Thursday, March 15, 2012

Being prepared for when the Cloud fails

Being prepared for when the cloud REALLY fails
Computerworld
Cloud services are bound to fail. Some failures will be momentary. Others may be far more serious. What's important is that you're prepared. By George V. Hulme CSO - Everything works well in thecloud, until it doesn't. Consider the Microsoft so-called ... 

Enough Already! Cloud Computing is Here to Stay
Wired News
I am constantly confronted with people in denial about the cloud. These naysayers are mostly individuals within the technology services industry. So let's first examine some facts, as well as some arguments against cloud computing.

Cloud Computing and Big Data Tips for Job Seekers
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
With immediate cloud computing open positions and job listings on the BizCloud job board , Coit Group, a BizCloud partner offers practical advice to job seekers on changing trends in the technology industry. San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) March 14, ...

Lockheed Martin Broadening Cloud Computing Solutions to UK Government
MarketWatch (press release)
Under the framework agreement, Lockheed Martin Information Systems & Global Solutions, the corporation's business area that provides cloud computing solutions, will offer a wide range of services including cloud strategy and integration services; ...

SAP-Commissioned Study Estimates Cloud Computing to Create Hundreds of ...
Bradenton Herald
By SAP AG WASHINGTON, March 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Cloud computing is a powerful catalyst for job creation and has greater potential for employment growth than the Internet did in its early years, according to a new study by the Sand Hill Group, ...

Amazon extends cloud storage status monitoring
Computerworld
In January, Amazon announced its intention to give users better visibility into the status of theircloud resources via the AWS Management Console. The first feature allows users to see what activities Amazon is planning that will affect the ...

Cloud Computing: Are Small Businesses Embracing The Technology?
Business Insider
Almost two decades ago, the advent of Internet and Information Technology has revolutionized the world and now Cloud Computing has radically transformed the way companies conduct business.Cloud computing is a game changer for the next decade and the ...

Opinion: Cloud computing's early success shows innovation in state government
Capitol Weekly
By Tom Sheehy | 03/14/12 12:00 AM PST Last month at Microsoft's Silicon Valley offices in Mountain View, the TechAmerica Foundation held a press event where they released a Cloud Computing report entitled "The Cloud Imperative” focusing on best ...

Cloud Computing May Be Next Big Jobs Generator
BusinessNewsDaily
The study, sponsored by enterprise software giant SAP, looked at the trends and indicators supporting the growth of cloud services and the ways cloud computingmay create jobs. It found that 11 cloud computing companies added 80000 jobs in the US in ...

BusinessNewsDaily

Talent pool not big enough to meet skyrocketing cloud computing job demand
ITworld.com
March 14, 2012, 11:36 AM — The number of job postings in the cloud computing industry is growing so rapidly that there aren't enough qualified workers available to fill the positions, according to an analysis of hiring trends by Wanted Analytics.

Cloud ROI: The Missing Link
InformationWeek
What return are you getting on your investments in public cloud services? New research reveals you probably don't know, and that's a problem. By Jonathan Feldman InformationWeek We will plant a tree for each of the first 5000 downloads.

Lenovo Cloud Storage by SugarSync Announced
StorageReview.com
Lenovo and SugarSync have announced Lenovo Cloud Storage by SugarSync, the first Cloud storage service integrated as an out-of-box experience broadly on Lenovo's PCs and tablets. Lenovo's new Cloud Storage service not only works with their own products ...

Cloud, Bandwidth Demands Pose Challenges for IT Staff
eWeek
Seventy-four percent of respondents indicated their chief concern about cloud migration was ensuring corporate data security. IT teams will face significant monitoring challenges from multiple forms of cloud computing, as well as substantially ...

Eze Castle Integration Wins Prestigious Awards for Most Cutting Edge Cloud ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
FTF News and Hedgeweek awards recognize technology innovation, exceptional client service and worldwide presence BOSTON, MA (PRWEB) March 14, 2012 Eze Castle Integration, Inc., a leading provider of strategic IT solutions and private cloud services to ...

