Friday, January 6, 2012

What is Really New About the Cloud?

What is Really New About the Cloud? - ReadWriteCloud
By Dave Jilk
Socrates: And you did not know, you never suspected, that they were goddesses? Strepsiades: No, indeed; I thought the Clouds were only fog, dew and vapour. (Aristophanes, The ...
ReadWriteWeb

IBM Further Spreads Wings in Cloud
Zacks.com
IBM Corp (IBM) recently announced that it has agreed to acquire Green Hat, a cloud-based software testing provider. This would mark IBM's first acquisition in 2012. The to-be-acquired company will be integrated into IBM's Rational Software business, ...

MicroTech Awarded Army Private Cloud (APC) Contract
MarketWatch (press release)
5, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Leading Technology and Systems Integrator MicroTech has been selected as one of only four awardees of the Army Private Cloud (APC2) Mobile Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract for the Program ...

The Cloud, Day 21: My Data Might Be Safer in the Cloud
PCWorld
By Tony Bradley, PCWorld Yesterday I talked about my concerns about the security of my data if I store it in the cloud. It seems like an awful lot of faith to put in a third-party to expect it to protect my data. However, there is a flip side to that ...

2012's Top Cloud Trend: IT Delivers Platforms
InformationWeek
In part two of our look at 2012's top 12 cloud trends, expect sprawling public clouds, cranky users, and at least one really messy security mishap. By Alistair Croll Picking up where we left off in Part 1 of this cloud trends series, let's get out the ...

IceWEB Adds Cloud Storage Industry Veteran as Chief Marketing Officer
MarketWatch (press release)
Mr. Toole is a cloud storage industry veteran with more than 20 years of experience in all aspects of marketing, product management, and demand generation. He brings the perspectives of successfully marketing cloud storage and storage resource ...

Cloud Security Firm Gazzang Joins AWS Service Provider Program
Web Host Industry Review
By Nicole Henderson, January 05, 2012 (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Cloudsecurity provider Gazzang has joined Amazon Web Services service provider partner program, according to an announcement made by the company on Thursday. ...

Web Host Industry Review

Cloud Gridlock! Has Your Company Checked for Bandwidth Issues?
Technorati
Many have been able to do this by shifting storage and mobile phone in-house applications to various data centers in the cloud. But with this stream-lining and benefit there is an unanticipated downside if no preparations have been made for the data ...

Technorati

Infor Selects GXS's Cloud-Based Tokenization Service to Reduce Cost and ...
MarketWatch (press release)
GAITHERSBURG, MD, Jan 05, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- GXS today announced that Infor, a leading provider of business application software serving more than 70000 customers, is integrating GXS's cloud-based Tokenization Service into their Infor10 ...

Bringing Clarity to the Cloud
CSNews Online
Investment in the latest technology plays an important role in solving all three of these challenges and cloud computing has become an increasingly popular approach to help highly distributed organizations, strapped with a minimal budget for technology ...

WD'S My Book® Live™ Duo Personal Cloud Storage With Dual Drives Offers High ...
PR Newswire (press release)
5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Western Digital (NYSE: WDC), the world's leader in digital storage solutions, today introduced My Book Live Duo, a personal cloud storage system that combines the benefits of shared storage and remote access with double-safe ...

Acision Cloud Services: On-demand, Secure, Scalable and Globally Connected
Sacramento Bee
By Acision UK Ltd Acision, the global leader in mobile messaging, today announced the launch of an international network of cloud based data centres, enabling it to offer on-demand messaging services from within the Acision Cloud Service Store. ...

Sy.Med Announces New "OneApp Cloud" Software Model
Sacramento Bee
Med, a leading provider of credentialing software in the healthcare industry, announced today the launch of its new OneApp Cloud software model. The program is a cloud-based version of its popular OneApp software, which enables healthcare organizations ...

Malware that stole 45000 Facebook logins highlights security hole from cloud
ITworld.com
Infecting a Facebook, Gmail or other social-networking or cloud-based account not only makes it easier to spread a virus, it exposes far more sensitive corporate networks via links many workers maintain between social networking sites, cloud-based ...

Cloud accounting application integrates tightly with Salesforce.com
ZDNet (blog)
Small businesses with an investment in the cloud customer relationship management (CRM) application from Salesforce.com might want to consider a companion service that handles both accounting and professional services automation. ...

CSC Positioned in “Leaders” Quadrant of Leading Industry Analyst Firm's Public ...
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
The report, published on December 8, 2011, reviewed 20 providers of public cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), looking at their vision and their ability to execute these services. According to Gartner, “The common use cases for public cloud ...

Frost & Sullivan Recognizes MicroStrain, Inc. for Innovation in Sensor Cloud ...
MarketWatch (press release)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA, Jan 05, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Based on its recent analysis of the sensor cloud computing market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes MicroStrain, Inc. with the Global Frost & Sullivan Award for Product Leadership for ...

Private Cloud Success Factors: Service Catalog
NetworkComputing.com
A commonly overlooked component of a private cloud deployment is the service catalog. In many cases a great deal of time is spent architecting and discussing, infrastructure, virtualization and automation processes with little thought of the actual ...

