Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Big Cloud Trends for the New Year

Big Cloud Trends for the New Year
Forbes
The good times continued for the cloud space in 2011. A look at valuations shows the growth rates remained strong and the acquisitions got much larger, as seen with SAP's (NYSE:SAP) $3.4 billion deal for SuccessFactors (Nasdaq:SFSF). ... 

OnLive Uses Cloud To Give iPad The Windows Treatment
CRN
By Andrew R Hickey, CRN Online cloud and gaming upstart OnLive is drilling into the enterprise by giving Apple iPad users what they've wanted since the tablet first hit the market: access to Windows applications. With the launch of OnLive Desktop, ...

Samsung Galaxy Note Gets Cloud Based Mark-Up App with Scribble
PCWorld
Soonr, a cloud based collaboration service, has announced a new app to take advantage of the S Pen that will allow users to mark-up documents stored in their Soonr cloud using the S Pen on the Galaxy Note. The team at Soonr worked closely with Samsung ...

Feds Refine Cloud Security Standards
InformationWeek
Federal CIO Council releases controls for new agency-wide program that standardizes security requirements for cloud-computing products and services. By Elizabeth Montalbano InformationWeek The federal CIO Council has released security controls for the ...

Cloud storage: Leveling the playing field
ZDNet
The ideal solution is a cloud storage software package that is 100 percent S3 API compatible. Commentary - Amazon S3 is a dominant cloud storage service that is especially appealing to small- and medium-sized businesses with its easy-to-use, ...

The Cloud, Day 22: In and Out of the Cloud
PCWorld (blog)
By Tony Bradley, PCWorld Storing my documents, photos, music, and other data in the cloud is great. During the course of the 30 Days With the Cloud series, though, I have also come across a little problem -- keeping track of whether I am in the cloud, ...

2012 Cloud Computing Award Winners Announced
MarketWatch (press release)
Cloud computing is a field of IT and computer systems where services are typically offered remotely as a service, as opposed to within the organization's own firewall. Judged among almost 200 entries, the final winners represent "the best of the best ...

AT&T joins 'Linux for cloud', boosts HTML5 apps
Register
By Gavin Clarke • Get more from this author AT&T – one of America's largest internet, phone and TV service providers – is throwing up an open-source cloud running OpenStack to court application developers. The giant has announced AT&T Cloud Architect, ...

D-Link Brings Comprehensive Cloud Services to Home Networking and Unveils ...
Sacramento Bee
10, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ --INTERNATIONAL CES -- D-Link today unveiled a portfolio of CloudServices spanning multiple product lines, giving people an effortless way to view, control and share their digital lives remotely and securely. ...

Tuesday's Tip: Five Cloud/SaaS Contract Negotiation Tips For 2012
Forbes
Business leaders often take great care in building their Cloud and SaaS strategy, only to have many of the benefits of flexibility and agility hampered by overlooking details in their cloud contracts. In conversations with over 200 cloud customers in ...

Mercedes-Benz's cloud dashboard connects you to Facebook, Google and more
VentureBeat
Mercedes-Benz announced a new cloud-connected dashboard called “mbrace2″ that provides access to 3G Internet, apps like Facebook and over-the-air software updates. The company announced the new product at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. ...

VentureBeat

IBM Acquires Another Cloud Firm, Platform Computing
Technorati
IBM and Platform Computing have finalized the deal for the private cloud company's IBM acquisition which Big Blue initially had announced in October. The Toronto, Ontario-based company is a provider of cluster, grid and cloud management software for ...

Technorati

Neat Scanners Gain Mobile, Cloud Power
InformationWeek
Neat's scanner hardware, software, and cloud services, introduced at CES, give SMBs an organized way to compile expense or tax reports. By Fritz Nelson InformationWeek Scanning documents and images might not sound like a trip to Disneyland, ...

Stage2Data Promotes Cloud Based Backup and Recovery Solutions Through ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Stage2Data, the backup and recovery experts, launched an aggressive marketing campaign that pits their cloud based disk2disk solutions against tape. The company best known as the Backup and Recovery Experts created the marketing campaign to identify ...

