Thursday, February 2, 2012

Amazon Grows Revenue, Keeps Cloud Numbers Hidden

Amazon Grows Revenue, Keeps Cloud Numbers Hidden
InformationWeek
As Amazon reported a 35% jump in revenue, it dodged key questions about Kindle Fire and AWScloud services--namely, whether AWS is helping Amazon's bottom line or still working toward a breakeven point. Amazon.com posted its fourth-quarter earnings ...

Cloud management software: what's in it for IT?
SearchServerVirtualization.com
While the average enterprise IT shop remains firmly grounded in its virtualized data centers, cloudcomputing is the next phase of evolution. The problem is, companies don't quite know how to get there with the tools that they have.

Australian Cloud and Kiwi Cloud Select independenceIT's Total Freedom ...
MarketWatch (press release)
MIAMI, Feb 01, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- independenceIT(TM) (iIT), provider of the complete cloudworkspace, today announced at MSPWorld 2012 that its Total Freedom(TM) Workspace solution has been selected by Australia and New Zealand-based providers of ...

CTERA cloud attached storage introduces the midmarket to cloud solutions
ZDNet (blog)
By Dan Kusnetzky | February 1, 2012, 2:39am PST Summary: CTERA's Director of Channel Sales for North America, Donald Fuller, and I had a wide ranging conversation about CTERA's “cloudattached storage” devices, what resellers had to do to be prepared ...

EnterpriseDB Creates Database as a Service for Cloud Hosting Platforms
eWeek
News Analysis: EnterpriseDB is hoping entice more enterprises into cloud computing with a database-as-a-service offering geared to challenge Oracle in the database market. EnterpriseDB has announced a new database-as-a-service offering, ...

Beware cloud computing's trapdoors
Globe and Mail
To complicate matters, more businesses are adopting cloud computing, in which they run software and store data on computers outside their own premises and their own direct control. (The term can also refer to internal or private clouds, ...

Globe and Mail

CloudPassage Launches Halo NetSec to Automate Strong Network Security in the Cloud
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
SAN FRANCISCO--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--CloudPassage, the leading cloud server security company, today unveils Halo NetSec, an automated solution that provides advanced network access control for servers running in public clouds including Rackspace ...

Microsoft And RIM Bringing Blackberry Cloud Services To Office 365
Forbes
Microsoft and Research in Motion have announced the launch of BlackBerry Business CloudServices for Microsoft Office 365. [1] The new service enables enterprise Office 365 customers to manage employee Blackberry devices using Exchange Online, ...

ShoreTel to Buy M5 Networks, Grow Cloud UC Capabilities
eWeek
1 its intention to buy M5 Networks for $146 million, a move that will enable ShoreTel to offer bothcloud-based and on-premise solutions. M5 Networks, a 12-year-old company headquartered in New York City, offers a suite of hosted unified communications ...

Cisco Propels Cloud-Ready Switching Portfolio Into Next Frontier of Networking ...
MarketWatch (press release)
According to the Cisco(R) Cloud Index, more than 50 percent of computing workloads in data centers will be cloud-based by 2014, and global cloud traffic will grow more than 12 times by 2015, to 1.6 zettabytes per year -- the equivalent of over four ...

Quality and Post-Sales Service Are Major Drivers for India SMB Cloud Customers
MarketWatch (press release)
KOLKATA, India, Feb 01, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- With cloud services showing increased demand among India small and medium businesses (SMBs, companies with up to 999 employees) there has been a healthy growth in the number of channel partners offering ...

From the Experts: Head In(to) the Cloud?
Corporate Counsel
Should your company be taking greater advantage of the benefits of cloud computing? The promise sounds enticing: instantaneous access to seemingly infinite data storage and computing power—as, when, and where needed, without all the cost associated ...

Wyse Transforms Digital Signage, In-Store Advertising and Retail Kiosks With ...
MarketWatch (press release)
SAN JOSE, CA, Feb 01, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Wyse Technology, the global leader in cloud client computing, today announced how a diverse group of organizations are turning to Wyse cloud client computing solutions instead of PCs to power their ...

