Google Drive cloud storage service expected soon

Google Near Launch of Cloud Storage Service - Amir Efrati - News ...
By Amir Efrati
Google Inc. is close to launching a cloud-storage service that would rival one of Silicon Valley's hottest start-ups, cloud-storage provider Dropbox Inc., according to people familiar with the matter.
AllThingsD

Google Drive cloud storage service expected soon
Digitaltrends.com
Sorry, DropBox: Google will reportedly debut its own dedicated cloud storage service in the near future. Google will soon launch a fully-featured cloud storage service called Google Drive, reports Amir Efrati at the Wall Street Journal.

Oracle buying Taleo for $1.9 billion, cloud war brews
Reuters
By Jim Finkle and Sayantani Ghosh (Reuters) - Oracle Corp agreed to buy Taleo Corp, a maker of Web-based software for recruiting employees, for about $1.9 billion, as technology giants battle for the top spot in the fast-growing cloud computing market.

NextAdvisor picks its top cloud storage services for consumers
Computerworld
By Lucas Mearian Computerworld - Consumer and small business product review site NextAdvisor.com this month launched a new category, with reviews and comparisons of the bestcloud storage services. NextAdvisor's editors tried out seven services to ...

Free Storage In Cloud's Secret: Leftovers
InformationWeek
By Charles Babcock InformationWeek Free storage in the cloud might sound too good to be true. But startup Symform has built a new kind of cloud storage by enlisting customers to form a storage network made out of their surplus, on-premises storage ...

Stage2Data Launches Cloud Based Ultimate Data Protection Editions Aimed at ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Stage2Data introduces three Ultimate Data Protection Editions in a bid to maximize their market share in the growing SMB and Small Office, Home Office (SOHO) cloud based backup and recovery categories. Stage2Data, a leading provider of cloud based ...

Big Fish Games Rapidly Expanding Cloud Gaming Research at Cork Operation ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Big Fish's cloud gaming service will run the company's casual game catalog in the cloud, which allows for its games to be accessible to customers on a variety of devices and platforms via interactive video streaming. This dedicated research initiative ...

SunGard Availability Services Demonstrates "Always Available" Cloud Solutions ...
Sacramento Bee
9, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- SunGard Availability Services will showcase its "Always Available" Enterprise Cloud Services at the 2012 Cloud Connect Conference (booth #414), February 13-16, 2012 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, Calif.

Why Canada lags in cloud computing
Globe and Mail
Two years ago, Cadillac Fairview Corp. looked to the cloud and liked what it saw. In search of a cheaper way to manage its e-mail environment, the Toronto-based commercial real estate giant settled on Google Inc.'s Gmail. Cadillac Fairview has run...

Globe and Mail

Appcelerator Acquires Cocoafish to Add Instant Mobile Cloud Capabilities to ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Appcelerator Offers Messaging, Social, Location and Storage Mobile Cloud Services to All Mobile App Publishers. Appcelerator®, the leading mobile platform company, announced today that it has acquired Cocoafish, a mobile app infrastructure provider.

Two Leading Cloud Service Providers Select MSPexcellence to Enhance Their ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
External IT and Global Micro SA select MSPexcellence to build an indirect sales channel program to increase market adoption of cloud services with a network of certified Cloud Solutions Providers. MSPexcellence, the business-building consultancy for ...

Virtualization & Cloud to Boost Fibre Channel Market Growth, According to Dell ...
Sacramento Bee
"Virtualization and cloud initiatives have driven tremendous growth in the datacenter, providing new and exciting opportunities in storage," said Casey Quillin, Analyst at Dell'Oro Group. "In order to benefit from the inherent flexibility provided by ...

PHD Virtual Extends Virtual Data Protection Solution for Enterprise, Public ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
The new release enables Enterprises, Cloud and Managed Service Providers to integrate advanced data protection capabilities directly into their virtualization management infrastructure. An extensible application programing interface (API) and ...

nivio gets $21 million for desktops in the cloud
Digital Media Wire
Cloud desktop computing company nivio has secured $21 million in funding from Videocon (& Group Companies) and AEC Partners. The firm, which officially launched its product Jan. 26, said it will use the investment to expand engineering efforts and to...