LucidLogix Cloud Gaming and Remote Graphics Infrastructure to Bring High ...
MarketWatch (press release)
In addition to cloud gaming, VGWare allows for remote graphics rendering that improves the performance of a variety of client/server applications. The Lucid VGWare Cloud based infrastructure is an adaptive client-server remote graphics engine, ...


Cloud gaming service Gaikai strikes major Smart TV integration deal
Gamasutra
by Eric Caoili [Console/PC, Social/Online, Business] LG Electronics will integrate Gaikai's cloud gaming platform into its "Smart TV" service on select Digital TVs, allowing consumers to instantly stream and play game demos without extra hardware....

Gamasutra

Brass Monkey to Exhibit Cloud-Based Game System Featuring Smartphones as ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Brass Monkey is an app that turns smartphones into game controllers for use with its cloud-based game console. Customers can try out the Brass Monkey console by loading up playbrassmonkey.com in a browser on a PC or Mac and getting the iPhone ...

Cloud Provider eApps Chooses QTS' Richmond Data Center for Hosting
MarketWatch (press release)
Private cloud provider cites rapid growth of global customer base, need for multi-data center interconnectivity in expanding footprint with QTS. -- The expansion is eApps' fourth with QTS in past 10 months. -- The new deployment highlights QTS' ability ...

Razer Rolls Cloud-Based Synapse 2.0 Out of Beta
PC Magazine
By Natalie Shoemaker LAS VEGAS - At CES 2012, Razer officially announced the release of itscloud-based Synapse 2.0 storage solution for its next-gen gaming peripherals. Razer first announced the Synapse 2.0 in late October, touting it as the first ...

Haier's "Cloud Living" Reveals the Future of the Home at CES 2012
PR Newswire (press release)
These include new levels of connectivity to create a 'cloud living' model in the home, virtually edgeless cloud TV, glass-free 3D TV, wireless smart devices end cloud interaction and enhanced mind wave technology that allows viewers to control their ...

Alcatel-Lucent and The ng Connect Program Demonstrate Cloud-based Service ...
Sacramento Bee
10, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- CES 2012 Booth #31412 -- As life becomes ever-more virtual, Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) is demonstrating brand new concepts for applying thecloud to the digital lifestyle at the Consumer Electronics Show ...

Cloud and disaster recovery: Load-balanced data centers are not a perfect solution
Network World
By Gregory Machler, CSO A growing trend in the disaster recovery arena for cloud providers is the use of load-balanced data centers instead of hot-cold data centers. Companies are deploying privateclouds that are load balanced between their ...

Withings' new cloud can tell you how fat you are anywhere in the world
Engadget
By Daniel Cooper posted Jan 10th 2012 12:16AM Fitness gadgets are a big part of this year's CES and everyone's racing to get hooks into a cloud platform. Withings is pulling the dust sheets off its own health and wellness cloud that'll aggregate the ...

Gym in the Cloud Streams Way to a Better Body
MarketWatch (press release)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Jan 10, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Get a fresh start on your 2012 New Year's resolutions to lose weight and get fit with Yufit, a new, first-of-its-kind online fitness experience in the cloud. Yufit integrates convenient access ...

Cybera Inc. to Showcase Cloud-Based Security Services at the National Retail ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The Cybera ONE platform is the only cloud-based solution designed to meet the unique networking, security and compliance requirements of multi-location, distributed retail businesses. Attendees can view demonstrations of the Cybera ONE platform at ...

Cisco Advances Its Videoscape TV Platform With 'Video in the Cloud'
MarketWatch (press release)
Highlights: At CES 2012 this week, Cisco is unveiling several new Videoscape products that will power "video in the cloud" experiences for consumers, offering a consistent look-and-feel across devices, no matter where they are. With this new technology ...

Vangard Voice Systems' Delivers High Performance WMS Voice Solution for ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Now ISV's offering cloud-based warehouse management systems can also offer their small-to-medium business (SMB) customers an affordable platform for delivering instant WMS voice control capabilities for speeding distribution center processes and ...

