Monday, February 27, 2012

Cloud computing: How to go hybrid

Cloud computing: How to go hybrid
ITworld.com
A study conducted at Gartner's 2011 Data Center Conference in December showed that 78% of 2500 attendees surveyed said they plan to build private cloud services by 2014. "We believe that the vast majority of private clouds will migrate or evolve into a ...

Cloud computing boom changing IT structures
Hartford Business
By John A. Lahtinen It is estimated that the cloud computing market will reach nearly $250 billion by 2016, an astounding $170 billion increase from 2011. In addition, more than half of Global 1000 companies are expected to store data in the public ...

Marvell Showcases Total Solutions for Mobile Devices, Smart TVs, Cloud ...
MarketWatch (press release)
26, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS -- Marvell (NASDAQ:MRVL) will showcase at Mobile World Congress 2012 end-to-end silicon platform solutions for mobile devices, Smart TVs, connectivity, cloud computing and services, ...

Big silver lining: Dist. 87 tech director helps bring cloud computing to class
Bloomington Pantagraph
Last week, some of the brightest minds in technology were in California's Silicon Valley to discuss the best policies and practices in cloud computing for state and local government. Among them was District 87 Technology Director Jim Peterson.

Money Power: Understanding cloud computing basics
Tulsa World
By JOHN MILEY Money Power The sky truly is the limit when dealing with cloud computing, but take precautions to keep your risk down to earth. 1. Where's my stuff? Going to the cloud means saving your electronic files on giant, off-site hard drives or ...

Ericsson launches Data Center Build and Optimization offering
Reuters
Ericsson enters the market for data centers, enables telecom operators to offer cloud services for their enterprise customers Operators ideally positioned to offer high quality, high security and high availability cloud services to enterprises With an ...

The Cloud Gets More Awesome with New Offers
Computerworld
Dropbox announced a new feature that automatically uploads full-size copies of your photos to its cloud storage service whether you're on a Mac, Windows PC, or Android phone. Compatibility with iOS devices is coming soon.

Ericsson's Network-enabled Cloud meets needs of the Networked Society
Reuters
To meet these needs and continuously build and sustain the Networked Society, Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) is developing the concept of a Network-enabled Cloud. It is Ericsson's comprehensive effort to simultaneously evolve cloud computing and telecom ...

Customer education key when considering cloud
Hartford Business
Q&A talks with Steve Pelletier, general manager at West Hartford's SPELLNET, an IT services provider offering cloud computing, hosting, network design and implementation, systems development and systems maintenance. Q: How is SPELLNET helping companies ...

Boorish BSA Cloud Report Keeps Spirit of SOPA Alive
SYS-CON Media (press release)
the Spirit of SOPA does well in a new cloud-computing report from The Business Software Alliance. Asia, in general, does not. Viewing numerous aspects - establishing IT infrastructure, ensuring data privacy and portability, promoting security, ...

SYS-CON Media (press release)

Ping Identity sets up in Australia, Japan
iTWire
According to Ping's chief revenue officer, Bill Dedrick, as in North America and Europe, more organisations in Japan and the Asia Pacific are “turning to cloud computing and mobility to grow their businesses and be more efficient.

Windows 8 will Launch an Improved Cloud Service
TechLeash
Cloud storage seems to become quite a big deal these days and apparently everybody wants to have a piece of the business. Microsoft included. The company already released a cloud storage under its mighty banner who bears the name SkyDrive, ...

TechLeash

Why is Dropbox Successful? It's the Simplicity (Stupid)
PC Magazine
We're willing to bet that its 50 million users would have a variety of answers as to why they enjoy the cloud storage service. Benchmark Capital's Bill Gurley has a few words of his own: More than 400, in fact, as to why he and his firm find a value ...

Cloud security: How to make the switch
ZDNet UK
Despite the obvious commercial and technological benefits of the cloud, enterprise adoption is still in its infancy. In survey after survey, the primary barrier at an executive level to the adoption of cloud services is security.

ZDNet UK

Marvell (Nasdaq:MRVL) a Buy on Robust Technology Portfolio
Live Trading News
Marvell (Nasdaq:MRVL) will showcase at Mobile World Congress 2012 end-to-end silicon platform solutions for mobile devices, Smart TVs, connectivity, cloud computing and services, which demonstrate the breadth of Marvell's robust technology portfolio.

