Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Cloud Computing Market Hot, But How Hot?

Cloud Computing Market Hot, But How Hot? Estimates are All Over the Map
Forbes
There are reports that the dean of Silicon Valley venture capital fund funds, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, is very interested in cloud computing services, and may invest up to $100 million in the market this year. Bloomberg quotes partner Matt ...

Forbes 

UptimeCloud Eliminates AWS Cloud Bill Surprises
InformationWeek
Service reports Amazon cloud expenses in the middle of the month and forecasts what they'll be by month end--before it's too late. By Charles Babcock InformationWeek Uptime Software announced Monday that it's offering an online service that can ...

Nimbula, Citrix clouds vow Amazon-style computing
GigaOm
13, 2012, 12:31pm PT No Comments If you don't think that Amazon Web Services is the king of cloud, just look at what other cloud companies are announcing this week. Even paragons of the private cloud world are trying to cloak themselves in the glow ...

GigaOm

Cloud Computing Can Drive Business Innovation
InformationWeek
Cloud is an enabler of new business models, but too many companies are just experimenting or improving existing processes and not taking full advantage of the technology, says IBM. By Charles Babcock InformationWeek Cloud computing is assumed to be an ...

Cloud Storage Infrastructures Raise Many Issues
InformationWeek
Cost, performance, and the ability to scale are among the key issues when considering cloudstorage infrastructure. What exactly is cloud storage infrastructure. That question came up recently when we began a project to identify some of the top cloud ...

Google Drive Cloud Storage Threatens Dropbox, Box
eWeek
Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG) equivalent of a unicorn is not looking so mythical anymore, as the search engine is reportedly set to launch its long-rumored cloud storage service this year. Google Drive will launch in the coming weeks or months, according to ...

Phoenix NAP To Attend Cloud Connect, Spotlighting Secured Cloud
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Phoenix NAP®, a full service data center, premier infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider and primary network access point (NAP), announced today that it will be attending Cloud Connect 2012, a four day conference and expo taking place in the Santa ...

Multiple Cloud Formations Require New Security Approaches
eWeek
Reliable user authentication in deployment of a cloud service is of utmost importance. Even though a cloud service to which you subscribe may have two-factor or higher levels of secure authentication, certain protocols must be observed and rules must ...

Actifio to Deliver Cloud-Based Data Management Solutions for Service Providers
Business Wire (press release)
(BUSINESS WIRE)--Actifio™, the Protection and Availability Storage (PAS) platform company, today announced a collaboration with IBM to deliver new virtualized storage offerings that help service providers get their clients into the cloud.

Insight Launches InsightCloud Solution Center with an Enhanced Shopping ...
MarketWatch (press release)
This first release features cloud-based messaging, security, infrastructure, and collaboration solutions with an enhanced shopping experience and management capabilities for messaging workloads. -- LEARN all about cloud computing and the benefits of ...

Citrix simplifies cloud service management
ITWorld Canada
Citrix Systems Inc. is shipping a new version of its CloudStack cloud management software that makes it simpler for service providers and large businesses to manage and provision cloud services. This is accomplished primarily through integration with ...

Cloudscaling Unveils Open Cloud System
Data Center Knowledge
Promising to bring the benefits of Amazon Web Services to smaller public and private clouds, Cloudscaling today announced its Open Cloud System, an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) solution based on the OpenStack open source project.

6fusion Introduces Free Cloud Resource Meter for VMware(R) vSphere
MarketWatch (press release)
LAS VEGAS, Feb 13, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- 6fusion, a provider of utility-metered public, private and hybrid cloud infrastructure management software and services, today announced it will be previewing its free 6fusion Cloud Resource Meter for ...

EMC and Government partner on cloud platform for service development
Consumer Tech
Tech4Biz | 13 Feb 2012 : A new joint cloud computing initiative called Cloud4Gov has been announced by the Government and EMC, with support from Cisco, VMware, VCE and Industrial Development Agency (IDA) Ireland, that will create a cloud innovation ...

Consumer Tech

MetraTech's Metanga to Monetize Cloud Banking Application for Temenos
MarketWatch (press release)
WALTHAM, MA, Feb 13, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- MetraTech Corp., the leading provider of agreements-based billing (ABB(TM)) and compensation solutions, today announced the selection of Metanga, its multi-tenant, cloud-based billing application, ...

Redcats Optimizes Private Cloud and Slashes Application Response Times With ...
MarketWatch (press release)
After consolidating its IT resources into a private cloud at its headquarters in Hong Kong, Redcats Asia began receiving negative feedback from its remote offices on slow response times for applications being accessed over the wide area network (WAN).

HP Boosts Partner Revenue Opportunities in Cloud and Services
MarketWatch (press release)
LAS VEGAS, NV, Feb 13, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- HP /quotes/zigman/229301/quotes/nls/hpq HPQ +0.17% today announced programs and solutions that enable channel partners to growcloud and services revenue while helping customers ease their ...

Eucalyptus Launches Enterprise-Class Cloud Test Lab at CoreSite's Bay Area ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
CoreSite Realty Corporation (NYSE: COR), a US provider of powerful, network-rich data centers, today announced that Eucalyptus Systems, creators of the most widely deployed on-premise cloudcomputing platform, has launched a new enterprise-class cloud ...