Digital Media Wire

FBI Warns Cloud Providers About Security Requirements
Technorati
If you are a cloud service provider looking to contract with US law enforcement agencies, of late, there has been a bit of a shift, regarding security measures. The FBI has announced that there will be no compromise in its new rule that cloud service ...

Technorati

Amazon S3 Cloud Service Cuts Prices as Market Expands
Infoboom
Massive providers with huge data centers are no longer the only ones who can play in the cloud. Not only are start-ups generating more money than ever for public and private cloud provision but recent price drops in options such Amazon S3 reflect an ...

Echo Cloud, Arizona Bands Unite to Fundraise for Unofficial SXSW Showcase
College Times
The 15½-hour trip, organized by Echo Cloud Productions, coincides with the annual SXSW Festival in Austin. A Mecca for up-and-coming artists, the SXSW Festival seemed like the perfect opportunity to Echo Cloud co-founder Spike Brendle to spread the ...

Google Home Entertainment System as home cloud of media
SlashGear
A new set of tips have come through WSJ's author Amir Efrati on what Google will soon be presenting for families across the earth: a Google Home Entertainment System. We've previously heard about this system and hypothesized that it could be the ...

NTT America CTO Delivers Keynote at Carrier Cloud Forum
MarketWatch (press release)
The talk, titled "Cloud Reality for the Global Enterprise," is scheduled for February 13, 2012 from 2:15-2:35 pm PST. Light Reading sponsors the Carrier Cloud Forum series, collocating at CloudConnect, the defining cloud event for IT professionals, ...

New Shared Assessments Questionnaire Offers New Section for Assessing Cloud ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Among the enhancements to Version 7.0 is an entirely new section for assessing Cloud Computing risk. The inclusion of the Cloud section in the SIG makes it the first vendor risk assessment tool to provide a comprehensive assessment of all current IT ...

Cloudscaling wants to make OpenStack webscale
GigaOm
9, 2012, 12:33pm PT No Comments Cloud computing consultancy Cloudscaling is realigning its business around the open-source OpenStack framework, and it has a message for the world: If you want to use open-source software but operate like Amazon Web ...

GigaOm

Microsoft's plan to bring its ERP users slowly but surely to the cloud
ZDNet (blog)
As the annual Microsoft Convergence conference approaches, the Softies are readying a few updates about the coming ERP-cloud transition. First, Dynamics NAV 7 (the codename of the next version of the Dynamics NAV product) will be available hosted on ...

Fundamentals: Understanding Private Cloud Stacks
InformationWeek
Private clouds represent the next stage of data center evolution--virtualization 2.0. They unify server, storage and network resources into a common resource pool, and are controlled by software that automatically allocates workloads, assimilates new ...

GrayHair Software releases a dynamic reporting engine to complement its cloud ...
MarketWatch (press release)
... WIRE) -- GrayHair Software, Inc., a leader in solutions for business mailers, announces the release of a ground-breaking reporting engine that expands the versatility and depth of the services offered in its SelectSolutions(TM) cloud platform.

Symform to Showcase Disruptive Cloud Storage Network at Leading Technology ...
MarketWatch (press release)
SEATTLE, WA, Feb 09, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Symform, a revolutionary cloudstorage and backup service, today announced that it will be sponsoring and exhibiting at leading industry events in the coming two months, including Cloud Connect, ...

New UI and cloud functions headline avast! 7 beta
BetaNews
7 editions now benefit from cloud technologies, including streaming updates for more rapid response to the latest threats, and a file reputation service. AVAST Software also report more general improvements in sandboxing and browsing protection.

Akamai Rides the Cloud to Analyst-Stomping Results
DailyFinance
"We believe our Content Delivery and Cloud Infrastructure solutions are stronger than ever," said CEO Paul Sagan. That's not a bad foundation from which to launch another year or five of dramatic growth. Cloud computing is a game-changing revolution ...