Live Trading News

Porticor Launches Encryption Technology for Cloud Computing
SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog)
More and more enterprises now rent space or servers on the cloud to store data. However, the fact that such data remains outside the ambit of the enterprise's security system and invisible to the enterprise poses a serious security headache.

SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog)

How mobile, BYOD and younger workers are reinventing IT
Techworld.com
The same is true about technology and how users interact with their smartphones and tablets, computers and even personal cloud services. At its most basic level, the integration of technology into users' everyday lives - both at home and at work - is ...

NIVIO in expansion mode on business & charitable fronts
Moneycontrol.com
Nivio continues to set the standard for cloud desktop performance. It has recently secured a USD 21 million investment from Videocon and AEC partners. 28-year-old Sachin Duggal has been known for developing the world's first functional cloud computing ...

Moneycontrol.com

OnLive Desktop just made the iPad more Productive
PDF Devices
by Manju Chandra In a move that will not only promote OnLive from being a video-streaming service to a serious, productive service provider, thecloud computing company has just announced, for the ipad three free Microsoft Office tools.

PDF Devices

Web Hosting - FirstServer Offers Percona Server for Cloud Hosting Applications
Greatresponder.com
FirstServer will certainly include a Percona-branded model of Percona Server being a choice for FirstServer's Z Cloud services. FirstServer provided together with Joyent, an international supplier of cloud computing solutions, FirstServer's Z Cloud ...

Greatresponder.com

Four Managed Services Predictions That Never Came True
MSPmentor
The concept was to offer outsourced NOC and Help Desk services in addition to acting as a distributor for cloud services (before they were called cloud) and finally offering training services to help the transition to an MSP model.

FXI and Polkast(TM) to Bring Content from Any Device to Any Screen
MarketWatch (press release)
TRONDHEIM, Norway & BARCELONA, Spain, Feb 26, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- FXI Technologies(TM), innovator of the world's first any screen computer, and Polkast, a personal cloud service that securely connects a user's computers and mobile devices directly, ...

Acer floats Cloud Mobile smartphone
NFC World
The Cloud Mobile is a sleek, black handset with a business-like design and a 4.3-inch screen, 1.5GHz dual-core processor and NFC. The Cloud Mobile will ship with Android 4 and promises support for the new Acer Cloudpersonal cloud storage system that ...

NFC World

Apple Inc. (AAPL) Enhances Japanese iTunes: iTunes Plus, 3G Downloads ...
Touch Reviews
Rumors earlier in the week suggested that Apple Inc. (AAPL) was looking to roll out their iTunes in the Cloud services to its Japanese users, and on Wednesday, Apple did exactly that. This allows Japanese users to freely download previous content from ...

Webcast dispels confusion about cloud-based software
DC Velocity
By DC Velocity Staff Curious about what cloud-based computing means for logistics? Are you unsure exactly what cloud computing is, and whether it's appropriate for supply chain applications? Frank Camean, founder of the 4Sight Supply Chain Group, ...

Adobe Brings Photoshop Touch to the iPad
Mashable
Adobe said these remaining apps will launch for iOS later this year and will all work with Adobe's Creative Cloud services. Other features in Adobe Touch for iPad include the ability to share to Facebook directly from the app, search, using Google, ...

Cloud storage apps - what are they and how do they work ...
By Jerry Hildenbrand
Cloud Storage Dropbox and Box.net have been in the news recently, updating their apps and giving away tons of free space, so it's understandable that a few of us are wondering what the heck they're all about. Sure, you know ... To the CLOUD!! !! Posted by Bla1ze Saturday, Feb 25, 2012 17 hrs ago. iCloud is pretty bad still, some cloud services are great but iCloud is an example of one that still needs some work. Posted by shabbs Saturday, Feb 25, 2012 14 hrs ago. In what way is it ...
CrackBerry.com - News & Rumors

Cloud computing and the “me versus you” problem | Digitopoly
By Kwanghui Lim
Cloud computing and the “me versus you” problem. By Kwanghui Lim On Feb ... On the one hand many corporate organizations are moving towards cloud services and all-in-one outsourced solutions (Oracle, SAP, IBM, …). On the other hand ...
Digitopoly

