CRN
By Andrew R Hickey, CRN Cloud solution provider Cumulus Global is launching a tongue-in-cheekcloud play to bring more SMBs into the cloud world with its "Occupy Google Apps" movement. Both poking fun at and taking elements from the nationwide Occupy ...
IBM`s Green Hat Buy Bolsters Big Blue`s Cloud Testing
eWeek
IBM announced an agreement to acquire Green Hat, a maker of cloud-based software testing solutions–a move that bolsters IBM's already significant development and test cloud capabilities. IBM has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Green Hat, ...
Top 12 Cloud Trends Of 2012
InformationWeek
Five years into the cloud computing phenomenon, we're much more aware of the limitations and consequences. Here are 12 trends to watch in the coming year, starting with numbers 7 to 12. By Alistair Croll Only a few years ago, cloud computing didn't ...
Eaton Mounts Cloud Computing Power Management Offensive
CRN
Talk about Eaton's investment to help VARs move from the vintage model to the transformative cloud partners driving cloud computing monthly recurring revenue? We are really focusing on the transformative and progressive VARs. ...
CRN
Bandwidth bottlenecks loom large in the cloud
Computerworld
By Sandra Gittlen Computerworld - InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) CIO Tom Conophy has no reservations when it comes to the cloud. The hospitality giant, which manages, franchises or leases 4500 hotels in 100 countries, has been able to improve the ...
Rockchip Plans Cloud Solution, New Chips for Android 4.0 Tablets
PC Magazine
By Mark Hachman Rockchip, a Chinese semiconductor manufacturer targeting Android phones, said Wednesday that it will also release a cloud solution designed for the home at next week's Consumer Electronics Show. The company's eHome Cloud Solution ...
Amazon Web Services Adds Cloud-Based Check Point Security Gateways
eWeek
Under a new partnership, Amazon Web Services customers have Check Point Software Technologies' virtual security appliances built into their customized cloud environments. Check Point Software Technologies has partnered with Amazon to bring virtual ...
Strategic Cloud Finance Planning and Sophisticated Business Intelligence ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The Cloud CFO: A modern breed of CFO to bring finance to the cloud for larger and mid-size enterprises. The role of CFO will become more strategic than ever before through the adoption ofcloud computing. Finance departments from the world's largest ...
Fasthosts Reveals 'Cloud Attitudes' Study
MarketWatch (press release)
GLOUCESTER, England, January 4, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Fasthosts' 'Cloud Attitudes' study, conducted by IDC, has found that 60 per cent of UK businesses still do not leverage any type of cloud-computing service and so miss out on benefits such ...
Cloud Computing Buyers Demand More, Survey Finds
NetworkComputing.com
Use of cloud computing services continues to creep upward among those responding to the second InformationWeek Reports State of Cloud Computing Survey. But in the data we can see what will be the dominating cloud trend in 2012: IT teams looking to run ...
Apache's Hadoop cloud computing framework achieves 1.0 status
ZDNet (blog)
The open source cloud computing framework, which began with technologies created by Yahoo and Google, and is now used by major enterprises including Amazon.com, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Netflix LinkedIn and Twitter, has been six years in the making. ...
Fiberlink's Cloud-Based Mobile Device Management Service MaaS360 Integrated ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
MaaS360 allows O2 customers to leverage a comprehensive, cloud-based mobile device management (MDM) platform without having to deploy and support server hardware and software. Joined Up People from O2 Business is a new set of services to help firms ...
Global DataGuard Named a Finalist in Cloud Security for 2012 Global Excellence ...
MarketWatch (press release)
It can be provisioned to secure public, private, and hybrid cloud environments as well as physical LAN/WAN environments and is capable of unifying security for multi-locational networks. "Global DataGuard is one of the few solutions providers today who ...
A VAR's Tale: How To Grow Cloud And Product Revenue Together
CRN
By Scott Campbell, CRN While a lot of VARs are expanding their focus on cloud computing -- and rightfully so, as Forrester expects that market to hit more than $241 billion by 2020, up from $40.7 billion last year -- some are doing so at the expense of ...