CGI to Transition the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Financial Systems to the ...
MarketWatch (press release)
A +0.64% , a six-year, US$21.28 million contract to host its financial accounting and management systems in the CGI-hosted Momentum(R) Community Cloud, with the goal of reducing costs while increasing efficiencies. Under the contract, CGI will ...

Appcelerator Acquires Cocoafish to Implement Mobile Cloud ...
By Dan Rowinski
Mobile development company Appcelerator announced today that it is buying "backend-as-a-service" startup Cocoafish to implement cloud services and functionality in its Titanium Platform. Acquiring Cocoafish is an astute ...
ReadWriteWeb

Google likely to launch Dropbox-like cloud storage service soon ...
By Sean Ludwig
Search king Google is close to launching its own cloud storage service similar to Dropbox or Amazon CloudDrive, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal. If the report holds true, Google will be entering an extremely crowded market ...
VentureBeat

Google Said To Introduce Cloud-Based Storage Service In The ...
By Chris Chavez
2012 just got a whole lot more interesting. Long rumored for years now, The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google is finally getting ready to.
Android Phone Fans

Report: Google gets Drive cloud storage ready to roll — Cloud ...
By Barb Darrow
Google is close to announcing its own long-rumored cloud storage service for consumers, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. The new Google Drive -- which would offer some storage free -- would compete head on with existing ...
Cloud

Pennies in the Cloud « High Tech in the Hub
By Joe Kinsella
By now you have seen the Amazon S3 price reduction. Effective Monday, Amazon has discounted the price per gigabyte for their cloud object store by up to 13%, with the discount inversely proportional to the storage consumed. The official ...
High Tech in the Hub

Google's Rumored Cloud Storage Service Would Complement ...
By Sam Dean
It's been rumored for years now that Google will launch a cloud-based storage service, similar to Dropbox's, and now multiple media outlets are reporting that the company is close to doing so. Although Google has not provided confirmation, ...
OStatic blogs

Oracle Claims Taleo's Cloud-based Talent Management Jackpot
By Scott M. Fulton, III
In the 20th century, corporations recruited talented professionals but then nurtured them and integrated them into their organizations. Talent was part of their business foundations. In the more ...
ReadWriteEnterprise

Google's Cloud Storage Could Launch In the Coming Weeks
By Andrew Liszewski
According to the Wall Street Journal, Google is closer than ever to launching the company's cloud-based storage service that will rival now established services like Dropbox and Apple's iCloud. In fact, it could be available in just a few weeks.
Gizmodo

Google's own cloud storage service to launch soon | Android ...
By Sam Koutroulakis
We've all sent ourselves countless emails through GMail with important files attached to place them on Google's servers for easy access. There's no shame in.
Android Community

Ambient cloud storage: cheaper, high availability, but what about ...
By Cloud Security Blog
Check out Symform to see is a real-world example of the evolution of ambient cloud architectures. The cost per stored GB on this is orders of magnitude less.
Simply Security

Google Drive Cloud Service Launching Soon? » Geeky Gadgets
By Roland Hutchinson
We haven't heard much about Google's cloud service, Cloud Drive for a while now, there were a few rumors at the end of last year that Google were getting ready to launch their new cloud service. According to a recent report from the WSJ, ...
Geeky Gadgets

China Tech in 5 Words - Open, Clone, Cloud, Mania and ...
By Ben Chiang
China Tech in 5 Words – Open, Clone, Cloud, Mania and Entrepreneurship. by Ben Chiang on February 9, 2012 • 1:20 pm No Comments. [Translate]. Open. Tencent, the Chinese Internet which has long been criticized for its closeness held a ...
TechNodeTechNode | TechNode

More Users Trust the Cloud | CloudTimes
A recent report from Apple stated that about 85 million users have registered and signed up for the iCloud services.
cloudtimes.org/more-users-trust-the-cloud/

Adobe: Here's why Creative Cloud is worth $600 a year | Deep Tech ...
The subscription to Adobe's software, services, and social features will arrive later this year, and the company is showing new attractions. Read this blog post by ...
news.cnet.com/.../adobe-heres-why-creative-cloud-is-worth-$6...

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