Agile platform gives Army division a fast track to the cloud
GCN.com
By Rutrell Yasin The Army's Architecture Services Division within the Software Engineering Center has deployed a platform designed for the rapid development and migration of applications to a privatecloud. SEC, part of the Army's ...

AAA picks Dell Boomi cloud integration tools over IBM, Jitterbit
Search SAP
A newly adopted and highly aggressive cloud computing strategy has led AAA Northern California, Nevada and Utah (AAA NCNU) to choose Dell Boomi cloud integration tools over IBM Cast Iron and Jitterbit, an IT official with the organization said.

SGI Back With High-Density, Big Data-Ready Cloud System
eWeek
The new cloud storage system is powered by Altix scale-up and scale-out clusters, as well as Altix XE hybrid systems, which all run on Intel's Xeon or Itanium processors. SGI, which focuses exclusively on the high-performance computing market and ...

Call Center Software Provider simplyCT Releases Q1 Premise-2-Cloud Trade-in ...
MarketWatch (press release)
1, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- simplyCT, provider of Virtual Contact Center Solutions has launched a Premise-2-Cloud trade-in program running throughout Q1 2012. The cloud based platform is offering businesses migrating from on-premise legacy phone ...

Gartner Further Complicates Cloud and SaaS Integration with Multiple ...
ebizQ (blog)
By Hollis Tibbetts on February 1, 2012 2:16 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes Disturbingly, it create enough confusion where "technology re-treads" (ie old on-premises technology stacks that have been "re-hosted" on a Cloud, but provide none of the benefits of real ...

ebizQ (blog)

Indiana students receive $100k to research cloud computing
ZDNet (blog)
By Charlie Osborne | February 1, 2012, 4:22am PST Summary: Two students have received grants of $50k each to use in cloud computing research projects. Two doctoral students at Indiana University have secured a grant of $100k, to be shared equally, ...

LiveVox Earns Cloud Computing Excellence Award
HostReview.com (press release)
SAN FRANCISCO--LiveVox Inc., the provider of cloud contact center applications, today announced it received a 2011 Cloud Computing Excellence Award from Cloud Computing Magazine, a new publication from Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC), a global, ...

Backupify Announces Security Best Practices, Adds Multiple Layers of ...
Sacramento Bee
1, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Backupify, the leading provider of online backup services for cloudapplication data, announced today it has successfully completed penetration testing conducted by Rapid7, the leading provider of security risk intelligence ...

New CA ERwin® Solutions Enable Collaborative Modeling For Cloud and On-Premise ...
Sacramento Bee
1, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) today announced new CA ERwin products and releases that help a wider audience of stakeholders accurately visualize data assets across the enterprise, from on-premise platforms to the cloud.

IBM gathers cloud provider under Big Blue umbrella
Washington Technology
By David Hubler IBM has completed its acquisition of Emptoris Inc., expanding the computer giant'scloud-based analytics offerings. Financial terms of the deal, which was announced in December, were not disclosed. Emptoris' solutions complement IBM's ...

Financial Information on the Cloud: Considering the Role of Trust
Business Insider
Cloud computing is the latest buzz word. Many companies are adopting this convenient, on-demand service to enable themselves to save the costs involved in establishing computing infrastructure such as hard drives, development platforms, databases, ...

