Apple's Mountain Lion Shows Personal Cloud Trumps Personal Computer
PCWorld
"The net is that the personal cloud is becoming more important than the personal computer," argued Gartenberg. "The whole idea of a personal cloud is what's most important to consumers. The rest is just a bunch of connected screens.
Cloud Services Adoption Rises for Small Businesses: Parallels Report
eWeek
SMBs continue to lead the adoption of cloud services, as the US market experienced a 25 percent increase in 2011, growing to $15.1 billion. Parallels, a hosting and cloud services enablement provider, released the latest updates of Parallels SMB Cloud ...
PCWorld
"The net is that the personal cloud is becoming more important than the personal computer," argued Gartenberg. "The whole idea of a personal cloud is what's most important to consumers. The rest is just a bunch of connected screens.
Cloud Services Adoption Rises for Small Businesses: Parallels Report
eWeek
SMBs continue to lead the adoption of cloud services, as the US market experienced a 25 percent increase in 2011, growing to $15.1 billion. Parallels, a hosting and cloud services enablement provider, released the latest updates of Parallels SMB Cloud ...
Computerworld
By Joab Jackson IDG News Service - Extending its range of open-source projects to cloudcomputing, the Apache Software Foundation has approved the Deltacloud as a top-level project, the organization announced Thursday. First developed by Red Hat in ...
Amazon Cloud Users Get SunGard Disaster Recovery Option
InformationWeek
By Charles Babcock InformationWeek Amazon and SunGard announced Wednesday that Amazon EC2 users will be able to get disaster recovery services from the SunGard cloud, opening the door for Amazon Web Services customers to keep data and backup copies of ...
Rackspace Buys Up SharePoint911 To Gird For Cloud Fight
Wall Street Journal (blog)
By Deborah Gage Rackspace US has acquired SharePoint911, one of the leading consultants on Microsoft SharePoint, and will add SharePoint hosting and consulting services to its cloud, VentureWire has learned. Terms of the acquisition are not disclosed, ...
Cloud Computing and Data Integration: 10 Trends to Watch
eWeek
In 2012, more companies will continue moving their business processes to the cloud, intensifying expectations for cloud data integration and data management as a part of a company's information infrastructure. The desired end result: to enable a more ...
eWeek
Leading Cloud Thinkers to Government: Cloud Is Imperative for Better ...
MarketWatch (press release)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA, Feb 16, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- The TechAmerica Foundation today released the highly anticipated recommendations from the State and Local Government CloudCommission (SLG-CC) that will assist state and local governments in ...
Government Moves Toward Cloud Computing 'Perfect Storm'
PCWorld
By Kenneth Corbin, CIO Amid mounting budget pressures and a maturing set of technologies, the federal government is poised for the rapid adoption of cloud computing services over the next several years, according to one of the senior agency leaders ...
In the cloud, a data breach is only as bad as your contract
Computerworld
By Thomas J. Trappler Computerworld - Loss of control is one of the main things that gives people pause when they think about putting their data in the cloud. We've all seen how painful a data breach can be, and it can seem almost like asking for ...
EMC partners with French cloud computing company Atos
Boston Herald
By Ira Kantor Hopkinton data storage giant EMC Corp. has announced plans to form a strategic alliance for open cloud computing with subsidiary VMware and French technology services company Atos. In addition, Atos plans to create a new company, Canopy, ...
State, Local Governments Face Cloud Imperative
InformationWeek
TechAmerica report pushes state and local governments to quickly embrace the cloud to cut costs and improve services. By Elizabeth Montalbano InformationWeek A new TechAmerica report recommending how state and local governments should proceed to ...
Red Hat Extends Cloud Offerings For Amazon Web Services
CRN
By Jack McCarthy, CRN Red Hat announced several actions Wednesday intended to further its approach toward open and interoperable cloud computing. The company expanded its cloudofferings for Amazon Web Services and also said its Deltacloud API, ...
Red Hat Cloud Boss Blasts VMware Over Openness
Wired News
Scott Crenshaw, Vice President and General Manager of Red Hat's Cloud Business Unit, during a Webcast today called VMware's claims of openness for its cloud solutions bogus, reports ZDNet. “VMware will be open the day they open source vSphere ...