AirTight Delivers Advanced BYOD Security for Cloud Wi-Fi Access and WIPS Solutions
MarketWatch (press release)
AirTight Cloud Services are offered as hosted, cloud-based, AirTight Secure Wi-Fi(TM), PCI scanning, and network security in a single device. AirTight's Cloud platform provides the most cost effective enterprise solution for Wi-Fi plus all the security ...

Intacct Named One of the Top 20 Coolest Cloud Software Vendors
MarketWatch (press release)
... a leading provider of cloud financial management and accounting software, today announced it was named one of the "20 Coolest Cloud Software Vendors of 2012" as part of the list of the "100 Coolest Cloud Computing Vendors" by Everything Channel's ...

IceWEB Government Channel Receives Major Order for Redundant Multi-Tier ...
MarketWatch (press release)
IceWEB.com , a leading provider of Unified Data Storage appliances for cloud and virtual environments, announced that its government channel group has received a major order from Frederick County, Maryland for IceWEB 6000 Unified Data Storage Systems ...

Mayor Lee Unveils Socrata-Powered San Francisco Open Data Cloud
MarketWatch (press release)
SFgov.org, the next-generation, cloud-based San Francisco Open Data site, and the successor to one of the nation's pioneering Open Data initiatives, DataSF.org. The adoption of Socrata's cloud services, social citizen interfaces, and open Application ...

Employment bright lining in cloud computing
Montreal Gazette
Cloud computing will be responsible for one in six new jobs in the next three years, according to a survey commissioned Tuesday by Microsoft and conducted by the technology research firm IDC. The survey showed that while using Internet-based services ...

Arxis Technology Forms Cloud Services Division
Accounting Today
By Seth Fineberg, Accounting Today Technology consultancy Arxis Technology has formed Arxis Cloud Solutions, a new division focused on implementation of its SaaS product offerings and education about them. Arxis, a long-time Sage North America Partner, ...

Accounting Today

Concerto Cloud Services Announces the Release of Concerto PSA
Business Wire (press release)
(BUSINESS WIRE)--Concerto Cloud Services™ (Concerto), the preferred choice for integrated Microsoft Dynamics® ERP solutions in the cloud, today announced the release of Concerto PSA®, the first end-to-end, Microsoft-based PSA solution offered ...

Taking false cloud comfort from multi-tenancy
ZDNet (blog)
The emphasis has been so strongly expressed that many people have inferred that multi-tenancy is synonymous with cloud computing. Unfortunately, it's not quite as simple as that. There are a number of different ways of implementing multi-tenancy, ...

XPERTECHS Brings Power of Cloud Computing to Local Businesses
Virtual-Strategy Magazine
“We are very pleased to be offering cloud services,” said Michael Mellott, President of XPERTECHS. “Instead of building and maintaining expensive IT systems on premise, businesses will now have the option of simply plugging into whatever IT resources ...

INSA Report: Cloud Computing: Risks, Benefits, and Mission Enhancement for the ...
Smart Data Collective
The report, titled “Cloud Computing: Risks, Benefits, and Mission Enhancement for the Intelligence Community” was highlighted at a special roll-out at the National Press Club. The roll-out included a panel discussion between myself and two friends, ...

Three Ways for MSPs to Differentiate in Cloud Computing
MSPmentor
Such was the case during a recent conversation with Logicalis VP Wayne Kiphart, ViaWest CTO Jason Carolan, and Nimsoft VP Tim Van Ash. Our chatter explored how MSPs could differentiate while moving into cloud computing. By the end of the conversation, ...

Cloud Computing: Cisco Offered a Buck for WebEx – No, Really
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Out of the blue Tuesday a two-year-old start-up called SalesCrunch with $1.4 million in seed money in its jeans up and offered Cisco a dollar plus a 15% equity share of itself for WebEx, the web conferencing unit Cisco paid $2.9 billion for five years ...

SYS-CON Media (press release)

How Many Jobs Will Cloud Computing Create?: IDC's Math
TalkinCloud (blog)
by CJ Arlotta on Why is Microsoft investing so much in cloud computing? Here's one potential answer: Cloud computing will create 14 million jobs by 2015, according to a report from International Data Corp. Moreover, the study — commissioned by ...