McKesson Offers the First Cloud-Based Supply Chain Solution that Yields a New ...
MarketWatch (press release)
ATLANTA, Jan 04, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- McKesson today announced a fully-integrated, cloud-based sourcing solution designed to completely automate the healthcare supply chain. McKesson Strategic Supply Sourcing(TM) will give providers unprecedented ...
Cloud-Based Sales and Marketing SaaS Combine with Lead Management as ...
The Complete Managed Services Resource
By Laura Stotler Sales and marketing automation and lead management has moved further into thecloud with an announcement from Callidus Software Inc. that it has acquired SaaS provider LeadFormix. Callidus (doing business as CallidusCloud) offers sales ...
Polkast(TM) Advances Personal Cloud Computing
MarketWatch (press release)
CAPO BEACH, CA, Jan 04, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Polkast, a revolutionary new service that lets users securely connect to their PC directly from their mobile devices, announced today it is transforming personal cloud computing with its new ...
Cloud Services Provider Acquisition: Internap Buys Voxel
TalkinCloud (blog)
by Joe Panettieri on Internap Network Services has acquired Voxel Holdings, the cloud services provider (CSP), for $30 million plus a potential $5 million earn out over the next two years. The deal combines Internap's IT infrastructure platform with ...
Wyse Cloud Client Computing Receives Readers' Choice Awards From Leading ...
MarketWatch (press release)
SAN JOSE, CA, Jan 04, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Wyse Technology, the global leader in cloud client computing, today announced that the Wyse Xenith zero client has been named a top technology product for K-12 educators by District Administration ...
Cloud Computing: Yahoo Picks PayPal Chief for Its Next CEO
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Four months after canning Carol Bartz, its last CEO, Yahoo Wednesday morning named PayPal president Scott Thompson its fourth CEO in under five years. He starts January 9. Acting CEO Tim Morse will go back to being CFO. According to Yahoo chairman Roy ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Increased Demand for Cloud-based Integration Drives Rapid Growth for Liaison ...
MarketWatch (press release)
ATLANTA, Jan 04, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Liaison Technologies, a global provider of securecloud-based integration and data management services and solutions, announced today the company's healthcare and life sciences division posted another ...
ZyXEL Introduces Cloud-Enabled, High Definition IP Cameras for Home ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The first consumer-friendly cameras designed for the home and small office, ZyXEL's IPC3605N and IPC4605N feature built-in, cloud-based technology that eliminates traditional installation processes and access difficulties inherent in previous ...
ICT Ministry launches cloud service
Bangkok Post
The Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Ministry will today introduce the government's new cloud computing service, a drive to encourage the adoption of e-service for all state agencies. The move is aimed at stimulating state authorities to ...
Logicalis Public Cloud Hosting Gets the VMware vCloud Cloud Powered Stamp
Web Host Industry Review
By Liam Eagle, January 04, 2012 (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Cloud hosting provider Logicalis announced this week that its Logicalis Enterprise Cloud publiccloud service has been awarded VMware vCloud Powered verified status, which illustrates for ...
Web Host Industry Review
Cloud is adolescent, open source until puberty please
Cloud Pro
Surely the cloud model of services-based computing is too young to impose proprietary gender restrictions upon it in the first place. Cloud is young, free and adolescent and (while it needs guidance and management) it still needs time to find its place ...
Gaikai now cloud-streams games for Best Buy, YouTube, Ubisoft
Gamasutra
With these new partnerships, Gaikai has increased its presence on the web, exposing even more users to its cloud-based game trials. The service launched in February with support from Electronic Arts, and has since grown to include Capcom, Sega, ...
IBM buys Green Hat for cloud-based app testing — Cloud ...
By Barb Darrow
It's four days into the new year and IBM just made its first acquisition of 2012 -- it is buying Green Hat, a company that simulates application testing in the cloud. The deal is all about IBM building its automated software testing portfolio.
GigaOM
Enterprise Cloud File Sharing Provider Accellion Secures $12 ...
