Friday, January 20, 2012

Managing the Cloud

Microsoft's Revamped System Center Focuses on Managing the Cloud
CIO
On Tuesday, Microsoft unveiled the latest version of System Center, which promises to make it easier to manage virtual and cloud environments. Here, Microsoft officials, industry analysts and customers talk about how the new version lets you better ...

Cloud-Based Quantum Computing Will Allow Secure Calculation on Encrypted Bits
Popular Science
So anyone who wants to perform quantum calculations will likely have to do it in the cloud, remotely accessing a quantum server somewhere else. A new double-blind cryptography method would ensure that these calculations remain secret. ...

Amazon Dynamo DB: Big Data's Big Cloud Moment
InformationWeek
By Doug Henschen InformationWeek Amazon Web Services launched the DynamoDB NoSQL database service on Wednesday, marking the company's boldest appeal yet for companies to trust acloud-based service as a platform for running a business. ...

Joyent Cloud Partners With NodeFly to Deliver First Node.js Application ...
MarketWatch (press release)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA and VANCOUVER, BC, Jan 19, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- JoyentCloud, the highest performance public cloud, and NodeFly, an innovative provider of cloudapplication and infrastructure monitoring services, today announced a ...

CSC and Proximetry to Deliver First Smart Grid Network Management Cloud ...
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
For utility operators seeking to proactively and efficiently manage their smart grid communication networks, CSC's AirSync Cloud offering provides network management to multi-vendor, multi-radio (LTE, WiMax, WiFi, 4G) public and private networks that ...

IDC Government Insights Predicts "Regional Cloud Hubs" Will Significantly ...
MarketWatch (press release)
FRAMINGHAM, Mass., Jan 19, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- IDC Government Insights announced the availability of a new report, Best Practices: Regional Community Cloud Hubs -- The New "Trickle Down" Effect That's Boosting State and Local Computing (Document ...

Intelliverse Introduces Cloud Communications Solutions for Contact Centers
MarketWatch (press release)
A cloud-based platform allows contact center agents to operate in any office in any part of the world and reduces capital expenditures as well as IT and maintenance costs. "Our solution enables companies to achieve greater results with their customer ...

Cloud News: Tidemark, Meraki
Data Center Knowledge
Cloud performance analytics company Tidemark announced it has raised $24 million in new funding led by Redpoint Ventures with existing investors Greylock Partners, Andreessen Horowitz and Dave Duffield, co-founder and co-CEO of Workday participating. ...

Foreign Cloud Privacy Issues Dismissed by US Officials
Network World
By Kenneth Corbin, CIO A pair of senior Obama administration officials on Wednesday sought to tamp down recent stirrings of controversy over the privacy protections under US law surrounding content stored in the cloud residing in data centers in ...

Getting Started with Windows Server on Amazon Web Services
Windows IT Pro
These days in the IT world, everything is about the cloud. Cloud services, cloud security, private clouds, hybrid clouds -- the list goes on. It's enough to make your head spin. For all this recent talk about cloud computing, one company has been ...

Windows IT Pro

Piston ships new cloud OS based on OpenStack
ZDNet (blog)
By Paula Rooney | January 19, 2012, 6:26am PST Summary: Piston has released its first OpenStack-based cloud OS for building and managing enterprise private clouds one server at a time. Prices start at $3500 per server. Piston has released an OpenStack ...

Cloud Image Sharing: One Clinic's Experience
Diagnostic Imaging
By Whitney LJ Howell | January 19, 2012 The road to cloud-based image sharing for Great Falls Clinic started with a conversation in early 2010 about how Montana's far-flung healthcare facilities were unconnected. By May 2010, the clinic — and its ...

Esnatech Releases Office-LinX 8.5 for Cloud-enabled Enterprises
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Esnatech, a leader in integrated unified communications, today announced the release of version 8.5 of Office-LinX ™, the award-winning, unified communications platform that enables enterprises to integrate UC with cloud-based technologies such as ...

Infracast Uses Voxeo's Cloud-Based Services for Outbound Messaging
MarketWatch (press release)
"Voxeo's technology in the hosted cloud gives Infracast the flexibility they need to react quickly on requests to extend the service and high call volumes. Infracast is able to provide services through their existing platform, within their existing and ...

Liaison Technologies Foresees Growing Interest in Cloud Services Brokerage ...
Business Wire (press release)
ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Liaison Technologies, a global provider of secure cloud-based integration and data management services and solutions, predicts that in 2012, organizations will increasingly seek out Cloud Services Brokerages (CSBs) that ...

Fueled by Cloud Computing, F5 Soars
DailyFinance
In short, F5 remains a top-notch networking play on cloud computing, and you just can't get much hotter than that nowadays. This stock enjoyed a gangbusters 2010, but 2011 was pretty flat. Will 2012 be a return to grand old form? ...

Linux Adoption Grows on Big Data, Cloud, Virtualization: Survey
eWeek
A new Linux Foundation survey on enterprise adoption of Linux indicates that growth in Linux usage is being driven by factors such as big data, cloud computing and virtualization, among others. Linux is poised for continued growth among new and ...

Cloud Security: Clear Skies or Ready to Burst?
Infoboom
There's a fight brewing over cloud access, but it isn't big providers slugging it out for a share of the market or start-ups trying to get their foot in the door--it's governments like those in the United States, France and Germany that are trying to ...

Scannx First to Launch Cloud-Based, Self-Service Scan-To-Fax Offering for ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Scannx LLC, a leading developer of cloud-based document capture and document delivery services, announced today that it will be demonstrating its cloud-based SCAN-TO-FAX service on its Scannx Book ScanCenter, in Booth #2124 at the American Library ...