Google Reduces Cloud Storage Price: Only the Beginning?
Infoboom
Google is cutting prices on its Cloud Storage hosted service. Needless to say this is good news for firms looking for a deal on their cloud computing needs. And it might presage more price cutting to come. The cloud is becoming a commodity good.

Cloud Computing: 14 Million Reasons to Get With the Program…NOW
CloudTweaks News
According to breathtaking new research from Microsoft, the result of a commission to analyst firm IDC, approximately fourteen million new jobs will be created by the year 2015, all of those jobs stemming from a swelling boom in cloud computing.

CloudTweaks News

Intelligent Manufacturing Systems · Cloud Computing Will Make ...
By admin
At a roundtable that I attended last week at CeBIT, European Commission's Vice-President for the Digital Agenda Neelie Kroes discussed with four industry executives how Cloud Computing could impact manufacturing. The chairman of the ...
Intelligent Manufacturing Systems

Cloud Computing - Are Small Businesses Embracing the ...
By Mandira Srivastava
A look at cloud computing and how it's effecting the small business market and how many are embracing the advantages and cost savings.
Small Business Technology

INSA Report: Cloud Computing: Risks, Benefits, and Mission ...
By admin
The report, titled “Cloud Computing: Risks, Benefits, and Mission Enhancement for the Intelligence Community” was highlighted at a special roll-out at the National Press Club. The roll-out included a panel discussion between myself and two ...
Crucial Point LLC

SAP-Commissioned Study Estimates Cloud Computing to Create ...
By SAP News
Cloud computing is a powerful catalyst for job creation and has greater potential for employment growth than the Internet did in its early years, according to a new study by the Sand Hill Group, sponsored by SAP America, Inc. Read the press ...
SAP Newsroom

Special clouds for special needs: High Performance Computing ...
By Ramón García Barberá
They have some of the main characteristics to be a good candidate for cloud computing, as pointed out by Luis Aguilar in his post Migration to cloud: It is all about workloads. But, beyond that, they all are related to enterprise workloads with low ... all posts by Ramón García Barberá →. This entry was posted in Workloads and tagged cloud, cloud-computing, cloud-services, high-performance-computing, HPC, ibm, ibmcloud, service-management, VM, workload. Bookmark the permalink.
Thoughts on Cloud Blog

We Are Cloud Launches First Genuine Cloud BI Service in China ...
By jonathan
With headquarters in the capital Beijing and branch offices in the economic powerhouses of Shanghai and Guangzhou, Bime China provides customers with a local cloud computing platform consisting of distributed local servers, an adapted ...
Bime - SaaS Business Intelligence...

Channel Cloud Development, Maturation Lagging
By Larry Walsh
Cloud computing is a rapidly growing opportunity as more businesses look to augment or replace their legacy systems with virtualized private clouds or third-party delivered application and infrastructure services. By some estimates, cloud ...
Channelnomics

Cloud Computing Technologies - UK Web Hosting Blog - eUKhost
By macwilson
Thus, the IT infrastructure of a cloud provider will be consolidated and operated economically, leading to low-cost cloud services. In cloud computing, virtualization is basically used to automate the user resources as required and provide more ...
Official Web Hosting Blog by...

Mobi-Cloud 2012 : The 2012 International Workshop on Mobile ...
Recent advances in mobile cloud computing and ubiquitous computing have quickly changed the modern business environment and daily human life. The various concepts of mobile cloud and ubiquitous computing provide a brand new ...
WikiCFP

Update on Cloud-Computing for Next-Gen Traffic Management ...
The cloud-computing model continues to reshape business processes and reconfigure the technology architectures that run our cities. Cloud-computing is not ...
terranautix.com/.../update-on-cloud-computing-for-next-gen-t...

Top 4 Business Cloud Computing Trends for 2012
Much of 2011 saw the rise of cloud computing solutions as small, medium and ... particularly in the realm of large enterprise-level cloud storage companies. ... this debate with hybrid cloud servicesthat combine proprietary technology linked to ...
under30ceo.com/top-4-business-cloud-computing-trends-for-...

Cloud Computing for Business: Promises and Realities | Cloud ...
While cloud computing offers many benefits, it is not for every business. Learn whether there is a gap between cloud computing promises and the reality.
www.cloudbusinessreview.com/.../cloud-computing-for-busin...



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