM UK and Ireland. That means working with customers to help them on their cloud journey, understanding what their business imperatives are, and being able to match them ...
Thoughts on Cloud

Amazon Web Services New Cloud Gateway Opens the Flood ...
By Alex Williams
Amazon Web Services launched AWS Cloud Gateway today, which connects on-premise software appliances with cloud-based storage. It heralds the rise of cloud services for back up storage and an example of the challenges traditional ...
SiliconANGLE

Cloud-XBRL: Will it help with my household chores? | Research with ...
By Ankita Tyagi
Therefore, I wanted to explore how else cloud-based XBRL and / or cloud-based financial disclosure management solutions is being leveraged by companies and are there industries besides financial services, where cloud-based XBRL is ...
Research with Results: a blog...

Revit OpEd: Point Cloud Feature Extraction
By Steve
The Point Cloud Feature Extraction for Autodesk Revit technology preview is licensed for a limited term and for a particular territory as referenced in the End User License Agreement. The technology preview will operate until August 1, 2012.
Revit OpEd

Building a Secure Cloud with Identity (Identity Management)
By Naresh Persaud
In this webcast Brian discusses how Identity Management can restore control and decrease risk in the cloud with automated provisioning, web-access control and single sign-on. SaskTel has built an infrastructure to provide Identity ...
Oracle Blogs
Department of Justice Misdirection on Cloud Computing and Privacy ...
Does using cloud computing services based in the United States create a risk of US law enforcement access to people's data? The US Department of Justice ...
https://www.eff.org/.../department-justice-misdirection-cloud-c...



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