Book outlines strategies for switching to Oracle in the cloud
SearchOracle.com
Want to win a free copy of Migrating to the Cloud: Oracle Client/Server Modernization? Email us a question for the author on Oracle in the cloud, and you will automatically be entered to win. In his recent book, Migrating to the Cloud: Oracle ...

Microsoft Cloud Services & MSP Strategy: Dialing TruMethods?
MSPmentor
Microsoft is seeking new ways to bolster its cloud services and managed services momentum with VARs and MSPs. Among the scenarios unfolding: Microsoft will likely seek to build closer cloud- and MSP-related relationships with MSP coaching organizations ...

ZyXEL Melds Low-Cost IP Security Cameras With Remote Access via the Cloud
eWeek
ZyXEL has launched multiple IP-enabled high-definition security cameras that bring low-cost video monitoring to data centers, offices and homes, all accessible via the cloud. Setting up the typical video surveillance system is normally a complicated ...

Saba Announces Second Quarter Fiscal Year 2012 Results
MarketWatch (press release)
"With cloud billings growing over 80% for the second straight quarter, we believe we have emerged as one of the fastest growing public cloud businesses," said Bobby Yazdani, Founder and CEO, Saba. "We signed twice as many one million dollar deals this ...

Check Point secures the cloud with virtual appliances for Amazon
V3.co.uk
by Daniel Robinson Security firm Check Point is making its security appliances available in virtual form via Amazon web services, enabling customers to extend protection to cover workloads running on Amazon's cloud platform. The firm said its security ...

OpenPeak Unveils SANCTION™ Cloud Mobile Device Management at CES
Sacramento Bee
5, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- CES, Las Vegas -- Mobile device and application management (MDM) platform provider OpenPeak Inc. today unveiled its new cloud-based SANCTION™ device management system. SANCTION is part of a comprehensive platform that ...

UK Web Host StratoGen Expands Cloud Platform to US
Web Host Industry Review
By Nicole Henderson, January 05, 2012 (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) --Cloudhosting provider StratoGen has expanded beyond the UK to introduce its cloudplatform in the US, according to an announcement made by the company on Thursday....

Web Host Industry Review

Cloud endpoint security: Considerations for cloud security services
SearchSecurity.com
A vendor just released what it calls a "cloud-based endpoint security solution" for the enterprise. I've seen a number of similar offerings recently that offer network scanning, configuration management and the like, but I'm concerned about things like ...

The bandwidth risk in cloud computing
FierceCIO
Security concerns continue to dampen enterprise eagerness to move applications to the cloud, but there is another cloud computing risk that could bring down doom if not anticipated: bandwidth bottlenecks. For an in-depth look at this less-discussed ...

Western Digital's My Book Live Duo marries RAID and cloud storage ...
By Darren Murph
Not only is it the chunkiest My Book we've ever seen, but it possesses the otherworldly ability to live in the here and now and.
Engadget

Best of Cloud Computing Technology from 2011
By coryx.j.klatik@intel.com
This year marked huge accomplishments for the progression of Cloud computing. From introducing Intel's Cloud Vision 2015 to celebrating Open Data Center Alliance's one year anniversary, it was a huge year for Cloud. As we approach a ...
The Server Room Blog

Lowe's and AlertMe Launch Cloud-Based Home ... - Greentech Media
By info@greentechmedia.com
Lowe's proved us right on Thursday with the launch of Iris, a cloud-based home management system provided by AlertMe. The announcement comes from the largest of the big-box stores, with a nationwide rollout beginning in the second ...
Greentech Media: Headlines

Check Point Offers New Cloud-Based Firewall for AWS ...
By David Strom
Check Point announced today their Virtual Appliance for Amazon Web Services can now be purchased as an Amazon machine image to directly protect any AWS-based resources running on ...
ReadWriteCloud

WD Introduces My Book Live Duo Personal Cloud Storage With ...
Western Digital unveiled the My Book Live Duo, a new personal cloud storage system that promises shared storage and remote file access along with your choice of either double-safe backup using a mirrored RAID configuration or increased ...
HotHardware.com News Rss Feed

Western Digital My Book Live Duo personal cloud storage system ...
By Edwin Kee
Western Digital has just introduced the My Book Live Duo, a personal cloud storage system that will let you enjoy the benefits of shared storage as well as remote access alongside double-safe backup, or you have the option of settling [...]
Ubergizmo

SAP on the Cloud » How to gain competitive advantage by using ...
By Peter Laemmer
Competitive advantage occurs when an organization acquires or develops an attribute or combination of attributes that allows it to outperform its competitors. Within the context of cloud computing I would see competitive advantage ...
SAP on the Cloud

Where The Cloud Will Grow in 2012: Look Back at 2011 ...
By Jeff Norman
Where The Cloud Will Grow in 2012: Look Back at 2011 2012 is still newborn. But the year holds much promise for cloud computing's ascendancy in the public's.
CloudTweaks.com - Cloud Computing...

Moving Application Testing to the Cloud | Blogs | ITBusinessEdge.com
By webadmin@itbusinessedge.com
Deploying Applications in the Cloud While theres more talk than actual use of cloud computing in the enterprise, a Zeus Technology survey looks at the beginning.
Mike Vizard



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