Cloud Expo NY: Enterprise Transformation Using Cloud and Cloud ...
With cloud services, a traditional project that just obtained survey information from customers and provided reports was transitioned to leverage an authentication service,cloud customer information service, cloud reporting service and other cloud services to provide a scalable, ... The growth and success of Cloud Computing will be on display at the upcoming Cloud Expo conference and exhibition in New York City, June 11-14, 2012, and in Santa Clara, CA, November 5-8, 2012.
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SAP on the Cloud » SAP and SuccessFactors – this combination is ...
By Sven Denecken
About this Blog. The sky is no longer the limit. Thanks to cloud computing, the power to streamline business processes, collaborate on actionable insights, and make informed decisions can be yours right now. Not in one year, not in six months.
SAP on the Cloud

Cloud security: How to make the switch | Security Management ...
By feedback@zdnet.co.uk (Editors)
When you move to the cloud, take your security with you rather than accept the lowest-common-denominator measures on offer, says Rik Ferguson. ... In survey after survey, the primary barrier at an executive level to the adoption of cloud services is security. Executives are concerned that ... Google Drive cloud storage coming soon, says report.... From cloud computing to remote working, your business should consider these ways to keep your business secure as traditional IT.
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Marvell Showcases Total Solutions for Mobile Devices, Smart TVs ...
By lowes1
26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS — Marvell (Nasdaq: MRVL) will showcase at Mobile World Congress 2012 end-to-end silicon platform solutions for mobile devices, Smart TVs, connectivity, cloud computing and ...
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Google Drive said to support third party apps
By Edgar Cervantes
Currently, Dropbox is the king of cloud storage services. But if any service has a chance at taking over the market, it is Google Drive. And it looks like it may not only offer an awesome and affordable service, but other developers will be able to ...
Android Phone Fans

The Path to the Intelligent Cloud | Cloud Computing Journal
Before we know it the next generation of cloud computing will be upon us and it will be ... The current focus on what is cloud computing is but a mere distraction ...
cloudcomputing.sys-con.com/node/2165023

Cloud computing at Pulse 2012 pre-conference | Thoughts on Cloud ...
These Cloud and Data Center Optimization topics will show customers how IBM SmartCloud solutions provide the industry's most advanced cloud services and ...
thoughtsoncloud.com/.../cloud-computing-at-pulse-2012-pre-...

Telcos Poised To Disrupt Amazon's Enterprise Cloud - Cloud ...
... a piece of the enterprise cloud services market popularized by Amazon and Rackspace. ... Junkins was speaking to a standing-room-only mix of cloud industry ...According to Heavy Reading senior analyst Ari Banerjee, cloud computing will ...Box.net Uses Collaboration For Cloud Storage Advantage · IBM Gives First ...
www.informationweek.com/news/cloud.../232600799

DiData launches OpSource cloud services — Cloud Computing News
Dimension Data, the big systems integrator, bought OpSource for its cloud services in June, and is now unveiling the updated clouds offering under its brand.
gigaom.com/cloud/didata-launches-opsource-cloud-services/

Cloud Computing: Giving Up Control In The Name Of Simplicity
Krish is an analyst and researcher focussed on high impact topics in the areas such asCloud Computing, Open Source and the interface between them.
www.cloudave.com/.../cloud-computing-giving-up-control-in-...

Cloud Computing: Its Benefits, And How It Is Implemented By ...
Cloud Computing Companies and Information Database. CloudTweaks.com ... Cloud Storage: Changes Coming to Online Storage · Cloud Infographic: The ...
www.cloudtweaks.com/.../cloud-computing-its-benefits-and-h...

6 Shining Examples of Cloud Computing in Action - Forbes
There's no question that most businesses have been trying out cloud computing in one form or another in recent times. A new report from The Economist ...
www.forbes.com/.../6-shining-examples-of-cloud-computing-i...

AGIMO Cloud Computing Guidelines | CloudTimes
Cloud computing as the post says may have challenges and drawbacks, but with ...Act 1997 (FMA Act) that will cover Better Practice Guides for cloud services.
cloudtimes.org/agimo-cloud-computing-guidelines/

Dimension Data debuts global cloud services to accelerate adoption ...
Dimension Data debuts global cloud services to accelerate adoption of cloudcomputing. Thursday, 23 February 2012 07:49. AddThis Social Bookmark Button ...
www.wwpi.com/index.php?option...

What is Cloud Computing: At a Glance | Cloud Business Review
Storage is a key concept for cloud computing as it gives consumers the ability to store all of their files and data into a virtual hard drive or “cloud storage”.
www.cloudbusinessreview.com/.../cloud-computing-at-a-glanc...



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