Ambient Cloud Reduces Costs, Boosts Security
Dark Reading
Distributed -- or ambient -- cloud storage requires that users chip in by providing disk space and gives them equivalent space in the cloud. Can storing others' data locally be secure? By Robert Lemos, Contributing Editor When grid computing burst into ...

DynamicOps Expands Cloud Automation Center with Advanced Intelligent Resource ...
Sacramento Bee
13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- DynamicOps, pioneer of the Operations Virtualization™ platform that enables unified cloud automation and management, today announced a major intelligent resource management enhancement to the DynamicOps Cloud Automation Center ...

Railway Company Based in North America Moves SAP® Solutions to WFT Cloud with ...
Albany Times Union
Wharfedale Technologies Inc. (WFT Cloud), a leading professional IT services consulting firm specializing in cloud infrastructure integration and leaders with SAP on Private Cloud, today announced a railway company based in North America moved their ...

Hortonworks Founders to Speak at Cloud Connect and Strata Conference
MarketWatch (press release)
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Feb 13, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Hortonworks, a leading contributor to Apache Hadoop projects, today announced that Founders Eric Baldeschwieler and Owen O'Malley will be speaking at two upcoming conferences in Silicon Valley: Cloud ...

Hosting.com Presenting Visionary Approach to Cloud-based Disaster Recovery at ...
MarketWatch (press release)
DENVER, Feb 13, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Hosting.com, a leading provider of enterprise-class,cloud hosting and recovery solutions, today announced that Craig McLellan, chief technology officer, will present three speaking sessions during the VMware ...

Nimbula 2.0 Provides Complex Cloud Orchestration - ReadWriteCloud
By David Strom
We have been big fans of Nimbula since the company launched a few years ago with its hybrid cloudmanagement tools. Today they announced their latest version, which ...
ReadWriteCloud

AT&T introduces “Virtual Private Cloud” | Ubergizmo
By Edwin Kee
AT&T has just announced AT&T Synaptic Compute, where it will function as a service with VMware vCloud Datacenter Service. This is an enterprise-class cloud service that will deliver the best of both worlds, merging technologies from virtual ...
Ubergizmo

LSBC Issues Final Report on Cloud Computing — Slaw
By Jack Newton
On January 27th the Law Society of British Columbia issued a final version of its Report of the CloudComputing Working Group. The changes made from the previous draft of July 15, 2011 are dis.
Slaw

Crash Course in Open Source Cloud Computing at Cloud Expo New ...
Very few trends in IT have generated as much buzz as cloud computing. In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Mark Hinkle, Director, Cloud Computing Community at Citrix, will cut through the hype and quickly clarify the ontology ...
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RIM's Business Cloud Service Brings BlackBerrys to SMBs | Blogs ...
By paulmah@gmail.com
12 Top Productivity Apps for Your BlackBerry Top business productivity apps from BlackBerry AppWorld. RIM a couple of weeks ago announced the general availabili.
Paul Mah

CoreSite Bay Area Data Center Hosts Eucalyptus Cloud Test Lab ...
By Web Host Industry Review
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MegaBust's MegaQuestions Cloud the Net's Future
By Philip S Corwin
The Megaupload prosecution also raises significant questions about the treatment of user data entrusted to cloud and cyberlocker services, and whether non-infringing data can be subject to police seizure and search at the very time it is ...
CircleID: Featured Blogs

Insight Launches InsightCloud Solution Center with an Enhanced ...
Insight Enterprises, Inc. (NASDAQ: NSIT), a leading technology provider of hardware, software and service solutions, today announced the InsightCloud Solution Center, which provides businesses and public sector clients a destination to ...
Enterprise Communications and...

6fusion Introduces Free Cloud Resource Meter for VMware vSphere
By Ben Kepes
One of the key traits of cloud computing is the fact that it follows a utility model with resources able to be metered by use. That's a glorious thing as lots of benefits drop out of that – the ability to pay by use, the ability to cost recover with.
CloudAve

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By Berry Hill
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Eucalyptus Launches Cloud Test Lab - hostingBlender - Web ...
By THN News
(The Hosting News) – CoreSite Realty Corporation (NYSE: COR), a U.S. provider of powerful, network-rich data centers, today announced that Eucalyptus Systems, creators of the most widely deployed on-premise cloud computing platform, ...
hostingBlender - Web Hosting...

GSA Details Federal Cloud Security Program - Government - Cloud ...
The General Services Administration on Tuesday released extensive new details on FedRAMP, a program the Obama administration hopes will accelerate the ...
www.informationweek.com/news/government/.../232600484

Startup Nicira to Blaze New Trails in Cloud Computing | CloudTimes
Nicira is a new startup that is making great waves in the cloud computing industry . Everyone seems to be impressed with its networking virtualization solutions ...
cloudtimes.org/startup-nicira-to-blaze-new-trails-in-cloud-com...

Assessing science in the cloud | iSGTW
After a two-year study of the feasibility of cloud computing systems for meeting the ever-increasing computational needs of scientists, US Department of Energy ...
www.isgtw.org/feature/assessing-science-cloud

Cloudstock - San Francisco 03/15/2012 - Salesforce.com
Join 3000 developers to start developing your own Social Enterprise apps at Cloudstock, a free 1-daycloud developer event running in parallel with Cloudforce ...
www.salesforce.com/events/details/cs12-sf/registration.jsp?d...



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