Friday, February 3, 2012

Cloud Computing: Facebook IPO

Cloud Computing: Facebook IPO to Dwarf Recent Groupon, Zynga, LinkedIn Stock ...
eWeek
By Clint Boulton on 2012-02-02 Facebook filed for its initial public offering as expected Feb. 1, ending a week of hype, buzz and punditry that had financial and Internet analysts predicting the social network giant's initial public offering would be ...

eWeek

Cloud Sherpas Named Google Partner Of The Year, Looks To 2012
CRN
By Andrew R Hickey, CRN Google has named cloud solution provider Cloud Sherpas its first enterprise partner of the year for 2011, a sign that Google is strongly embracing the channel and finding value in its partners. Cloud Sherpas received the ...

Adobe Creative Cloud to Launch This Spring
eWeek
Adobe says it will deliver its Adobe Creative Cloud offering this spring, featuring Adobe Creative Suite 6, Adobe Touch Apps, Muse 1.0 and a new preview of Adobe Edge, among other things. Adobe's new cloud initiative aimed at creative professionals, ...

Adobe: Here's why Creative Cloud is worth $600 a year
CNET
by Stephen Shankland February 2, 2012 9:57 AM PST Follow @stshank Unimpressed by Adobe Systems' Creative Cloud, its forthcoming $50-per-month subscription plan? Adobe wants to change your mind. The company offered some new details today to show people ...

Alfresco's New Cloud Connected Content Platform Enables Enterprise Tablet ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
In addition, Alfresco Enterprise 4 is the foundation for Alfresco in the cloud - a new, truly multi-tenantcloud collaboration service by Alfresco (currently in beta). The enterprise workforce is changing rapidly. More than ever before, ...

Dell Cloud Business Applications Helps Schoolwires Tap into the Power of ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Schoolwires, a leading provider of Web-based solutions designed to help districts engage more effectively with all members of their K-12 communities to support student, teacher and district success, has chosen Dell Cloud Business Applications' ...

Cloud Data Protection Pioneer CipherCloud Experiences Explosive Growth in 2011
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
CipherCloud, a leading provider of cloud encryption gateways for public and private clouds, today announced the achievement of major milestones and strong market traction in 2011. These include annual revenue growth of over 1000%, positive cashflow in ...

OnX Unveils HP Cloud Center Of Excellence At New York Headquarters
MarketWatch (press release)
NEW YORK, Feb 02, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- OnX Enterprise Solutions, a leading global enterprise data center IT Solutions Provider, unveiled its Hewlett-Packard (HP) Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE), within the OnX Federated Cloud Center of Excellence ...

Cloud News: enStratus, CA Technologies, Interxion
Data Center Knowledge
enStratus releases new version of cloud management solution. enStratus announced the latest release of its cloud management solution that extends its leadership in enterprise cloudmanagement. This new release includes a new configuration management ...

Microsoft Vows to Fix 'Broken' Code In Open Source Cloud Project
Wired News
OpenStack, a framework for creating infrastructure-as-a-service cloud networks from pools of virtual servers, is backed by Rackspace, NASA, Citrix, Dell, AMD, Intel, and others. The project attempts to support multiple hypervisors, including VMware and ...

Bluewolf Study: Cloud/Mobile Salaries Rising, Talent Gap Widening
CRN
By Andrew R Hickey, CRN The salaries for IT workers in the cloud and mobile spaces are skyrocketing, but a shallow talent pool is posing challenges for companies looking to fill those jobs with skilled workers. Cloud solution provider Bluewolf recently ...

Yubico and CloudPassage Bring Easy and Secure Two-Factor Authentication to ...
MarketWatch (press release)
CloudPassage, the leading cloud server security provider, required a strong two-factor authentication mechanism for the CloudPassage Halo platform to protect access to servers in public clouds. Halo users needed a fast, effective, and reliable solution ...

Another Sunny Day for Cloud Company NetSuite
All Things Digital
You know, this whole cloud computing thing might just turn out to be something after all. NetSuite, the cloud-based software outfit that businesses use to, well, run their businesses, just reported its latest quarterly and annual results, ...