Gemalto Wins 2012 Cloud Award for Security Innovation
MarketWatch (press release)
AMSTERDAM, Feb 16, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO), the world leader in digital security, announces it won the Security Innovation award in the inaugural 2012Cloud Awards program. Gemalto was recognized for its Protiva ...
Johns Hopkins and VMware forge medical records mega-cloud
Register
By Timothy Prickett Morgan • Get more from this author Medical and IT researchers at Johns Hopkins University, healthcare application software supplier Harris Corp, and virtualization juggernaut VMware have teamed up to create a medical imaging cloud ...
UnitedHealth Group Launches Cloud Platform for Health App Development
eWeek
UnitedHealth Group's Optum unit has launched a cloud platform to host applications in an open environment. UnitedHealth Group's Optum health services business has launched an open cloudplatform to allow developers to create and host health care ...
Red Hat Expands Subscription Portability to the Cloud with Amazon Web Services
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
“We started with support for Red Hat Cloud Access capabilities with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and are excited that our customers can now take advantage of Red Hat Enterprise MRG Grid via CloudAccess.” Red Hat Cloud Access is a capability that enables ...
Cloud-based MySQL Database Monitoring from Monitis
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Monitis, the leading cloud and web application monitoring software provider, today announces that it has added comprehensive MySQL database monitoring to its award-winning Application Performance Management & Monitoring platform.
Parallels SMB Cloud Insights™ Helps Service Providers Target the Rapidly ...
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Parallels® (www.parallels.com), the hosting and cloud services enablement leader, today released the latest updates of Parallels SMB Cloud Insights™, its series of research that profiles the cloud buying behavior of small ...
Cloud IT Hosting Company SoftCom Raises $5 Million
Seattle Post Intelligencer
SoftCom is a Cloud IT Service Provider">Cloud IT Service provider better known for its flagship brands myhosting.com and mail2web.com. myhosting.com offers cloud based hosting services ranging from Shared Web Hosting, Email & Hosted Exchange to VPS ...
CSDP Announces Cloud-Based Service Relationship Management (SRM)(C) Software
MarketWatch (press release)
IRVINE, Calif., Feb 16, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Customer Service Delivery Platform Corporation (CSDP), developers of the Service Relationship Management (SRM)(C) suite of solutions, announces the introduction of its cloud-based, SaaS (Software as a ...
GSA creating cloud marketplace for federal services
FederalNewsRadio.com
By Jason Miller By the end of the year, agencies likely will have an online marketplace to buy cloudcomputing services. Dave McClure, the General Services Administration's associate administrator in the Office of Citizen Services and Innovative ...
'Cloud? It's not always a way to save money'
The Guardian
With the Cabinet Office soon to announce the initial batch of suppliers for its G-Cloudframework, talk of cloud services is rife among Whitehall and suppliers alike. Adoption of cloud services is often framed within discussions on saving money.
The Guardian
Hedge Funds Buying Into the Cloud
TheStreet.com
By Olivia Oran 02/16/12 - 12:53 PM EST NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Top hedge funds were hot on the cloud at the end of 2011, investing in companies like Amazon(AMZN), Salesforce(CRM) and Rackspace(RAX) that let computers access information from remote ...
TheStreet.com
Webair Delivers Breakthrough Cloud Performance with Fusion ioMemory
Sacramento Bee
Webair has integrated ioMemory into its cloud hosting services to provide clients with I/O speeds in the cloud that could traditionally only be obtained with complex and expensive disk array scale out. "Providing an extremely fast storage layer is ...
Cloud computing security issues on tap at RSA Conference 2012
SearchMidmarketSecurity.com
As more organizations delve into public and private cloud computing, security issues are becoming more pressing. RSA Conference 2012 is testament to the growing interest in cloud security: An entire track is devoted to the topic, with sessions ...
OS X Mountain Lion's Documents in the Cloud Simplifies File ...
By Eric Slivka
One of the major new features in OS X Mountain Lion is greater integration with iCloud, with one of the additions being new Documents in the Cloud...
MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors...
Is Your Cloud Over-Provisioned?
By David Strom
In the fairy tale of Goldilocks and the three bears, the heroine was trying to find the solution that was "just right." But when it comes to server ...
ReadWriteCloud
Cloud Computing 101 for SMBs | Business 2 Community
By Michael Neubarth
A study by Zoomerang found that SMBs were uninformed and confused about cloud computing, with 72% of those surveyed saying they were “not sure what it is”
Business 2 Community
New Cloud Apps for February | Fabasoft Folio Cloud Blog
By William Wallace
The February Cloud update brings six new Cloud Apps! Let us give you a short introduction to the latest additions to our Cloud App community – and don't forget that you can see them demonstrated live in our next “What's New” Webinar!
Fabasoft Folio Cloud Blog
Cloud-based MySQL Database Monitoring from Monitis at Uptime ...
By Jenny.Duncan
Application Performance Management,Application Performance Monitoring,Cloud application monitoring,Drupal,Joomla,mediawiki,Mo.
Uptime & Performance Tips
Cloud IS Different: So Monitoring Must Be Different?
By Anton Chuvakin
I'm tired of hearing quotes like “cloud is completely different from traditional IT” as well as those that say “cloud is just like outsourcing, mainframes, etc.” Those who like the former quote will sometimes add that organizations should scrap all ...
Anton Chuvakin
Government Moves Toward Cloud Computing 'Perfect Storm ...
By Kenneth Corbin
McClure explained that developing a common set of controls for cloud services across the departments and agencies is FedRAMP's most immediate priority, though the leaders of the initiative are not seeking to rewrite the security standards ...
CIO - News RSS feed
Gemalto Wins 2012 Cloud Award for Security Innovation - Smart ...
By Smart Card Alliance
Amsterdam, Feb 16, 2012–Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO), the world leader in digital security, announces it won the Security Innovation award in the inaugural 2012 Cloud Awards program. Gemalto was recognized for its Protiva ...
Smart Card Alliance
Can You Buy Your Way Into The Cloud? | PandoDaily
By Trevor Gilbert
'Cloud' is the closest thing to a disruptive innovation in the enterprise software world. It's the digital camera to Kodak. Email to the fax machine. For decades, enterprise technology vendors have been structured to build, market, sell, and service ...
PandoDaily
Cloud Data Security Firm Porticor Launches Encryption Service ...
By Ariel
February 16, 2012, Erin Harrison, MSP News Data security concerns remain top of mind for CIOs considering shifting to the cloud, which has introduced a new.
Porticor Cloud Security
SOA governance in the cloud | Thoughts on Cloud
By Sebastian Rzepka
SOA governance in the cloud. February 16, 2012 4:32 pm by Sebastian Rzepka. This post was co-authored with Chris Phillips (see his bio at the end of this post). Service-oriented architecture (SOA) has been a major concept in the evolution ...
Thoughts on Cloud
VMware Partners with Peake for Medical Cloud | SiliconANGLE
By Maria Deutscher
Virtualization giant VMware is getting deeper into the healthcare sector now that Peake Healthcare Innovations has OEM'd its virtualization technology to power a new public/hybrid cloud offering. It will enable doctors and hospitals treat ...
SiliconANGLE
TechAmerica Foundation SLG Cloud Commission releases report ...
By jim sweeney
Today the TechAmerica SLG Cloud Commission (SLG-CC) is releasing their final report on Cloud for State and Local Government. The commission's goal was to further the adoption of cloud by State and Local governments and to educate ...
GTSI Corp
Security Questions To Ask Your Cloud Service Provider ...
By cloudtweaks
Security Questions To Ask Your Cloud Service Provider Moving software, websites, hardware needs and important services to the cloud is not without its risks.
CloudTweaks.com - Cloud Computing...
Cloud Fundamentals Video Series: e-discovery in the Cloud - Cloud ...
The Trustworthy Computing blog shares Microsoft perspectives about cloud computing. From security in the cloud to the evolution of IT, we show how Microsoft ...
blogs.technet.com/.../cloud-fundamentals-video-series-ediscov...
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