Detroit Auto Show: Ford's Cloud Computing Contraption - NYTimes ...
By By SAM SCHEMBARI
It's not much of an amusement park attraction, but Ford still makes riders sign a release before hopping aboard its cloud-computing demonstration ride.
Wheels

D-Link's new Cloud Camera lets you live out your Real World ...
By Daniel Cooper
D-Link's really spoiling us with the sheer number of announcements it's been pushing out at this year's CES. The Cloud Camera 5000 is a 720p.
Engadget

Cartoon: Ironclad 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. This week we look ...
ReadWriteWeb

Cloud Commerce: Tailor Your Commerce Strategy via Cloud ...
By Wes Simonds
Someone recently asked me how it was possible that cloud computing began to take off at just about the same time the economy got cold — circa 2008. This argument had a culinary simile: that major new technology shifts (such as cloud) are ...
Thoughts on Cloud

D-Link Cloud Camera 5000 has HD Pan and Tilt capability ...
By Hubert Nguyen
[CES 2012] D-Link makes the jump to the cloud with their D-Link Cloud Camera 5000, further enhancing their award-winning mydlink-enabled IP camera range this time around. The Cloud Camera 5000 is no ordinary camra, as it will bring ...
Ubergizmo

Cisco powers video in the cloud with new Videoscape products ...
By Ryan Lawler
Cisco's new Videoscape products announced at the 2012 CES will provide more functionality both for managing assets in the cloud, as well as new client-based technology for a wider range of connected devices. That will add new immersive ...
Cloud

The Urgency of the Cloud for Enterprise : Beyond Search
By emily
It seems that moving IT infrastructure to the cloud is no longer an innovative alternative, but is rather becoming the standard, the norm. IT teams need to embrace the change and shift their thinking away from the football team sized IT staffs of ...
Beyond Search

Canonical's Push Into Cars Includes the Cloud
By Sam Dean
"AllGo Systems' Linux IVI Middleware Suite includes a full featured, highly configurable and portable Multimedia Engine (MME), Smart phone connectivity, Cloud Services and APIs that makes it GUI agnostic. MME includes a media ...
OStatic blogs

Cloud Security Provider Alert Logic Names Vice President of ...
Cloud Security Provider Alert Logic Names Vice President of Product Management | The Web Host Industry Review - Web Hosting News.
theWHIR.com - Daily Web Hosting News

Pundit: Cloud growth reliant on security, confidence | Simply Security
By Simply Security
For the better part of this year, more companies have demonstrated an interest in cloud computing given it's promoted benefits of reduced IT costs and greater agility in terms of handling specific enterprise needs.
Simply Security

D-Link Cloud Camera 5000, Wireless Night Or Day Surveillance ...
By Julian Horsey
D-Link has introduced their new Cloud Camera 5000 at CES this week, which provides a versatile surveillance solution. The Cloud Camera is equipped with pan/tilt capabilities.
Geeky Gadgets

Put A Clamp on Cloud Music? Village Voice Insists Yes ...
By Jeff Norman
Put A Clamp on Cloud Music? Village Voice Insists Yes Music writers have rung in the New Year with cloud complaints. A recent edition of New York City's.
CloudTweaks.com - Cloud Computing...

The Open Public Cloud (Cloud Expo)
“We just launched our open public cloud, an open stack-based cloud offering with on-demand provisioning and enterprise compute capability, and it pairs nicely ...
www.internap.com/news/1019719/

AcerCloud unveiled, bringing free cloud connectivity to all future ...
Acer's just previewed its latest entry to cloud computing, aptly titled 'Acer Cloud,' allowing users to access multimedia and data files remotely whet.
www.engadget.com/2012/.../acercloud-unveiled/?...

TrustDefender™ Cloud from ThreatMetrix™
TrustDefender™ Cloud gives businesses and consumers a new defense against ... Using TrustDefender™ Cloud, online businesses can: • Instantly determine ...
www.threatmetrix.com/.../ThreatMetrix-TrustDefender-Cloud...



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