Cloud computing could drive vendor lock-in: Dell

Cloud computing could drive vendor lock-in: Dell
ITworld.com
By Sophie Curtis, Techworld | Cloud Computing Add a new comment January 13, 2012, 9:58 AM — The move to cloud computing is undoing a lot of the good work that IT managers have done over the past decade to enable solutions based on open standards that ...

Clouds, Ultrabooks and the Evolution of Storage
Forbes
The use of cloud resources, including services and storage, to serve consumer needs was one of the major topics at both the 2012 Storage Visions Conference as well as the 2012 CES. In this article I will give some observations on what the development ...

IceWEB's Unified Data Storage: "A Must-Have for the Cloud"
Sacramento Bee
IceWEB.com, a leading provider of Unified Data Storage for cloud and virtual environments, was named in a predictive analysis entitled, "Unified Storage: A Must-Have for the Cloud," by independent industry expert Arthur Cole, IT Business Edge. ...

Banking on the Cloud: Financial Institution Adopts Google Apps
Redmond Developer News
Google has closed several high-profile cloud contracts over the past months, sometimes competing directly with Microsoft in the bidding process. By Gladys Rama Google is making inroads with itscloud-based suite of Google Apps. The company inked its ...

BellHawk Cloud-Based MES + WMS System Adds QuickBooks Integration
MarketWatch (press release)
The BellHawk software can be installed on a Windows Server running in the industrial plant or at aCloud-based data center. BellHawk can automatically exchange data with QuickBooks running on a local computer in the plant or with QuickBooks-on-Line. ...

How the G-Cloud will make buyers think like service integrators
The Guardian
Advocates of cloud computing often talk of how it offers a new procurement model for IT services, providing both substantial savings and more flexibility in the face of fluctuating demand. Their day is coming with the first procurements for the G-Cloud ...

The Guardian

Android Device Makers Chase Apple With Cloud Strategies
PCWorld
By Agam Shah, IDG News The importance of bundling services and software with mobile devices is finally resonating with Android device makers as they compete with Apple, and some of them outlined their cloud strategies at the Consumer Electronics Show ...

Open Data Center Alliance working on cloud usage models
Computerworld
This paper describes unique characteristics of cloud service delivery models and details distinct monitoring responsibilities and challenges of each model. Read the paper to find out how your service management platform can play a huge role in the ...

Red Hat, Jaspersoft Bring Business Intelligence To Cloud Platforms
CRN
The move will make it easier for developers to build cloud-based BI and analytical applications, said Karl Van den Bergh, vice president of product and alliances at BI software developer Jaspersoft. BI capabilities "will become a key component of any ...

Cloud Management, Front and Center
IT Business Edge (blog)
By date: For all the talk about the cloud altering information technology in ways never seen before, there is a striking commonality between the enterprise's approach to the cloud and to infrastructure developments of the past: The first instinct is to ...

CES 2012: OnLive Expands Its Cloud Universe With Google TV
GamerLive.TV
The cloud gaming folks at OnLive may not have a booth on the show floor, but it's certainly leaving its mark at the Consumer Electronics Show. It has announced a partnership not only with Google TV, but also with Razer, in an attempt to bring its ...

McCartney's Cloud-Based Archive Getting Better All the Time
eWeek
Phase II of Sir Paul McCartney's evolving personal cloud archive and CRM system, designed and built by Hewlett-Packard's cloud group, launched on Jan. 12, showcasing what IT now can provide in a cloud service. The new portal contains most of ...

eWeek

Load balancing servers in a private cloud
SearchCloudComputing.com
In many ways, managing a private cloud is no different than managing an on-premises data center. IT admins still must take important steps to monitor and balance the infrastructure. But the success of a cloud environment depends on several components: ...

Cars Connect With Apps, the Cloud at CES
Wired News
By Chuck Squatriglia LAS VEGAS — Automakers are racing the put the mobile in automobile as they connect our vehicles to the cloud and increasingly blur the line between cars and consumer electronics. These systems let you do everything from update ...

Wired News

Countdown to the Glide1 Revolution: One Application to Manage All Proprietary ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The unmet promise of "the cloud" is cross-platform efficiency - instant access to and editing and sharing of files and data from any device and location. Proprietary platforms spawn "proprietaryclouds" (like Apple iCloud) and excessive market ...

4PSA's VoipNow Cloud OnDemand Receives 2011 INTERNET TELEPHONY Product of the ...
SBWire (press release)
Orlando, FL -- (SBWIRE) -- 01/13/2012 -- 4PSA, a technology leader in Cloud Communication Software, announced today that TMC, a global, integrated media company, has named VoipNowCloud OnDemand as a recipient of the 2011 INTERNET TELEPHONY Product of ...

Quickoffice Pro: Strong Cloud Connections, Dreary Look
LinuxInsider.com
Heavy cloud support was apparent from the get-go. Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) Docs, Dropbox, Box, Evernote, Catch, Egnyte, Huddle, SugarSync, and MobileMe were all available. I plugged in my Dropbox account and was immediately connected to my cloud files. ...

