Cloud Standards Customer Council Forms Security Working Group and Initiates ...
MarketWatch (press release)
NEEDHAM, Mass., Feb 07, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Members of the Cloud Standards Customer Council (CSCC) have formed a new Security working group and are soliciting participation. The Security working group will be led by David E. Harris, Ph.D., ...http://www.cloud-council.org
MarketWatch (press release)
NEEDHAM, Mass., Feb 07, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Members of the Cloud Standards Customer Council (CSCC) have formed a new Security working group and are soliciting participation. The Security working group will be led by David E. Harris, Ph.D., ...http://www.cloud-council.org
Wired News
Open source vendor Red Hat today rolled out its Virtual Storage Appliance for Amazon Web Services (AWS), which it said “enables organizations to extend their datacenter storage to the cloud.” While the appliance is designed to work with Amazon's cloud ...
Cloud Computing Growth Compels AIS Network to Double Its Cloud
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Cloud computing demand has compelled hosting pioneer AIS Network to double the size of its publiccloud. The company has experienced record sales growth in the last year. Cloud computing demand is driving unprecedented sales growth at AIS Network, ...
FBI declares cloud vendors must meet CJIS security rules
Computerworld
By Jaikumar Vijayan Computerworld - The FBI Tuesday reaffirmed its rule that all cloud products sold to to US law enforcement agencies must comply with the FBI's Criminal Justice Information Systems (CJIS) security requirements.
VMware Rapidly Expands Cloud Partner Network
InformationWeek
VMware users who want to run virtualized workloads in the cloud now have 94 cloud service providers to choose from in a wide variety of worldwide geographies. By Charles Babcock InformationWeek VMware has decided that its fight to remain the leading ...
Compare the Cloud Names Hexagrid Executives Infrastructure-as-a-Service Cloud ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Compare the Cloud launches an independent cloud computing evalutaion website and blogging community, selecting Suresh Mandava, Founder and CEO, and Dave Rokita, VP of Technology Operations, of Hexagrid Computing as worldwide thought leaders in the ...
Cloud computing could be useful during the Olympics
Hostway
Businesses which use cloud computing could benefit during the Olympic Games, as the technology will allow staff to work remotely. Many will be able to avoid travelling on public transport during peak hours, when delays of 30 minutes or more are ...
Hostway
Federal Standards Body Focuses On Big Data, Cloud
InformationWeek
National Institute of Standards and Technology's new IT Lab Director Chuck Romine says agency is focusing on big data, cloud computing, mobility, and cybersecurity in the coming year. By J. Nicholas Hoover InformationWeek The National Institute of ...
Adobe Creative Cloud - a better option for students?
ZDNet (blog)
A new service, Adobe Creative Cloud, was announced by the company in October, before the front became rather quiet and specific details were kept under guard. However, the online subscription service is back on board. Users can expect to pay $49.99 per ...
Open Group security gurus dissect the cloud: Higher or lower risk?
ZDNet (blog)
For some, any move to the cloud — at least the public cloud — means a higher risk for security. For others, relying more on a public cloud provider means better security. There's more of a concentrated and comprehensive focus on security best ...
APTARE Community Cloud Revolutionizes Storage Performance Analytics
MarketWatch (press release)
CAMPBELL, CA, Feb 07, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Enterprise data center optimization leader APTARE(R), Inc. today announced the introduction of the APTARE Community Cloud and enhanced storage array performance analytics for their APTARE ...
Stratus ruggedizes VMware clouds
Register
By Timothy Prickett Morgan • Get more from this author Clouds have a single point of failure, and Stratus Technologies thinks it can make it some dough fixing it. Stratus and its peers NEC and Hewlett-Packard, which sell fault-tolerant servers, ...
Telx Adds Private Clouds for Colo Customers
Data Center Knowledge
Telx wants to make it easier for its colocation customers to run private cloud infrastructure. So today the company announced a strategic alliance with Appcore, which specializes in private cloudservices for enterprises. Under the terms of the deal, ...