Financial Information on the Cloud: Considering the Role of Trust ...
By Mandira Srivastava
Cloud computing is the latest buzz word. Many companies are adopting this convenient, on-demand service to enable themselves to save the costs involved in.
Small Business Technology

Rackspace online cloud storage options | TechRepublic
By Steven Trippe
Steven Trippe goes over the features and options of Rackspace's Cloud Drive storage.
The Enterprise Cloud Blog | TechRepublic

Flex Images: Blur the Line Between Cloud and Dedicated – The ...
By Marc Jones
Many companies leverage the cloud to take advantage of core features that enable robust, agile architectures. Elasticity (ability to quickly increase or decrease compute capacity) and flexibility (choice such as cores, memory and storage) ...
The InnerLayer - SoftLayer Blog

Army Looks to Cloud Computing to Trim IT Bootprint | GreenBiz.com
By Tilde Herrera
Keeping in line with a mandate to trim its data centers from about 200 to 20, the Army recently awarded its first cloud computing contract to several contractors, including Microtech, Lockheed Martin Corp. and IBM.
Computing & IT | GreenBiz.com

CloudPassage Launches Network Security Solution for Multi-Cloud ...
By Nicole Henderson
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Cloud server security provider CloudPassage announced on Wednesday that it has launched its new automated security solution that provides network access control for servers in public clouds.
theWHIR.com - Daily Web Hosting News

Rent Your Own Cloud-Based Customer Service Agent @PSFK
Desk.com provides small and medium businesses with customer support management.
PSFK

HP Blogs - Moving applications to the cloud - The HP Blog Hub
By Charlie Bess
Moving applications to the cloud. by Charlie Bess (Charlie Bess) 16 seconds ago. While in Toronto, Nadhan (@NadhanAtHP) and I had a chance to speak with Mike Fischer (from HP Enterprise Services) about application portfolio ...
The Next Big Thing articles

Cloud Security, Costs Concern Federal IT Pros
By AlexOlesker
Federal IT managers are working to adopt cloud computing technologies and comply with White House cloud computing initiatives, but aren't yet sold on cloud computing's cost savings or security, according to a recent survey. According to the ...
FedCyber.com

Green House Data – Fastest Cloud in Denver Area
By kfeichtner
Green House Data proves to be the fastest cloud to the Denver area, per Compuware's CloudSleuthCloud performance testing application.
Green House Data

Battle of the Document Cloud Apps: Google Docs, Apple iWorks ...
By Jeff Norman
Battle of the Document Cloud Apps: Google Docs, Apple iWorks...Which One Truly Reigns? Throughout the 1990s, 2000s, and today, Microsoft Word has served as the.
CloudTweaks.com - Cloud Computing...

Europe Sets Course for Cloud
Cloud is not mature. It is evolving. The paradox is simple — if something begins to appear as an evolution people bucket it as slow moving and look for faster ...
www.cloudave.com/16998/europe-sets-course-for-cloud/

Cloud Avengers Think Small for Data Storage
The increase in user-generated content, regulatory requirements, digital entertainment, social media.
www.rackspace.com/.../cloud-avengers-think-small-for-data-st...

Factoids about the cloud | Enterprise CIO Forum
As with most events these days, yesterday's talks from the 'Master The Cloud' event were retweeted live on Twitter through several people. We thought that it ...
www.enterprisecioforum.com/en/blogs/.../factoids-about-cloud

Microsoft BizSpark to Offer Startups $60000 in Cloud Services on ...
Tech startups around the world are building products and services in the cloud. Cloud applications and smart devices are driving the new startup ecosystem, ...
blogs.msdn.com/.../microsoft-bizspark-to-offer-startups-60-00...

Cloud/Virtualization Management
With December's release of IBM SmartCloud Monitoring, Tivoli's venerable IBM Tivoli Monitoring product family, proven in data centers at the world's largest ...
https://www.ibm.com/.../introducing_smartcloud_monitoring5...

NextGenLog: #CLOUD: "Cloud Server Market Exploding"
Cloud server sales will double in 2012, compared to 2010, and will double again by 2015, as a result of the stellar success of cloud-based consumer services ...
nextgenlog.blogspot.com/.../cloud-server-market-exploding.ht...

Download cloudplay 0.1 for Linux - Play the cloud - Softpedia
cloudplay is a Python module that lets you stream music from your favorite cloud service using your favorite music player. Install it: pip install cloudplay ...
linux.softpedia.com/get/Programming/.../cloudplay-79939.sht...



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