Reasons for Moving to the Cloud — and Questions to Ask First
IT Business Edge (blog)
By date: Employ a carefully defined risk analysis of IT systems and procedures before deciding which cloud technology and service is best for your organization. “The Cloud eliminates the need for IT to worry about paying for your future updates in ...

Cloud Computing: PCs Weak, HP Bleeds Share
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Between unimaginative products, competition from tablets and smartphones, the flood-created squeeze on hard drives and high prices, PC shipments dropped somewhere between 0.2% and 1.4% in the fourth quarter compared to 4Q10 according to IDC and Gartner ...

SYS-CON Media (press release)

Cloud Computing: How It Affects Enterprise and Performance Monitoring
SYS-CON Media (press release)
In recent times, cloud computing has played a dominant role in the industry. Whether you feel positively or negatively about it, it is undeniable that cloud monitoring, like any other component in your network, needs to be monitored – perhaps more than ...

SYS-CON Media (press release)

Pandora CFO on Putting Finance Functions in the Cloud
Wall Street Journal (blog)
In an interview with CFO Journal this week, the former Salesforce.com CFO, said he is making use ofcloud computing to create processes the company will be able to leverage immediately as well as further down the road. We welcome thoughtful comments ...

OnLive Desktop brings Microsoft Office to iPad
Mighty Action
OnLive, the company that has brought us cloud-based gaming, has released OnLive Desktop for iPad. OnLive Desktop provides a virtual Windows 7 client interface in the cloud giving access to full versions of Microsoft Office products with 2GB of secure ...

Iomega StorCenter ix2 Network Storage sets new bar for the business cloud
SlashGear
This solution works with Linux, Mac, and PC, and will be bundled with such unique brands of cloudmanagement as EMC Atmos and Mozy. Get your small business on the same piece of hardware to make all things one, and all things simple! ...

Virtualization & Cloud devroom at FOSDEM « Seeing the fnords
By Thierry Carrez
This year, FOSDEM will host an unusual devroom, the Virtualization and Cloud devroom. It will happen in the Chavanne room, a 550-seat auditorium that was traditionally used for main tracks. And it will last for two whole days, while other ...
Seeing the fnords

Future of Cloud Computing: Overcoming IT Cost Barriers
By The Huffington Post News Editors
The cloud breaks down barriers to computing power that was once only available to a select few. As more and more businesses explore the benefits of cloud computing, revolutionary innovations are happening across a wide range of ...
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com

Wi-Fi Plug Creates Interactive Cloud-Based Classroom Anytime ...
The SMILE Plug will allow students and teachers to engage and collaborate on multiple devices.
PSFK

Zenny's Weekly Cloud Links #41 by @tbalinas via @Zenoss
By Travis Balinas
AT&T on Monday officially signed on with the OpenStack cloud, the Rackspace- and NASA-created open-source cloud computing project. The major carrier revealed its OpenStack allegiance during its AT&T Developer Summit in Las Vegas. ...
The Cloud Management Blog

Feel as light as a cloud with Yufit's cloud-based fitness classes ...
By Sarah Mitroff
We have cloud computing, cloud file sharing, cloud security and now cloud fitness. Yes, you read that right -- fitness has joined in on the cloud trend with Yufit, a website offering online fitness classes hosted on Amazon Web Services.
VentureBeat

Friday Cloud News Roundup | GMO Cloud America
By miccilopez
Cloud Computing News Highlights: SMB Cloud Watch, SMB Cloud Adoption Study, Cloud Offering Growth, AIIM Conference 2012, Small Biz Technology Summit, CES 2012, MBrace2, Forrester.
GMO Cloud America

Cloud Roundup for January 13, 2012 - ReadWriteCloud
By Joe Brockmeier
Kathleen Ting has a preview of Apache Sqoop 2, it's getting easier to deploy Octopress on Heroku, and Todd Hoff over at the High Scalability Blog has a ...
ReadWriteWeb

OnLive Cloud Desktop app now available for download on the ...
By Sean Hollister
OnLive's Windows 7 thin client for iPad is now available from the iTunes App Store. It's a 4.8MB free download, and you'll need an OnLive account to start toying around with the likes of Microsoft...
The Verge - All Posts

IBM Acquires Cloud Software Testing Enabler, Green Hat | Cloud ...
Cloud Expo: Article ... IBM has just said that it is acquiring software quality improvement and cloudtesting company Green Hat, which is headquartered in ...
cloudcomputing.sys-con.com/node/2116072

4 ways cloud computing will change dentistry - All VoIP News
4 ways cloud computing will change dentistry. All about VoIP solutions and small business telephone systems. VoIP providers, new PBX systems and IP phones.
www.allvoipnews.com/4-ways-cloud-computing-will-change-...

Cloud Computing Trend 2012: Cloud Service Brokers | Sandhill
2012 will see the rise of the Cloud Service Broker as organizations increasingly outsource multiple processes to the cloud.
sandhill.com/.../cloud-computing-trend-2012-cloud-service-br...

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