HP provides more picks and shovels to cloud miners
ZDNet (blog)
By Dana Gardner | February 7, 2012, 8:52am PST Summary: In two separate recent announcements, HP has affirmed its goal of being the neutral supplier of choice for all things cloud. In two separate recent announcements, HP has affirmed its goal of being ...
Ixonos marrieseZ Systems' World-Leading Content Management Solution With its ...
MarketWatch (press release)
HELSINKI, February 7, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Ixonos, a creative mobile solutions company and Finnish cloud solution provider, has made a deal with Norwegian web content management (WCM) and customer experience management (CXM) provider eZ ...
Cisco's Sherriff: Cloud, Competition And Who's Making The Calls
CRN
By Chad Berndtson, CRN Cisco used its 2011 Partner Summit in New Orleans to articulate a strategy for how it wanted Cisco partners to think about the cloud. Nearly a year later, Cisco's cloudsolution provider program, which officially went live in ...
HP moves load testing software to the cloud
Network World
The release of HP's LoadRunner in the Cloud is a step toward a more scalable environment for application load testing. By Colin Neagle, Network World With the release of its new LoadRunner in the Cloud application load testing solution, ...
Aerohive Networks Receives 2011 Cloud Computing Excellence Award
MarketWatch (press release)
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Feb 07, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Aerohive Networks, the pioneer in cloud-enabled enterprise networking infrastructure, announced today that TMC, a global, integrated media company, has named Aerohive's BR100 Router as a 2011 Cloud ...
GSA hands agencies cloud security marching orders
Nextgov
By Aliya Sternstein 02/07/2012 The General Services Administration on Tuesday released marching orders for a new cloud certification program. The 47-page "concept of operations," or CONOPS, is intended to offer federal agencies and their contractors ...
Study: Most Consumers Open To Cloud Storage, But Only 30% Willing To Pay
paidContent.org
Good news for the developers of the iCloud, UltraViolet and other digital locker systems: nearly 90 percent of consumers say they're inclined to use cloud-based digital storage solutions. The bad news? Nearly 70 percent say they'd be less apt to use ...
Cloud as a Service
Pipeline Magazine
The list is short, and at the top is cloud computing. Gartner research projects cloud traffic will increase 12-fold and explode into a $150 billion sector by 2020, and it probably will; these days, everyone is cloud savvy.
Fidelis Security Systems Makes Visibility and Control of Cloud Services Possible
MarketWatch (press release)
WALTHAM, Mass., Feb 07, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Fidelis Security Systems, the market leader in network visibility, analysis, and control solutions, today announced a new Cloud Security Solution which provides necessary visibility and control to ...
To cloud or not to cloud
Computerworld (blog)
Many companies and government agencies are moving toward cloud computing. One of the key benefits of the cloud is its ability to offload complex application- and data-services to third parties for management or infrastructure, enabling data center ...
F-Secure 'launches' cloud storage service, but is it new?
iTWire
F-Secure has announced a cloud based content storage and synchronisation service, Content Anywhere, that synchronises a user's files in the cloud, making them accessible on PCs, tablets, smartphones and digital TVs. F-Secure says the service will be ...
Sitting on a cash cloud
Hindustan Times
Workday is, in fact, a major innovator in tech's latest craze: cloud computing. Before Apple, Amazon, and Google were putting music on the cloud, Workday was doing the same thing, only with business software. Last year the company doubled its sales to ...
MercadoLibre Deploys Opscode Chef® to Automate its OpenStack Private Cloud
MarketWatch (press release)
7, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Opscode, Inc.®, the leader in cloud infrastructure automation, today announced that MercadoLibre, the largest e-commerce/online auction company in Latin America and among the largest e-commerce retailers in the world, ...
Red Hat attacks cloud-app gap — Cloud Computing News
By Barb Darrow
Red Hat says its new POSIX-compliant virtual storage appliance will make it easier for IT shops to move legacy Unix applications to Amazon's public cloud. The scale-out NAS appliance, based on Gluster technology, also replaces Centos with ...