By Sarah Perez
Enterprise cloud file sharing company Accellion has raised $12 million in a new Series 3 round from private equity firm Riverwood Capital. The company will use the additional funding to accelerate growth, invest in enterprise mobile file ...
TechCrunch
Inq cancels Facebook-focused Cloud Q phone | VentureBeat
By Devindra Hardawar
I can't imagine anyone was desperately waiting for Inq to release the Cloud Q, its second Android smartphone with deep Facebook integration, but now the company has confirmed that the phone won't see the light of day.
VentureBeat
Can the cloud be safe for banks? | TechRepublic
By Aditi Roy Ghatak
Aditi Roy Ghatak considers the issues at stake for the banking industry to implement cloudtechnology. Here are some of the possibilities for this sec.
on TechRepublic
Collaboration in the Cloud | Interviews | ITBusinessEdge.com
By acole602@msn.com
As more enterprises push infrastructure onto the cloud, it's becoming clear that the technology provides more than just unlimited resources and data flexibility.
Interviews
Cloud Computing Came to a Head in 2011
By Randy Bias
Perhaps GoGrid biased my thinking, but I started to move from a perspective that was cloudapplication centric back into my sweet spot of physical infrastructure and a focus on virtual datacenters or what I called at the time, “cloud centers”. ...
CloudAve
App Development in the Cloud Driven by Users, PaaS Trends ...
By Maria Deutscher
Active Endpoints posted a recording of a keynote entitled “Leveraging the Cloud in the Development Environment” from recent MassTLC's Software Development Summit. One of the speakers was Active Endpoints CTO Dr. Michael Rowley, ...
SiliconANGLE
Cloud App Activities Unite on Hojoki - semanticweb.com
By Jennifer Zaino
From Dropbox to Google Docs, cloud applications are increasingly becoming a part of business users' everyday productivity toolbox. Hojoki – taken from the name of an old Japanese book about the way of life and the flow of events – aims to ...
semanticweb.com
Insights from the Global CIO study about cloud computing | Thoughts ...
By Luis Aguilar Mateo
Six out of 10 CIOs plan to use cloud computing over the next three to five years. This represents a dramatic increase in the interest around cloud computing compared to the results from the IBM 2009 CIO study, when only three out of 10 CIOs ...
Thoughts on Cloud
Check Point Heads to the Cloud with Advanced Security Solution on ...
By Marc Jacob
Check Point announced its security gateways are now available to customers through Amazon Web Services (AWS), enabling organisations to extend (...)
Global Security Mag Online
Telecommuting Efforts Increasingly Aided by the Cloud - Cloud ...
Organizations are increasingly able to offer the benefits of telecommuting to workers, due in large part to their increasing adoption of cloud solutions that support ...
www.smartertechnology.com/.../Telecommuting-Efforts-Incre...
Cloud Infographic: The Future is in the Cloud: - Ubiquitous ...
In the near future (or the future is here today?) the gadgets you are currently using will become obsolete. The future is ubiquitous computing.
www.thecloudinfographic.com/.../the-future-is-in-the-cloud-u...
The Scalable, Available Cloud
With the evolution and proliferation of cloud computing, as more and more applications are being migrated to the cloud, many organizations are considering ...
www.ecommercetimes.com/rsstory/74049.html
Security Considerations for Cloud Computing (Part 1) - Virtualization ...
This article looks at some of the security issues related to virtualization in the cloud.
www.windowsecurity.com/.../Security-Considerations-Cloud-C...
IBM BladeCenter Foundation for Cloud: Overview
IBM CloudBurst provides a pre-integrated and pre-installed system that includes servers, software, storage and services to help you quickly enable a private ...
www.ibm.com/systems/bladecenter/solutions/.../index.html
Cloud Computing - SC Magazine US
Best Cloud Computing Security & Best Computer Forensics Tool · Staff Report ... German researchers disclose Amazon cloud vulnerability. Darren Pauli, editor ...
www.scmagazine.com/cloud-computing/topic/1862/
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