All Things Digital

OASIS Targets Cloud Portability
NetworkComputing.com
The Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications (TOSCA) Technical Committee recently formed by OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards), the not-for-profit open standards consortium, ...

Cloud Computing Goes to College
Technorati
Cloud computing and higher learning are an ideal partnership, with cloud systems being an orderly, constructive, and easily tweaked ethereal research mechanism. Just as two University of Indiana students are discovering, cloud systems, since not yet as...

Technorati

Can Cloud Computing Address Scientific Computing Requirements for DOE Research ...
Scientific Computing
After a two-year study of the feasibility of cloud computing systems for meeting the ever-increasing computational needs of scientists, Department of Energy researchers have issued a report stating that the cloud computing model is useful, ...

ShoreTel Acquires Cloud-based M5 Networks
No Jitter
Both the opportunity and the threat of cloud-based services likely drove ShoreTel to action. In yet another signal that cloud-based solutions are becoming an important part of the portfolio mix, yesterday ShoreTel announced the acquisition of M5 ...

SAP's Bold Bet: Rule Cloud, Mobile, Big Data
InformationWeek
One of the world's biggest software companies has been moving aggressively into mobile, cloudcomputing, and big data through acquisition and organic product development. The company's executives have committed to becoming the leader in each market by ...

Quadrant 4 Systems Corporation Releases Cloud Enabled Capital Markets Platform
MarketWatch (press release)
ROLLING MEADOWS, IL, Feb 02, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Quadrant 4 Systems Corporation (Quadrant) (otcqb:QFOR) /quotes/zigman/6589821 QFOR -3.23% today released its much awaited cloud enabled solution platform in the financial services market ...

Ixia Supports EANTC in First Comprehensive Data Center Cloud Validation
MarketWatch (press release)
EANTC-independently led testing that showcased Cisco's expertise in providing the comprehensive end-to-end functionality required to deliver next-generation cloud data centers from application delivery through to core switching.

VMware Asks Cloud Security Standards, Are they coming to a cloud near you?
DABCC.com
I was recently reading an article about cloud security standards and found it quite interesting of the struggles service providers are going through right now without official security standards. Standards are on the way from several industry groups ...

Is the cloud really cheaper?
InfoWorld
By Ed Zwirn | CFOworld That there is growing company demand for cloud or software-as-a-service solutions should come as no surprise. Finance and IT professionals, facing the need for greater computing power for everything from operational management to ...

Crytek affiliate unveils cloud-based gaming service
Gamasutra
Gface's eponymous platform is the latest game streaming technology to join companies such as OnLive and Gaikai in the burgeoning cloud gaming market. It enables users to load a variety of free-to-play games, from casual 2D titles to "core" 3D games in ...

Gamasutra

Move to the 'Cloud' Reaps Digital Cities Award
Virginia Connection Newspapers
City of Alexandria Chief Information Officer Tom Trobridge has moved the city's IT infrastructure into the “cloud.” Photo by Jeanne Theismann. By Jeanne Theismann It appeared without warning, a deadly computer virus that was spreading quickly just as ...

Computing in the 'cloud' not for everyone, expert says
Anderson Independent Mail
By Liz Carey ANDERSON — For some small businesses, converting to “the cloud” may save money, but for others it may not be the best solution, according to experts. Chip Reaves, CEO of Computer Troubleshooters, an Atlanta-based computer solutions ...