GigaOM
Hindustan Times
Workday is, in fact, a major innovator in tech's latest craze: cloud computing. Before Apple, Amazon, and Google were putting music on the cloud, Workday was doing the same thing, only with business software. Last year the company doubled its sales to ...
MercadoLibre Deploys Opscode Chef® to Automate its OpenStack Private Cloud
MarketWatch (press release)
7, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Opscode, Inc.®, the leader in cloud infrastructure automation, today announced that MercadoLibre, the largest e-commerce/online auction company in Latin America and among the largest e-commerce retailers in the world, ...
Red Hat attacks cloud-app gap — Cloud Computing News
By Barb Darrow
Red Hat says its new POSIX-compliant virtual storage appliance will make it easier for IT shops to move legacy Unix applications to Amazon's public cloud. The scale-out NAS appliance, based on Gluster technology, also replaces Centos with ...
GigaOM
How to Become a Cloud Service Provider in About a Day: VMware ...
By Scott M. Fulton, III
Businesses are finally realizing there's a way to recoup some of their costs for building out their private cloud infrastructures. It's hybridization, but in the opposite direction: taking ...
ReadWriteCloud
Adobe details Creative Cloud: $49.99 membership fee, 20GB ...
By Christian Zibreg
Announced last October along new touch apps for tablets, Creative Cloud is billed as a service that “radically redefines the content creation process” by offering a central web-based repository to store, share and view content across devices.
9to5Mac
VMware: Rethink IT: vCloud Integration Manager and more clouds in ...
We developed Integration Manager to provide a simple and standardized way for service providers to provision vCloud Director, vShield and vSphere in order to more quickly get new customers up and running on a cloud service. Until now ...
VMware Blogs
Who says dinosaurs can't create clouds? | Thoughts on Cloud
By Vikram Gulati
Over several decades, IBM system z has perfected the art of reliability, high utilization, virtualizationm and other such capabilities that are so applicable in a cloud. Did you know that a single System z can easily manage thousands of virtual ...
Thoughts on Cloud
HP LoadRunner Hits the Cloud | Cloud Computing Journal
Maureen O'Gara the most read technology reporter for the past 20 years, is the Cloud Computing and Virtualization News Desk editor of SYS-CON Media. She is the publisher of famous "Billygrams" and the editor-in-chief of "Client/Server ...
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97 Cloud APIs: Twilio, Google App Engine and Tropo
By Wendell Santos
Twilio Our API directory now includes 97 cloud APIs. The newest is the Yubikey API. The most popular, in terms of mashups, is the Twilio API. We list 335 Twilio mashups. Below you'll find some more stats from the directory, including the entire ...
ProgrammableWeb
iPad Drives BYOD Trends, says Oxygen Cloud Founder Peter ...
By Saroj Kar
During NodeSummit in San Francisco, Oxygen Cloud's founder Peter Chang talked to our own John Furrier and Alex Williams about the current state of enterprise cloud storage adoption. He also briefs the challenges companies are facing ...
SiliconANGLE
Unbelievably Cheap Amazon Cloud Prices Get Even Cheaper
By Julie Bort
Some customers were only paying a few pennies a month before.
SAI
NSF Releases Report on Cloud Computing » CCC Blog
By Erwin Gianchandani
Emphasizing the role of cloud computing — “a vital area of national importance that requires further research and development” — the report highlights some of the 125 cloud computing research awards issued by NSF's Computer and ...
CCC Blog
Customizing virtual images with IBM SmartCloud Provisioning ...
I will lose all the advantages of dealing with a cloud of non-persistent images. I'm only sliding the issue from the virtual machine instances to the master images ...
thoughtsoncloud.com/?p=1772
Small Business Cloud Computing Trends
In this post about Cloud computing predictions we focus on the most importnat underlying trends in small business cloud computing.
www.getapp.com/blog/small-business-cloud-computing-trends/
Cloud Collaboration Eliminates Barriers, Challenges of Remote ...
Cloud-based unified communications provides businesses the ability not only to save money but also to streamline core business processes, allowing ...
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