Public clouds for scientific applications cost up to 13x more
FierceGovernmentIT
Public cloud computing environments for scientific applications have the potential to be up to 13 times more expensive than existing Energy Department supercomputing centers, finds a final report of a 2-year federal study. The study (.pdf), released in ...

CounterPath,Vidtel Extend Cloud Video Conferencing to iPhone
eWeek
Vidtel's MeetMe is a cloud-based service that enables any-to-any video conferencing between room-based systems, executive desktop video systems, PCs/Macs, smartphones and tablets using any combination of SIP, H.323 and other technologies. ...

Cloud-based Application Integration Gains Momentum with "iApps"
ebizQ (blog)
By Hollis Tibbetts on January 19, 2012 12:33 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes Real-time application integration is picking up speed in the Cloud. MuleSoft and Zuora just made a significant announcement on this front - one that validates the need for Cloud-based ...

Book Review for IT Folks Only: To the Cloud: Cloud Powering an Enterprise
Business Insider
However, moving to the cloud is not as easy as it seems, especially for mid sized businesses with a variety of applications to consider migrating. There are many things to consider. This book is NOT for the business owner, per se, but it's really for ...

Cloud Decision Time for CFOs
PCWorld
CFOs are at the apex when it comes to pulling interests of software-as-a-service, infrastructure-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service and other cloud strategies vs. maintaining servers, switches and storage under the organization's roof. ...

Bradford Networks to Examine BYOD and Cloud Technology at VMware User Group ...
MarketWatch (press release)
In the "Utilizing Cloud Technology to support BYOD, NAC and Compliance" panel, Bradford Networks and Whalley Computer Associates will explore the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend and feature real-world examples for securing mobile devices on ...

Could agencies' individual needs break FedRAMP?
GCN.com
One of the challenges of a program like FedRAMP “is most government agencies don't take a bare-minimum, standards approach for most things they do,” said Henry Fleischmann, Hewlett-Packard's chief technologist for federal cloud solutions. ...

How We Are Greenwashing The Cloud and What It Means for IT's ...
By Jaymi Heimbuch
Sumir Karayi, CEO of 1E, talks with us about why it is important to get a handle on the real energy cost of the cloud.
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Book Review for IT Folks Only: To the Cloud: Cloud Powering an ...
By Ramon Ray
We all know that leveraging online applications and using less software and servers is good for our business, overall. However, moving to the cloud is not as.
Small Business Technology

Cloud Roundup for January 19, 2012 - ReadWriteCloud
By Joe Brockmeier
To abuse the cloud metaphor, there's a storm brewing over public and private clouds. Not surprisingly, providers of public clouds (who hope to see everybody move their computing ...
ReadWriteWeb

Eyes on the sky: How cloud computing is shaping society - Deloitte ...
By Chris Weitz
Next week global leaders from DTTL and Deloitte member firms are meeting in Davos at the 2012 World Economic Forum to discuss the important issues of the day. While we can't all attend, I have the real privilege to participate in a local ...
Deloitte Perspectives

Piston Cloud Launches OpenStack Distro | SiliconANGLE
By Maria Deutscher
Piston Cloud has rolled out Piston Enterprise OS, or pentOS, into general availability today. Thecloud platform is a refined, commercial version of OpenStack – the open-source cloud OS initiative originally kicked off by Rackspace and NASA.
SiliconANGLE

2012, The Year of the Cloud – Jolicloud Blog
By Tariq Krim
I am very excited to introduce the new Jolicloud which has been in development since last summer. With the new Jolicloud we are still pursuing the same idea: to combine the infinite power of the cloud with the most simple and elegant user ...
Jolicloud Blog

Government Cloud Computing Markets 2015-2020 | Market ...
By admin
Governments worldwide are increasingly deploying cloud computing technology. The global government cloud computing market is expected to grow at 6.7% CAGR surpassing $22 billion in 2020. The report covers the cloud computing ...
Market Research Media » Featured

Joyent Cloud Partners with NodeFly to Deliver First Node.js ...
By carly
San Francisco and Vancouver—January 19, 2011—Joyent Cloud, the highest performance publiccloud, and NodeFly, an innovative provider of cloud application and infrastructure monitoring services, today announced a partnership to offer ...
JoyentCloud

Peecho Lands $750000 For Its 'Cloud Print Button' | TechCrunch
By Robin Wauters
Peecho Lands $750000 For Its 'Cloud Print Button'. Robin Wauters. posted 6 hours ago. Comments. View Staff Page Follow me on Twitter. Robin Wauters currently works as a staff writer for TechCrunch and lead editor of Virtualization.com.
TechCrunch

Executive Corner: Interview with Technical Leader for Cloud, John ...
By Neil Weightman
One of the interesting twists is that we have our cloud data center in Germany and the client we spoke to this morning said that Germany is for them not the best place in Europe to have a data center because of the data protection laws. They're ...
Thoughts on Cloud

The Private Cloud Environment | Cloud Computing Journal
"There will always be people deploying private cloud infrastructures even if they' re then serving the product of those infrastructures to other people in the public ...
cloudcomputing.sys-con.com/node/2120512

Big Data Retention in the Enterprise or the Cloud | RainStor
RainStor is a pioneer in technology for the online preservation of structured data.
rainstor.com/rainstor-joins-cloudera-connect-partner-program/

Microsoft Private Cloud Overview
Learn about the exams you can take to obtain a Private Cloud certification.
www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/.../cert-private-cloud.aspx

Into the cloud -- securely - Computerworld
Companies are on the path to cloud adoption. According to a recent report, 28% of U.S. organizations are using cloud computing today, with 73% reporting their ...
www.computerworld.com/s/article/.../Into_the_cloud_securely...



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