ShoreTel To Acquire Cloud Communications Company M5 ...
By Rip Empson
The cloud communications company, which was founded in 2000, provides phone systems, applications, and cloud communications for businesses, and claims to be one of the country's largest specialized VoIP providers. Under the terms of ...
TechCrunch

Alfresco Embraces SaaS and the Cloud with Its New CMS Platform
By Sam Dean
In a big endorsement of the SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) model, enteprise content management system (CMS) maker Alfresco is embracing cloud- and mobile-based usage of its platform with its new Alfresco 4 release. The open source CMS ...
OStatic blogs

Host Virtual Expands Cloud Service in TelecityGroup London Data ...
By Justin Lee
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Cloud hosting provider Host Virtual announced on Wednesday it is expanding its Cloud Service in London, UK. Located in the London Docklands, the expansion into Telecity Sovereign House provides a ...
theWHIR.com - Daily Web Hosting News

Think the cloud will cut your IT costs? Not so fast, say CIOs ...
By Nick Heath
Contrary to the sales pitch, cloud computing does not guarantee an easy and painless way for the IT department to cut costs.
on TechRepublic

The Global Gen World » Blog Archive » 3 Kings of Cloud Computing ...
By postlinks
Google, Microsoft and Amazon are said to be the three kings of cloud computing. Moreover, all the three arebuilt with a view to give users' public cloud platform, through which they can run their daily work operations smoothly and efficiently.
The Global Gen World

Discussion Panel: Cloud Computing and Entrepreneurship [LIVE ...
By C. Custer
Serkan Toto is the moderator, talking to Francis Lee (Joyent), Zane Adam (Microsoft Azure), Christopher Bousigues (Nubefy), and Simone Brunozzi (Amazon Web Services) about web services and startups.
Tech in Asia

HP Blogs - HP Canadian leader's perspective on cloud computin ...
By Charlie Bess
One of the aspects of any kind of cloud activity is the need to define a baseline of the current situation of the organization and then define and expand that knowledge into... with definite expectations, so that you can learn from the results.
The Next Big Thing articles

Why Your Business Needs The Cloud
By David Streit
You may think business can get along fine without the latest buzz word in technology. But moving tocloud can help you concentrate on your real business.
Latin Business Today

CloudPassage Launches Network Security In The Cloud Inbox ...
By Serega
SAN FRANCISCO – Feb. 1, 2012 – CloudPassage, the leading cloud server security company, today unveils HaloNetSec, an automated solution that provides advanced network access control for servers running in public clouds including ...
Best network security software

Cloud Management: The Agentless Approach | Cloud Computing ...
To rollout a scalable agentless approach for cloud management we had to solve some interesting complex problems like managing firewall rules automatically for managed servers in a dynamic cloudenvironment, handling distributed event ...
Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal

Host Virtual Expands Investment in Its London Cloud | FindMyHost ...
By FindMyHost News
Web Hosting Services - San Jose, CA - Host Virtual is pleased to announce that it is expanding itsCloud Service in London. “London has become a pivotal.
FindMyHost Directory

G-Cloud Catalogue Expected to be Released this February ...
Mark O'Neill, director for innovation and delivery of Government Digital Services ( GDS) recently announced that the new cloud public administration services will ...
cloudtimes.org/g-cloud-catalogue-expected-to-be-released-this...

Four cloud computing myths debunked
Cloud computing adoption is mired in misconceptions about cost, infrastructure and a lack of standards. Don't fall victim to these cloud computing myths.
searchcloudcomputing.techtarget.com/.../Four-cloud-computin...

Cloud Security – Secure Content - Trend Micro USA
Cloud security is the next evolution in information technology and changing the way we use and secure content on the Internet, accelerate your journey into the ...
www.trendmicro.com/us/technology-innovation/.../index.html

IBM Academic Initiative Cloud Computing
Cloud computing is a comprehensive solution that delivers IT as a service and simplifies IT infrastructure without sacrificing customization and integration ...
www.ibm.com/developerworks/.../cloud_computing.html

Autodesk Labs Utilities Point Cloud Feature Extraction for Revit
Point Cloud Feature Extraction for Autodesk® Revit® 2012 software is a free* technology preview that allows you to work with point cloud more easily in Revit.
labs.autodesk.com/utilities/scan_to_bim/

ownCloud 3 – Applications, Features, Improvements | KDE.news
ownCloud allows full control of cloud data storage. Version 3 of this open source File, Sync & Share Project has just been announced. Now users can do more ...
dot.kde.org/.../owncloud-3-–-applications-features-improveme...



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